Ah yes forgot about Markway. Blye was last year and same with DBell?
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Blye and Bell were both in the spring game last year
Key was back practicing in pads today
It’s more of a quagmire shaped head.
Rumor that Blye is hurt again and Bell is gonna be out a while too but I think rhule said he'd be back early in the season. I think they're both leg things, but I'm also a moron so maybe not
I don't pay much attention to names anymore since the portal took off a few years ago, but are our injuries to players that would see significant time, or just depth pieces? I know the TE of course. But isn't Blye and Stenger young, and depth pieces? I understand we need depth.
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Both are depth - neither was expected to be a starter.
I think there is a very distinct possibility that Nebraska could finish 10-2 and NOT earn a playoff bid. What if those 2 losses are to Michigan and Penn State, and the wins look like this below:
Cincinatti - .5, 6, or 7 win Big 12 team
Akron - Trash from the MAC
HCU- Christian Trash from the FCS
Michigan State - below .500 team
Maryland - last place Big Ten team
Minnesota - .500 Big Ten team
Northwestern - below .500 Big Ten team
USC - 7 or 8 win Big Ten team - best win
UCLA - below .500 Big Ten team
Cockeye - 7 or 8 win Big Ten team
Then let's say the following Big Ten Teams finish this way:
Penn State - 11-1
Ohio State - 10-2
Oregon - 10-2
Illinois - 10-2
Michigan - 10-2
Bottom line here is Nebraska isn't getting into the playoffs with their 10-2.
Fat Bert is COY in this scenario
Fat Bert does go in with no lube against us, would be fitting. He’s gotta have a 80% win rate against us.
The chance that 5 Big Ten teams finish 10-2 is very low. 10-2 in the big 10 will get you in basically every year. In this scenario there’s possibly 2 10-2 Big 10 teams left out as I don’t think I see any conference outside of maybe the SEC getting 5 teams. In the first year of the expanded conference & playoff there was only 4 teams that finished 10-2 or better & only 1 team finished 9-3.
Well, I think 9-10 wins could be enough if we’re in the playoff hunt down the stretch and just miss getting in. But like you said, 9 wins and being out of the playoff race with 2-3 weeks left in the regular season… Probably not enough IMO.
This is a similar scenario to what I was referring to in the above post. That might be enough to win Rhule Coach of the year honors, (B1G) but probably wouldn’t make the playoff.
That home game against Michigan will be huge. We can pull that off it will be the difference maker.
haha OK.
Michigans going 7-5..
While I agree that chance of that many Big Ten teams finishing 10-2 seems low, I also would point out that gross inequity in Big Ten scheduling. There is also one more reason why I think the possibility of so many teams finishing with 10 wins, the bottom of the Big Ten might be absolutely dog shit this season:
Maryland will potentially be underdogs in all 9 League games.
Northwestern might only be favored in one league game.
Purdue is absolutely going to be an underdog in all 9 league games.
Michigan State is a big unknown and there are media folks close to that program claiming they are a g God Damn mess right now.
UCLA, despite all the Nico excitement, lost 6 players to the NFL and 18 starters total. They might have as many as 8 starters from last season that are starting in the Big Ten, SEC, or Big 12 for other programs. The Bruins honestly might be terrible, moreso than any of us can imagine.
Wisconsin might finish below .500 again.
Illinois plays 5 of those 6 teams and also draws a home game with Rutgers.
The Huskers play 4 of those 6 teams.
Ohio State might take a step back, but they have 3 of those teams.
Penn State is going to be elite anyway, but they have 3 of those games.
Oregon only plays 2 of those teams, but one of them is a road game at Northwestern. If they only play 4 league road games and one of those league road games is at NW, then they really only have 3 legit road games.
So is Nebraska
Nuggets from Nebraska AD Troy Dannen's fall press conference
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As the 2025 football season nears, Nebraska athletic director Troy Dannen has plenty on his plate at the moment. Dannen met with the media on Friday morning to give the latest on a wide range of topics.
Here is a full recap of what he had to say…
Nebraska athletic director Troy Dannen
***Dannen said Nebraska set records with contributions from 17,763 donors totalling over $70 million. He credited NU’s athletic success across all sports, as well as praising its academic achievements.***Looking forward, Dannen said Aramark taking over concessions and adding alcohol sales was a significant adjustment. He said Aramark would contribute several million to improving NU’s concession setups. Nebraska also spent a lot of time on “studying security” at athletic events, including 100-110 officers at games. Last year they were at 75.
