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That sucks...I thought he was going to be a great one!

Burkes is no longer w/the team! No good!

probably out for the rest of the year. it sounds like the chances of Green redshirting are history.

pretty sure I read that Lucky will be starting again

Doesnt look good for him qualifying. He has a TON of work to do in the classroom to make it. Dont see it happening.

The reason Asante has looked so bad is because other players didnt do their job and filling gaps, etc. I believe he has had some blown coverage's this year, but overall I think he has done pretty well. O'Hanlan (sp?) has had some trouble with taking bad angles and tackling. Not sure if he is what they looking for in that position. Guess it tells you how bad Culbert and some of the others are.

This = WORST POST EVER!!!!

I live in Edmond as well. Most OU fans are okay some think the season is a complete failure unless they win the National Championship. I remember being at the 2000 game when we were ranked very low (when OU won the NC). I've been to alot of games over the years and have never been cussed at - had beer cans/bottles thrown at me, etc as much as I did that day. Unbelievable how some people act - you would NEVER see this in Lincoln no matter who we beat.

Pelini announced today that the punting position is up for grabs. I guess he's seen enough.

I'm guessing there wont be a watch party this weekend in OKC?

Committed to OU

He's a goner! Committed to OU..no suprise

Tom Osborne spoke Wednesday night on the Husker Sports Network. Here's what Nebraska's interim athletic director had to say. Is the process going as quickly as he thought it would? "Yes, we're doing fine. I would say this, that things are pretty much on track." Ideally, when do you expect to be done with interviews and moving into that next stage? "Hopefully by next week. That would be my general timetable. But again, if it takes longer, it takes longer. We'd hope we'd be moving along pretty well by at least the middle of next week." Is there a common characteristic amongst the candidates he's interviewed so far? "I think they all understand the game quite well. We’re not going to talk to people that don’t have some track record and some people who have done well in coaching. All of them are very passionate about football. I haven’t really met a candidate yet who I thought was really driven by money. That always turns me off a little bit if I feel that their main interest is how much of a salary they can get. Now, having said that, it does seem that the going rate on salaries has really kind of gone through the roof maybe a little bit. A little bit amazing." How many candidates would he like to interview? "I have no set number in mind. You can overwhelm yourself with numbers to where you’re talking to so many people that you don’t really remember what the last person you interviewed said. But on the other hand you want to have a large enough pool that you were able to really examine some of the best qualities that some of the best coaches have. And I think we’ve been able to do that. I’m not saying that we’re done yet, but I think we’re really in pretty good shape right now." Does he want to get former Husker players or people with connections to the program on the next staff? "Well, first off I might just say that staff is really important. As a head coach, there's only one of you. You can't teach fundamentals to all of your players. You can't work on blocking and tackling with all your players, and so a great head coach with a mediocre staff is probably going to be mediocre... Answering the question, he said, "There are two schools of thought. One is that if you have players who played at Nebraska or were at Nebraska at one time or another, they do understand the culture. They understand where North Platte is and where Oshkosh is. They know the importance of football to young people in this state. They know what walkons meant to programs in the past. "And then on the other hand, an experienced coach with a solidified staff can come in here and sometimes save themselves a lot of time and grief simply because they all have a common terminology. They know each other. Their systems are all well in place and they don't have to spend several months trying to figure out what each one is doing. So it's kind of a trade off. But I guess it'd be nice to at least have a couple people with Nebraska ties, because they understand the state and they understand the culture." What are some of the things his conversations with the coaching candidates consist of? "We talk about staff, whether they would bring people on their staff, or whether there were some people around the country that they'd want to recruit as either coordinators or whatever. Just a variety of things. Usually I just let them talk and I listen a lot. Because I learn a lot more when I'm listening than when I'm talking."

I just read on LJS that cally and the other coaches have a meeting with TO on Saturday to discuss "matters" "Callahan and his assistants have a meeting with Tom Osborne on Saturday afternoon to discuss matters. What's he thinking with that meeting approaching? What reasons would he want to meet with them so soon if they werent going to get canned??

I read somewhere today that TO will only be wiling to pay the new head coach around 1 million a year. If this is the case I seriously doubt we will be able to bring in any big name.