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			<title>Huskers Punch Ticket to Columbus</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Nebraska baseball team (33-20, 13-9 Big Ten) secured its spot at next week&#039;s Big Ten Baseball Tournament on Thursday night with a 15-2 win over the Michigan Wolverines at Wilpon Complex. The 15 runs were the most for the Huskers in a Big Ten opener this season, as every Husker starter had at least one hit on the night. NU strung together a conference-high 20 hits off four Michigan pitchers, including a career-high four hits Rich Sanguinetti, who also tied a career high with four RBI&#039;s. Four Huskers roped doubles on the night, while Kale Kiser stroked his first triple of the season.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:10:02 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>NFCA honors Hagemann</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nebraska&#039;s Ashley Hagemann is a second-team selection on the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Midwest Region team, announced Thursday.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:10:02 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>McKewon: Star QBs remain in cupboard for NU</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nebraska struck out on its first-tier quarterback targets for the 2013 recruiting class. Three of the four top recruits committed to Ohio State, Illinois and Northwestern, respectively. Big Ten — ouch. Funny, but I like the...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:10:02 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Huskers clinch tourney spot</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nebraska’s baseball team won its fourth straight Big Ten game and clinched a spot in the conference tournament, beating Michigan 15-2 in the opener of a three-game series Thursday evening.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:10:02 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>A needed recruiting piece</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think a lot of Husker fans feel quite good about Nebraska&#039;s tight end situation this year.
But you always have to be looking ahead in this game. And Kyler Reed and Ben Cotton won&#039;t be around in 2013. 
Jake Long, who played in every game last season and made two starts, will be back. But as receiving goes, he didn&#039;t have a catch last season. 
Given all this, the announced commitment of Greg Hart (Kettering, Ohio) last night is not to be underplayed.
The 6-foot-5, 225-pound Hart moves well (clocked at 4.63 in the 40 at a Michigan State football camp) and hopes to be able to stretch the field in the way Reed does. 
Here&#039;s video of Hart. Obviously a lot of coaches liked what they saw. He had 16 offers on the table upon making his commitment. 
You never know what recruits will become when they arrive to college. But looking solely at the needs Nebraska has in this recruiting class, Hart&#039;s pledge seems an important piece to the puzzle.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:40:02 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Nebraska Baseball: Huskers Meet Michigan Wolverines in Last Conference Series of Season</title>
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Nebraska travels to Ann Arbor to take on the Michigan Wolverines in the Big Ten last conference series of the 2012 season. The Huskers will fight to see what seed they&#039;ll earn in the Big Ten tournament next week. That&#039;s assuming they don&#039;t get swept, of course.
The series will run from Thursday through Saturday this week, with the Thursday and Friday games starting at 5:05 pm, and the Saturday game starting at 12:05 pm. None of the games are televised, but will be streamed live on the Big Ten Digital Network (subscription required).
The Huskers are one game behind second place teams Indiana and Penn State, with a one-game lead over Ohio State and a two-game lead over Minnesota. Nebraska is currently tied with Michigan State.
Nebraska needs to win one game to secure a spot in the tourney.
Nebraska (32-20, 12-9 Big Ten) at Michigan (21-32, 7-14 Big Ten) 
Thursday - 5:05 PMKyle Kubat, Fr., LHP (4-0) vs. Matt Ogden, Fr., RHP (3-3)
Friday - 5:05 PMRyan Hander, Jr. RHP (2-0) vs. Brandon Sinnery, Sr., RHP (4-5)
 Saturday -  12:05 PMTBA vs. Ben Ballantine, Jr., RHP (2-3)
This isn&#039;t much of a preview, but it is a spot for a game thread. NOW!





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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:10:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>The 100 Club -- filling in the blanks</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In today&#039;s paper, I asked for someone to save the day. Maybe someone out there knew of the 91-yard white whale that was eluding us in our 100 Club touchdown series. 
We got an answer from our friend Joe Hudson of HuskerMax.com. 
Hudson, who once worked at the Lincoln Star, appears to have filled in some blanks, locating a 91-yard fumble return by Jack Dodd against Minnesota in 1938. 
As the university yearbook, the 1939 Cornhusker, described it: Dodd provided the thrill of the day when he &quot;whisked the ball&quot; away from a Gopher and set off the other way for a score.Two other newspaper accounts confirm the Dodd return as 91 yards.
It would be Nebraska&#039;s only points that day, falling in defeat 16-7. 
But we thank Dodd for his thievery. It gives us a 91-yarder.
*** Hudson also dug into the archives and found what appears to be 96- and 97-yard Husker touchdowns from that same era. 
In fact, the 96-yard touchdown Hudson found also comes from 1938 -- a kickoff return by Herm Rohrig against Missouri. Nebraska lost the game 13-10. 
That 1938 Biff Jones-coached team finished the season with just a 3-5-1 record. 
As for the 97-yarder? It belongs to a name familiar to Husker lore. Sam Francis apparently had a kickoff return of that distance in the 1936 season opener against Iowa State. 
&quot;Fullback Sam Francis began his rise to national recognition and All American honors in the opening game when he assumed the unaccustomed role of open-field runner to make the longest touchdown of the season,&quot; recorded The Cornhusker yearbook of that return. 
We send our thanks to Joe Hudson for finding those. The list -- more complete now -- marches on tomorrow with our 90-yarder.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:40:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Projected Big Ten Baseball Tournament Seeding</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Below are the current standings in baseball as we enter the last weekend of the regular season. Given the logjam below Purdue, the weekend could result in a fair amount of drama.




Big Ten


Overall




Team


Record


Pct.


Record


Pct.




1.  Purdue


16-5


.762


40-10


.800




2.  Penn State


13-8


.619


27-24


.529




    Indiana


13-8


.619


27-26


.509




4.  Michigan State


12-9


.571


34-17


.667




    Nebraska


12-9


.571


32-20


.615




6.  Ohio State


11-10


.524


31-22


.585




7.  Minnesota


10-11


.476


28-25


.528




8.  Illinois


9-12


.429


26-24


.520




9.  Iowa


8-13


.381


21-26


.447




10. Michigan


7-14


.333


21-32


.396




11. Northwestern


6-18


.250


17-34


.333



 
What I&#039;m trying to do here is predict the results for the weekend just to project as to where everyone might end up with regards to seedings and who makes the Big Ten tournament. 

