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Member President Expects every Big Ten Teams to Play Football this Fall

Will football be played by all 14 member schools of the Big Ten in 2020? Northwestern’s president certainly thinks so.

Much has been made about what conferences will do in 2020 if some member schools aren’t able to have a football team ready for the season.  as Thursday saw the ACC Commissioner admit they would proceed without those unable to go.

Friday, the president at a Big Ten member school and chair of the Big Ten’s council of presidents/chancellors, spoke to ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg about his expectations for Big Ten football in 2020.

Schapiro clarified his statement shortly after:

Schapiro also noted that the Big Ten presidents and chancellors have their annual meeting on June 7 and that he expects that to be a key date for the fall sports season.

“We are going to work out a lot of things” Schapiro told Rittenberg.

It seems like quite a stance to take with the Big Ten having both Northwestern and Rutgers as members, as Chicago and New York City both remain hot-beds for COVID-19.

Notre Dame is scheduled to play just one Big Ten school in 2020 as they travel to Green Bay to take on Wisconsin on October 3.

Notre Dame Offers 2022 Florida Star Safety

Brian Kelly and Notre Dame became the 19th team to offer safety Devin Moore a scholarship Thursday. Find out more about the 3* safety here

Notre Dame continued their recent run of extending scholarship offers to the recruiting class of 2022 Thursday when they extended an offer to Naples, Florida safety Devin Moore.

Moore is listed at 6-2, 175 and attends Naples High School.  Notre Dame became the 19th football program to extend a scholarship offer to Moore, who also received offers from Nebraska and Virginia Tech in the last week.

Moore is listed as a three star safety according to 247 Sports.  They also rank him the 21st best safety in the 2022 class.  Notre Dame joins the likes of Florida, Florida State, Miami, Michigan, Mississippi State, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia Tech who are among the 19 total schools to have offered him.

For more information you can watch Moore’s sophomore year highlight tape here.

Notre Dame Offers ’22 Star Offensive Tackle

Notre Dame joined the likes of Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State in offering a scholarship to this star offensive tackle.

Notre Dame joined plenty of powerhouse programs Friday by extending a scholarship to 2022 offensive tackle Joey Tanona.

The Zionsville, Indiana product is graded as a four-star prospect who 247Sports ranks in their top 150 prospects in the 2022 class.  The high school junior to-be ranks as the second best prospect from the state of Indiana in the 2022 class with only defensive tackle Caden Curry of Center Grove High School ranked above him.

Tanona now has 13 offers as Notre Dame and Ohio State both offered the star offensive lineman Friday morning.  Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Penn State and Purdue are among the others to have offered Tanona.

It’s plenty early but Notre Dame does not yet have any players committed in the 2022 recruiting class.  Tanona’s list of offers will only grow as he figures to be one of the more desired players a year from now.

Notre Dame Offers a top 2022 Cornerback

Keenan Nelson now has 15 offers with some big-time players as you’d expect including Georgia, Penn State, Miami, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, Pitt and Michigan State among others.

Notre Dame continues to try and shape the 2022 recruiting class as they offered a scholarship to one of the nation’s top corner backs in the class Monday morning.

Keenan Nelson, Jr. of St. Joseph’s Prep School in Philadelphia was officially offered by the Irish and let the world know on Twitter.

Nelson is listed at 6-1, 200 pounds and as a four-star corner back.  247Sports ranks him as the 60th best player in the 2022 class and ninth best corner.

Nelson now has 15 offers with some big-time players as you’d expect including Georgia, Penn State, Miami, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, Pitt and Michigan State among others.

If you’d like to know more about the latest Notre Dame offer you can watch his sophomore year highlight video below.

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Greatest NFL Draft Picks of All-Time From Every Big Ten School

Who are the best NFL Draft picks from each of the Big Ten programs. Which players turned into the greatest stars at the next level?

Who are the best NFL Draft picks from each of the Big Ten programs. Which players turned into the greatest stars at the next level?

