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Selected by fellow USA Olympic athletes to be the male flag bearer in the opening ceremonies.
Thoughts

This should be one of the most positive story lines going into fall camp. The Huskers are going to have a great mix of size, speed, and depth at the receiver positions, great targets for our 5-star QB. But just as important, it shows the confidence the staff has in the TE room and the depth of that position also.

I know every fall we get excited about our prospects, but it's hard to argue that we're not going into 2024 (2nd year) with a level of talent and experience that we haven't had for a long time, and a legit QB on top of that.

The last time we had this much overall talent was in 2009 and 2010, and just think of the outcome those 2 years if we could have plugged a DR type QB into those teams.

Some of this could be in the words of Alan Greenspan, "Irrational Exuberance", but even the BTN and national media are taking note of the possibilities for the Huskers. Getting the QB changed everything. Honestly, the only position I'm concerned about right now is kicker.

Matt Rhule said today he expects cornerback Blye Hill to begin fall camp about two weeks after the start of it, on July 31. Hill suffered a knee injury during the spring game. That's great news.

Uhhhhh...? Trying to gain relevance before the season kicks off or something?

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Just bought tickets and hotel for Ohio St Game. Anyone going to any other road games? Thinking about going to Purdue as well.

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I called this before spring practice, Nelson is a top 6-8 wr day one in fall camp.

July 26
1775 - The Continental Congress established a Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin as its first Postmaster General.

1788 - New York became the 11th state.

1847 - Liberia, the western African country founded by freed American slaves, became Africa's first republic.

1863 - Sam Houston, former president of the Republic of Texas, died in Huntsville at age 70.

1908 - The Office of the Chief Examiner, which in 1935 became the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was created.

1945 - Winston Churchill resigned as British prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labour Party. (He was succeeded as prime minister by Clement Attlee.)

1947 - President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act into law, which reorganized America's armed forces as the National Military Establishment by creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

1948 - President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the U.S. military.

1952 - Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.

1953 - Fidel Castro was among a group of rebelling anti-Batistas who unsuccessfully attacked an army barracks.

1971 - Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy on America's fourth successful manned mission to the moon.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law, prohibiting discrimination based on mental or physical disabilities.

2002 - The Republican-led House voted to create an enormous Homeland Security Department in the biggest government reorganization in decades.

2016 - Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

2018 - The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed for a series of crimes in the 1990s, including a gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people.

2020 - A processional with the casket of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Alabama, were Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years earlier.

Birthdays
24 - Thomasin McKenzie (actress)
31 - Elizabeth Gillies (actress)
31 - Taylor Momsen (actress/singer)
36 - Francia Raisa (actress)
38 - Monica Raymund (actress)
44 - Juliet Rylance (actress)
51 - Kate Beckinsale (actress)
56 - Olivia Williams (actress)
57 - Jason Statham (actor)
59 - Jeremy Piven (actor)
60 - Sandra Bullock (actress)
65 - Kevin Spacey (actor)
68 - Dorothy Hamill (figure skater)
79 - Helen Mirren (actress)
81 - Mick Jagger (singer)
83 - Brenton Wood (singer)
83 - Darlene Love (singer)
85 - Bob Lilly (football player)

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Today in Sports History - July 26

1933 - Joe DiMaggio ends a 61-game hitting streak in the Pacific Coast League.

1948 - Babe Ruth was seen by the public for the last time, when he attended the New York City premiere of the motion picture, "The Babe Ruth Story."

1984 - Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb's record for career singles with 3,502.

1987 - Catfish Hunter, Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1992 - Nolan Ryan records his 100th strikeout for the 23rd consecutive season.

1996 - American swimmer Amy Van Dyken won the 50-meter freestyle to become Atlanta's first quadruple gold medalist and the first U.S. woman to win four in a single Olympics.

1998 - Three spectators were killed and six were injured by flying debris from a one-car crash at the U.S. 500 at Michigan Speedway. They were the first fan deaths at a major race in the United States in more than a decade.

2004 - The Arizona Diamondbacks snapped a club-record 14-game losing streak.

Fast-Fact Friday!

“Former Nebraska volleyball star Jordan Larson scored the final kill that clinched the gold medal for the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.”

Memorial Stadium turf, your ass is grass!

Troy Dannen says the plan is for Nebraska to install grass at the stadium by 2026 at the earliest.

Here are more details on that timeline, Dannen and Rhule’s response to roster size limits and the logistics behind the Huskers possibly, potentially, maybe hosting a CFP game in the future:

...and it's quite a major one, at that.

With fall camp fast approaching, does anyone have a feel for the single digit number awardees.

There are 4 open numbers (1,3,4 and 7).

Does Rhule wipe the slate clean? Thought I heard Rhule said it would have to be earned each year but can’t remember for sure.

Do any of the current holders switch numbers?

Just curious what takes people have.

No love for the Huskers on pre-season All-Big Ten from the know-it-alls. Zero Nebraska players not even on "Honorable Mentioned."

According to these experts, the conference is so top-heavy. Nebraska, Wisconsin, USC, and UCLA, don't really exist. Don't blame the voters as their teams have been down for years.

Obviously there are a lot of opinions on NIL and it seems to follow age lines to some extent with the older fans less enthusiastic about giving kids a ton of money to play for DONU. So I pose a hypothetical:

Say some how, some way we had say $50 million a year lying around available for NIL, where we could afford to have say 20 players getting $1M per year, 30 players getting $500k per year, and the remainder going to the rest of the team. Is that something that you personally would actually want to do? Does it mean that much to you to spend that much money so you can say your State's team wins more football games?

