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1) David Shaw-Stanford

2) Gary Patterson-TCU

3) Jim Mora Jr.-UCLA

4) Jerry Kill-Minnesota

Don't really know what their buyouts are, just a wishlist.

You turn the ball over more than your opponent, you typically lose. Nuff said.

"Jason Ankrah. They are really high on him. They are looking to him as a future leader on this defense." Nice observation Chuck Long...he's a Senior halfway through the season! What an idiot!

Did the NCAA rules once again change as far as roughing the Quarterback? That penalty on the high sack on Brett Smith yesterday, in prior years, is a completely legal tackle. It was closest to being a horsecollar, yet it wasn't. Can anyonoe enlighten me on this? Or was it simply a case for a first game, small conference Referee seeing a tackle that "looks like" it could hurt a player, and calling it a personal foul?

To allow essentially a middle screen to go for a 70 yard touchdown on 3rd and 11 is inexcusable. Once again, completely out coached coming out of halftime seemed to be the norm for our coaching staff.

Eric Crouch's 97 yard run against Mizzou, Taylor's run against Wisconsin, then Tommie's run against Florida. The Top Three!

Bad feeling about this game. Somehow the rematch with Washington in the Holiday Bowl keeps springing to mind. Hope not.

Not that I give a crap, but should Notre Dame really be playing in the National Championship Game, playing 1 less game than the other BCS schools having to gain entrance after a league championship game? Or does their supposed strength of schedule counter that?

As I have said on other occasions, only a few of the 'great' Huskers are beloved. Rex, you are in that pantheon.

While watching Monday Night Football, they were saying that Kapernick ran for 4,000 yards and threw for 7,000 in his career at Nevada. The only Division 1 quarterback to ever accomplish the feat. The stats you gave are for season, or career?

I was just curious what ramifications were involved with bad reviews. To me, it seems as though the game has become too fast for some of these guys.

Does anyone know the process for referee review or assessment in the Big 10 Conference? Just curious as to how they are graded by the conference, and who is involved with the assessment? Is it per game? Do the coaches assess? Are there penalties involved with poor performances or blown calls? I understand that we are dealing with human beings here, just wondering about how their product is graded, and in some cases, asked to leave or receive instruction on how to call a game. Thanks!

Oh, and another thing, if ESPN or ABC go to the National Roller Skating Museum again, I'm gonna puke!

Yeah, Beth Mowins needs to stick to calling womens sporting events...just saying. I watched the majority of the game on "mute", just like last week.

You know, this was a wierd one. The ESPN coverage showed the play from 2 angles. The one showed the ball extremely close to his foot, but the other angle, with the shdows of the ball falling and hitting the turf, showed it at least a foot away. The replay Ref in his haste to make a call, I am sure did not look at it as close as your average Husker Fan. Hence, a blown replay call.

At the split second after sending a kid in to try and block that punt when the Huskers had the momentum and great field position. Horrible!

Kenny and his lack of catching abilities annoys me.

To go after that punt, when you were going to have great field position...one of the most bonehead calls of the season. Took away any momentum the Huskers had at the time. Once again, can't wait to hear Bo's comments after this rear kicking saying they got outcoached...

Yep...good win to a mediocre team. Every year we'll hear about "the process". Guess this is part of it?

It is probably the beer with me as well, but with Urban Meyer out there, it would'nt hurt to contact the guy and seek his interest in the position...this one was a fireable loss. C'MON MAN!

No wait, I've got one! The Band got to go on a bowl trip!

sorry...I'm at a loss

Hold it! Hold it! I've got one! oops...sorry, nope don't have one.

We were asked at work (4 of us), by our Boss, to help coach a 3rd and 4th grade Pop Warner team this fall due to lack of parent involvement. All of us had had prior playing time and coaching, and even though we are all busy guys, I can say to a man that we had a blast! We went 4 and 4 with many first time players. What we found is that even though the Boss asked us to step up and help out, after a few practices and one game, we all really enjoyed coaching the smaller guys who had not yet formed attitudes about football (I am a quarterback, you must worship me). We found it to be a great community service project, and a great way to learn more about our co-workers...all in all, a great team building event. So much so, we are thinking about going at it again next season. I highly encourage it. Oh and by the way, none of us had kids on the team, so there was no "my kid is a running back" and so on.

"Playoffs? PLAYOFFS! Playoffs?" Jim Mora

I see on Stewart Mandel's SI Page that he has Rex Burkhead and the Nebraska Cornhuskers could be going to the Insight Bowl to face Iowa. Having been a fan of Husker football for many years, is it just me, or does Rex have the look, drive and talent to be the next great Husker? He should be the face of the program right now. This is the type of football player that we are looking for in the future. A true gamer with heart and character to lead a new offensice revitalization. Just need the OC to move it in the right direction.