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Imo those who root for texas because it makes our confrence look better, are over complicating things. We always hold our own destiny in our own hands. If next year we go undefeated, we will be in the championship game. At that point any "respect" the Big 12 has earned from this game, or any game this bowl season, will just be banther for the talking heads on espn and mean nothing towards the outcome of our game.. If we lose a game or two next year, arguing if we should be ranked 15th or 10th based on our confrence strength is meaningless anyways. No one cares or remembers who was ranked number 9th, or 14th etc.etc.. We're in the big 12, not mountain west or confrence usa. The big 12 doesn't need to earn respect around the country.. So, having said that, I hope Texas gets beaten like rag dolls and I get a shot of Colt tearing up on the sideline..

I wish i could order a pair like that. Hey, my wife is from Nebraska City as well. (no, not my wife that's pictured in my sig..lol).. Her dad is the current mayor. I love that town.

This is awesome... link

http://www.azstarnet.com/sports/323238 Being a 'beast' is the least of Suh's qualities Huskers standout is 'well-rounded,' already graduated By Patrick Finley Arizona Daily Star SAN DIEGO — The following statement is either a compliment to Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh or a sad statement about elite college athletes. "He's an unusual kid," Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said Tuesday. "He's really well-rounded." Suh, the Arizona Wildcats' main challenge in tonight's Holiday Bowl, is as interesting as he is dominant. From his name to his goals to his interests, the Heisman Trophy finalist is one of the most compelling characters in college football. Both the obvious and the obscure, here are 10 things you need to know about Suh before tonight's kickoff: 1. He's big. Nebraska center Jacob Hickman joked Tuesday that Suh spent the team's trip to Sea World "back with his family and the rest of the orcas." The 6-foot-4-inch, 300-pound defensive tackle's size runs in the family. His paternal grandfather — the man he was named after — was 7-3. The Cameroonian, whose name means "House of Spears," fought Germany in World War II and served as police chief. 2. He's smart. Suh graduated this month with a degree in construction management and wants to build downtown condos in his hometown of Portland, Ore. Suh preaches the importance of education at Nebraska, where he was named to the Big 12 Commissioner's Spring Academic Honor Roll this year. "If I wasn't educated and my parents didn't push me, I wouldn't be where I am today," he said. "That's the reason why I'm here — because I have both sides." 3. He's the most decorated defensive player ever. He was the first Heisman Trophy finalist to play defense since 1994. The first-team All-American won a litany of awards — the Lombardi, Outland, Nagurski, Bednarik and Willis trophies. "I had the awards tour, and now I've been ready to focus on football the last two or three weeks," he said. Suh was the first defensive player to win the Associated Press Player of the Year award. "The guy who wins the Heisman usually takes that home," he said of the AP award. "It's a great honor to be not only a lineman but the first defensive player guy to get that. "I'm very proud to have that opportunity to be that person. Hopefully it opens the eyes for other future defensive linemen and defensive guys to go ahead and grab that award." 4. He had a monster game on the biggest stage, but knows it might not be his best. Against Texas in the Big 12 title game, Suh recorded 4 1/2 sacks, seven tackles for loss and 12 total tackles. On national television, Suh rose to star status. "To me, it was a great stat game," he said. "I believe I've had other games that I didn't have the stats but I played a great game. Almost a flawless game. It was a fun game, but it didn't end the way I wanted it to." 5. He's humble. Suh said he thought teammate Jared Crick was the better tackle as recently as preseason camp, and didn't want to dwell on playing his last college game. "I'm not too much of a sob story or anything like that," he said. "I just want to go play some football. There have been some tough and fun situations, but I've enjoyed it all." Pelini spoke with awe about how Suh has handled the recognition. "He has all his priorities straight," Pelini said. "That doesn't happen a lot these days. He understood it was never about him. It was always about the team. Even when everybody was pushing all these accolades on him, he kept talking about the team." Pelini said stardom "can change somebody," but not Suh. "It does not, it will never change him," Pelini said. 6. He doesn't have a favorite NFL team. Suh figures to be drafted in the top five, if not first. Asked if he had a favorite team, Suh simply listed players. "I like to watch the defensive guys of the Steelers, and the Vikings with that great guy they have in Jared Allen," he said. Crick said it was "an honor and a blessing knowing that a few years down the road when Suh's making it big in the pros, I can say I played next to that guy." Crick said Suh is memorable for more than just his play. "The thing I'm going to remember when I see Suh go No.1, probably — I'm not going to remember him for being the beast that he is," he said. "I'm going to remember him for being Ndamukong Suh — just a humble guy and a great person off the field. Suh's a beast, but he's a great guy off the field." 7. He's relaxed. Unlike some of his teammates, Suh chose to attend Sea World and the San Diego Zoo this week. "I'm taking everything as it comes," he said. "I had a blast playing with Shamu and all those other killer whales out there. But obviously when it came to practice and it came to meetings, it's all focus." Could a killer whale block him? He's "one I wouldn't want to go against." 8. He knows what the Wildcats look like. Suh compared Arizona to a team that beat Nebraska 31-10 on Oct. 17. "I see them kind of similar to Texas Tech, which gave us trouble earlier in the year," he said. "They're going to throw different things at you. The way I see it for our defense is, we can't make mistakes. And if we are going to make mistakes, we have to limit them." 9. He listens. Pelini gave him the ultimate compliment for a coach. "When you tell him something and you say, 'This is the way you have to approach it, these are the challenges you're going to have,' he listens to every word you say," Pelini said. "He doesn't let it go in one ear and out the other. He really listens to people that try to mentor him." 10. He'll be double-teamed. Every team to some degree has put at least two blockers on Suh. Even when Crick recorded five sacks at Baylor, the Bears chose to double-team Suh on every play. Hickman, who blocks Suh in practice, had a piece of advice for Arizona. "Good luck," he said.