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With the history of the Big Ten, there are loads and loads of Hall of Famers and all-time great NFL draft picks to choose from. So who are the best of all-time?

This isn’t a list of the top pro players to come from the Big Ten schools – these are the best draft picks.

That means that guys who had great careers for someone other than the teams that drafted them get knocked down a peg, or aren’t on the list at all.

The goal for any draft pick is to get a player who performs at a high level for a long period of time, so longevity matters over one short burst of greatness.

CFN in 60: Why You Don’t Take A QB Early

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CFN 2020 NFL Draft Prospect Rankings
from the college perspective …
QB | RB | WR | TE | OT | OG & C
DE | DT | LB | CB | Safeties

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Indiana Greatest NFL Draft Picks

DE Pete Pihos
1945, 5th round, 41st pick overall, Philadelphia

Silver: DE Earl Faison, 1961, 1st round, 7th pick overall, San Diego
Bronze: C Bob DeMarco, 1960, 14th round, 157th pick overall, St. Louis

Pete Pihos is the lone Hall of Famer, playing nine years for Philadelphia and turning out to be way ahead of his time. He caught 373 passes over his career, finishing with spots on four straight All-Pro teams and with seven Pro Bowls.

Earl Faison only played five years for San Diego, but he made his era count going to the Pro Bowl each season and earning All-Pro honors four times.

Center Bob DeMarco had a 15-year career, doing most of his big things with St. Louis, going to three Pro Bowls and getting on two All-Pro teams in his nine years.

Maryland Greatest NFL Draft Picks

DT Randy White
1975, 1st round, 2nd pick overall, Dallas

Silver: DT/OG Stan Jones, 1953, 5th round, 54th pick overall, Chicago
Bronze: QB Boomer Esiason, 1984, 2nd round, 38th pick overall, Cincinnati

Dallas tried to make Randy White an outside linebacker. That didn’t really work, so he was moved to defensive tackle and he became one of the greatest linemen of all-time, being named to seven All-Pro teams, winning a Super Bowl, and getting into the Hall of Fame.

Stan Jones was a Hall of Famer for the Bears, going to seven Pro Bowls and getting on three All-Pro teams in his 12 years. Boomer Esiason became an MVP in 1988 and took Cincinnati to the Super Bowl. After famously having to wait too long and dropping in the draft, he went on to throw for over 27,000 yards with 187 touchdowns for the Bengals.

Michigan Greatest NFL Draft Picks

QB Tom Brady
2000, 6th round, 199th pick overall, New England

Silver: OL Dan Dierdorf, 1971, 2nd round, 43rd pick overall, St. Louis
Bronze: CB Charles Woodson, 1998, 1st round, 4th pick overall, Oakland

Good luck ever coming up with a better draft pick than New England taking Tom Brady in the sixth round in 2000. He turned out okay with a whopping 14 Pro Bowl honors, three All-Pro teams, and six Super Bowls.

Dan Dierdorf is in Canton after a brilliant 13-year career with the Cardinals, earning All-Pro honors three times as a tackle.

Charles Woodson was terrific for Oakland in both his stints to start and end his career, but he was at his best late with Green Bay. He still makes the cut after starting out with four Pro Bowls and a 1999 All-Pro season for the Raiders.

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Michigan State Greatest NFL Draft Picks

CB Herb Adderley
1961, 1st round, 12th pick overall, Green Bay

Silver: OG Joe DeLamielleure, 1st round, 26th pick overall, Buffalo
Bronze: OG Ed Budde, 1st round, 8th pick overall, Kansas City

Herb Adderley turned into the playmaking Hall of Fame defensive back the Green Bay secondary worked around in his nine years. He was named to four All-Pro teams as the premier corner of the 1960s.

Joe DeLamielleure played seven years for Buffalo before going to Cleveland, but the three-time All-Pro’s work for the Bills were enough to earn a Hall of Fame bust, helping to pave the way for O.J. Simpson.

