And may go down as greatest ever. Unbelievable what he does. WBC was great. Wish U.S. won but Japan was excellent.

July 1 marks the day that conference realignment changes for the upcoming year takes affect. Here are the changes affecting FBS football for the 2023 season:

American Athletic Conference (AAC)
- Has a net gain of three teams to have 14 members for 2023
- Losing Cincinnati, Central Florida and Houston to the Big 12
- Adding Alabama-Birmingham, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice and Texas-San Antonio from Conference USA

Big 12
- Expanding from 10 teams to 14 teams
- Adding BYU from the Independent ranks
- Adding Cincinnati, Houston and Central Florida from the American Athletic Conference

Conference USA
- Lost Alabama-Birmingham, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice and Texas-San Antonio to the AAC
- Lost Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Mississippi to the Sun Belt
- Added Liberty and New Mexico State from the Independent ranks
- Added Sam Houston State and Jacksonville State from FCS
- C-USA drops from 11 teams to 9 teams

Independents
- Lost BYU to the Big 12
- Lost Liberty and New Mexico State to C-USA
- Leaves just four Independent FBS programs for 2023

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Full FBS Conference Membership for 2023

AAC (14)
Alabama-Birmingham
Charlotte
East Carolina
Florida Atlantic
Memphis
Navy
North Texas
Rice
South Florida
Southern Methodist
Temple
Texas-San Antonio
Tulane
Tulsa

ACC (14)
Boston College
Clemson
Duke
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Louisville
Miami (FL)
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

Big 12 (14)
Baylor
BYU
Central Florida
Cincinnati
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
TCU
Texas
Texas Tech
West Virginia

C-USA (9)
Florida International
Jacksonville State
Liberty
Louisiana Tech
Middle Tennessee State
New Mexico State
Sam Houston State
Texas-El Paso
Western Kentucky

Independents (4)
Army
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Notre Dame

Mid-American Conference (12)
Akron
Ball State
Bowling Green
Buffalo
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Kent State
Miami (OH)
Northern Illinois
Ohio
Toledo
Western Michigan

Mountain West (12)
Air Force
Boise State
Colorado State
Fresno State
Hawaii
Nevada
New Mexico
San Diego State
San Jose State
UNLV
Utah State
Wyoming

Pac-12 (12)
Arizona
Arizona State
California
Colorado
Oregon
Oregon State
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Utah
Washington
Washington State

SEC (14)
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Missouri
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas A&M
Vanderbilt

Sun Belt (14)
Appalachian State
Arkansas State
Coastal Carolina
Georgia Southern
Georgia State
James Madison
Louisiana-Lafayette
Louisiana-Monroe
Marshall
Old Dominion
South Alabama
Southern Mississippi
Texas State
Troy

July 1

1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg, which marked the turning point in the U.S. Civil War, began.

1867 - Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain under the British North America Act.

1898 - Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders fought the Battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War.

1943 - Income tax withholding began in the United States.

1944 - Delegates from 44 countries began meeting at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where they agreed to establish the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

1962 - Burundi and Rwanda gained their independence.

1963 - The U.S. Post Office began the use of its five-digit ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes.

1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.

1968 - The U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

1973 - The Drug Enforcement Administration was established.

1991 - President George H.W. Bush nominated federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, beginning an ultimately successful confirmation process marked by allegations of sexual harassment.

1994 - Yasir Arafat returned to Palestinian land after 27 years in exile.

1997 - After 156 years of British rule, Hong Kong was returned to China.

2000 - Vermont's civil unions law went into effect.

2004 - Actor Marlon Brando died in Los Angeles at age 80.

2013 - Croatia became the 28th member of the European Union.

2013 - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle 18 more claims by people who said they'd been sexually abused by priests when they were children.

2015 - After more than a half-century of hostility, the United States and Cuba declared they would reopen embassies in each other's capitals, marking a historic full restoration of diplomatic relations between the Cold War foes.

