Nebraska...not feeling Frosty anymore

[THE_WIZARD_]

Wiz - I'd love to do the road trip to Lincoln, but with that being a night game, it would add an extra day to the trip. Plus, I don't think Mrs. Liney will let me be gone that long without taking her ...

Liney...problem solved...Mrs. Liney will be staying with me...so she will already be here...no worries...

[entropy]

liney... I've driven to lincoln from Detroit. It's 12 hrs. You can drive out saturday and drive back sunday.

[entropy]

didn't see this initially..

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The Nebraska staff has reeled in a big one today. Courtney Love, a three-star who is rated as the NO. 30 outside linebacker in the country, has chosen the Huskers.

“I committed to Nebraska,” Love said. “I have talked about it with my family and we believe that there is a great opportunity there for me at Nebraska.

“It’s the opportunity for the education and for football. I know that I can go in there and that I will have the opportunity to show what I can do, learn the game and play.

“When I went down there they made it clear that there was opportunity for me there at Nebraska. If I go in there and work as hard as I can then it will pay off.”

Love, who hails from Youngstown (Ohio) Cardinal Mooney, was in Lincoln last weekend for the spring game. The spring game was canceled and like many thought the cancellation actually allowed the recruits some extra time with the Nebraska coaching staff.

“It felt like home. The coaches really talked to me and were genuine. Because the game was canceled I got the chance to spend a lot of time with all of the defensive coaches one on one.

“I also got a chance to talk to some of the players. There are some players there that went to my high school that I know like Tim Marlowe, Braylon Heard and Mark Pelini. I got to hear what they thought about everything.”
Love will become the fifth player on the Nebraska roster from Cardinal Mooney. In addition Pelini, Tim Beck and Vince Marrow are all from Cardinal Mooney as well. Love says that it all lends itself to being comfortable at Nebraska.

“It’s because of the coaching staff and Nebraska period. It’s the tradition and it’s special there. I felt right at home. I liked it there and so did my family.

“Coach Vince Marrow had a big part in recruiting me to Nebraska. He believes that Nebraska is the place for me to be and I take him at his word.”

There will undoubtedly be a lot of talk about Love’s choice to go to Nebraska over the in-state school, Ohio State. Love knows there will be, but he said that there are also people that believe he needs to go to Nebraska for the right opportunity.

“I think that it will be a big deal to other people. Everyone is used to Ohio State here. Then again, there are people around me that want me to go to Nebraska for the opportunity.

“When I was at Nebraska it was unbelievable. It really just clicked for me. The chemistry was there for me and I just felt comfortable there.”

Love’s father, Courtney Love, Sr., was in Nebraska for the unofficial visit last weekend as well. He says that he came away impressed with the commitment to the players on the academic side. The academic faculty says that their job is easier because of the commitment by the head coach to the players in the classroom.

“I was really impressed with the academic part,” Courtney Love, Sr. said. “I know the counselors said how great Bo Pelini was not only as a coach, but how he follows up on the players academically and holds them accountable. They said he makes their job easier. He’s 110% in the corner of the teachers and the counselors when it comes to his players.

“Their facilities are super. I didn’t think that anything would be as good as Ohio State, but Nebraska’s were great. The fit for Courtney at Nebraska is super. There was talk among people about a promise for playing time. That isn’t the case. He told us that if he came to Nebraska it’s all set up for him to do the work to graduate and set up for him to work and get on the field. Everything that Courtney would get he would earn.”

Mr. Love acknowledges the difficulty in the decision for his son and the odds that Nebraska was up against in choosing to leave the state and not go to Ohio State. He stands behind his son’s decision to go to Nebraska and will rest easy because of the people involved with the Nebraska program being there for Courtney.

“We loved everything at Nebraska when we were on our visit. It was going to be very, very difficult to pull Courtney away from Ohio State because they mean that much to him, but he feels it in his heart that Nebraska is the place and I have to agree with him. You don’t want your kid to go too far away, but you want what’s best for him too. When I go bed at night, I know that he’s in good hands.”

There have been some Internet rumors flowing around about Ohio State pulling the offer possibly to his son. This decision came down to where Courtney felt like he fit in better.

“Being here in Ohio we hear a lot of different things. We had heard that Urban Meyer wasn't going to honor Courtney’s commitment and that’s not true. He would have honored it.

“This is just Courtney’s decision. There wasn’t a problem with the coaches (at Ohio State). He was just impressed with the structure and it was where he fit in the system best and he knew where he would be playing.”

Love will be an early graduate and enroll at Lincoln early, allowing him to participate in spring practices in 2013.

[The Oracle]

It wasn't a committable offer, don't you know anything?