WR Derrick Mason probably belongs on the list, but Ed Budde spent 14 years as a rock for the Kansas City offense, going to seven Pro Bowls and making two All-Pro teams.

Ohio State Greatest NFL Draft Picks

OT Jim Parker
1957, 1st round, 8th pick overall, Baltimore

Silver: OT Orlando Pace, 1997, 1st round, 1st pick overall, St. Louis
Bronze: LB Randy Gradishar, 1974, 1st round, 14th pick overall, Denver

Jim Parker was an all-timer of an All-Pro blocker, getting named to the team eight times at various spots for Baltimore. He was the anchor of some of the NFL’s greatest teams, and he helped keep Johnny Unitas upright.

Orlando Pace took a little while to warm up, and then he became a Hall of Fame blocker and one of the stars of the Greatest Show On Turf. He was a three-time All-Pro and went to seven Pro Bowls.

Randy Gradishar is on the short list of the greatest players to not be in the Hall of Fame despite going to seven Pro Bowls and being named to two All-Pro teams.

Penn State Greatest NFL Draft Picks

LB Jack Ham
1971, 2nd round, 34th pick overall, Pittsburgh

Silver: RB Franco Harris, 1972, 1st round, 13th pick overall, Pittsburgh
Bronze: RB Lenny Moore, 1956, 1st round, 9th pick overall, Baltimore

A standout even on a Pittsburgh defense full of all-timers, Jack Ham was a seven-time All-Pro on the way to a Hall of Fame career. Very consistent and very good for a very long time, he played 12 years for the Steelers at the highest of levels.

Franco Harris was the missing piece of the Pittsburgh Super Bowl puzzle, adding the rushing punch with close to 12,000 yards with 91 touchdowns in his Hall of Fame career. He started out going to nine straight Pro Bowls and was named a 1977 All-Pro.

Lenny Moore played 12 years for Baltimore earning five All-Pro honors in his Hall of Fame career.

Rutgers Greatest NFL Draft Picks

S Deron Cherry, 
1981, Undrafted, Kansas City

Silver: RB Ray Rice, 2008, 2nd round, 55th pick overall, 2008
Bronze: S Devin McCourty, 2010, 1st round, 27th pick overall, 2010

Rutgers has a horrible, horrible history of NFL draft prospects, so go ahead and put Deron Cherry in this even though he wasn’t drafted. Kansas City did just fine, getting a six-time Pro Bowl talent and three-time All-Pro with 50 picks in his 11-year career.

Ray Rice – up until it all went off the rails – was a terrific pro for six years, running for over 1,000 yards four times and going to three Pro Bowls.

Devin McCourty was only named to two Pro Bowls, but he became a huge part of the New England defense for over a decade.

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2020 NFL Draft: List of known prospects Jags have contacted post-combine

The prospects from the upcoming draft may be limited in terms of traveling and meetings, however, the NFL has still found creative ways to conduct interviews. Whether it’s through FaceTime or any other video contact apps, they’ve all done their best …

The prospects from the upcoming draft may be limited in terms of traveling and meetings, however, the NFL has still found creative ways to conduct interviews. Whether it’s through FaceTime or any other video contact apps, they’ve all done their best to do their homework on the prospects they could be adding to their teams in a few weeks.

The Jags are amongst the teams who’ve been working hard with interviews despite all of the limitations COVID-19 has caused. Thanks to our comrade of Draft Wire, Justin Melo, we’ve been able to stay in the loop with some of the prospects the Jags have shown interest in after the NFL Scouting Combine. Here are some of the names he’s confirmed who the Jags have contacted:

  • A.J. Green, CB, Oklahoma State
  • Jordyn Brooks, LB, Texas Tech
  • Kenny Willekes, DL, Michigan State
  • Nick Harris, Center, Washington
  • Darrion Daniels, DL, Nebraska
  • Marlon Davidson, DL, Auburn
  • James Smith-Williams, EDGE, North Carolina State
  • Alohi Gilman, Safety, Notre Dame

One of our guests on the “Bleav in the Jags Podcast,” Jordan Reid, also reported that the Jags had a FaceTime interview with Georgia offensive tackle Andrew Thomas.

