As some of my readers may know by now, I am going to be joining Brandon Vogel of High Plains Drifter by writing stories for the Big Red Network from this point on. It’s a great chance for both myself and the team at BRN to take on larger projects and opportunities. With such a large staff, we’re going to be bringing you the best of Husker news highlights, editorials, and analysis. Since I will be devoting my time to BRN, this website will go quietly into the night over the next year. A big thank you goes to my readers who kept up with my erratic posting schedule. Without you, I would not have had the chance to be a part of the greatest staff of Husker fans on the Internet.

Dr. Tom Osborne spoke at the Big XII annual meeting a few weeks ago. He promoted an idea to pay athletes $2500 beyond their scholarships in order to defer the increasing costs of attending college.

This is the exact opposite of what should be suggested. Instead, I want a plan that pays everyone but scholarship athletes $2500 to help pay for school.

Are student athletes abilities being exploited for the entertainment of the masses? No more than students are being exploited to fund research that brings intellectual property returns to the school.

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Bo Pelini should be hoping for ABC/ESPN to pick up the Virginia Tech @ Nebraska game as soon as possible. The exposure will be an immediate boon to his recruiting efforts for next year. Whatever may be said about the coaching staff’s abilities at this point - nothing helps recruits make decisions more than seeing the boys in red as much as possible. Win or lose, our spotlight time needs to show Nebraska in the most positive light possible.

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Bo Pelini and company have been in Lincoln, Nebraska for almost half a year now. That may be time enough to get things together, but I have little faith in this staff in terms of recruiting on their own. I know it sounds bad, but let me qualify the comment. I don’t know what they can do just quite yet, so I won’t try and guess how good or bad they are until next season or I have more information. They managed to stop the hemorrhaging so to speak when Billy C left. So they’re good enough to keep guys, but we don’t know if they can get good new ones.

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During the slow period of the off season, I like to make time for reflection upon the state of Nebraska Cornhuskers Football. Sometimes, I come up with insightful statements, such as, “If we start running the triple option next year, we’ll beat everyone to the latest offensive fad by at least five years! 25 National Championships, here we come!” While that gem is left for another blog, the thoughts weighing heavily on my mind the last week or so has focused on one area: Lil’ Red Seriously Freaks Me Out.

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I’ve been crunching the numbers on Open Office’s Calc for the past couple of days, and all I’ve figured out is that the Big XII is going to be one tough cookie to crack this year. I’ll be trying to guess more accurately in the fall, but for now I can say that 2008 may not look that different from the 2007 final standings. Hopefully, I can be objective when it comes to the Huskers abilities this year - it’s difficult trying to analyze if you’re giving too much or not enough credit to your team.

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The Chiefs and Steve Octavien are apparently going to come to an agreement either today or tomorrow according to LJS. According to news-press.com Octavien was called by Kansas City right after the draft was done. Octavien fills a need in the next few years at Linebacker with veterans Napolean Harris and Donnie Edwards looking at an increasingly younger, rebuilding team around them. KC just signed former Husker Demorrio Williams in March in anticipation of future LB moves.

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