ESPN’s Big 12 Blog is reporting the compensation doled out the Big 12 Athletic Directors. You might note that Tom Osborne is at the bottom of this pile. By design, I might add. He could make more if more was needed, but more isn’t needed. And few things say “NEBRASKA” louder than that. T.O. also…
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Thursday, May 22 was a dark day for Husker hoop fans. This was the day the Big 12 conference denied entrance to the highly touted basketball recruit, Roburt Sallie. Although the day will be remembered, the saga started in the fall of 2006. Roburt Sallie committed to Washington out of high school but failed to meet…
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T.O.’s time in Congress may pay off for Nebraska’s student athletes. According to Omaha World Herald, T.O. is lobbying the Big 12 Conference for more money for scholarship athletes to meet the true “cost of attendance” of going to school beyond tuition, books, room and board. “When you see facilities expenditures rise 100-fold and coaching…
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Three weeks ago I surfed the net to get some insight on the pending search for the next Husker coach. My search took me to an LSU message board. At first I was seen as an outsider, but soon I was welcomed as a college football fan. I have now developed long distance friendships with…
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Notre Dame Leads the Way to Armageddon
Huskerzone.com reader Keith Balmer spit out a couple thousand words on the subject of college football expansion on his blog. While I disagree on a couple of points, we find common ground on our dislike of Notre Dame, and acceptance of the power college football has – second behind the NFL. College football is second…
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