Husker - SquareOffs

Asked by Husker Max

5/1/2014

Will NU Baseball make it to the College World Series this year?

35%

Yes

65%

No WINNER

35%

Yes

Erstad has them playing good defense and a strong finish gets them in.

Erstad has them playing good defense and a strong finish gets them in. Show Less

1 Comment

Keith Petrie

Made it last year...and they're better this year! Bats need to come around!!! +

65%

No

They will finish similar to last year and just miss the cut.

They will finish similar to last year and just miss the cut. Show Less

5 Comments

Tim Welling

I believe they may make a regional but probably will fall short of the cws. They have a penchant for losing to teams that they should not lose to aka northwestern.

Carol Edmonds

Nebraska has a lot of talent. They need to be more consistent. I hope they can at least make it to a regional, though. DeLeon and company deserve that.

Phil Coffey

you can't make the CWS losing to teams like Iowa and NW

Tyler R. White

they will make it further this year but still too inconsistent

Regan Zeller

good but not in the top 8 nationally.

Asked by Husker Max

4/28/2014

Do you think college athletes should unionize?

15%

Yes

85%

No WINNER

15%

Yes

1 Comments

Chad Sheeks

It is unfair to make others hundreds of millions and be offered an education which is maybe worth 50k. The best players leave early anyway, no education. Pool the D1 union money and split it evenly.

85%

No

16 Comments

Wm Salyers

unionization would change college football as we know it

Dan Marlatt

Colleges are for educating students, not for running professional sports teams. If players want to be paid then they should skip college and go straight to the pros. I will ruin college sports.

Chad Sheeks

This is not possible. You are not allowed to go straight pro.

Joel A. De Ford

because unions destroy competitiveness.

Richard Barnes

A stipend should suffice. We need to keep college sports as un professional as possible. Unions will only cause conflict and missed games, walk outs etc. A loss of fan support would follow.

Keith Petrie

They may not get everything...but they get more than than the average Scholarship student gets. They also have the opportunity for an education to fall back on if they don't play professional sports

vulgus regula

because, while the NCAA does not handle everything correctly, these players are students with scholarships, not workers. Just because their is a buck to confiscate does not make them workers.

Chad Sheeks

Not true at all. They are workers. They spend 40-50 a week with sports. More during the season. They make hundreds of millions of dollars for others.

James A Curtis

Not paid employees and have all the benefits they need.

Chad Sheeks

While they are part of the team sure. But none of the players receive physical therapy 20 years later. The players need a union they are being taken advantage of.

Dan Novak

They get free food, free housing, free education, and a stipend. More and the common students will suffer.

Chad Sheeks

Actually many Athletic Departments are an individual financial entity. Athletic department money is not funneled into academia.

Adam Fisher

It will hurt them more than they realize when they become a true 'employee'

Chad Sheeks

Yeah because true employees get paid. That will really suck for them.

Eric Oates

1) they are not employees. 2) unions SUCK. 3) the athletes are paid well enough with the opportunities they receive through the schools they represent. 4) nothing good has happened to athletics since

Arlie Rauch

They are students.

Norman Curfman

Unionization will destroy college athletics. Unionization of anything in today's world destroy's any business entity, not only economically, but functional efficiency as well.

Mike Conyers

The threat of a union is good. The actualization of a union fails to address the problem.

Michael Morkert

Most have scholarships and/or great meal plans and other privileges others do not get...NO

Jerry Williams

Loss of too many benifits

Jim Jones

Unions create an unnecessary bureaucracy that separates stakeholders

Asked by Husker Max

4/24/2014

Will Tommy Armstrong open the season as the starting QB?

73%

Yes WINNER

27%

No

73%

Yes

11 Comments

Heather Carroll Mueller

He is the best option at this time. He has grown into a starting job.

David Christopher Cate

Tommy was 8-1 as a starter for the Huskers. Tommy also has the "IT Factor," when leading the offense.

Michael Morkert

thinking like coach Pelini...however I would go with one of the other 2.

David W. Hanson

I believe it's a given,wheather he's the best or not.He is simply the most experienced.Like Osborn,Pelini always goes with the old timer,not necessarily the best.

Jeff Malooley

Experience

Danny Baker

More experience.

Robert Hegler

Why not?

Alan J Farrell

He has experience, he may not stay there but, he will start there.

Andy Hogeland

experience

Gordon Sherman

Duh

Keith Petrie

because He was the starter most of last year...don't necessarily think He'll . remain starter. I think we've got some real talent at QB position & unless Tommie improves, He may share or lose spot!

27%

No

4 Comments

Joel Rodgers

He threw a pick 3 plays into a spring game. Same throw that he was doing last year.

Burke Swenson

I think Fyfe is an immensley better passer, and can run the option close enough to Armstrong that he's the better overall choice for what Beck wants this offense to do.

dougnorman

He doesn't impress me with his decision making or passing. Too many turnovers.

Matthew Thomas Hergert

Tommy ain't very good & Stanton is better.

Husker SquareOffs

Will NU Baseball make it to the College World Series this year?

35% Yes

65% No WINNER

35% Yes

65% No

Do you think college athletes should unionize?

15% Yes

85% No WINNER

15% Yes

85% No

Will Tommy Armstrong open the season as the starting QB?

73% Yes WINNER

27% No

73% Yes

27% No

About Husker

35%

Yes

65%

No WINNER

35%

Yes

65%

No

15%

Yes

85%

No WINNER

15%

Yes

85%

No

73%

Yes WINNER

27%

No

73%

Yes

27%

No