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Maui wildfires affects those in Nebraska
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LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – The death toll of the Maui wildfires is reaching over 100, and emergency services said it will continue to rise.
10/11 NOW spoke to one of Lincoln’s own who is from Maui, and she explained how she is helping her family still there, and the heartache she has experienced watching her community fall to the ground.
Kyla Heuermann was born and raised in Maui, and that place she calls home is looking a lot different. She’s currently there, near Kula, helping out her family and the community to assist as many as she can get back on their feet.
Heuermann spent 15 years in Maui before she moved to Nebraska to pursue education.
“I go frequently back and forth between the two, though,” Heuermann said. “So, I’d still call Maui my home and I call Nebraska, Lincoln, my home.”
She said because she feels the two places are very similar.
“It’s the people,” Heuermann said. “The people are really friendly, you can tell they really care about each other. So, that’s why I was okay with staying in Nebraska for my husband.”
But beginning earlier in August, her home in Maui started looking different as the wildfires have greatly affected her community, and the ones she holds close in Lahaina.
“It looks like an apocalypse happened there,” Heuermann said. “It’s just mind blowing because for anyone who has seen it. It’s forever changed.”
Heuermann said she hasn’t been to Lahaina yet out of respect, but she said people have been taking drastic measures to get the people still in Lahaina the essentials.
“People are taking boats out there because the roads are closed, taking planes out there,” Heuermann said.
Heuermann went to Maui the day after the fires began. She started to get involved with the Red Cross and a few other volunteer groups. She’s helping out at a community center where people affected by the fires are staying and plans to head back to Nebraska next week.
“It’s just heartbreaking all around to see the place that I love so much and the people who I adore affected by these fires,” Heuermann said.
Heuermann stresses that the biggest goal is to keep the people that are living in Maui there.
“There has been pages long of google docs, google sheets, of people, credible sources who have been sourcing these people out who have been affected, creating GoFundMe’s for each individual family to support the rebuild of their homes,” Heuermann said
Heuermann wants to remind people that Maui is not shut down for tourism and it’s important to support local businesses there during this time. She said we can’t let this be forgotten and the many people affected that call Maui paradise.
It’s estimated it would take $5.5 billion to rebuild Lahaina alone. Heuermann said a big way people can help is to donate to the Hawaii Community Foundation.
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The Nebraska Cornhuskers are 30 minutes away from clinching bowl eligibility.
Nebraska leads Wisconsin 24-10 at halftime. The winner of this game will get to a sixth win on the season and become bowl eligible.
The Huskers got a kickoff return to midfield to open the game. That turned into a short field, and, eventually, a touchdown run by Heinrich Haarberg.
Wisconsin answered with a touchdown drive, but the Badgers struggled offensively the rest of the half, adding just one field goal. Wisconsin missed two other field goals.
Nebraska added touchdowns from Dante Dowdell and Jahmal Banks. After the Banks touchdown with 17 seconds to go, Wisconsin fumbled on the first play to give Nebraska a chance to score again. John Hohl drilled the 37-yard field goal to send the Big Red into the half with the lead.
NU has 237 total yards to UW’s 205. The Huskers have a two-yard advantage in passing and a 78-48 lead in rushing yards.
Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola is 17-for-22 passing. Emmett Johnson is leading the ground attack with 51 yards on eight carries.
Wisconsin will have the ball to begin the second half.
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All-Out Blitz Week 13: Wisconsin Badgers vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers
BadgerBlitz.com brings back its All-Out Blitz weekly series for the 2024 season, where you can find everything you need to know about Wisconsin’s upcoming opponent. We look at UW’s tenth opponent in the Nebraska Cornhuskers, who the Badgers will travel to play Saturday afternoon in Lincoln at 2:30 p.m. on BTN.
