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HUSKERS HAPPY HOUR!: The Wildest Offseason Ever Is Officially Underway!!

A review of another loss to Iowa, this one which the Huskers thoroughly dominated for all but 3 or 4 plays. But those 3 or 4…oof!
But there was no rest for the reddish as what will be a crazy offseason started with a bang. Tony White’s leaving (not a shocker, actually a good move for him), but Dana Holgorsen’s staying. 
And the largest portal in its short history is opening.
(Step right in, nothing to be afraid of…)
Plenty of questions abound. Who will be the new DC? Where are we going bowling? Can the Huskers pledge no early Xmas gifts to Iowa next season? What will the defense look like?

Monday Night Therapy I Husker Volleyball Eyes Post Season While Football Sees Immediate Change

It may seem like there is more bad news than good news where Husker athletics are concerned. The Husker Black Shorts are the number 2 seed but against Penn State the girls didn’t look as crisp.  Merritt Beason hit .091 as the team limped to a .154 attack percentage. But it was fallout from the vitriol of some “fans” and haters alike on social media that drew equal headlines.
Beth will be here tonight to walk us through the match that got away and Saturday’s win against Maryland which helped clinch a share of the Big Ten title for the Husker women.
Monday brought a host of changes to Nebraska Football as both coaching staff and players have declared their intent to leave for perceived greener pastures. Tony White is headed to Florida State to take the same job he is leaving behind in Lincoln, and it appears Terrance Knighton is going with him.
And a few players have already declared their intent to enter the transfer portal, as Gabe Ervin Jr, Vincent Jackson, and Jimari Butler are saying goodbye to Lincoln.
Tonight, Jon and Minnie will talk about the departures and one very important retention, Dana Holgorsen.

Corn Nation Overreaction: Black Friday was a Dark Day Indeed for Husker Football

The regular season is over. Nebraska finishes 6-6 after falling to the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-10 on Friday night in Iowa City. 
From pre-game shenanigans to missed opportunities while the clock was running, all-in-all it was an ugly day in an ugly state surrounded by ugly people. 
The defense was solid with the exception of the screen pass to Caleb Johnson that was the Hawkeyes’ lone touchdown. But it wasn’t enough to overcome passes either overthrown or missed and bad special teams play.
How did the Hawkeye Hicks treat our beloved Hoss, who attended the game in Iowa City for the second time in a row? 
The big OVERreaction after Friday was going down the list of people to fire. While we expect some changes to the coaching staff for one reason or another, it should be noted that none of the main players are likely to go anywhere (this assumes Dana Holgorsen’s agreeing to stay in Lincoln after this season, which...he should). 
GBR...always.

Five Heart: Lets Talk Turkey Before Turkey Day and Give Thanks for Dana Holgorsen and Dylan Raiola

The Five Heart Podcast is moving this week’s live stream to Wednesday at 9 pm Central. We will properly kick off the Thanksgiving holiday by giving thanks for Nebraska’s 5-star quarterback, Dylan Raiola, and our super-star baller, shot caller, Dana Holgorsen.
As the Cornhuskers became bowl eligible this past Saturday with a victory over the Wisconsin Badgers, we have 1 regular season game left to play, this Friday against the Iowa Hawkeyes
Greg’s traditional “Turkey before Turkey” will be maintained as he partakes in a shot of Wild Turkey Whiskey. We are inviting you to join us with your drink of choice as we raise our glasses and toast a special Husker Thanksgiving 2024.
At the beginning of the show, Beth, Corn Nations Volleyball writer will be joining us. The lady Huskers have been very busy dominating since Beth last visited Five Heart with the team now ranked #2 in the Power 10 and are preparing to take on #3 Penn State this Friday. Beth has the best volleyball insights, so you won’t want to miss it.
Lastly, did you hear about Iowa? They are calling for a “Back in Black-Blackout” this Friday at Kinnick Stadium. Add this to the unlimited list of reasons to hate Iowa and come prepared to contribute to this list as we would like to see how many we can name.
P.S. Minnie has been hard at work on a fun surprise for the chat-she can’t wait to share.
P.P.S. No it has nothing to do with Dylan Raiola or any words containing “oi”.
Hope to see you there for what is sure to be another fun-filled evening.
GBR!!!

