The former Husker DC is being called into duty at LSU. Brian Kelly hired Diaco this spring as a senior defensive analyst.

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With Farmer leaving, we have 88. 44 of the 88 were not on scholarship in the program at the time of Rhule's hiring. 50% new players.

Prime is at over 90%.

A normal good team that signs 25 every year and loses 5 before they use up their eligibility every year would be at 35%.

Not unexpected, but not particularly dramatic.

Without giving away the location of the Fat Cave! Anyone in the area of the Mountain Lion or Puma in West Omaha? I'm just a few minutes from Zorinsky Lake and I guess it was last spotted around 156th & F street. I got two dogs < 1/2 it's size, that wouldn't hold up I think. Glad I got several lights in the yard and a Big Flesh Light, when they go out at night. Can't say I would or wouldn't shoot it, unless it was tangled up with the dogs. That could get back real quick, I'd just call 911 instead. https://www.ketv.com/article/homeowner-captures-several-videos-of-mountain-lion-camera/44684666

Key takeaways from today's presser:

– Rhule updates the roster, announcing a suspension for Farmer, a broken hand for Washington and Tagaloa out for the year after a car accident
– Players comment on dorm life and their roommates
– Ty Robinson names two who have made substantial progress so far on the D-line

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Another solid showing from Eli Rice, the 6-foot-7 freshman guard. In case you missed it, here's a recent story on Rice from Tuesday:

Troy Peltz. Absolute stud.

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Buschini Named to Ray Guy Award Watch List
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Brian Buschini was one of 50 punters nationally named to the preseason watch list for the 2023 Ray Guy Award, announced on Wednesday. The Ray Guy Award is presented annually to the nation’s top collegiate punter in the FBS, and Buschini made the watch list for the second year in a row.

In his first season at Nebraska in 2022, Buschini averaged 44.0 yards per punt, a total that ranked eighth in Husker history and 25th nationally. He had 16 punts of 50 yards or longer, including a 74-yard punt against Wisconsin that ranked as the seventh-longest punt in school history.

Prior to Nebraska, Buschini spent three seasons at Montana from 2019 to 2021. In his final season with the Griz, Buschini was named the 2021 FCS Punter of the Year and a first-team All-American. He averaged 46.0 yards per punt in 2021 and helped Montana lead the FCS in net punting average.

In his career, Buschini averages 45.0 yards per punt. More than one-third of Buschini’s career punts have covered more than 50 yards, while more than one-third of his career punts have been placed inside the opponent’s 20-yard line.

Buschini is playing the 2023 season as a graduate student after he earned his degree in criminology and criminal justice in December of 2022.

Pac-12 George Kliavkoff finally released some details about a proposed new media deal to league members yesterday......and it's not good.

The proposed deal does not involve any networks at all, but is an all-streaming option partnered with Apple. The payouts for member schools would be low, but could eventually compete with the Big 12 and ACC if subscription metrics are hit.

This kind of deal won't keep the Arizona schools, Oregon or Washington (or anybody for that matter) happy.

Needed overtime to squeak by a bunch of euro stiffs

And a team member has caused an international incident. It’s bad enough that the basketball team is an embarrassment to the university and state but now they are dragging down the entire nation

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The Huskers took on the Madrid All-Stars today in Madrid, Spain, and won 89-84 in overtime:


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According to a source, the Huskers were led by Brice Williams, who had 28 points, five rebounds and four assists. CJ Wilcher added 18 points and 10 rebounds while Jamarques Lawrence had 14 points. Walk-on Cale Jacobsen chipped in with 13 points and nine boards. True freshman guard Eli Rice added 12 points and five rebounds.

Huskers Hit Century Mark in Grecian Win
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Annika Stewart scored 22 points to lead six Huskers in double figures as the Nebraska women's basketball team rolled to a 101-49 victory over the Athens All Stars at the Eurohoops Dome in Greece on Tuesday.

Stewart, a 6-3 senior from Plymouth, Minn., hit 7-of-13 field goal attempts, including 3-of-6 three-pointers, while connecting on 5-of-6 free throws in 21 minutes of action for the Big Red. She added eight rebounds.

