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Nebraska Cornhuskers (corn)

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Coqui;1776964; said:
We need to win out, and Nebraska will need to get around the SEC hurdle if we are to play them in the NC. Right now, I think that's the only problem right there.
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Yep, I tend to agree. I'd like to think that IF we can run the table that an undefeated Nebraska with wins over Texas and Oklahoma (in the CCG) would jump over Boise and TCU. But there's no way we'll jump an undefeated SEC team, so Florida or someone else has to step up and beat 'Bama. If that happens and we both take care of business and run the table, then I think the chances are reasonably good.
 
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DallasHusker;1777265; said:
Yep, I tend to agree. I'd like to think that IF we can run the table that an undefeated Nebraska with wins over Texas and Oklahoma (in the CCG) would jump over Boise and TCU. But there's no way we'll jump an undefeated SEC team, so Florida or someone else has to step up and beat 'Bama. If that happens and we both take care of business and run the table, then I think the chances are reasonably good.
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Even a 1 loss SEC might have some ESPN bias.
 
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Freshman QB that is a below average passer at this stage is not a recipe for an undefeated season in my opinion. Kid is a special talent, though.

I'd love to see them go undefeated and play us in the NC though.
 
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KingLeon;1777297; said:
Freshman QB that is a below average passer at this stage is not a recipe for an undefeated season in my opinion. Kid is a special talent, though.

I'd love to see them go undefeated and play us in the NC though.
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I guess its a good thing that they have 1,000+ rushing yards in 3 games. When you have a running attack that is that good, you can get really freaking far. Unlike GT, they can actually throw the ball a little bit, and unlike Michigan, have a defense.

BTW, Tommie Frazier wasn't that great of a passer, either. Didn't see that hurting Nebby in the 90's :-)
 
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buxfan4life;1777270; said:
Didn't see this posted anywhere. The Big 12 and Nebraska have settled on the penalty for leaving early.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5601182
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For those that don't want to give ESPN the click...

- Nebraska will be withheld $9.255 million for leaving next year, or $8.755 million if it is one of two Big XII teams to make it to a BCS game. This is negotiated down from the $19.4 million they could have owed under bylaws of the Big XII.

- Colorado will be withheld $6.863 million on its exit from the conference.

- Nebraska and Colorado will officially be Big Ten/Pac 12 members as of July 1st, 2010.

- Each Big Ten team was given $22 million in revenue last year, so Nebraska will break even in less than a year for joining the Big Ten and will reap the benefits monetarily after the first year. Savvy investment, if you ask me.
 
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Mrstickball;1777343; said:
I guess its a good thing that they have 1,000+ rushing yards in 3 games. When you have a running attack that is that good, you can get really freaking far. Unlike GT, they can actually throw the ball a little bit, and unlike Michigan, have a defense.

BTW, Tommie Frazier wasn't that great of a passer, either. Didn't see that hurting Nebby in the 90's :-)
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Yep. Huskers are in the 97th percentile for rushing so far this season. And, word is, that Martinez CAN throw reasonably well, its just not been really needed that much, just enough to keep the defense honest. He was 7 of 11 passing against Washington.

May be wishful thinking on my part, but this team is starting to remind me a bit of the '90s Huskers. Hope I'm right! :neb2:
 
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I haven't seen this posted on BP yet. One of Nebraska's assistant coaches (I guess technically he can't be considered an assistant) is 60 year old Joe Moglia. From 2001-2008, he was the CEO of TD Ameritrade, a Fortune 500 company, averaging over $14 million in compensation a year. As assistant coach, he's current making $0 million a year. And that number is not rounded to the nearest million.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...28/nebraska.asst/index.html?section=si_latest

He breaks down film. He attends practices and coaches meetings, filling legal pads with copious notes. From his hotel room, he studies the Huskers playbook until his eyes are half-mast, staying up so late that it doesn't pay to drive back to his real residence in Omaha, only to get up and return the next morning. Moglia estimates that he devotes 70 hours a week to the "job," a glorified internship that pays him a salary of $0.00. His official title: Executive advisor to the head football coach.

Prominent football programs are, of course, filled with ambitious and diligent volunteers, graduate assistants and other apparatchiks willing to pay their dues and work their way up the coaching ranks. Few of them, though, are 60-year-old grandfathers. Fewer still take a menial job after having spent most of the past decade as CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Welcome to the Nebraska version of Celebrity Apprentice. "It's a great story, it's a wild story," says Pelini. "With Joe, it shows how hard some people are willing to go after a goal."
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In 1983, he was defensive coordinator at Dartmouth, having worked the sidelines for 16 years at various Delaware high schools and small eastern colleges. ... Moglia's dilemma: should he stay in football? Or should he exchange his career for a more stable and lucrative line of work? ... After much agonizing, Moglia gave up coaching football -- "Hardest decision of my life," he says -- and entered a training program at Merrill Lynch. "It was 24 MBAs and one football coach," he says.
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But part of him wasn't being nourished. When he thought about his unlikely narrative and took inventory of his life, he realized that his happiest professional memories came in the '70s and '80s when he was coaching. "I didn't lose a second of sleep thinking about missed business opportunities, but I couldn't get the football thing out of my mind," he says. "It was like, 'How do I get back to coaching in the fastest way?'"
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There are strict NCAA rules restricting the size and scope of a coaching staff. So Nebraska officials, including Osborne, go to great lengths with semantics, downplaying Moglia's role, stressing that he is an unpaid consultant. Moglia, too, emphasizes that he has no coaching responsibilities and is "more an observer than anything else."

But ask players on both sides of the ball about "Coach Joe" and they're ready with a story. "No one told us he was a big deal in business and then word spread real fast: he was this CEO," says defensive tackle Jared Crick. "Before that, he was just a good guy who knew X's and O's."
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Nebraska to expand Memorial Stadium

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-nebraska-stadiumexpansion

Nebraska unveiled a $56 million Memorial Stadium expansion plan Friday that would boost capacity to about 90,000 people...

Osborne said the Nebraska project would be paid for by about $25 million from the athletic reserve fund, $15 million in revenue bonds and $15 million generated by the advance sale of the luxury boxes, club seats and naming rights to a 40,000-square-foot research facility that?s included in the expansion.
The project would be done before the 2013 football season.
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Love that it is funded from mostly athletic/sales and not a raise in student fees. Any idea on the purpose of the research facility?
 
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