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Nebraska Cornhuskers (corn)

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Nebraska still working through possibilities for adding 12th game

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Nebraska did not play its scheduled opener against Akron on Saturday night, and the game was not played Sunday, either, after Nebraska offered to house the Zips across multiple dorm facilities on Saturday night.

Huskers AD Bill Moos told reporters Wednesday he would still like to get his team a 12th game, and is still working through the possibility of re-scheduling Akron for Dec. 1. Nebraska is off Oct. 27 and Akron isn’t. Akron is off Sept. 29 and Nebraska isn’t.

But neither team has a scheduled game for Dec. 1, and Moos said that remains the likeliest option at this point.

“I did leave with (Akron athletic director) Larry Williams the options of a 12th game. I thought we had very good dialogue. We kind of left it verbally that we’d like to play the game,” Moos said, via HuskerOnline. “We don’t have a common bye so it’d have to be at the end of the year. If both schools agreed to it, we could play on the Saturday after the end of the regular season barring if either team was in their conference championship game.

“That’s a loose end out there. That’s an option.”

Moos also said Nebraska could schedule an FCS opponent for Oct. 27, however, that would require lining up another team that happens to have a bye week and is willing to take a pummeling on short notice.

There is still the money factor to be worked out as well. For now, Nebraska is holding onto both the gate it made from selling 85,000 or so tickets and the $1.17 million it promised Akron. A no-refund policy is printed on each ticket, so Nebraska’s technically within its rights there, though Moos said it would honor the sold tickets should a 12th game be added. As for the guarantee, it’s not due until March. Moos said Nebraska will definitely cover Akron’s travel expenses, but it remains up in the air as to whether Nebraska would pay the rest for a game that didn’t happen. Akron, obviously, wants the money it was banking on. Nebraska, obviously, doesn’t want to pay for something that never happened.

Entire article: https://collegefootballtalk.nbcspor...g-through-possibilities-for-adding-12th-game/

Re: But neither team has a scheduled game for Dec. 1, and Moos said that remains the likeliest option at this point.

Apparently Corn isn't planning on being in the B1G Championship Game........:lol:
 
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Seems extreme. I think this one can be blamed mostly on the kids making boneheaded mistakes.

Frost mismanaged clock some but that TD would've still happened. His biggest failure was having just 1 scholarship QB left. How do you let that happen ? And how do you decide it's a good idea to use him as a ground weapon in that scenario ?
 
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Seems extreme. I think this one can be blamed mostly on the kids making boneheaded mistakes.

Frost mismanaged clock some but that TD would've still happened. His biggest failure was having just 1 scholarship QB left. How do you let that happen ? And how do you decide it's a good idea to use him as a ground weapon in that scenario ?

After Riley left, so did the first of 2 of his scholarship QBs. Then, after Gebbia didn't win the job in the fall, he left to go to Corvalis.

The play call, that was dumb, especially when Ozigbo was getting about 5 yards a carry, and Belll was averaging 8 a carry.
 
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The guys on The First Team (ESPNU Radio, SIRIUSXM) were clowning the decision for Tristian Gebbia to transfer a couple weeks ago.
I can't blame them at all. Guy could have played a couple of games, left after 3 or 4, still redshirted, and played elsewhere if he so chose.
 
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