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Same boring game, different year
I wrote about it last year and my feelings still haven’t changed:
I still could care less about the Spring game. The Red “won” today 38-0. Wake me when September rolls around please.
I don’t even care that there’s a quarterback battle...please someone tell me the appeal of this game?
The Top 8 reasons why Dana Altman did not stay at Arkansas
Reasons why Dana Altman did not stay at Arkansas:
8. His children (one boy and one girl) would have had to become engaged.
7. Nike has announced that they are canceling their sponsorship of Arkansas basketball when they learned that the players have been cutting the soles out of the shoes so that they can play barefooted and only wear the tops.
6. He would have had to hire an assistant coach who was a parole officer
5. The Arkansas offer was in Confederate dollars
4. The Pope told him he couldn’t go
3. He would have had to pull ½ of his teeth to stay there
2. Arkansas would not allow any new DNA into the state
And the #1 reason why Dana Altman did not stay at Arkansas:....*drumroll*
1. He saw the film of himself doing the hog call and realized how dumb it looked
So which is it Dana?
Monday, April 2nd:
Dana Altman, head coach of (at the time) the Creighton University Bluejays announces that he is leaving Creighton for the head coaching job at Arkansas. A press conference which included a weird strange “Pig Sooie” call with president, A.D, members of the media and then head coach Dana Altman all joining in. And in the video you can see that Dana is either disturbed at the sight of what was taking place or had a really bad lunch on the flight to Fayetteville. But he also said “And with your permission I’d like to finish my career at the University of Arkansas.”
Tuesday, April 3rd:
Dana Altman, head coach of (at the time) the Arkansas Razorbacks decides that he is going to come back to Creighton as head coach. Sighting reasons of what’s best for his family and his love of “home”, talked to Creighton AD Bruce Rasmussen (who gladly accepted him back) and, made the decision to return to the Bluejays.
Stay tuned for developments on Wednesday, April 4th…
In all seriousness, Dana has ended any chance for him to coach at any big name school after this flip-flop. He has long turned down job after job after job to stay at Creighton and he has been well compensated for it at CU. Which is what made the Arkansas decision so strange. The Iowa job was out there for the taking and seemed to be the logical fit for Dana and even die hard Creighton fans shouldn’t have been surprised if he took the job with the Hawkeyes...but ARKANSAS?!!?! A passion for sports yes, maybe even a little bit crazy, but why would the normally stoic and at times almost boring Altman go to Arkansas? And we weren’t even to the most shocking news yet, he decides to come back. He got cold feet. He was at the alter, waiting to get married and he ran away. He chickened out.
So now the big fish is back in the small pond and Creighton *cough*bandwagon*cough* fans will adore him until he retires. Altman has the talent to coach a “BCS” team, but obviously he doesn’t have the stones. He has the talent to coach a team to the final 4, but now he will be lucky if he ever sees the Sweet 16.
Welcome back Dana. 
If I can quickly divert from sports momentarily…
I know I’m the sports guy but I thought I’d let everybody know about a concert in Lincoln tonight. Tim Reynolds is playing at Knickerbockers tonight at 9pm. If you are a guitar fan, Timmy is a must see. He was a guest with the Dave Matthews Band for much of the late 90’s and still tours periodically with Dave in a acoustical guitar tour. If I were in Lincoln, I’d be going but I’d be anxious to hear if anybody is going and if they do, how the show went.
The Madness Begins…
The NCAA Basketball tournament begins on Thursday.
I heard it best about a week ago, no sport dominates a month like March Madness does.
Your Final 4? Your champion?
My picks:
Oregon winning the St. Louis Region
UCLA winning the San Jose Region
Texas winning the East Rutherford Region
Ohio St. winning the San Antonio Region
UCLA beating Oregon
Ohio St. beating Texas
UCLA winning the national title over Ohio St.
Boys High School Basketball State Tournament Preview
I’m gonna pull pack the preview for Lincolnite.com because:
THERE ARE NO LINCOLN TEAMS IN THE TOURNAMENT!!!!
The last time a Lincoln team didn’t qualify for the tournament: 1932. How does the states second biggest city not qualify one team? You can blame the fully loaded A1 district for that. 4 Lincoln teams in that one, 3 with legit shots at qualifying but Omaha Central (defending A champs) beat LSE and LSW to take home the title. Pius, Lutheran and Christian all had down years in Class B.
That’s how.
Class A:
Champion: Omaha Central
Runner Up: Omaha Westside
Sleeper: Norfolk
Class B:
Champion: Omaha Skutt
Runner Up: Elkhorn
Sleeper: Ralston
Class C1:
Champion: Wahoo
Runner Up: Pierce
Sleeper: GICC
Class C2:
Champion: Louisville
Runner Up: Archbishop Bergan
Sleeper: Perkins County
Class D1:
Champion: Wauneta-Palisade
Runner Up: Loomis
Sleeper: None
Class D2:
Champion: Spencer-Naper
Runner Up: St. Edwards
Sleeper: Ewing
Is something rotten in the state of Nebraska athletics?
Since I’m in the western part of the state I don’t get to listen to Omaha/Lincoln sports talk radio and ever since the Weird Herald stopped posting their opinion columns online in their website redesign, I don’t get to read Tom Shatel anymore (don’t worry, I’m getting by).
Well, apparently in a recent Weird Herald opinion article, Tom Shatel wrote an article entitled “NU’s Pederson builds a fortress.”