Two-time All-Big Ten center Alexis Markowski added a double-double with 18 points and 13 rebounds in 19 minutes of action. The 6-2 junior from Lincoln hit 7-of-8 shots from the field including both of her three-point attempts.

Graduate transfer Darian White contributed 14 points, four rebounds, four assists and two steals in her first action as a Husker. The All-Big Sky guard hit 5-of-11 shots from the floor and 4-of-6 free throws.

Two-time All-Big Ten guard Jaz Shelley pitched in 13 points and five assists while knocking down a trio of three-pointers. Sophomore Callin Hake added 11 points on three three-pointers of her own, while true freshman Logan Nissley rounded out the Huskers in double figures with 10 points on 3-of-7 three-point shooting. Nissley added three assists and four steals.

Nebraska's other true freshman, Natalie Potts, filled the right side of the stat sheet by tying Shelley with a team-high five assists while matching Nissley with a team-high four steals. Potts also pitched in four rebounds to go along with three points.

Maddie Krull (4), Kendall Moriarty (4) and Kendall Coley (3) rounded out the scoring for Nebraska, which hit 48.7 percent (37-76) of its shots from the field, including 14-of-36 three-pointers (.389). The Huskers held the Athens All Stars to 34 percent (18-53) from the floor, including just 2-of-14 three-point shooting. Nebraska pulled down 41 rebounds compared to 26 for the All Stars, holding the Athenians to just six offensive rebounds.

Nebraska burst to a 36-16 lead after one quarter, before outscoring Athens 23-15 in the second period to build a 59-31 halftime lead. The Huskers added a 29-9 edge in the third and a 23-9 advantage in the fourth, outscoring the All Stars 52-18 in the second half.

Nebraska will be back in action on Thursday, Aug. 3 against the Patras All Stars at 11 a.m. (CT), before concluding their three-game trip on Monday, Aug. 7 against the Crete All Stars at 11 a.m. (CT).

Ahron Ulis is currently with the Huskers on their Spain trip, but isn't playing.

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Lacy was on Ole Miss' campus yesterday for their recruiting event. The Texas running back had a great relationship with that staff and they were pursuing him hard and he picked the Huskers over Lane Kiffin's squad. I'm told there is no flip imminent or anything but this is more like when Willis McGahee IV visited UCF. Also, the staff was not caught off guard and knew about his plans to visit Oxford.

All that being said, Nebraska is well aware they will need to keep recruiting him until December.

Yummy.

August 2

1776 - Members of the Second Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.

1873 - Inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco.

1876 - Frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota by Jack McCall, who was later hanged.

1909 - The first Lincoln penny was minted.

1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, generally regarded as the inventor of the telephone, died in Nova Scotia, Canada at age 75.

1923 - Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States (1921-1923), died in San Francisco at age 57 from a heart attack; Vice President Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office to become the 30th president of the United States.

1934 - German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover.

1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging the creation of an atomic weapons research program.

1943 - PT-109, a torpedo boat commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, the future president of the United States, was sunk off the Solomon Islands by a Japanese destroyer during World War II.

1945 - The Potsdam Conference, in which Allied leaders planned the postwar governance of Germany, ended.

1974 - Former White House counsel John W. Dean III was sentenced to one to four years in prison for obstruction of justice in the Watergate cover-up. (Dean ended up serving four months.)

1985 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, killing 137 people.

1990 - Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate. (The Iraqis were later driven out by the U.S. in Operation Desert Storm.)

2013 - The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend.

2018 - Pope Francis decreed that the death penalty is "inadmissible" under all circumstances and the Catholic Church should campaign to abolish it. The Vatican said that Francis had amended the Catechism of the Catholic Church — the compilation of official Catholic teaching — to say that capital punishment can never be sanctioned because it constitutes an "attack" on the dignity of human beings.

2018 - Apple became the world's first publicly-traded company to be valued at $1 trillion.

2022 - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China, which quickly announced that would will conduct military maneuvers in retaliation for her presence.

