Thad Livingston

1 month ago | huskersillustrated.com | Thad Livingston

Back in 2001, when Phil Snow was the defensive coordinator at UCLA, word on the street was the Bruins were looking to fill an entry-level spot, perhaps a graduate assistant. On the other side of the country, a young go-getter wanted the job and incessantly bugged Snow about the opening. Message after message was finding its way to Westwood. “I don’t even know him, right?” Snow remembers.

1 month ago | huskersillustrated.com | Thad Livingston

It may seem obvious to close followers of college football, but to some on the periphery it seems there’s a question lingering as to the best way to build a team in a new and confusing era when House vs. NCAA gets more pub than Alabama vs. Auburn, Indiana is an overnight success and Florida State just as quickly sank to Nebraska depths. The question: What’s best, filling your roster with high school recruits or players from the transfer portal? The answer: both.

Aug 15, 2024 | gothenburgleader.com | Thad Livingston

Hear that? All the talk coming out of Lincoln about a breakthrough season in 2024? Husker players running their mouths about how they are going to shock the world? Actually, I don’t hear it either. Because there is no talk coming from players in Lincoln about being the old Nebraska again or restoring order. And that is a good sign. I remember a bad sign, back in 2006. Maybe you remember it, too.

Aug 13, 2024 | themindencourier.com | Thad Livingston |Huskers Illustrated

Hear that? All the talk coming out of Lincoln about a breakthrough season in 2024? Husker players running their mouths about how they are going to shock the world? Actually, I don’t hear it either. Because there is no talk coming from players in Lincoln about being the old Nebraska again or restoring order. And that is a good sign. I remember a bad sign, back in 2006. Maybe you remember it, too.

Jul 21, 2023 | huskersillustrated.com | Thad Livingston

By Thad Livingston Ten-year-old Harper Bails has a big goal in mind. Next year at this time, as an 11-year-old, she wants to be playing for the Nebraska Thunder softball organization. Don’t bet against her. There’s lineage here. On Friday morning, chaperoned by her grandfather, young Bails showed up to the Papillion Landing Sports Complex to meet one of her heroes – a player her mother played with in the late 1990s at Papillion High School.