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KATY -- Brenham wore green. Dayton rode Green.

Senior quarterback Cody Green rushed for 229 yards in the opening half when Dayton built a 35-7 lead, and the Broncos eased to a 42-21 victory in the Class 4A Region III championship game Saturday at Rhodes Stadium.

"Run early and run a lot," Green said of Dayton's game plan. "Most of it has to go to my offensive line. That's their bread and butter. They love that kind of stuff and I love running behind them."

The victory sends the Broncos (12-1) into a Division II semifinal game against Kerrville Tivy, which defeated Pflugerville Connally. Dayton and Tivy will play Saturday in Georgetown.

The 6-foot-4 Green, who has committed to play at Nebraska, finished with 22 carries for 247 yards. He completed just four passes, but two went for touchdowns.

"They just overpowered us," Brenham coach Glen West said. "A whole lot of it was us. I don't want to take any credit away from them. That quarterback is incredible, but I felt like we played real timid. When you're the size we are, you certainly can't be timid."

Editor's note: On December 30, 2003, Independent Sports Editor Terry Douglass filed this column from the Alamo Bowl. We are again offering Douglass' column which offered a frank assessment that ironically may be even more valid today.

SAN ANTONIO -- As Nebraska's marching band proudly belted out the notes to its most famous song during Monday night's MasterCard Alamo Bowl, it was difficult not to ponder the irony.

"There is no place like Nebraska ..." or so the words go. Ironic because, in a football sense, they had always been true.

Not anymore.

For many of us who were born and raised in Nebraska and cut our teeth on Cornhusker football, it was kind of a bitter-sweet night. It had little to do with NU's 17-3 victory over Michigan State and everything to do with the fact that the game marked the end of Big Red football as we know it.

Now, Nebraska will be just like everybody else. Please excuse those of us who aren't quite ready to embrace the thought.

While realizing there are many out there who believe that change is the only ingredient necessary to put Nebraska back among college football's elite, making the transition to the "modern" era of football to catch up with the times almost feels like giving in. It's essentially conceding that the Nebraska way isn't good enough anymore -- and maybe it isn't.

One of the greatest things about Cornhusker football was that it was unique. It gave a distinct identity to a state that really had none.

Ask anyone in any airport across the country and chances are, if they've ever watched a college football game, they can tell you something about Nebraska football. The Huskers were a different animal and they won in the most dominating and satisfying of ways -- with smash-mouth football, with the option, with tough-as-nails Nebraska-boy walk-ons leaving cleat marks on anyone who stood in their way.

NU played the game of football the way it was meant to be played. Nebraska lined up and settled things at the line of scrimmage, man to man, and usually came out on top. The Huskers' offense seemed as simple as the block 'N' on their helmets.

Now, it seems Nebraska is destined to join the era of basketball on the gridiron. Four-wide receiver sets, formations spread all over the place and throwing the football 'til the cows come home while using the running game just to keep people honest. Tight ends and fullbacks rendered virtually useless.

Yuck.

How many of these genius-boy offensive schemes have the Blackshirts trashed over the years? Remember Nebraska shoving Steve Spurrier's "Fun 'n' Gun" offense into a place where the sun doesn't shine? You can add Michigan State's spread to the list.

These were the kinds of gimmicky offenses Nebraska fans used to make fun of. To run something like that was like checking your manhood at the door.

Nebraska was great because of the option. Because of the fullback trap. Because of the pitch to the I-back (who else has an I-back?) to the short side of the field. Because of the play-action pass that always seemed to catch defensive backs napping. Because it didn't take four hours to play a football game.

When the Huskers' offense was clicking, it was hip to be square. At its high point, Nebraska took old school and made it way cool.

Sometimes those three-yards-in-a-cloud-of-dust plays didn't look so good in the first half, but in the second half, they were golden as the Huskers would just keep pounding away, tiring out their opponents. Next thing you know, a homegrown fullback is busting up the middle for a national championship-clinching touchdown while a group of mighty Hurricanes are sucking air.

Nebraska football was about hard work, determination and, above all, consistency. When there was change, it happened slowly.

There was a coaching staff where everybody knew their names. Welcome to the future. Assistant coaches will shuffle in and out South Stadium as staff continuity will be replaced by rapid turnover -- just like everybody else.

While there's no doubt it's easy to get nostalgic about Nebraska football, it seems that time marches on whether we want it to or not. Childhood memories of how good things used to be are unfortunately doomed to be just that -- memories.

They say that the rest of the college football world has passed Nebraska by and that the Cornhuskers' offensive attack belongs in a museum somewhere in college football lore and not on the field. I'll never quite buy that argument because if NU has the right players, it would be just as hard to stop 10 years from now as it was in '83 when the "Scoring Explosion" was racking up points at a dizzying pace.

Monday night's game offered no such offensive display, but did show how Nebraska's grind-it-out style -- mixed with some effective passing by quarterback Jammal Lord -- can frustrate opponents by playing keep-away. While Michigan State's defensive players were busy duking it out with relentless left tackle Richie Incognito, the Spartans' high-octane passing attack was left cooling its heels on the sidelines.

It was one last snapshot of the way things used to be. You might want to put that one in the scrapbook.

All this said, it's impossible to argue that Nebraska football hasn't slipped a notch, which is a fate destined for most programs when a legendary leader like coach Tom Osborne steps aside. A period of recovery time was to be expected.

Regardless of who is installed as the next leader of Nebraska football, the lineage has essentially been broken. The connection from Bob Devaney to Osborne to Nebraska's sideline ended when Frank Solich was shown the door.

