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WI @ NE at 8:00 EDT on BTN - the Badgers are 10.5 to 11 point favorites depending on which odd service you believe. Nebraska showed signs of life the past two weeks against the two worst teams in the Big Tens so I don't think it'll transfer to this week. The Badgers chew 'em up and cover.

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[Nebraska head coach, Mike] Riley liked some of the progress his team made with its run game and pass protection.

"It wasn't good enough progress against that team, a team that was really ready to do what they do really well," the coach said.

"Their consistency with the run in that fourth quarter ..." Riley said, his voice trailing.

"You know what that looked like," he said.

Yeah, we know what it looked like. We used to see it all the time around here.

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Nebraska tabs Moos to lead athletic department

PARKER GABRIEL Lincoln Journal Star Oct 15, 2017

Nebraska’s found its next athletic director, and the school convinced a man to leave his alma mater to take the job.

NU on Sunday afternoon hired Bill Moos away from Washington State to lead its athletic department, a swift move that comes less than four weeks after firing Shawn Eichorst from the same position and one day after the Huskers football team was blown out at home by Ohio State.

“Nebraska has secured a proven winner in Bill Moos to lead Husker Athletics into a new era of excellence,” UNL Chancellor Ronnie Green said in a news release. “It was clear that Bill stood out in a very competitive, tremendously gifted pool of candidates, not only because of his proven ability to lead programs to greatness, but because of his reputation for integrity in building and leading those programs.”

A 4 p.m. Sunday news conference has been set to introduce Moos as AD.

Moos agreed to a five-year contract with a base annual salary of $1 million, plus incentives. His first day on the job will be Oct. 23.

Moos, 67, leaves WSU after running its department for more than seven years. He has nearly two decades of experience at the helm of Pac-12 schools.

Before WSU, Moos was Oregon’s athletic director from 1995-2007.

“To lead one of the most storied and successful athletic programs in the nation is a true honor,” Moos said. “Nebraska is a very special place, known far and wide for its phenomenal fans, for doing things the right way, for supporting its students, honoring its athletic legacy and maintaining excellence in athletics success across the board. I am proud to help build upon these Husker traditions.”

Moos, a native of eastern Washington, has spent nearly his entire professional life in the Pacific Northwest. He began his athletics administration career at WSU in various roles — including two years running external operations as a top associate — before taking over as athletic director at the University of Montana in 1990.

Five years later — and six months before the Grizzlies won their first national championship in school history — he moved to Oregon, where he spent more than a decade helping build the Ducks toward the athletics power they are today.

He left UO because of a dispute with Nike founder and school megadonor Phil Knight and signed a 10-year noncompete that agreed he would not take an AD job West of the Mississippi River. The Washington native, though, found himself in Pullman, Washington, three years later and has been there since.

Between his tenures at Oregon and WSU, he reportedly worked on his family's ranch in Valleyford, Washington.

In 2012, he hired Mike Leach to run the Cougars’ football program. Leach owns a 35-35 record at WSU, but turned around a moribund program and led it to nine wins in 2015 and eight wins last fall. The Cougars were ranked No. 8 in the country and off to a 6-0 start this year before getting dominated, 37-3, by unranked California on Saturday.

Moos also hired men’s basketball coach Ernie Kent in 2014. Kent, who coached Oregon for 14 years, including many while Moos was there, finished 13-18 last season.

Moos made $776,000 in 2016, according to a database of Washington public employee salaries.

Now, Moos takes over a program in tumult. The Huskers lost to No. 9 Ohio State on Saturday night, 56-14, in the most lopsided home defeat since 1949.

Two-time All-American offensive lineman Dave Rimington has been serving as interim AD for the past three weeks, but now the heavy lifting begins.

The football team enters its bye week with new leadership in place and looking for a way to snap a two-game losing streak and reverse the course of an otherwise frustrating 3-4 start.

The loss dropped Mike Riley to 18-15 in his tenure here and 11-10 in Big Ten play.

Moos is certainly familiar with Riley. He was in charge at UO when Riley coached his first stint at Oregon State in 1997-98 and was still there for the first five years of Riley's return, beginning in 2003.

Eichorst was fired Sept. 21 and a news conference featuring NU system president Hank Bounds and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green centered on the need to compete and generate on-field success.

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I swear that Coach Riley looked bored as hell during the drubbing his team took Saturday night...