Frank Mickadeit, sports columnist for the O.C. Register was in Omaha for the College World Series. While visiting he met Jim Preston, an Omaha land developer and owner of the B.T.C., a.k.a. Big Time Cruiser – a 45-foot long semi truck-trailer customized to travel anywhere Husker Nation travels.

Jim and crew took the Southern California journalist for a spin in the B.T.C., driving from Omaha to Lincoln and parking the vehicle in front of Gate 11 at Memorial Stadium. The crew then hoisted the red-and-white “N” flag and started BBQing burgers.

Mickadeit also managed to get a look at our facilities.

Grafted (tastefully) onto the stadium is the ultra-modern Osborne Athletic Complex, which includes a dramatic 40-foot-high water fall in the lobby, workout rooms, an indoor practice field, two weight-rooms, auditoria, film rooms, a therapy pool, trainers’ rooms, a juice bar featuring spigots for four flavors of Gatorade, a tutoring hall, athletes’ lounge, Heisman Trophy Room, a hall dedicated to its U.S.-record 233 academic all-Americans and a dining hall.

This is what I call psyching out the competition.