He doesn't name any coaches. I doubt that Rhule would take the time to do that.
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I died laughing cause I think I’ve been guilty of this before.

Harbaugh is a classic football guy. Could be wrong, but I get the sense that he's genuinely excited for this game simply because of the way his team and the Huskers share similar play styles. Harbaugh and Rhule both broke down the game in similar ways.

Vegasinsider shows those spreads at several Vegas sportsbooks.

who is your rival on this site? do you even have one? what points drive this rivalry? is it one-sided?

i do not have a rival. maybe i did back on tOS, but i don't know who it would be. nobody even tries with me anymore.

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Link: Omaha World-Herald

Link: Lincoln Journal Star

Link: NebPreps

Link: Huskerland Preps 11-man | 8-man / 6-man

Link: NCN

Link: Lincoln Prep Sports

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Composite rankings

CLASS A
1. Omaha Westside (6) (5-0) - 60 pts
2. Millard South (5-0) - 54
3. Millard West (4-1) - 46
4. Omaha North (4-1) - 38
5. Kearney (5-0) - 37
6. Elkhorn South (4-1) - 30
7. Gretna (4-1) - 21
8. Lincoln East (4-1) - 16
9. Grand Island (4-1) - 15
10. Bellevue West (3-3) - 7

Contenders
Papillion-LaVista (4-1) - 4
Omaha Creighton Prep (2-4) - 2

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CLASS B
1. Bennington (6) (5-0) - 60 pts
2t. Elkhorn North (5-0) - 48
2t. Omaha Skutt (4-1) - 48
2t. Waverly (5-0) - 48
5t. Plattsmouth (4-1) - 29
5t. York (3-2) - 29
7. Seward (4-1) - 17
8t. Grand Island Northwest (2-3) - 13
8t. Scottsbluff (3-2) - 13
10. Elkhorn (2-3) - 9

Contenders
Blair (3-2) - 8
Omaha Gross (4-1) - 6
Crete (4-2) - 1
Norris (2-3) - 1

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CLASS C1
1. Boone Central (6) (5-0) - 60 pts
2. Wahoo (5-0) - 54
3. Ashland-Greenwood (4-1) - 48
4. Pierce (4-1) - 38
5t. Adams Central (5-0) - 28
5t. Omaha Roncalli (4-1) - 28
7. Aurora (3-2) - 27
8. Douglas County West (4-1) - 22
9. Minden (4-1) - 11
10. Sidney (5-0) - 9

Contenders
Columbus Scotus (4-1) - 4
Broken Bow (4-1) - 1

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CLASS C2
1. Norfolk Catholic (6) (5-0) - 60 pts
2. Battle Creek (5-0) - 54
3. Oakland-Craig (4-1) - 42
4. Hastings St. Cecilia (5-0) - 40
5. Wahoo Neumann (4-1) - 34
6. Ord (3-2) - 30
7. Malcolm (4-1) - 27
8. Fillmore Central (5-0) - 21
9. Yutan (3-2) - 13
10. Mitchell (4-1) - 7

Contenders
Hartington Cedar Catholic (3-2) - 1
North Bend (4-1) - 1

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CLASS D1
1. North Platte St. Patrick's (5) (6-0) - 59 pts
2. Stanton (1) (5-0) - 54
3. Cross County (5-0) - 48
4. Sandy Creek (5-0) - 31
5. Crofton (5-0) - 25
6. Elmwood-Murdock (5-0) - 23
7t. Hi-Line (4-1) - 21
7t. Thayer Central (5-0) - 21
9. Exeter-Milligan/Friend (4-1) - 19
10. Shelby/Rising City (5-0) - 14

Contenders
Plainview (5-0) - 9
Alma (4-1) - 3
Arapahoe (5-0) - 3

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CLASS D2
1t. South Loup (5) (5-0) - 54 pts
1t. Wynot (5-0) - 54 pts
3. Central Valley (5-0) - 43
4. Howells-Dodge (4-1) - 38
5. Dundy County-Stratton (1) (5-0) - 36
6. Ainsworth (5-0) - 32
7. Johnson-Brock (5-0) - 31
8. Humphrey St. Francis (4-1) - 17
9. Sandhills/Thedford (4-1) - 10
10. Bruning-Davenport/Shickley (4-1) - 7

Contenders
Bloomfield (4-1) - 6
Nebraska City Lourdes (4-1) - 2

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CLASS D6
1. Sumner-Eddyville-Miller (4) (4-0) - 58 pts
2. Arthur County (1) (4-0) - 50
3t. Pawnee City (4-0) - 48
3t. Potter-Dix (1) (5-0) - 48
5. Parkview Christian (3-1) - 30
6. Wilcox-Hildreth (3-1) - 27
7. Red Cloud (3-1) - 24
8. Hampton (3-1) - 14
9. Stuart (3-2) - 10
10. Sioux County (4-1) - 9

Contenders
Cody-Kilgore (3-2) - 5
Southwest (3-1) - 3
Franklin (2-2) - 2
Shelton (3-1) - 2

Cool insight from Jordan Larson yesterday who’s currently only a few days into her new role as Nebraska’s assistant coach. Hit the link.

1). What is the current planned completion date?

2). What’s the reason for the extended completion delay?

Looking at it yesterday, it’s a long way from a Grand Opening.

I was posting about a recruit’s weight and autocorrect changed potatos to potatoes. Am I the only old guy who remembers a VP candidate getting destroyed by the media for spelling potatoes with an E? 🤔

Couple things to be on the lookout for in the near future:

– Memorial Stadium renovation plans will be going public tomorrow. Trev will be going in front of the BoR to propose the new "modernization effort," as he put it, next Thursday (Oct. 5) and the meeting agenda has to be public one week prior.