Monday Night Therapy: Never Mind the Bowl Game - It's Fart on Iowa Week

It was a very good weekend for our beloved Cornhuskers.
The Nebraska men’s basketball team defeated Creighton, ranked Creighton, and in doing so held their star Ryan Kalkbrenner to four total points, all from the free throw line. Given his performance before that game, that is a most incredible stat, and I hope it bodes well for the rest of the men’s basketball season.
The women lost to Creighton, and sadly, before that, they also lost Natalie Potts, last year’s Big Ten Freshman of the Year, for the season with an ACL injury. The women are still ranked 25th in the nation, and the men are garnering votes.
Votes in the men’s basketball poll. Isn’t that wild?
Then we get to the biggest news of the weekend, where Nebraska crushed the Wisconsin Badgers, winning their sixth win, earning them the right to go to a bowl game, and exorcizing a lot of demons.
They scored on every possession in the red zone, and given that they were 127th in the red zone coming into this game, that’s pretty impressive.
To top all that off, Nebraska volleyball swept Wisconsin!
It was a really fun weekend all around, and while everybody seems to be focusing on the we’re going to a bowl game aspect of this, we can top the regular season off by beating those sons of bitches from Iowa.
Wouldn’t that be great?
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Corn Nation Overreaction: Husker Football is Going Bowling Following 44-25 Win over Wisconsin

This week on the premier reaction podcast/live show out there, the Corn Nation Overreaction, Greg, Hoss, and Jake will break down Nebraska’s sixth win of the season, the 44-25 victory over the Wisconsin Badgers.
The Huskers are bowl-eligible for the first time since 2016 and toppled Wiscy for the first time since September 2012. And it happened in Matt Rhule’s second year, Dylan Raiola’s eleventh game, and Dana Holgorsen’s second game.
While the two teams traded scores early (we see you and we appreciate you, Heinrich Haarberg), Nebraska never trailed and looked in control the entire game.
Emmett Johnson became the Huskers’ first 100-yard rusher of the season. Raiola threw for almost 300 yards, and the defense was good enough to beat the Badgers to the Bowl Game (context: Wisconsin is also seeking their sixth win of the season).
What did the guys think of the game and how much confidence did yesterday’s contest inspire heading to Iowa City next week?

Five Heart/Overreaction Husker Football Bowl Eligible Celebration

This non-formatted, off-the-cuff live show is less of a “show” and more of an excuse to get together with the community to bask in the feeling of bowl eligibility.
The Nebraska football team exorcised two big demons tonight.
A) The first win against Wisconsin since the iPhone 4 was new
2) Being bowl eligible for the first time since the Obama administration.
But today, the Huskers put on a dominating performance against the Badgers, winning the Freedom Trophy with a decisive 44-25 tilt.
Timely defensive stops, a perfect kicker, a hundred-yard rusher...it was a thing of beauty.
Tonight is not about X’s and O’s. That will happen tomorrow for the OFFICIAL Corn Nation Overreaction. Tonight is just about friends and fanamily gathering together to celebrate. For some of us, our internet Husker community is our ONLY Husker community.
Join us for just a good ol time.
GO BIG RED!