Purdue at Iowa - Purdue sweep 3-0
Iowa might pull out a game here, but it&#039;s doubtful that Purdue comes into the weekend flat.
Penn State at Michigan State - Michigan State wins series 2-1
This is a big series for Michigan State in two ways - the seeding for the Big Ten tourney and a chance to further their cause in being selected as an at-large bid for the NCAA tourney. Sparty comes into the weekend with a RPI of 46.
That&#039;s a lot of motivation for the Spartans, plus they&#039;re at home.
Minnesota at Illinois           - Illinois wins series 2-1
 This one is tough. Minnesota is bad on the road, but Illinois has just been bad lately. Add to that they&#039;ve lost six of their last seven, as opposed to Minnesota who&#039;s only lose five of their last seven. 
Both teams should be motivated as the loser of this series will be out of the Big Ten tournament. I&#039;m picking Minnesota on the road to lose. 
Michigan at Nebraska - Nebraska wins series 2-1 
Nebraska = not that good on the road. Michigan = not good. The word &quot;that&quot; wins over the lack of the word &quot;that&quot;.
BTW, Nebraska&#039;s RPI entering the season is 89. The only realistic way for the Huskers to make the NCAA tourney is to win the conference tournament to get an automatic qualification. 
Ohio State at Indiana - Indiana wins series 2-1
I&#039;m taking the Hoosier&#039;s hot hand over the Buckeyes inability to win on the road.
Ohio State is third in RPI behind Purdue and Michigan State at 62. Given the Big Ten&#039;s national reputation (which is lousy), they&#039;re in the same boat as Nebraska. First the Buckeyes have to win this weekend&#039;s series and make the tourney. 
Projected Final Standings







Team


Record




1.  Purdue


19-5




2.  Indiana


15-9




3. Nebraska


14-10




Michigan State
Penn State


14-10
14-10




5. Ohio State   


12-12




6.  Ohio State


12-12




7.  Minnesota


11-13




8.  Illinois


11-13




9.  Iowa


8-16




10. Michigan


8-16




11. Northwestern


6-18



 
If the last series turn out this way, the top two seeds are obvious. Purdue and Indiana will earn a bye as the #1 and #2 seeds during the first round of the Big Ten tournament.
Nebraska, Michigan State and Penn State would be seeded based on the Big Ten&#039;s tie-breaking procedure, which gets a little dicey since Nebraska didn&#039;t play either Michigan State or Penn State this season, while those two teams play against each other this weekend.
Since there would be three teams tied and they haven&#039;t played, seeding would be determined as follows:

the best winning percentage against all teams ending the season (tied or not) in positions 1-2-3-4-5-6 in the final conference standings will determine the highest seed with the other teams following in order based on highest to lowest winning percentage.

Holy crap. That&#039;s a whole bunch of projecting. 
I think we&#039;ll just wait and see what the next few days bring. Why&#039;d I do this again? 





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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:10:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Introduction to the BIGTEN</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Chicago – in a board room atop a building downtown, 11 of 12 chairs contain confused members of the Big Ten Conference.

In case you weren&#039;t aware, this is OSU, and I call this meeting to order.

Thanks everyone for coming.  As you all know, at the end of the Spring Meetings, Commissioner Delaney gave us all a bottle of wine to share.  And despite Wisconsin trying to hog it all...
HEY!  
...we all had a glass, toasted to our mutual health, and polished it off.  I assume by your varied appearances, you all awoke this morning to similar results that I did.  We&#039;ve been changed, we&#039;ve become heroes.  So, since some of us are wearing masks, why don&#039;t we all (re)introduce ourselves.  I, of course, am Daredevil.

That&#039;s appropriate!
Oh, and you turning into Wolverine isn&#039;t?  Come on, everyone saw that coming.  The only one possibly less original is birdbrain over there.

That&#039;s Hawkman to you!
We&#039;ll get to you in a minute, Featherduster.
Just sayin&#039;, a blind lawyer?  That suits you.  Either that, or Bart Simpson.  &quot;I didn&#039;t do it.  Nobody saw me do it.  You can&#039;t prove anything.  I wanna talk to my lawyer.&quot;  It&#039;s only going to get better...for us...now that you have Urbz coaching you.
Oh, my God, jealous much?  Hmm, Hoke...Meyer?  Hoke...Meyer?  That, and I&#039;ve got Ben Affleck&#039;s good looks too.
Whatever.  Well, as you can tell, I became Wolverine.  No matter what you do, no matter what you throw at me, and no matter how sick Ohio makes me, I&#039;ll always recover.  I&#039;m also the most popular one among you.
Maybe the most conceited.
No, that would be...wait...where&#039;s Nebraska?
Nebraska, are you here?

Wonder what happened to him.  Oh well, we got along fine without him.  Moving on, Iowa.  I see you became our Thanksgiving dinner.
Screw you, OSU!  Hawkman has a proud history in the DC Universe, just as I...

Wait...is that Deadpool?  Who the hell is Deadpool?

That would be me.
INDIANA?  How did you get to be Deadpool?  Is he even a hero?  You&#039;re lying, take off that mask.  You can&#039;t be Indiana.

Holy s***, put that mask back on.  I can&#039;t believe Delaney did that to you.
He didn&#039;t, you all did.  That&#039;s what my face looked like by the time Purdue finished my season last year.  But Delaney says becoming Deadpool means I&#039;ll have a healing factor like Michigan&#039;s, so my face will heal.
I&#039;m not even sure I could heal that, bub.  And I thought you were blind, &quot;Daredevil&quot;.  How do you know just how horrible Indiana looks?
Drop it, Michigan.  The case is over, I said we&#039;re moving on.  Who&#039;s next?  Well, he&#039;s big, he&#039;s green, I can only imagine that&#039;s Michigan State.  Seems you&#039;ve bulked up recently.

