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Portal losses

In looking at the guys transferring out, some of the transfers at first glance appear to be quality guys that it hurts to lose. Jamari Butler for example. And in some ways it probably does hurt our depth.

However, how many of those guys were top tier talents? I would argue not a single one. I am not losing any sleep over losing any of them. Because not one of them would be starters on most top 20 teams. A player like Jamari Butler wouldn’t even make Ohio State’s two deep.

What we have now is a real opportunity to upgrade our roster with much better talent. We will have two new coordinators. And with every team struggling to get down to 105 there will be some talented guys in the portal. For Nebraska to get back to being a perennial top 10 team we have to start upgrading the talent on our roster. Instead of a Jamari Butler we need a Grant Wistrom. Sorry to pick on Jamari but I focus on him because I think he was our biggest loss.

Time to put the pedal to the metal in our recruiting. We didn’t spend $150 million on new facilities to develop walk ons. We did it to attract elite talent. Now go and get it damn it. The opportunity is there.

Basketball Big Ten Men's Scores and Standings (12/4)

December 4
#12 Oregon 68, USC 60
Maryland 83, Ohio State 59
Michigan State 90, Minnesota 72

Standings
1. Iowa (7-1, 1-0)
1. Maryland (8-1, 1-0)
1. Michigan (7-1, 1-0)
1. Michigan State (7-2, 1-0)
1. Oregon (9-0, 1-0)
1. UCLA (7-1, 1-0)
7. Nebraska (6-1, 0-0)
7. Illinois (6-1, 0-0)
7. Indiana (6-2, 0-0)
7. Penn State (7-1, 0-0)
7. Purdue (7-1, 0-0)
7. Rutgers (5-3, 0-0)
13. Minnesota (6-4, 0-1)
13. Northwestern (6-3, 0-1)
13. Ohio State (5-3, 0-1)
13. USC (5-4, 0-1)
13. Washington (6-2, 0-1)
13. Wisconsin (8-1, 0-1)

Games for Thursday, December 5
#8 Purdue at Penn State (5:30 PM - FS1)

Next Nebraska Game - Saturday, December 7
Nebraska at Michigan State (11:00 AM - BTN)
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Today in History - November 5

November 5
1776 - The first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized at the College of William and Mary and Williamsburg, Virginia.

1791 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria at age 35.

1848 - President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of 1848 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California.

1872 - Having left New York on November 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off the coast of Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing.

1933 - National Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which repealed the 18th Amendment.

1952 - The Great Smog of London descended on the British capital; the unusually thick fog, which contained toxic pollutants, lasted five days and was blamed for causing thousands of deaths.

1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.

1994 - Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the first GOP speaker of the House in four decades.

2002 - At Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.

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

2009 - A jury in Perugia, Italy, convicted American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, of murdering Knox’s British roommate, Meredith Kercher, and sentenced them to long prison terms. (After a series of back-and-forth rulings, Knox and Sollecito were definitively acquitted in 2015 by Italy’s highest court.)

2013 - Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first Black president, died at age 95.

2017 - Democratic Congressman John Conyers of Michigan resigned from Congress after a nearly 53-year career, becoming the first Capitol Hill politician to lose his job amid the sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through the nation’s workplaces.

2019 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she had asked the relevant House committee chairs to begin drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, saying his actions left them “no choice” but to act swiftly. (Trump would be impeached by the House on charges of obstruction and abuse of power, but the Senate voted to acquit in the first of two Trump impeachment trials.)

Birthdays
22 - Becky Armstrong (actress)
27 - Maddie Poppe (singer)
28 - Georgia Hassarati (TV personality)
30 - Alexandra Beaton (actress)
39 - Frankie Muniz (actor)
40 - Lauren London (actress)
42 - Keri Hilson (singer)
49 - Paula Patton (actress)
51 - Shalom Harlow (model)
55 - Catherine Tate (actress)
56 - Margaret Cho (actress/comedian)
57 - Gary Allan (singer)
67 - Art Monk (football player)
75 - Lanny Wadkins (golfer)
77 - Jim Messina (musician)

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Today in Sports History - December 5
1908 - At the University of Pittsburgh, numerals were first used on football uniforms worn by college football players.

1970 - The Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and the Bill Masterson trophy were stolen from the NHL Hall of Fame.

1972 - Nebraska wingback Johnny Rodgers wins the Heisman Trophy.

1973 - Ron Santo became the first major league player to veto his trade.

1978 - Pete Rose signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. The contract was for four years and $3.2 million making Rose the highest paid athlete in team sports.

1981 - USC running back Marcus Allen wins the Heisman Trophy.

1983 - The video arcade game "NFL Football" was unveiled in Chicago. It was the first video arcade game to be licensed by the National Football League.

1987 - Notre Dame wide receiver Tim Brown wins the Heisman Trophy.

1995 - Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins) passed for 300 yards in a game for the 52nd time to set an NFL record.

2000 - Karl Malone (Utah Jazz) moved past Wilt Chamberlain into second place on the NBA's all-time scoring list.

2002 - Michal Handzus (Philadelphia Flyers) became only the second NHL player to score an overtime goal on a penalty shot. The Flyers beat the New York Rangers 3-2.

2006 - Pitcher Greg Maddux signs a one-year contract with the San Diego Padres worth $10 million.

2009 - Texas defeats Nebraska 13-12 in the Big 12 Conference championship game.

2017 - Russia is banned from the Winter Olympic Games for state-sponsored doping.

Basketball Big Ten Women's Scores and Standings (12/4)

December 4
Purdue 60, Maine 51
Indiana 67, Southern Indiana 63
Northwestern 64, DePaul 56
Oregon 85, Washington State 70

Standings
Minnesota (10-0)
Maryland (9-0)
Iowa (8-0)
Michigan State (8-0)
UCLA (8-0)
Ohio State (7-0)
Penn State (8-1)
Nebraska (7-1)
Illinois (7-1)
Michigan (7-1)
USC (7-1)
Oregon (7-2)
Washington (7-2)
Wisconsin (7-2)
Indiana (6-3)
Purdue (5-3)
Rutgers (5-3)
Northwestern (4-3)

Games for Saturday, December 7
Indiana at Penn State (12:00 PM - BTN+)
#7 Maryland at Purdue (1:00 PM - BTN+)
#6 USC at Oregon (3:00 PM - BTN)
#17 Iowa vs. Tennessee (at Brooklyn, NY) (6:00 PM - FOX)

Next Nebraska Game - Sunday, December 8
Minnesota at #25 Nebraska (1:00 PM - BTN)

***New Commit*** Four-star WR Cortez Mills is N

Cortez Mills flips from Oklahoma to Nebraska on Signing Day

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Portal needs

I know, there's lots of portal threads already, but I'm curious to see what everyone's top 5 HAVE to have at least one spots are.

For me its:

1. OT
2. DT
3. CB
4. ILB
5. IOL

5 was tough for me, I love our young talent in there, but it would be nice to add a quality experienced presence.

I think we have to add a couple WRs to, but think those are easier to find so, farther down the list.

Rhule presser

He seemed in good spirits. He did say that he knew Tony was basically a short timer in Lincoln and that he knew that when he hired Butler such that Butler would be strongly considered for the DC job. He likes Tony’s defense and would definitely want to consider operating in some variant of it. He said he likes the flexibility.
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