Birthdays
22 - Sophia Mitchell (model)
31 - Hallie Eisenberg (actress)
31 - Charli XCX (singer)
32 - Skyler Day (actress)
33 - Skylar Diggins (basketball player)
38 - Marci Miller (actress)
39 - Britt Nicole (singer)
46 - Edward Furlong (actor)
47 - Sam Worthington (actor)
48 - Isabel Macedo (actress)
51 - Jacinda Barrett (actress)
53 - Kevin Smith (actor/director)
59 - Mary-Louise Parker (actress)
61 - Cynthia Stevenson (actress)
64 - Victoria Jackson (actress)
70 - Butch Patrick (actor)
73 - Kathryn Harrold (actress)
78 - Joanna Cassidy (actress)
80 - Kathy Lennon (singer)

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Today in Sports History - August 2

1907 - Legendary pitcher Walter Johnson, age 19, begins his 21-year MLB career.

1921 - A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious "Black Sox" scandal, in which they were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series.

1938 - Bright yellow baseballs were used in a major league baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals. It was hoped that the balls would be easier to see.

1968 - Ron Hansen (Washington Senators) & Tim Cullen (Chicago White Sox) become the first MLB players to be traded for each other twice in the same season; they had been traded in February in opposite directions.

1979 - The New York Mets purchase contract of outfielder José Cardenal from Philadelphia Phillies between games of a double-header between the two teams.

1982 - Oakland Athletics outfielder Rickey Henderson becomes the first player in the modern era of MLB to steal 100 bases in two different seasons.

1992 - Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Hal Newhouser and Bill McGowan are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

2012 - Michael Phelps won his 16th Gold Medal when he won the 200-meter individual medley. With the victory he became the first male swimmer to win the same event in three consecutive Olympics.

Good stuff Tuesday from MJ Sherman, the unquestioned leader of the Jack linebackers. Nebraska needs him to be a hit.

Here's more:

…. I’m so mad… not ONE trade for a starting pitcher????

Link: American Athletic Conference

AAC Preseason Media Poll
1. Tulane (20) - 457 pts
2. Texas-San Antonio (9) - 440
3. Southern Methodist (3) - 397
4. Memphis (1) - 362
5. Florida Atlantic - 312
6. East Carolina - 303
7. North Texas - 21
8. Alabama-Birmingham (1) - 209
9. Navy - 199
10. Temple - 182
11. Tulsa - 160
12. Rice - 138
13. South Florida - 86
14. Charlotte - 64

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Link: Atlantic Coast Conference

ACC Preseason Media Poll
1. Clemson (103) - 2,370 pts
2. Florida State (67) - 2,304
3. North Carolina (5) - 1,981
4. North Carolina State (1) - 1,662
5. Miami (FL) - 1,553
6T. Duke - 1,511
6T. Pittsburgh - 1,511
8. Louisville - 1,344
9. Wake Forest - 1,181
10. Syracuse - 826
11. Virginia Tech - 678
12. Georgia Tech - 633
13. Boston College - 561
14. Virginia - 365

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Link: Big 12

Big 12 Preseason Media Poll
1. Texas (41) - 886 pts
2. Kansas State (14) - 858
3. Oklahoma (4) - 758
4. Texas Tech (4) - 729
5. TCU (3) - 727
6. Baylor - 572
7. Oklahoma State (1) - 470
8. Central Florida - 463
9. Kansas - 461
10. Iowa State - 334
11. BYU - 318
12. Houston - 215
13. Cincinnati - 202
14. West Virginia - 129

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Link: Big Ten

Big Ten Preseason Media Poll

EAST
1. Michigan (27) - 248 pts
2. Ohio State (8) - 226
3. Penn State (2) - 192
4. Maryland - 143
5. Michigan State - 105
6. Rutgers - 74
7. Indiana - 48

WEST
1. Wisconsin (20) - 233 pts
2. Iowa (16) - 232
3. Minnesota (1) - 176
4. Illinois - 152
5. Nebraska - 116
6. Purdue - 89
7. Northwestern - 38

