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11 K's through 5. just six short of komines record

I'm so glad anderson decided to take over hitting coach duties again. Andy Sawyers was holding this team back.

9 K's through 4

7 K's through 3

5-0 end second

6 K's through two. WOW

3 k's through one. GO BIG RED!!!

what a waste

Gordon Article Good read. . . but im a royals fan so its twice as interesting for me.

48-13 is not the final of a good game..... final score of a good time watching an absolutely silly blowout maybe..... I ain't makin any predictions..... After last season, a win alone is a good game. Besides, first game of the Bo Era. No mater what the score is it still should be considered a "good game." please please please please pleeeeease tell me you were joking around when you said this. .. .. .. .. Western Michigan???

I'll give them credit when they can prove history won't repeat itself. Does anybody remember 1995 kansas?

My friend jimmie who works in the omaha world herald sports section is reporting that he will be out for the season with a major acl tear

picked SJS to end hawaii's undefeated season last year. i was close..........

11-2 nebraska winner

2-2 bottom third

didnt swing momentum or change the outcome of the game but does anybody remember in 05 against T Tech, cory ross got fifteen yards for signaling first down after a 12-15 yard run? It was a judgement call but in the twelve or thirteen years ive been watching football ive never seen that one called.

I thought the facemask was frost? I am seriously drawing a blank on blown calls here...maybe i get so mad i temporarily black out and lose the memory permanantely. Who knows but I do like the ones your threw out there. it was 1998 kansas st. never beat us under osborne. couldnt have been frost

Think of the biggest blown calls by the officials in nebraska games and post the one you think was worst. Eric crouch facemask, 82 penn st., lord throwing a td from his knees, whatever comes to mind. Ill start it off with the '82 penn st. game when the reciever caught the ball six rows up in the student section and they called it complete.

Callahan ran an NFL practice, Pelini will run a college practice. simple.

I think Allen Iverson put it best when he said "we're talking about practice! not an actual game, practice!" I do know where youre coming from though. Anything is better than another article about pelinis former ties with nebraska or an article about his upbringing in youngstown. We need something new but it is practice so i indulge myself in baseball season until it gets here just to hold me over.

Just to be fair to your comment, if we hired Callahan, we would probably not be nearly as good. Mangino is better than he is. Now we still would be better than we were under Terry Allen, because we were AWFUL. You all are not happy with 6-6, but after Terry Allen, we would have been. Callahan would have had more time to build, because KU would have taken any signs of success. In the end, he is an average coach at best and NO WAY should he have a job like Nebraska, which is a great job for a coach to have if he wants a good chance at winning titles. Mangino built Kansas himself, and he runs it his way, and he deserves a lot of credit. WInning an Orange Bowl is so special, we have never accompliched so much in our almost 120 years of football, so that is an accomplishment to be recognized. As for Big Red, Tradition and fan support do not go on the field and play, but they help a lot in recruiting and on game day and they tend to help perpetuate success. I am not sure you will win as much as you think, but there is a lot more talent then most teams coming off a bad season with a new coach, and this new coach has a history, so we will see. I think if you have a winning record next year, considering all the change and how good your oppostion has become, it would be an ok start. Look at us! We have a one year winning streak! We are teh football experts! Woot!.... I would gladly put my knowledge of College Football up against yours Cyclone... Just because my team is not traditional power has nothing to do with my personal knowledge of College Football. I did not just start showing up this year to games, I was at 11 games in person for the Hawks and I can assure you the tickets for all but the Bowl game were bought this summer before I had any idea that we would be that good. It is a compliment, in a way, though. If you can't make an intelligent comment on my ideas, just start throwing ignorant insults that are independent of my content. I also have followed Nebraska for a long time, so maybe you could help me out with a comment on my analysis or where I have said something untrue or unbalanced... First of all...this article says much better than I about the true situation regarding your wunderkind coach: It must be said that Mangino did an excellent job this past year. He over-achieved for his talent level, and that's always a credit to the coaches. That said, however, one year does not a legend make. Nystrom continues: One other thing about him: his trophy case now features the 2007 Big 12 Coach of the Year award along with eight separate National Coach of the Year awards. Plus, he won an Orange Bowl at the University of Kansas, for crying out loud. Here are some minor details that Nystrom leaves out: You know those "eight separate National Coach of the Year awards"? Yeah, they're all from 2007. Mangino has been at Kansas for six seasons. Before this year, Mangino had only once broken .500 (going 7-5 in 2005). He had never had a winning season in conference play. In fact, he'd never done better than 3-5 in conference before this year. He had never ended the season ranked. Coming into the season, Mangino was 25-35 all time at Kansas and if he had lost the bowl game, he'd still have a losing record with the Jayhawks. Even after this year he's still 18-30 in conference play. (Which means that it will take him a minimum of two more years to get into the black there) Nystrom also lays out another argument against Mangino pretty well: "He won the Orange Bowl with a roster full of one-, two- and three-stars." In six years of coaching at Kansas, the man has been unable to lure the four- and five-star athletes that his conference competitors have. He does, obviously, coach them well, but coaching is only half of the college battle. You just can't win consistently (that's the key word) with poor recruits. The harsh truth of the matter is this: 2007 was a spectacular year for Mangino which followed five miserable years as a bottom-dweller in the Big 12. He's got a few years to go before anyone's beating down his door, and if he doesn't parlay this national prominence into some highly regarded recruits, no major program will ever want him: if you can't recruit when you're winning, you can't recruit period. Now lets reflect on your opinion of Terry Allen's coaching prowess as compared to Mangino... Let's see...Allen as a head coach with Kansas and UNI compiled a overall record of 95 & 59. Mangino has a head coaching record of 37 & 36. Allen, in his five years at KU compiled a record of 20 wins - 33 loses. Mangino in his first five years at KU compiled a record of 24 wins - 34 loses. Hmmm...oddly similar for a fantastic coach and an AWFUL one. Well...maybe conference records will be the telling difference. Allen in his five years had a conference record of 10 - 30. Mangino in his first five years had a conference record of 11 - 29....again, hmmmm...Maybe if Allen could have had one more year to coach he too could have gone to the Orange Bowl because, other than the fluke 2007 year, there ain't a dimes worth of difference between the two of them. Now...is Mangino a better coach than Callahan? Hard to prove or disprove that though Callahan did bring in higher ranked recruits than Mangino did and never ran counter to the ethics of the NCAA through academic fraud as happened on Mangino's watch. Looking at the records I'd have to say they are both about even as far as results go...it's just that Nebraska expects more from their football program than KU does apparently. I'll be glad to pit my football knowledge against yours...but you'll probably need to bring some friends to help you out. Are you questioning my fanhood? Does your fanhood need questioning? espn fanhood commercial

5-2 nebraska winner

4-2 huskers bottom seven

3-1 huskers top seven