2018 - Canada began imposing tariffs on $12.6 billion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the Trump administration's new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United States.

2022 - The U.S. announced it would provide Ukraine with $820 million in new military aid, including new surface-to-air missile systems and counter-artillery radars, to respond to Russia's heavy reliance on long-range strikes in the war.

Birthdays
20 - Storm Reid (actress)
24 - Meredith Mickelson (model)
25 - Chloe Bailey (actress/singer)
31 - Andrew Cavarno (actor)
31 - Steven Cavarno (actor)
35 - Evan Ellingson (actor)
38 - Lea Seydoux (actress)
40 - Lynsey Bartilson (actress)
41 - Hilarie Burton (actress)
46 - Liv Tyler (actress)
47 - Thomas Sadoski (actor)
52 - Melissa Peterman (actress)
52 - Julianne Nicholson (actress)
52 - Missy Elliott (singer)
53 - Henry Simmons (actor)
56 - Pamela Anderson (actress)
61 - Dominic Keating (actor)
61 - Andre Braugher (actor)
62 - Michelle Wright (singer)
62 - Carl Lewis (track & field athelte)
63 - Evelyn King (singer)
67 - Alan Ruck (actor)
67 - Lorna Patterson (actress)
71 - Dan Aykroyd (actor/comedian)
72 - Fred Schneider (singer)
72 - Terrence Mann (actor)
72 - Trevor Eve (actor)
72 - Daryl Anderson (actor)
81 - Genevieve Bujold (actress)
87 - Wally Amos (cookie maker)
89 - Jamie Farr (actor)
89 - Jean Marsh (actress)
92 - Leslie Caron (actress)

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Today in Sports History - July 1

1903 - The inaugural Tour de France began.

1904 - The third modern Olympic Games, and first to be held in the United States, began in St. Louis.

1905 - Frank Owen (Chicago White Sox) pitched two complete games in one day.

1917 - Fred Toney (Cincinnati Reds) pitched two complete games in one day.

1920 - Suzanne Lenglen became the first player to win three titles at Wimbledon in one year. She won the women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.

1941 - Joe DiMaggio extended his hitting streak to 44 games, tying the MLB record held by Willie Keeler.

1951 - Bob Feller set a major league baseball record when he pitched his third no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians.

1995 - The NBA locked out its players. It was the first work stoppage in the league's history.

1998 - The NBA locked out its players for the second time in its history.

2011 - NBA owners begin the second player lockout in 12 years, shortening the season by 16 games before a salary agreement was reached.

2018 - LeBron James announced he would be leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers for the second time in his career to play with the Los Angeles Lakers.

2019 - 15-year-old Coco Gauff, the youngest player to qualify at Wimbledon in the professional era, defeated 39-year-old Venus Williams in the first round.

2022 - American basketball star Brittney Griner went on trial in Russia after her arrest on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for a team there, in a case that unfolded amid tense relations between Moscow and Washington. (Griner would be found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison, but would be released months later in a U.S.-Russia prisoner exchange).

On 247. Batter up Rivals.

“Receiving my fourth star means a lot to me,” Kaelin said. “Especially receiving it this far down the line going into my senior season just truly shows I’ve worked hard and earned it. The rankings don’t change the player that I am but it means a lot to me to receive this recognition.”Player Rating​

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I would think so, because they would still have Nebraska and they have USC coming in next year, so I would say yes, absolutely.

Contrast that with the Big 12. They will lose Texas and Oklahoma, next year but they will still remain a Power 5 conference despite having no blue bloods. For those who bring up TCU beating Michigan, in order for TCU to get their shot at Michigan, they had to go thru Oklahoma and Texas to get there. However, starting in 2024, that won't be the case.

We're at 91 now so we'll have to lose 6 to get to 85 for this fall. We only have 10 seniors, so as of now, we'll have to lose 12 underclassmen. If we get say 10 more from HS, portal, JUCO, a total of 22 will have to go. Taking into account a few that came this year that will leave, Rhule will have flipped 75% of the roster in one year. He's doing it differently, but he's getting into PRIME territory.

