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trza-hawk

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  1. I was listening to some radio guys talk about it this week, then the pregame interviews and videos on the B1G Network referenced the same thing before the Iowa game. Are you guys ready for the Bret Bielema Coaching Tree? Bret was an assistant for Hayden Fry, Bill Snyder, and then Barry Alvarez. The first two guys are infamous in Midwestern college football trivia for their coaching trees. Biels took with him the idea of hiring young ambitious guys who have the same kind of drive that he has to be the Head Man at a school. When you count the former Biels assistants who have taken up head jobs its pretty impressive. The old photos of Bielema from his playing days and early coaching time he looked pretty normal, like a genuine good looking athletic body type guy.

     

    The current good looking assistants, Barry Lunney Jr. (who coached against Bielema as an assistant at UTSA) and Ryan Walters on the defense look like they will be head coaches themselves someday. The defense has looked especially good in the Illini's fast start to the season.

  2. It looks like the resident baby boomers and gen-xers are having a time with this news. Daily viewers for any channel other than Fox News are flatlining. The medium of the daily cable show is a relic The sense of humor of John Stewart doesn't adapt to todays social media. That old show isn't coming back. The audience isn't there.

  3. Okay guys, hear me out....

    ..... would it be crazy if Nebraska plays really well today? Like their best game and complete performance from every position group? What if Scott Frost was literally the one thing holding this team back. What if they just fixed Nebraska football by firing Scott Frost last week?

  4. I watched some local tv reports from Nebraska TV. They claim its the biggest tourist drawing event in Ireland since Covid hit. Fans in town point out that Nebraska hasn't been to a bowl game in a while. There are local bars with tacky decorations asking Husker and Wildcat fans to come in for a drink.

  5. My sources in Nebraska like the Huskers chances in Ireland, but don't think they will cover the spread. But who knows with both teams starting out so far from home, crazy travel and jet lag, maybe Fitz gets his team up for the game or maybe he doesn't. The word is that NW fans are more excited for this game than a usual home game. But they are a weird fan base.

  6. MoFi saga should be periodic reminder that putting too much value in physical objects will ultimately leave you feeling empty and won't replace any of the underlying issues that made you obsess over things in the first place.

  7. Iowa State fans regularly call into local talk radio stations and bring up the 1958 National Championship deal, I have never heard a single Hawk fans mention it aside from a trivia question or footnote. The Cyclone fans seriously pick up a phone call and call into a radio show to tell the hosts that LSU was undefeated that year.

  8. I was talking to a foreign guy once and mentioned my obsession with submarine movies, and he remembered Red October. I tried to tell him that in addition to being a good movie, it had a great name for a movie. Literally anyone alive in the eighties remembers the name of this film.  Even people who don't care for military movies or submarines. Even today like 30 years later you see promos for fall baseball with the phrase Hunt for October or something like that.

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