Something to pay attention to this weekend, if Clemson knocks off SMU and Bama gets nixed from the playoffs, don’t be surprised to hear grumblings about the SEC seceding from the NCAA sooner than later. Think there are already blueprints for this from Sankey, but events from the weekend might provide a catalyst for this.

I've been super sick the last week and just logged on. Transfers every where. New coaches. I haven't even seen where we are going bowling. Probably Idaho or something. Thank god for Nebraketball, which has never been said ever before.

2025 line-up. For fun!

QB Raiola
RB Dowdell
WR Barney
WR Lloyd
WR Bonner/Nelson
TE Boerkircher
OT Gottala
OG Evans
C Sledge (Evans might switch back to center)
OG Lutovsky
OT Seagren

DL Lenhardt/Davis
DL Jeudy
DL Van Poppel
LB McGaheee
LB Shavers
LB Merritt (Wright if he manages to get another year)
RV Stewart
CB Wright
CB Sanders
S Buford
S Hartzog


Pre-portal, pre-bowl game. Be interesting to see if any of the redshirt freshman really pop during bowl practice. Our defensive front 7 is extremely young, and all our depth went out the door.

What a disaster. Here's the game coverage:

Game story with quotes from Fred:


Three quick thoughts at the buzzer:

Will the new guys all win? ASU, Oregon, Texas

How about the "Most Overly Dramatic - Perpetually" announcer is college football...

That award, today, is being given to Joe Tessitore. Congrats Joe.

He's also running neck and neck with Beth Mowins for "Fork on Chalkboard, I've turned the Frickin' Volume Off" lifetime achievement award. Way to go!

Are looking pretty good tonight further proving the curse is real.

Fresno State transfer linebacker Phoenix Jackson will make an official visit to Nebraska next week on Dec. 11 per his agents. Jackson recorded recorded 101 tackles with five sacks and three interceptions over the last four seasons. This past season, he recorded 49 tackles with four sacks. Graded out with a 90.3 coverage grade per PFF and didn't allow a single touchdown in coverage this fall.

I remember reading his interest in the Huskers last offseason….he’s a nice player.

Mobile, good passer, competitive gamer type of QB.

It's Thursday and no inside rumors??? WTH

Hello old friends. After checking with sources this morning, I do expect that Tony White will be the next defensive coordinator at Florida State. It also expected that defensive line coach Terrence Knighton will join him at Florida State. Fast moving situation but that's the intel I'm getting right now.

December 5

Trivia:

“When Mike Rozier rushed for 29 TDs to lead all of college football in 1983, he broke the NCAA record for most TDs in a single season. That mark was previously set in 1971. Name the player who held the previous mark of 28 TDs and the school where he played.”

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Answers:

Terry Metcalf

Long Beach State

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December 6

Fast-fact Friday:

“Shannon Pluhowsky, a star Nebraska bowler in the early 2000s who was named an assistant coach in 2019, was a World Bowling Writers Hall of Fame inductee in 2012.”

Tipoff between Nebraska and Michigan State in East Lansing on Saturday is set for 11 a.m. central time. The game will be shown on BTN.

Fred Hoiberg knows what's coming: a physical MSU team that wants to play fast inside the Breslin Center.

Searched the internet but can't find a list of early enrollees. Anyone have that list? Christian Jones is the only one I can find. How bout Parker or Mills? Merritt? Lateef?

December 7

1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1917 - The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary during World War I.

1941 - The Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The United States would declare war on Japan the following day and enter World War II.

1972 - America's final mission to the moon, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral.

1976 - Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation.

1982 - Convicted murderer Charlie Brooks Jr. became the first U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas.

1988 - A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing more than 25,000.

1993 - Six people were killed and 19 wounded in a mass shooting aboard a Long Island Rail Road train in New York.

2001 - Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold in Afghanistan.

2002 - Iraq formally declared to the U.N. that it had no weapons of mass destruction.

2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.

2018 - James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia, was convicted of first-degree murder.

Birthdays
30 - Pete Alonso (baseball player)
31 - Clara Berry (model)
31 - Jasmine Villegas (singer)
35 - Nicholas Hoult (actor)
36 - Emily Browning (actress)
39 - Jon Moxley (professional wrestler)
45 - Sarah Bareilles (singer)
45 - Jennifer Carpenter (actress)
46 - Shiri Appleby (actress)
47 - Andrea Lopez (actress)
51 - Terrell Owens (football player)
58 - C. Thomas Howell (actor)
59 - Jeffrey Wright (actor)
68 - Larry Bird (basketball player)
75 - Tom Waits (singer)
77 - Johnny Bench (baseball player)
92 - Ellen Burstyn (actress)

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Today in Sports History - December 7
1939 - Lou Gehrig was elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. He was the first player to have the rule waived that required a player to be retired one year before he could be elected.

1949 - Split end Leon Hart of Notre Dame wins the Heisman Trophy.

1963 - CBS introduced the first-ever "Instant Replay" during the Army-Navy football game.

