@marlon_fan

What a giant suck up. Joining Fat Deano's site and taking him? 🇺🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You really think he knows more than anyone else or has anything to do with anybody this? Come on.

Let’s hope it changes nothing.

Via Nebraska Athletics Communications:

Four Nebraska volleyball players were named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-America Teams on Wednesday.

Merritt Beason and Lexi Rodriguez were selected to the AVCA All-America First Team. Setter Bergen Reilly was chosen to the AVCA All-America Second Team. Outside hitter Harper Murray was named to the AVCA All-America Third Team.

The Huskers' four All-America selections brings their nation-leading total to 103 all-time, and it's the most All-Americans Nebraska has had in a season since 2016.

Rodriguez is now a three-time All-American after earning first-team honors in 2021 and second-team honors in 2022. Beason, Reilly and Murray are all first timers.

Merritt Beason, Jr., Opposite Hitter
Merritt Beason, a junior opposite hitter who transfered to NU from Florida, was named the AVCA Region Player of the Year, as well as All-Big Ten First Team and All-Region Team. Beason has stepped in as a team captain and is contributing a team-leading 3.86 kills per set this season with 2.09 digs per set and a .293 hitting percentage. A native of Gardendale, Ala., Beason earned four Big Ten Player of the Week honors this season and was the AVCA National Player of the Week on Oct. 24 following 21 kills in a 3-2 win over then-No. 1 Wisconsin. Beason had a career-high 27 kills on .426 hitting in a 3-2 reverse sweep at then-No. 16 Penn State on Nov. 3. As a sophomore at Florida in 2022, Beason was an All-SEC and AVCA All-Region selection.

Lexi Rodriguez, Jr., Libero
Junior libero Lexi Rodriguez was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in her career, becoming the fifth player in Big Ten history to receive that honor twice in a career. She also earned AVCA All-Region and All-Big Ten First Team honors for the third time. Rodriguez, who averages 3.62 digs and 1.26 assists per set, leads a Husker defense that ranks first nationally in opponent hitting percentage. The junior from Sterling, Ill., was twice named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week this season despite opponents frequently tailoring their game plans to avoid Rodriguez on the court. Rodriguez was a first-team AVCA All-American in 2021 and a second-team AVCA All-American in 2022.

Bergen Reilly, Fr., Setter
Freshman setter Bergen Reilly was chosen Big Ten Setter of the Year, becoming the first ever freshman to earn the award since it originated in 2012. She also earned All-Big Ten First Team, All-Freshman Team, and AVCA All-Region Team accolades. Reilly, just the second true freshman setter to be the starter at Nebraska under head coach John Cook, is putting up 10.64 assists and 2.70 digs per set and has 15 double-doubles this season. The Sioux Falls, S.D., native ranks 17th nationally in assists per set. Reilly was named Big Ten Setter of the Week four times this year and Big Ten Freshman of the Week twice. She paces a Husker offense that ranks in the top 20 nationally in hitting percentage (.279) and kills per set (14.06).

Harper Murray, Fr., Outside Hitter
Freshman outside hitter Harper Murray was voted the AVCA Region Freshman of the Year and the Big Ten Freshman of the Year, making her the second ever Husker (Madi Kubik, 2019) to earn that distinction. Murray also earned All-Big Ten First Team and unanimous All-Freshman Team accolades. Murray ranks second on the Huskers in kills with 3.23 per set and adds 2.10 digs per set with a team-high 34 service aces. Murray was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week three times this season.

I read a little info about both QBs having the same coach and that he was here for McCord’s visit. I am unable to research that relationship right now but am very curious. This seems like a very interesting part of the puzzle. TIA

GBR

Says no need to visit ..."can see it all already" Don't know if it's a combo thing with Peter, who denied even knowing Jesus while on vist to Gamecocks. Possible sighting at Old Dominion concert with women's volleyball team who may or may not have been opening doors for Jesus "at the vault" Reports of water being turned into Bud Light.

