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From the LJS: "Pelini said the Unity Council was not involved in the decision." So, either whoever told you that story was blatantly (and elaborately) fabricating, or Pelini just flat-out lied.

This hurts. Helu is going to need to be Superman, and the offensive line is going to have to gel quickly in the running game, or we are going to be in a lot of trouble.

Yeah, you're right. I had forgotten about that game. Probably better than the Alamo Bowl so I updated my list. Now where's yours?

The history of "The Jump" at Nebraska: Pelini: x-x (#x) after 9-4 (unranked) Callahan: 8-4 (#24) after 5-6 (unranked) Solich: 12-1 (#3) after 9-4 (#19) Osborne: 9-3 (#9) after 9-2-1 (#7) Devaney: 10-1 after 9-2 Jennings: 3-7 after 1-9 Glassford: 6-2-1 after 4-5

Okay, I know these threads pop-up like cockroaches throughout the boring offseason, but let's really put some thought into this one. Osborne left after the 97 season and we've spent the past eleven years trying to rediscover our identity or, to put it more bluntly, get our s*** together. We appear to be on the right track at this point, and it's been an interesting (at times painful) road. So, look through every game from the past eleven seasons (98 through 08) and rank your top 10 favorite games. They don't necessarily have to be wins, although surely most of them will be. You can just list them from 1-10 if you want, but a sentence or two explaining why each game made your list would make things more interesting. After a couple weeks (if there are a significant number of responses) I'll tally the lists (using the top 25 polls scoring system) and we'll have a sort of "unofficial HuskerBoard top ten favorite games on the road to recovery". Here are the links for the games to refresh your memory: http://www.huskerpedia.com/1990s.html#1998 http://www.huskerpedia.com/2000s.html I'll start... 1. 2001 vs. Oklahoma - I know it's the boring, typical choice for #1, but this game was epic, even though the season didn't turn out how we would've liked. This was the most recent classic in the storied NU-OU rivalry. And of course, Stuntz to Crouch was unforgettable. 2. 2008 vs. Colorado - Time will tell if I'm ranking this one a little too high, but the combination of Henery's unbelievable kick and then Suh's interception (including the Hawkins trample) was just sublime. 3. 2002 @ Texas A&M - I don't imagine many people will include this game. To me it was an extremely memorable night in a mostly forgettable season. Nebraska was down at the half, and being down at half on the road is usually a sure loss. But Solich showed some fire and got his players to play for him in the second half and not phone it in. What an amazing fourth quarter. 4. 2001 @ Notre Dame - Lived up to the unreal hype. The Sea of Red taking over nearly a fourth of the stadium and the Huskers winning in overtime. A great game in Husker history. 5. 1999 @ Colorado - I wasn't sure whether to put this above the 2000 version, but I ended up deciding too, maybe partially because I was in attendance for this one. My only trip to Boulder was unforgettable. The famous FG choke by the CU kicker, we were literally turning to leave as the ball was in the air. 6. 2000 vs. Colorado - Carlos Polk with the hilarious pick six spike... we thought we had them early but they wouldn't go down without a fight. I could probably count on one hand the amount of games Nebraska has won on last second FG in my lifetime. This was one of them. Josh Brown was pretty shaky that year but he came through with a chipshot after a Newcombe catch set us up for the win. 7. 2008-09 vs. Clemson (Gator Bowl) - I couldn't have asked for a better game to justify 40+ hours of driving. Even though I feel like we outplayed Clemson for 2/3 of the game, two huge mistakes by Ganz put them in position to steal the game. To see us come back from two scores at half for the first time in many years was awesome. The perfect bowl win for Bo's first season as head coach. 8. 1999 vs. Kansas State - I didn't get to be there in person, but you could tell the atmosphere was amazing at Memorial for this revenge game. The infamous no-call facemask the previous year had everyone fired up and we came out and just flat-out rocked them. They were ranked #5 in the country at the time too. Pretty incredible performance by the whole Husker team. 9. 1999 vs. Texas (Big 12 Championship) - Another classic revenge game that same season. Texas had shocked us in 96, 98 and earlier in 99... all three times we were ranked in the top 10 and they weren't. We finally destroyed the curse (or did we? see 02 & 06...) and we did it with authority (and mainly an amazing defense). 10. 2006 @ Texas A&M - Blocked field goal and an amazing game winning drive. Now let's see your list.

More reason to avoid punting.

Yes but I don't think they're out yet.

Here's one variation of the T formation from the '62 Iowa St. game:

Whadda ya say we line up in the Power-T (or the Split-T) for our first offensive play? I think it would be pretty sweet and sorta funny as well. Plus I'm sure we could pick up two or three yards handing it to Q. Now I just need to get some contact info for Wats and we can get this goin. Sorry. It's mid-August.

Wistrom wore 98.

#54 Dominic Raiola

When did Glenn wear 39?

#36 Correll Buckhalter

I wonder how many times the preseason selection also ended up being the postseason selection?