More inside.
Girls High School Basketball State Tournament Preview
Here’s a quick preview of the Girls State Basketball tournament getting underway in Lincoln on Thursday:
Class A:
Defending champ Bellevue East is back in the field as a wild card and the #4 seed. A potential second round match up with the #1 seed Omaha Westside looms. Westside took 2 of 3 from East during the regular season and district play. The champion will most definitely come from this side of the bracket. Lincoln Northeast is the #2 seed with only one loss, which came to Bellevue East early in the year. Northeast’s schedule has been very weak all year though. Northeast is the defending runner up in Class A and it looks they’ll reprise that role in a finals loss to Westside.
Champion: Omaha Westside
Runner-up: Lincoln Northeast
Sleeper: Bellevue West
Class B:
It’s not who’s in the field, it’s who isn’t. South Sioux City will not be in the Class B field for the first time since 1993. The decline has been haunting SSC for many years and it finally caught up to them. This final should be a doozy, defending champion Gretna is the #3 seed and undefeated. The #1 seed is Crete and undefeated as well. Neither teams schedule has been very tough but both teams have been dismantling their opponents this year. Expect a Crete/Gretna final with the Dragons repeating.
Champion: Gretna
Runner-up: Crete
Sleeper: Alliance
Class C1:
Class C1 is stacked this year. Norfolk Catholic has been the tough luck loser in the past couple of years in C1. They are the #1 seed at 22-1. Crofton is the #2 seed and two time defending champion. Fort Calhoun is the #3 seed and undefeated at 23-0 and the #5 seed is North Bend Central and their only loss came to Fort Calhoun in the district final. Those 4 should move on to the semis. I’m going to take Fort Calhoun and Norfolk Catholic in the finals with Norfolk Catholic winning it all.
Champion: Norfolk Catholic
Runner-up: Fort Calhoun
Sleeper: None
Class C2:
The final in C2 should be a great one. Perkins County and Kearney Catholic have been the consensus #1 and #2 all year and should meet up in the finals. West Point Central Catholic can’t be forgotten though as they have been in 5 straight C2 finals. I still think it will be Perkins Co. and Kearney Catholic with Perkins County taking it all.
Champion: Perkins Co.
Runner-up: Kearney Catholic
Sleeper: None
Class D1:
Humphrey St. Francis is the two time defending champion and things shouldn’t change this year as they are undefeated and the #1 seed.
Champion: Humphrey St. Francis
Runner-up: Freeman
Sleeper: Wauneta/Palisade
Class D2:
I’ll take the #1 and #2 seed as well in the D2 finals. Newcastle is the #1 seed and Prague is undefeated at #2.
Champion: Prague
Runner-up: Newcastle
Sleeper: McPherson County
Super Bowl XLI: Colts 29 - Bears 17
Was that a boring game or what? Besides Hester’s kickoff return for a touchdown (which I missed) that game was a very unexciting one. Unless you’re a Colts fan that is.
And the commercials...not all that impressive IMO.
A couple that were ok was the blockbuster commercial ”click a mouse”, the Emerald Nuts commercial ”Nutty Goulet” and the Taco Bell commercial ”Taco Bell Safari”
We got herpes
“A wrestler from Nebraska has been identified as the possible source of a skin herpes outbreak that prompted Minnesota high school officials to impose an eight-day suspension of wrestling competitions and contact practices.”
The rest of the story can be seen here.
The wrestler in question is from Valentine.
Minnesota HS wrestling has put a moratorium on competition for a week so they can check everybody and quell the outbreak that has effected 24 wrestlers in Minnesota.
If you can’t beat em...give them herpes. A motto to live by folks.
Super Bowl XLI
It’s the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears.
Early line on the game: Colts by 7
Who do you got?
Did anybody see that coming?
Florida trounces Ohio St. 41-14 in the BCS national title game.
Did this game remind anybody of the 96 national title game with Nebraska-Florida?
For some stupid reason Florida was hyped as the better team in that game and then Nebraska came out and pounded the Gators.
Cotton Mouth
Nebraska fans were left parched after an uninspired 2nd half in the Cotton Bowl. Nebraska dropped to the Auburn Tigers 17-14.
Year #3 of head coach Bill Callahan is in the books, let’s take a look at his tenure here:
Year #1: 5-6 No bowl game
Year #2: 8-4 Alamo Bowl Victory over #20 Michigan 32-28
Year #3: 9-5 North Division Title, Big 12 Runners Up, Cotton Bowl loss to #10 Auburn 17-14
So I ask you, improvement from year #2 to year #3? No improvement?
Top 10 Nebraska Sports Stories of 2006
In the spirit of the upcoming year, let’s take a look back at the year that was in Nebraska sports in 2006
National Champions!
*photo courtesy of the Lincoln Journal Star
The 2006 womens college volleyball champions are your Nebraska Cornhuskers.
The Huskers defeated the Stanford Cardinal 3 games to 1 in front of 17,209 fans (195 more than Thursday night) to clinch the programs 3rd national title.
The question now is, can they do it again next year? For the first time in NCAA history a womens college volleyball team will have the last two players of the year on a team. This year, Sarah Pavan and last year Christina Houghtelling who sat out this year with an injury.
The other question is, does Omaha deserve to host the national championship every year?
Omaha has proved that they can host the big college events (College World Series) and no volleyball match has ever had more attendance than the finals. But, does it belong permanently in Omaha?
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