December 1
Maryland 96, Alcorn State 58
Penn State 87, Buffalo 64
Minnesota 79, Bethune-Cookman 62
Nebraska 103, North Florida 72

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

Games for Tuesday, December 3
Northwestern at Iowa (6:00 PM - Peacock)
Sam Houston State at #14 Indiana (6:30 PM - BTN)
Michigan at #15 Wisconsin (8:00 PM - Peacock)
Washington at UCLA (9:30 PM - FS1)

Next Nebraska Game - Saturday, December 7
Nebraska at Michigan State (11:00 AM - BTN)

Huskers looking good at under 16:00 TO break. Hitting 3s. Essigian has played tremendous the past few games. Solid replacement for Ninja.

December 1
#1 UCLA 70, Hawaii 49
#10 Maryland 92, Toledo 70
Northwestern 67, Cornell 54
Indiana 78, Maine 53

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

Games for Monday, December 2
#19 Illinois at Canisius (5:00 PM - ESPN+)
St. John's at Penn State (6:00 PM - BTN)

Next Nebraska Game - Tuesday, December 3
Lindenwood at #25 Nebraska (7:00 PM - BTN+)

Availability report is out, so I'll start the live game thread.

Nebraska will be without Berke Büyüktuncel (left hip). The good news is Juwan Gary (eye) isn't listed anywhere, so he should be in the starting lineup.

Tip is scheduled for 3 p.m. The game will be shown on BTN.

who would you want to target as a replacement? Just throwing out names, and to be honest, I don't know jack about any of their situations, but some that come to mind. Jim Leonard, Ryan Walters, maybe Dave Aranda if he's let go by Baylor. Some other up and coming guy?

Iowa touched the ball first
Should have been a dead ball our possession

Terps lead 1 - 0

Huskers are playing for a share of the B1G 🏆 tonight.

Rumors are he’s going to another school to be their DC. I hope, if he does that Butler is not the DC.

Classic example of experience quality vs quantity.

It still baffles me that Rhule had access to plenty of salary funds and still went full stupid with Foley, McGuire, Barthel, Satt, and a few others.

It’s ok to hire people you haven’t worked with before and who are smarter than you. That is actually a sign of confident and competent leadership.

Clearly he didn’t understand the assignment in the BIG.

After todays events how soon til the NCAA bans flag planting?

But will we waste any practice reps or give actual playing time to the seniors, given the fact that this is a completely meaningless bowl game?

I’ve seen some complete idiocy written here since last night. So here goes.

Work ethic
NO ONE has worked harder in his position since Bill Callahan. I’ve spent some time in the offices at the stadium over the last 20 years and can tell you that Callahan was the hardest worker I had seen. Rhule is the only one that is gis equal. Where Rhule exceeds him is in his ability to connect with people and reverence he has for Nebraskas past. For those who are wondering, Frost was the laziest coach we have ever had and the gap between him and 2nd worst is the Grand Canyon.

At Nebraska, you have to be absolutely tireless in your approach or it won’t work. The recruiting and the pressures from the local Legion guys, ex players, women with babies on the street for your attention require it. There aren’t many coaches out there that have what Rhule has in this department.

Time
There are a lot of ghosts here. Lots of people with long memories. For as much blame as people have for the players losing games like tonight, how many of us were waiting for the inevitable late turnover vs Iowa so we would lose 13-10. It takes time to erase those completely. Just does. We are a unique fan base here with incredible knowledge. But that knowledge also brings a burden of remembering every loss. That alone keeps a dark cloud here that makes it a little tougher to break through. It’s a pressure that everyone feels and makes us our own worst enemy.

Despite “us” we had a freshman QB starting this season. The kid is still learning and had to do it under an absolutely awful OC for his first season. Freshman QBs make mistakes. The kid is a student of the game and will learn. Kid needs time. So here we are.

Contract
Are we really going to fire him right now and pay yet another coach to not coach Nebraska. We paid $32M to previous coaches when we fired them. Frost got $15M.