SIAP:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ot...n&cvid=b9fbffca11a7484eadfc10c5af9031eb&ei=34

December 13
1642 - New Zealand is discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman.

1862 - Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside launched futile attacks against entrenched Confederate soldiers during the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg; the soundly defeated Northern troops withdrew two days later.

1918 - President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Europe while in office.

1937 - The Chinese city of Nanjing fell to Japanese forces during the Sino-Japanese War; what followed was a massacre of war prisoners, soldiers and citizens. (China maintains that up to 300,000 people were killed; Japanese nationalists say the death toll was far lower.)

1978 - The U.S. Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first American coin honoring a woman.

1981 - The Polish government imposed martial law in an attempt to crush the Solidarity movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.)

1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk met with Nelson Mandela for the first time.

1993 - The space shuttle Endeavour returned from its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

1996 - Kofi Annan of Ghana was chosen to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations.

2000 - George W. Bush accepted the presidency and his challenger, Al Gore, conceded, 36 days after the election and one day after the U.S. Supreme Court the election recount in Florida.

2001 - The Pentagon publicly released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the September 11 attacks exceeded his “most optimistic” expectations.

2002 - President George W. Bush announced he would take the smallpox vaccine along with U.S. military forces, but was not recommending the potentially risky inoculation for most Americans.

2003 - American forces captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who was hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit.

2013 - North Korea’s state-run media announced the execution the day before of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle Jang Song Thaek, portraying him as a morally corrupt traitor.

2014 - Thousands of protesters marched in New York, Washington and other U.S. cities to call attention to the killing of unarmed Black men by white police officers who faced no criminal charges.

2019 - The House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment accusing President Donald Trump of abuse of power in his dealings with Ukraine and obstruction of Congress in the investigation that followed.

2020 - The first vials of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 began making their way to distribution sites across the United States.

2022 - President Joe Biden signed gay marriage legislation, saying “the law and the love it defends strike a blow against hate in all its forms.”

Birthdays
20 - Maisy Stella (actress)
28 - Emma Corrin (actress)
34 - Taylor Swift (singer)
34 - Katherine Schwarzenegger (author)
35 - Marcel Spears (actor)
36 - Michael Socha (actor)
42 - Amy Lee (singer)
42 - Chelsea Hertford (actress)
44 - Kimee Balmilero (actress)
48 - James Kyson Lee (actor)
49 - Debbie Matenopoulos (TV host)
52 - Jeffrey Pierce (actor)
53 - Bart Johnson (actor)
56 - Jamie Foxx (actor/comedian)
57 - NeNe Leakes (actress)
64 - Johnny Whitaker (actor)
66 - Steve Buscemi (actor)
69 - John Anderson (singer)
73 - Wendie Malick (actress)
74 - Robert Lindsay (actor)
75 - Ted Nugent (singer)
78 - Kathy Garver (actress)
82 - John Davidson (singer)
98 - Dick Van Dyke (actor/comedian)

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Today in Sports History - December 13

1931 - The Green Bay Packers win their third consecutive NFL championship game.

1936 - The Redskins played their last game in Boston, in a 21-6 loss to the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Championship Game. The next season the Redskins began playing in Washington, DC.

1942 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Chicago Bears 14-6 in the NFL Championship Game.

1949 - The American League rejected a revival of the spitball, which had been outlawed since 1920.

1956 - Jackie Robinson (Los Angeles Dodgers) was traded to the Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000. Robinson retired instead of accepting the trade.

1966 - The rights to the first four Super Bowls were sold to CBS and NBC for a total of $9.5 million.

1977 - Fourteen members of the University of Evansville men's basketball team die in a plane crash.

1983 - An NBA record was set when the Detroit Pistons and Denver Nuggets played a triple overtime that resulted in Pistons winning 186-184.

1995 - Paul Coffey (Detroit Red Wings) became the first NHL defenseman to reach 1,000 career points.

1997 - Michigan defensive back Charles Woodson wins the Heisman Trophy.

1998 - Gary Anderson (Minnesota Vikings) kicked six field goals against Baltimore. In the game Anderson set an NFL record for 34 straight field goals without a miss.

