Good thoughts from Isaac Gifford on how he feels Matt Rhule is good for him:

Single game tickets went on sale today and the cheapest tickets are $315 for our game. Was going to buy a bunch since we get preference as Colorado residents but I guess not now. I don't see CU fans shelling out that kind of money but what do I know.

Next, they will introduce a "Tunnel Walk" and "The Blackshirts"....

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Only one will get the starting setter job this fall, but that hasn’t stopped Orr and Reilly from becoming great friends on and off the court. Hit the link for more.

Billy Kemp IV (No. 1), Isaac Gifford (2), Luke Reimer (4) and Jeff Sims (7) are the first four who earned a single-digit jersey number for the Huskers.

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a couple preseason games tonight
a little relief for the itch

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Sorry if already posted.

Just turned 70 and was reflecting on the loudest sporting events I ever experienced. Easy one for me …

Indoor event … Omaha Civic Auditorium … Rick Apke hit the winning bucket with 4 seconds to go for Creighton against Larry Birds Indiana State team in the 1978 MVC basketball championship game. Score was tied 52 all with 4 minutes to go. No shot clock at that time so Creighton froze it out until the last seconds as Bird was hitting everything and Creighton wanted the last shot. The roar was beyond belief.

Outdoor event … Memorial Stadium 2008 … Alex Henery hits a 57 yard field goal with 1:43 to go to help beat Colorado. sitting in the North Endzone I thought the stands were going to collapse with the sound/jumping.

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Successful programs have competent backup QBs. Matt Rhule and Marcus Satterfield have been impressed with what Chubba Purdy has shown since having a hard conversation with him in the spring.

Rhule is hoping to help Purdy find the confidence he had in 2020, when Purdy was making strong throws as a true freshman starter at NC State. Here's more:

August 10

1792 - During the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and was executed.)

1821 - Missouri became the 24th state.

1846 - The Smithsonian Institute was established in Washington, D.C. from funds left by British scientist James Smithson.

1921 - Future president Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on Campobello Island.

1944 - American forces seized Guam from the Japanese during World War II.

1945 - One day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Imperial Japan conveyed its willingness to surrender provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged. (The Allies would respond the next day, saying they would determine the Emperor's future status.)

1962 - Marvel Comics superhero "Spider-Man" made his debut in issue #15 of "Amazing Fantasy."

1988 - President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that awarded $20,000 to each survivor of the Japanese-American internment during World War II.

1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the United States Supreme Court.

1995 - Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing (McVeigh was convicted of murder and executed; Nichols was convicted of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to life in prison).

2006 - British authorities announced they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.

2013 - A harrowing weeklong search for a missing California teenager ended when FBI agents rescued 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and shot and killed 40-year-old James Lee DiMaggio at a campsite deep in the Idaho wilderness. (Authorities say in addition to kidnapping Hannah, DiMaggio killed her brother and mother at his home east of San Diego.)

2018 - Richard Russell, a 29-year-old airline ground agent, stole a commercial plane from Sea-Tac International Airport near Seattle; he flew for 75 minutes, performing dangerous stunts while being chased by military jets before crashing into a remote island in Puget Sound, killing himself.

2019 - Jeffrey Epstein, accused of orchestrating a sex-trafficking ring and sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, was found unresponsive in his cell at a New York City jail; he was later pronounced dead at a hospital. (The city’s medical examiner ruled the death a suicide by hanging.)

Birthdays
24 - Ja Morant (basketball player)
26 - Kylie Jenner (reality star)
26 - Rhianna Abrey (singer)
29 - Brigette Lundy-Paine (actress)
32 - Maci Bookout (reality star)
33 - Lucas Till (actor)
36 - Charley Koontz (actor)
39 - Ryan Eggold (actor)
41 - Devon Aoki (model)
43 - Aaron Staton (actor)
44 - Joanna Garcia (actress)
50 - Jennifer Hanson (singer)
51 - Angie Harmon (actress)
52 - Justin Theroux (actor)
56 - Riddick Bowe (boxer)
59 - Aaron Hall (singer)
60 - Chris Caldovino (actor)
61 - Julia Fordham (singer)
63 - Antonio Banderas (actor)
64 - Rosanna Arquette (actress)
69 - Sam Baker (singer)
71 - Daniel Hugh Kelly (actor)
73 - Patti Austin (singer)
76 - Ian Anderson (singer)
77 - James Reynolds (actor)

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Today in Sports History - August 10

1934 - Babe Ruth announces the 1934 season will be his final one as a full-time player.

1971 - Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins becomes the 10th player in MLB history to hit 500 career home runs.

1973 - Arnold Palmer did not make the cut for the final two rounds of the PGA Golf Championship. It was the first time in his career.

1981 - Pete Rose hit a single and broke the National League all-time hit record with his 3,630 hit.

1986 - The New York Yankees retire Billy Martin's #1.

1997 - The Atlanta Braves sign pitcher Greg Maddux to a then-record five-year contract worth $57.5 million.

2014 - Rory McIlroy wins his second PGA Championship.

The first players with single-digit jerseys were unveiled Wednesday. Senior wide receiver Billy Kemp IV picked the No. 1, safety Isaac Gifford is wearing No. 2, Luke Reimer is wearing No. 4 and quarterback Jeff Sims is wearing No. 7.