Rhule has the 6th largest buyout in college football. If we fire him today we owe roughly $58M. He gets 90% of his contract if we fire him. And it’s due within 24 months of his firing.

The next coach that would come in would require a similar contract.

Do you buffoons really want to be paying $25M in head salaries next season to have another guy running the ship (who history shows may or may not work!) or would you rather just calm down and realize that

1. We made progress this season and are going to a bowl
2. We just hired arguably the best OC in college football
3. Our S&C coach is one of the best in the business. We look different than in the past and our lack of injuries on the field support what coach is doing.
4. Our defense has been good. Our DC has shown that he knows what it takes requires to shut down too running games in the Big 10. Ty Robinson surely helped with that.

The future is fine. Take a deep breath and support Rhule. He’s the right man for the job and, frankly, you don’t have a choice.


With that being said, if he doesn’t fire his special teams coach, then that’s on him and deserves all of your vitriol you give him. Our special teams literally cost us 2-3 wins this season.

Well
Looks like he’s N

Time for the latest edition of the Conversations with Clouse live chat from 7-8pm.

Fire away with those questions!

Nebraska def. Maryland (25-27, 25-14, 25-8, 25-12)
Wisconsin def. Michigan State (25-19, 26-28, 25-19, 25-18)

Standings
1. Nebraska (29-2, 19-1)
1. Penn State (29-2, 19-1)
3. Wisconsin (23-6, 17-3)
4. Purdue (25-6, 16-4)
5. Oregon (22-7, 14-6)
6. Minnesota (20-10, 13-7)
6. USC (21-9, 13-7)
8. Illinois (18-12, 10-10)
9. Washington (19-11, 9-11)
10. Indiana (15-15, 8-12)
10. Michigan (18-13, 8-12)
10. UCLA (14-15, 8-12)
13. Ohio State (14-16, 7-13)
14. Michigan State (13-18, 6-14)
15. Maryland (14-17, 5-15)
16. Iowa (10-22, 4-16)
17. Northwestern (5-23, 3-17)
18. Rutgers (6-25, 1-19)

Nebraska and Penn State are co-Big Ten Champions.

NCAA Volleyball Tournament Selection Show
Sunday, December 1 - 5:00 PM (CT) - ESPN

Tell me about him?

Zero points in the second half and fumbles it away at the end

Find myself rooting for the guy. If MyHomey doesn't pull a 3 peat, i'd be thrilled for Rogers if he did. Love the old guys showin out for their final season...if this is indeed his last season...and I never rhought in a million years i'd find myself rooting for him. But for this season? I'm all in.

but the posts must have been deleted. The Husker players refusing to shake hands before the game was BS.

Every week I see something more that makes me scratch my head about this program - and now we have players deciding to imitate the Miami thugs of the 80’s? At least when Miami acted like jackasses, they backed it up by kicking your ass all over the field. Our little boys qualify for a bowl game and now they are bad asses?

Chalk it up to just one more WTF moment for this sad program.

Top four national seeds are:

1. Pittsburgh
2. Nebraska
3. Penn State
4. Louisville


PITTSBURGH REGION

#1 Pittsburgh (29-1)
Morehead State (18-14)

#8 Oklahoma (14-10)
Texas-El Paso (27-5)

#5 TCU (21-7)
Hawaii (21-9)

#4 Oregon (22-7)
High Point (23-6)

#3 Kenutcky (20-7)
Cleveland State (23-9)

#6 Minnesota (20-10)
Western Kentucky (28-6)

#7 Missouri (20-8)
Texas State (22-8)

#2 Southern Methodist (24-7)
Wichita State (18-13)

they'd best not wait till Wednesday to do it. ffs.
so unacceptable.
i can't believe Rhule hasn't addressed this.
he DOES understand how bad of a look this is for our program, right?
Right?

Just curious? Because I believe people are starting to understand this shotgun marriage between Nebraska and the B1G was a huge mistake.

Penn State is #3, setting up potential rematch in the National Semifinal.