SPARTY SMASH!
Yes, you smashed a lot of teams last year.  You&#039;ve done very well, but, please put Michigan down.
SPARTY SMASH PUNY WOLVERINE!
Son, I&#039;ve been kicking your ass for decades, and I&#039;ll do it again soon enough.  Now put me down.
SPARTY WIN MANY YEARS NOW!  SPARTY SMASH!
SPARTY, NOOOOOOO!

SPARTY HAPPY!
That&#039;s nice, you stay happy.  We like a happy Sparty.
SPARTY HAPPY!
Oh yay.   We&#039;re going to have a draft until the window is repaired.  Now that I mention it, it&#039;s awfully cold in here already.  Must be your doing.  Delaney wasn&#039;t kind to you at all, was he Minnesota?

Well, I&#039;m a lot buffer than I used to be, I think.  But being frozen in ice isn&#039;t as much fun this time of year.
Frozen in ice, frozen in time.  Tomato, tomahto.  But gosh golly darn it, people do love to cheer for an underdog, don&#039;t they?
That&#039;s BS.
Northwestern, is that you?  Where?   WHAT?  You&#039;re...

 I&#039;m Batman.
How the hell did you get to be Batman?
Makes sense, really.  He&#039;s rich.  He&#039;s smart.  He seems to find a way to win when he shouldn&#039;t, and ruin other&#039;s seasons.  And he prefers to be alone.
 I can&#039;t argue with that.  I&#039;ve seen his attendance figures.  So, if you&#039;re Batman, who&#039;s Robin?



It&#039;s not funny.  He belongs with you.  Take him back.
Oh hell no!  This is great, you&#039;re welcome to have him.
I don&#039;t want him.  No one does.  He&#039;s practically invisible at his real home.  I don&#039;t like kids...unless they have excellent SAT&#039;s and bank accounts.
I&#039;ll take him!
Penn St., is that you?  Who are you supposed to be?

I&#039;m Captain Sunshine!  Friend and protector of all children.
SPARTY UNEASY!
You and me both, big guy.  Look, Penn St., I&#039;m not sure...but I think Captain Sunshine is...
 No, wait, let&#039;s see if he figures it out quicker this time around.
Come here, little Robin.  No child shall be homeless while I&#039;m around.  We&#039;ll get you back to State College, get you a healthy meal, a warm bed, and a hot shower.
Iowa, you can&#039;t let this happen.  That&#039;s your little brother.  I know you have your differences, but come on.
You don&#039;t have to deal with him every year.  The ugly trophies, the moronic AD.  Besides, PSU has turned the corner.  It couldn&#039;t happen again.

Uh, hey ISU, come on back over here.  I was only fooling.  I&#039;ll take you back to your orphanage in Austin in the morning.
You put your brother in an orphanage in Texas?
No, I&#039;m taking him to State College.  He&#039;ll be my ward, since broody Northwestern over there won&#039;t take him.  I&#039;ve got the resources to give him a better life.  He&#039;ll have friends there.  People will actually come over to see him.  And YOU are obviously a bad influence.
Yeah, we&#039;ve heard that kind of argument before.  Look, he&#039;s my little brother, I&#039;ll take care of him.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:10:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>2012 Big Ten Baseball Statistics - Data Visualizations</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last year during the offseason, I swore that I&#039;d spend more time learning about football statistics and how to present them in a visually interesting format. It never happened. This year has rolled around and it remains a goal. I think it would make things more interesting to digest, although, I have to be honest, it&#039;s probably less interesting to people than if we were to do more photoshops of Urban Meyer or Brady Hoke in compromising positions involving farm animals. Maybe that&#039;s another goal.
In any case, I have taken what might the most uninteresting set of statistics in college athletics - Big Ten baseball statistics - and created a few data visualizations if for no other reason than to see if I can get any reaction from them.
After the jump are the data visualizations. I am using IBM&#039;s Many Eyes, which is fairly simple to use. It requires that you have java running in your browser, but a lot of sites use java so that requirement isn&#039;t so uncommon. I&#039;ll be honest - the visualizations do have some problems. Percentages, for example, are rounded to the point that there are little differences between them. If you look at the Fielding Statistics visualization you&#039;ll see little difference between the teams until you look at the individual statistics (Indiana - passed balls and erors, wow!).
In any case, I hope you find it interesting. If you do, leave some comments, please, and if you think it&#039;s just a waste of time, well let me know that too.
Enjoy.....

2012 Big Ten Batting Statistics – All Games By Batting Average


2012 Big Ten Pitching Statistics – All Games By ERA


2012 Big Ten Team Fielding Statistics - All Games By Percentage







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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:10:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Huskers Pick Up Tight End Recruit</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ohio prospect Greg Hart commits to NU
  					  					
  				    
	Nebraska picked up the seventh verbal committment of their 2013 recruiting class on Wednesday, when Dayton Ohio tight end prospect Greg Hart pledged to the Huskers. Hart will help NU fill a position of need in this class. It also serves as further evidence that the Husker coaching staff is committed to getting players from within the Big Ten geographic footprint.

  
              
              
            		     
            		
                
                

                
                                              
  	   				  
	The Player
	The 6-5, 225 pound Hart is rated as a 3-star prospect by all three of the major recruiting services (Rivals, Scout, 247). With 4.6 speed in the 40-yard dash, he&#039;s not the speed player that Kyler Reed is. He&#039;s not as physically dominant as NU&#039;s other senior tight end, Ben Cotton. But, the film of this kid shows he is capable of being a very complete player. He is a willing down field blocker in the running game. He shows a good ability to find space and get open against zone defenses, particularly on play action passes. He also plays both offense and defense for his high school team, proof of a work ethic and physicality. He is also a 3-sport player (adding both basketball and track to his football prowess), another sign of a good athlete.