Perhaps someone can help me out here. Why would the Big ten prefer Mizzou over us? Yes, population wise, we can't compete, but fan base - television ratings I'm quite sure are in our favor, yes? Plus we pack our bowl games, Mizzou doesn't travel.. We have more non nebraska resident Husker fans than we do Nebraska resident (I'm originally a california man myself) fans. So why does the state population matter to them? If "money" is their main concern, and I think we can all accept that it is, Nebraska should be head and shoulders above Mizzou, Pitt and Rutgers on their wish list. Not to metion the legacy, our national championships and heisman winners are immediatley added to the confrence list of past championship teams.. (obviously not won in their confrence, but the big 12 boasts Texas's championships before they became a big 12 team.) Perhaps I'm missing a huge piece to the puzzle.. But I just can't see any confrence that had their choice of adding Rutgers, Mizzou or us to their confrence, not beating down our door.

Going to be hard seeing him on the other sideline at the stadium.

What went wrong for Nick Taylor & the Tide Times Posted by capstonereport on March 27th, 2009 filed in General, Media Reviews 24 Comments » The Tide Times blog rocked the world with an exclusive story claiming that Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo would be hired by the Alabama Crimson Tide. The story by Nick Taylor was discussed on Paul Finebaum’s radio show, Internet message boards, blogs and at the water cooler. Taylor fueled talk and drove traffic to his blog by calling into Finebaum’s radio program promoting his story and relationship with persons close to the University’s athletic department. Now that Izzo won’t be coaching the Crimson Tide, it is a good chance to evaluate what went wrong with the blog, and how the fiasco injured the new media—Internet blogs—a segment of the media gaining in prominence, but lacking in respectability. Taylor fell victim to two very real problems in his report, 1. the reliance on only one source, and 2. not understanding the limitations of his source’s knowledge. Both of those problems could have been overcome with vigorous editorial supervision. Newspapers have a reputation for getting things correct because newspapers have a bureaucracy designed to challenge the reporter. Good editors ask hard questions and challenge a writer to verify information. A good editor would’ve asked Taylor how his source knew Izzo would take the Alabama job. From Taylor’s appearances on Finebaum and in Taylor’s own blog posts, it was clear the source was someone connected with Nick Saban’s family. Kudos to Taylor for identifying his source much better than most newspapers or websites. While this source likely would know Izzo’s name was being talked about, how could this source know definitively Izzo would take the job? This is where a good editor would’ve asked for corroboration. Other sources with more direct knowledge of Izzo and any contacts with the Alabama Crimson Tide. Everyone makes mistakes, but the trick is to make as few as possible. This process doesn’t guarantee you won’t make a mistake, but it does help reduce gigantic errors that ruin your reputation. The next time Taylor reports something, who is going to believe it? So, what do blogs need to do? Here are some random thoughts on the subject: Try editorial standards While you can put anything you want in a newspaper, if you own the paper then you probably are going to exercise care over what appears in it. Why? Because you have a vested economic interest in it. You pay to buy the newsprint. You pay to buy the ink. You pay to run the press. You pay the writers. You pay for distribution. Simply put, you refrain from doing things that would undermine your financial investment. That is why newspapers have editorial standards. Don’t be fooled and believe papers have standards because of some grand concern for reporting the truth—it is an economic interest with visible economic consequences. You can’t forget newspapers are a business. The Internet has a much lower cost structure than print. You can start a blog like the Tide Times for free, and with only the cost of sweat equity to create the content. For some there isn’t an incentive to be careful. For some there is an incentive to be reckless because outrageous items get noticed—attracting Internet traffic. However, you can’t build a reliable business model on smoke and mirrors. The Internet provides a venue to examine gossip, but gossip or rumor must be clearly defined as such. If Taylor had blogged the Izzo story as speculation based on his conversations with people close to Saban, he wouldn’t look so bad today. Why? Because he would’ve been honest about the extent of his knowledge. People like honesty. And honesty is a good place to focus when you are building a business.

