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10 hours ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

Hope for Nebrasketball is palpable. Perhaps NU will surpass UK, even. What a wonderful world, not unlike UK football surpassing NU football in the Mark Stoops' era. Who would have guessed that one ahead of time... not too many. Wow.

gott in himmel....it's the plot for Freaky Friday.....

Kentucky's a pressure cooker from hell. You'd have to be a glutton for punishment to take that gig. With the NIL basically turning college onto a farm system for the pros, the name on the front of the jersey is going to mean increasingly less. The programs that firgure out how to raise money and spend it efficiently are going to be the new bluebloods...

kentucky to arkansas? that's a pretty significant field demotion...

guess calimari's tired of being pressure cooked

musical chairs now in full motion

26 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

 

It was always about the dollar and never about the kids. Quite a shame that some of the largest sporting events in the world are now on cable-only platforms. Soon to be streaming-only.

if a friend of mine is accurate, this is the first tournament where not one single minute of the tourney was freely accessible. npt one minute. he then had to revise that calculation to reflect the "free" 10 minute blocks cbs allowed for the "preview" before you were forced to choose between about a dozen paid services.

they're basically retailing broadcast licenses to multiple platforms online. there's gonna have to be a reckoning soon on collegiate athletics over a wide range of topics. the ncaa is behaving like an energy company after a cocaine bender. 

this one's for you, fever...:) 

I love Doc, but I really want to set that Rock Chalk shirt on fire.

Portal Combat is brilliant. I can almost hear the stupid VA after yet another big name hits the portal: "fatality!"

After further consult with my non-existent peeps, I'm opting not to adopt yet another team where I root for the laundry, not the players. One's more than enough for me. 

It's time to just read amateurism as a concept its last rites. 

To (incredibly loosely) paraphrase Richard Nixon: "We're all NILers now..."

6 hours ago, basketballjones said:

Can I just say how blown away (in a good way) that at a P5, men's athletics program - that one of our culture values is "Be Kind"? 

 

Call me soft, I really don't care. 

my first impression as well. i think it's wonderful. besides, they only have to do it for a few years before the reality of American life will turn them al into selfish a-holes anyway. 

good lord, it really is going to be like being an A's fan ever year. "Who we trading this season? Oh, the entire team? Lovely. Welcome all 42 new rookies!"

11 minutes ago, Silverbacked1 said:

As long as we don’t lose any of the HHC faithful to the portal I will be happy. I would miss any of you.

I'm sorry, Sliver. I'd just like to announce that I'm taking my lack of talent to.......um, my living room. I'd like to thank my bedroom for the last two years of support and love. I really felt like a welcome part of this house, but, sadly, my future opportunities lie elsewhere towards the front of the house. 

(feel free to cut and paste anywhere someone is transferring. I don't believe in copyright). 

10 hours ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

Reminiscent of NEEbrasketball in 1996.... also finished the regular portion of the Big 8 regular-and-conf.-tourney at 16-14, then rattled off 5 wins in-a-row, often on the road in hostile environments to snag the National Invitational Tournament championship. Only wished that particular NU team had figured it out in the conference tourney like N.C. St. -- they could have done some special stuff way back when. They had a bunch of ballers on the Husker roster. GBR Always.

 

That;s the notorious rebellion team of Boone and Strickland. They had high expectations coming inbto that season and were expected to be the team that got that first win after the 91 team failed in that mission. 

Once Nee and the players got their lines of communication un-screwed, the team most of us expected finally showed up. 96 was mmy last year in the Army and Ihad just gotten back from an extra long tour in Korea and was looking forward to decompressing with Nee-ball for that season. They finished well, that's for sure. 

Louisville no longer the House that Crum Built, eh? 

The Times They are a-Changin' (Back)

3 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Heck no you’re not the only

one— I’m so dang tired of the “Big 10 flops in March” narrative.  I hope we end up with a Purdue/Illinois championship.

me too, and that's where I can take out my personal grievances against the Illini for those games....

Am I the only one still rooting for our conference mates? is that a thing here? 

A's fans in baseball have had to deal with this for years, and you've had a split in their fandom as a result. One chunk of the old fan base has a saying: "you root for the laundry"--meaning the name on the uniform is your true object of allegiance. The other half, of course, begs to differ, pointing out that "laundry doesn't break base stealing records, or hit 40 plus homers in a season, or or or....".

I think what you're seeing is essentialyl the same dynamic that began years ago in so-called "small market" professional sports franchises. Likelywith the same result. 

this whole thing feels like a choo choo barely hanging on the tracks...the NCAA has to be wishing it had an anti-trust exemption about now....

Edit: i acutally thought they were exempt....but that explains why NIL exists....so of course now there are people trying to get an exemption like that passed so they can put the NIL genie back in the bottle again...

going to be an interesting couple of years ahead to see if some sort of peace can be had between two deeply incompatible interests...

anyhoo, sorry for veering off with this comment....just wanted to fix my initial screw up...

hopefully this can be a decent standalone thread somewhere appropriate...

32 minutes ago, millerhusker said:

Tony Perkins entered the portal. Big loss for Iowa. 

But a huge gain for the Bates Motel!!

Have Nebraska's congressional delegation lobby for legislation that grants all Japanese nationals in college atheltics an added year of eleigibility as a gesture of goodwill and friendship. That's about the only idea I got left....

18 minutes ago, jayschool said:

We should require our volleyball players to read "Lysistrata" regarding how to deal with where their boyfriends play hoops.

Or, if they prefer more contemporary prose, they could always dig into Chiraq from Spike Lee. 

Still one of the great Greek plays of all time. 'No nookie for you, Testicles!"

(checks calendar....nope, still a few days off....)

You don't turn down a talent like Pike. Pike in this team this year? That's a likely Sweet 16 team. 

this is one i didn't want to happen....bummer....

55 minutes ago, millerhusker said:

It’s a guarantee that whoever replaces KT will be longer, stronger and more athletic. If CJ does indeed leave, the same could be said about that spot. It is imperative that we keep a certain level of basketball skill and IQ for Fred’s offense to work the way it should. Perusing other message boards this year, our offense was the envy of most big ten fan bases. 

Our offense still scored 80 some points against a pretty stout A&M team. Offense wasn't our problem. Getting the homing beacon off our opponents every shot was. 

solid hire by Michigan this time around....