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I loved this win! It was amazing! The defense was sensational in the 4th quarter! I am at a loss for words right now.

BRV920, Nebraska's offensive linemen had several holds inside the redzone called on them that were drive killers in the 2nd half. They knocked us out of field goal position at least twice, man, in the 4th quarter or so. The offense has got to clean up a lot of stuff -- and they will. Let's try to stay positive. Tommy Armstrong is -- and I repeat -- a FRESHMAN. He's young. I love his running ability!!! We are 6-2 now. Let's be thankful after a win like this. Kain Colter and Northwestern came to play today. You got to give them credit too.

Just sensational! All I can say...Unbelievable! Wow! My, my, my!!!!! This is the happiest I've been since the shocker on Nov. 8, 1997 at Missouri! "The Immaculate Reception" as it was known as Matt Davison found his way into Nebraska football history on that very special day! I have nothing but wonderful praise for both Westerkamp and Kellogg III on their successful Hail Marry with no time left on the clock. Wow! Can you believe this?! This was a truly amazing win!

Chris Dishman. He was listed as a preseason All-American before he even started his first game as a Husker. The haus played tackle for Nebraska in the mid '90s. I liked him. He helped the 1995 offensive line which had graduated everybody except starter Aaron Graham. Dishman's 1995 O-line was supposed to be a weakness going into the season, but it turned into a strength as he got help from Aaron Taylor (not Notre Dame's Taylor you see on ABC), Eric Anderson, Steve Ott, Graham (of course), and Matt Vrzal. That was a great offensive line. I purchased the 1995 VHS of the Washington State game, and Nebraska pounded the Pac-10 school, 35-21.

I want to voice up now. I just purchased a brand new white Nebraska cap online. I have always loved my Cornhuskers, but it crushed me the day that the former Tennessee Volunteers' athletic director Steve Pederson took over the program about a decade ago. I knew he'd try and bring the Peyton Manning-air-it-out philosophy to Lincoln----which he sadly did. And with that, Nebraska football in my mind and in my own world was lost for about a half decade. I knew it. It killed me, but the good Lord helped me find other ways to fill that void at the time. Now, when Dr. Tom Osborne came back on the scene in about 2007, I was working in Atlanta as a school teacher. I knew Osborne was wanting to bring back ole Nebraska as the Cornhusker state had been back during the 1980s and 1990s. I was ecstatic about the idea! Osborne then brought in LSU assistant coach Bo Pelini to solve the matter. And the whole time, I just kept to myself knowing that coach Pelini would bring in the Osborne style of offense that would feature old style Nebraska, i.e. Tommie Frazier, Steve Taylor, Turner Gill Nebraska! And so I waited. One year, two years, and so on -- for Nebraska to bring in its option QB i.e. Tony Rice or Jamelle Holieway. I thought Pelini was going to bring back the Nebraska I remembered as a kid. A dear friend of mine from Alabama, a guy named Mike (an Alabama fan by the way), told me that everything was going to be fine and that coach Pelini was a strong defensive coach. He told me Pelini would rebuild Nebraska (with my ideas intact; searching for a new Tommie Frazier/Mickey Joseph/Keithen McCant) through its defense first because of Pelini's personality. I'll admit I wanted faster results, but after seeing that terrific defensive minded 10-4 team in 2009 that took Colt McCoy to the brink in the Big 12 title game, I saw Pelini's prowress as a coach. After that, it was a long wait for the rest of what I considered to be "ole Nebraska" to come about. Finally, here we are in year 6 under coach Pelini, and I finally, finally see that Dr. Tom Osborne-style quarterback (or also late 80s Barry Switzer-style QB). I have to admit, I have watched Tommy Armstrong's Illinois game (39-19 Husker victory) about 5 times now. He's got it! Now, if we can just win! It took Pelini to year #6 to bring in the Rich Rodriguez type Pat White to operate the show, and he comes in the form of a Cibolo, Texas native Tommy Armstrong. My first thoughts are..."Why did it take this long?" But now that we have him in place, lets just try and do the best we can all circumstances considered. It's taken Bo Pelini so long, but he finally has the pieces in the right places offensively -- if they'll stay with what is working. Coach Pelini and Co. need to have a proper perspective on Taylor Martinez -- and that is that he was a stable caretaker for the program while Nebraska made its search for the right player to carry on the program's traditional offense (post 1981). Martinez has ability--absolutely. Still, I wouldn't ask him to run Oklahoma's 1986 wishbone offense as Jamelle Holieway did. They're two different athletes. Jamelle and Tommy Armstrong both have the skillset to play point guard in hoops while Martinez could only hope to man the 2-guard spot based upon the type of athlete he is. Tommy Armstrong can take Nebraska further. He's more dynamic.

