panther07 said:

Makes sense why like half of WKU's pitching staff was in the portal

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PonyBoy said:

Embarrassing

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PonyBoy said:

Embarrassing

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SlumpBuster said:

Does it feel like the athletic department is trying to put lipstick on a pig and make people believe that we have incredible resources?

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PonyBoy said:

Yes.

Dannen = Moos & Alberts.

Lying, gutless, piece of shit

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Dr.DrakeRamoray said:

Until football is done, stadium, rev share, etc, everything else is going to be put on the back burner

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SlumpBuster said:

Does it feel like the athletic department is trying to put lipstick on a pig and make people believe that we have incredible resources?

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PonyBoy said:

Yes.

Dannen = Moos & Alberts.

Lying, gutless, piece of shit

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Kaladin said:

I don’t remember the athletic department posting this stuff in years past

Why now

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...TrueColors... said:

They’ve clearly gotten word that our facilities are under fire.

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Kaladin said:

According to Sam McKewon, we have among the best facilities in the Big 10 for all three major mens sports!!!



LINCOLN — In a sense, you can thank three Nebraska athletic directors — including current one Troy Dannen — for setting up such a strong 2024-2025 sports season for the Huskers.
Bill Moos had a bonus clause put into his contract tied to the Director’s Cup finish, which immediately placed monetary value on the contributions of every NU sport. Turd Alberts leaned into the competitiveness angle and made the right hire for men’s and women’s track — the sport helping quite a bit in the standings — in Justin St. Clair.
By all accounts, Dannen has been the A.D. who has a deft touch with coaches. Be it Matt Rhule or new volleyball coach Dani Busboom Kelly or other coaches in smaller sports.

Dannen has Bill Moos’ front-of-the-house skills combined with a from-the-ground-up grasp of athletics.
As a result, Nebraska will have its best finish in the Director’s Cup in at least 15 years. Three years ago, NU finished 49th.

It’s reasonable to expect the Huskers maintain their strength in most sports, though the track team loses some of its best athletes — at least on paper.

Is it reasonable to expect the three biggest men’s sports — football, men’s basketball and baseball — also to make strides?
That’s probably the lingering question as NU exits this athletic calendar and enters 2025-2026 in mid-August.

Women’s sports at Nebraska — volleyball and softball in particular — appear headed for excellence again in the next 12 months. Olympic sports around here benefit from elite facilities, academic support and student life. Administrators take that seriously for every student-athlete on campus.
The big three on the men’s side. There’s the question.
We’re not diving too deep here — it’s officially summer and more a moment of pause than analysis by paralysis — but rather examining the puzzle pieces that have to fall into place.

If you had to pick the best cumulative year for those three teams, you’d pick between:

1993-1994: NU football played for a national title, NU basketball won the Big Eight tournament and John Sanders finished the baseball season 34-26.

2001-2002: Dave Van Horn led NU baseball to the College World Series, Husker football played for the national title as Eric Crouch won the Heisman and, well, Barry Collier had a highly forgettable second year as basketball coach.
2013-2014: Husker football won nine game, including a bowl over Georgia, Tim Miles led NU hoops to the NCAA tournament and Darin Erstad got Nebraska baseball to a regional.
Of those three, I lean 2001-2002, but you can play any of those cards.

Nebraska fans would take in a heartbeat what happened in 2013-2014, when Bo Pelini, Miles and Erstad were the respective coaches.

Rhule, Fred Hoiberg and Will Bolt have a stronger cumulative coaching résumé than that trio did. With perhaps the exception of men’s basketball, their respective staffs are stronger, too. And the financial commitment to all three appears better than it once was.

Facilities? Among the best in the Big Ten in all three sports.

Perks through revenue sharing and NIL? Probably not No. 1 in the Big Ten, but arguably top three and likely top five overall.
Alignment in the athletic department? It’s there.

In 2013-2014, Shawn Eichorst had few defenders within the athletic department and he also had, thanks to Pelini, more fires to put out.
Dannen has widespread approval according to anyone I’ve hit up for thoughts and his signature coach, Rhule, makes life easier on an A.D., too.

