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Drew this up for my own board, but thought you guys might be interested in this. This is a breakdown of Nebraska's major sports in our first year in the Big Ten. Only a couple (men's basketball and women's soccer) were very bad. Others weren't too bad at all, and we won one championship: Women's Volleyball.

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Overall winning percentage was .563, so over .500, which isn't terrible. It's not great, so we have much room to improve.

NOTE - I didn't include several minor sports like track, bowling or swimming. They're not as popular and/or they're harder to quantify. We did well in some and not so well in others.
 
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knapplc;2161013; said:
we won one championship: Women's Volleyball.
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Be it that UNL Woman's V-ball was strong before, do you anticipate the B1G footprint helping in any way/shape/form of continuing the trend or even improving the team?

FWIW, I believe your track team recently performed very well at the conference meet.
 
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We did well in track and we won the women's gymnastics Big Ten championship, but since those aren't "flagship" sports and/or they're hard to quantify with wins/losses, I left them out for simplicity's sake. Same with bowling, which we're perennially good at.


Regarding volleyball - I think the Big Ten is easily the second-strongest conference out there after the Pac-12, and may even be the strongest conference in the nation (depending on who you ask). I don't know that it will help Nebraska recruit better because we have always recruited very well, but it certainly doesn't hurt to be in this conference. Having Coach Cook running the show and having the facilities we have, which are either the best in the nation or certainly in the top three, doesn't hurt either.

We're building a new arena in Lincoln for the basketball teams. Once that's completed we'll be renovating the Bob Devaney Center (former basketball arena) to be used exclusively for volleyball and wrestling. It will be a 7,000-seat arena with the capability of seating 10,000 for special events, and they're anticipating selling it out every match.
 
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knapplc;2161032; said:
We did well in track and we won the women's gymnastics Big Ten championship, but since those aren't "flagship" sports and/or they're hard to quantify with wins/losses, I left them out for simplicity's sake. Same with bowling, which we're perennially good at.


Regarding volleyball - I think the Big Ten is easily the second-strongest conference out there after the Pac-12, and may even be the strongest conference in the nation (depending on who you ask). I don't know that it will help Nebraska recruit better because we have always recruited very well, but it certainly doesn't hurt to be in this conference. Having Coach Cook running the show and having the facilities we have, which are either the best in the nation or certainly in the top three, doesn't hurt either.

We're building a new arena in Lincoln for the basketball teams. Once that's completed we'll be renovating the Bob Devaney Center (former basketball arena) to be used exclusively for volleyball and wrestling. It will be a 7,000-seat arena with the capability of seating 10,000 for special events, and they're anticipating selling it out every match.
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I LOL'd :biggrin:

Awesome! Again, welcome to the B1G.
 
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SI's story on Rex Burkhead

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...huskers-rex-burkhead/index.html?sct=cf_t11_a0

Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead can't really tell the difference. When asked to distinguish between the Big 12 defenses he used to face and the Big Ten units he battled for the first time last season, Burkhead gives the kind of answer many have come to expect from the Cornhuskers' soft-spoken workhorse.

"To me, it's really just lining up and playing football," Burkhead said...
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Eric Martin is a senior defensive end for Nebraska?s football team. And by God? he wants his checks.


Eric Martin@EMar46
I have a quarter tank of gas left, how am I suppose to get to practice and class WE NEED OUR CHECKS!!



Eric Martin@EMar46
Drinkin water till you get full WE NEED OUR CHECKS!!

Eric Martin@EMar46
Coaches wondering why everyones body fat going down WE NEED OUR CHECKS!!


Eric Martin@EMar46
Selling old games back to the game store for a dinner WE NEED OUR CHECKS!!

LMAO get the kids their checks.


Eric Martin@EMar46
#3words WE NEED CHECKS


Kids pretty funny...and enthusiastic.


http://www.sportsgrid.com/ncaa-football/eric-martin-wants-his-checks/
 
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Helium shortage threatens time-honored Nebraska tradition.

Nebraska's 70-year tradition of releasing red balloons into the air after the first touchdown of every game has been put on hold because of a helium shortage.

The Lincoln Journal Star is reporting that Nebraska will release a paltry 2,000-2,500 balloons -- half of the normal haul -- into the air after the first touchdown the Big Red scores against Southern Miss in the season opener on Sept. 1, but after that fleeting moment, the tradition that has been around since the 1940s will be no more.


Apparently, Lincoln has become one of the hardest hit areas for helium reserves. According to the story, grocery stores and party supply companies have stopped filling helium balloons, which has caused an increase in crying children all over the state.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...ored-nebraska-tradition-152527242--ncaaf.html

This kinda sucks.
 
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This helium thing is actually a pretty big problem that we've been very irresponsible about.

Nebraska will survive without the balloons - that's no big deal. The bigger issue is the fact that helium is a non-renewable resource and we're pissing it away:



Why the world is running out of helium

It is the second-lightest element in the Universe, has the lowest boiling-point of any gas and is commonly used through the world to inflate party balloons. But helium is also a non-renewable resource and the world's reserves of the precious gas are about to run out, a shortage that is likely to have far-reaching repercussions.

Scientists have warned that the world's most commonly used inert gas is being depleted at an astonishing rate because of a law passed in the United States in 1996 which has effectively made helium too cheap to recycle.

The law stipulates that the US National Helium Reserve, which is kept in a disused underground gas field near Amarillo, Texas ? by far the biggest store of helium in the world ? must all be sold off by 2015, irrespective of the market price.

The experts warn that the world could run out of helium within 25 to 30 years, potentially spelling disaster for hospitals, whose MRI scanners are cooled by the gas in liquid form, and anti-terrorist authorities who rely on helium for their radiation monitors, as well as the millions of children who love to watch their helium-filled balloons float into the sky.
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