QUICK PROGRAM FACTS
Head Coach: Matt Rhule (57-55 career record, second season at Nebraska)
Nebraska All Time Record: 887-404-38 (.667)
2024 Record: 5-5 (2-5 Big Ten)
Rankings: N/A
Series vs. Wisconsin: 4-13
WHEN NEBRASKA HAS THE FOOTBALL
COMPARING THE PROJECTED STARTERS
Nebraska’s gradual decline over the course of this season is parallel with the decline of their offense.
Through the first five games, in which the team began 4-1, the offense averaged 405.4 yards per game. Over the last five, the 1-4 Cornhuskers are averaging just 294 yards per game.
This prompted the demoting of offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield, and promotion of Dana Holgorsen, prior to last week’s loss to USC.
It was the hope that Holgorsen, a former disciple of Mike Leach, could reinvigorate freshman quarterback Dylan Raiola.
It’s hard to tell if the former No. 1 quarterback in the 2024 class is responsible for the offense’s drop-off, or merely a victim of it, but all we know is that his season has fallen off of a cliff.
Through the first five games, he threw for nine touchdowns and two interceptions while completing 70% of his passes. In the five games since, he’s down to two touchdowns and eight interceptions, completing just 60% of his passes.
Raiola hasn’t received much help from his receiving core. He never had a true No. 1 receiver, even when the offense looked good, and nobody is stepping up now. No Husker receiver has reached 100 yards in a game since the season opener against UTEP.
They added two starters via the transfer portal — Isaiah Neyor (Texas) and Jahmal Banks (Wake Forest) — but both have been solid at best.
Wisconsin’s pass defense, which has only improved as the season has gone on, should create problems for Raiola and co.
They held Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel without a touchdown for the first time all season in what felt like a triumphant defensive performance, despite the 16-13 loss.
Beyond the strong coverage of cornerbacks Ricardo Hallman and Nyzier Fourqurean, what was most impressive about Wisconsin’s defense was how their line was able to generate consistent pressure on Gabriel.
It’ll be key for the Badgers to shut down Nebraska’s passing attack, because their running game isn’t particularly dangerous.
They rotate between three backs on a regular basis, led by Dante Dowdell, who averages a team-high 12 carries per game. Sophomore Emmett Johnson received more carries than Dowdell in the most recent outing against USC and could be ascending up the depth chart. Regardless, no Nebraska back has been a consistent threat.
WHEN WISCONSIN HAS THE BALL
COMPARING THE PROJECTED STARTERS
This will be the first game Wisconsin plays since offensive coordinator Phil Longo was fired on Sunday.
Fickell wasn’t willing to name a replacement play caller, instead alluding to a “collaborative” operation.
However that turns out, it must lead to some sort of reinvigoration. Over Wisconsin’s three-game losing streak, the offense is averaging just 261.6 total yards per game.
The offensive incompetence was especially frustrating against Oregon, a game in which the defense had their best performance of the season.
The offense needs to go back to basics. All season, they’ve been at their best when the offensive line opens up running lanes and allows for a balanced game plan.
Running back Tawee Walker struggled mightily against Penn State and Iowa, rushing for just 111 yards over those two games, but rebounded with a 97-yard performance last week against Oregon.
The front line will have a tough matchup against Nebraska’s defensive line trio of Ty Robinson, Jamari Butler and Nash Hutmacher, who lead the 20th-ranked rushing defense in the nation.
The production of Wisconsin’s running game will be key, because they simply can’t rely on quarterback Braedyn Locke, who’s coming off of a 96-yard passing performance against Oregon. He’s thrown an interception in all seven of his starts this season, bringing his season touchdown-interception ratio to 9-9.
Locke will try to take advantage of a Nebraska secondary that suffered a crushing blow earlier this week, with the announcement that Tommi Hill would miss the rest of the season due to a foot injury.
The best starter besides Hill is Malcolm Herzog, the team leader in interception (four) who primarily plays in the slot. Although the biggest priority for Wisconsin will be safety Isaac Gifford, who leads the team in tackles with 59 and can manage to fly all over the field.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) – When Nebraska (5-5, 2-5) and Wisconsin (5-5, 3-4) face off in a Big Ten conference bout Saturday, it will be like looking in the mirror.