1985 - Auburn running back Bo Jackson wins the Heisman Trophy.

1996 - Texas upsets Nebraska 37-27 in the inaugural Big 12 Championship Game.

2017 - Former US gymnastics physician Larry Nasser is sentenced to 60 years on child pornography charges.

2020 - Breaking, the competitive form of breakdancing, confirmed as an Olympic sport for the Paris 2024 games.

Let’s give the man some credit for weathering some storms this year, and bringing the Huskers through looking better. With the season on the line, he made the decision to get Holgorsen, and get the offense fixed. We now have the best OC in the B10 and top 5 nationally.
Then on the cusp of signing day, he loses his DC and D-Line coach. All he does is hold the class together.
He is a man, who continuously self reflects, and acts upon his errors. He is not a perfect coach, but he doesn’t settle for “status quo” and is always moving the team forward.
I am the biggest Husker-Aid drinker on any board. But the man walked into a cultural mess and a lack of athleticism in the locker room. We are moving forward a lot slower than I like, but we are moving forward. I think patience through the bowl game is needed, as Rhule will gracefully let some coach’s go.
Like I said, Rhule is not perfect. There have been some situations, he’s had to navigate around. Missing out on the first OC he wanted was big. The Georgia Tech QB was a disaster, created do to the timing of his hire. McGuire wasn’t ready to handle a position group, but he recruited well. And just rebuilding this roster.
Matt Rhule is the right man for this job. Good things are coming. Hopefully, now at an accelerated pace. Let’s remember, it’s the bowl practices that are as important, as the bowl. It starts Dec. 28 in New York. GBR

That's what Rhule wants to run and I can't believe he'd take a chance bringing in a DC who hasn't run it. That narrows down the potential DC pool A LOT.

PITTSBURGH REGION

at Pittsburgh, PA
#1 Pittsburgh def. Morehead State (25-17, 25-15, 25-15)
#8 Oklahoma def. Texas-El Paso (19-25, 22-25, 25-19, 25-21, 15-9)

at Eugene, OR (Second Round)
#4 Oregon def. #5 TCU (19-25, 25-21, 25-11, 25-15)

at Lexington, KY (Second Round)
#3 Kentucky def. #6 Minnesota (25-11, 23-25, 25-22, 26-24)

at Dallas, TX (Second Round)
#7 Missouri def. #2 Southern Methodist (25-22, 25-14, 31-33, 25-22)

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LOUISVILLE REGION

at Louisville, KY
#1 Louisville def. Chicago State (25-10, 25-18, 25-13)
#8 Northern Iowa def. Illinois (25-16, 25-16, 16-25, 25-21)

at West Lafayette, IN (Second Round)
#4 Purdue def. Loyola Chicago (25-20, 25-21, 25-12)

at Lawrence, KS
#3 Kansas def. Colgate (25-18, 25-23, 25-22)
#6 Florida def. North Carolina State (25-18, 25-21, 25-13)

at Palo Alto, CA
#2 Stanford def. Sacramento State (25-19, 25-17, 25-19)
#7 Loyola Marymount def. Washington (25-18, 25-20, 23-25, 18-25, 19-17)

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PENN STATE REGION

at State College, PA
#1 Penn State def. Delaware State (25-4, 25-20, 25-18)
#8 North Carolina def. Yale (18-25, 25-13, 25-17, 25-20)

at Salt Lake City, UT (Second Round)
#5 Marquette def. #4 Utah (25-23, 25-22, 18-25, 24-26, 15-12)

at Austin, TX (Second Round)
#3 Texas def. #6 USC (26-24, 25-17, 25-22)

at Omaha, NE (Second Round)
#2 Creighton def. Mississippi (28-26, 27-25, 25-7)

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NEBRASKA REGION

at Lincoln, NE
#1 Nebraska def. Florida A&M (25-3, 25-9, 25-17)
#8 Miami (FL) def. South Dakota State (25-17, 25-23, 25-15)

at Waco, TX (Second Round)
#5 Dayton def. #4 Baylor (25-22, 22-25, 24-26, 25-21, 15-12)

at Tempe, AZ
#3 Arizona State def. New Hampshire (25-17, 25-17, 25-19)
#6 Texas A&M def. Colorado State (25-20, 16-25, 29-27, 25-23)

at Madison, WI (Second Round)
#2 Wisconsin def. #7 Georgia Tech (25-27, 25-20, 25-23, 25-21)

Total domination so far by the Lady Huskers. I have to say I miss the normal Big 10 commentators.
1st set 25-3.
GBR

Texas is all I got.

Anyone else hearing this??

In LV

6 in semis and 1 in cons

sitting in 2nd place for team but OKST has 6 in semis and 4 still alive in wrestlebacks

Van Dee is a surprise to me for making the semis considering he's had a rocky start of the year.

would have loved to have LP in the Semis.

We’re very short on DTs for the bowl game. He started out as a DT and due to our depth at DT moved to guard where he’s been on the 2 deep at times. Anybody else think he should slide de over to DT for the bowl game at least. He could be a wide body run stuffer.