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Great to see the new staff going the podcast route as well with their Husker info. I usually do 90% of my lurking during work hours so I rarely get to pull off listening to them though. Any way we could get cliffs on these ? What do you others think?

Hearing the grass is causing a lot of knee injuries. Sources say it hasn’t been installed properly and gives a tug on cut moves. If we won national titles with turf why are we going to grass and getting injured? Bring back a former husker who is in turf management to run this.

Listed at 6'5" and 455 pounds. It will be interesting to see if he ever plays.
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Football is back!

Nebraska opened up its preseason Tuesday morning. Here are my observations and thoughts after today's morning practice. Hit the link.

Big/PAC
West. USC,UCLA,Oregon,Oregon St, Washington ,Washington St, Stanford , Cal, UNLV, Colorado St
East Ohio st. , Michigan. Michigan st Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana , Purdue, Wisconsin Minnesota. Iowa

SEC
West. Texas Texas A&M Oklahoma Nebraska Missouri Arkansas , Ole Miss Miss st Auburn, ECU
East Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky , South Carolina , Kentucky, Vandy Alabama , VTech, Lville

Big East
North Penn St, Pitt , WVU , Notre Dame , Rutgers, Maryland , Cincy , Syracuse , Boston College ,Miami

South Clemson , FSU ,UNC, UVA, NC St , Duke , GT, WaKe Forest , Tulane ,

I've been on it nonstop for 5+ years. It's been a lifestyle change that I don't see myself deviating from. Lean, improved focus, increased energy, no digestive issues, all the positive benefits that you read about have manifested.

I don't really crave carbs, sugars, etc. It's not a "diet" per-say. Again, it's been a lifestyle change which I believe is the key to the whole thing...much like any other commitment you make. You've got to have the proper mindset for it to be sustainable.

it was not long ago, in a different conference ....that ut, 0u and a couple others were going to the pac..
this propelled Dr. Tom into action and got us into the big 11...
we are going to make about 100 million next year...

but due to the lhn, some big 12 north teams survived...like ksu and isu...
it would probably have been better if they died...(more recruiting choices for us)
now they make about 31 million next year.....

we are looking at a 69 million dollar difference here per year..
and we make more then ut and 0u will in the sec (lol)
in the most academically respected conference..
the harvard of the plains, this has been evident thru the years.

I have seen alot of folks bad mouth larry scott, the last couple days...
unjustly
allways remember remember providence can use anyone, at any time for the good life.

so going forward, be thankful to larry scott, (but not so much the lhn)..

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This time it was with a girl, at a Christian school. Since I'm all about the LGBQTRZX community....niiicccce.

nfm.

Got all the video we shot whittled down to roughly 6.5 minutes. Check it out below or on our YouTube channel.

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Nebraska women’s basketball team beat a team 124-18 while in Greece.

An embarrassing and classless display while representing our university, state and nation

Did the Big12 just win conference realignment? They’re gaining teams where travel isn’t crazy. Get rid if WV and you’ve got a conference that makes sense.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think the TV money gravy train will continue much longer. There’s too much content dilution.

First when some contracts expire:

College football playoff ends 2026. So only 2 years of 12 team playoff as is.
B1G media deal ends 2030
SEC media deal ends 2034
ACC media deal ends 2036
Big 12 media deal ends 2031

Don't see anything happening until 2026, but the last big realignment will be before 2036, then again didn't see this week's action happening this quick but the PAC couldn't find a media contract. Florida State seems anxious to start the last and final stage.

Really only 1 blueblood left in Notre Dame.
Couple of big names left most notably Florida St, Miami and Clemson.
Couple of big population centers left untapped: San Francisco, Phoenix, Denver, Boston, Charlotte, Miami. There are a couple of other that I don't think can be swayed, like Atlanta, Georgia Tech is there, but it's a Georgia/SEC town,

B1G needs 2 to get to 20, 6 to get to 24, SEC needs 4 for 20, 8 for 24.

A lot depends on the goals the conferences will have. I think the B1G will want to finally add Notre Dame and get population centers in their footprint. I think the SEC wants to mostly protect it's borders, not let the B1G into the Southeast.