Yes, the similarities between these teams run far deeper than the color palette.
Both squads exceeded expectations early in the 2024 season, each stringing together solid wins and even earning conference championship contender status for a brief moment. But then both teams faltered… and faltered, and faltered again.
Alas, neither team has won a game in the last 30 days.
GAME INFO
- WHERE: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Neb.
- WHEN: 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 23
- WATCH: Big Ten Network
- LISTEN: Huskers Radio Network
- VEGAS ODDS: Wisconsin +1, O/U 41.5
And both head coaches — Nebraska’s Matt Rhule and Wisconsin’s Luke Fickell — are in their second year with their current employer, both of whom were brought in to turn their respective programs back toward the success of old. Both of whom seem to be slightly behind schedule on said objective, depending on who you ask.
Again, the similarities are striking, and that’s without even mentioning the fact that both teams sit at 5-5 and need one more win to achieve bowl eligibility. That’s where one of the few differences can be exposed, though. Wisconsin’s last bowl appearance came, well, last year. In fact, they’ve played in a bowl game every season since 2002.
For Nebraska, it’s been a long, arduous eight-year bowl drought, which could all come to an end inside Memorial Stadium on Saturday. But the Huskers haven’t won a game since it beat Rutgers 14-7 at home on Oct. 5. Four consecutive losses followed. Still, as Husker fans know so well, not all losses are the same.
Nebraska’s 56-7 blowout loss to Indiana left a gross taste in the mouths of Big Red Nation, but then, the Huskers lost three straight games by one score, including a near upset of No. 4 Ohio State. There are no moral victories, though, and fans have grown far too used to seeing one-score losses.
But despite all the ire and hand-wringing present around the Husker program over the past six weeks, they still have a chance to do something no Nebraska team has managed to do since 2016, and that’s make a bowl game.
To do so in front of their home crowd on senior day would be a cherry on top.
“I think the veteran guys, those senior guys are locked in,” Rhule said in his press conference Thursday. “There’s 30 seniors. There’s a lot of guys who’ve been here for five or six years, so this means a lot to them. The gravity of the situation is not lost on them and I know how much they’d like to win. I know how much they’d like to be the ones who broke through.”
This will be the second game in which Nebraska’s play-calling duties are in the hands of Dana Holgorsen, who Rhule hired last week to be the team’s new offensive coordinator, demoting Marcus Satterfield to tight ends coach.
Though, according to Rhule, it wasn’t necessarily the X’s and O’s that were the problem, and Holgorsen has echoed that.
“[Holgorsen] is putting a lot of pressure on the guys to make the plays,” Rhule said. “He’s been very direct with them. If they want to win, they’re going to have go make plays. They’re going to have to catch balls, break tackles, make long runs, make big blocks against an excellent defense, score touchdowns in the red zone. It’s not the plays that do it, it’s the players that do it. We want our players to believe that players win games.”
Wisconsin poses a unique challenge to Nebraska in that, again, they’re very much alike. The Badgers don’t really boast any major firepower on offense. Halfback Tawee Walker is their best playmaker, having found the end zone 10 times this year with an average of just under five yards per carry.
But this year’s Wisconsin squad hangs its hat on the defensive side of the ball — namely, the secondary. The Badgers rank in the top 10 nationally in both passing yards allowed and passing yards per game. Cornerback Ricardo Hallman is one of the top-rated NFL Draft prospects at his position.
Last week, the Badgers held Oregon quarterback and Heisman candidate to just 218 yards, no touchdowns and an interception.
“They’re an excellent defense,” said Rhule. “They’ve got guys who can cover. They’re going to play man [coverage]. They’ve got a great safety, linebackers who can run, excellent pass rush. They held Oregon to 16 points and they were really good in the red zone against Oregon, so it’s probably as good of a defense as we’ll see all year.”
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