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Rhule's NFL failure was less embarrassing than Urban Meyer's spectacular flame-out. The only difference is Rhule didn't stay at either of his college jobs to prove his 10+ win seasons at Temple and Baylor weren't somehow flukes.

And if Ohio State takes care of business, they may have TWO guys match Palmer's numbers today. hee hee heeeeeee.

Would have been nice to have some live stats. Oh well, looking forward to a write-up from the AD, probably all we'll get. Good to see them fight for a W even in a fall exhibition though Off-season work sets the tone.

The cracks were showing the year before when Oklahoma scored 31 points in a row and thumped the pre-season #1 team in the country. The "curse" began when Bill Byrne was not allowed to hire his own coach. If he had been able to hire a guy like Mack Brown or even Bob Stoops, Nebraska would most likely have been far better off.

I don't know who makes the call on rain delays, but it was reported that Purdue declined Maryland's request for a Friday doubleheader based on a "window" today. The window was there, and Purdue didn't take it, meaning there is strong evidence of cowardly intent. If I were a fan of that program, I would be deeply embarrassed. I don't think the Big 10 front office had any say, so blaming them just makes us look stupid (I saw one person on either Twitter or FB, forget which, saying it was Kevin Warren's decision. Please, let's stop with that crap.) But with that said, the series loss to Minnesota means this team doesn't deserve jack. That was not as embarrassing as being such a bunch of craven infants as Purdue is, but still extremely shameful. The season ending today is fair, and winning 3 of the last 4 is a nice little consolation heading into next year, where by all accounts Will Bolt will be going scorched earth on the roster, looking to bring in 18 new players (apparently the roster capacity does bump up to 40, too, which helps.)

Beating the Buckeyes in anything is worth a few oh yeahs

Not top-of-the-line opposition but round bat + round ball and all that, lots to like with what went down today, and also all but one half-inning from yesterday.

I wonder if you put a bunch of spoons on your face (since vaccines magnetize you, you know, according to this brave doctor), I'm talking, like, hundreds and hundreds of spoons, if all that metal will help dampen the signals beaming out of your headbones from the TOXIC JAAARRRRRRRRBBBBB and save your Google credit score? I didn't even know Google had its own credit service but it does not surprise me.

I have no idea, but that seems possible if they had to recall the Mayor immediately. Some people are using the flu to excuse the losses to Michigan and Auburn, admittedly that may have added to the margin of defeat a little. But I just don't think Hoiberg is as good a coach as advertised TJ Otzelberger was the real genius at ISU, kind of like how Tim Miles never sniffed the NCAAs again after Craig Smith left.

This season could get worse in a few days (Matt Abdelmassih has apparently been very bad at following NCAA rules.)

That's exactly why Bill Parcells said "you are what your record says you are", zero tolerance for magical thinking (i.e. "bad luck"). Our opponents could probably say "if we just had one or two more breaks or less mistakes we would have beaten NU by double digits!"

Wisconsin ran 60 plays in the 2012 CCG, 50 of which were runs (83%). 3 of their TDs were runs of 56, 57 and 68, and they had a 9-yard TD that was a 1-play drive thanks to a turnover. Wisconsin did not throw a single pass in the second half. Hilarious for anyone to cite that one game as a model for Nebraska to follow when it had far more to do with Pelini being so ill-prepared it's amazing he ever got a job again than anything Wisconsin did.

Ah yes, of course, all Nebraska has to do is run 70%+ of the time AND wait for multiple teams in the division to be on probation so we can finally win a conference championship. It's so obvious now. Oh wait, we should probably convince the winner of the other division to hire a coach who has married himself to a defensive philosophy that only worked against 2010s Big 12 offenses just to be safe.

They would have won the national championship even harder if they had! Or, um, something.

Shanked punts aren't quite as epic as a player fielding a punt at his own goal line and trying to throw a forward pass out of the end zone on it.

Thar she blows?

I once had a dream one February night that the Dodgers were going to win the world series. This was strange, because I'm not really a die hard Dodger fan. But lo and behold, they made the World Series that year...and got pounded by Boston. Dream interpretation is a waste of time, is my point

https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-t-worry-no-1-113000982.html His old coach sounds like a real f***ing moron. Wait. Oh no.

His "free" year was 2020 in which he didn't play a snap.

3 blowouts (Fordham, Buffalo, Northwestern) and 1 series against Michigan State after Martinez got his jaw messed up. Today's head-scratching series makes 5.

Ice cream with sprinkles for everyone

It was a fluttery pass. Martin didn't help, no, but it was not a great pass either. Probably due to injury. This is stupid not to have at least an OK backup QB when teams like Illinois have torched NU with backup QBs at times.

I immediately scrolled down to see if anyone else quit reading OP after that and, by golly, here we are. Holy cow, no QB needs 5 years to become elite. WTAF.

John Cook has 4 shiny, diamond-encrusted reasons that allow him to throw players under the bus.