	The Competition
	Regardless of the measurable attributes and star ratings, one way to know if a player is worthy of a Husker offer is to compare what other schools offered him a scholarship. For Hart, more than a dozen schools had offered him prior to his selecting NU. While his suitors are not necessarily elite college football schools, a majority are very respectable football programs like Boston College, Pitt, and NC State. Perhaps most importantly, Nebraska beat at least three other Big Ten schools - Purdue, Northwestern and Indiana - for Hart&#039;s services. His coming to Nebraska means they won&#039;t have to face him for four years.

	Geography Matters
	Speaking of the B1G...it&#039;s no coincidence that Hart becomes the third player in the Husker class to come from Ohio.  Vince Marrow, an Ohio native and longtime Ohio coach, was the lead recruiter for Hart. So, it&#039;s certainly not just Bo Pelini who works his Ohio connections. Nebraska is working to recruit the Big Ten footprint harder. When you add Milton, Wisconsin&#039;s A.J. Natter to the three Ohio prospects, more than half of the current Husker class comes from within the Big Ten&#039;s geographic footprint. Well, I suppose could be five when you consider that Josh Banderas is from Nebraska. Nebraska, is part of the Big Ten geography now, right?
	
	Regardless, Nebraska&#039;s 2013 recruiting class is adding enough Midwestern players that it will definitely put NU on the map - physically and metaphorically. It looks like Greg Hart will be a part of that.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:40:02 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Shatel: Bowl games living on borrowed time</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I used to joke that I wanted to be a bowl guy when I grew up. Travel to the best college football games every week, equipped with a funky blazer and an expense account the size of Pasadena. Everyone&#039;s glad to see you. What a gig.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:40:02 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>NU pitchers creating a mound of problems</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nebraska’s backbreaking third inning during Tuesday’s 13-2 loss to Wichita State again highlighted a troubling trend for the NU pitching staff this season. It started innocently enough when sophomore pitcher Jon...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:10:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Huskers get commitment from Ohio tight end Hart</title>
			<link>http://www.huskerfaithful.com/news/redirect/huskers-get-commitment-from-ohio-tight-end-hart</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dayton (Ohio) Alter tight end Greg Hart has committed to Nebraska, the seventh known commit in the Huskers&#039; 2013 class. In a visit earlier this month, the tight end met with graduate assistant Vince Marrow and head coach Bo...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:10:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Huskers Finish Regular Season in Ann Arbor</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Nebraska baseball team (32-20, 12-9 Big Ten) wraps up the 2012 regular season with a three-game series in Ann Arbor, Mich., against the Michigan Wolverines. The two teams play on both Thursday and Friday at 5:05 p.m. (CT), while the series finale is scheduled for a 12:05 p.m. first pitch on Saturday.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:10:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Hart&#039;s with Nebraska</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Greg Hart said he knew he was going to Nebraska the minute he left Bo Pelini&#039;s office this weekend.


&quot;He told me he wants me in the program and that he thinks I have a really huge ceiling,&quot; said the tight end from Kettering, Ohio. &quot;He said if you commit to me I&#039;m committed to you. He was just a class guy.&quot;


Hart becomes the seventh commit in this Husker class, and the first on the offensive side of the ball.


He&#039;s not unfamiliar with the passion that surrounds the Huskers. His uncle lived in Omaha for 2 1/2 years. &quot;I knew Nebraska football was kind of life there,&quot; he said.


Hart is the third commitment in this class from the state of Ohio. He joins Cardinal Mooney players Courtney Love and Marcus McWilson.


Hart has three stars from both Rivals.com and Scout.com. The product of Archbishop Alter High is ranked 19th at his position by Rivals and 30th among tight ends by Scout. He told me Miami, Virginia and Pittsburgh were the other teams he was most interested in.


