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I was listening to some radio guys talk about it this week, then the pregame interviews and videos on the B1G Network referenced the same thing before the Iowa game. Are you guys ready for the Bret Bielema Coaching Tree? Bret was an assistant for Hayden Fry, Bill Snyder, and then Barry Alvarez. The first two guys are infamous in Midwestern college football trivia for their coaching trees. Biels took with him the idea of hiring young ambitious guys who have the same kind of drive that he has to be the Head Man at a school. When you count the former Biels assistants who have taken up head jobs its pretty impressive. The old photos of Bielema from his playing days and early coaching time he looked pretty normal, like a genuine good looking athletic body type guy. The current good looking assistants, Barry Lunney Jr. (who coached against Bielema as an assistant at UTSA) and Ryan Walters on the defense look like they will be head coaches themselves someday. The defense has looked especially good in the Illini's fast start to the season.

He is not done knocking people out.

The target audience for the show doesn't subscribe to cable and tune in like in previous generations. Having a cable tv show aimed at young people, I have a hard time coming up with a valid metaphor. Only old people who want their social values reflected back at them make time for daily shows.

It looks like the resident baby boomers and gen-xers are having a time with this news. Daily viewers for any channel other than Fox News are flatlining. The medium of the daily cable show is a relic The sense of humor of John Stewart doesn't adapt to todays social media. That old show isn't coming back. The audience isn't there.

Break them up!!!!

Nebraska has a group of donors from the business community in Omaha and Lincoln that dwarfs the donor base for Iowa or Iowa State. They just have more guys cutting big checks. After basically 20 years of futility the donations keep coming in.

I can't believe this guy wasn't a big success

Okay guys, hear me out.... ..... would it be crazy if Nebraska plays really well today? Like their best game and complete performance from every position group? What if Scott Frost was literally the one thing holding this team back. What if they just fixed Nebraska football by firing Scott Frost last week?

I always thought those seats at below field level at Memorial Stadium were weird. Like what are those people doing down there?

Trev Alberts and Chris Klieman have known each other since middle school in Cedar Falls Waterloo Iowa. This fact is all the rage in Nebraska right now.

Props for the fans for sticking around in the rain for this game.

It might rain 2nd half.

I listen to some Husker fans on the local sports talk radio and the defense doesn't finish plays or play to the end or even bother to pretend to run fast.

Pat Fitzgerald is a solid coach who gets his players motivated and prepared to win, and his assistants get gameplans ready and have their players primed for the games. They aren't overwhelmingly talented and they get plans for the game to even out the talent gap.

Purple with bits of orange and green on a helmet, what a great idea NW.

I watched some local tv reports from Nebraska TV. They claim its the biggest tourist drawing event in Ireland since Covid hit. Fans in town point out that Nebraska hasn't been to a bowl game in a while. There are local bars with tacky decorations asking Husker and Wildcat fans to come in for a drink.

My sources in Nebraska like the Huskers chances in Ireland, but don't think they will cover the spread. But who knows with both teams starting out so far from home, crazy travel and jet lag, maybe Fitz gets his team up for the game or maybe he doesn't. The word is that NW fans are more excited for this game than a usual home game. But they are a weird fan base.

MoFi saga should be periodic reminder that putting too much value in physical objects will ultimately leave you feeling empty and won't replace any of the underlying issues that made you obsess over things in the first place.

Will buy the game to remind myself just how awful EA and EA Sports are for the fans of sports video games.

Iowa State fans regularly call into local talk radio stations and bring up the 1958 National Championship deal, I have never heard a single Hawk fans mention it aside from a trivia question or footnote. The Cyclone fans seriously pick up a phone call and call into a radio show to tell the hosts that LSU was undefeated that year.

I was talking to a foreign guy once and mentioned my obsession with submarine movies, and he remembered Red October. I tried to tell him that in addition to being a good movie, it had a great name for a movie. Literally anyone alive in the eighties remembers the name of this film. Even people who don't care for military movies or submarines. Even today like 30 years later you see promos for fall baseball with the phrase Hunt for October or something like that.