So the off-the-field intangibles look good and the coaching staffs, especially this version of Rhule’s, seem on point.
How about the players?
In baseball, you can see the program is in flux as it gets down to a 34-man roster limit while potentially adding some new scholarships that, it should be noted, will come out of $20.5 revenue sharing pool. How NU recruited its most recent arriving class will tell part of the story.

In men’s basketball, the jury’s out until Rienk Mast — probably the team’s best overall player — returns fully healthy in games, doing the things Mast did two seasons ago.

Four of NU’s five best players off the 2024 NCAA tournament team are gone. Mast is the fifth, and he’ll need three transfers — Pryce Sandfort, Kendall Blue and Jamarques Lawrence — to raise their games so Hoiberg can have another sum-greater-than-its-parts team.

That leaves football.

We’ve spilled a lot of ink already — and will spill more ink — on every aspect of NU’s roster building. The transfers, the high school guys who have spent two years eating and lifting, the new recruiting class that might earn playing time.

Yes, the Huskers have the players to win nine or 10 games. They’ve got to get rid of the miscues that could keep them at six or seven wins.
Rhule, talking on ESPN’s “Always College Football” last week, underlined this journey.
“We’ve been in a race for consistency,” Rhule said. “When you’re playing young players, young people aren’t always consistent. But I think they’ve seen the importance of it. We didn’t solve our problems this year through the portal. We got better in the portal, but we’re solving our problems on the practice. We’re getting better at football.”

During the interview, ESPN analyst Greg McElroy covered the bases — improving skill players on offense, the growth of quarterback Dylan Raiola, the growing parity of the sport that gives schools like NU, Illinois and Indiana a chance at the College Football Playoff.

Rhule didn’t overshoot his team’s chances, but if fans are looking for a boost headed into the offseason, the third-year Nebraska coach provided it.
“I couldn’t be more satisfied with where the guys are,” Rhule said. “Usually as a coach you’re ‘yeah, but.’ I love where we are, I love the moves that we’ve made, in terms of the gains, the way the guys have worked. We gave them a little time off in May, we came back in June, and I went down there today and I think we’re working with purpose and intentionality.
“I see a team that really supports each other, and we’re bigger, faster, stronger. We’ve got guys at every position that can win in the Big Ten.”

If Nebraska adds big football success to its current athletic department performance, the bumper crop years of Husker athletics — once seen in the 1990s — might be back.

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Kaladin said:

According to Sam McKewon, we have among the best facilities in the Big 10 for all three major mens sports!!!



LINCOLN — In a sense, you can thank three Nebraska athletic directors — including current one Troy Dannen — for setting up such a strong 2024-2025 sports season for the Huskers.
Bill Moos had a bonus clause put into his contract tied to the Director’s Cup finish, which immediately placed monetary value on the contributions of every NU sport. Turd Alberts leaned into the competitiveness angle and made the right hire for men’s and women’s track — the sport helping quite a bit in the standings — in Justin St. Clair.
By all accounts, Dannen has been the A.D. who has a deft touch with coaches. Be it Matt Rhule or new volleyball coach Dani Busboom Kelly or other coaches in smaller sports.

Dannen has Bill Moos’ front-of-the-house skills combined with a from-the-ground-up grasp of athletics.
As a result, Nebraska will have its best finish in the Director’s Cup in at least 15 years. Three years ago, NU finished 49th.

It’s reasonable to expect the Huskers maintain their strength in most sports, though the track team loses some of its best athletes — at least on paper.

Is it reasonable to expect the three biggest men’s sports — football, men’s basketball and baseball — also to make strides?
That’s probably the lingering question as NU exits this athletic calendar and enters 2025-2026 in mid-August.

Women’s sports at Nebraska — volleyball and softball in particular — appear headed for excellence again in the next 12 months. Olympic sports around here benefit from elite facilities, academic support and student life. Administrators take that seriously for every student-athlete on campus.
The big three on the men’s side. There’s the question.
We’re not diving too deep here — it’s officially summer and more a moment of pause than analysis by paralysis — but rather examining the puzzle pieces that have to fall into place.

