Lincoln's Ticket to Sports
-Jahkeem Green posted on Twitter that he was visiting Texas Tech…do you think Nebraska still lands him?
-Scott Frost is a confident man, but do you think at all that he might be a little bothered by 6/1 odds to make the College Football Playoff? What the heck is the expectation for the season supposed to be?
-2 commits for Nebraska football this week…is an avalanche of more commits on the way?
-Thoughts on Nebraska’s handling of Fan Day and autograph limitations for Scott Frost…
-Are you expecting the Big Ten West to be wild in 2019 and maybe a 6-team race?
-ESPN.com had a nice feature on the disappointing career of Freddy Adu, who was cast as the next big thing in soccer at age 14, but never mounted much of a career and has been a ‘vagabond,’ as the article describes….is there anyone like him you KNEW was going to be great…but it just never happened? (Danny Almonte, Marcus Dupree…)
Jake saw an article on ESPN.com that had him wondering…who are the biggest phenoms you thought would be great that flamed out? Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2020)-2 days until we find out if Isaiah Roby gets drafted into the NBA as the first Nebraska player this millennium….where do you think he ends up? S.I. had him going No. 46 to Orlando as of Monday
-It’s been an embarrassing stretch of no drafted players for Nebraska…how many players should they expect to get drafted over, let’s say, a 5-year stretch?
-Nebraska has been offering some big name players recently…any chance of getting any of them?
-There was a fake Kawhi Leonard signing autographs for fans at Toronto’s NBA Championship parade, and the people getting signatures had no idea, although this guy was way shorter than Kawhi. Do you look like any famous people, and if so, would you ever have the balls to fake that you were them?
-Also, SONG OF THE DAY:
Would you ever have the balls to pretend you were someone else who looked like you? Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (740)-We had the conversation last week with the Sporting News’ Bill Bender about coach rankings, and he had Ryan Day ahead of Scott Frost, despite only having 3 games of head coaching experience as an interim coach last year with the Buckeyes
-22nd might seem high, but doesn’t 10th in the league feel a little low? What is your fear level of the Buckeyes now without Urban Meyer? Think back to what happened in the one year in between Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer with Luke Fickell in 2011
Athlon Sports puts Scott Frost as the B1G’s 4th best coach, and Ryan Day as No. 10 Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1012)-What teams in the Big Ten do you cheer for?
-Obviously, Nebraska fans don’t usually cheer for Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio State
-The U.S. Open has long been known as the tournament where sometimes the winning score is over par…the winning score was in double-digits under par for this tourney
-How long will this run of greatness from Brooks Koepka last? Years? This is 3 straight years of strong play…