B1G could get Notre Dame for name, they'll go to the B1G, not only a fit, but has potentially 6 of their top 10 rivals and it will be abundantly clear that only B1G and SEC will have access to a new playoff system. Then Stanford, Arizona State or Arizona, Colorado and Boston College for population and round it out with North Carolina or Virginia. SEC would compete for North Carolina and Virginia and possibly in Arizona, but I think the B1G would have the upper hand. That would finish the B1G at 24 teams.

SEC could get Miami, which is an area they don't already have. Then add Florida State and Clemson, the SEC is already big in these area, but not a brand or place they would want the B1G to get into. Then probably finish it off with North Carolina or Virginia where they will duke it out with the B1G. I see the SEC stopping there, hard to see 4 more teams that they would like to invite unless they want to step out into Arizona or secure another Texas school or maybe Virginia Tech, all possibilities but it's tough to see 4 more that would gain them much. I think the SEC stops at 20 teams.

That leaves a revamped playoff for them to negotiate for the 44 teams at the top. I don't think they will make a playoff, I don't think the respective tv partners will want them to. Fox and Disney will want to keep control and have a conference post season tournament that they have the media rights for. It will be capped by a championship game that rotates between Fox and Disney between the SEC champ and the B1G champ, a virtual college super bowl. There will still be bowl games for teams that don't make their respective playoffs and to help fill in the December schedule. A B1G/SEC alliance will form that will change/alter rules that they see fit, the NCAA will effectively be out of football for the top 44 teams. Roster size, number of coaches, time/types of practice, NIL rules, number of scholarships could all be altered a bit. Might be a SEC/B1G challenge in the nonconference to open the season as nonconference losses and looking good for the polls will no longer matter.

In the end, major college football will only have around 44 teams and the map between the 2 conferences will look a lot like the Civil War maps. Like it or not, major college football will end up looking a lot like the NFL did right after the AFL merger.

Lot of guessing in there and many other possibilities:
Maybe the B1G stops at 20.
Maybe the B1G makes a big effort to get into the Southeast.
Maybe the B1G goes to 25, 5 divisions of 5 with an 8 team conference tournament.
Maybe the SEC expands its territory and goes to 24 teams.
Maybe the B1G and SEC get along real well and skip conference tournaments and championship games and do a joint postseason tournament.
Maybe the Big 12 can get Notre Dame and the important names from the ACC and become a third top conference.

Lots of unknows, lots of possibilities, the one thing I know for certain is that "realignment" isn't done.

Nebraska had a 20-plus minute open practice this morning. Check out Inside Nebraska's practice observations AT THIS LINK.

Practice highlight video is coming soon on our YouTube channel. Below are press conference videos as Matt Rhule, Donovan Raiola, Bryce Benhart and Phalen Sanford took the podium. Malcolm Hartzog was also available but will not have video of that. Mic levels were way too hot when I filmed it.

Apologies for practice highlight footage getting posted late and if any video/audio is off. Our digital producer had a long-scheduled off day today so I was taking over + just bought a new piece of audio equipment for secondary camera (Benhart and Sanford) but haven't been able to test it out because it just arrived this morning before practice.

Anyway! Presser videos below, quick hits from Rhule and Raiola, Rapid Recap, player takeaways and more feature stories are coming over the next few hours.

Anyone heard how he’s doing so far.

Or starting next year (which ever comes first), which becomes more of a priority: Conference Championship or Playoff spot?

Which shows the best for team success?

August 8

1588 - English forces attacked the Spanish Armada, permanently crippling Spain's "invincible" fleet.

1786 - Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat became the first to climb Mont Blanc in the Alps.

1814 - During the War of 1812, peace talks between the United States and Britain began in Ghent, Belgium.

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile.

1876 - Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph.

1911 - President William Howard Taft signed a measure raising the number of U.S. representatives from 391 to 433, effective with the next Congress, with a proviso to add two more when New Mexico and Arizona became states.

1942 - During World War II, six Nazi saboteurs who were captured after landing in the U.S. were executed in Washington, D.C.; two others who cooperated with authorities were spared.

1945 - President Harry S. Truman signed the U.S. instrument of ratification for the United Nations Charter.

1945 - The Soviet Union declared war on Japan during World War II.

1953 - The United States and South Korea initialed a mutual security pact.

