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The Post Season In Nebraska Football Has Been Anything But Dull
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Those fans who were expecting an uneventful pre-bowl season, recently received a rude awakening including Husker fans.
First, what’s the news at Nebraska?
New Hires and Fires
First of all, NU head coach Matt Rhule fired his first year DC (John Butler), his O-line coach (Donovan Raiola) and first year D-line coach (Terry Bradden) over the past few days.. Two new coaches have already been hired: Rob Aurich (DC) and Geep Wade (O-line). Aurich comes to NU from San Diego State, while Wade comes from Georgia Tech,
Terry Bradden’s replacement has not yet been named.
We’ll talk more about the coaching changes in the days to come.
Dayton Says No to NU
Husker ’26 “commit” QB Dayton Raiola (younger brother of current Husker QB Dylan) has decommitted. Are the firing of his uncle Donovan and Dayton’s decommitment connected?
The next question is, will Dylan also leave NU? Or does Dylan’s mid season leg injury keep him from transferring? Will his portal stock diminish? Will Dylan’s love for Nebraska keep him in Lincoln?
Huskers and Utes in the Las Vegas Bowl
Good news is NU won’t be playing in Yankee Stadium in their bowl game later this month. The bad news is Nebraska will be facing #15 Utah on New Year’s Eve. More about the match-up in the days to come.
EJ Enters the NFL Draft
All Big Ten Conference running back Emmett Johnson won’t be playing for the Huskers in their bowl game. Instead, he’ll be trying to be an NFL draft pick in April. Smart move for Johnson, but not for the Huskers’ chances of beating Utah.
That’s one of the things I don’t like about the current state of college football.
1890 Gone
The Husker NIL collective will soon be disbanded, All further donations will be directed to the Nebraska Athletic Fund.
College Football in General
We’ll Be Home For Christmas
Notre Dame has turned down a bowl invitation. The reason? The Irish feel they’ve been snubbed by the CFP committee. Way to go Irish. If you don’t get your way, just take your football and go home. Great lesson for the ND players.
Sigh.
Lane Kiffin Saga
KIffin leaves Ole Miss to take the head coaching job at LSU.
So what’s the big deal? College coaches come and go all the time. The difference is that his Ole Miss Rebels are one of the 12 teams vying for a national championship.. But sadly for Ole Miss, Kiffin will not be on the sidelines coaching the Rebels. Crazy, no? Try to imagine Tom Osborne in early December of 1994 leaving NU to take the job at Oklahoma.
That’s what has happened at Ole Miss. You can’t make this stuff up.
Iowa State and Kansas State to Stay Home
Both Big 12 schools have turned down bowl invitations citing coaching changes and injuries as reasons for their decision. As a result of not playing in a bowl, each team will have to pay the Big 12 $500,000 for the revenue the conference would have made had the teams played in bowl games. Again, you can’t make this stuff up.
Matt Campbell Goes to Penn State
The Nittany Lions just hired former Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell as their new head coach. Smart move by Matt. He’s a very good coach. It’s doubtful he could ever win a national championship at Ames, Iowa.
But know this: Campbell is jumping into a boiling caldron. If he doesn’t win big in his first or second year, the water temp is going to get even hotter.
One good thing about Campbell’s move is that even if he’s fired, he’ll be set for life financially.
One possible benefit for Nebraska might be in the transfer portal. Why? Because of Cyclone tight end Benjamin Brahmen, who is from Pierce, Nebraska and plays for Iowa State. When Matt Rhule was hired at NU, he made a last hour attempt to lure the 6′ 7″ 255 lb tight end to Nebraska, At the time, he was a Cyclone commit. Brahmen is a small town young man. It wouldn’t surprise me that if he enters the portal he opts for Nebraska,.
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The future of data centers in Nebraska took center stage at a North Omaha town hall Thursday evening.
The event was hosted by State Sens. Terrell McKinney and Ashlei Spivey, who alongside Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh sponsored a bill in the Nebraska Legislature that looked to help regulate data centers.
Parts of their bill were adopted and passed in LB1010, which requires reports on annual power usage, water usage and ownership.
“Having this passed in a package showed a lot of bipartisan work,” Spivey told a crowd of attendees at Nelson Mandela Elementary School.
The proposed regulations were shaped in part by Bold Nebraska, an advocacy group focused on eminent domain and clean energy. Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party and founder of Bold Nebraska, said before the bill passed there were “zero laws on the books” to address a boom in data centers.
“If one is coming into the community, we wanted to make sure that there were some basic transparency things in place,” Kleeb said.
Political discussions around data centers heated up in recent months following reporting by the Flatwater Free Press that showed Google is considering a data center in Nebraska that could require more than three times the amount of power the entire city of Lincoln uses at peak demand in the summer.
The Nebraska Legislature recently passed another bill, LB1261, that allows private developers to build and own power plants to serve a large industrial customer, including data centers. That bill was proposed by the governor’s office and celebrated by Gov. Jim Pillen.
“Our state is once again taking a bold and strategic step – one that will create an environment that attracts business and multibillion dollar investment, while legally preserving Nebraska’s unique and consumer-friendly public power model,” Pillen said at the time.
At Thursday’s town hall, McKinney called LB1261 “the bogeyman bill.”
“It’s a bill that the governor pushed through the legislature to allow for data centers to create their own power,” McKinney said. “It’s a bill that I stood on the floor and said this is going to harm our communities.”
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Hundreds of people are without power in southeast Nebraska after a severe storm passed through Thursday morning.
The Lincoln Electric System outage map showed 115 customers without power across the city at 11:36 a.m.
Norris Public Power District’s outage map also shows 45 customers affected by the storm. As of 11:36 a.m., there were nine active outages.
According to the Nebraska Public Power District outage map, 657 customers were affected by the storm. Most of the affected customers were near Plattsmouth in southeast Nebraska. As of 11:37 a.m., 27 customers remain without power.
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Mandatory evacuations have been ordered near Crawford, including Fort Robinson State Park, as the South Fork Fire continues to spread in western Nebraska.
According to the City of Crawford, evacuations are currently underway for an area north of Crawford that includes the area south of Dodd Road, west of Dodd Road, and FF Street.
Fort Robinson has also been evacuated.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission said Fort Robinson State Park and Peterson Wildlife Management Area have been temporarily closed due to the fire.
The fire has burned approximately 9,000 acres and is currently 0% contained, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
Nebraska Game and Parks said the park and the WMA will remain closed until further notice to support firefighting operations and protect public safety.
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