Hi "Big Red Machine," I hear you talking about our coach from my alma mater, University of Georgia - coach Mark Richt. We love him over here in Georgia, but there are always fans that create this "lunatic fringe" who don't really understand how blessed we are as a team to have Richt. They can't see the forest for the trees out in front of them. They can't remember all the tough times from the past, the dark times - the 1990s, and the mediocrity of the 1980s post 1983. Yes, Georgia is a nice state to recruit from, but that alone hasn't and never really has created a pure tradition for football excellence in our state. Georgia is not an "Alabama." We've never had that type of tradition built up for us as a program. Richt has taken us further than any other coach during the span of years we've had him. The wonderful seasons he's provided: 2002 (13-1, SEC title), 2003 (11-3), 2004 (10-2), 2005 (10-3, QB D.J. Shockley's SEC title season), 2006 (9-4), 2007 (11-2), 2008 (10-3), 2009 (8-5), 2010 (6-7), 2011 (10-4), 2012 (12-2), and the present at 4-3 with a glimmer of hope to reach the Georgia Dome -- if Mizzou drops two more games this regular season. I've just been thrilled by Georgia's success under Richt. Compare that with previous head coaches Ray Goff and Jim Donnan, and Richt has been the best thing that could have ever happened to us! He brought us back from the ashes. During the Goff and Donnan years, we hit rock bottom. And if we lose Richt any time soon, I can see it happening again (the tough, lean seasons; SEC is a brutal conference). We just don't have the name brand as a national football power that the other teams possess. Tennessee -- I know they are really struggling right now -- actually has a better name brand of football program than Georgia as they have more wins in their football history. Georgia's not a Texas, Alabama, USC, Oklahoma, Florida State, Ohio State, Notre Dame, and yes--Nebraska. We haven't established ourselves as a true traditional program -- ever. We certainly couldn't compare our football team to a Duke or UNC basketball program. We just aren't. Coach Richt has done an incredible job here in Athens, Ga. He's a strong Christian too (very similar to my all time favorite coach Dr. Tom Osborne), which I admire that about him as a person very much. He's an amazing leader of young men as he's done here at UGA. We just might make the SEC title game this year if we can win out along with having Missouri drop two more SEC games. We've had a ton of injuries at running back and at wide receiver. Again, as I've told you Husker fans before on the HuskerBoard.com, Nebraska is and has always been my 2nd favorite team going back to 8th grade in 1981. I even have a nice sweatshirt of the 1994 National Championship #1 "Finished Business" stashed away in my closet. I wear it to let Alabama fans know that they aren't the only program that knows how to win national championships. I remind them when I see them that Nebraska won three in the '90s and two in the '70s. I let this one particular older lady that was donned in the Crimson Tide know this at a Subway just two days ago. She didn't want to hear it. Anyway....Go Huskers and Dogs! I hope this will be a great season for both teams!

knapplc man. I read your post -- and I experience the whole game with Minnesota all over again. I don't get it...? We can all be Taylor Martinez apologists all day long (he just got outplayed, beat bad today by QB Philip Nelson). I just sit back in my chair and take in one more disturbing Nebraska loss each time it occurs under Martinez' controls, and so many get on here and post about their defense of this person or that person -- or an offensive coordinator's or defensive coordinator's game plan. I agree with Mark May of ESPN. "The definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result." And that's where we're going with this.

Zoogies, it seems like you're coping with this well (a lot better than I am), but watching Minnesota's QB Philip Nelson just upstage our Taylor Martinez has made me sick to my stomach. It has just made me sick to my stomach indeed. T-Mart's final numbers on the day: 16-of-30 for 139 yards with a pick; 8 rushes, 16 yards. Now, I have to endure existing with the happy and excited Alabama Crimson Tide crowd near my hometown. My Cornhuskers can't get off the mat in a tough B1G conference matchup. Just makes me sick like I said.