[entropy]

By Randy York

OK, Nebraska fans, listen up. This is not a done deal, but if you want to do a little advance planning, circle Sept. 7, 2013 on your calendar, and start dropping $5 and $10 bills in your cookie jar, along with a slew of $1 bills and leftover change. That way, whenever Southern Miss announces it will host Nebraska’s football team on that Saturday in the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans, you’ll get the chance to sit in the same world-class venue that 1) hosted the most recent college football national championship game (Alabama over LSU on Jan. 9); 2) hosted the most recent men’s college basketball national championship game (Kentucky over Kansas on April 2); and 3) will host the 2013 Super Bowl on Feb. 3, seven months before Southern Miss is expected to host Nebraska.

Again, nothing’s final, but this creative non-conference match-up is so far along that even Jeff Jamrog felt comfortable mentioning it on Huskers Sports Nightly and then again the next day when we asked Nebraska’s assistant athletic director for Football Operations to share an update on the negotiations. “Nothing’s finalized, but everything’s moving in a very positive direction,” Jamrog said. “We’re close to having all the details worked out, so we can get this thing done. I know Southern Miss wants to host us in New Orleans, and we want to play there, so unless something crops up that we don’t expect, we’re planning on that being our first road game in 2013.”

The Huskers will host Wyoming in their ’13 season opener and follow that likely Southern Miss date in New Orleans with three straight home games – against UCLA, South Dakota State and Illinois. “This was Southern Miss’s idea,” Jamrog pointed out. “They approached us, and it makes a lot of sense all the way around. Their stadium (in Hattiesburg, Miss.) only seats 36,000, and the Superdome seats more than 76,000. This would be a much bigger payday for them, and it would a better return for us as well, even as the visitor.”

The Huskers, of course, are a national draw and led by Bo Pelini, who made his mark as the defensive coordinator of LSU’s 2007 national championship team. That gave Pelini inroads into recruiting Louisiana at Nebraska, and Jamrog sees this rare non-conference match-up as an ideal opportunity to 1) accommodate Nebraska fans in one of the world’s best venues during the regular season; and 2) influence recruiting in key Southern states, including Florida. “We think this is a game that might draw 20,000 Nebraska fans,” Jamrog said. “We also think that recruits would see this as an exciting experience to follow and watch. It can help them see how creative college football can be when Nebraska’s involved. Everything makes sense to both schools. The only thing that could get in the way is a third-party.”

The N-Sider sees a green light coming in this game and recommends the Big Easy as a first-rate road trip that would cater well to Husker fans, who would enjoy New Orleans’ world famous cuisine (I’ll never forget the 7-course meal at Antoine’s with Bob Devaney and Bear Bryant at the head table), its world famous music (the birthplace of jazz) and its world famous festival (Mardi Gras is the standard by which all other street celebrations are measured). Every Sugar Bowl trip we made included a trip to Caf? Du Monde, New Orleans’ original French Market coffee stand with its beignets and chicory coffee. Sorry to sound like a travel writer instead of an N-Sider, but that’s all part of the experience … and why I recommend you start saving your money now to make this road trip.

A Nebraska-Southern Miss ticket in New Orleans would seem much easier to get than one for four Big Ten Husker road games that will follow – at Purdue, Minnesota, Michigan and Penn State, none of which, by the way, has hosted a national championship game or a Super Bowl, making this super-sized game and this Superdome venue one of the best buys of the 2013 Cornhusker football season. Yes, we all have to wait for the official announcement of this game. But whenever that happens, clean out the cookie jar. And start planning on filling that incredible facility with as much red as possible.

[UMStan White]

Going to New Orleans to watch Nebraska and Southern Miss is as exciting as wathing Indiana play Penn State in New York. Great venue but a shitty game. Why waste most of your visit watching such crap?

[entropy]

well, it's New Orleans.. =)

and S. Miss is right now a better program than Indiana or PSU.

[THE_WIZARD_]

...and watching Alabama kick the shit out of Michigan is going to be sooooooooooooooooo thrilling...

Stan...STFU.

[hack]

Only 12 hours, eh? Interesting...

[entropy]

hack..yep. I used to work at Ford and one Christmas break, I got off work at 5pm in Dearborn and my wife and I drove all night to my parents farm, which is outside of Lincoln. I arrived at 5am. I wouldn't recommend that approach, but yea, it's basically 12 hrs

[hack]

Of course by autumn gas will be $7 a gallon. Maybe just fly.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Thank goodness airplanes don't require fuel.

[Rob F]

Thank goodness airplanes don't require fuel.

Says the "lost" Wright Brother, 'Wizard' Wright

[THE_WIZARD_]

STFU

[lineygoblue]

Aw, don't be bitter, Wiz. I'm sure Orville and Wilbur didn't intentionally leave you out ...