Nebraska 2018 Season Thread

[FearlessF]

>> Shoe takeover: Stanley Morgan Jr., Aaron Williams and Antonio Reed walked into their photoshoot on Friday all wearing these monochromatic adidas cleats: red outsole, red upper, red laces, red lining and a red tag on the back. The thing that makes them stand out — the same thing that resulted in probably a hundred pictures just featuring the shoes themselves — is the fact that the entire toe of the cleat is covered in spikes. If you get kicked by these, congratulations, your skin now features a polka dot pattern.

Tyjon Lindsey had Yeezy cleats and he was certainly feeling them.

Noah Vedral was the only Husker to rock some of the brand new adimoji cleats adidas announced ahead of the new football season. There are gold shoes that feature the money bag emoji, green boots that feature the flying money stack emoji, white and gold with the goat emoji, white with the frost emoji and red with the 100 emoji. Vedral bought his own red 100s and wore them proudly. “Sometimes you’ve got to take matters into your own hands,” he said. He’s still trying to convince Frost to let him wear them in-season. 

The shoes are a big deal, folks. And there were times during our photoshoot where they completely took over.

[FearlessF]

THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
 

«1913: Coach Jumbo Stiehm acknowledges that Nebraska has applied for member­ship in the Western Conference (now the Big Ten) and says the Cornhuskers' chances appear good. "Provided the members definitely decide upon enlarging the league, there will no question as to Nebraska's admission," he says.

https://www.huskermax.com/pastnews/week/img/1913_06_15_conference/conference_bee.html

[ELA]

Missed that Nebraska and Colorado were playing this year.  Not Nebraska-Oklahoma, but still pretty darned good.  The fact that it's the same weekend as Pitt-Penn State make me happy too.

[FearlessF]

I will be attending that game

Ralphie is a COW!

[847badgerfan]

I wonder how different things would look, for both UNL and the B1G, had UNL been admitted 100+ years ago.

[FearlessF]

that is a great thought to ponder

could be wildly different for one or the other, but can't be the same for both

[FearlessF]

Husker football players are about to get tested in a big way by some sources from the outside.

Nebraska will call on the services of The Program, a form of intense training and leadership-building run by former military personnel, who will work with players this upcoming Sunday through Tuesday, according to tight ends coach Sean Beckton.

The military-style training program was also used multiple times by Bo Pelini when he was the Husker head coach, and was something Scott Frost's players at UCF went through the past two years.

"They're going to put our players in a tough environment. They're going to put them in an environment where physically they have to do a lot of demanding things, and mentally they have to do a lot of demanding things," Beckton told some Husker fans in Blair as part of a 26-city tour by coaches. "We're going to find out who our leaders are. We're going to find out who's going to quit. We're going to find out guys we can depend on.

"Those freshmen guys, see which of those guys have the mentality to help us as a true freshman."

Those who run the training program describe their mission as so: "The Program is not concerned about talent or winning individual games. We care about competing for championships — and to compete for a championship, we must make a commitment as individuals and as a team to getting ‘that much better’ every single day. We do this by being good team leaders and good teammates and by preparing ourselves every day to fill either role."

[Brutus Buckeye]

I will be attending that game

Ralphie is a COW!

Beats being a steer, I suppose. 

[FearlessF]

THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY

1908: Nebraska's board of regents OKs a $30,000 land purchase for "a football field and drill grounds." Nebraska Field, just south of today's Memorial Stadium, would be the Cornhuskers' home for 14 seasons.
 

1953: Nebraska is scheduled for its first national telecast as NBC selects the Huskers' Sept. 19th home opener against Oregon. The Huskers' first regional telecast was against Colorado in 1951, and the Huskers' 1949 and 1950 home games were televised locally on WOW-TV.

Nebraska vs. Michigan at Nebraska Field, 1911.

[Entropy]

Scott Frost has his eyes on recruits' social media. "If there's anything negative about women, if there's anything racial or about sexuality, if there's anything about guns or anything like that, we're just not going to recruit you, period." http://bit.ly/2tpjNxF

[847badgerfan]

Smart move by Frost. Goes without saying (for most coaches) but still good to put it out there.

[Entropy]

Frost transcript from media days...

https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/read-all-about-it-full-transcript-from-frost-s-media/article_6aa7578f-c9ff-54ac-a41a-ca1a1f5ce3e7.html?utm_content=bufferf1ced&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=LEEDCC

[FearlessF]

The 1997 Huskers will be the next team featured on BTN’s “Big Ten Elite” series.

Even television executives are not immune to the Frost Effect, as the Big Ten Network announced Tuesday that 1997 Nebraska will be the next team featured on the network's "Big Ten Elite" program.

"Big Ten Elite" is a documentary-style show that revisits some of the best teams in conference history (loosely defined in the case of Nebraska) through in-depth interviews with the players, coaches and media members who were around for the championship runs.

The 1997 Cornhuskers, with Scott Frost at quarterback, went 11-0 in the regular season, which included close wins over unranked Missouri and Colorado in November, but Nebraska finished with a flourish. Ranked second in the Associated Press poll entering December, the Huskers hammered 14th-ranked Texas A&M 54-15 to claim the school's first Big 12 title, then trounced Tennessee 42-17 in the Orange Bowl. The bowl win was enough for Nebraska to overtake Michigan in the Coaches Poll, resulting in a split national title.


That 1997 Michigan team has already been featured on "Big Ten Elite," so the inclusion of Nebraska brings balance to the force, so to speak. It's not the Huskers' first appearance on the program either. The 1994 team was featured previously.

[MarqHusker]

Scott Frost's house was 'burgled.  Rings and such taken from his Lincoln home.