If you had to pick the best cumulative year for those three teams, you’d pick between:

1993-1994: NU football played for a national title, NU basketball won the Big Eight tournament and John Sanders finished the baseball season 34-26.

2001-2002: Dave Van Horn led NU baseball to the College World Series, Husker football played for the national title as Eric Crouch won the Heisman and, well, Barry Collier had a highly forgettable second year as basketball coach.
2013-2014: Husker football won nine game, including a bowl over Georgia, Tim Miles led NU hoops to the NCAA tournament and Darin Erstad got Nebraska baseball to a regional.
Of those three, I lean 2001-2002, but you can play any of those cards.

Nebraska fans would take in a heartbeat what happened in 2013-2014, when Bo Pelini, Miles and Erstad were the respective coaches.

Rhule, Fred Hoiberg and Will Bolt have a stronger cumulative coaching résumé than that trio did. With perhaps the exception of men’s basketball, their respective staffs are stronger, too. And the financial commitment to all three appears better than it once was.

Facilities? Among the best in the Big Ten in all three sports.

Perks through revenue sharing and NIL? Probably not No. 1 in the Big Ten, but arguably top three and likely top five overall.
Alignment in the athletic department? It’s there.

In 2013-2014, Shawn Eichorst had few defenders within the athletic department and he also had, thanks to Pelini, more fires to put out.
Dannen has widespread approval according to anyone I’ve hit up for thoughts and his signature coach, Rhule, makes life easier on an A.D., too.

So the off-the-field intangibles look good and the coaching staffs, especially this version of Rhule’s, seem on point.
How about the players?
In baseball, you can see the program is in flux as it gets down to a 34-man roster limit while potentially adding some new scholarships that, it should be noted, will come out of $20.5 revenue sharing pool. How NU recruited its most recent arriving class will tell part of the story.

In men’s basketball, the jury’s out until Rienk Mast — probably the team’s best overall player — returns fully healthy in games, doing the things Mast did two seasons ago.

Four of NU’s five best players off the 2024 NCAA tournament team are gone. Mast is the fifth, and he’ll need three transfers — Pryce Sandfort, Kendall Blue and Jamarques Lawrence — to raise their games so Hoiberg can have another sum-greater-than-its-parts team.

That leaves football.

We’ve spilled a lot of ink already — and will spill more ink — on every aspect of NU’s roster building. The transfers, the high school guys who have spent two years eating and lifting, the new recruiting class that might earn playing time.

Yes, the Huskers have the players to win nine or 10 games. They’ve got to get rid of the miscues that could keep them at six or seven wins.
Rhule, talking on ESPN’s “Always College Football” last week, underlined this journey.
“We’ve been in a race for consistency,” Rhule said. “When you’re playing young players, young people aren’t always consistent. But I think they’ve seen the importance of it. We didn’t solve our problems this year through the portal. We got better in the portal, but we’re solving our problems on the practice. We’re getting better at football.”

During the interview, ESPN analyst Greg McElroy covered the bases — improving skill players on offense, the growth of quarterback Dylan Raiola, the growing parity of the sport that gives schools like NU, Illinois and Indiana a chance at the College Football Playoff.

Rhule didn’t overshoot his team’s chances, but if fans are looking for a boost headed into the offseason, the third-year Nebraska coach provided it.
“I couldn’t be more satisfied with where the guys are,” Rhule said. “Usually as a coach you’re ‘yeah, but.’ I love where we are, I love the moves that we’ve made, in terms of the gains, the way the guys have worked. We gave them a little time off in May, we came back in June, and I went down there today and I think we’re working with purpose and intentionality.
“I see a team that really supports each other, and we’re bigger, faster, stronger. We’ve got guys at every position that can win in the Big Ten.”

If Nebraska adds big football success to its current athletic department performance, the bumper crop years of Husker athletics — once seen in the 1990s — might be back.

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SlumpBuster said:

Also why tf would new scholarships come out of revenue sharing?

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