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I assume the newspapers in Nebraska are calling the recent signing of the two texas recruits as the texas two step. Anywho we finally got our QB recruit for the '06 and '07 class as well as a defensive back. Both out of TehASS. Is it just me or are we finally able to recruit in the talent rich states? Solich should be taking some notes instead of getting wasted at a hotel bar somewhere in Ohio.
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Mexico in the World Cup

I know that this is a blog mainly for the Huskers, but judging from the DMB piece, I thought this would be alright. I think we need to recognize Mexico in the World Cup, being our North American neighbors and all.

The referees in the World Cup have been terrible, and in Mexico's game it was not any different. Mexico started the game attacking and having the ball. Rafael Marquez scored the first goal of the game really early. Argentina tied the game, scoring on their own goal. During the goal there was a little bit of controversy since the Mexican player was getting pushed to the ground when he made contact with the ball. The second half was entertaining. During overtime Argentina scored one of the best, if not the best, goal of the World Cup. Mexico did not handle the pressure very good. A lot was expected from this team and a lot of people from Mexico are going to be disappointed.

Actually, this paragraph is courtesy of Jose Rivera in today's issue of the Lincoln Journal Star. Thought this was hillarious for some reason, so I thought I would bring it to everyone's attention, since I'm not sure how closely you monitor the LJS. I thought it particularly funny that they didn't really even try to improve the grammar or flow of the paragraph.

You can check it out online at:

http://www.journalstar.com/resources/newsroom/worldcup/

The latest college football news in the mecca of Lincoln: Bobby Bowden was here yesterday. We are all honored.

Bigger 10 gets its own TV network

The Big 10 announced today that it will launch its own television network, which is scheduled to go on the air in August 2007.

This got me thinking. Would it be feasible for the Big 12 to start its own, Big 12 sports network? Not that I'd be rooting for that, I mean, how much money will it start to cost in order to sit down in front of the TV and watch a college sporting event?

Anyways, I looked at Big 10 enrollments and populations of major cities, which could be considered a part of the Big 10 "market" and compared this to similar data for the Big 12 enrollments and cities in the Big 12 "market".

Here is what I found for the Big 10:

School/Enrollment/Location/Metro-Area Population
Illinois/40,620/Champaign-Urbana, IL/180,000
Indiana/37,958/Bloomington, IN/120,000
Iowa/29,642/Iowa City, IA/111,000
Michigan/39,000/Detroit-Flint-Ann Arbor, MI/5,750,000
Michigan State/45,166/Lansing-East Lansing, MI/450,000
Minnesota/51,194/Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN/2,960,000
Northwestern/7,826/Evanston, IL (Chicago)/9,100,000
Ohio State/50,504/Columbus, OH/1,540,000
Penn State/41,289/State College, PA/135,000
Purdue/38,563/West Lafayette, IN/182,000
Wisconsin/42,000/Madison, WI/425,000

Totals: na/423,492/na/20,953,000

I decided to add Milwaukee (1.69M) and Indianapolis (1.6M) for obvious reasons. I also think half of the following cities should be added: Cleveland (1.5M), Pittsburgh (1.2M), Des Moines (225,000) and Cincinatti (950,000) (populations shown are halved) because I am assuming that half of those could be considered a part of the "interested" market, but not all of the population because they either do not have a Big 10 school in the immediate metro area or there is a local university from another conference in that city.

Adding these populations together results in an approximate "highly interested" market population of 28,000,000. This is just a rough estimate, but qualified at some level.

Now for the Big 12:

School/Enrollment/Location/Metro-Area Population
Baylor/14,117/Waco, TX/213,000
Colorado/29,151/Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO/2,600,000
Iowa State/26,700/Ames, IA/25,000
Kansas/26,980/Lawrence, KS/99,000
Kansas State/23,000/Manhattan, KS/45,000
Missouri/27,003/Columbia, MO/135,000
Nebraska/21,792/Lincoln, NE/250,000
Oklahoma/27,282/Oklahoma City-Norman, OK/1,083,000
Oklahoma State/21,113/Stillwater, OK/39,000
Texas/50,337/Austin, TX/1,240,000
Texas A&M/43,924/Bryant-College Station, TX/152,000
Texas Tech/28,325/Lubbock, TX/242,000

Totals: na/339,724/na/6,123,000

I would add Omaha (720,000), Kansas City (1,780,000) and half of the following cities: St. Louis (1,300,000), Dallas (2,600,000), Houston (2,350,000) and San Antonio (800,000) (populations shown are halved). Now we could also include Tulsa (803,000), Wichita (545,000) and Springfield, MO (325,000), but as you can see after awhile they don't amount to much, and I didn't add those type of cities to the Big 10 market.

This sum of populations would give the Big 12 a "highly interested" market population of 17,350,000.

Here are the differentials:
Enrollment: Big 10 +83,768 (+24.6%)
"Highly Interested" Population: Big 10 +15,650,000 (+90.2%)

So, since this is a new TV station, there is some amount of risk that the Big 10 is taking on here, albeit with Fox Sports as a partner. Accepting that it would be a marginal risk for the Big 10, a similar move could not possibly be worthwhile to the Big 12, given that it has just over half the "highly interested" population, not to mention a smaller total enrollment and the associated smaller alumni bases.

