You may have heard that Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe decided to skip Nebraska’s North Division-clinching victory over Colorado in Lincoln last Friday. Here’s the deal courtesy of Tulsa World: “I’ve been involved in major institutions and had some major feedback. I’ve suspended players and coaches, fined coaches,” Beebe told CBSSports.com. “But I’ve never had…
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Old School Matchup Comes To A Conclusion
Saturday’s meeting between Kansas University and Nebraska — 6 p.m. on pay-per-view — will mark the end of the nation’s longest uninterrupted college football series, as the Jayhawks and Cornhuskers will meet on the gridiron for the 105th consecutive season. The series began in 1906 and has been played every season since but will not…
News and Notes
Links to other Husker news around the web from the last week. 2010 Nebraska Football Schedule (Huskerzone.com) Tom Shatel: View of the Big Ten from here is great (Omaha World Herald) Puerto Rico Trip Highlight of NU Men’s Basketball Schedule (HuskerExtra) Ndamukong Suh Wires Up 2010 Huskers with 123 iPads (SBNation.com) QB tops list of…
Big 10 Bound
Citing an unnamed executive at a Big 12 school, the Omaha World Herald is reporting that Nebraska is expected to announce their joining of the Big 10 as early as Friday. An executive at a Big 12 school relayed to The World-Herald on Tuesday that he expects Nebraska to become a member of the Big…
Nebraksa Is Old School
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…
Roburt Sallie Denied Entrance
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…
T.O. Wants To Give Student Athletes A Raise
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…
On A Roll Of Plenty
Nebraska has placed a whopping total of 298 student athletes on the Big 12 Commissioner’s Fall Honor Roll. Of those 298, 114 are native Nebraskans, so there is some definite homestate flavor involved. Thirty-Nine football players were on that list, which included LaTravis Washington. This name stuck out to me a little bit. I remember him…
BCS Championship
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…
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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