1998 - Marshall Faulk set a new Colts record for total yards from scrimmage in a season with 2,090. The record had been held by Eric Dickerson with 2,036.

1999 - Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne wins the Heisman Trophy.

2003 - Oklahoma quarterback Jason White wins the Heisman Trophy.

2007 - Major League Baseball’s Mitchell Report was released, identifying 85 names to differing degrees in connection with the alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs.

2010 - The New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings played at Detroit's Ford Field. The game was moved due to the collapse of the inflatable roof at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Mall of America Stadium the previous day.

2010 - Auburn quarterback Cam Newton wins the Heisman Trophy.

2014 - Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota wins the Heisman Trophy.

2015 - Alabama running back Derrick Henry wins the Heisman Trophy.

2018 - Dirk Nowitzki begins his record 21st season in the NBA with the Dallas Mavericks, surpassing Kobe Bryant's 20 years with the Los Angeles Lakers.

2022 - Washington Capitals center Alex Ovechekin scores his 800th career NHL goal, becoming just the third player in NHL history to achieve the feat, joining Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe.

Raiola is N and McCord turns us down. What then? We still need a seasoned veteran? Who’s left that we could pursue?

Talking about the 2 QBs, the WR, and some others while reeling in a good freshman class:

1. Rhule is the guy for sure. We already kind of know this because he did something that Callahan, Riley, and Frost couldn't do, which is reintroduce defense to this program.

2. That UNL is not ****ing around with NIL.

My oh my...70mil per year. Imagine what he would have commanded if he wasn't injured.

Does the potential Raiola flip help get Gatlin Bair in the class? I don't see that he has committed to anyone since decommitting from Boise State.

Link: Full Match Notes (Huskers.com)



NCAA DIVISION I VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT

NATIONAL SEMIFINALS

When: Thursday, December 14 | 6:00 PM (CT)

Where: Amalie Arena (20,500) | Tampa, Florida

TV: ESPN (Courtney Lyle, Holly McPeak, Katie George)

RADIO: Huskers Radio Network (John Baylor, Lauren Cook West)

NEBRASKA
Record: 32-1 (19-1 Big Ten)
Head Coach: John Cook (688-99, 24th year NU | 849-172, 30th year overall)

PITTSBURGH
Record: 29-4 (16-2 ACC)
Head Coach: Dan Fisher (287-66, 11th year Pitt | 362-68, 13th year overall)

MATCH PREVIEW
The No. 1 Nebraska volleyball team squares off against No. 4 Pittsburgh on Thursday in the NCAA Semifinals at 6 p.m. (CT) at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. The winner will advance to Sunday's NCAA Championship at 2 p.m. (CT) on ABC against either No. 3 Wisconsin or No. 5 Texas.

Thursday's match will be televised nationally on ESPN and streamed on WatchESPN. Courtney Lyle, Holly McPeak and Katie George will be on the call.

The Huskers Radio Network will broadcast all of the action on their radio affiliates, including 107.3 FM in Lincoln and AM 590 in Omaha. A live audio stream will be provided at Huskers.com and on the Huskers app. John Baylor is in his 30th season doing play-by-play for the Husker volleyball program. Lauren (Cook) West, a former All-American setter for the Huskers, will provide color commentary.

SERIES HISTORY
Nebraska is 13-0 all-time against Pittsburgh. The teams met in the NCAA Semifinals in Columbus, Ohio on Dec. 16, 2021. The Huskers won that match, 3-1 (16-25, 25-17, 25-20, 25-22) to advance to the NCAA Championship match, which Wisconsin won 3-2.

ABOUT THE HUSKERS
- Nebraska (32-1) is the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time in program history. The other years were 2000 (NCAA Champion), 2004 (NCAA Regional Finalist), 2005 (NCAA Runner-Up), 2006 (NCAA Champion) and 2016 (NCAA Semifinalist).

