Nebraska 2018 Season Thread

[Brutus Buckeye]

Has OSU3 hired hmi back yet? 

[Mdot21]

congrats to Nebraska for finally firing his ass. Now go get Scott Frost turn around the program and make the B1G the best conference in the country.

[ELA]

Nevraska will still be paying both Pelini and Riley next year.  They owe $9 million to fired coaches.  Does that limit what they can spend?

[FearlessF]

money is no object when payin off fired coaches and AD's - booster's of substance pony up

in the very recent past, Pelini & Riley, it has been a factor in how much per season they pay the incoming coach

I think that has changed after the worst season in 55 years and Scott Frost's name on the list

[Mdot21]

Yeah I think they'll have a pretty easy time rounding up the cash from boosters to bring Scott Frost home to be the conquering hero.

[CWSooner]

"Frost" and "Nebraska" make for a headline-writer's dream.

[FearlessF]

my fingers are crossed

[CWSooner]

May your fingers be rewarded.

[FearlessF]

I don't know who the other 5 guys are on Moos list, but Frost would be the most interesting and the best fit

one of the other 5 might win more games in Lincoln, but we'll never know for sure

[TyphonInc]

Riley is a class act, even at termination.

[Hawkinole]

Hope it happens and I hope that Frost is the real deal. I still think he's a bit of a gamble and not that proven. I just want to see Nebraska get back. It's good for the conference and the sport. Nebraska at a high level competing with Wisconsin in the West will just bring the B1G up an entire notch.

I think it would be good if Iowa came back. Or, if Minnesota came back. Or, if Nebraska came back. But I am thinking NU and Purdue don't think so. We have a competitive league and for the most part a competitive division. Wisconsin dominated it this season, but that doesn't always happen.
It was a bad year for the Western Division. But, it is the first year of this divisional set up we can say the West was inferior. This may be like last year, when the East was inferior overall but won the Conference Championship Game. The West may appear inferior, but produce the overall champion.

[MarqHusker]

Cycles.   Pac 12 South still hasn't won the CCG.   The XII always seemed to be out of balance, one way or the other.  I'll admit to not caring enough about the ACC to know how out of balance it has been.  I just know Miami has yet to play FSU in the title game.

[Hawkinole]

Athletic Director Bill Moos believes Nebraska needs a rival, and he wants it to be Iowa.

On the nightly radio show on the Husker Sports Network Monday evening, Moos said he has already met with the Big Ten to try and make Iowa the permanent Black Friday opponent.

Nebraska has played in 28 straight Black Friday games, but is currently scheduled to stop by 2020.

"I'm going to really push, to establish Iowa as being our rival," Moos said on air. "We came into the Big Ten and we need a rivalry game, and I've already been to the Big Ten and talked to them about that so hopefully we can keep that Black Friday game and have that be Iowa each year."

I don't object to the Black Friday game between Iowa and Nebraska.  I also don't object to the Iowa-Wisconsin series to close out the Big Ten season since I view Wisconsin as Iowa's biggest rival. We could move that to Black Friday if the rest of the conference agrees that the conference needs a Black Friday game.

There is an argument to make for Black Friday games between Minnesota and Nebraska. Minnesota is Nebraska's most frequent opponent among Big Ten teams. With new coaches, these programs could become two of the better programs in the West.

I think Iowa fans enjoyed closing the season with Minnesota and traveling to the Dome since the final game of the year could be enjoyed in warmth. It's a bit more difficult to imagine playing Minnesota in alternate years on the 4th Friday or Saturday of November.

[FearlessF]

I agree with everything you stated there.

Since I live near the Missouri river and we joined the B1G trying to start a rivalry and new tradition I favor continuing to play the Hawks on Black Friday

the only thing I REALLY object to is the performance of the Huskers the past 7 seasons.  Not only in the black friday game itself, but overall conference performance to make the game bigger and more important.  A step to the West Div title.

I enjoy the Gopher fans and the trip to Minneapolis.