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It hasn't exactly been an easy ride for a while now and yet the fanbase shows up every single Saturday regardless. Curious what specifically keeps people coming back through the rougher stretches. What's your reason.

Every year in July I pay $5.99 for EA Play for one month to trial 10 hours of CFB/Madden to see if I get my fix and not buy it.

You can try CFB 27 (even on PC) right now this way. I played about an hour last night. I saw some threads wondering about the uniform situation, here to confirm some things.

1: you can use the traditional jerseys from last year (since we're all just loving the new ones...)

2: you can wear the black alternates from last year

3: there's also another black alternate

4. You can set the crowd stadium to blackout mode

Enjoy!

Wisconsin is trying so hard to follow the Nebraska blueprint of the last 20 years.

As of now, we don’t know which sports it will carry. If I were to guess, I think it will take over the games that used to be on AM 660. So basically every sport except for football.

being a Nebraska fan lately has taken a stubborn kind of loyalty and we all know it. through everything, the stadium still fills and the passion doesn't fade. what is it for you that keeps the belief going. the tradition, the memories of the glory years, pure refusal to give up. what holds you here when the wins have been hard to come by.

I know it’s June, but I’m thinking about Nebrasketball (I can’t be the only one lol). How do we feel about the roster they constructed?

On offense, I’m very excited about the trio they put together with Sandfort, Frager and Sam Orme — each one is long, can shoot and has the ability to get to the rim. Probably safe to say they’ll be our top three scorers.

Trevan Leonhardt seems like a solid addition at point guard, but he’s materially a different player than Sam Hoiberg and Jamarques Lawrence were. It’ll be interesting to see how the offense operates with more of a true point guard again. I ran into Leonhardt in public recently and he’s a tall dude in person, and he also seems like a really high-character guy.

If Leonhardt can be the assist machine that he was in the WAC (6.0 APG), that should hopefully make up for Boden Kapke being less of a facilitator than Rienk Mast was. I’m interested to see how Kapke fits in the offense, as well as Damon Wilkinson, as neither is really the prototypical stretch-five that Fred likes to have.

I’d assume Kapke and Wilkinson (as well as Leo Curtis) will provide better rim protection and rebounding than Rienk and Berke did. Hopefully.

I have concerns about how well all of these new guys can get accustomed to the defense, but I trust that Loenser will play the guys he feels comfortable putting out there.

Team leadership is another concern — who does it come from? That was one of the biggest things that was lacking two years ago when the going got tough. Mast and Sam Hoiberg were fantastic leaders this year, and they’ll be really hard to replace.

Overall, it feels like a talented group, but structurally seems more like the 24-25 roster with better pieces around the top two scorers and better depth. Excited to see how the rotation shakes out with Cale Jacobsen, Taj DeGourville, Will Cooper, Connor Essegian and maybe even Jacob Lanier and Colin Rice (less likely with the broken hand) also vying for minutes.

Just my layman’s thoughts. Interested in what you all think!

I grew up in Nebraska and am now living in Virginia. I do a yearly guys trip with some of my friends and have a buddy who is an Indiana alum. We saw the Nebraska-Indiana football game aligned with our trip this year so decided to make the trip to Omaha and Lincoln for the game/guys weekend. Then the volleyball team released their schedule and we play Wisconsin at home the same day as Indiana! What an awesome day to introduce non-Nebraska friends to Husker nation! I know volleyball will for sure be sold out and will most likely need to go secondary market for tickets, but neither game time is set yet. I would think we will stagger these game times and not play them at the same time? Any recommendations for tickets and places to stay/things to do in Lincoln?! Can’t wait!

Concert 30 minutes after the final whistle. Need a game ticket to attend.