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I keep seeing this excuse over and over. Yeah, most of us might get pissed in a similar situation, and most of us have been angry at a boss or customer. But an intelligent person in a high-profile leadership position, should not say what Bo said about those customers outloud in a room where cameras and recorders were present. I don't buy the "private room" excuse, either, he was about to record a radio show with several others present. With the kind of relationship he has built with the media, especially at that partuicular point in time, it was simply reckless and unprofessional.

Yeah, I forgot they were independent, lol. But money talks, you know? Can BYU realistically match what we can offer? I say no but if he gets a massive pay raise like to say 1.5 mil a year, I don't think we can pay him $2.5 mil a year. At that point, we'd have to really whip out the check book. I realistically can't see anyone we could really steal away from another school. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't BYU have a sh#t ton of money available if they really wanted to use it? BYU is owned and operated by the LDS church, which has quite a bit of wealth, and they took the football team independent for the purposes of exposure. If they felt that Mendenhall, or any other coach, was the key to furthering their mission, I bet they would pony up the dough to keep him.

This video is the best bit of Husker entertainment I've had since about 12:15 p.m. on Saturday.

Wait, what?? In the OWH. Barfknecht should be taken with a grain of salt, but here it is: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130916/HUSKERS/130918903/1001

That senitment is what I meant in my "We may never recover thread." I don't know if we'll achieve greatness again. But of course I wrote my thread with a little too much gloom and sap and got slammed for it. I'm actually glad that many in Husker nation are more optimistic than I am, but this is my fear.

The morning after, having read most of this thread but not the multitude of others, after the UCLA game, after Tommie-gate: I'm not angry, I'm not circling the wagons...I'm just sad. That's all I feel about the whole situation right now. Sad.

It was a painful loss, sure. But how do you figure it was the worst home loss since '61? I can think of several much worse losses just in the past few years. This one just seems to have a different sting to it.

Ah, the 2011 Ohio State game. While watching that game, I remember thinking that that night would lead to Pelini's demise. I may have been right after all, sadly.

And suddenly Nebraska is relevant again!

are you saying that TO was able to keep it under wraps? Maybe he hid it in his desk drawer when the authorities and SI came snooping around?

I remember sitting in the stadium in 2000 (give or take a year) shortly after Eric Crouch had minor shoulder surgery (IIRC) and watching practices where he was firing 40 yard lasers, perfect spirals, right on target, just about every throw. Then in games his passing looked nothing like the sort. Good thing we didn't need him to throw too much, but that to me showed the difference between what guys can do in practice vs. game action.

My OP got more and more sad and melodramatic the more I wrote, yet I clicked submit anyway!

After a loss like this, just about every single person starts their own thread to analyze the matter. How annoying. I'm going to do the same thing. I don't think NU recovers from this. I'm not saying we'll go rapidly downhill (any further than we are), but we may not get better. There are plenty of threads suggesting that Pelini and Co. need to go, and suggesting who the next coach should be. I don't have an answer or even a guess, but I predict that we won't get anyone who will blow our minds. NU will be competing with the likes of Texas and USC for new coaches, meaning for any superstar coaches out there, NU will be 3rd fiddle at best. For anyone who is left who has strong Nebraska ties, out in the coaching ranks right now are Frost, Bohl, Gill, and Solich. If Pelini stays, and at 9 wins per season, he just might, I don't think any of us have confidence that he will get any better than what he has already shown in 5+ years. He is what he is. And without that confidence or fire, we may keep up 9 wins per based on patsies alone, but there won't be enough optimism to bring in the recruits or assistants to get us over the hump. I had the same feeling two years ago early in the 3rd quarter again Ohio State. NU is going to get blown out, have a bad season, and Bo will either never improve, or else he'll get fired and we won't be able to find a great replacement. The end of NU football as we know it, except for the memories. However, the miraculous come back that night restored the faith, at least temporarily. I don't know if that faith can be restored now, and I don't know if we are going to get any better. At least the 90s can never be taken away from us. The memories have become greater than the dreams.

NU - 35 SDS - 14 Rush - 275 Pass - 200

Not sure what thats supposed to mean? It's what Callahan said after CU ended our season in 2004.

I still think we go 9-3 or 10-2, but it will not be nearly as easy to recover mentally from the UCLA game as we did after last year's Ohio State game. With this year's schedule, we could have gone 10-2 with no improvement over last year at all, and it might still happen, but even so, I don't think anyone will be able to get their hopes up any higher. This was supposed to be the year that something special finally happened, but it's not going to.

In the book "Diary of a Husker" by David Kolowski, documenting a player's perspective of Solich's last years, Tom Osborne wrote an appendix wherein he said that football was a game of blocking and tackling, and any other gimmicks are probably an indication that you aren't doing the fundamentals correctly. The first time I read that was late in Callahan's tenure, and it made me think about all the fancy shifting and formations that his offense used, which ended up taking the place of good ol' fundamentals. Now I think of the same thing with Pelini, and this blog hits it on the head. Schemes and talent don't work without the basic fundamentals. With most coaches, you would see the hard-nosed deameanor of Pelini and imagine that fundamentals and discipline come first, but sadly it is not the case. Penalties and ball control are part of fundamentals, too. We can't get those things under control, and the tackling sucks. This team has no fundamentals or discipline.

Perhaps a good coach would respond, "Yes there is something you can do about it. You can take a seat." Unfortunately, the coach seems to have the same "not much we can do about it" attitude. Sad.

New week new Game? Sounds suspiciously like "One game, one season."

What the bloody hell??? I left for half an hour to take care of a sick wife and sleepy daughter. Did I turn on the wrong game? Explain this bullsh#t! What happened???

if your position can be shared on a bumper sticker, it is not worth sharing. I would love to see that on a bumper sticker.

These comments are making me uncomfortable.