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Corn Flakes: Rhule Says the Huskers are Close, But Not a Good Team Yet and Javin Wright Is Out with a Health Issue


We are another week closer to Husker football!

The article below fascinated me. The craftsmanship that goes into making a musical instrument is immense. Doing it with recycled wood is especially cool. Every guitar would be a one-of-a-kind item; that wood could never be found anywhere else.

Well, I guess there could be enough recycled wood from the same source to make more than one guitar. Still, I think you know what I mean.

A six-string made from Memorial Stadium? Nebraska guitar maker gives new life to historic timber. – Flatwater Free Press
Phil Whitmarsh starts a lot of conversations with an offbeat question: Have you ever played a 500-year-old guitar? Eventually, he’ll hand you Mary Kate.

Corn Flakes

A Good Team? Huskers Are ‘Really Close’ but ‘Not There Yet’
Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule commented after Saturday’s 137-play scrimmage and announced that linebacker Javin Wright will be out indefinitely.

Losing Wright is a bad break. Hopefully he recovers from whatever it is that ails him soon.

Matt Rhule Huskers scrimmage speech goes viral on Pat McAfee Show – Yahoo Sports
Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule delivered a stellar speech in the middle of the Red-White scrimmage at the beginning of August. The speech made it onto ‘The Pat McAfee Show’ and was applauded by the hosts.

Tradition Crystal Ball: Predicting every Nebraska football game in 2024
Nebraska is gearing up for Matt Rhule’s second season with the program in hopes of a breakthrough moment. Can the Huskers get back to a bowl game?

The crystal ball prediction seems pretty fair at 7-5. A bowl game would be a good start for the Huskers in their long road back to relevance.

Satterfield talks expectations for Huskers offense
With just two weeks before the open of the Huskers regular season, the expectation is a bowl appearance. The first for the program since 2016, and, it all starts…

Rhule could name Nebraska’s starting quarterback this week, Wright out with ‘health condition’
The Huskers are in the home stretch of preseason camp, holding their second closed scrimmage of August early Saturday.

Husker Notes: Pass pro, the pass rush and position battles that remain
Here’s what Matt Rhule had to say on a variety of topics after Saturday’s scrimmage.

Huskers have leading kicker with Tristan Alvano limited in practice
Nebraska football is seeing other kickers emerge in practice, as Tristan Alvano works his way back from injury.

Rhule sees progress in fixing Husker turnover issues
Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule discusses his team’s progress with turnovers.

Buccaneers release Randy Gregory after he failed to report to training camp – KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
Coach Todd Bowles said Sunday that the team cut Gregory after he had been put on the reserve/did not report list on July 23 for not showing up to camp.

Sports!

The new NFL kickoff rule explained. The Youtube channel owner (Pittsburgh Steelers) blocked it from playing when embedded so I put it in a link instead. It is a nice 90 second explanation of the “Dynamic Kickoff”.

Tennessee lands OT David Sanders, No. 4 recruit in 2025 class – ESPN
Five-star OT David Sanders, the top uncommitted prospect in the 2025 class, committed to Tennessee, landing with the Volunteers as the top-ranked prospect in the program’s rising 2025 recruiting class and the highest-rated pledge of the Josh Heupel era.

The Huskers made a hard push for Sanders, but got in the game too late to land him.

White Sox eliminated from MLB playoff contention, breaking record for earliest in wild-card or divisional era – CBSSports.com
The White Sox are on pace to lose 123 games

Caitlin Clark breaks WNBA rookie assists record as Fever beat Storm 92-75 | AP News
Kelsey Mitchell scored 27 points, Caitlin Clark added 23 points and nine assists, and Lexie Hull scored 12 of her career-high 22 points in the fourth quarter Sunday to help the Indiana Fever beat the Seattle Storm 92-75.

Cowboys’ Brandon Aubrey kicks 66-yard field goal
Brandon Aubrey’s 66-yard field goal tied the length of Justin Tucker’s record kick but won’t be a record because it was in the preseason.

The Weekly Dump

Do you get constipated when you travel? You’re not alone | Well actually | The Guardian
Experts weigh in on why we get stopped up when we’re far from home, and what we can do to prevent it

A stowaway groundhog is elevated to local icon | AP News
Some frozen custard and mini-golf customers in Pennsylvania have made a startling discovery that elevated a humble groundhog to icon status.



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