Media Days Thoughts

[Black Dean]

Cereal?

90% sure

 

[Juro]

90% sure

6% it’s a paint stripper.

 

[Eloot224]

Purdue hired a former 112 singer?

“West Lafayette, where the playas dwell.”

 

[Baron Winnebago]

She was a stripper

Thought she is as a "cock"tail waitress?

 

[Alcaus]

90% sure

She’s a McDonalds salad I get it now

 

[Alcaus]

Thought she is as a "cock"tail waitress?

Maybe she worked at Eleven

 

[SoCal_Corn]

90% sure

6% it’s a paint stripper.

&

4% it's a Bass

 

[Juro]

&

4% it's a Bass

And a hundred percent reason to remember the name.

 

[vailhusker]

INDIANAPOLIS– Massive projects have surrounded Turd Alberts since taking over as Nebraska's athletics director.

That Go Big project, for starters, but also the task of renovations to 100-year-old Memorial Stadium.

To the latter, circle Oct. 5 as a meaningful date for an update.

"Our job is we're tasked with presenting a vision, a plan, an opportunity to execute a vision of Memorial Stadium that we'll present to (NU President) Ted Carter and the Board of Regents on Oct. 5," he said Thursday at Big Ten media days. "Part of why it's a Herculean task is we're not just talking about the stadium itself, but you're talking about backfill from the Go Big project. So you think about 315,000 square feet coming online. There's a significant amount of programming that's leaving the stadium. So how do we rethink that?"

Worth highlighting, Alberts added, "I'm really interested in how we can activate Memorial Stadium more than seven Saturdays a year. I think a lot of us in college athletics are thinking that way, looking for new entrepreneurial revenue streams."


Like the volleyball match the Huskers will host Aug. 30. Or the Garth Brooks concert that was held in the stadium in 2021.

The Go Big project has been "the catalyst" to reimagine how to utilize stadium space.

That facility project is going well, Alberts said, but has also been a challenge.

"And I had to remind myself we have 315,000 square feet. I mean, it's a massive facility. One of the things we're really trying to figure out and Coach Rhule is really passionate about is we don't want to do anything that disrupts the football team. So there's certain areas that are completed. Some others where we're waiting on a couple things. Whether we all get in prior to camp or we wait until after camp breaks, we're working on that final date."

It'll be soon, he added, but soon doesn't have a specific date yet.

The locker room will be open before the season, he confirmed. Alberts wasn't sure on the weight room. "I'm not trying to be coy. I don't want to give false information."

The Training Table in the new facility would probably open more at the end of the calendar year, Alberts said.

"It's a Herculean task and everybody is all hands on deck. Our partners in the construction, and project management team and internal team, are working really hard to do it appropriately. But obviously being the first year in everything we don't need anything to disrupt the team. And we also have great facilities where we currently reside."

 

[vailhusker]

 

[vailhusker]

 

[BIGSTICK67]

90% sure

I thought that was Fleck's wife. So we have 2 coaches in the B1G that married strippers.

Not normally marriage material, as strippers are known to enjoy what they do for a reason.

 

[vailhusker]

Steve Marik • InsideNebraska
Staff Writer
@Steve_Marik

As Matt Rhule spoke at the main podium on Thursday inside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for Big Ten Media Days, his athletic director, Turd Alberts, was off to the side watching.
After Rhule was done, Alberts couldn’t escape a large media group that hunted him down armed with questions. Here’s a quick rundown of what Alberts said.
>> What about the new facility? Alberts said it’s coming along, but there have been challenges because it’s a “massive facility.”
Certain areas are completed, he said, while others are being waited on. The main focus for Alberts and Rhule is that the team isn’t impacted.
“Whether we all get in prior to (fall) camp, or if we wait until camp breaks, we’re working on that final date," Alberts said. "We just don’t want any disruptions. It’s soon, the rest of the stuff, maybe the training table and some of that, is probably more toward the end of the calendar year. But it’s a Herculean task and everybody is all hands on deck. Our partners in the construction and project management team, the internal team, are working really hard to do it appropriately. With it being the first year and everything, we don’t need anything to disrupt the team.”
Alberts said the team’s locker room will be ready to go by the start of the season, but he wasn’t sure if the new weight room would.
>> What’s stood out to Alberts when watching Rhule and his staff go to work since hiring him in late November? The AD said Rhule “is the guy we thought he was when we made the hire.”
Alberts sees a great work ethic, intelligence, a strategic coach and authenticity.
“More importantly, I think he really cares about football players. And helping them develop and grow. He’s very passionate about health and safety,” said Alberts, who noted Rhule changing the practice fields from turf to grass to help prevent injuries.
>> What is Alberts looking for during the season? He wasn’t going to give a win total that he’d like Rhule to reach. Instead, he offered his thoughts on expectations.
“We have high expectations here. We expect to be very competitive,” Alberts said. “At the end of the day, I think it’s also realistic to expect — this is our first year. We have a whole new coaching staff, we have a new offensive coordinator, new defensive coordinator and a lot of new players. So we just want to get better.
"I’m serious about what we talked about the last couple of years. It doesn’t take many Nebraska fans, many alumni and all of you (media), to look at a team and say, ‘Is that a Nebraska team?’ Is that a team that pays attention to details, is that a team that’s physical, tough and fundamentally sound and plays as a unit, has discipline and accountability in a program? To me, those are the small fundamental things that lead to what we all desire.”
>> Alberts said he’s learned from Rhule. The AD likes how strategic the coach is. He watches Rhule interact with players, and Rhule’s ability to coach players hard, but earning their trust before that has been impactful for Alberts.
“He and his staff really invest in the players, really getting to know them as people,” Alberts said. “Sometimes we forget about that, that these are people.”
>> Alberts said the Go Big Project is opening a world of opportunities for Memorial Stadium. Keep an eye on this date: Oct. 5. That’s when there will be a Board of Regents meeting, per Alberts.
"Our job is, we're tasked with presenting a vision, a plan, an opportunity to execute a vision of Memorial Stadium that we'll present to Ted Carter (NU president) and the Board of Regents on Oct. 5," Alberts said. "Part of why it's a Herculean task is, we're not just talking about the stadium itself but you're talking about back-fill from the Go Big Project. So you think about 315,000 square feet coming online, there's a significant amount of programming that's leaving the stadium. So, how do we rethink that?"
Alberts said Nebraska’s leadership has good “entrepreneurial ideas” that deal with using Memorial Stadium for more than just seven Saturdays per year. The “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” is an example of that.

 

[SOHusker11]

The boys sure love Uncle Donnie.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

The boys sure love Uncle Donnie.

Uncle Donny is apparently the coolest fucking dude in the galaxy

 

[Juro]

Uncle Donny is apparently the coolest fucking dude in the galaxy

Except his nephews don’t want to be around him.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Except his nephews don’t want to be around him.

Did Uncle Donny tell Rhule to pass on Dylan? Lots of people are saying he might have

 

[huskerj12]

😬

 

[vailhusker]

 

[vailhusker]