Knoxville Husker, I just pressed "delete" on my recording of the Nebraska-Minnesota game to save space on my TV set. I am so upset right now. This is just so depressing. Just disgusted right now. The Alabama fans keep on bragging everywhere I go back home, and my Nebraska Cornhuskers can't get off the mat in a tough B1G conference game. I'm just in a state of depression right now.

TeacherCD, I'm not so sure I agree with that assessment. You said earlier, "The TA love was insane, not that he won't be good, but he is not going to scare anyone with his legs or arm this year." I don't think you see Tommy Armstrong the way I see him or the way other SEC fans would see Tommy Armstrong (6-2, 220, 4.53 40). I tell you what we see in him---and I'm speaking from a Georgia Bulldog perspective, and my Auburn fans would agree, maybe comparing Armstrong with their starter Nick Marshall. These fans would tell you their beliefs in a guy like Armstrong that he would be able to break off that same long run T-Mart executes, but in a different way. Tommy Armstrong and Nick Marshall are the type of athletes to where they will translate their 4.5 40 mobility by breaking away on a decent run of length that could easily be extended as these two have the skill to make the cut-back move and race past defenders for more yardage. It might not result in a 75 yard run, but Nick Marshall and Tommy Armstrong will race about 55 to 60 yards on any given play. (Auburn fans expect it from Marshall this year!) Isn't 60 or 55 yards far enough off a breakaway run? I know it's not 90 yards as T-Mart (4.31 40) had against UCLA last year, but I'll take a 50 yard run by Armstrong off a scramble or keeper -- and I'm sure that Auburn fans will be thrilled by Nick Marshall racing 60 yards off a zone-read option run keeper. And they are expecting it too. Auburn coach Gus Malzahn wouldn't have Marshall out there running his offense if he couldn't pop the 40 yard run. I guess you guys might be considering Armstrong to be a little bit slowed down by the "minor" knee surgery he had to clean out the knee back in July, but I still see him at 100% in game action when the adrenaline has kicked in. He gets loose; he's going to go! I loved that run where he quickly reversed field (defenders were in his face at the time) and raced down to the 2-yard line against Illinois last week! T-Mart will register the 75 yard scoring run while Armstrong has plenty of ability to record the 40 yard run. It's not that big of a drop-off there between them. Both players have the ability to break away.

I've read many, many of the posts on here. No one is looking at or discussing the film footage from Nebraska's encounter with Illinois two weeks ago. I acknowledge that Ron Kellogg III ran the table against Purdue by going 10-of-13 for 141 yards and was pretty special that day -- this past Saturday. Still, I recall the Illini defense. Their defensive line got after Kellogg III forcing him into throwing passes into the dirt. He looked completely overwhelmed by Illinois enroute to going 3-for-6 for 51 yards. Dad and I were just shaking our heads looking at each other when we saw how inept Kellogg III was against Illinois' quick defensive line. I'm from the SEC where defensive lines put lots of pressure on quarterbacks, and we have several defensive teams that would put tons of pressure on Kellogg III. He'd struggle mightily against defenses like LSU, Alabama, Ole Miss, and Florida...maybe even Tennessee! Tommy Armstrong, however, handled Illinois' pressure as a talented athletic QB would by moving around in the pocket and buying some extra time to extend the play. Armstrong went 8-of-13 for a modest 135 yards and 2 touchdowns when the pressure was on on Oct. 5 against Illinois. Now guys, I know he struck out this past Saturday at Purdue (6-of-18, 43 yards, 3 interceptions). I watched the game on my laptop---Saw it all! I understand why you all feel the way you do. But remember this. He's just a freshman. He'll get better. Armstrong is the athlete and QB-in-learning while Kellogg III is the experienced 5th year senior assisting coach Bo Pelini's offense. Soon, Taylor Martinez will reclaim his role as the starter just as soon as...maybe a matter of days. I can't tell. I'm just going to go with what coach Pelini decides to do. He's said in a recent article that he'll keep playing both Armstrong and Kellogg III while Martinez is out -- but that Martinez will start as soon as he's ready. That's good enough for me.

