What do you guys have going on?

Right now me and some friends are planning to leave Omaha around 8:30am and hit up the bars in Lincoln. Maybe stop by one tailgate.

Each year the Rail Yard has been opened I have noticed less traffic at the bars on O street.

Any of you guys going to Lincoln?

Sports bar?

Watch Party?

Huskers Begin Season at AVCA First Serve Showcase
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Nebraska will take part in a primetime season-opening event, the AVCA First Serve Showcase, on Tuesday, August 27 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

No. 2 Nebraska will play in the first match of the Division I season, taking on No. 9 Kentucky at 6 p.m. (CT). Wisconsin will face Louisville in the second match of the doubleheader. All four teams participating in the AVCA First Serve Showcase are ranked in the Top 10 of the AVCA Preseason Coaches Poll. The matches will be televised on ESPN2.

ABOUT THE HUSKERS

- Nebraska finished the 2023 season at 33-2 (19-1 Big Ten) and reached the NCAA Championship match, falling 3-0 to Texas in Tampa, Florida.

- The Huskers won the Big Ten Championship for the first time since 2017, and head coach John Cook was named AVCA National Coach of the Year and Big Ten Coach of the Year.

- With four freshmen in the lineup, the Huskers won their first 27 matches of the season and held the No. 1 ranking from Oct. 23 through the end of the regular season.

- The Huskers, who had no seniors on the roster in 2023, return 10 letterwinners, including every starter.

- Opposite hitter Merritt Beason (first team), libero Lexi Rodriguez (first team), setter Bergen Reilly (second team) and outside hitter Harper Murray (third team) were AVCA All-America selections in 2023.

- Beason was the AVCA North Region Player of the Year, and Murray was both the AVCA North Region and Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Reilly was the Big Ten Setter of the Year, and Rodriguez was the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year for the second time.

- The Huskers bring back 86.5 percent of their kills from 2023, 99.7 percent of their assists, 100 percent of their service aces, 96.2 percent of their digs and 79.4 percent of their blocks.

- Nebraska brought in two new additions via the transfer portal in the offseason in Minnesota outside hitter Taylor Landfair and San Diego middle blocker Leyla Blackwell. Landfair, a 6-5 outside hitter from Plainfield, Illinois, is a senior for the Huskers hut has two years of eligibility remaining after receiving a medical hardship for the 2021 season. Landfair was the Big Ten Player of the Year and an AVCA First Team All-American in 2022 at Minnesota after 4.36 kills per set on .257 hitting with 1.63 digs per set. Blackwell, a 6-4 middle blocker from San Diego, California, was a three-time All-West Coast Conference selection at San Diego and averaged 2.25 kills and 1.24 blocks per set with a .329 hitting percentage last season. Blackwell guided the Toreros to the NCAA semifinals in 2022 by shattering the school record for single-season block assists (152), and she finished sixth nationally at 1.50 blocks per set.

- Nebraska has two freshmen on the roster who enrolled in January and played during the beach volleyball season. Skyler Pierce is a 6-2 outside hitter from Lenexa, Kansas and Olivia Mauch is a 5-6 libero from Bennington, Nebraska. Both Pierce and Mauch tied for the team lead with 18 wins during the beach volleyball season.

SCOUTING KENTUCKY

- Nebraska is 11-2 against Kentucky all-time. The Huskers have won 10 matches in a row in the series, including a 3-1 win in Lincoln last year.

- Kentucky's last win against Nebraska was in 1983.

- Nebraska head coach John Cook has faced off against Kentucky head coach Craig Skinner, a Nebraska assistant from 2000 to 2004, six times. The Huskers have won all six matches, three in sweeps and three in four sets.

HALL OF FAME COACH JOHN COOK IN YEAR 25 AT NU

- Nebraska head coach John Cook is in his 25th season as the Nebraska volleyball head coach in 2024. He has led the Huskers to four national championships, 11 Final Fours, 13 conference championships and 22 Top-10 final rankings since 2000.