1963 - In "The Great Train Robbery," some 15 thieves robbed the Glasgow-to-London mail train, making off with more than $6 million in cash.

1969 - Sharon Tate, wife of film director Roman Polanski, and four others were murdered by members of Charles Manson's "family."

1973 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland, and vowed not to resign — which he ended up doing.

1974 - President Richard Nixon announced he would resign from office the following day as a result of the Watergate scandal.

1994 - Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between the once-warring countries.

2000 - The wreckage of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, which sank in 1864 after attacking the Union ship Housatonic, was recovered off the South Carolina coast and returned to port.

2009 - Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the U.S. Supreme Court's first Hispanic and third female justice.

2018 - The United States announced that it would impose new sanctions on Russia for illegally using a chemical weapon in an attempt to kill a former spy and his daughter in Britain.

2018 - A Montana coroner said the death of "Superman" actor Margot Kidder had been ruled a suicide from a drug and alcohol overdose.

2022 - Former President Donald Trump said the FBI conducted a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate as the Justice Department investigated the discovery of boxes of records containing classified information that were taken to Mar-a-Lago after Trump's presidency ended.

2022 - The white father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery's fatal shooting after they chased the 25-year-old Black man through a Georgia neighborhood were sentenced to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.

Birthdays
22 - Aubrey Miller (actress)
22 - Faith Schroder (actress)
25 - Shawn Mendes (singer)
25 - Peyton List (actress)
27 - Dani Dyer (actress)
30 - Jen Selter (model)
34 - Anthony Rizzo (baseball player)
34 - Ken Baumann (actor)
36 - Katie Leung (actress)
39 - Jackie Cruz (actress)
42 - Meagan Good (actress)
42 - Roger Federer (tennis player)
43 - Michael Urie (actor)
43 - Shayna Baszler (MMA fighter/professional wrestler)
45 - Countess Vaughn (actress)
46 - Lindsay Sloane (actress)
46 - Marsha Ambrosius (singer)
47 - Drew Lachey (singer)
47 - Tawny Cypress (actress)
47 - JC Chasez (singer)
50 - Mark Wills (singer)
55 - Suzy Favor Hamilton (runner)
70 - Donny Most (actor)
71 - Robin Quivers (TV/Radio personality)
74 - Keith Carradine (actor)
76 - Larry Wilcox (actor)
85 - Connie Stevens (actress)
86 - Dustin Hoffman (actor)
93 - Nita Talbot (actress)

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Today in Sports History - August 8

1900 - The first Davis Cup tennis tournament began at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.

1903 - Joe McGinnity (New York) pitched two complete games in one day. He won 6-1 and 4-3 over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1920 - Howard Ehmke (Detroit Tigers) set an American League record when he defeated the New York Yankees 1-0 in 1 hour and 13 minutes.

1970 - The New York Yankees retire Casey Stengel's #37.

1972 - The New York Yankees signed a 30-year lease with the City of New York which called for Yankee Stadium to be completely modernized in time for the 1976 season.

1982 - Doug DeCinces hit three home runs against the California Angels. He had hit three home runs against Minnesota five days earlier.

1992 - The "Dream Team" clinched the gold medal at the Barcelona Summer Olympics as the U.S. men's basketball team beat Croatia 117-85. The "Dream Team," considered by many to be the greatest team ever assembled, consisted of Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Christian Laettner, Karl Malone, Chris Mullin, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson, and John Stockton and was coached by Chuck Daly, P.J. Carlesimo, Mike Krzyzewski and Lenny Wilkens.

1998 - Paul Molitor (Minnesota Twins) stole his 500th career base.

2002 - Major league baseball players and owners agreed to a $100,000 increase in baseball's minimum salary. The minimum was set at $300,000 starting in 2003.

2004 - Quarterback John Elway is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

2005 - It was announced that Wayne Gretzky would be the next head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes.

2008 - The Summer Olympic Games opened in Beijing, China.

2021 - The U.S. women's basketball team won its record seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal with a 90-75 win over Japan in the championship game of the Summer Games in Tokyo; Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi each collect their fifth Olympic gold medals of their careers.

Just watched Teddy's performance vs NW as a freshman. It was very good, and so was that of the whole OL. I sure hope Teddy can play a lot of snaps this year.