Just how bad was our roster at the start of 2022?!!!

June 30

1859 - French acrobat Charles Blondin, AKA Jean Francois Gravelet, walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1908 - A powerful natural explosion from an unknown cause rocked the Tunguska Basin, in eastern Siberia, flattening hundreds of square miles of forest and resulting in tremors that could be felt hundreds of miles away.

1918 - Labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for a speech he'd made two weeks earlier denouncing U.S. involvement in World War I. (Debs was sentenced to prison and disenfranchised for life.)

1921 - President Warren G. Harding appointed former President William Howard Taft to serve as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1934 - Adolf Hitler secured his position in the Nazi party by a "blood purge," ridding the party of other leaders such as Ernst Roehm and Kurt von Schleicher.

1936 - Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" was published.

1958 - The U.S. Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill by a vote of 64-20.

1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the government could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers.

1971 - A Soviet space mission ended in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 were found dead of asphyxiation inside their capsule after it had returned to Earth.

1971 - The 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was ratified by the states.

1982 - The proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution expired, having failed to receive the required number of ratifications for its adoption, despite having its seven-year deadline extended by three years.

1985 - Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner were freed in Beirut after being held 17 days.

1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Bowers v. Hardwick that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. (However, the nation's highest court effectively reversed this decision in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas.)

1998 - The remains of a Vietnam War veteran buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.

2009 - American soldier Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan, and was later confirmed to have been captured by insurgents after walking away from his post. (Bergdahl was released on May 31, 2014 in exchange for five Taliban detainees; he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, but was spared a prison sentence by a military judge.)

2013 - Nineteen elite firefighters known as members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed battling a wildfire northwest of Phoenix after a change in wind direction pushed the flames back toward their position.

2016 - Saying it was the right thing to do, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that transgender people would be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces.

2020 - Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a landmark bill retiring the last state flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem.

2022 - Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn as the 116th justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first Black woman to serve, and succeeding Stephen Breyer.

2022 - The U.S. Supreme Court limited how the nation's main anti-air pollution law could be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote, the court said that the Clean Air Act did not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming.

Birthdays
31 - Nicole Franzel (reality star)
35 - Sean Marquette (actor)
37 - Alicia Fox (professional wrestler)
38 - Michael Phelps (swimmer)
38 - Cody Rhodes (professional wrestler)
39 - Fantasia (singer)
40 - Katherine Ryan (comedian)
40 - Cole Swindell (singer)
40 - Cheryl Ann Tweedy (singer)
41 - Susannah Flood (actress)
41 - Lizzy Caplan (actress)
42 - Tom Burke (actor)
44 - Rick Gonzalez (actor)
51 - Molly Parker (actress)
52 - Monica Potter (actress)
53 - Brian Bloom (actor)
54 - Tony Rock (actor/comedian)
57 - Peter Outerbridge (actor)
57 - Mike Tyson (boxer)
60 - Rupert Graves (actor)
61 - Deirdre Lovejoy (actress)
67 - David Alan Grier (actor/comedian)
71 - David Garrison (actor)
73 - Leonard Whiting (actor)
79 - Glenn Shorrock (singer)
87 - Nancy Dussault (actress)
90 - Lea Massari (actress)

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Today in Sports History - June 30

1934 - Detroit radio executive George Richards pays $7,952.08 to buy the NFL's Portsmouth Spartans and relocates the team to Detroit and renames them the "Lions".

1962 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws the first of his four career no-hitters.

1978 - Willie McCovey hit his 500th career home run.

1984 - The longest professional football game took place in the United States Football League (USFL). The Los Angeles Express beat the Michigan Panthers 27-21 after 93 minutes and 33 seconds.

1993 - The Orlando Magic selected Michigan center Chris Webber with the first pick in the NBA Draft and then immediately traded him to the Golden State Warriors.

1994 - The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the national championship and banned her for life for her role in the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.