- Cook has 850 career wins and is one of the all-time winningest coaches in NCAA history. Since taking over the program in 2000, Cook has led the Huskers to a nation-leading .873 winning percentage (689-100).

- Under Cook, the Huskers have achieved 68 AVCA All-Americans and 20 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, both among the best in the nation. He is a three-time AVCA National Coach of the Year, earning the prestigious honor in 2000, 2005 and 2023, and an eight-time conference coach of the year, including Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2016, 2017 and 2023.

- In 2023, Cook was voted AVCA National Coach of the Year and Big Ten Coach of the Year after leading a young Nebraska team with no seniors to its first Big Ten title since 2017. The Huskers finished the regular season 28-1 overall, their best regular season record since going 28-1 in 2005. After going 26-6 last year and missing the NCAA regional finals for the first time since 2011, the Huskers started over with a starting lineup featuring four true freshmen and a junior transfer (Beeson). Cook's Huskers won their first 27 matches of the season and held the No. 1 ranking from Oct. 23 through the end of the regular season. Despite having no seniors on the roster for just the second time in Cook's 24 years at Nebraska -- as well as starting a true freshman at setter for only the second time in Cook's tenure -- the Huskers earned the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2016 and the sixth time overall under Cook.

- Cook was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame in 2017, joining former Husker volleyball coach Terry Pettit in the Hall.

Just like last Monday, a fast fact to kick off the week:

“In 2007, Nebraska mascot Lil’ Red was inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame.”

@Sean Callahan said this on the radio this morning. I am very intrigued by what is meant by this. Would love for you to come in here and spill the Deans.

Back from my annual drive from Idaho to my home state and had a few random thoughts.
Thanks so much for those of you who gave me advice years ago on how to cut thru the panhandle to see Scottsbluff and Chimney Rock.

Construction woes. Those are real. I've never seen so much construction on virtually every interstate and highway that I was on. And I was on a lot of them, thru a lot of states. By far the worst was trying to get onto I80 at Ogallala. They were literally moving the cones around while I was trying to find the access ramp. On the way home I drove on NE state highways quite a ways and it was much better.

Now for the good stuff. Scottsbluff National monument. When times short even sitting in the parking lot eating a runza while looking skyward is amazing. Chimney Rock - incredible selection of NE/plains history books. Omaha - yes, the zoo (esp. the aquarium) gets better every year. Lauritzen Gardens for a concert. Forest Lawn Cemetery. Runzas. Off the beaten path - Ravenna and Broken Bow. The Custer County Museum in BB is a gold mine for anyone who had family who homesteaded in BB or were in S. Butcher photos. BB even has a Runzas!!

And finally, "Nebraska Nice" is real. ❤️ I'm guessing that those of you who act like jerks on this board are pretty nice as well. I'm proud to be born in this state and a grad of UNL. Now let's bring in the football season!!! GBR!!

The Big Ten Conference on Monday announced new football tiebreaking procedures for the 2024 Discover Big Ten Championship Game, the first in Big Ten history to match the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the overall conference standings.

If two teams are tied in the Big Ten standings (conference games only) the following steps will be taken until a determination is made.

1. The tied teams will be compared based on head-to-head matchups during the regular season.

2. The tied teams will be compared based on record against all common conference opponents.

3. The tied teams will be compared based on record against common opponents with the best conference record and proceeding through the common conference opponents based on their order of finish within the conference standings.

4. The tied teams will be compared based on the best cumulative conference winning percentage of all conference opponents

5. The representative will be chosen based on the highest ranking by SportsSource Analytics (team Rating Score metric) following the regular season

6. The representative will be chosen by random draw among the tied teams conducted by the Commissioner or designee

Does anyone have an update on how he’s doing? Sure has lost a lot of weight

Quick story on Rhule not planning to hold back Dylan Raiola in the season-opener. Sounds like he's going to let the kid go and see what happens.

Nixa (Mo.) five-star offensive tackle Jackson Cantwell has his fall visit schedule set and he's scheduled to visit Nebraska for the Colorado game in two weeks. No. 2 prospect and No. 1 OT in the Rivals250

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Are section 25, row 45 obstructed view seats?