#30 Ahman Green

Well I pretty much repeat these thoughts once a year when this thread inevitably pops up, but here are my thoughts: 1. Sirius is a great song for this type of ritual, probably in the top 1% of songs for such an event, but... 2. It's completely ripped off from the Chicago Bulls. And the greatest traditions are the unique ones... thus... 3. We should hire a producer to create a brand new song. Something strictly instrumental like Sirius, but it would be protected under copyright and thus no one could steal it from us. 4. This talk is all pretty useless until we revamp the sound system. If you aren't sitting in the north endzone you pretty much can't hear anything once the crowd starts cheering anyway.

Never mind, figured it out.

I may have accidentally messed up my settings somehow, but the topics are now showing up with the opening post only, and the rest listed below it, instead of each post being shown in a single page. I can't figure out how to change it back.

Bluecreek's Husker wallpaper site isn't up anymore. Did anyone happen to save the 1024x768 version of the M&M "N" wallpaper?

Sorry, Fro, I somehow managed to lose track of this thread and thus completely miss your post until just now. I'll go ahead and post them in case you haven't seen them yet: INDIVIDUAL QB (25): 2. Bradford 3. McCoy 4. Robinson 6. Reesing 13. Griffin RB (25): 3. Hunter 6. Murray 22. Washington WR (20): 1. Bryant 5. Briscoe 11. Shipley 13. Banks (KSU) 16. Meier TE (5): 1. Gresham C (8): 8. Hall (Texas) G (8): None T (8): 1. Okung (Oklahoma St.) 3. Williams (OU) 4. Ulatoski (Texas) 5. Carter (Texas Tech) DE (12): 5. Kindle (Texas) DT (12): 1. McCoy 3. Suh 12. Whitlock (Texas Tech) ILB (12): 4. Pawelek (Baylor) OLB (12): 2. Weatherspoon 6. Lewis (OU) 9. Sexton (Oklahoma St.) 10. Clayton (OU) 11. Muckleroy (Texas) CB (12): None S (12): 6. Lake (Baylor) K (8): None P (8): 1. Epperson (Baylor) "All Purpose" (8): 4. Bryant 6. Murray 7. Cox (Oklahoma St.) TEAM Backfields: 1. OU, 3. Oklahoma St., 4. Texas Receivers: 1. Kansas, 5. Texas OL: 3. Texas DL: 2. OU LB: 3. Oklahoma, 7. Baylor DB: None Better late than never?

Injuries, luck etc. shouldn't be taken into account. They are part of the game. To illustrate the point, let's take it to the extreme, and say that our 10 best players all go down with serious injuries right before the season starts. They are all out the first half of the season, and we lose four games without them. They then come back and we finish the season 5-1, finishing 8-5. Even though we are clearly a great team with everyone healthy, what matters is what actually occurred on the field. Injuries, weather, or luck should make no difference in determining the highest rank team. So let's say some other team-- we'll say Arkansas-- gets tons of lucky breaks, and even though they are clearly inferior talent-wise, their incredibly lucky season ends up 11-1. Even if Nebraska is the better team, Arkansas produced the far more deserving results, and thus should be ranked well ahead. Always keep in mind that rankings, when determining the national champion, are in place to find the most deserving team based on the results on the field, not the most talented team. If it was the other way around, there would be no reason to play any games. We would simply have a team of skilled talent scouts watch every team practice for a couple months, then declare the most talented team (probably USC) and crown them champions. The fact that many things (injuries, luck, weather, bye weeks, home field, off-the-field distractions, etc.) factor into the outcome of any given game, and the superior team talent-wise can still come out on the losing end, is a huge part of what makes football (or any other sport) so great.

Human polls are awful for the most part, but you will always have a hard time trying to convince humans that human polls are not the way to go. Ideally, I think you would use a very select group of voters, who have great track records of reasonable, rational, mostly unbiased voes. You wouldn't use any current coaches because they don't get to see most of the games, have extreme biases, and most of the coaches don't even fill out their own ballots anyways. I would select 40-50 media members after a a rigorous search process, and have them conduct the BCS human poll. I would count that as 50% of the formula, then average a group of computer rankings (the current ones seem solidd) for the other percentage. Playoff-wise, I think you can go as high as six teams without taking much if any of the significance away from the regular season games. Four would work fine too, but then you still get a team like '08 Utah left out. Nothing is perfect, but I think a 6-team mini playoff would be the best way to keep regular season importance extremely high, while giving the very best teams a chance at the end of the season. In my opinion, only the final game should be at a neutral site. This award the higher teams, and assures games will be packed full. As Perlman argued, you can't expect fans to be traveling thousands of miles for multiple games in mid-December at neutral sites. So, my system would have looked something like this last season: First round games (Saturday, December 13, 2008) #6 Utah at #3 Texas (Austin, TX) #5 USC at #4 Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL) Second round games (Saturday, December 23, 2008) Highest-seeded winner (Texas, Alabama or USC) at #2 Florida (Gainesville, FL) Lowest-seeded winner (Alabama, USC or Utah) at #1 Oklahoma (Norman, OK) The championship game would be at the same time and venue as normal.

Last year or in 2007, I saw several people at one home game wearing a shirt inspired by the Takashi Murakami work on Kanye's Stronger cover single: Only instead of the bear, it was Herbie wearing the glasses. Does anyone know who created this shirt or if it's available to buy anywhere?

I like it. Wasn't this idea inspired by Husker Board?