We need to show Tommie Frazier's 43 yard TD run against West Virginia in 1994. Also, his fine running against Colorado in 1992 including the run where he navigates through the Buffaloes' defense and gets met by Colorado's Deion Figures. If Figures isn't there, that's a score. Frazier only ran a 4.50 in the 40 (reported at 4.61 by SI in a 1995 preseason football magazine), but his speed was more than what is measured by electronic timings and coaches' stop-watches. I say -- and my friends have agreed and have said it too -- that Tommie Frazier was the "Michael Vick" before Michael Vick. I know that Vick timed a 4.25 in the summer of 2000 at Virginia Tech, but in my mind....Frazier and Vick are the same.

I feel this late into the season (Nebraska sits at 4-1 right now) that both players may be running the QB position the way Tommy Armstrong took some shots in the Nebraska-Illinois game. I watched that game again last night off a recording. Both quarterbacks run a lot of zone-read plays whether Taylor Martinez runs straight bootleg runs or Armstrong runs the option plays -- and they'll both take their fair share of lumps as well. Only thing is, they'll need to have a wide receiver selflessly assist in this on the sideline by helping to warm up the quarterback that isn't in the game at the time before shifting QBs in and out. Taylor probably won't be able to go the entire game with his turf toe / ankle difficulties, and Tommy Armstrong will receive the brunt of a brutal late-season Big Ten schedule that features the hardest hitting teams in the country in the likes of Michigan and Michigan State. To me, it seems like we keep shifting the topic around about who should sit and who should start -- when the more realistic answer may very well be that the two talented quarterbacks are going to need each other before it's all said and done when Nebraska reaches the Big Ten championship game. The regular season will be a grind.

Tommy Armstrong will be fine. Even if newcomer Johnny Stanton shows up next year in a big way, the NFL's Russell Wilson has shown that it can be a win-win by just simply shipping out to another school (transferred out of NC State to Wisconsin) -- so I doubt if Tommy is all that worried about crazy stuff like that anyway. His concern right now is Purdue by the way. Besides, competition is supposed to bring out the very best in all of your players. I've just never liked the way coach Bo Pelini has never given himself to allowing QBs to compete in real-game situations. I remember a season where Nebraska had three guys auditioning for quarterback in Monte Christo, Eric Crouch, and Bobby Newcombe. Now, from out of coach Solich, I liked that! But it's been one-sided for three seasons with Taylor Martinez as the unanimous starter the entire time. He's a handsome guy, and everybody loves him -- and I see and understand that. T-Mart is a likeable guy -- and very blessed athletically. But as a coach, you have to put the team first and find the chemistry that will work on the field. And you need to be fair in each assessment. I prefer coach Dr. Tom Osborne's method any day versus just going with Hollywood charisma as being one of the several deciding factors to select a team's QB. I'm sure Cary Grant might 've made a great college quarterback. Who knows? But he stuck with acting (one of my favorites by the way) while QBs from the 1950s were guys like Johnny Unitas and Bart Starr. You have to choose athletes in the final analysis to run your show. The teams that win championships do. Look at Alabama's A.J. McCarron. He's not the most handsome guy in the world, but check out his girlfriend. She's a winner.

I know what you want to see as a Nebraska fan, Moiraine. You want to see the 'Coach Bo Pelini Comedy Hour.' And I've enjoyed it too the past three years. We witness this episode every time we place Taylor Martinez into the line-up of a game. Then coach Pelini starts jumping up and down and starts yelling at his players and coach Papuchis on the sideline going ballistic all the while. He then later has angry words for T-Mart after some strange play has transpired. Yeah, I enjoy watching that too (except for the 41-21 meltdown to UCLA and the 70-31 disaster against Wisconsin)...but I like to see the Nebraska of old where we have a competent team out there on the field. Tommy Armstrong just takes Nebraska back to its roots -- and coach Pelini looks a lot happier, his mind is at ease while all of this takes place. It's better for his blood pressure too. Illinois was 3-1 going into yesterday's game by the way -- in regard to your info about the competition level with Armstrong's play so far. But we can have it your way. It won't bother me at all. We'll just place T-Mart back under center as soon as we can -- as soon as he's 100%, and I'm sure the Comedy Hour will resume once again on the sidelines.

I hear you, man. Tommy Armstrong is just too much like that Jameis Winston -- hot hand from FSU. They both have that swag!

