TonyStalloni

While it is not a certainty there was hanky panky going on it sure doesn't look good. If it can be proven she got the job with benefits for Petrino there is no way he will survive the inquest. I'm not certain he was porking this young lady. I've seen older guys who have a flirty relationship with someone younger and I doubt it was anything but flattering for him and her. If the little head got him in trouble then he's a bigger idiot than I thought. I'm sure she would like to have a redo as well.

One reason most people like the NCAA March Madness is the chance that it gives 68 teams. That tournament started as the NIT as a 6 team affair and has now expanded to include almost everyone with a decent chance. That being said it would be crazy to have a football tournament that large. The NAIA and NCAA Div 2 currently do a 16 team football bracket that produces a champion. It would seem that the Bowl system is the large elephant in the room that too many people in power want to retain. Their dilema is to keep the bowls and somehow add a championship playoff to the current system. Someone must be making money off the bowls for the attraction to remain so strong. Universities often claim to loose money on a bowl game (unless it is a BCS Bowl). I know schools like the added practice time a bowl game allows and only allowing the top 16 teams to have the added time would further distance them from the rest of the pack. I don't know if on top of a potential playoff for Division 1, additional bowls could be done for teams not making the playoffs. I also don't know what the potential revenue stream for a playoff would bring into the coffers and if they would make enough to share a stipend with all Div 1 schools. There are lots of questions to be answered and people smarter than me will have to make them.

In the words of the guardian on "Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade". I chose....poorly".

Seriously, this offseason he should just have a scrub hack him as he goes up for dunks. He could be so much better if he wasn't so weak around the basket. Kentucky had several tall guys but no "enforcers" that physically ruled the paint. He needs to get his elbows out, go up strong and make someone beat him. I didn't see that he had an over the shoulder "skyhook" in his arsenal either to use when he was 6" to 8" from the basket. I agree that he could be a much better player than he is.

I'm tired of seeing Withey attempting layups when he gets inside. Good grief man...you're 7' tall.....stuff the dang ball and do it with power! You're playing like an 8th grader.

I'm betting there are more commercials than points for the championship game tonight.

It will take this kind of energy and positive attitude to turn this program around. I'm going to relish every victory he has here at Nebraska. Whether it's on the court or on the recruiting trail. This may not even be the herdest job he has had in his coaching career. If he turns the program around he will be legend in Husker land.

All things pointed to 2013 being the year the Huskers made a move. Our schedule becomes much easier, Taylor M will be a senior with 4 years experience, our line would have jelled by then on both sides of the ball, and RB's and LB's would have depth and quality. To me it feels like 1969 and 1993 ....we were a good team gaining confidence and playing at a high level by the end of the year, with a high percentage of returning players. I'm thinking this years team will be pretty special. Pass the Kool-Aid please.

Two blue teams to the finals.....now did I pick the right one.

Sharpton and Jesse make money when black people riot and send money to their causes. They love having their faces in front of a camera. Unfortunately they also get a few stupid white people to feel guilty. A word to all blacks. I will take you seriously when you solve your own problems. White people have poured trillions of dollars in welfare rat holes and nothing has changed. Still, you say it isn't enough. You tell me you are so underpriveleged but you can still afford the latest phones and your cars have shiny rims and tires. The 21st century version of the welfare Cadillac. You complain that your kids can't do well in school but they have few in home fathers to show them how to enjoy reading or math. Your teens rebel and join gangs trying to learn how to be a man, but they have no men to pattern after. There is 10 times more crime commited by blacks on whites than white on black, yet you whine incessantly when it does happen. You maim and kill each other at a higher rate than white on black murders yet you think whites should defend you? Grow up and be a part of the country rather than being the huge drain on society.

One blue team in....One more to go?

I was thinking that too TOB. While her version wasn't as bad as some, it still had too many rolling notes for me. I'll take a singer who doesn't trip over his/her ego when singing my National Anthem.

Picking the Final Four is about as hard as picking the lottery.

I don't think a person who leaves a relationship like this should be demonized. Why was the TG not open enough to relay this information before the marriage and even before feelings were shared. That is some pretty inportant info to not divulge. Obviously there should never be violence.

Lets hope the enthusiam from Husker fans can pull the big 10 into the 21st century. That being the case maybe we can become the lighthouse of baseball in the midwest and attract a number of kids from our area (500 mile radius of Lincoln) who want to play on a contending team. The south sends a lot of players to those teams who currently reside in the top 20 but it doesn't mean good to great players don't grow up in the midwest and north. They just need more and better coaching and time to get to the top level.