In terms of Combine interviews, we reported back in February that the Jags interviewed Miami’s DeeJay Dallas, Florida State’s Cam Akers, Georgia’s Solomon Kindley, and Louisiana States Clyde Edwards-Helaire. Kindley, a Jacksonville native recently sat down with Action News Jax as he’s training locally to prepare for the NFL season. In our latest mock, we slotted Kindley to the Jags in the second round.

 

Nebraska sports betting: Is legal sports betting available in Nebraska?

Is sports betting legal in Nebraska? We look at the latest information.

No, sports betting in Nebraska is not legal at this time.

Sports betting in Nebraska

While it is not now legal, there was legislation earlier this year proposing to recategorize sports betting as “authorized games of skill.”

Online sportsbooks in Nebraska

None.

Retail Sportsbooks in Nebraska

None.

For more sports betting information and betting tips, visit SportsbookWire.com. And follow @SportsbookWire on Twitter and on Facebook.

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Fred Hoiberg left Nebraska’s game after feeling sick on the bench

Fred Hoiberg was reportedly taken to the hospital in Indianapolis.

Nebraska head basketball coach Fred Hoiberg left Wednesday night’s Big Ten tournament game against the Indiana Hoosiers after feeling sick while on the bench and the scene didn’t look great.

This happened on the same night that the NBA suspended its season over the coronavirus and came just hours after the NCAA announced that no fans will be allowed at NCAA Tournament games when it starts next week.

Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reported that Hoiberg was taken to the hospital in Indianapolis. There are no reports of this as of now being associated with the coronavirus, but with everything going on in the world, watching Hoiberg struggle on the sidelines wasn’t great:

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Kobe King to Nebraska – sincerely, good for him

Kobe King finds a new home

Let’s be honest: If the Wisconsin Badgers weren’t kicking butt right now, it would be harder to look at the end of the Kobe King story (from a UW point of view) with a generous heart. Yet, as this story gains a measure of closure, with King’s transfer to the Nebraska Cornhuskers earlier this week, it’s worth making the point that young people need support and affirmation in their lives even when they make choices we don’t like. In fact, it is PRECISELY when a young person makes a questionable choice that support is needed. This frames the discussion around King, whose departure thankfully did not have a negative effect on the 2020 Badgers. Wisconsin is rocking and rolling after ripping up Michigan’s formidable defense on Thursday night in Ann Arbor.

The title of this story is not sarcastic. It’s the truth. Genuinely: Good for Kobe King. He wanted a different direction for his career. He found it relatively quickly. That’s an encouraging outcome for him.

We don’t have to dive into another familiar argument about whether college athletes should be paid. Regardless of your views of that particular issue, we can all agree that human beings make specific choices and then reconsider them. Kobe King might not have had a “paid job” as a Wisconsin basketball player, but it certainly was an important responsibility for him. It didn’t work out.

Whether or not a person pulls down a take-home paycheck, that person was engaged in a public endeavor (playing college basketball) people care about. College athletes face this reality all the time: Do they really want to play in one place and one situation? If they realize, midway through their journey, that going elsewhere might be better for them, should any of us insist that inclination is wrongheaded or shortsighted?

If a job is not working out for us, we would very possibly consider walking away from that job and starting fresh somewhere else – maybe not in a different state, but certainly at a different company if we wanted to do the same type of work.

Sure, we all know that playing college basketball isn’t a regular job – only 353 Division I teams exist in the United States, with only eight to 10 players playing for one team on a normal game night. This means no more than roughly 3,500 young men play more than table-scrap minutes (let’s say 10 minutes) per game every season. This is a pretty select group engaged in pursuing a select opportunity.

It is an even more special opportunity at the Power Five conference level, which is where Kobe King resided at Wisconsin… and where he will be staying at Nebraska.

