I’ve been saying this for a few years now.

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good choice by nbc

Didn't realize he was the Macho Man's real-life brother. RIP

Wanted to talk a bit about the inside linebacker room at Nebraska. The depth there is something to keep an eye on.

Screwing Huskers wbb

That's an interesting take. In the NFL a lot of HC's do call plays etc. I wonder if this BS or in the NFL a specialist as HC is more important than in college. Saban seems like a CEO type and he's alright.

Down here hunkered down in Dallas metro. This ice storm is nuts. We left for Omaha on Sunday and made it 40 miles. Lucky to find a Holiday Inn just outside of the. Worst ice storm I've been in. 18 roll over's in Ft Worth today and more here in Dallas. Worse coming. We were down here moving my stepson.

Nebraska (10-12 overall, 3-8 in Big Ten) is at Illinois (15-6, 6-4) tonight looking to snap a three-game losing streak. The Fighting Illinois, however, want to keep their good vibes rolling — they're 6-1 in their last seven games and just beat Wisconsin, 61-51, on Saturday.

Last time out between these two on Jan. 10 in Lincoln, Illinois won by 26 points.

Tipoff is slated for 6 p.m. and the game will be televised on BTN with Dave Revsine and Stephen Bardo on the call.

The Nebraska baseball team announced its captains Friday afternoon ahead of the team’s season opener on Feb. 17 at San Diego.

Griffin Everett, Shay Schanaman, Kyle Perry, Efry Cervantes and Brice Matthews were selected as the five captains. Nothing surprising from the list as four of the five are fifth year players with Matthews the lone junior.

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For this episode we focused on wrapping up the 2023 recruiting class with a peek ahead to the 2024 cycle with questions from our Insider's Board. Some of the topics we covered in the bonus episode were:

>> Gut reaction to the recruiting class as a whole

>> Biggest recruiting win for Nebraska in the class?

>> Biggest recruiting loss/miss for Nebraska in the signing class?

>> Assigning a letter grade to Matt Rhule & his staff for how they did.

>> Are there any holes in the class? Positions they could potentially continue to add via the portal or otherwise?

>> Strongest position group haul in the class?

>> Greg's personal favorite recruit you got to cover in the cycle.

>> Insider's Board Q&A.

Check out the full video podcast the video above or by heading to the Inside Nebraska YouTube page. The podcast is also available in audio form on the Inside Nebraska Podcast at Apple Podcasts and on Spotify.

This is something I was thinking about last night and this afternoon after hearing Matt Rhule say at his presser yesterday, “Ed's doing what we’ve always done.”

All of this impressive stuff we are seeing from Rhule and the coaching staff? The work ethic, some of the new implementations in the program, etc?

They’re pretty much running the Baylor playbook.

I went back and read @GeoffExstrom's long form feature from December – the inside look at how Rhule built his program at Baylor (LINK) – and we’re seeing a lot of the same things. That story was published almost two full months ago, so it's interesting to take a look back and see that a lot of it has unfolded the same way.

– Rhule being a CEO type who oversees everything in the program and intervenes when he deems it necessary

– Top objectives are to create a family atmosphere within the program and a player-led organization (like Terrance Knighton said on Monday)

– Creating events to help teammates bond with each other (literally bonding over food)

– Prioritization of Texas and building relationships there

– Even the ping pong tables for God’s sake!

There’s more in there, but that’s a handful. It’s not overall surprising, I guess, but is worth taking note of – especially because it's predictive of what’s about to come.

Having 103 scholarship players right now? On top of some of the things Rhule talked about yesterday (like there being some “rules” they can take advantage of to get that number down to 85), I don’t think anyone should truly be worried about that roster getting cut down after reading this excerpt from Geoff's story:

Rhule was a different beast on the field. He wasn’t afraid to coach players hard, but that first offseason in Waco was rough. Rhule never ran anyone out from the previous roster, but he made the winter workouts brutal enough to weed out those who couldn’t cut it.

“He’ll rip you in front of the team. He’ll put you through the ringer. He’s ripping coaches. He’s holding everyone to that same standard and he’s letting you know,” Blackmar said. “Then, it’s like you can sit down and have a regular conversation with him 10 minutes later and it’s like it never happened. He’ll even tell you, ‘Well, I said this because I want to invoke this type of reaction, or I said this because I want the guy behind you who’s three years younger than you to take notice.’”

Accidental ??? shot to the nads!!!!

UPDATED 2/5/23: thanks for the help and advice. I happened to get her in a derm clinic when it just closed, great people. Doc instantly said staph infection and urgent care was dumb, that the antifungal was making it worse even if it started as ringworm. Arm is finally healing, she was cleared to wrestle this weekend got third at districts, now time for regionals.



One kid is a wrestler and has what appears to be bad ringworm on her forearm. Doc says ringworm but it's gotten worse. We have antifungal cream, pills and tea tree oil.

Any other recommendations?

District tourney starts Friday.

I'd like to upload a pic of the fungi but too dumb to know how.

TIA

Iowa sucked
Iowa sucks
Iowa will suck

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I noticed 24/7 sports has their list of rankings of teams who did the best to worst in the transfer portal.

Will rivals do the same thing or is it out there and I just don’t know where to find it?

NU is 16th highest rated transfer portal class but they only list 3 4 stars or above in that transfer portal where I think originally rivals it’s five or six 4-5 stars now

DJ Vokolek, Travis’ dad, spent last season on the Huskers’ staff as a defensive analyst. Before that, he was at Northern Iowa.

Now he’s the Salukis’ DC:

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...is there a function within this forum in which you can get contact info for another poster? Not as creepy as it might sound...

Thinking of all the heartbreaking losses that Nebraska's endured over the last 20 years or so and this one doesn't get discussed enough.

LeKevin Smith with the interception deep in Nebraska territory - only has to fall down and the game's over - instead he gets crushed by an o-lineman and fumbles the ball - Tech recovers.

Two plays later - Tech scores on a 4th down touchdown pass - IIRC Nebraska's DB - I want to say Blake Tiedtke was in position to make a play on the ball but had it wrestled away by the Tech receiver.

A shame that Callahan let Cosgrove derail his tenure at Nebraska. Things were absolutely trending in a positive direction.

Former five-star prospect.
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Getting the start tonight… nebrasketball

Hiring Greg Austin to coach their line.

Interesting that of the 23 players from Nebraska currently on NFL rosters, 12 of them (over half) were not drafted (FA).

To me, that's an indication of underdevelopment of players, when they don't look good enough to draft out of college but are good enough when they get the proper coaching and attention.

A Matt Rhule interview with someone that the fans love, Sean Callahan and Steve Sipple.

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