***Dannen said the new track and field facility was “progressing well” and should be done by next fall. Nebraska is also going to expand Cook Arena following the winter sports stadium. That will include replacing the plywood benches with seats and increasing capacity to 10,200.
***Dannen said events planning would be a priority this year. “We have to use our venues… We have to start thinking entrepreneurially.” Adding more events at those venues will help generate revenue beyond simply raising ticket prices. He said they’re already engaged with three potential events for this year, though that will not include anything at Memorial Stadium this fall.
***On the Memorial Stadium Project, Dannen said they were at “status quo.” A lot of the work has happened behind the scenes. He noted that the “system-wide” financial issues at the University have caused some delay in the renovation’s progress.
***Nebraska eliminated 22 positions within its athletic department to help cover the $20.5 million revenue share expense. That saved $2-3 million. They also “reprioritized our expenses,” putting rev share as the “priority” over most everything else.
When all is said and done, Dannen hopes Nebraska’s budget will eventually be “around $5 million positive.” He said his No. 1 priority was “protecting the financial model” he inherited at NU, which includes being entirely self-sustaining.
***Dannen said he couldn’t give enough credit to the 1890 Collective and the contributions from the Peed family. He said the collective’s role may diminish going forward, but it was hard to know until further legal precedent was put in place.
***On the settlement overall, Dannen stressed for fans not to get frustrated during some of the early growing pains of this new landscape. He said he’s been “thrilled with everything that’s happened… It needs to work. It has to work for the sake of the enterprise.”
***Dannen said Nebraska had submitted 39 NIL deals to the clearinghouse, and 20 of those were already approved. They’re awaiting rulings on four others. He said those deals ranged from $600 to $40,000, including three valuing above $35,000.
***Dannen said NU replaced its big screen on the north end of Memorial Stadium. They also have a $20 million agreement with Verizon to help improve in-stadium cellular service. He added that Nebraska wouldn’t focus on improving the stadium’s WiFi until after the stadium renovations were completed.
Football’s financial impact, and evaluating other sports in the rev share era
***On how much football winning impacts Nebraska’s financial situation, Dannen didn’t sugarcoat his answer: “We have to win.” He said 85% of NU’s athletic budget came from football. Volleyball operates around “the Mendoza line” because of how much they invest in the program.***Dannen will never give a coach or a program “a competitive goal” when it comes to season record and success. However, “you can tell a lot about where a program is at by being around it every day.” He’s around football daily, and he believes the culture of success is there with Nebraska football.
“I want to win at a level that Nebraska has seen before… There has to be progress.”
***Dannen said Nebraska has “probably 24 plans” for how to distribute revenue share money and resources to each of its athletic programs. He met with each coach last year to see what they all needed and quickly realized those needs were much different from sport to sport.
***On some schools frontloading NIL money before the revenue sharing went into effect, Dannen said the new issue was that it was now happening during the pre-enrollment period of the recruiting process.
***Dannen said a lot of the massive roster budgets you see these days resulted from frontloading NIL deals. In some cases, he thought some of those numbers were downright lies. He doesn’t worry about what other programs are supposedly paying. What he’s concerned with is getting tangible value and success from what Nebraska invests in each program.
Dannen said, “The stakes are really high” now with roster management because of the money involved.
“If you miss on a $250,000 rev-share allocation, it’s a big deal now.”
***On Nebraska basketball specifically, Dannen said, “Historically, the schools that have spent the most don’t win the most.” He admitted that basketball programs at football-centered schools like NU face challenges, but “there’s a cost for major college football.” At Nebraska, football will be the priority.
Ticket sales and schedule talk
***Dannen said the Michigan home football game was already sold out, but wasn’t sure where sales were with other games. He mentioned that a small percentage of tickets would always remain unsold the week of the game, including returned visitor tickets.The sellout streak was not in jeopardy for any game.
***He said the opener in Kansas City was around 66,000, with roughly 6,000 of those going to buyers from Ohio and Kentucky addresses.
***Dannen doesn’t expect a Friday night home game next season, but “I’m sure we’ll have more.” He guessed maybe two more through the life of the TV deal (2032). He added that NU would never host an additional Friday home game in the years Cockeye plays in Lincoln.
***Dannen said the non-conference schedule would remain unchanged until the stadium project’s completion and once the CFP model was set in stone.
***Dannen said he didn’t have a target number for events at Memorial Stadium. “Right now, it’s seven,” referring to NU’s seven home football games. A lot of that will depend on how well the AD can work with the city to bring in unique events.
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