Much more coming.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:10:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Huskers get commitment from TE Hart</title>
			<link>http://www.huskerfaithful.com/news/redirect/huskers-get-commitment-from-te-hart</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dayton (Ohio) Alter tight end Greg Hart has committed to Nebraska, the seventh known commit in the Huskers&#039; 2013 class. In a visit earlier this month, the tight end met with graduate assistant Vince Marrow and head coach Bo...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:10:01 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>HAF Sponsoring Five Golf Tournaments</title>
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Follow Randy on Twitter at www.twitter.com/RandyYorkNsider
By Randy York
Now that all booster clubs are organized under the umbrella of the Huskers Athletic Fund (HAF), Nebraska donors and special contributors have a one-stop shop to streamline their efforts of support. Please consider this blog a consolidated calendar for four of the five golf tournaments that HAF will sponsor this summer. The only tournament that has not been finalized is an event that Nebraska Men’s Basketball Coach Tim Miles will host this summer. That announcement is expected to come soon. In the meantime, Big Red fans are invited to consider circling their calendars for these four tournaments:
1) THE FASTBREAKERS HUSKER SCRAMBLE FOR NEBRASKA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL will be held on June 7, 2012, at Wilderness Ridge.Register here for Scramble (Registrations for golf and/or dinner will be accepted until May 21, 2012).Golf event begins with registration at 11 a.m.; dinner and silent/live auctions begin at 6:30 p.m.
2) NEBRASKA GYMNASTICS CLUB BURKETT POWELL MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT will beheld on Friday, August 17, 2012 at Wilderness Ridge. Register here for Memorial Tournament named in honor of late Husker men’s gymnast Burkett Powell. Registrations for golf and/or dinner as well as sponsorships accepted until August 1, 2012 Golf even begins with registration at 10 a.m.; dinner and silent/live auctions begin at 6:30 p.m.
3) NEBRASKA BASEBALL GOLF CLASSIC will beheld on Friday, August 24, 2012 at Wilderness Ridge. More information on this event will be released in the near future.
4) CHIP-N CLUB ACURA INVITATIONAL FOR NEBRASKA WOMEN’S GOLF will be held on Monday, August 27, 2012 at Wilderness Ridge. More information on this event will be released in the near future. 
Four sponsorship levels are available for all Husker fans, and three of the four tournaments can be sponsored at once if desired. 
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			<title>Six Reasons Why Big Ten is on the Same Page</title>
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Video: Why Tom Osborne is a Big Ten Icon
Chicago Tribune: Big Ten on Board for 4-Team Football Playoff
ESPN Blog: Did BIG Give Up Too Easily on Campus Sites?
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By Randy York
Whenever anyone asks me what I like most about the Big Ten Conference, I have a patented answer. “What I like most is the Big Ten almost always seems to be on the same page,” I say, and today I offer six reasons to explain why that’s true: 1) The Big Ten movers and shakers get together often and tackle the most challenging problems and business issues; 2) Whenever they meet, they commit themselves to growth, development and success; 3) The decision-makers offer those with a stake in the outcome the chance to collaborate; 4) When the Big Ten assembles its athletic directors, coaches or any other relevant group in Chicago or elsewhere, those involved set aside their differences, cooperate like few others and discuss every conceivable angle of the most minute issue; 5) Then and only then do subject-matter experts begin to build consensus; and 6) After the Big Ten achieves consensus, it communicates what everyone has agreed on and explains the strategic rationale behind each major decision. 
Take the current Big Ten Athletic Directors Meeting in Chicago and a Chicago Tribune headline that emerged from that meeting: Big Ten on board for 4-team football playoff followed by a succinct sub-headline: ADs want rotating bowl sites, including Rose, to host semis beginning in 2013. It just so happens that Tom Osborne is the man in the photo beneath those two headlines, holding up two fingers while he makes a double-pronged point in front of two logos – the Big Ten’s and Nebraska’s. Who could be a better pitch man for that story than a Hall-of-Fame coach who’s won three national championships and never had the luxury of playing the Florida schools in a big game when it’s 5 degrees outside and Memorial Stadium’s “tundra” looks like a horizontal snow cone? If anyone deserves an automatic touchdown advantage, you’d think Osborne’s the man, especially after his teams played so many games in the sauna-like humidity that Miami and Florida State players are so accustomed to playing in. 
You can scratch, however, any thoughts the Big Ten might have had about hosting national semifinal games in America’s biggest football stadiums. That would overhaul the transmission of every big bowl game, so the Big Ten consented, behind closed doors, not to do that. Hence this quote from Osborne: “The bowls have been good to us. If you took them out of the playoff, it would pretty much destroy the bowl system.” The Big Ten was willing to give up something that would have benefitted the conference for something it considers more important – the opportunity to promote the idea of a four-team playoff system. Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, perhaps the master collaborator/consensus builder in all of college football, favors a hybrid model of the three highest-rated conference champions and a “wild card” from any other league or Independent. Osborne suggested a selection committee could be put together to supplant polls and computers and become the final decision-maker about who’s in the Final Four and who isn’t. Tribune writer Teddy Greenstein said Osborne believes selection committee members could include ex-coaches, ex-AD’s and conference commissioners or, Osborne said: “You can just go with conference commissioners” because “You get people who are somewhat dispassionate, well respected and understand the nuances. In the end, you might have to explain your decision.”
We now switch to another angle on this issue. In his blog on ESPN.com, Adam Rittenberg asked an interesting question: Did the Big Ten give up too easily on the issue of campus sites? Here again, we see a well-calculated answer provided by another Big Ten athletic director, Ohio State’s Gene Smith, who had been planted rather firmly in the campus-sites camp before admitting Tuesday that he no longer favors having national playoff semifinals on the campuses of higher-seeded teams. “We’ve shifted,” Smith said. “I was originally for campus sites, and I still go back there mentally every now and then as discussions occur, but the bowls have a really good system set up to host.” Bowl sites are the winners in surveys with university presidents, athletic directors, coaches and even players, and the Big Ten is now on record, representing exactly what they agreed on and decided. Michigan State Athletic Director Mark Hollis was an equally convincing and eloquent spokesman for the Big Ten Tuesday, and there probably will be more Big Ten AD’s elaborating today on what they decided together as a group. Say this for the Big Ten: Delany is, without question, the chief catalyst for change because he knows when to be the one out front and when to be the one standing behind. It’s a system that works well and shows time after time why the Big Ten truly is so consistently on the same page. 
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Voices from Husker Nation


After reading so many stories about playoffs no-matter-what, it’s refreshing to hear someone explain why a conference with the most clout in the country makes decisions based on the interests of its members and student-athletes more than anything else. Good piece. Steve Hansen, Scottsdale, Arizona


In Tom Osborne we trust, and the more I read about Jim Delany, the more inclined I am to put him in Dr. Tom’s category. Delany knows what he’s doing, when to go full bore and when to compromise. This is one situation that begged for compromise. Gary Johnson, Omaha, Nebraska


Trust me on this one. I’m a Nebraska  native who’s been following the success of the Montana Grizzlies in the playoffs going on 20 years, and their (and Montana State’s) relative lack of success once home field advantage runs out. That’s just crazy. Charlie Adams, Helena, Montana

 

 
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			<title>Football 202 Set for June 12th</title>
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			<title>Corn Flakes Relegates The Rose Bowl To HELL</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I was asked by the mothership to implore y&#039;all to go over and subscribe to the SB Nation Youtube channel. I had it all written and ready to go, but right around then I had a problem while at work that lead to me taking my first ambulance ride and I&#039;d forgotten all about it until I happened to see it amongst my unpublished drafts.
So, I&#039;d appreciate it if you&#039;d consider subscribing to the SB Nation Youtube channel. There you go, I&#039;ve done my bit.
Oh, except that SB Nation released a new game called Pick 6 - a type of baseball fantasy game where you have limited cash and have to pick the best six baseball players at their position. It&#039;s addictive and then you win. There you go. Now I have my bases covered.
My ambulance ride happened after I completely lost control of my balance, suffered from slurred speech, and basically became a blubbering, useless mass.
I know what you&#039;re thinking.

