If first 6 offer turn it down!! Not a chance.

Went a bit of a different route for this week’s Behind Enemy Lines. Focused less on the game and more on the big picture of Jim Leonhard, the Badgers’ own coach search and their up and down season.

If Malachi Coleman signs with the Huskers, @Clint Cosgrove argues that the Huskers will have notched the biggest recruiting win in the Big Ten for the 2023 cycle:


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Playing hardball🤞
C’mon Trev—ABC

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“Tough game. Certainly a tough half,” Fred Hoiberg said to the Huskers Radio Network after the game. “We showed a lot of grit, a lot of fight in that first half. We were all over the place. We were first to the floor. Then in the second half they flipped the script. They were the first to the floor. They made first contact on every shot.”

Nebraska falls 70-50 to St. John's on the road Thursday night:

The coaching search has rightfully dominated every conversation, but there is still a real-life football game to be played Saturday.

Here are our essential reads from the week with links to five stories on the search and five stories on the game:

Nebraska released its 56-game schedule that features 23 conference games today. The Huskers will look to build on a 41-16 record – their best mark since 2014 – and their first Big Ten championship last spring.

Is it just me or have Busch and Joseph put together a sneakily decent class given our W/L record. Hire a coach and nab a few guys late or in the portal and this year might not be a lost year.

My message had nothing to do with guns, open boarders etc. Since many of you only want to argue about things that have nothing to do with what I've posted I'm removing myself from this.

Argue away.
Mods, if you prefer please delete this thread. I wanted to but couldn't find that option.

For those of you who did express compassion, thank you.

Dallas Goedert put on IR for at least 4 weeks.

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Big one tonight here at D.J. Sokol Arena. It's not a bad venue, but not even close to PBA. Feels like a renovated high school gym a little bit.

Robert Clary, 96. Had no idea he spent 31 months in Auschwitz when he was a kid…..

Mickey Joseph just confirmed the news moments ago at his press conference:

There has been some talk of Texas special assistant Gary Patterson being in contention for the Nebraska job. He tweeted this out this morning:

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For those that don't twit the quote is:

"For all that care one way or another I am committed to Sark and this staff to finish the journey! So please don’t believe any reports otherwise!"

Throwback Thursday time! Hit the link to check out Nebraska and Wisconsin's starters as recruits.

Hey everyone, I’m back for another live chat to answer all your burning questions about Nebraska volleyball, wrestling and women’s basketball! I’ll be back from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., but in the meantime feel free to put your questions below!

@Zack_Carp

I think it makes sense that, should Rhule want our job, he then negotiates a lumpsum settlement of his Carolina buyout because we will be paying him less than $10M a year.

• Carolina doesn’t want to be on the hook for $40M over 4 years
• Rhule wants to make incremental money for working at a new job
• Nebraska wants their coach to have a financial stake in the job

Once Rhule is sure he has found a job he would rather do than just sit and collect money, and he knows what it will pay, he goes to Carolina and says he is willing to take a settlement for a premium over the potential offset remainder. His arguments are he won’t take the job if he does get paid more than he gets paid for sitting around and he can tell Carolina it takes them off the hook should he get fired or quit.

I would think Carolina would be glad to get him working and take a $10M/year risk off the table.

Let’s say we pay $5.5M a year for 4 years – maybe Carolina settles the $40M obligation for $25M, and Rhule potential nets $7M incremental over 4 years for taking the Nebraska job. Carolina locks in a potential $15M savings. Nebraska is happy because Rhule knows his $5.5M from Nebraska, to the extent it is not fully guaranteed, goes away if he is fired or quits – he has a real economic stake in our comp package.

This negotiation would likely be taking place now if the Rhule rumors are correct, because I don’t thin Rhule would be willing to cut the $40M down unless and until he was sure he wanted to do the job and knew what it paid.

Nebraska would not be able to announce a hire right away because then Rhule loses much of his leverage to secure a premium over the potential Carolina remainder. In fact, he may not even agree to take the job until that settlement is done. The good news is that it almost certainly will get done as everybody is better off if it does.

Could the reason this coaching search is so quiet be because Trev has had this wrapped up for several weeks now? We literally haven’t heard any reliable sources come out with anything concrete about anyone, and not one flight tracker sighting yet. Maybe Trev’s number one choice was Urban Meyer all along? Think about it, Urban didn’t need to fly a private jet to Lincoln because he already was here for game day, and nobody was posting Urban sightings in Lincoln because he was already here. Trev fired Frost right before Urban was coming to town because he knew he could give Urban the ultimate tour of everything that Nebraska could offer, this could be done all out in the open without to much speculation from the media about offering him the job. I’m sure Trev has been vetting other coaches waiting for an answer from Urban but maybe Urban finally got back to Trev and last Thursday was the meeting with the regents to finalize everything. I’m not saying any of this as a fact but just something to ponder.

Mickey Joseph, Jim Leonhard and some Sunday thoughts: