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Tim Miles: "Get the cheaters out of the game." https://www.omaha.com/huskers/blogs/tim-miles-hopes-ncaa-acts-to-get-cheaters-out-of/article_6d668086-f703-5617-805f-4da01949a9bb.html

Serious question. Would it be, though?

The jokes? Or the pizzas?

Hi Creighton.

Hot off the press:

Yeah it's certainly an interesting debate. And with the transfer rules changes in football it makes you wonder how that affects other collegiate sports going forward. In the real world there are non-compete clauses in very limited industries and the same could be said for the way they handle transfers in college. But I'm sure it's much more restrictive for collegiate athletes. As for marketing themselves and also being marketed by the universities who make money off of them, I hadn't put too much thought on that topic. But I think I'm leaning more towards giving individual athletes the ability to make money off of their own likeability, but I'm also okay with the university making their own money off those athletes.

We're kind of over this discussion at this point, but San Jose State finally got their first win of the season. So the last four winless FBS teams got wins in the following order: UCLA, Nebraska, and San Jose State. UTEP remains 0-8.

That's what the players want too.  And they have those options. They can play in college, play for the NBA, play in the G League, Junior Basketball Association, or play overseas in many different countries for hundreds of different teams. And if getting into the NBA is the goal, the proportion of international players getting drafter versus NCAA collegiate athletes/high school athletes is on the rise. To say these players don't have options would be a stretch.

If someone is making the argument that these Power 5 schools are making millions of dollars off of these players in exchange for an inadequate amount of compensation, then I'd love for you to come speak to my boss about them making millions off of revenue that our team generates for the company. I can either choose to continue working for the market value I signed up for, move on to something else, or start something of my own. The company's money isn't my money.

There's a bigger world out there than the Big Ten, and one of the Top 100 schools out there would be glad to have him.

Greaaaaat. The season hasn't even started and we've got our first "Fire Miles" thread. Right on schedu......oh wait. This isn't one? Well isn't that a nice change of pace!

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It appears they are only going after the people and not the organizations. I doubt the NCAA will take it much further.

It's nice to have some players on the team who respect and understand the importance of a 'blackshirt.' Ben Stille turned down a blackshirt because "he didn't believe he practiced well enough." https://www.omaha.com/huskers/blogs/husker-defense-adds-four-blackshirts-but-ben-stille-turns-his/article_f54e6781-177c-5b59-b32e-46b37c81b12f.html

And we wonder why Gebbia left...

I'm a little concerned about his height. According to Medical News Today, the average height of a women raised in the U.S. is 5'4". The kids in that photo aren't even half her height. So they must've been no more taller than 2'7". Does anybody have a recent report on the leg hair situation for Davis?

Ohio State looks beatable tonight. Wow.

More on this topic: https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/sipple/steven-m-sipple-fisher-knows-what-quit-looks-and-sounds/article_0a9caf80-c0d5-578a-ad67-f0bed9566331.html "Those kids at UCF didn't want to play," he says. "These kids (at Nebraska) want to play. It's not 100 percent where you want it on gameday. But at least they want to play. They have to do a better job of figuring out how not to lose a football game, but these kids are not shutting it down on us." "After the game in the locker room here, it's not guys who are quiet — it's guys who are frustrated and angry that they're losing," Fisher says. "It's not that dull, quiet, that 'Let's just get on the plane and go home and get through this.' It's not any of that, in my opinion."

@aphilso1 Here's what I was referring to. 9-4 was a pretty good outing for the 4 teams that made it into the tournament.

It was in jest. But the Big Ten had one of the best (if not the best; it's hard to recall without looking it up again) winning percentage in the NCAA tournament last season.

Tell that to the AP.

I don't know if you heard, but the Big Ten was "down" last year. If only there was a team from the Big Ten that could've made a deep run in the tournament to prove that notion wrong...

I don't see this impacting too much. Unless they're going to pay 50+ players that $125K salary then it's just a small dint in the bucket.

But it DID happen. I know because I was there!