Now this isn't to say Big 12 sports are any worse or our fans wouldn't be interested in such a network, but TV is all about advertising revenue. When you can pull the markets the Big 10 can, then maybe it's worth it. I'm not sure I can say the same for the Big 12, no matter how badly I want to watch re-runs of Gary Barnett getting bent after the 2000 loss at Nebraska. Yeah, that game, the one where he squib kicked it after they took a one-point lead after a successful two-point conversion with less than a minute remaining.

On second thought, maybe this thing has possibilities...

TC gets published

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huskers

No bullshit guys, I was on wikipedia, looking at the Huskers entry and noticed that nobody had submitted an article for the Husker baseball section. So I did a little research and came up with the article which you see for Husker baseball. Tell me if you think it's any good.

Hawkin's Powerhouse

3rd question down, last line of the Answer. Unfrickinbelievable.


http://www.collegefootballnews.com/2006/Ask_CFN/Ask_CFN.htm

Keepin' it f*cking real

Bob Knight once said that the "F" word was the most expressive word in the English language.

Check out this post today on Mark Cuban's blog, which is usually a good read.

I liked it because it highlighted the stupidity of sports journalists and idiotic interviews that we see on tv, hear on radio and read about in the newspaper every day. When was the last time you got anything out of those ridiculous interviews with athletes on SportsCenter? When I used to listen to Rome I had to change the station whenever he was doing an interview because it was so terrible.

Cliche's suck.

Mr. Heisman

So got another little story for y'all. A Mr. Jason White came strolling into the ole home depot on thursday and i happened to help him load a door into his truck. He said 4 words; yes, thanks, o.k, and alright. I'm impressed with oklahoma's public school products.

DMB: Saratoga Springs 6/17/06

Wow. That was pretty good.

The first Dave Matthews Band Concert I experienced was one that I will not soon forget. 25,000 or so people and I enjoyed a great show at Saratoga Springs, NY, last night. This is a huge crowd in a relatively small space, and I think I might have been groped no fewer than 50 times, and probably another 200 stepped on my left foot, which I think was drawing blood by the time the lights came down. If this would have happened any other place I would have been pissed (about the toe part), but it was packed, and it was DMB. You have to let some things go.

I don't think the true greatness of this concert will be realized until I am able to go to another concert. Probably something in Target Center or some other indoor venue, which is all DMB seems to play near Minneapolis anymore.

The songs last night were definitely from his older stuff, which is what I wanted to hear. The Best of What's Around, Crash, Lie in Our Graves, Say Goodbye, Ants Marching and Two Step were phenomenal. The Lie In Our Graves was probably my favorite, it was the 20+ minute extended version, similar to the version on The Gorge live disc. My only disappointment, and I'm tempering this with the overall greatness of the concert, was that Dave did not play Pig - probably my favorite song of theirs. They did end with Two Step, which meant I heard 2 of the 3 songs I wanted to hear going in (the other being Ants Marching). Kit Kat Jam was in the back of my mind, but that was probably a reach.

Going back to my earlier comment, Dave only played a couple newer songs, Everday, which was actually pretty good, and Hunger For the Great Light, which is off the newest disc. He played two songs which are not on CDs, so again, the overall the emphasis was definitely on earlier stuff, as TC alerted me earlier in the day.

I looked back to the setlist from Friday, and I saw that it was a completely different show. Only 2 songs were played both nights, that was surprising to me. I now know why people often go to both nights when Dave is in town. I'm glad I went Saturday, even though I would have heard Pig on Friday.

My only regret is that I had to drive back to Rutland after the show, meaning I could not enjoy any cold beverages, although I did buy a Keystone Light for $1 from some people peddling beers just off the pedestrian bridge. It was also a good night for weed sales, as I think the whole Capital District of NY will need to be resupplied. I think I saw no less than 75 hits from the pipe from the crew in front of me, and the chicks to my left were hitting a huge roach the whole time. I hope they had a good time. I did.

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First of all, I believe thanks are in order to the two other cohorts who came up with the idea for this blog and then the mutual effort it took to make it a reality. I loved this idea the moment I heard of it because now that we are all hundreds of miles from each other, the constant dialogue we had when all together in Lincoln involving various topics but mostly Husker football, hasn't had a forum. Now it does. No matter where we are, we can all get together and talk Husker football whenever we want. Well done fellas.

I will pop this cherry with my official 2006 prediction: Huskers 1 2 Opponents 2

Nebraska Cornhuskers 2006 Big 12 Champions

The Christening

"And on the eighth day, Bob Devaney created displacedhuskers.blogspot.com"

This blog is the brainchild of Husker fans as a means to share thoughts on various topics, not the least of which include the greatest program in college football history, the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

The founders and contributors of this site were once seperated by nothing but block and mortar in the hallowed halls of Abel 8, but are now seperated, in some cases, by several hundreds of miles. Alas, we are all brought together by Husker Athletics and this blog should serve as a means to continue such meaningful discussion.

Anyways...I really think we can go undefeated this year.