This chance doesn’t come around for anyone and everyone. It’s a limited fraternity (or, for women’s college basketball players, sorority). Given the special, fragile, and very temporary (no more than four years) nature of collegiate athletics, an athlete has to make these years count. If, for whatever reason, he doesn’t feel comfortable in a given place, it’s not a scandal or cause for outrage (barring some exceptional circumstances).

A young person just wants to relocate and find a new path, something Americans of any age should be free to pursue.

All of this aside: Kobe King could have picked a Big Ten school with a stronger position and reputation than Nebraska. He didn’t. Imagine how we all would feel if he had gone to Marquette (not saying that was ever likely, but imagine the result just the same).

Nebraska is a relatively harmless choice… but even if Kobe King had chosen to play for Iowa or Purdue, that wouldn’t change the basic reality that athletes deserve to have freedom of movement. We should wish them well… and wish that when they play Wisconsin the next time, they’ll get their butts kicked.

Sincerely, good for you, Kobe King. Have a prosperous career… and the Badgers will smile when they face you next, trying to defeat a friend in good-natured and spirited competition, just as any brother would in a backyard one-on-one game.

Wisconsin recruiting comparison: Nebraska

National Signing Day has come and gone and the Wisconsin Badgers have put together a fairly decent class compared to the rest of the Big Ten. In the spirit of looking at recruiting classes compared to the rest of the conference, Badgers Wire is …

National Signing Day has come and gone and the Wisconsin Badgers have put together a fairly decent class compared to the rest of the Big Ten. In the spirit of looking at recruiting classes compared to the rest of the conference, Badgers Wire is taking a look at Wisconsin’s class on a national level and a conference level. We’ll be including their national rankings and their conference rankings. Next up on our list is a newer program to the Big Ten, but one of the most storied programs to reside in the conference: Nebraska. 

While the Cornhuskers are a tradition-rich program due to many decades of success in the second half of the 20th century, that success came when they were in the Big Eight and then the Big 12 Conference as opposed to the Big Ten. The school’s administration is hoping Frost, a former quarterback at Nebraska himself, can tap into the winning ways he had at UCF and apply them to the Cornhuskers.  So far, it has not gone well at all for Frost, who has yet to win more than five games in a season during his time as head coach at Nebraska. Only in his fifth year of head coaching, Frost is trying to figure out what he can do to bring in enough recruits to turn things around, but Nebraska isn’t the type of program that is going to accept a lot more five-win seasons.

Yes, Frost will get at least two more seasons no matter what else happens, but if he doesn’t begin to show improvement in 2020, the 2021 season will be a hot-seat year. Even though Frost is family in Nebraska — and will therefore get a little extra time an outside hire would not have received – he will have to turn things around relatively soon. 

The Cornhuskers have the nation’s 20th-ranked recruiting class in 2020. They finished with the Big Ten’s No. 4 recruiting class with a player average rating of .8838. Their best player is offensive tackle Corcoran Corcoran. At 6-foot-6, 280 pounds, Corcoran (.9751) is the No. 47 player in the nation and the 4th-best offensive tackle in the class of 2020. The Badgers (.8782) have a lower per-recruit average than the Cornhuskers (.8838). The Badgers’ best player in 24/7’s composite rankings is offensive tackle Trey Wedig (.9643). The 6-foot-8, 320-pound behemoth is ranked (.0108) lower than Corcoran for the Cornhuskers. 

The position where both classes compare: cornerback. The Badgers signed Max Lofty (.8526), a 5-foot-11, 170-pound player out of Pine Creek High in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He’s the No. 86 player at his position in the country and the 9th-best player coming out of Colorado. The Cornhuskers signed Ron Delancy. At 5-foot-11 and 160 pounds, Delancy (.8551) is the nation’s 76th-best cornerback, but he’s the 124th-best player in a football recruiting hotbed: Florida. In both cases, these players are likely going to redshirt their first year and start contributing the year after.