NE KS 4 NE picnic on Saturday, August 9, 2025
Join us for our 2025 Northeast Kansans for Nebraska Picnic St. David’s Parish Hall 17th St & Gage Blvd Topeka,...
Friday Flakes: College Football Roster Caps Could Be Between 100 and 110 – Should Help Nebraska
| Gary Cosby Jr. / USA TODAY NETWORK Pete Thamel of ESPN has been reporting on the settlement discussions involving the potential move toward Universities directly compensating players. It looks like some common sense has shown up as a potential roster cap number I heard was 85 which appeared to me to be ridiculous. Thankfully it appears that the discussion is now looking at roster sizes of 100 to 110. *The range of roster limits being discussed is between 100 and 110, with the Big Ten... |
Five Heart Podcast: Why It’s All Texas’ Fault (and other Husker Topics) TONIGHT at 9pm Central
| This week on the Five Heart Podcast, we are thrilled to be joined (if even for a brief time) by Hoss Reuter. Hoss will break down for us why schools like Cal ended up in the ACC and why Rutgers has Big Ten conference games against three (3) West Coast teams. After some speculation, Nebraska has a new defensive backs coach. What do we know about John Butler? You have the opportunity to support current and future Huskers if you attend a night practice. We’ll... |
Nebraska Football: Huskers Officially Announce New Defensive Backs Coach John Butler
| Dylan Widger-USA TODAY Sports Less than a week ago, there was the Friday night news dump that Nebraska’s defensive back’s coach Evan Cooper had resigned for personal reasons. Today, Nebraska announces the hiring of a coach who is was in the NFL last season and will have the same exact position at Nebraska in John Butler as secondary coach and passing game coordinator. Butler has spent the last six seasons coaching the secondary for the Buffalo Bills. He added the title of passing game coordinator... |
Opportunity for Nebraska Football Fans: Huskers to Host Open Practice at Night – Raising Money for NIL
| Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images Another opportunity for Husker football fans to send a message. Are they the greatest fans in college football? We shall see. I kid. I kid. This is an opportunity to support the Nebraska football program through the 1890 NIL program where you get to watch a practice and at the same time you get to contribute to the NIL fund which helps with recruiting and retention of athletes at Nebraska. Nebraska announced today that they are going to do a... |
Wednesday Flakes Brings You Wimbledon, CFB Alternative Timeline, & More Recruiting
| Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images Lots of summer sports still going on. Even if it feels that fall is right around the corner. Mankilling Mastodons Husker Special Teams: Room for ImprovementNebraska special teams had some highlights last year, but still slipped nationally. Greg McElroy believes Matt Rhule has Nebraska in the right direction ‘no doubt about it’ – On3ESPN’s Greg McElroy outlined the expectations for Nebraska heading into year two of head coach Matt Rhule’s tenure. Iowa state representative earns win independent baseballA... |
Introducing James Clow – CN’s New Recruiting Writer
| Reese Strickland-USA TODAY Sports Hello my name is James Clow, from sunny Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. I am no stranger to Nebraska as I was on the UNL tennis team from 2004-2008 where I developed my passion for football and the Cornhuskers. As a tennis player I represented South Africa at junior and senior level as well finishing high school ranked 4th in South Africa. It was a dream to become a professional tennis player but I reached the limits of my abilities unfortunately. I... |
ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES – The Corn Nation Sports Movie Show: Next Up – THE KARATE KID
| Wax on, wax off. Sweep the leg. Get him a body bag, yeaaahhh. You beginner luck. Your mommy isn’t here to dress you?? You’re damn right it’s time for The Karate Kid. “We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say, you do, no questions.” And with that, a Rocky-esque story about an annoying skinny punk from New Jersey who hits the ground in SoCal running – well, mostly into fists, feet and the ground – begins its training... |
Wrestling: With Ziola Their Only Commit at Fargo, Huskers Will Be Scouting and Recruiting
| Nebraska Head Coach Mark Manning | Getty Images Husker commit Cade Ziola is a favorite to make it to the Fargo Junior final at 190 pounds. With him its only commit in the field, Nebraska will be doing some scouting: Here’s who they could be looking at from in-state Going into the world’s largest wrestling tournament, the USMC/USAW 16U and Junior National Championships in Fargo, N.D. this next week, Nebraska only has one commit in the field – Omaha Skutt’s Cade Ziola. A commit for... |
Corn Flakes: Homemade Pizza and Husker Road Race
| Photo by Kathleen Hinkel for The Washington Post via Getty Images Have you signed up for the Husker Road Race? This summer has been flying by. It always seems to, but I feel like this year is going faster than ever. I still have my list of things I wanted to do and haven’t gotten most of those done. So, last night I decided to one of them. Make homemade pizza. Now we do this from time to time, but we buy the crust or... |
Monday Night Therapy: Talking about Nebraska’s Offensive Line
| I am back from my Canadian fishing trip and this week it’s time to start talking about the 2024 Nebraska football season. We’re going to begin with the offensive line because that’s where everything begins. The game is won, the game is lost on the strength of the offensive line and Nebraska’s offensive line hasn’t been very good for a very long time. One thing to note from last year that’s changed. This year there’s been no talk of Donovan Raiola being a weak link... |
Nebraska Football: Does Memorial Stadium Suffer from Being Moody?
| Reese Strickland-USA TODAY Sports This article isn’t meant to be a declaration of any kind. It is just a thought I had last week when I wrote Friday Flakes on the fact that Memorial Stadium did not make it into EA Sports Top 25 hardest places to play for opponents. First, we need to be upfront with the fact that Memorial Stadium currently is not one of the 25 hardest places to play for opponents. Like most things in life, things could change simply by... |
Corn Flakes: The Big B1G got Bigger
| Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images July is here! Football is getting closer I hope you all had a great Fourth of July weekend! July means that we are closer to football news. Our new Big Ten brethren are officially part of the conference…UCLA, USC, Washington and Oregon. The B1G is now a transcontinental conference. Let’s wrap our heads around that for a minute. The definition of “conference” as most of us knew it is now dead. “Conference” now means a group of teams that are... |
