It seems like NIL has evolved and is now much more about keeping talent and acquiring proven guys in the portal, instead of throwing resources at unproven HS kids.

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(If we do have drama, Cook does a pretty good job of keeping it in-house)

Find out Saturday. Does it matter?
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I don't know how many of you read Football Scoop, but they just did this years "Nuclear Winter" it's a tongue in cheek analysis of this years coaching carousel. It's a good laugh, check it out.
https://footballscoop.com/news/footballscoops-nuclear-winter-ix

One-stop shop for anyone who may have missed our stuff this week and wants to go back and check it out:

I mean, we all know how Saturday's gonna go down right? It's gonna be the exact same game as the last five. And we'll see how the dust settles in the end.



Check out the video/audio version of BP for additional predictions + final score picks. Thought it was another good conversation and debate with the guys on some short-term and big-picture stuff as always:

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Of course he too is innocent. Who cares about mediocre football when we have this to follow?😀

Many people are correlating Year 1 to Rhule’s other stops as a college HC. They preach patience and say “look at Temple and Baylor“ while saying his success is better at Nebraska.

Cool… then who will be Nebraska’s HC after Rhule’s 3rd season?

I see he "agreed to accept" the three game suspension .. ! AGREED TO ACCEPT ?? He & the school must be laughing about now , huh ? What alternative was there ? Never heard an apology ! GEEEZ

Night game in Madison. Both teams 5-5.

Wisconsin -4.5 and Over/Under 37. Somehow, I don’t know how, but I’ll go with this:

Nebraska 13
Wisconsin 11

November 16
Kansas State 65, #2 Iowa 58
#8 Connecticut 80, #20 Maryland 48
#13 Ohio State 88, Boston College 66
Michigan State 105, Detroit Mercy 44
Penn State 69, St. John's 53
Purdue 72, Texas A&M 58

Standings
Penn State (4-0)
Nebraska (3-0)
Michigan State (3-0)
Minnesota (3-0)
Wisconsin (3-0)
Michigan (2-0)
Iowa (3-1)
Illinois (2-1)
Northwestern (2-1)
Ohio State (2-1)
Purdue (2-1)
Rutgers (2-2)
Indiana (1-1)
Maryland (1-2)

Games for Friday, November 17
Murray State at #18 Indiana

Next Nebraska Game - Sunday, November 18
#22 Creighton at Nebraska (1:00 PM - BTN)

Anyone have a Saatva mattress? I see they have tons of good reviews online but would like to hear any reviews from actual owners. I spent a fortune on a top-of-the-line Tempu-Pedic with adjustable base a few years ago and just don't like it. I am strictly a side/stomach sleeper and my arms fall asleep and shoulders/hips hurt when I wake up. Just stayed at a hotel in Omaha and didn't have that issue once so I know it's my mattress. I called the hotel and they said the mattresses are made specifically for them and can't share the brand. Kind of hesitant to buy a bed in a box (which is what Sattva is) without having the chance to lay on it first.

Any other mattress recommendations? Not interested in a pure memory foam mattress or Sleep Number. A hybrid or innerspring pillow top/Euro Top King is what I am looking for and would like to try to stay under $2500, if possible.

With two winnable games lost and in the books. Can we knock of the Badgers away or the Hawks at home?

@Bobfather @Husker Hank @mikeglo
What in the heck is going on?

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Just did some self-inventory. Over the last four weeks: Greg is 26-14, Steve is 24-16, Jansen is 23-17 (all very good numbers against the spread) and I'm 19-21. Sweet.

But, hey, got that 7-3 record ATS in predicting Nebraska games so I'm hanging my hat on that.

Any Vegas HUSKERS out there?

Will there be a watch party next weekend for Wisky?

Thanks!!!

GBR

Michael Soroka and utilityman Nicky Lopez, along with Jared Shuster, Brandon Shewmake and minor-leaguer Riley Gowens, to the Chicago White Sox for left-hander Aaron Bummer.

November 17
1558 - Queen Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary.

1800 - Congress convened in Washington, D.C. for the first time.

1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt.

1947 - President Harry S. Truman, in an address to a special session of Congress, called for emergency aid to Austria, Italy and France. (The aid was approved the following month.)

1969 - The first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union opened in Helsinki, Finland.

1973 - President Richard Nixon told Associated Press managing editors in Orlando, Florida: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

1979 - Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 of the 66 American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

1989 - The "Velvet Revolution" had its beginnings, which lead to the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia.

1989 - The Walt Disney animated feature “The Little Mermaid” opened in wide release.

1997 - Sixty-two people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed when militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt; the attackers were killed by police.

2002 - Abba Eban, the statesman who helped persuade the world to approve creation of Israel and dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades, died near Tel Aviv at age 87.

2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.

2018 - Argentina’s navy announced that searchers had found a submarine that disappeared a year earlier with 44 crewmen aboard; the government said it would be unable to recover the vessel.

2020 - President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top election security official, Christopher Krebs, who had refuted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote.

2022 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, a pivotal realignment making way for a new generation of leaders after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections.

Birthdays
29 - Raquel Castro (actress)
35 - Reid Perry (musician)
40 - Ryan Braun (baseball player)
45 - Rachel McAdams (actress)
46 - Aaron Lines (singer)
47 - Brandon Call (actor)
50 - Leslie Bibb (actress)
51 - Leonard Roberts (actor)
52 - David Ramsey (actor)
56 - Ronnie DeVoe (singer)
57 - Daisy Fuentes (actress/model)
57 - Sophie Marceau (actress)
60 - Dylan Walsh (actor)
63 - RuPaul (entertainer)
64 - William Moses (actor)
65 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (actress)
67 - Ramona Singer (reality star)
72 - Stephen Root (actor)
79 - Lorne Michaels (TV producer)
79 - Danny DeVito (actor/director)
80 - Lauren Hutton (actress)
81 - Martin Scorsese (director)

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Today in Sports History - November 17

1926 - The Chicago Black Hawks played their first game in the NHL.

