Corn Nation: for Nebraska Cornhuskers fans

Monday Night Therapy: Nebraska’s Incredible Weekend, Quarterback Issues And Injuries Plague Our Beloved Huskers

Nebraska football beat Northwestern. It was ugly, but that’s a thing we should accept as beautiful in itself.
Someone made a comment that we lost ugly for years, and now instead of losing, we’re winning ugly.
I don’t know why we would think we’d just jump from losing ugly to winning beautifully, when winning ugly is the next natural step towards greatness.
Nebraska volleyball beat Wisconsin. Our beloved Huskers took the first set, then got bludgeoned by Wisconsin’s block in the second. We then lost the third, and I honestly thought the match was over.
Silly me. Our volleyballers have a helluva lot of resilience. It was beautiful, the win. Merrit Beason flying from the back row is some of the best ballet I’ve ever seen.
Nebraska soccer became Big Ten Co-Champs. #2 seed Nebraska will face the #7 seed Ohio State on Sunday, Oct. 29 at Hibner Stadium. Maybe get out there and support them?

Corn Nation Over Reaction: One More and That’s a Winning Streak

The Husker Football team is 4-3, having for the second time this season won back-to-back games after Saturday’s 17-9 Homecoming win over Northwestern.
I think Nebraska has defeated all the important teams in Illinois this season, going 3-0 against the state. As a resident of Illinois, I couldn’t be happier.
As for the game against the Wildcats, the offense picked up where they left off against Illinois, going five straight possessions over the two games that ended with turnovers.
But that defense...I don’t know if they’re officially being called the Blackshirts yet, but they are definitely playing at a high level, being the key component for the Huskers’ success this season.
While the offense stumbled out of the gate, they eventually found some footing, as Emmett Johnson led the team in rushing and Malachi Coleman caught his first touchdown pass of his career.
Can the offense build on this and sustain this momentum with Heinrich Haarberg at the helm? Hoss seems to think that at some point, the keys to the castle will be returned to Jeff Sims.
And Greg has an interesting question. Who was the last Husker RB to rush for more than 200 yards in a game. Hoss believes it was Tre Bryant in the 2017 season opener against Arkansas State, but post-production research informed us that Bryant ran for 192 yards in the game. So do we have to go all the way back to 2014 and Ameer Abdullah? Because that’s a really freakin’ long time ago.
Regardless...just two more wins til Nebraska is bowling. And we’re grateful for that.

Five Heart Podcast: Preview of #1 Nebraska volleyball vs #2 Wisconsin MATCH OF THE CENTURY

Nebraska is a volleyball school. Some intend that as an insult. It’s not an insult.
If there’s one team that’s been in the way of Nebraska accomplishing great things recently, it’s them damned Wisconsin Badgers and their tall, athletic volleyballers.
This show we will preview the MATCH OF THE CENTURY - #1 Wisconsin vs #2 Nebraska, coming Saturday Night!

Nebraska vs Northwestern Preview - Interview with InsideNU!

David Gold, Editor in Chief at our SBNation Northwestern site InsideNU will join Jon for a discussion about the upcoming Nebraska - Northwestern game.

Monday Night Therapy: What Is Nebraska Football’s Ceiling?

Todd was out, so Andy K joined me for the show.
We had a lot of discussion about the past weekend’s best games:
Stanford shocking Colorado 46-43 after leading 29-0 at half.
Oregon vs Washington and what an amazing game that was.
USC sucking and losing against Notre Dame.
Iowa beating Wisconsin 15-6 and taking control of the Big Ten West.
Illinois surprising Maryland
News that Wisconsin quarterback Tanner Mordecai broke his hand against Iowa and will be out for a while.
We covered Matt Rhule’s Monday press conference, including news that:
Heinrich Haarberg is named the starter
Malachi Coleman will start this weekend against Northwestern
Luke Reimer will be back this weekend
Rahmir Johnson wants to come back for his 6th year
Marcus Washington wants to come back if possible
Have to get Billy Kemp IV the ball more

Corn Nation Over Reaction: Husker Bye Week

Nebraska had a week off, but there’s no time off when there’s a lot to discuss.
Hoss and I run down the Big Ten schedule for the weekend. Some surprises (Illinois upending Maryland on the road, Sparty letting Rutgers come back and win in New Jersey) and some expected triumphs (Michigan dismantles Indiana, Ohio State dominates Purdue, Penn State shuts out UMass - which shouldn’t count but it does). Meanwhile, Iowa AND Wisconsin either play really good defense or really poor offense in a 15-6 donnybrook.
We talk about which conference is better suited for dominance, the Big Ten or the SEC. And speaking of Michigan State’s collapse, they weren’t the only and they weren’t the most spectacular, as two teams from Colorado were on opposite sides of meltdowns. Colorado State trailed Boise State by 20 points with less than six minutes left to score as time expired and win by one. Colorado led Stanford 29-0 at halftime only to lose in double overtime. It was a thing of beauty.
So that’s the show. Looking forward to Husker football this Saturday when Northwestern comes to town.
Oh, spoiler alert - this episode contains a lot of “if’s.”
GBR