Also, anyone know of an interactive site that shows seat views?

QB #2 Dylan Raiola
WR #57 Dae Von Hall
TE #3 Carter Nelson
OL #13 Grant Brix, #25 Preston Taumua
LBer #42 Willis McGahee

He also has Nebraska the #2 Most improved, East Carolina is #1 and Indiana is #4..

Ran 137 plays and no significant injuries.. The good news..
Javin Wright will be out for a short time..Coach Rhule didn’t release anything more..

Offensive line made a huge jump this week..

Raiola
Rahmir
Polar Bear
Singleton
Neyor
James Williams
Van Poppel
Shavers
Carter Nelson

So why come to Nebraska game?

2027 St. Joseph (Ill.) Ogden offensive tackle Cameron Wagner is regarded as one of the top '27 offensive line prospects in the state for the cycle and he's planning to see Nebraska this weekend. Credit to running backs coach EJ Barthel who's built a good relationship early on here. He's on offer watch this weekend
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Granted, it’s part of their bold predictions for the season, but still….wow. GBR!

to do their best Nebraska impression but ended up winning it in the end.

Most physical team in football. About time. Can't wait.. GBR

August 26
1847 - Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.

1883 - A massive volcanic eruption on the island of Krakatoa blew up most of the island and resulted in a tsunami that killed over 36,000 people.

1920 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote, went into effect.

1944 - French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German snipers as he led a victory march in Paris, which had just been liberated by the Allies from Nazi occupation.

1958 - Alaskans went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly for statehood.
1968 - The Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago; the four-day event resulted in the nomination of Hubert H. Humphrey for president was marked by a bloody police crackdown on antiwar protesters in the streets.

1974 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died.

1978 - Cardinal Albino Luciana of Venice became Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I. (He would die one month later.)

1980 - The FBI inadvertently detonated a bomb planted at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada while attempting to disarm it. (The hotel had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.)

1985 - Thirteen-year-old AIDS patient Ryan White began "attending" classes at Western Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana via a telephone hook-up at his home, as school officials barred White from attending classes in person due to his illness.

2009 - Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was discovered alive in California after being missing for more than 18 years.

2022 - An affidavit released by the FBI showed that 14 of the 15 boxes recovered from President Donald Trump's Florida estate contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence.

Birthdays
27 - Mae Muller (singer)
31 - Keke Palmer (actress)
33 - Dylan O'Brien (actor)
35 - James Harden (basketball player)
36 - Danielle Savre (actress)
38 - Cassie Ventura (singer)
39 - Brian Kelly (singer)
42 - John Mulaney (actor/comedian)
44 - Chris Pine (actor)
44 - Macaulay Culkin (actor)
53 - Thalia (singer)
54 - Melissa McCarthy (actress)
58 - Shirley Manson (actress/singer)
73 - Bill Whitaker (journalist)
78 - Valerie Simpson (singer)
112 - John Tinniswood (world's oldest living man)


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Today in Sports History - August 26

1938 - The Montreal Maroons are dropped from the NHL.

1939 - The first televised Major League Baseball game aired: a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.

1961 - The International Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto opened. The project had been approved on September 11, 1943.

1971 - Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth $1 million, the first million dollar contract in NHL history.

1972 - The Summer Olympic Games opened in Munich, West Germany.

1985 - Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles records nine RBIs in a game against the California Angels.

1990 - Bo Jackson of the Kansas City Royals hits four home runs in four consecutive at-bats.

2004 - The United States women's soccer team defeats Brazil 2-1 to win the gold medal at the Athens Summer Olympic Games.

2020 - The Milwaukee Bucks elect to forfeit their NBA playoff game after the shooting of Jacob Blake; the NBA then decided to postpone more games as a result.

CasperCody here...Guys, as of the other day there aren't a whole lot signed up YET! Dust the clubs off and come on out!! Also, because of the low numbers Indy said to bring a friend along if you want.. Can't wait to put a face to the fellow scrollers.

DM Indy if you want to play!