It looks like we have our work cut out for us in the Big 10 as always. It will never be easy but we never assumed it would be. All the more reason to keep improving and aquiring great athletes to plug into our system. I don't think Bo is a fool and he knows what the challenges are....but I also think he knows the solutions and is working towards them.

It's a very slow morning so I did a little research. Only 5 teams who won the championship since 1990, have not had some shade of the color blue in their school colors. You have to go back to 2003 to find one who didn't. Granted the color blue can run from dark navy to North Carolina powder blue. It seems odd though that the color red isn't more pronounced as the winners color. This year we have two blue and two red teams playing so take your pick. Will the trend continue or will this be the year red emerges?

That quote is quite concerning and if he ever confronted a player about his sexuality he should be fired. I read the HuffPost article and was underwhelmed. They try to make it sound like RB uses his position as football coach to beat players over the head with his Bible. In the letter portion after the article I saw this note from someone who identified himself as a former player: I played football at Nebraska while coach Brown was an assistant there. He never once "pushed" his religious beliefs on me. He never once "preached" to us in the locker room or on the field. He did not have a classroom setting or "pulpit" to push his views onto any of the players. I never heard one player complain about him pushing his views onto them. Yes we knew he was Christian. He did not sway us to dislike non Christians. He would conduct prayers after the games for those of us who wanted to pray at mid field. Also players from the other team could participate if they wanted to. It was never a mandatory thing. You guys are acting like he preaches all day long at UNL and pushes his views on the students. He does not do that. While I agree some Christians have gone overboard in their attempt to witness, RB isn't one of them. Neither does he apologize for his beliefs or back down from them.

I'm happy for Doug and the Creighton team. Congrats on a fine year.

If a big man need only jump high enough to force a 9.4" diameter basketball through an 18" hoop 10' off the ground. The laws of physics would indicate that the farther away a ball is when it is released, the more difficult it is to make the basket. DH and Shaq have better FG %'s because they dunked more. Kareem played at a time when anyone wanting to dunk had a price to pay from the enforcer on the other team. His body wasn't made for high impact collisions and he knew it. He lengthened his career greatly by using the skyhook.

As I said earlier in another thread... "Back in the late 60's the NCAA did a big favor for a young man from New Yorks Power Memorial Academy. They outlawed the dunk in college ball and the then Lew Alcindor developed the 'Sky Hook' a shot that was almost unstopable. The centers in todays college game either dunk the ball or pass the ball back out for a long jump shot. If I was a college coach I'd have a lot of film of Kareem Abdul Jabbar shooting the sky hook over everyone he played against. The kids today, and yes I include Anthony Davis of Kentucky and Ohio States Sullinger just don't have what I would call a quality shot. T_O_B G>B>R " I also don't think the 3 point line has made BB better to watch either. T_O_B G>B>R I agree completely with the idea that Kareem and centers from 25 years ago were more skilled and had a better rounded game than todays post men. I think the trend toward having big men who only dunk started with Shaq and is today epitomized by Dwight Howard. DH is a gifted athlete who could do so much more if he chose to. I disagree that the 3 point shot hasn't made basketball better. When basketball was played in the 50's and 60's most of the players were from 6' to 6'6" in height. Seeing a man over 6'8" was rare so the inequity of height wasn't a huge factor. Now it is rare to see anyone on the floor outside of the point guard who is under 6'6". I think the 3 point shot has made the little man a legitmate scoring threat again.

This isn't a directed response at the poster, i'm just expanding on the bold. They do an end game prayer after every game. You see some of the players go into the locker room, and some stay. Brown isn't forcing his beliefs on anyone. He said himself he'd force is beliefs on a gay player. Just as he would with any other player who "sins". I would love to see the link where he said this. I've heard him several times and haven't heard anything even remotely close to this statement. I could understand if he said this "tongue in cheek". RB would never make that statement in a serious discussion.

It would be a longshot for sure but it might be worth a try. I don't condemn him for the decision to not come to Nebraska and that he liked playing with kids he knows from his AAU team. I'm sure part if not most of his decision to rule us out was the fact that NU was struggling and there was a ton of negative energy. I hope Tim M gives the kid a call.

Congrats Huskers! Great job this weekend! Let the good times roll.

I'm not sure if the kid from South Sioux City can be turned from the dark side (Iowa), but you never know. Watching him play in the state tournament I saw a lot of good in him. I don't think he's a program changer but he could be one of those 4 or 5 role players every team needs. Minnesota has the kid from Chadron who has become a decent big man. There was a kid from SD a few years ago who was down to us and Minn and he went to Minn. In short, our state needs some energy to get high school kids dreaming about playing for the U and putting in the time to make themselves better players.