Five Heart Podcast 348: Nebraska at Midseason - A Discussion

No one to blame but myself. I failed to create the stream for this week’s episode, and Jon had to do it. Here’s what he left me with:
"We will discuss Nebraska football. And soccer. And maybe men's basketball, as the season approaches. Or Volleyball. But there will be things going on."
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT?
So here’s how the episode ran down. We did talk about Nebraska football. We talked about Greg’s experience at the Nebraska-Illinois game. How about the defensive stand on the goalline? How about three straight turnovers? How about that damn defense?!? And how many more games on the season are “winnable?”
Paul in the comments wants to talk about volleyball, so we do. And we quickly learned that not everyone was in the mood to talk volleyball.
Hell, we discussed more women’s soccer than we did Nebrasketball.
But perhaps the highlight of the whole show came at the end. There was a minor thread throughout after someone made a Young Guns reference. Some of the Super Chatterfields had been a little generous. And Jon said he hated the movie.
One of the Chatterfields asked how much of a SuperChat it would take for Jon to do a live reaction video to Young Guns. Jon responded with $100. So that’s where I threw out a challenge - if we could get a total of $100 in SuperChats, of which we will donate to Team Jack or something similar, we would schedule a live stream. And OUT OF NOWHERE, “Marcus” drops a hundo SuperChat and made the dream a reality. So that’s on the way very soon.
That’s it. GO BIG RED!

Monday Night Therapy: Illinois Win & Midseason Review!

Nebraska gets a win against Illinois on Friday night in Champaign.
It was ugly. Really ugly, but it’s a win.
Now our beloved Huskers are on a bye week.
The season is half over, Nebraska is 3-3. It’s time to assess how far the team has come so far!

Corn Nation Over Reaction: For Huskers, an Ugly Win is Still a Win

This week’s episode has Greg and Hoss giving their thoughts on Nebraska’s 20-7 road win over Illinois.
The victory is Nebraska’s third on the season and first in the Big Ten. But with a well-positioned bye week, there should be plenty of hope building as opponents like Northwestern, Purdue, and Michigan State loom.
Greg was at the game in Champaign with his oldest son, and that wind was no joke. Biting and right in their faces, minutes after the opening kick off, the son asked if the trio could leave and go home, lamenting that watching the game on the tv in a warm house seems like a better proposition. He’s seven. He admitted to Greg (okay, Me, I’m Greg) that he only agreed to go to the game to make me happy and that he didn’t really want to be there. He’s a great kid with a big heart. I don’t often give him enough credit. And so it was up to me to keep him as warm as possible throughout the game. We stayed until Nebraska was in the victory formation.
Hoss and I talk about the defense, and how the goalline stand was a turning point in the game and maybe in the season, as that is a moment that a team can build off of for confidence. While some writers said Nebraska didn’t “want” it enough last week against Michigan, I’m not sure how much “want” it would have taken to overcome the obvious gap in talent. But this Tony White defense is full of WANT. They are the horse we are riding for the rest of the season, and the team will go only as far as the defense can carry them.
The offense did just enough to not lose the game (looking at those last three meaningful drives before the victory formation), and local Champaign headlines Saturday read something like “Illinois lost a game Nebraska Tried to Give Away.” If Nebraska doesn’t turn the ball over, and if freshman Tristan Alvano doesn’t miss that FG attempt, a 20-7 win could have been a 44-7 win. But if “if’s” and “but’s” were candies and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas.” The point is...this Nebraska team is improving. And I think they will continue to improve even more as they hopefully get healthier in the off-week.
Enjoy the show. Go Big Red.

Five Heart Podcast LIVE: Huskers at Illinois on Friday Night w/ Guest Brett Baker

Our beloved Huskers are on the road for a Friday night game in Champaign. They are winless in the last three attempts against the Illini. However, the last time they played Illinois in Champaign on a Friday night, Nebraska was victorious. It was 2017. It shouldn’t seem like so long ago.
So why do we have games on Friday night? What is Nebraska’s chance of winning? Who will stand out in the game?
Will we even answer these questions? It seems like we write them in this pre-show post but we never address them in the show.
We blame/thank the Chatterfields. You’re great!