Dagerow, I think you fail to remember another past. I'm referring to the Nebraska teams of old led by Turner Gill, Tommie Frazier, Steve Taylor, Mickey Joseph, Scott Frost, and McCathorne Clayton. Those option quarterbacks -- ran 4.5 40 with great lateral speed -- were lethal by breaking tackles enroute to a 60 yard run in the same way that Taylor Martinez could use "Deion Sanders" type speed to get those same yards on a single play. You are referring to the very recent past. T-Mart can thread the needle when he's on with his passing game. I'm not denying that fact, but the 1980s and 1990s were a sight to behold. I remember it all too well. Nebraska was a hobby back then for me and many of my friends from down here in the South to check out the great Cornhusker state on Saturday afternoons. The 1983 Scoring Explosion featured a guy with Taylor Martinez' break-away speed. His name was Irving Fryar...and if you doubt Fryar's prowress, then just ask Missouri fans, players, and coaches who were a part of the 1983 Mizzou squad. I remember Fryar's catch and run that saved Nebraska's bacon in a 14-10 slim win over the Tigers that kept Nebraska's regular season mark unblemished. Fryar was bad. Both quarterbacks for the current team have their strengths. I like Tommy Armstrong's cadence. He seems really safe with the football and uses a lot of ball security to assist his game. Taylor Martinez can thread the needle with a polished passing attack, but you worry about the turnovers with T-Mart....which he's a 5th year senior which means he'll probably clean all of that up this year. Armstrong runs like a running back. I've seen him knock linebackers to the ground after making the option pitch. He's a difference maker. It's a good problem to have. It sounds like w'll need both QBs this year. It's a long season. I have always been a Georgian for Nebraska, but I just watched (after the Nebraska game on ESPNU) Georgia (my Alma Mater) have about four knee injuries to four different starters on offense after barely surviving Tennessee, 34-31. Attrition can cause you to reach to your depth in a hurry. I know.

How about that Nebraska defense? I've been trying to tell everyone that the defense was going to be fine this year. People have been doubting me of course, and after the UCLA collapse on 9/14, no one can blame them. Still, study the whole early season -- all 4 games. The early season challenge has been a learning curve for 'em. Still, coach Papuchis needs to clean up the 12-men-on-field stuff. Very impressed with the Husker defense and team speed today. Randy Gregory and Ciante Evans plus several others have shined today on ESPNU! Hope they stiffen on the Illini defense at the 2 minute mark of the game....?

I'm excited about Tommy Armstrong starting too. I'll set that game for "record." It sounds great!

I know more football than you think I do. Maybe Nebraska needs an extra large defensive tackle to help stuff the run. I think I may be over looking that. Something is causing those runs up to middle to happen without the running backs ever being touched. That early 1st quarter touchdown run up the middle against South Dakota State was awful play by the defensive line and supporting linebackers. Nebraska needs a defensive tackle that weighs about 350 pounds to assist in shutting down the run. Alabama's Terrence Cody (6-4, 350) and Georgia's Kwame Geathers (6-6, 345) and John Jenkins (6-4, 355) are a few to mention. But you have to recruit those run-stopper D-linemen. If the new Nebraska defense grows up, stops committing penalties at bad times (i.e. - UCLA game - 9/14), and does a better job of tackling---then everything comes together. I think the athletes coach Bo Pelini has put out there are of tremendous quality, but it may very well be a last-ditch effort to save his job. Those are athletes I see out there on defense for Nebraska. Coach Pelini coached at LSU, so he knows athletes. Again, he's trying to save his job. The last three quarters of the South Dakota State game had that defense looking pretty stout. I'm just saying it won't surprise me at all if the Nebraska defense begins to stiffen on opposing offenses in the upcoming weeks.