1995 - Eddie Murray of the Cleveland Indians becomes the 20th player in MLB history to record 3,000 career hits.

1999 - The Chicago Bulls select Duke forward Elton Brand with the first pick in the NBA Draft.

2002 - Brazil defeats Germany 2-0 to win a record fifth World Cup championship.

2022 - UCLA and USC announced their plans to leave the Pac-12 Conference for the Big Ten Conference.

When is he supposed to commit. Thought yesterday

Anyone hear any instances of interest from the portal since the Jordy Bahl transfer?

Did the Lincoln native, Georgia tech catcher that was in the portal ever land somewhere?

Of where it sits now. Right on mark if you ask me.

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“We’re extreme alphas.”

"I’m a lot closer with Coach Rhule than I could’ve imagined."

Thomas Fidone opens up about his relationship with Matt Rhule, how limited he truly was during spring ball and how it feels to finally be fully healthy.

Good breakdown. I'm kind of excited to see an attacking D for the first time in like 20 years.

https://herbieshangout.com/2023/06/26/3-3-5-vs-minnesota-q1/

https://herbieshangout.com/2023/06/27/3-3-5-vs-minnesota-part-2/

…. What are his other options?

Henderson Promoted to Full Time Staff
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Jace Henderson has been promoted to a full-time position on the Nebraska women's basketball staff, assuming the new title of Director of Player Personnel, Development & Influence on July 1, Head Coach Amy Williams announced on Friday, June 30.

Henderson joined the Nebraska women's basketball program as a graduate assistant manager in August 2022, after previously serving as a full-time assistant coach at Montana in 2020-21. She also spent the 2019-20 season as a graduate assistant with the Lady Griz.

A standout student-athlete at Montana, Henderson spent four years as a women's basketball player after competing in 15 matches as a setter for the volleyball team as a true freshman in 2014-15.

As a basketball senior in 2018-19, Henderson earned second-team All-Big Sky Conference honors by averaging 12.0 points, 8.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists. She hit a Big Sky-best 56.1 percent of her field goal attempts as a senior.

Henderson was a two-time team MVP and a three-time Most Inspirational Player as voted by her teammates. Overall, she played 111 games with 56 starts, totaling 722 points, 583 rebounds and 185 assists.

Henderson joined the Lady Griz in Missoula after an outstanding career as a multi-sport athlete at Billings High School. She was the 2012 and 2013 Gatorade Montana Volleyball Player of the Year - the first two-time winner in state history. She led Billings to back-to-back state volleyball titles as a junior and senior. She also finished in the top four in throws three times at the Class AA state track and field meet. Her father, Brian, was the women's basketball coach at Rocky Mountain College in Billings for 13 seasons.

She earned her bachelor's degree in organizational communication from Montana in 2019, before claiming her master's degree in public administration in 2022. She is pursuing a master's degree in educational administration at Nebraska.

Godrey Named Huskers' New Cross Country Coach
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Ryun Godfrey has been named Nebraska’s new head cross country coach and assistant coach for the track and field program.

Godfrey becomes the head cross country coach after working with the mid-distance runners as a volunteer assistant coach for the NU track and field program last season. He has 27 years of coaching experience, including 25 years at the collegiate level and two years at the high school level.

“I am very much looking forward to leading the Nebraska cross country program,” said Godfrey. “Thank you to Trev Alberts, Jamie Vaughn and Coach St. Clair for this opportunity. I would also like to express my gratitude to the track and field staff here at Nebraska. It has been a privilege getting to know this group, and I would like to thank Matt Wackerly for his support and guidance in my first season here. Go Big Red!”

With the Huskers, Godfrey helped Niko Schultz and Sam Easley place in the 800m at the Big Ten Indoor and Outdoor Championships, respectively. Schultz reached the all-time top 10 charts at Nebraska in two indoor events in 2023, climbing to fifth in the 800m and sixth in the 600m.