Five Heart: Nebraska, rebuilding the football dynasty

A new offensive coordinator coach and star players.
Since last weekends game against USC we have seen a lot less of the team in the media. Despite having the same press conferences; post game, Monday's HC, Tuesday's DC & OC + select players the only new things we've learned are 1) the way we nearly won in California 2) our new OC Dana Holgorsen had a lot and a little to say this week.
Let's break this down...
The 28-20 defeat, could have easily gone the other way. I know, it sounds like the same old same old. But USC got lucky with missed balls bouncing off of our players and back into their hands. Missed calls and a quarterback that just threw balls without purpose and somehow were caught by their wide receivers. It felt like we were in an episode of the Twilight Zone with all the invisible forces against Nebraska.
A few things we saw Holgorsen do that we liked: We got the ball out faster, whether we were running or throwing, the tempo was quick. This made our offensive line look really good and our quarterback seemed more decisive. We threw to 3 tight ends, several wide receiver routes, and a running back.
Holgorsen said some things that got Nebraska fans pretty excited in his very first meeting with the press. The wide receivers need to block if they want the ball thrown to them-can I get a hell yes!? Holgorsen has identified a young player who can help us win who hasn't been playing (just who is he talking about???). Lastly, he said that position coaches are sometimes blind to the talent on their roster (paraphrasing here) because they like other guys personalities better. Like Micah Mazzccua perhaps???
Also, in the world of our next opponent Wisconsin, their sky seems to be beginning to fall. Luke Fickel did not have his best showing at this weeks pre Nebraska press conference on Monday. As he began to tell the media that he made the best decision for the team to let go Wisky's OC Phil Longo the day before, his responses to the media's questions showed perhaps there was more to this story. It looked like he was let go for personal reasons (as in personality conflict). Also, when asked about who would be their playcaller. Fickels response was maybe the most flubbed that this CFB fan has ever heard; the old "what does it matter?". Did he NOT expect that question??? Wow.
Lots to unpack this Thursday and did I mention we'll have a special guest? See you at 9pm central with Greg and Minnie and all of our WONDERFUL Fan-amily, the Chatterfields or is it the Holgor-maniacs? GBR!

HUSKERS HAPPY HOUR: Dylan, Holgo, Refs, Logo Dancing…and Here Comes Wiscy w/ a New OC!!

Another one-score loss, more egregious B1G ref hijinks, our 1st game with Holgo, a logo battle…and Wisconsin upcoming & still now bowl eligible.
We’re going to chat about USC and some of the fallout from yet another one-score loss and failure to grab bowl eligibility. There was some criticism of Dylan Raiola and some thoughts about and by Dana Holgorsen.
The Trojans for some reason took great offense at the Huskers pre-game midfield prayer tradition, much like previous painted-grass worshipper Shadeur Sanders. Apparently, kneeling on painted grass which will be stomped on by 22 pairs of cleats plus refs in a couple of hours dishonorable and must be dealt with through foul language whilst being held back by coaches.
And, oh yes, the refs. They were … well… predictable.

Monday Night Therapy: Nebraska vs USC Review, vs Wisconsin Preview w/Scary Alvarez

Nebraska lost to USC 28 to 20 - yet another one score loss, a November loss, a loss when we had already had our fifth win of the season and trying to get bowl eligible.
God knows how many statistics have come out this week on what a statistical anomaly Nebraska is when it comes to losing one score games. People have talked about it being a curse. Matt Rhule says it’s no curse, that they just have to figure out how to win games.
That seems to require an unholy lot of figuring.
From Nicole Auerbach:
Nebraska might actually be cursed.  I’m not sure how else to explain the recent history of this program. I’m truly at a loss. After a painful defeat at the hands of fellow underachiever USC on Saturday, the Huskers have now lost nine consecutive games with a chance to become bowl-eligible, with eight of those losses coming in one-score games. They reached the five-win plateau way back on Oct. 5. Bringing in new offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen didn’t fix what ails the Husker offense, either, failing to total 325 yards or more on offense for the fifth straight game (with freshman quarterback Dylan Raiola throwing a pair of interceptions.) The Huskers are now 9-34 in one-possession games since 2018; that .214 win percentage in those games is easily the worst in FBS over that span. I am sorry, Nebraska fans.
Our opponent this week, Wisconsin, fired their offensive coordinator Phil Longo, just a couple of days after they played Oregon pretty tough. One of the jokes on the internet was that Wisconsin didn’t play a quarterback against Oregon, which I suppose doesn’t make their starting quarterback or their second string quarterback feel any better about himself.
For tonight’s show, we will be talking to a Wisconsin guy and probably commiserating about how bad our teams are doing.
Scary Alvarez will join us, and we will discuss and have a long discussion about the game coming up this weekend.