Too much gin, right?
I wish that were the case. At the time they diagnosed me with directional somethingdoctorsounding vertigo and sent me home. This was good news, since at the time, I though I was having a stroke. By now I know that it&#039;s due to an inner ear problem probably brought on by allergies and not by too much gin.
Unfortunately, I still haven&#039;t completely recovered.
It&#039;s been about all I can do to get through a day at work and by the time I get home, my brains are fried. Bottom line - until I get my energy and therefore my brains back intact, you&#039;re going to be treated to frequent misspellings, rambling incoherency and words and names in a jumble. Maybe it&#039;s best to think of it like watching Buzz Bissinger in a debate. Or a Corn Nation game thread during football season without the profanity.
Still, I want to keep y&#039;all up to date and comment on some happenings around the world of college football, so here we go.
They&#039;re talking about relegation around SB Nation. Being Nebraskan and therefore most likely violently opposed to soccer, you&#039;re probably not familiar with relegation. In a nutshell, relegation is when your team sucks so bad that you&#039;re sent down to a minor league and the best teams in that minor league are shuffled into your former position. (I&#039;m familiar with relegation because my kids are involved in competitive soccer. When they&#039;re good, a class C3 team moves up to C2. When they&#039;re bad, a C2 team moves down to C3, and so on through the classes.)
It&#039;s an interesting concept that could be applied to college football if BCS conference were to ally with lower league conferences, such as the Big Ten contracting out to the MAC.
Some Baylor dude was brave enough to look at the Big 12&#039;s records over the last 20 years and discover that Nebraska, Texas, and Oklahoma were the only three teams of that conference that would not have been relegated. I guess Bill Callahan didn&#039;t destroy us quite as badly as we&#039;d have thought (remember that bit above about incoherence, please).
College Football Playoffs: No Campus Games, Says Michigan State AD
I hate the Rose Bowl. I hated it before we joined the Big Ten, I hated it last year, and I&#039;m going to hate it even more now. I don&#039;t want a college playoff system if it includes the existing bowl system. I don&#039;t care about Rose Bowl tradition.
I wanted to see a SEC team play in freezing temperatures in the snow some day before I die. Now it looks like I&#039;m just going to have to live forever. Bastards.
Delany discusses changing bowl landscape - Big Ten Blog - ESPN
In good news, the Big Ten will push for seven wins for bowl eligibility. In bad news, they&#039;re still thinking about bowls the same way they&#039;ve always thought about them:
&quot;When you have three bowls in Florida and you&#039;re a school that is constantly in that range for selection, your fan base could end up, in a five-year period, four times in the state of Florida,&quot; Delany said. &quot;So does that depress the interest? Again, sometimes less is more. Is there a way to give them a taste of Florida and Phoenix and Texas and other places in California? We want to have the fan base excited about going, about who they&#039;re playing and about where they&#039;re playing.?
What we&#039;ve got here is the same old thinking that&#039;s existed for the past 100 years. Let&#039;s go south and west and warm for bowl games and then wonder why we never win a national title. Let&#039;s not bother kidding ourselves that we belong in the same league as the SEC.
It is impossible to think about imaginative ways to create an attractive bowl site at a northern-based location with a domed stadium when the conference is run by old men who want to take free vacations in warm locations.
When Mike wrote his article about the Big Ten&#039;s Rose Bowl obsession, it earned a link and some comments at mgoblog which consisted of the same old crap from Michigan fans about 1997 and the comment: Nebraskans are confused, understandably.
Nebraskans aren&#039;t confused. We want to win another national title. If anyone is confused, it&#039;s Big Ten fans that still delude themselves about the importance of the Rose Bowl - those of the same conference who didn&#039;t win a national title from 1948 to 1997, you know, that one they shared with us after being gifted it by a media desperate to sell more commemorative gear.
Ohio State Football: Urban Meyer &amp; Staff Reveal New Tradition - Land-Grant Holy Land
At a Town Hall Meeting with students at the Ohio Union Tuesday evening, Coach Urban Meyer and his assistant unveiled the new High Energy Drill, expected to be done in the south end of the stadium after warmups before each home football game.
Thank God they have the whole offseason to practice this. (Or - &quot;What? No Double Dream Hands?&quot;)
Chris Brown of Smart Football has released a book! 
That&#039;s kind of cool. Only $9.99 and 154 pages, hell, even people from Ohio State could finish that during the offseason. (I can&#039;t take all those shots at Michigan without getting some in at the Buckeyes and still be considered unbiased, could I?)
And last, certainly not least, your moment of zen (I guess, lacking creativity). This is a munny that my oldest created, and I continually wonder if I should use it as a representation of Jim Delany, a BCS official, bowl representative, or all of the above. Your feedback is welcome.


   It&#039;s certainly representative of the current state of politics in college football. Exactly what? You decide and tell me. 







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			<description><![CDATA[The value of the game to universities and exploitation of students
  					  					
  				    
	Football has recently had much press about the head injuries in players during their playing days and afterwards.  The medical concerns are very important to consider in the future of football.  But there is another much grayer area that the recent attacks on football have lived in.  Is the student-athlete being exploited by universities making millions of dollars in television deals, licensing, and ticket sales?  And other than the schools making a profit from the football programs, what value do the programs bring to the school?

  
              
              
            		     
            		
                
                

                
                                              
  	   				  
	Every year there is a problem or debate that comes up trying to take down college football or change the shape of the game and its relationships with universities and athletes.  Last year, Grantland had a piece indicating that the end of college football was near, for no other reason that the eventual paying of players will remove amateurism from the game, and lead to the downfall of college football.

	The fact that schools are making such large sums of money on the backs of players who are not getting paid is called &quot;The Shame of College Sports&quot; by the Atlantic.  According to the report, the past of college football is riddled with changes and concessions that have greatly altered how the schools make money and treat the students.  Players may not be paid more than a small yearly stipend for living expenses, but the schools greatly compensate players with an education, gear, training, travel, medical expenses, and complimentary tickets.  One report indicated that the value received by basketball players was nearly $120,000 per year.