Big Ten Championship Game
Michigan over Wisconsin - 15
Michigan over Iowa - 11
Ohio State over Iowa - 4
Ohio State over Wisconsin - 4
Michigan over Minnesota - 1
Penn State over Iowa - 1
Penn State over Wisconsin - 1

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Link: Conference USA

CUSA Preseason Media Poll
1. Western Kentucky (18)
2. Liberty (4)
3. Middle Tennessee State
4. Louisiana Tech
5. New Mexico State
6. Texas-El Paso
7. Jacksonville State
8T. Florida International
8T. Sam Houston State

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Link: Mid-American Conference

MAC Preseason Coaches Poll

EAST
1. Ohio (9) - 63 pts
2. Miami (OH) (2) - 52
3. Buffalo (1) - 51
4. Bowling Green - 35
5. Akron - 26
6. Kent State - 19

WEST
1. Toledo (11) - 66 pts
2. Eastern Michigan (1) - 55
3. Northern Illinois - 38
4. Central Michigan - 37
5. Ball State - 27
6. Western Michigan - 23

MAC Champion
Toledo - 7
Ohio - 4
Buffalo - 1

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Link: Mountain West Conference

Mountain West Preseason Media Poll
1. Boise State (28) - 433 pts
2. Air Force (2) - 364
3. Fresno State (5) - 351
4. San Diego State (1) - 338
5. San Jose State - 293
6. Wyoming - 281
7. Colorado State - 201
8. Utah State - 194
9. UNLV (1) - 177
10. Hawaii - 102
11. Nevada - 92
12. New Mexico - 60

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Link: Pac-12

Pac-12 Preseason Media Poll
1. USC (25) - 413 pts
2. Washington (4) - 367
3. Utah (6) - 359
4. Oregon (1) - 344
5. Oregon State - 309
6. UCLA - 248
7. Washington State - 186
8. Arizona - 176
9. California - 132
10. Arizona State - 122
11. Colorado - 98
12. Stanford - 54

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Link: Southeastern Conference

SEC Preseason Media Poll

EAST
1. Georgia (265) - 2,011 pts
2. Tennessee (14) - 1,682
3. South Carolina (3) - 1,254
4. Kentucky (1) - 1,204
5. Florida - 911
6. Missouri - 658
7. Vanderbilt (8) - 428

WEST
1. Alabama (165) - 1,899 pts
2. LSU (117) - 1,838
3. Texas A&M (1) - 1,144
4. Mississippi - 1,128
5. Arkansas (3) - 958
6. Auburn (4) - 685
7. Mississippi State (1) - 496

SEC Champion
Georgia - 181
Alabama - 62
LSU - 31
Tennessee - 5
Vanderbilt - 5
Arkansas - 2
Auburn - 2
Mississippi State - 1
South Carolina - 1
Texas A&M - 1

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Link: Sun Belt Conference

Sun Belt Preseason Coaches Poll

EAST
1. James Madison (4) - 78 pts
2. Appalachian State (4) - 75
3. Coastal Carolina (3) - 71
4. Marshall (2) - 68
5. Georgia Southern (1) - 52
6. Georgia State - 31
7. Old Dominion - 17

WEST
1. Troy (10) - 92 pts
2. South Alabama (4) - 85
3. Louisiana-Lafayette - 64
4. Southern Mississippi - 62
5. Texas State - 36
6. Arkansas State - 33
7. Louisiana-Monroe - 20

Does anyone know of a football player that was injured in a car accident over the weekend?

2024 DB Caleb Benning of Omaha (Neb.) Westside took in an unofficial visit to Nebraska on Sunday and watched practice on Monday. I caught up with him to see how it went.

While the rest have to wait until school starts?

If so, hit me up. I've got an open bottom floor position on distribution team.

Ty Robinson sounded a lot like his head coach when discussing just standards yesterday. That’s a good thing. Hit the link…

https://nebraska.rivals.com/news/ty-robinson-s-standards-sound-like-matt-rhule-and-that-s-a-good-thing

Anyone?