- The Huskers won the outright Big Ten title this season with a 19-1 league record, earning their first Big Ten title since 2017. Nebraska has now won four Big Ten titles since joining the conference in 2011. Nebraska won Big Ten titles in 2011, 2016, 2017 (co-champions) and 2023. All-time, Nebraska volleyball has won 35 conference titles. John Cook has been head coach for 13 of them.

- Nebraska's 32 wins are tied for the most by a Nebraska team since the 2006 team won 33 matches (33-1).

- Nebraska won 27 matches in a row to begin the season and finished 28-1, its best regular-season record since going 28-1 in 2005.

- The Huskers, who led the nation in defense in 2022, have held their opponents this season to a combined .134 hitting percentage, which ranks first nationally.

- Nebraska has been sharp offensively this season, hitting .279 to rank 18th nationally. The Huskers rank 10th nationally with 14.06 kills per set and 15th in assists per set at 13.02.

- Nebraska had four All-Big Ten First Team selections and two All-Big Ten Second Team selections for a total of six all-conference players this season, the most in program history.

- The Huskers had six AVCA All-Region honorees, tied for the most in program history

- Thursday's semifinals pits the nation's top two defenses against each other. Nebraska is No. 1 nationally at .134 while Pittsburgh is No. 2 at .138

- Nebraska and Pittsburgh are the only two teams who are holding their opponents under .100 hitting in the NCAA Tournament. The Huskers are No. 1 with a .090 opponent hitting percentage in the NCAA Tournament while the Panthers rank second with an .095 opponent hitting percentage

- Nebraska has lost only one set in the NCAA Tournament, the only team in the tournament with fewer than two set losses.

- Nebraska enters the NCAA Tournament with 32 wins. That ties for the most wins by a team entering the NCAA Semifinals since 2014, when Penn State entered the semifinals with a 34-3 record.

- Bekka Allick is averaging 2.4 blocks per set during the NCAA Tournament and is the nation's leading blocker during the postseason.

- Bergen Reilly is looking to become just the fourth freshman setter to lead her team to a national championship. Bryn Keho set Stanford to a national title as a true freshman in 2004 as did Jenna Gray for the Cardinal in 2016. In addition to the two Stanford setters, Nebraska's Rachel Holloway set the Huskers to a national championship in 2006, when she was a redshirt freshman.

- Merritt Beason has 444 kills in her first season as a Husker. With six more kills, Beason would join an accomplished group of four Huskers who totaled 450 kills in a season during the rally-scoring era (2001-present). That group includes Sarah Pavan, Kelsey Robinson, Mikaela Foecke and Jordan Larson. Pavan and Foecke were each named the NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player in their careers, while Robinson and Larson both won gold medals with Team USA at the 2020 Olympics, with Larson being the Olympics' Most Outstanding Player.

- Andi Jackson is hitting .402 this season, as she attempts to become the first freshman in program history to hit .400. The current record for freshman hitting percentage is .388 by Karen Dahlgren in 1983.

NEBRASKA NCAA TOURNAMENT NOTES
- Nebraska advanced to an NCAA Semifinal for the 17th time in program history and for the sixth time in the past nine seasons. The Huskers' 17 NCAA Semifinals rank second in NCAA history, and Nebraska's six semifinal appearances since 2015 lead the nation.

- John Cook has led Nebraska to an NCAA Semifinal for the 10th time in his 24 seasons. Cook is the fourth Division I coach to take one school to 10 NCAA Semifinals, joining Russ Rose (Penn State), Andy Banachowski (UCLA) and Jerritt Elliott (Texas).

- Nebraska is 129-36 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. The Huskers rank second in NCAA history in postseason wins and winning percentage (.782).

- John Cook is 88-19 in the NCAA Tournament as Nebraska's head coach. He is 96-24 in his NCAA Tournament career. Cook ranks second all-time in career NCAA Tournament wins at one school.

- Bekka Allick had a career-high 12 blocks in the regional final vs. Arkansas (her previous career-high was 10 at Minnesota on Nov. 25, 2023). Allick's 12 blocks were the most by a Huskers in an NCAA Tournament match during the rally-scoring era (since 2001), breaking the record of 10, which was accomplished seven times by five Huskers.

