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Reliable, Trustworthy Reporting, Capturing The Heartbeat Of Our Community
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Just disappointing. It’s really the only way to describe Friday’s game, or the past two games, or really the entire season. Sure, at times we were excited and hopeful of the direction throughout the season. Towards the beginning it certainly seemed like a reality that progress was being made. That this team could live up to the “Rhule Year 3” benchmark. But after the last two games against Penn State and Iowa, two blowout losses, you could say the season fizzled out. At least Emmett Johnson is exciting to watch. This is a troubling trend under...
I remember a little over two years ago, on a Thursday night, Nebraska traveled to play Minnesota for the first game of the Matt Rhule era. The previous year, the defense was poor. It marginally improved when interim coach Mickey Joseph moved Bill Busch into the defensive coordinator position for the remainder of the 2022 season. However, to start 2023, the Blackshirts held Minnesota to 55 yards rushing in a 10-13 loss. We didn’t know what to expect in Rhule’s first game, but we almost instantly saw a renewed physicality and toughness to the... Full story
It’s starting to feel like each and every week is a barometer on the progress of the program. A type of must-win feeling lingers with each game. Win, and progress is shown as expected. Lose, and questions brew. This could not be more true than the upcoming road game against Penn State. The 4-6 Nittany Lions are currently favored by around 10 points. Even with Nebraska having the better record, you could argue the record of each team makes this tougher on Nebraska. At 7-3, Nebraska has already clinched a bowl game, but is also out of the p...
I hope on Wednesday, when this week’s edition hits the mail, this column has aged well. Matt Rhule isn’t going to Penn State. Now, he may get a call from the Nittany Lions’ athletic director, but I do not see him fleeing Lincoln for the likes of State College. Sure, he’s a former walk-on linebacker and a PSU grad, but the grass isn’t always greener near the Rothrock State Forest. Ask the current Central Florida coach how well it works to return as head coach of your alma mater. I listened...
That makes two games in a row where Nebraska jumps out to a lead, struggles in the middle of the game, only to pull it out in the end. Maybe this team is starting to find an identity. While it is not a perfect identity to have, it is one that shows progress, and one that is the opposite of what it has been for the past few years. Finally, Nebraska has a team that doesn’t quit, is scrappy, and finds ways to win. We may be finally at the point where we don’t have to take the good loss, oh-so-close stance. We can look for improvement in a win...
It's almost like a bad movie that gives the story away in the previews with no plot twist. The whole offseason and the first three weeks of the season there were two main questions with this team. Are they talented and deep enough at running back and at defensive line? The result of this game shouldn't really be shocking to anyone, no matter how hard we willed ourselves to believe certain things would get better. Now that sounds a bit harsh to these position groups, and it wasn't just them that...
Get comfortable being uncomfortable. That advice from Gov. Jim Pillen stuck with four Summerland Public School seniors who took part in the first-ever Governor's Youth Summit, held Aug. 14 in Kearney. Shaylie Kester, Clair Krysl, Caydence Schumacher and Leah Wiese, along with Superintendent Molly Aschoff, joined more than 300 high school and college students for the day-long event, designed to connect Nebraska's youth with agricultural and business leaders. Schumacher said the summit gave...
Nebraska Athletic Director Troy Dannen said in a press conference that roughly 66,000 tickets have been sold for Thursday night’s matchup. Of those, only 6,000 were sold from Kentucky and Ohio regions. That was on Aug. 8, about three weeks prior to kickoff. I’m sure a few more tickets have been sold since then as fans plan to make the drive to Kansas City. Yes, it should feel like a home game, a potentially sold-out crowd, when Nebraska takes on Cincinnati for the season opener at Arrowhead Stadium. This will be Nebraska’s first game at Arrow...
“But we were so close”…. Just a phrase that we, as Nebraska fans have become all too familiar with as of late. But what if …What if we could change that? What if we change the outcome of at least one play, to change the outcome of one game; what impact would that have on today, on the legacy of the program, coaches, and players? There are too many options, especially recently, where the outcome of one play could have a drastic impact on a game and a season. But we need to look with a wider scope than affecting the outcome of a recent losing...
It may seem cliché but one of the funniest Halloween costumes is the blind referee. If you’re a sports fan, the referee scenario undoubtedly has run through your mind. I’m not into conspiracy theories but ... At least six calls were missed during Saturday’s Nebraska-Ohio State football game, calls that could have given Nebraska a signature road win or handed Ohio State an even bigger margin of victory. Two of the most notable: the spot on Emmet Johnson’s first-down run that turned into a third...
An open letter to Colorado. It's fitting that I am writing this on the 22nd Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, the day that hatred manifested itself openly on American soil. I am writing about a now-past football game and the comments made by the showboat coach of the University of Colorado and his son the star quarterback who said to more than one media outlet "We don't like Nebraska." That comment is somewhat toned down from Saturday evening reports that he uttered that he "hated" Neb...
The play of the Husker football team won’t be the only thing under scrutiny during Saturday’s Red-White scrimmage at Memorial Stadium. A new and improved Herbie Husker is set to take the field. Herbie’s makeover includes ditching the jeans and polo shirt and donning overalls from the mascot’s 1970s debut. Only this time, Herbie has obviously embraced a Keto diet, his features more refined than rugged. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed Husker fan still carries an ear of corn in his left hip pocket, al...
My turn to weigh on the new Husker hire. I’m no football guru, but I’ve been around the program long enough and have plenty of connections with former players (and we talk football a lot), so I feel I have a solid understanding of what it means to be all “N” and lead one of the most storied brands in college football. Initially, Saturday morning, as the news broke that Matt Rhule would be taking over the program, I wasn’t happy. I felt a sense of betrayal because deep down, I hoped interim c...
After a 76-day search on the coaching trail, Nebraska officially introduced its 31st head coach, Monday. Matt Rhule, a former walk-on Big 10 linebacker at Penn State and former coach in collegiate and NFL ranks, will make $72 million for an eight-year stint. Nebraska Athletic Director Trev Alberts told the crowd assembled in the Hawks Championship Center, he interacted with 13 coaches throughout the search process. "Candidate 1A, for me and the University of Nebraska, was always Matt Rhule,"...