“I feel very fortunate to add Ryun to our track and field staff and have him lead our cross country program,” said NU track and field head coach Justin St. Clair. “The amount of experience he will contribute to our coaching staff and program will be an incredible asset for us, as his mentorship and leadership of student-athletes are unparalleled. I am really excited to work with Ryun while we continue the legacy of Nebraska track and field.”

Prior to Nebraska, Godfrey had coaching stints at Arizona State, Kansas State and North Dakota State.

The 28-time Conference Coach of the Year selection and six-time DII Region Coach of the Year honoree was twice named Midwest Region Coach of the Year, while also receiving DII Coach of the Year and North Dakota Sports Writers/Sportscaster Coach of the Year recognition.

Godfrey has coached four athletes who have qualified for the USA Championships and Olympic Trials, including two finalists. On the world level, he was helped two collegiate athletes to World/Olympic standards in the 800m.

On the collegiate level, Godfrey has coached a DI runner-up (800m), a DII champion (400m Hurdles and 800m), two DII 4x400m relay champions, 12 DI All-Americans and 16 DII All-Americans. At the conference championships, he has coached three Big 12 champions, 11 Summit League champions and 11 North Central Conference champions.

Prior to Nebraska and Arizona State, Godfrey spent eight seasons coaching at Kansas State, helping the Wildcats to two Big 12 Championships in 2017 and 2018. He coached the Wildcats to five school records and helped three K-State runners earn All-Big 12 honors in cross country, two athletes earned Midwest All-Region honors and a pair of qualifiers for the NCAA Cross Country Championships.

Before his time at K-State, Godfrey was the head track and field/cross country coach at North Dakota State for 15 years, helping the Bison set 24 school records. NDSU won the DII Indoor Championships in 2002 and finished in the top-four in 10 seasons as a team at the NCAA Championships.

Godfrey’s guidance led NDSU to 30 conference championship titles, including 13 indoor titles, 13 outdoor titles and four titles in cross country.

Godfrey is a 1996 graduate of NDSU where he ran for four years before holding a one-year graduate assistant position. He earned all-conference honors and was a member of seven NDSU league champion squads. He has a bachelor’s in physical education, has USATF Level II certification in three different areas (endurance, sprints hurdles & relay and jumps) and is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

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Defensive end Carlon Jones has become the Huskers' seventh commitment from Texas in the 2024 class and 13th overall pledge from the Long Horn State under Matt Rhule's staff – and second from Bay City as he will reunite with 2023 WR signee Brice Turner.

Jones, who DL coach Terrance Knighton compared to Kansas City Chiefs star Chris Jones, spoke with @Steve Marik prior to his announcement about why he was picking the Huskers.

"I feel like I have an opportunity to be the man on campus and help change the program around. Be a part of the change."

Full interview here:

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I'm able to confirm with a source that Nebraska is hosting Adrame Diongue. The source told me Diongue arrived today and will leave tomorrow.

Diongue is a 7-foot, 190-pounder who's originally from Dakar, Senegal and prepped at AZ Compass Prep. He spent his true freshman season at Wazzu, where he came off the bench in 23 games. He averaged 1.3 points and 1.8 rebounds while blocking a total of 12 shots. Diongue was a four-star recruit in the 2022 class and rated No. 118 overall.

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Courtney Helom has been hired as Nebraska's director of recruiting operations. Her role will consistent largely of planning, setting up and executing recruiting visits and events, sometimes camps. Taylor McDaniel most recently served in the position for the Huskers.

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Helom is an Alabama graduate. She was a student assistant in Alabama's recruiting department, then spent two seasons at Kentucky, one season at Texas as recruiting operations coordinator in 2021, and she was Houston's director of on-campus recruiting from January 2022 all the way until now being hired at Nebraska.

2024 four-star Ainsworth (Neb.) tight end Carter Nelson is N.

Nelson is the Huskers’ 12 commitment in the last 11 days. He’s the No. 1-ranked recruit in the state, No. 7-ranked tight end nationally and chose the Huskers over Georgia, Notre Dame and Penn State.

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