- Merritt Beason had 19 kills in the Arkansas match. She has produced double-digit kills in 17 of her last 18 matches, including all four matches of the NCAA Tournament. Beason has 444 kills this season. She moved into the top 10 on Nebraska's single-season kills list, passing Mikaela Foecke (441 in 2017) and Sarah Pavan (443 in 2005) for the ninth-most single-season kills by a Husker in the rally-scoring era (since 2001).

- Lexi Rodriguez had 20 digs in the regional final to increase her career total to 1,404. Rodriguez became the seventh player in school history to total 1,400 career digs.

SCOUTING PITTSBURGH
- Pittsburgh (29-4, 16-2 ACC) earned a third straight trip to the NCAA Semifinals with a 3-2 reverse sweep of Louisville in the regional finals, its second time in four weeks the Panthers reverse swept the Cardinals.

- The Panthers rank second nationally in opponent hitting percentage (.138) and third in hitting percentage (.308). Pitt is No. 2 in the nation in blocks at 2.97 per set.

- Outside hitter Olivia Babcock was the ACC Freshman of the Year. Babcock leads the attack with 3.61 kills per set and has served a team-high 50 aces.

- Setter Rachel Fairbanks was the ACC Setter of the Year. Fairbanks averages 9.32 assists per set.

Pitt 2023 Schedule
vs. BYU (L 1-3)
at Montana (W 3-0)
vs. Texas-Rio Grande Valley (W 3-0)
at #15 Kentucky (W 3-0)
at #15 Kentucky (W 3-1)
at #24 Marquette (W 3-0)
at Loyola Chicago (W 3-0)
#7 Oregon (L 2-3)
James Madison (W 3-0)
High Point (W 3-0)
Maryland-Baltimore County (W 3-0)
at Duke (W 3-0)
at North Carolina (W 3-0)
Boston College (W 3-0)
Syracuse (W 3-0)
#11 Georgia Tech (W 3-2)
Clemson (W 3-0)
at #6 Louisville (L 0-3)
at Notre Dame (W 3-0)
Virginia (W 3-0)
at North Carolina State (W 3-0)
Virginia Tech (W 3-0)
Wake Forest (W 3-0)
at Florida State (L 2-3)
at Miami (FL) (W 3-1)
at #8 Georgia Tech (W 3-0)
#4 Louisville (W 3-2)
Miami (FL) (W 3-0)
at Syracuse (W 3-0)
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Coppin State (W 3-0)
#25 USC (W 3-1)
#10 Washington State (W 3-0)
#7 Louisville (W 3-2)

HUSKERS RANKED NO. 1 IN AVCA COACHES POLL
- Nebraska is ranked No. 1 in the AVCA Coaches Poll this week

- Nebraska has been ranked No. 1 in 108 all-time polls, the most in NCAA history

- The Huskers have been ranked in the top 10 a total of 557 times, which is also the most in NCAA history.

- Nebraska has appeared in all 618 AVCA Coaches Polls it has been eligible for since the poll was established in 1982. Nebraska is the only program to be ranked in every eligible poll all-time

- Nebraska's 618 consecutive weeks of being ranked is the longest active streak in Division I for any sport, leading Connecticut women's basketball and North Carolina women's soccer.

Apparently reporting that Nebraska has told DK that Raiola is signing with them...the weekend visit looks more and more like a formality.

Why?
The idiot was clearly lined up offsides?

Coming on the show around 1:15 central time today FYI, should be fun/interesting.

Don't know if we will ever hear the truth on this, but has anyone heard why the switch?

Matt Rhule does not know how to compete for top QBs, if he thinks quarterbacks are going to come to Nebraska for peanuts when all the major colleges will pay five million or more. That is a prescription for the bottom tear of the Big Ten in which we already have a hold on that. This guy is getting millions to coach and he does not want to pay for what is right. Geesh. Hopefully the AD will set him straight.

I really don’t know. But maybe he talked Dylan into the switch?