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Mariot pitched circles around him today ;p Of course it's just Houston Baptist. Oh well, after losing to a god-awful Cal-Bakersfield team last season, I'll take any wins we can get

I wouldn't go that far. Seemed to me A&M was hitting every shot (some of that was poor defense), while NU was short on a ton of shots (NU also missed at least 10 free throws I think, and the final margin of victory was 10, hm.) 30 wins in a row is hard to do, it's basketball. It was bound to happen.

OSU shoots 35% from outside all year, then goes 60% in the first half today. God hates Nebraska basketball.

Elon is a good team to schedule, good enough to not be a stain on your schedule but beatable enough to develop some confidence in your team.

5-3 win over Elon, so 2-1 on the weekend, pretty good.

As if that idiotic, large glass building right in the hitter's eye causing glare delays wasn't bad enough, we get raped on a balk call in Rice's last at-bat (bottom of the 8th) and lose 4-3. I hate Texas.

I'm listening on huskers.com I got sick of the 30+ second delay.

The game is on the Husker Sports Network, but KFAB chose to air Rush Limbaugh instead. I'm listening on a very fuzzy 1400 KLIN.

This game may wind up having no bearing on the rest of the season, but I don't know how long to apply the "never been outdoors" rationale (I'll be nice and give it until March 1st).

It rained in Stanford in 2008 which cost Nebraska the series win (complete with a 4-run inning late to blow a lead), they went on to have a great regular season, albeit with the familiar late-season collapse. So a game like this is not entirely uncharted territory. I expect better production from Bailey and Farst moving forward.

Sounds like the field was damp, so Collins slips at the worst moment. First outdoor baseball experience of 2010 versus Fresno's preseason conference pitcher-of-the-year, not much to read into a game like that at this point yet.

Because the baseball team gets something like 11 scholarships for 35 players, and nobody gets a full ride. Thanks NCAA.

And I've heard that the Pelini's prefer the conservative nature of the Catholic Church in Lincoln opposed to Columbus, OH or something to that effect. The odds of his going to OSU don't seem that high.

Damn straight. It's Mack's fault for not getting his backup playing time while running up the score on everyone else. Boo hoo.

When a horned frog is threatened it will actually squirt blood from its eyeball toward its stalker. No seriously...... stop laughing. That is really why the red is on the helmet. No.......I am dead serious. Yeah I heard that, so obviously their QB had too much blood in his eyes and couldn't see where he was throwing the football.

They look stupid to me, not sure when red became one of their colors.

The Big 12 doesn't care about NU, otherwise BS pass interference calls wouldn't be made and suspicious seconds wouldn't be added to the clock. So I don't give a damn about the Big 12. Roll ****ing Tide.

Wait, Carl banged somebody with no legs? That's weird.

No mention of totally outplaying FSU in that one head-to-head matchup? Even Bobby Bowden says the better team didn't win. Is it taboo to mention that the refs were paid off, or something?

Gamers should sue EA for turning out essentially the same crappy, bugged out game year after year by virtue of forcing out any and all market competition. They're turds.

Probably not. Besides, EA is famous for treating their employees like dirt in the past so they deserve whatever they get.

it burns. . .my eyes. . .

I'm hoping with almost a whole month off Helu will be good to go, along with the o-lineman. It's not going to make Zac Lee turn into Drew Brees or anything, but all Nebraska needs is to not suck on offense and they can win.

The future of the offense back then was bleaker: Barney Cotton had Austin Flynn, Todd Blythe, Stevie Hicks and Brett Meyer between 2004-2006, and ISU got progressively worse anyway, and the most successful head coach in their history got fired because of it (at least in part). At least when given 3-4 year starters, Watson was OK in '08. If Bo makes Barney OC, I will kill myself.

Thank god Troy State and Utah State were on the schedule. 9 wins is a myth, Nebraska was blasted by every good team they faced down the stretch thanks to an absolutely inept offense. The mistake was in not immediately promoting Pelini or Gill. 6-6 (now 7-6) Marshall beats Ohio 'Spose you could say thank god for Fla. Atlantic, Arkansas St., and La. Lafayette then, right? I suppose our 9 wins this year are a myth then, as well. Are all of Osborne's 9+ win seasons myths because he had patsies on the schedule? The mistake was firing Solich, plain and simple. It basically ruined one of the longest and richest traditions in all of college football. Nebraska couldn't even beat teams like Utah State/Troy State like they beat the teams you listed this season because Solich's offense sucked so bad. It took a monster performance by Demorrio Williams and the rest of the defense to hand NU's offense the ball at the goal line for his worthless QB left/QB right/QB draw pop-up playbook to get the ball in the end zone those games. Also, with the exception of TTU, Nebraska didn't get run off the field by the good teams they faced this season, and damn near BEAT Texas and VT. As soon as you let me know how Joe Dailey and Allan Evridge did after their transfers, I'll tell you how Nebraska's offense was going to do if Solich had been retained. As if 122 total yards against the nation's 80th ranked defense this afternoon isn't a big enough hint. Are you trying to tell me that the '09 Husker offense is better than the '03 offense? Really? Are you trying to tell me that the '09 Husker defense didn't completely and utterly carry the team to any and all success they had? At least in '03 we had a ground game, something we desperately needed this year. No, I'm telling you Solich is not a good enough head coach and Nebraska's offense would continue to be at '03 or '09 levels or worse as long he's around. His team could only manage 122 yards against Marshall's 80th ranked defense, let that crap sink in. With Pelini, at least he can change offensive coordinators and will have a comparatively limited influence on that side of the ball. And once again, the 2003 team played a weak schedule. They still averaged only 235 yards/game, 90 yards better than this year's team, which averages about 70 more yards passing per game. Basically, comparing '03 to '09 is like comparing crap to vomit. Versus Texas in '03: 40 carries, 53 yards. This year, 35 carries, 67 yards. Versus Kansas State: 41 carries, 195 yards. Of course on NU's only TD, Lord's knee was clearly down before he threw the ball, thus if replay existed Nebraska would have finished with a whopping 2 points, oh but without a shutout on the line, KSU probably doesn't take that safety, so you're looking at being shutout on Senior Day. Versus mighty Troy State: 47 carries, 186 yards, less than 4 ypc. I believe Iowa State went winless or close to it that year, NU couldn't even put up 300 yards rushing on them. Penn State finished 2003 with a 3-9 record, Pelini's defense forced 5 turnovers, yet Nebraska could manage only 4 field goals and one miraculous sustained drive for a TD (Michigan State racked up 41 on PSU, we saw how they did in the Alamo. . .) Of course, Nebraska rushed for 207 and 248 this year against VT and ISU so you can't blame those losses on a weakness in the ground game without making similar concessions for that abortion of a 2003 unit as well (8 turnovers is a fluke). While I'm at it, against Utah State in 2003, Nebraska trailed 7-6 at the end of the first quarter. They didn't put the game away until Demorrio Williams forced 2 fumbles and gave NU a short field. This year against Florida Atlantic, the defense didn't force a turnover until it was 28-3. There were 0 turnovers by Arkansas State, and against ULL it was 20-0 Nebraska before the cajuns turned it over. I could go over the defensive touchdowns/short fields in all of NU's other games in 2003, but I don't care. My issue here is not whether Nebraska sucks on offense in 2009, it's about which head coach is more likely to fix the problem: the guy who in his fifth year of his current job just got waxed on offense in a bowl game by a lousy Marshall team, or a guy in his second year as a head coach period who nearly destroyed the #2 team in the country's entire season. 62-36, that was the end of Nebraska's tradition.