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  1. 2 minutes ago, kopp0e said:

    The Huskers might need to think of having 1 out of 3 non conference games set in stone, vs a rotation of Colorado/ Missouri/ Oklahoma/ Texas, playing once every 4 years...

     

    They do play CU or OU 5 out of the next 6 years OOC. 

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  2. 27 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    Ha! My Aunt Mabel taught at Omaha Central in the early-to-mid 70s. She may have taught there in the 60s, too. All I recall is that she took a year or two off for family reasons before ending up at Omaha Central. She didn’t like it there (the students were very disrespectful is what I remember), and it may have been a deal she struck with the school district to make her years of service “uninterrupted.”

    Central has a really weird attendance area, you get the neighborhood that Warren Buffet lives in, and then some that Warren definitely doesn't live in.  

  3. 43 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    That’s interesting (no sarcasm) because SI wrote an article in the 90s about the drop off in HS football participation nationwide. I recall Texas being the only state with more than 1-in-10 participation rate (something crazy like 1-in-7), and Nebraska being noted for having a particularly high participation rate right at that 1-in-10 level. I wondered at the time if that was the truly of NU’s decade+ of success.

    It didn't hurt. There's some follow up articles that are still behind the paywall that expound on in further. One example is the Auburn, NE football program that produced the Kelsay brothers in the late 90's that made the NFL. 10 years ago they were getting 80 boys out for football, this year they have 29. They've got 35-40 less boys in school, but the bigger deal is they've got 27 out for Cross Country. Perkins County in Western Nebraska that sent a few kids to Lincoln over the years had to forfeit last week because they couldn't field 8 healthy players. They've got 22 out for cross country. When I was in HS in the late 90's we had 90% of the boys in school out for football, now they get about 60% after a consolidation and that's with a program that's in the playoffs most every year. 

    The big metro schools haven't put out as much talent lately. Omaha Central hasn't sent any kids to Lincoln in a few years, and that's the program that produced Gale Sayers, Ahman Green, and a host of others. It's seems like the OPS schools are starting to bounce back as there are top 100 kids this year and next after about a decade drought. 

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  4. 2 minutes ago, ousux said:
    5 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:
    Fucking up line recruiting since Callahan is really coming home to roost. 

    That should be one area where they shouldn't struggle, plenty of big corn fed farm boys in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas etc..

    Yes. There’s a bunch of instate linemen playing out of state. Fant at Iowa and Holtorf at KSU top that list this year. 

  5. Just now, ousux said:

    Serious question, how is corn actually worse with Frost coaching? I mean, wasn't expecting them to be world beaters, but really thought they'd be decent and at least challenge Meatchicken..

    Fucking up line recruiting since Callahan is really coming home to roost. 

  6. Nebraska walk program slipped for a number of reasons. The Dakota schools moving up to FCS put a lot more scholarship money out there for kids that would have walked on at the same time as tuition increased. Out of the 29 in state kids that have made the NFL since 2004, 17 played out of state, mostly at Dakota schools or for Solich at Ohio.  Pelini especially just expected instate kids to walk on without much effort put into the program at the same time too hurt, especially since they weren’t committed to getting kids reps like Osborne did. Nebraska used to run multiple stations at practices with all the kids that got players a lot of work in.  Hudl being started in Lincoln also got a lot of film out on Nebraska kids that wasn’t happening before which sent more kids to different schools. 

    To expand the Conneally deal more, they have one of the most well known Angus purebred ranches in the world. There’s a ton of money there. 

    Sure there a lot of farmers Coop scholarships and such but those get used at any school in Nebraska too. I had Purina feed scholarships to Doane in Crete. I don’t think you can really act like something that a ton of boys and girls got in Nebraska made a big difference. 

  7. So you have to believe this shadowy web of county scholarship and other scholarships paying the way of all these small town athletes to go to Nebraska and that was their secret adavantage, rather than the obvious explanation that it was cheap to go UNL back when the state actually supported higher education, and they had a staff that was willing to deal with the extra players and keep a freshman team around to see what they had in those players. Especially when there is only 1 D-1 school in the state and that was the only Ag school in an Ag State. 

    The reason I use Terry Conneally as an example, is that he was a full ride football signee out of a class D-2 school in the Sandhills with a grad class of about 15, if we had this elaborate way of paying for small town kids, they’re not going to waste one of the regular scholarships on the one kid in the whole county that can play.

    As someone who grew up in small town Nebraska, this county scholarship bullshit has always baffled me, because it’s not something I ever heard until getting on to non-Nebraska message boards much after Nebraska lost their way. 

  8. 6 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    Yeah, I’m a gullible tube who doesn’t know his best friends. 

    Your best friends never fuck you just for funieses? If the county scholarship thing was a real thing, explain why Terry Conneally was on a football scholarship from Hyannis and not a county scholarship? Did Nebraska used to give track money to football players until they made them stop, sure. Did they talk truck loads of steroids, absolutely. Use Prop 48 for all it was, definitely. Look the other way for criminals, you bet. But County scholarships weren’t a real thing. 

  9. 9 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    My son was a D1 athlete in a non-revenue sport at a school not terribly far from NU. His future coach told us that he needed to divulge any outside scholarships he received if that had any basis in athletic achievement. Those scholarships would count that against the “equivalency” scholarships allowed for his sport.

    The fact that the coach called it “The Nebraska Rule,” indicated to me that NU had been skirting the rules.

    One of my best friend’s is a NU Law grad and huge Husker fan. I’ve mentioned the county scholarships a few times when we were giving each other shit, and he’s never denied it. My experience with lawyers is that they are good at denying things if they can. 

    He hasn't denied because he thinks you're a gullible rube. I've had relatives that played for NU in the heyday of the supposed county scholarships that paid their way to walk on, when they would have been the obvious choice for said scholarship. If it was such as sustained thing, one would able to find some actual evidence rather than innuendo.  A coach saying something doesn't mean a whole fuck of a lot. OU coaches say it's a worthwhile school to attend. Doesn't make it true. Aggie thinks they are defending the country, and that doesn't make it true either. 

  10. 20 minutes ago, Paco said:

    Wait wait wait. Are you actually saying that Nebraska's walk on program was so much better than other school's because the players were country kids who threw hay bales in high school? Is that really what you're saying?

    No, I’m making fun of people that believe that there was a county scholarship program. That being said throwing bales builds a ton of lower body strength while teaching good leverage. 

  11. All my clients who turned down free tickets to this game to stay in the field knew what they were doing. 

     

    As as an aside it was the height of hubris by Frost to not to recruit another scholarship QB this year.

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