Hey guys. I've read a lot of the concerns here on our HuskerBoard.com regarding Nebraska's defense and their matchup against Illinois (10/5). I think this will be a coming out, a fine showing for the defense. The defense features quick and fast guys that move really, really well. Maybe this is the quickest group of guys since Keyou Craver, Ralph Brown, and Mike Brown manned the explosive unit of 1999. I think the missing link to their success is their youth or lack of experience. But I suspect their prowress will be revealed Saturday afternoon. With this line-up----athletes Jason Ankrah (6-4, 265, Sr.), Thad Randle (6-1, 290, Sr.), Vincent Valentine (6-3, 325, RFr.), quick and explosive Randy Gregory (6-6, 245, So.), David Santos (6-0, 225, So.) Zaire Anderson (5-11, 220, Fr.), Josh Mitchell (5-11, 160, Jr.), Stanley Jean-Baptiste (6-3, 220, Sr.), Corey Cooper (6-1, 210, Jr.), Harvey Jackson (6-2, 210, Jr.), Andrew Green (6-0, 195, Sr.), and Ciante Evans (5-11, 190, Sr.)----I think these guys will take Illinois out! Too much quickness and speed for Illinois' offense. The Bigs will need to dig in up front, and hard-hitting LB Nathan Gerry (6-2, 210, Fr.) and Co. need to remain on guard and not get caught cat napping out there like they did against SDSU in the 1st quarter. I like this line-up Nebraska features and feel that the early part of schedule with the yardage they gave up is more of an aberration. These guys will slow Nathan Scheelhaase down, I have no doubt in my mind. In fact, I'd be far more concerned with A.J. McCarron and his ability to throw the ball if Alabama were indeed on the schedule. Nebraska's defense has plenty of quicks to contain Scheelhaase---and Saturday's game is going to prove my point -- barring some major injuries hitting the overall D.

It's been a tough month of September for our Huskers. I think the tension is due to what is going on at the present. Maybe 2013 is somewhat similar to 2010 because of Taylor Martinez' turf toe injury and whatnot.

I'll mention the defense. Actually, I really liked what I saw in the South Dakota St. game especially with the play of the 6-5 Randy Gregory. Coach Pelini's defense uses a lot of speed and quickness---but the guys are real young as evidenced in the shellacking they took in the 2nd half against UCLA (9/14). They are athletes though. They got flagged with some penalties at crucial moments in the UCLA game, but I see that as maybe being more of an aberration. Randy Gregory is going to be a star. I'll comment on the defense. I say they'll be fine. They've had a tough beginning, but I'm sure they'll be fine. Again, I really like the swagger I see in Randy Gregory. I hope he records a few more pic 6's this season!

We are good, but I've stayed silent through most of the reading of the posts. Turn around is simple. Put Tommy Armstrong in the game, and Nebraska is back to normal. You just need a game manager that is explosive simultaneously as a playmaker. That guy is Tommy Armstrong (6-2, 220, RFr., 4.53 40). Tommy Armstrong will compete when they game gets crazy like it has in all of the aforementioned blowout losses Nebraska has been in the last 4 years. He doesn't have quite the straight ahead speed of Taylor Martinez (6-1, 210, RSr., 4.3 40), but Tommy can still take it to the house on any given play----so you don't give up the talent behind center by changing up QBs. And Tommy Armstrong will power through defenders upon contact. NU is good---but you can't leave your talent on the bench also. Down 35-24 at the half against Ohio State last year, I would have loved to have seen Tommy Armstrong enter the game to begin the 2nd half. He would have matched Braxton Miller, I have no doubt. Ohio State would have probably still won, but it would have been interesting. Tommy Armstrong has the moxie to get Nebraska back into a difficult game like last year's Ohio State loss or the Wisconsin game (Big Ten title matchup). Yes. NU is still good.

Ameer Abdullah is another Derek Brown. Derek Brown (5-9, 180) was an explosive I-back for Nebraska in the early '90s. Derek Brown was great. I remember many of his long breakaway touchdown runs especially that one about 65 yards against Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1, 1991. Ameer just brings back memories of the former New Orleans Saints' running back Derek Brown. Brown seldom fumbled -- and that's the one area where Ameer can just continue to work on, but he's a great back. I'm so glad to see this guy take charge and lead the offense. He's an outstanding athlete. And he'll get better too as will Imani Cross. Maybe the staff will allow Imani Cross (a Wisconsin style power back IMHO) to be more involved with the ground game than just on 3rd and 1 or 2 short yardage runs. I also have a gut feeling he can break off on a long gainer as I was just picking up on what the guy said about Cross who just posted above my post here. Of course, we have a guy wearing #34, Terrell Newby, who isn't half bad either. We have good speed backs that are athletic -- and were more than likely raised up as little children to handle this task from the very beginning. I remember recently reading from Calvin Jones' biography [NU running back, 1990-93] of how his football career began in Mites Football as a 6- or 7-year-old. It seems more like the Nebraska running backs of old to which coach Ron Brown is now selecting from. I like it.