Didnt the BIG implement a rule a few years ago that if you offered a kid a scholarship it had to be for four years and could not be canceled?

Seems like a perfect off-season, pre-football, extravaganza of awesomeness.

https://games.crossfit.com/

Just a ridiculously loaded cast & the 1950s LA backrop is a perfect one for a slick, sexy, and dark & twisted crime drama. To me this is Russel Crowe's best career performance.

If M.R. didnt have a history I'd say it's just coach-speak but the man has proven a concept and had great success. Also sounds like Cooper has a great eye for talent and will outwork everyone. Excited for the future, get very athletic guys on campus and see what happens.

Cooper is going to keep finding guys like that, Rhule is quite sure. There's good reason Cooper has served as both an assistant and recruiting coordinator for Rhule at multiple coaching stops prior to Lincoln.

Sometimes Cooper's thoughts on a prospect come Rhule's way in the wee hours.

"Because he stays up at night and texts me at 3 o'clock in the morning watching this guy, watching that guy," Rhule said. "And I think what you'll start to see is probably we'll offer guys that no one's heard of and then they'll start getting 10, 11, 12 offers and their stars will bump up. That's not disrespectful to anybody. It's just people will know that Coop goes and find guys. We're not afraid to offer anybody ... If we think they're a fit we're going to take them."

As Rhule told it, he called Cooper at one point before taking the Husker job to ask his opinion if he thought it was the right fit.

Cooper's advice: Take the job, then call Jaylen Lloyd from Omaha Westside after you do.

Rhule took the job and called Lloyd in the first hour. Now the Westside senior is signed to play football and participate in track and field at Nebraska.

Rhule took the job and soon after Husker staffers were calling Brice Turner, who is 6-2, 180 pounds and has run 10.2s in the 100 meters in track. The prospect of Bay City, Texas, got a surprise offer from Cooper and committed to Nebraska sight unseen.

“With Brice with his size he could be a receiver or wherever he fits most with that frame — he can run with a lot of guys or you can try to have him out run and take shots down the field.” his Bay City coach Robert Jones explained to Husker247. “I don’t know where they’re going to use him, but I think he’ll be a great asset to the program.”

That last quote, you might guess, would be accepted as a badge of honor by Rhule and this staff.

You'll probably see Texas Tech as another school offering similar guys to Nebraska. The Red Raiders are led by coach Joey McGuire, who was on Rhule's staff at Baylor.


"We all come from the same tree," Rhule said. "You'll start seeing guys like Jaylen Lloyd, like Eric Fields, who have Texas Tech and us because we have a system that we use that we believe in."

Curious that Trev and Matt are on the ice...

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Cover your eyes if you’re worried about the 85 limit. I think we will still take a couple more from the portal (and a couple more from HS).

Biggest remains needs:

OT
DL (at least one)
ILB

Quick question for those with experience in these matters. What are some ways to divert a small amount of money to avoid the 60 month look back? The entity isn’t applying for Medicaid for awhile, but want to cover all bases.

“I don’t let cameras in”-Matt Rhule

He makes it about the team. Not himself. Probably no purses allowed either.

with all the earlier discussions of the Mickey Joseph situation there hasn't been any recent update on his court appearance. I understood he was scheduled to appear in Lancaster court sometime in January unless it got delayed. Not judging the situation one way or the other - that's up to the court to decide.

2019 to 2023, they signed nine 6.0 or 6.1 defensive ends.

In that time period, Nebraska has signed one 5.8 and one 5.9 as the highest level recruits.

We've had a problem with our recruiting no doubt, but the fundamental problem is the massive accumulation of the highest rated players to only a few schools. What we have in college football is the equivalent of having 4 NFL teams get 28 of the 32 first round picks every year.

And no, Nebraska was NEVER in that group as that group didn't exist when we were dominant. Under TO, our recruiting classes were usually between around 8th-15th, occasionally getting a little higher. There was NEVER a time when TO brought in six 5-star players and fourteen 4-star players in any single class.

From 1990 to 1995, the years where the players from our 60-3 run from 1993 to 1997 were recruited, the list of 5-star players is limited to:

Calvin Jones
Tommie Frazier
Toby Wright
Lawrence Phillips
Grant Wistrom
Terrell Farley
Ahman Green

7 in 6 years.

Big fan of Drew...

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With that online turnout — which featured a queue of thousands when tickets went on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Tuesday — the cheapest shot many fans had at getting into the NFC championship game vanished as quickly as it arrived. It showcased what secondary ticket market analysts have predicted since the matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers was set Sunday: This was going to be a searing hot ticket.

So far it has lived up to the hype, with the NFC title game currently stacking up as the most expensive conference title game in NFL history. According to industry search engine TicketIQ, the average price per-ticket hit $2,468 on Monday afternoon, with president Jesse Lawrence calling that cost “the most expensive conference championship game we’ve ever tracked.” That early figure ripped past the previous peak set last year between the 49ers and Los Angeles Rams, which touched $1,542 in average price per-ticket.

From a talent and physical standpoint, is Arik Gilbert the closest player Nebraska has brought in that resembles Johnny Mitchell ? To me Mitchell was the best tight end I’ve ever seen play at Nebraska and Gilbert seems to be a clone of Mitchell. If I can remember correctly, Mitchell had some type of issue that didn’t allow him to play his freshman year so his career wasn’t always smooth. Maybe Gilbert can follow the same path as Mitchell, we can only hope and it will be interesting to follow.

With all the Schools being visited, has there been a Coach to Iowa Western?

I hadn’t seen anything.

Matt Rhule is in St Louis today and will stop by University High School. That’s the home of 2024 five-star wide receiver Ryan Wingo. Nebraska likes him a lot just like every other program in the country.

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Exchanged a couple texts with head coach Adam Cruz at University. Rhule and linebackers coach Rob Dvoracek were at the school and made a good impression.

“They were awesome I think they will do a great job in the area.”

We’ll see how it pans out but an effort is being made.

Big fan of Cal...

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We'll have another 2025 metro kid committing sometime this weekend.

LINCOLN — In case you’re ever curious why so much print and digital ink is spilled over Nebraska football, you can consider the history of the program — the national titles won, the trophies amassed — or you can chew on a dollar figure.
Last fiscal year, Husker football made $97,900,681. That’s according to the annual report NU sends to the NCAA in December. Reporters get the data in mid-January. Nebraska athletics had a terrific financial year between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022, making more than $143 million in overall revenue and netting a $12,241,993 surplus compared to expenses.
Husker football itself made more than $62 million in surplus. The World-Herald will have more in-depth coverage soon on how money and college sports are more intertwined than ever, but the basic figures tell you what we’ve long known.

The pigskin is a cash cow.

Killing it at the NFLPA Bowl

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Pretty chill day out a Dan Hartog where Nebraska hosted its first practice of 2023. A lot of optimism coming from the Huskers. Hit the link for more.

The Huskers received more good news Friday night when they got the commitment of the Millard South product. Jindra joins Beau Peterson of Kansas and Bryce Fountain of Norris as the third member of Nebraska’s 2026 recruiting class.

Huskers coming out with another big commitment from last weekend’s prospect camp.

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From commit thread:

“Offered 165# 5.5 3* on 11/30, squeezed in a quick visit and got the commitment one week later.

Is this really how “being selective” looks?”


Malcom Hartzog…..