Minnesota replacing Iowa as Nebraska's Thanksgiving Game

BigRedBuster said:
Question.....

Why do people think SE really doesn't give a rip about Nebraska because he loves Wisconsin so much and expects that he is next in line there?

What makes Wisconsin's job better than Nebraska's?

This is nothing more than some fans who don't like how he's doing his job making up a big story about why they think he isn't going a good job.
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It fits their narrative?  It's something they can use against him as a reason why they don't like him?

 
ColoradoHusk said:
I agree that Eichorst wouldn't leave NU to become the #2 at Wisconsin, and he could still get hired at UW after Alvarez retires.  However, when McIntosh is named the Deputy Athletic Director and oversees the day-to-day operations of the department, that shows me (and others) that he's being groomed as the next AD for Wisconsin.
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I agree with this.  The part that didn't make sense to me was i don't see the logic of thinking SE was somehow surprised or whatever.  I mean.  He's the AD at Nebraska.  If he wanted to be the heir apparent at UW, you don't take this job.  Hell, you probably don't even take the Miami job.  because he was the #2 at Wisconsin already.

Just my take.  

 
Pedro Guerrero said:
Wait so you  are telling me that a OWH writer might be twisting words to stir the pot?  That is unheard of
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Well, I wouldn't go that far. Collectively, I believe the OWH has the best Husker writers from any outlet and I've felt that way for years, but that's probably a conversation for a different thread.

 
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY.

The last game of the season is always initially scheduled for the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  Every year someone posts on here that we've lost the Black Friday game.  After a while, the University always announces that the game has been "moved" from Saturday to Friday. 

You people are freaking out over nothing. 

 
StPaulHusker said:
I think overall Eichorst is a good athletic director.  But he is very out of touch with Nebraska fans.  He can't quite seem to get on the same page.
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Sports, for everyone not in the Administration, is supposed to be fun. We're supposed to enjoy being fans of the team, the players are supposed to enjoy playing, it's a game. There's a business infrastructure that supports that, and to be a good AD you have to understand both the business side & the fun side.  Eichorst seems fine with the business side.  He seems to lack understanding of the fun side. I'm sure he's making us as profitable as possible, but he's making a lot of mistakes on the other side while doing it.

 
Enhance said:
As a side note, that was the best TO discussion I've ever listened to. Super insightful and he threw more shade on various things than I've ever seen him do before.
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knapplc said:
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY.

The last game of the season is always initially scheduled for the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  Every year someone posts on here that we've lost the Black Friday game.  After a while, the University always announces that the game has been "moved" from Saturday to Friday. 

You people are freaking out over nothing. 
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People are not talking about it being originally scheduled for Saturday then possibly moved.

They are talking about two days ago Eichorst said "Since moving to a nine-game conference schedule, it makes sense from a student-athlete health, safety and welfare perspective to play on Saturday at the end of the regular season."

Now he says we're going to do "everything possible" to not do that.

So his "clarification" is really "I'm going to try to cover my @$$ because there is a bunch of opposition to my first decision."

 
StPaulHusker said:
I think overall Eichorst is a good athletic director.  But he is very out of touch with Nebraska fans.  He can't quite seem to get on the same page.
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I agree. I've thought Eichorst has done a great job. I think he underestimated the microscope and the PR politics that come with the Nebraska AD job when he first got here, but has since acclimated and done a fine job.

People want to pin waffling statements or flip flops on him as some sort of...indictment, about something? as if the public facing part of his job isn't anything more than say things that make people happy and satisfied, or support your coaches. I have no problem with any of this - he said something, the fanbase wasn't down with it, so he changed his mind. That's a good AD if you ask me.

 
Mavric said:
People are not talking about it being originally scheduled for Saturday then possibly moved.

They are talking about two days ago Eichorst said "Since moving to a nine-game conference schedule, it makes sense from a student-athlete health, safety and welfare perspective to play on Saturday at the end of the regular season."

Now he says we're going to do "everything possible" to not do that.

So his "clarification" is really "I'm going to try to cover my @$$ because there is a bunch of opposition to my first decision."
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These are posts from just page four alone, which I was reading, which I responded to.  Perhaps I should have quoted them in that post to avoid confusion.

Zeke said:
Exactly, could care less if we play Iowa or not for the last game. But the black Friday game has been around longer than I've been alive and I haven't heard a good reason yet to get rid of it yet.
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Red Five said:
The reason you play on Friday is for the program exposure as you are one of the few games that day.  Saturday means the game is lost in the shuffle behind OSU/Mich, Bama/Aub, Florida/FSU, etc.
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StPaulHusker said:
We had a 30 year tradition to play Black Friday with a RIVAL.

Pretty much everyone on here claims we don't have one anymore so no use in bitching about it
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Mavric said:
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Red Five said:
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jaws said:
In the Big10 the OSU/Mich game matters because the schools themselves make it matter. Does the Big10 profit from the schools making it a big deal, sure, but if the schools aren't driving it the rivalry dies. If Oklahoma AND Nebraska REALLY cared, they would still be playing each other on black Friday. Don't blame the Big10 and OSU/Michigan because Oklahoma cheated on you with Texas. OSU and Michigan care a lot more about the other schools in the conference than Texas cares about anyone in the Big 12. I get it though, somehow we remember the past more fondly than it really was. 
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StPaulHusker said:
How did that extra day of prep go for us since 99-00?
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CheeseHusker said:
OU wasn't always on Black Friday.... it just seems that way. We only did it once during the 1980s and only sporadically before that. In 1978 we played OU on November 11.
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cornhuskers4ever said:
For me The day after Thanksgiving game was always Nebraska vs Oklahoma.  Too bad we couldn't bring back that rivalry again, and have some type of Trophy involved. 

It used to be for the Orange Bowl game and sometimes the National Championship game. 
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knapplc said:
These are posts from just page four alone, which I was reading, which I responded to.  Perhaps I should have quoted them in that post to avoid confusion.
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I was talking about the two posts that immediately proceeded yours.  If you were talking about posts before that then we weren't on the same page.

 
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