Indiana
Huskers Get Torched At Indiana Dumpster Fire, 56-7
Great question.
In less than a week, NU travels to #4 Ohio State. At the Horseshoe. In Columbus, Ohio.
Yup. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
It’s like one week you get beat up by Mohammad Ali when he was in his prime and a week later you take on Mike Tyson also in his prime.
Things don’t look too good for the Scarlet & Cream this Saturday.
Matt Rhule needs to find a way to get his team back on track following a 49 point butt-ripping at the hands of Indiana on Saturday.
Fans will say this is only Rhule’s second year of a three to four year rebuild. Better talent is on ithe way. That is true. But for now, if the Huskers play the way they did Saturday, it’s going to be another blowout loss for NU.
So what can Matt Rhule do in a week to prop up his team? Does he have a magic wand he can wave in front of his players? Is there a Churchillian speech he can deliver to his troops this week?
Rhule continues to say the Huskers are in Phase 2 of the rebuild: Learning how to win.
What we all witnessed Saturday in Bloomington was a total mismatch. It was like a ’72 Pinto trying to win the Indy 500.
No way, Wade.
The Indiana Rebuild
Fans (not just Husker fans) are wondering how Curt Cignetti has managed to go directly to Phase 3 (Playing championship football) in his first year at a Power Conference?
One of the big reasons for the Hoosiers’ 7-0 start is the portal. Cignetti took six of his assistants with him from James Madison as well as 13 key players from last year’s 11-2 JMU team. He also used the portal to land a bunch more.
Many of those same transfer players had a hand in beating the snot out of a good (not great) Husker football team.
How can someone whose last stop was James Madison take the Big Ten by storm in his first year? This year’s Indiana team looks and plays like a CFP contender. How does that even happen?
Ask first year coaches like Kalen DeBoer (Alabama 5-2), Sherrone Moore at Michigan (4-3). Jedd Fisch (Washington Huskies 4-3). Deshaun Foster (UCLA 2-5).
(DeBoer’s Washington Huskies lost to Moore’s Michigan Wolverines in last year’s national title game.)
What leaks off Husker fans is that Indiana is a basketball school. Before Saturday’s game with Nebraska, IU’s stadium hadn’t sold out in years. The last time IU started the season 7-0 was in 1967.
Since ’67, NU has won five national championships, produced three Heisman winners and numerous other coveted player awards. How about NU’s crowd support? Since 1962, Nebraska has sold out Memorial Stadium in Lincoln every home game. The on-going record stands at 401 consecutive sellouts.
How is it possible that schools like Alabama, UCLA, Michigan, Washington (and Nebraska last year) passed on Cignetti? Did those schools even talk with him? Did they pass on his transfer players?
How is all that possible?
The people at Indiana must have been either very lucky or really smart when they picked Cignetti.
The opportunity must have been a dream come true for him. He left James Madison in a hurry last year, right after the regular season ended. Before he landed at Indiana, Cignetti left town with six of his assistants (OC, DC, RB, QB, D-line and ST).
Their departure left James Madison University high and dry just as they were preparing for their December 23rd Armed Forces Bowl game vwith Air Force. The Dukes did their best to try to fill the vacancies, but JMU ended up losing 21-31.
This information isn’t an indictment of Cignetti. Matt Rhule did the same thing when he left Temple in December of 2016 for the opening at Baylor. Rhule also took with him some of hisTemple assistants. Temple met Wake Forest in the Military Bowl that month. In that game, the Owls were coached by current Husker ST coach, Ed Foley. Temple lost 26-34.
How Bout Them Huskers
Grandson Will and I do a post-mortem on NU’s embarrassing loss to Indiana. We reluctantly look ahead to the Ohio State game. As usual, we praise John Cook’s Husker Volleyball team that remains #2 in the latest AVCA poll, a few votes behind Pitt. Congratulations Huskers!!!
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KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — It’s fair season and a new law uncorks adult beverage sales!
The new Indiana law will go into effect July 1st, making it legal to sell alcohol at county fairs.
The Kosciusko County Fair is set to kick off in just a few weeks and Indiana is officially allowing alcohol to be sold.
The law is bringing back something that’s not necessarily new to this fair.
Here’s what you need to know
The new law will go into effect on July 1st. It officially allows county fairs to apply for fee-free permits to sell alcohol.
Officials with the Kosciusko County Fair say they are participating this year. They are implementing the same guidelines they used when they sold alcohol just at grandstand events.
The difference now is, you can walk around the grounds with your drink. But strict guidelines will be in place for purchasing a drink.
“Actually, we’ve never had any issues. Because we card everybody, so we take that seriously. We also got the ID guides so we can identify the different types of IDs,” said Sheal Dirck, Treasurer of Kosciusko County Fair.
The Kosciusko County Fair already have guidelines in place, so this was an easy transition for the fair.
They will be the only vendors selling alcohol, which will make it easier to control distribution.
The sales will also bring in more revenue.
“Hopefully it allows to keep our ticket prices where they are because right now, insurance, utilities and everything else is going sky high and it’s hard to make ends meet,” said Dirck.
However, some fairs cannot participate because of the July 1st start date, like the Pulaski County Fair, which is going on right now. Pulaski County officials said it is on the agenda for next year. Whereas other fairs are choosing to sit this year out.
“We wanted not spend some time to, to see what that really means for us. It was not a decision we wanted to rush into. But we are happy for the option of it,” said Shelly Steury, GM of Elkhart County 4H Fairgrounds.
Leaders at the St. Joseph County and Elkhart County Fairs said neither of them are selling alcohol.
The Kosciusko County Fair is the only fair that will sell alcohol in our area this year.
Indiana
‘Foul play’ suspected in death investigation on Indiana-Ohio state line, Wayne County officials say
WAYNE COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) — Police are investigating the death of a person who died in the emergency department of Reid Health in Richmond.
Wayne County Coroner Brent Meadows was notified of the death Wednesday evening, according to a media release. Evidence has reportedly indicated that foul play is involved.
Officials believe the incident may have occurred in the area of the Petro Travel Center in New Paris, Ohio, just across the Indiana-Ohio state line.
The coroner’s office said the deceased person has been transported to the Miami Valley Regional Crime Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, for a forensic autopsy and identification.
The office is still working the locate and identify the victim’s family.
This remains an active investigation.
News 8’s Michaela Springer contributed to this report.
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