– Not sure when, but it sounds like we're not too far away from getting the 2024 Big Ten Schedule Release 2.0

– Trev is putting his best foot forward to get the Huskers a *gasp* HOME GAME as their first Big Ten game of the season. Six straight on the road to open B1G play including four in a row in Week 1 is kinda ridiculous.

The Husker men's basketball team let a handful of media members observe practice this morning. Here are some thoughts along with a few video highlights:

Texas A&M -8.5
K state -4
IRISH +3.5
FSU -2
Syracuse -13
Kentucky -13
Oregon -21
Maryland -7
Ole miss +7
Okie st +3.5
Ark +18
Missouri -6.5
Penn st -15
north carolina -7
USC -34


Whats everyone else on? Maybe the best football weekend of the year. Lots of chalk above. All leans. Only locked in Irish, FSU, and ole miss.

Brooks Robinson passed away today. He was a two time MVP and won 16 consecutive gold gloves. I am old enough to say I got to see him play. RIP

Like clockwork

I have been greatly impressed by this years Freshman class of Volleyball. It really reminds me of the Fab 5 from the MSU basketball back in the day with Magic Johnson. The quality of talent is very impressive. It should be a great ride the next four years. Or as Buzz Lightyear would say "to infinity and beyond.'" GBR

Michigan vs. Nebraska Prediction and Game Preview
by Pete Fiutak, CollegeFootballNews.com

Michigan (4-0) at Nebraska (2-2)
Saturday, September 30 - 3:30 PM (ET) - FOX

Why Michigan Will Win
Michigan has been the epitome of consistency so far, and it hasn't exactly pushed the envelope offensively. It hasn't needed to.

The running game is fine, the passing game effective, and the defense hasn't allowed much of anything, giving up seven points or fewer in every game.

Nebraska doesn't have any sort of scoring pop to push through the Wolverine and nation's No. 1 scoring D. There's zero passing game for Michigan to worry about, the Husker secondary won't be able to stop J.J. McCarthy from keeping the chains moving, and forget it if the turnovers start coming.

The Huskers gave it up eight times in the first two games and .......

Why Nebraska Will Win
......the mistakes stopped, and all of a sudden the Huskers started to win.

Granted, playing Northern Illinois and Louisiana Tech had something to do with it -- there wasn't much need to press, and replacing Jeff Sims with Heinrich Haarberg calmed the turnovers down with just one in the last two games -- but Michigan isn't forcing mistakes.

Nebraska has to be flawless. Penalties aren't a problem, the running game that's been able to get to 220 yards or more in each of the last three games has to control the tempo, and the nation's No. 1 run defense has to keep on being amazing -- it allowed under two yards per carry and just 185 total yards in the first four games.

Who Will Win
You know how this works, Michigan types.

The team gets off to a slow start, the other side will keep the game from getting out of hand, and then the second quarter starts.

Michigan has allowed only 23 points and ten of them came in the fourth quarter when everything was essentially over. This is the first road game for the Wolverines and the second game back for Jim Harbaugh, and it'll be a nice test.

The running game will have to fight a bit, but the offense will balance out as -- like always -- the Wolverines start to kick everything in after the first quarter.

Prediction
Michigan 30, Nebraska 10

Spread
Michigan is favored on the road by 17 points. The O/U is set at 39 points.

nice midweek read. some things that stood out:

Last winter, after the sprint to sign a class of recruits and scour the transfer portal for reinforcements in the wake of Rhule’s post-Thanksgiving introduction, the coaches watched video cut-ups from practice and games of all the returning Huskers.

Rhule and Satterfield noticed Haarberg’s athleticism and strong throwing mechanics. The coaches also heard about various opinions that Haarberg would make a good tight end or fullback. Rhule recalls pulling Haarberg aside in the football offices.

“I said, ‘Hey, Heinrich, let me talk to you for a second,’” Rhule said. “‘Everybody says you should go play tight end, you should go play fullback.’ I could kind of see this look of disgust on his face. And I said, ‘I think you should go play quarterback.’”
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“I love everything that [Haarberg] does,” Grant said.

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Receiver Alex Bullock said Haarberg possesses “all the attributes you look for in a leader.”

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“The biggest thing is for him to have support from his teammates,” said Eric Crouch, the 2001 Heisman Trophy winner. “It can get a little hairy in the quarterback room if you let it.”

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Marcus Satterfield, the first-year Nebraska offensive coordinator, had no experience with option football until this year.

Coach Matt Rhule and his offensive staff for the past month have received a crash course in option principles from Ron Brown. A longtime former assistant under Tom Osborne, Frank Solich and Bo Pelini, Brown works this season for Rhule as the director of player support and outreach.

Enter Brown, with his expertise. And Haarberg.

“It’s a balance,” Haarberg said. “We don’t sit down and watch ’90s film. We install new stuff, new pass plays. (The coaches) pump out new plays all the time.”

GBR

With the addition of USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington, the B1G will be more than just a two team conference like it has been recently.

He seems like a must get right now
Seems to be tearing up Texas football at the moment

I’m concerned about your defense. We don’t do well with the 3-3-5, with lots of movement and confusion. I don’t know if you saw the TCU game but it was probably my least favorite game from last year. I didn’t like it and would prefer to avoid a repeat. Would you guys mind just lining up like men and doing something we are more comfortable blocking? Thanks in advance.

Husker punter Brian Buschini was named a semifinalist for the 2023 William V. Campbell Trophy, college football’s premier scholar-athlete award.

The award recognizes an individual as the absolute best in the country for his combined academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership, and the candidates also comprise the pool of nominees for the 2023 National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete Awards.

Buschini is looking to become the Huskers' third Campbell Trophy Award winner, joining Rob Zatechka (1994) and Kyle Vanden Bosch (2000).