I hope everyone else on this board is right and we walk all over KSU. But when the fans underestimate a team and all the talk around campus from students is "we are gonna kill KSUcks" etc., it can't help but have an impact on the team. They don't live in isolation. That and the feeling of accomplishment from getting the blackshirts, and I'm worried about this game. Don't think for an instant that the KSU coaches aren't playing up the handing out of the blackshirts as "wow, Nebraska thinks they have a great defense now." If KSU has early success, and their Husker-hating fans get into it, I see it being a long, tough game.
Is that the talk going around campus now? Even so, I'm willing to bet they've had Pelini pound it in their head that they can't take any team for granted at this point far more than they've heard some dork in english class telling them they're invincible, and hopefully they'd know who is more trustworthy in such a situation. Besides, I think they'd want the fans to be confident in them. I've never played football, but I find it easier to get things done when people are confident in me opposed to sitting back waiting for me to screw up.