While some felt that improvements had been made and that things were looking up, others believe strongly that drastic change was for the best.

For their sake, I hope they're right. Right now, the remodeling project that's about to beset Nebraska football just feels wrong.

Man was he ever right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Husker Fans in Texas are "N"

GBR

Not trying to start anything but, have we added any names to the academic All-American list in the past few years. It was once a really big deal.........back when Tom could not win the big one and we needed something to brag about. I can't recall the last time it came up in the press.

Here is the last 4 years worth.

Duane Todd 2006

Kurt Mann 2005

Duane Todd 2005

Chad Sievers 2004

Kellen Huston 2004

Pat Ricketts 2003

Judd Davies 2003

CLASS, CLASS, CLASS

Nice Drive now come on Blackshirts

Two TDs this drive not hit by Sam

First down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

go for it

Bring in the big boy

Now we are talking!!1

Sam has got to settle down.

Bowman looks good two plays in a row

We gotta stop their run.

15 minutes.

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I have an interesting question. Did anyone see another touchback in any of the other college games these last few days? I don't remember one myself, but it seems to me there should have been some. Can't have been too many, though.

"In their place are new tweaks, the most prominent moving kickoffs 5 yards farther back to the 30 to reduce the number of clock-stalling touchbacks.

That 5-yard kickoff adjustment had caught the attention of coaches across the country, who not only foresaw a dramatic impact on the number of returns but also their length and, thus, on field position and potentially on scoring.

Week 1 was mostly uneventful, though, with average field position after kickoffs at the 29-yard line and teams almost twice as likely to start from the 20 or inside (184 times in 68 games) as from the 40 or beyond (98 times).

About one in every 8½ kickoffs was a touchback. Nearly 84% of all kicks were returned, compared with 79% all of last season. The return average, which has hovered just beneath 21 yards in each of the past four seasons, was 21.1.

The additional 5 yards meant little to kickers such as South Carolina's Ryan Succop, who buried four of his five kickoffs vs. Louisiana-Lafayette in the end zone for touchbacks, and Nebraska's Adi Kunalic, who was 6-for-9 against Nevada."

Sounds like there were a few other touchbacks but not as many as last year

I just sent my email with my displeasure. I can't understand the lack of at least acknowledging our accomplishments last Saturday.

Hell the Wake Forrest game is on their network.

I remember my first game. I did go see the mammoths and that still is something I dream of.

The game was the '63 Oklahoma game, one of the two held that day as it was for conference championship. The rest of games were canceled that day because of the Kennedy assasination the day before.

We won!!!

I had a single season ticket in the south endzone in the eighties.

I met some great fans and always had a great time.

Wish I would of never gave that ticket up now.

This is a current list.

Nebraska Stations

Ainsworth - 1400 KBRB-AM

Alliance - 1400 KCOW-AM

Aurora - 97.3 KRGY-FM

Beatrice - 1450 KWBE-AM

Broken Bow - 1280 KCNI-AM/98.3 KBBN-FM

Chadron - 610 KCSR-AM

Columbus - 900 KJSK-AM

Falls City - 1230 KTNC-AM/KLZA-FM

Fremont - 1340 KHUB-AM/105.5 KFMT-FM

Grand Island - 1430 KRGI-AM

Hastings - 94.5 KLIQ-FM

Hastings - 1230 KHAS-AM

Holdrege - 1380 KUVR-AM/97.7 KMTY-FM

Kearney - 1340 KGFW-AM/105.9 KQKY-FM

Kimball - 1260 KIMB-AM

Lexington - 880 KRVN-AM

Lincoln - 1400 KLIN-AM/98.1 KFGE-FM

McCook - 93.9 KSWN-FM

Norfolk - 94.7 KNEN-FM

North Platte - 1240 KODY-AM/103.5 KXNP-FM

Ogallala - 930 KOGA-AM

Omaha - 1110 KFAB-AM/93.3 KHUS-FM

Scottsbluff - 960 KNEB-AM/94.1 KNEB-FM

Sidney - 1340 KSID-AM/98.7 KSID-FM

Superior - 1600 KRFS-AM/103.9 KRFS-FM

Valentine - 940 KVSH-AM

Wayne - 1590 KTCH-AM

West Point - 840 KTIC-AM/107.9 KWPN-FM

Out-of-State Stations

Arizona

Tempe, 1060 KDUS-AM

Arkansas

Rogers, 790 KURM-AM

Colorado

Loveland, 1570 KXST-AM

Iowa

Sioux City, 620 KMNS-AM

Kansas

Wellington-Wichita, 93.5 KWME-FM

Minnesota

Minneapolis, 740 WMIN-AM

Missouri

Kansas City/Independence, 1510 KCTE-AM/810 WHB-AM

Nevada

Las Vegas, 1400 KSHP-AM

South Dakota

Rapid City, 1340 KTOQ-AM

Sioux Falls, 1140 KSOO-AM

Winner, 1260 KWYR-AM

Yankton, 93.1 KKYA-FM

Washington

Seattle, 1150 KKNW-AM

Here's a link to affiliate stations.

http://www.huskerpedia.com/affiliat.html

Man I got goose bumps just reading that!!!

Just voted and we are still are at 12%.

Lets go Husker Board. Call or email everyone you know. Lets go.

Looking forward to it. I'm N

From HuskerExtra.com

60: Yards of longest field goal made in pre-practice by true freshman kicker Adi Kunalic. “With plenty of room to spare,” place-kicker Jake Wesch said.

Maybe this year we can go for the higher percentage play when we are close enough.