1940 - The Green Bay Packers became the first NFL team to travel by plane.

1953 - The St. Louis Browns baseball franchise officially become the Baltimore Orioles.

1956 - Syracuse running back Jim Brown records an NCAA single-game record 43 points in a game against Colgate.

1968 - The "Heidi Bowl" incident took place as NBC switched from its coverage of the NFL with 42 seconds to play to air the movie "Heidi". In the missing 42 seconds, the Oakland Raiders scored two touchdowns to come from behind and defeat thew New York Jets 43-32.

1982 - The NFL reduced its 16-game season to nine as a result of a 57-day players' strike.

1991 - Mike Utley (Detroit Lions) suffered a spinal injury in a game against Los Angeles that left him paralyzed from the chest down.

1997 - Mario Lemieux was voted into the NHL Hall of Fame.

2003 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the first major league baseball player to receive six National League MVP awards.

Got a call this am from OSU friend who said Michigan also had/have 50hrs of OSU practices on a hard drive. Supposedly will be out by weeks end.

Again not sure if true but man if it is...smgdh.


Holla

With about 1;30 left in the game, Buffalo scored a TD to go ahead by 1. Denver then drove to inside the Bill's 40 and then got sacked to take them out of field goal range. On the next play, Buffalo blitzed and forced Russel Wilson to throw up a YOLO pass and the Bills were called for PI. After a couple of plays and with no time outs left and 25 seconds on the clock Denver rushes out the field goal unit and misses the field goal. But Buffalo was called for 12 men on the field. With 4 seconds left Denver makes the field goal to win by 2.

I love it. I eat it cold with a slice of American cheese and a couple slices of bread. Fried and served with melted Velveeta cheese on top and gently well done eggs. Sometimes all in between toast. I also have diced it up and added to various Rice a Roni and Pasta Roni packages. I even added it to a "chefs" salad along with hard boiled eggs and bacon. The wife pick the Spam out of her salad. No respect I tell you.

Nebraska at Wisconsin Game Preview and Prediction
by Pete Fiutak, CollegeFootballNews.com

Nebraska (5-5) at Wisconsin (5-5)
Saturday, November 18 - 7:30 PM (ET) - NBC

Why Nebraska Will Win
Wisconsin is awful.

Before it was ineffective, and slightly confusing in the way it tried to run the supposedly new-and-improved offense. Now the whole thing just shut down.

The Badgers used to run for over 200 yards a game like clockwork. Now it's lucky to crack 100 yards. Turnovers aren't a problem, but they're there. The passing game can't connect, there aren't any sustained drives, and overall, the program once known for always being able to rely on the great O line can't even do that.

Now it gets to deal with the Nebraska defense.

The Huskers are getting thrown on a bit too easily in key spots, but that's not a concern here. Even when Wisconsin is able to hit passes, they're not going anywhere.

The Nebraska run defense has been a rock, allowing just over 100 yards to Maryland last week, 249 to Michigan and under 100 against everyone else.

However .......

Why Wisconsin Will Win
......It's probably going to be close, and it'll probably be a one score game. Nebraska still can't win a close one.

The turnovers are back.

They went away for a little while after a rough start, but they kicked back in full force with multiple giveaways in each of the last five games and with 12 in the last three.

Wisconsin really, really, really, really needs the breaks.

The Badger D hasn't been totally terrible. It hasn't come up with a takeaway in four of the last five games, but again, Nebraska will just give them out like Halloween candy.

Go ahead and make this a slugfest. Keep the score low, the game tight, win the mistake battle, and assume the Husker offense that hasn't pushed past 280 yards since a win over Illinois on October 6th isn't about to turn into the Miami Dolphins.

What Will Happen
It's the strangest thing.

Yeah, not having star RB Braelon Allen around hurts, but it's like Wisconsin just forgot how to play football.

Who loses to Indiana and Northwestern?

It isn't hyperbole -- the Badger offense really is awful. It hasn't scored more than 14 points in four of the last five games, and needed a late miracle to put up 25 to get by Illinois late. Nebraska will have plenty of opportunities to win this, and then it'll turn the ball over.

This will make Iowa games look like a sunset over the ocean. It'll be low scoring, it'll be a fight for either O to be effective, and it'll be a one score game.

We all know how that works for Nebraska as it'll wait one more week to become bowl eligibile.

Prediction
Wisconsin 16, Nebraska 13

Spread
Wisconsin is favored at home by 4.5 points. The O/U is set at 37 points.

We've had some disappointing losses this year but so far 99% of it really seems to be on the offense IMO. We're missing like what, 8 starters on offense at this point so ya, we're a very ugly defensive team this year under Rhule. The value of actually tackling people in practice I think has just been a MASSIVE improvement defensively and we've seen so many more open field tackles made that I feel we would've whiffed on last year. Remembering the glory days, the players always talked about how tough practice was that game day was kind of like a cake walk. I'm loving that we're returning to this approach! I feel we're a great QB and 2 receivers away from having a good/great team with a few great OL mixed in, but we gotta keep up this practice philosophy of being hard as hell at practice. The fact that we didn't do this for I think the last 2 coaching staffs is just wow.