I just wonder what people's limits are on this stuff, and whether anyone who's into this kind of stuff can see the obvious downsides of all of this, the largest 2 being:

1. Just the general issue of with all of the needs of a University, is this a good use of donated money (I know the answer is yes to the ardent fan, but have you even considered this?)

2. What happens to a young kid from an athletic standpoint when you set him up so well with no real performance metrics that he has far less incentive to excel to the next level? I know from an academic standpoint, had someone given me $1 million a year to go to school, I wouldn't have studied anywhere near as hard as when my performance depended on me killing myself to get my degrees so I could take care of my family later. These kids are young and generally undeveloped. Are we crippling them performance wise?

I'm just curious what people think. Please no smart ass answers, I'm fascinated by this.

Per a Nebraska spokesperson:

Nebraska sophomore guard Gavin Griffiths will miss the remainder of summer workouts after undergoing a procedure on his right wrist earlier this week.

According to Men’s Basketball Athletic Trainer Andrew McCabe, the procedure will sideline Griffiths for the final two weeks of Nebraska’s summer workouts, but Griffiths is expected to be fully cleared to return to action in time for the start of team workouts in September.

Here's more on Griffiths, and how Nebraska landed him in the portal:

“Name the two Nebraska volleyball players who were named Co-Most Outstanding Players of the 2017 NCAA Tournament. It was the second time since 1996 that the award was shared.”

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Answer:

Mikaela Foecke and Kelly Hunter

Hadn't seen this posted yet. Rhule slipped out yesterday to join the Pat McAfee show in person (for 30+ minutes) while other coaches were doing side sessions for their local radio. Great exposure to young kids. Great interview. Just another case of him playing chess while others are playing checkers.

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Quickly, before Rhule and players take the mics at Big Ten Media Days, today's DNT/F (as we all call it)...

“Who is the all-time rushing leader in Nebraska football history, doing so despite playing only three years in Lincoln? How many yards did he finish his career with?”

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Answer:

Mike Rozier

4,780 career rushing yards (and 49 TDs) on 668 carries and a clip of 7.2 yards per carry.

Sanders at sCUm, Riley at U$C and Fleck at Row the Boat. I believe all three will not be with those programs in 3 years. If it was a 3 team parlay, I'd put a little on it.

July 25
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold that rank.

1943 - Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (He was later rescued by Nazi forces and re-asserted his authority.)

1946 - The United States tested its first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.

1952 - Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States.

1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, killing 51 people.

1960 - A Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina that had been the scene of nearly six months of sit-in protests against its whites-only lunch counter, dropped its segregation policy.

1972 - The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing more than 100 of them to die, as a way of studying the disease.

1978 - The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in Lancashire, England, who was conceived by the technique of in-vitro fertilization.

1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war.

2000 - A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground.

2010 - The online whistleblower WikiLeaks posted some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records that amounted to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.

2018 - A study published in the journal Science revealed that a huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the planet.

2022 - On a visit to Canada, Pope Francis issued a historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with the country's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations.

Birthdays
24 - Meg Donnelly (actress)
39 - James Lafferty (actor)
39 - Shantel VanSanten (actress)
43 - Finn Balor (professional wrestler)
45 - Juan Pablo Di Pace (actor)
50 - Jay R. Ferguson (actor)
51 - David Denman (actor)
57 - Wendy Raquel Robinson (actress)
57 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
69 - Iman (model)
78 - Rita Marley (singer)
81 - Jim McCarty (musician)
82 - Bruce Woodley (singer)
114 - Elizabeth Francis (oldest living American)

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Today in Sports History - July 25

1941 - Pitcher Lefty Grove wins his 300th and final game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 10-6.

1949 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals hits for the cycle against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1956 - Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits MLB's first and only walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in a 9-8 win over the Chicago Cubs.

1978 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) broke the National League record for consecutive base hits as he got a hit in 38 straight games.

1987 - The Salt Lake City Trappers set a professional baseball record as the team won its 29th game in a row.

1990 - Actress Roseanne Barr performed an infamous rendition of the National Anthem prior to a San Diego Padres baseball game.

1990 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hits for the cycle in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays.

1992 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.

1997 - Quarterback Brett Favre signs a record 7-year, $50 million contract with the Green Bay Packers.

1999 - Lance Armstrong becomes the second American (Greg LeMond) to win the Tour de France.

2004 - Lance Armstrong won a record sixth consecutive Tour de France.

2012 - The Summer Olympic Games open in London, England.

2021 - At the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, the United States men's basketball team sees their 25-game Olympic win streak snapped in a 83-76 first-round loss to France.

AUniversity of Oregon recruit has scheduled a visit to Nebraska's campus this weekend. Isaiah Mozee is a four-star wide receiver for Lee Summit North High School in Lee's Summit, Missouri.

Last season, he appeared in 11 games, making 74 receptions for 1,033 yards and 12 touchdowns. Mozee committed to the Oregon Ducks back in April.
While the receiver is committed, his visit should come as no surprise. Isaiah's father, Jamar Mozee, was recently hired as a Senior Football Assistant at Nebraska.

The elder Mozee comes to Nebraska after being the head coach of Lee's Summit North High School in Lee's Summit, Missouri, for the last nine seasons. During that time, he would compile a record of 64-35 but recorded an impressive 33-5 record for the last three seasons.

Nebraska's class of 2025 holds 17 commitments and is currently ranked outside the top 25.

Season getting close. WR room has some ballers. Size and speed.
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