2020 Husker Football Game Watches
With Coach Frost starting to rebuild the program with his recruits and culture, this should be the year that...
Annual Chapter Picnic Canceled
| After careful consideration and deliberation, the Northeast Kansans for Nebraska board of directors has decided to cancel this year’s chapter picnic. We are sorry we won’t be able to have this annual get together. It’s a great time for all University of Nebraska supporters in our area to get updated on all of our Husker athletics and especially to get ready for the upcoming football season. Our chapter efforts go on, however. Your membership helps us with our chapter operations, to manage programs and our... |
2020 Road to Nebraska Scholarship Campaign
| The Northeast Kansans for Nebraska isn’t just a fun place to socialize with other Husker fans and watch football games. We are proud of the support our members have provided to students pursuing a college education at the University of Nebraska. Since 2001, we have been able to provide 26 students with more than $22,000 in scholarships from money that our members have contributed. Currently, our goal is to provide $1,500 each year to two students from northeast Kansas. Several years ago, the Northeast Kansans... |
Friday Flakes: The B1G Moving to a Conference-Only Schedule Gives Me Hope
| I am in the minority After the news that the Big Ten will be moving toward a conference-only schedule I posted the following poll on the Corn Nation twitter account: With the announcement that the B1G will play a conference-only football schedule this fall do you feel better or worse about the chances of college football happening this fall for Nebraska?— CornNation (@CornNation) July 9, 2020 I was extremely surprised. Obviously the majority of fans see the news of a conference-only schedule as an ominous... |
Rivalry Week & SBNation Reacts: Iowa and Nebraska Are Rivals
| Photo by Matthew Holst/Getty Images Just shut up and admit it folks. They’re the only “rival” we have so far in the B1G, and no it wasn’t “forced.” This long ad-nauseam debate over “are they/aren’t they” has played out far too long. Just accept it, the Iowa Hawkeyes are our Nebraska Cornhuskers true rival in the Big Ten at this point. It is not a forced rivalry, nor does it matter what the all-time record is. Any argument otherwise is a pretentious attempt to swat... |
Best Husker Wrestlers Ever: An Intro and Honorable Mentions
| Nebraska’s 2019-20 coaching staff (sitting, from left) Tyler Berger, Robert Kokesh and head coach Mark Manning along with Bryan Snyder (standing) consists of some of Nebraska’s best all-time wrestlers. | Jon Johnston / Corn Nation With a storied history, Nebraska has a loaded Top-10 best wrestlers ever The Nebraska wrestling program has a long storied history that spans 101 seasons since the 1910-11 season. It’s amassed an astounding 112 All-Americans with 11 individual NCAA Champions out of 24 NCAA finalists. Five of Nebraska’s national champs... |
Big Ten To Play Conference-Only Fall Sports Schedule
| As of right now, there will be fall sports. Well there it is. The Big Ten Conference announced Thursday that “if the Conference is able to participate in fall sports (men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, football, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball) based on medical advice, it will move to Conference-only schedules in those sports. “ This announcement cancels Nebraska’s 2020 home football games against Central Michigan, Cincinnati and South Dakota State. It doesn’t mean that the remaining nine games on Nebraska’s... |
Dienhart: Big Ten Considering Cancelling Nonconference Games Due to COVID-19
| Photo by Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Nebraska’s football games against South Dakota State, Central Michigan and Cincinnati would be replaced by a single conference game, resulting in a ten game football schedule. Tom Dienhart of Rival’s GoldAndBlack.com reports that the Big Ten is leaning towards cancelling all of this season’s nonconference football games and instead playing a ten game, conference only schedule. “Yes, it hasn’t been officially decided,” said a Power 5 head coach. “We have a big meeting tomorrow (Thursday, July 9).... |
Dennis Dodd Absurdly Puts Scott Frost on His Coaching Hot Seat List
| Photo by G Fiume/Maryland Terrapins/Getty Images That has to be the only explanation. Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports published his annual Hot Seat Rankings. Out of 130 FBS football programs Dodd picked 11 coaches who had to show immediate improvement in 2020 (if there is a season) or they have to win in 2020. If they don’t then they will be fired. Nebraska football fans likely would have seen the title of his article, “2020 Hot Seat Rankings: 11 college football coaches with their jobs... |
Nebraska Football 2020: Notable Freshmen That Could Make An Impact
| Bruce Thorson-USA TODAY Sports We are loaded with freshmen talent in the class of 2020. Who will make an impact? Finally we are starting to get some of Scott Frost’s recruits in our system. According to 247sports, the Nebraska Cornhuskers are ranked fourth in B1G recruiting. We are only behind the powerhouses Ohio State Buckeyes and Penn State Nittany Lions, and the also ran Michigan Wolverines. We currently have three 4-stars who are already enrolled, and five 4-stars who signed their National Letter of Intent.... |
BOOM! Mississippi DB Lardarius Webb Jr. is N!
| Travis Fisher nabs former NFL defensive back’s namesake. Great news for the Nebraska Cornhuskers from the land of fried catfish and blues music! Committed #GBR ⚪️ @coach_frost @CoachTFisher @CoachChinander @TalkHuskers @HuskerFBNation @JacksonAcademy @oanewspreps @CamNewton7v7 pic.twitter.com/T1IOmJvWvu— . (@LardariusJr) July 7, 2020 The Huskers landed the commitment of Mississippi defensive back Lardarius Webb Jr. Tuesday evening. If you’re an NFL fan you probably recognize his name. His father Lardarius Sr. played nine seasons in the NFL, all of them with the Baltimore Ravens, where he played cornerback... |
Nebraska Wrestling: Huskers in the Rankings, July 6
| Senior Eric Schultz is Nebraska’s highest ranked wrestler, coming in No. 4 at 197 pounds | Jon Johnston / Corn Nation With another crop of seniors graduated, Nebraska has a ranked wrestler at nine of the 10 weight classes *Rankings according to Flowrestling The Nebraska wrestling team looks to replace three starters from a year ago, but the vast majority of its best wrestlers return for another run after shocking the Big Ten with a 2nd place finish at the conference tournament in March. The... |
Release: Nebraska Releases New Mobile App With Mobile Ticketing
| Photo by Long Wei/VCG via Getty Images Moving up in the technology world I know there is at least one Nebraska football fan who wears a hat which has a ticket from every game he has attended in his lifetime. Since I don’t know his name, let’s call him Bob. Bob likely isn’t a big fan of the move toward Mobile Ticketing. Well Nebraska is moving forward regardless. Here is a statement from the Athletic Department: Nebraska Athletics is excited to announce the release of... |
V8 Breakfast
| Photo by James Worrell/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images Liquid diets were and probably still are all the rage Remember when V8 was a popular breakfast drink? All that fun sodium surging through your system. It’s amazing what we would take in the name of nutrition. Mankilling Mastodons Nebraska Football: Cincinnati game should provide telling testAs Rivals.com notes, the Nebraska football game against Cincinnati should be a very telling test as to where the program itself is at. Husker basketball’s European players remain... |