	This year, those very arguments get more than just a shaming, the call is to ban college football rather than pay players.  The priority of the university in regards to football is wrong according to many of the arguments.  Schools who field financially unsuccessful teams are burning precious resources that school be focusing on academics or even other athletic areas.  The same sort of debates happened when the University of Nebraska at Omaha decided to cut football in its move to the Div. I Summit League.  While sports media blasted the move, very little was heard on the side of eliminating the program.  Former UNO football player Chris Bober unintentionally sums up the dichotomy of this years debate in the ESPN article on UNO last year.

	
		I think that programs should be held to a standard to where they maximize the amount of revenue they can generate, but they shouldn&#039;t be expected to generate more than it costs ... that&#039;s not what college athletics are about. They&#039;re about competing. They&#039;re about education. They&#039;re about opportunities. And if you start basing success on revenues, on trying to make a profit, well, then you&#039;re not going to find many successful programs anywhere.
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			<description><![CDATA[The Nebraska Cornhuskers had four players who were drafted into the NFL following the 2011 season, and several others who were awarded free-agent contracts. Among them, who will have the best rookie season in 2012?By my estimation, there are only five to seven players worth mentioning in terms of possible rookie impact, and of those, just three are serious contenders to stand out as a rookie.Those three players—Lavonte David, Jared Crick and Alfonzo Dennard—were spread throughout the seven-round draft, but all three could have very similar impacts on their respective teams. Lavonte DavidThe smart, easy pick on the surface would be Lavonte David, who was drafted in the second round (two rounds earlier than Crick and five earlier than Dennard) by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Though some have foolishly considered David a career backup linebacker or a safety based on his size, the 6&#039;1&quot;, 233-pounder has the skills to develop into a stellar outside &#039;backer in a 4-3 defensive system. What he lacks in size he makes up for in speed, instincts and toughness, and he is just the type of player needed by the defensively challenged Bucs.Even more intriguing is David&#039;s weight gain since his junior year. Though his relatively small size was the sole reason the gifted playmaker was pushed out of the first round, he has gained more than 20 pounds since first stepping on campus as a junior without losing a step. If he can continue to add muscle, he could end up playing at an ideal weight anyway.Tampa Bay had one of the worst defenses in the NFL last season, so David could immediately challenge for a starting position. Jared CrickConsidered a first-round prospect at one point in his career, a pectoral muscle tear sadly ended Crick&#039;s senior season and his stock steadily dropped. He was eventually robbed in the fourth round by the Houston Texans, a team with which Crick could thrive.Though he played defensive tackle for Nebraska, Crick might be more suited to play defensive end in a 3-4 system. His size is very similar to rookie standout J.J. Watt, who had a monstrous year with the Texans at that position.Crick would have to beat out either Watt or veteran Antonio Smith to start, and while that isn&#039;t going to happen, it is likely Crick will see significant time in a two-deep rotation along with Smith and/or Watt.Crick showed his potential for domination in college, and he could prove to be a major steal next season as a key rotational player in one of the best defenses the NFL has to offer. Alfonzo DennardIt&#039;s hard to believe that many Husker fans were expecting to have three first-round picks following the 2011 season, but Dennard was rated higher than either Crick or David for some time until he had a slow start to the season due to a preseason injury.Dennard&#039;s stock hovered in between the first and third rounds throughout the season, dropped to the fourth after he was ejected from the Capital One Bowl for fighting, and then plummeted to the late rounds after being arrested for assaulting a police officer.His recent tendency to swing fists has been troubling, but you can be sure the New England Patriots are absolutely giddy about scooping up such a talented player in the last round of the draft. Dennard apparently was also hurt by a poor showing at the Senior Bowl and questions were raised about his zone coverage skills, but after watching him dominate receivers for a living during his junior year, it&#039;s hard to imagine him not finding a niche in the NFL.He&#039;s the type of guy you can get away with putting on an island, and I still think his showing at the Senior Bowl was a fluke. Before his senior season (which was very clearly affected by his injury), he was solid in both man and zone.Assuming Dennard can stay out of trouble and stay healthy, he has the talent to eventually become an impact starter at cornerback. SummaryIt&#039;s hard to bet against any of these three guys as a Husker fan, and though not all of them had the spectacular seasons they had planned, I see all three having big impacts early on in their careers.David should be as good as advertised, Crick will return to form and be another great player for a Super Bowl-caliber defense, and Dennard will prove himself worthy after falling from grace.With that being said, my money is on the machine that produced 285 tackles—along with 11.5 sacks, three forced fumbles and two interceptions—in two seasons to give the Buccaneers a strong outside presence from day one. Pick: Lavonte DavidRead more Nebraska Huskers Football news on BleacherReport.com]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nebraska&#039;s pitchers, who set the tone in three wins against Minnesota over the weekend, couldn&#039;t hold Wichita State&#039;s offense in check Tuesday night, giving up an early lead en route to a 13-2 defeat before 4,607 fans at...]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[A 19-hit performance by the Wichita State Shockers spoiled the 2012 home finale for the Nebraska baseball team (32-20, 12-9 Big Ten) on Tuesday night at Hawks Field. The Shockers got out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first and never looked back, as they coasted to a 13-2 win.]]></description>