The Huskers held their eighth practice of fall camp today, and media members were able to observe for about 20 minutes. Here are my quick notes:

Huskers have two night practices on the schedule leading up to the season opener – both on Wednesdays (Aug. 9 and Aug. 17)

Here are some pics from the first one under the lights:

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Acting like we play Minnesota this Saturday when talking about some of these players that are sitting out of practice right now?

Is it just me? Almost every radio show seems to think WR is now in complete disarray heading into the season cause a couple guys are sitting out of practice over 3 weeks until the opener.

Believe Rhule said Noonan and Tagaloa are the only ones in the entire team that aren’t currently expected to be ready for Minnesota. Am I missing something or is it just typical alarmist journalists that have nothing else to talk or write about?

Tidbits from recent TO interview:

- 1982, 1983 and 1993 were great teams.
- thinks 2 point call in 83 game was right call but corner came off fryer and tipped ball
- Thirteen bad calls in 1993 game; 10 were against Nebraska
- “Miami had 10pt advantage bc of heat/humidity in 1983 game (it was 67 degrees at kickoff 😂)
- On Frost not performing well: inherited poor talent, had to deal with Covid, had a good record at end of third quarter (was 17-22-8 at end of Q3.)
- on Matt Rhule: likeable and very hard worker
- Thinks we will make bowl game this year

Dawned on me as I was listening to him. He’d have 5 national championships if there was replay in the 1980s and 90s.

Wrote some notes from watching a few of his 2022 games.

-First of all, Ga Tech offensive line sucks.
-Sims has a great touch on 20ish yard throws. Best way to describe it is he gives his WRs a chance.
-Certainly has running ability and low fear, but he’s not going to break long runs. Seems to love that side line and get a first down.
-Ga Tech downfield blocking is awful by WR and RBs when Sims tucks it.
-Sims is certainly no sack evader. Not saying he had a lot of chances, but the first guy typically gets him.


All in all, I think we’ll love him running on 3rd and 7 to extend the drive. We may even enjoy some red zone touch passes. But we will be a bit frustrated on how he accepts the sack. Always seems a half second away from breaking it, but doesn’t (or very rarely) break the long run - I didn’t see a long run.
One last positive thing, he definitely doesn’t seem to get discouraged. Id say he’s a gamer, prob needs a better team and coach, but not a complete game changer.

QB comparison, if you know who this is.
-A little bit better Xavier Lee from FSU 05-07

Biggest pro: You know what you’re getting. He’s kind of consistent in looking like a Deshaun Watson physically, but playing like a 6.5-7 / 10.

Biggest con: Although I love his touch passes, he has almost nothing that separates himself like TM’s speed, Armstrong’s leadership, Ganz’s being 8/10 on everything, and 2AM’s look of something special waiting to breakout.

Prediction: He’ll have a low completion rate, but gets more 15 yard passes. Makes up for some of that w running for first down ability. Idk if he’s injury prone, but the way he accepts hits, I think there will be 2-5 games we see another QB where it wasn’t planned.

The Millard South RHP marks another addition to the 2025 class. Standing at 6-foot-1, Gartner’s fastball maxed out at 92.2 mph at a PBR event in June. In that same event his curveball was recorded at 76.5 mph.

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I'm not the first to write this and not the first to think it. With the eventual playoff's adding more and more teams what will happen to the Bowl games? Maybe the bowl games will be used in the playoffs like they do with the main five bowls, Rose, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar and cotton.
The lower tier bowl games will be most likely be a consolation prize for teams left out of the playoff picture and maybe that's not a bad thing for teams that go 6-6, 7-5 or even 8-4. I hope like Matt Rhule that in the new playoff format someday that a lower ranked team will play at the higher ranked team at their home field, would love to see some warm weather schools come to Lincoln in December. jmo and nothing more.

Will they be based on my Internet history? Asking for a friend.

Adam is no longer with the OWH and is starting his own channel again and has a good lineup of interviews this August.
He was asked about Frost and had some interesting things to share.
Only 20 minutes in so far.

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It seems that ESPN - while holding their ACC Contract partners to their substandard contract in the intermediate run, will be just accumulating a set of schools who will become their resentful enemies going forward, especially as 2030-2036 approaches and the SEC & BIG have much more lucrative TV deal-based revenues.

By the time 2036 would approach these same ACC schools will have sacrificed 10s of millions of dollars annually by ESPN holding them to their current contract. And they likely will have poisoned the water for any of these schools ever wanting to work with that network again. If you are looking for snarky hyperbole to use to describe this, we someday may look back and refer to this as ESPN's "Long Term Self Destruction" strategy. In the short run they are making money by holding the ACC to this contract. But in the long run they seem to be guaranteeing that the current ACC schools will veto ever working with them again.

And, if Stanford and Cal and others are considering joining the ACC, do THEY want to be in bondage till 2036 under that same ESPN contract - deficient to the BIG & SEC as it is.

Somewhere out there in economic / behavioral game theory is a description or model for what ESPN is now doing contractually. But, the current managers likely dont plan on being anywhere near this mess in 5-10 years - that whole deal will be the next person's issue to deal with.

Wonder what this means for Gilbert?