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			<title>Nebraska Football: Tommie Frazier&#039;s Hall of Fame Snub Result of Ridiculous Rules</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Tommie Frazier will have to buy a ticket if he wants to get into college football’s Hall of Fame. The 2012 class was announced this week, and Frazier was not one of the 14 players selected for that honor. Frazier’s snub is as ridiculous this year as it was last year. Ahead of Frazier on the Hall of Fame’s list were such notables as Greg Myers (defensive back, Colorado State, 1992-1995) and Mark Simoneau (linebacker, Kansas State, 1992-1995). And, look, both Myers and Simoneau were great players. But neither of them were players of Tommie Frazier’s status or accomplishment. And I picked Myers and Simoneau because they were either contemporaries of or played after Frazier worked his magic for Nebraska. So, the Hall of Fame can’t fall back on omitting Frazier because there were players waiting longer than the 17 years Frazier has for his Hall of Fame selection. If that’s not the reason for Frazier’s omission, then what is? According to Ivan Maisel of ESPN.com, the Hall of Fame has “a rule against taking players from the same school in consecutive years.” Will Shields was elected into the Hall of Fame in 2011, so according to this no-consecutive-years rule, Frazier would have been ineligible in 2012. Except he was eligible, according to the website of the National Football Foundation, the organization that runs the Hall of Fame. Frazier was number 27 on the list of 76 eligible players, which included Eric Crouch and Trev Alberts. So Frazier, along with Crouch and Alberts, were clearly eligible according to the NFF’s own criteria. But apparently there are unwritten rules the voters abide by, and this no-consecutive-years rule is one of them. Right? Actually, it’s worse than that. Corn Nation pointed out what makes the process even sillier and more ridiculous than it seems at first blush. All of those ballots that go out, and all of those votes that are cast for the Hall of Fame class, don’t decide who goes into the Hall of Fame. Here’s the rule, straight from the NFF: 
The ballot of players and coaches is mailed to all dues-paying members for a member vote, of which results are provided to the Honors Court as part of the information for its meeting. The Honors Court selects the Class. (emphasis added)
 Mind-boggling. So the NFF will release a list of eligible players, except some of them aren’t really eligible. That list goes to voters who will cast ballots, except those ballots don’t really decide anything.And, as a result, we have a Hall of Fame class that is honoring Greg Myers, Mark Simoneau and Steve Bartkowski, and excluding Tommie Frazier, Orlando Pace and Derrick Thomas. And that&#039;s not even getting into the argument about Howard Schnellenberger being excluded because of an arbitrary win percentage requirement that his time at Florida Atlantic messed up. Someone explain to me why this particular Hall of Fame has any credibility left, please. I will make the case that Tommie Frazier is the best college quarterback in history. As a Nebraska fan, I confess to a bias, but I’m not alone in reaching a similar conclusion.What seems unassailable, though, is that a quarterback who went 33-2 for his career, won two national titles, four conference titles, ran for 2,154 yards, threw for 3,626 yards, and scored 82 (!) touchdowns is Hall of Fame worthy. No disrespect to Myers and Simoneau, but a Hall of Fame without Frazier, and without players like Pace and Thomas, is simply a joke. If you would like to contact me directly to schedule an interview, ask a question or to get my recipe for a killer peach cobbler, you can send an e-mail to patrickrunge@gmail.com. (DISCLAIMER: Peach cobbler recipe might not be all that killer.)Or, you could always...Follow @patrickrunge.Read more Nebraska Huskers Football news on BleacherReport.com]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Big Ten officials came out in favor of keeping bowl games as sites for college football&#039;s planned playoff on Tuesday, preferring to keep the Rose Bowl as the conference&#039;s postseason tradition. Conference athletic directors as...]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[A contrast in scheduling philosophy will break a string of meetings between Nebraska’s top two college volleyball programs this fall. For the first time since 2003, Nebraska and Creighton are not scheduled to play one...]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Former St. Louis women’s head basketball coach Shimmy Gray-Miller has been hired as an assistant at Nebraska. Nebraska coach Connie Yori announced Tuesday that Gray-Miller would replace Kellie Lewis-Jay, who left to become...]]></description>
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			<title>Osborne on playoff discussions</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What are Tom Osborne&#039;s latest thoughts on the four-team playoff talk?
Here&#039;s a video interview with the Nebraska athletic director conducted by ESPN.com Big Ten writer Adam Rittenberg following the spring meetings in Chicago today. 
Osborne says in the interview that Big Ten leaders have &quot;pretty well bought into the idea of a four-team playoff.&quot; 
The question now is how to execute it. And of course, the Big Ten is concerned about not losing its grip on the Rose Bowl in the process. 
Jim Delany (pictured) has stated his desire in recent weeks to have only conference champions, or at the very least division champions, in that four-team playoff.
The only problem with that is that a team like Alabama last year wouldn&#039;t even be in a playoff under that criteria. Same goes for that Nebraska team in 2001. Regardless of whether you think that Husker team should have been in the BCS Championship Game, it certainly should have been in a four-team playoff based on its resume from that entire season. 
So Delany&#039;s idea on that, to many, seems flawed.
One solution that was talked about at the meetings, Osborne said, was to possibly have the top three conference champions plus the highest-rated team that didn&#039;t win its conference if need be.
I&#039;d say let&#039;s not make this so complicated and just take the top four teams regardless, but that&#039;s just me. 
As for whether to use computers or voters or a selection committee to pick the teams? 
&quot;However you do it there&#039;s going to be controversy,&quot; Osborne said. &quot;One of the concerns we had is that all of a sudden this is going to escalate into a demand for an eight or 16-team playoff. We polled our teams ... and I think that most players were OK with 15 games, but I don&#039;t think they&#039;re not too anxious to get involved in a playoff where you might have 16 or 17 games.&quot; 
While the train seems heading down the tracks for a four-team playoff of some sort, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith told Ritternberg that he thinks there will be even more controversy than there was in deciding the top two teams. 
He said athletic directors studied the rankings dating back to the 1992 season and found that it was often harder to pick between the fourth and fifth teams than to decide the top two teams. 
&quot;Who&#039;s going to pick that 4 and 5?&quot; Smith said. &quot;It&#039;s just like in the
NCAA tournament. Who&#039;s left out? That&#039;s what&#039;s going to happen.&quot;

Osborne seemed to agree with that assessment. 
&quot;Well, you can only imagine what&#039;s going to happen here,&quot; Osborne said. &quot;Every team
probably in the top 10 or 12, they&#039;re going to have some argument as to
why they should be in the four-team playoff.


&quot;People think this will settle it on the field, this will diminish
the amount of controversy. I don&#039;t think that&#039;ll happen at all. If
anything, it will escalate it because you have more teams involved.&quot;
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