Could it be simply adjusting to the talent on the team? Perhaps both Watson and Pelini know we don't have the players to run a west coast style offense. So they are adjusting. I'm not sure I like the idea of not having a defined system, but perhaps, with this fairly down recruiting year (on the offensive side) they are deciding that competing with all the other schools for the same spread offense talent is going to continue to burn them. This could give us a leg up recruiting running backs and quality qb's that don't come from gunslinging highschools.

3 of the 4 voters from Austin's largest paper, the Statesmen voted Suh number 1. And they are getting crucified in the comments section for it..lol How Statesman's Heisman voters cast their ballots Wednesday, December 09, 2009 AND THE WINNER GOES TO ... The American-Statesman has four voters for the Heisman Trophy. Here's how each filled out their ballots: Kirk Bohls 1. Ndamukong Suh 2. Mark Ingram 3. Colt McCoy Why I voted the way I did: McCoy's had a fantastic career and would take home the lifetime achievement Heisman award, but Ingram and Suh outperformed him in the biggest games. Suh has been a dominant player from season's beginning to end, maybe the most deserving defensive player ever to win the trophy. Suzanne Halliburton 1. Colt McCoy 2. Toby Gerhart 3. Ndamukong Suh Why I voted the way I did:For the past three years, I've given every candidate the 12 regular-season games. That seemed fair. This year, there is no obvious choice who jumps out at me as the consistently best player in college football. So I allowed career achievement to be the tiebreaker. McCoy became the winningest quarterback in major college history. He's earned the trophy. Randy Riggs 1. Ndamukong Suh 2. Mark Ingram 3. Colt McCoy Why I voted the way I did:Who was better than Suh? Nobody. The Big 12 title game was his pinnacle, but he was Godzilla all year. I felt McCoy should have won in 2008 — and I voted him No. 1 — but this year he has played only two true big-boy defenses and was average both times. Sorry, it's not a "body of work" award. Ingram played big in big games for the top-ranked team. Mark Rosner 1. Ndamukong Suh 2. Mark Ingram 3. Colt McCoy Why I voted the way I did:You could look at the stats: the 82 tackles, the 12 sacks — from an interior lineman — and the three blocked kicks. But all you really have to do is watch Suh cause havoc on an opponent, as he did against Texas. McCoy deserved the award last year, and I voted for him. He struggled against Oklahoma and Nebraska this season. Ingram got stuffed against Auburn, but he played well in the SEC title game Link

Nice, well done and thanks for putting the time in..

duplicate.

Stewart Mandel recognizes that the best player in college football is often somebody other than the QB of the #1 team. Too bad those old codgers at that little club in Manhattan NYC don't understand this. Seems to me the voting pool needs to be narrowed. 926 ( I think) is way too many.. On a boxing forum I visit a Boxing writer said he'd been given a Heisman vote 20 yrs. ago when he covered football for a local paper in college. He said he'd watched about 3 games a year for the last ten years (all bowl games) and had no idea who to vote for.. I was stunned. This guys' vote counts the same as Stewart Mandel's? How many more voters are there that rarely watch the sport? Seems to me they need to do a review of their voters and pull the reigns in. Oh yeah, also, DON'T accept votes until after all the games are played.

Sorry about that, completely missed that thread...

Hello, long time Lurker who rarely posts. Sorry if this has been talked about elsewhere to death already. I guess I just assumed after the Texas debacle, Pelini would use this extra practice time before the bowl game to prepare Cody and hand the reigns over to him. I was sure 39 yards passing and 3 picks sealed Lee's fate.. Then I realized I had the same feeling numerous times this season, and of course I was wrong. I haven't read anywhere that it's even being discussed. Is it? It can't be they believe still the offense is better with Lee, can it? Any info you guys have would be appreciated. Thanks.

I am still confused about that play. the rest of the game plan seemed to be "don't get blown out". But that play was about as "we're going all out for the win" as you can get. Sure was a misleading sign as to how the rest of the game would be played.

Congrats on that....

Agreed!! They get a comic genius in Ferrell and we get a guy who did "Delta Farce"

Best food? Depends what you like. Mexican El Chapparo on 13th and F. Indian: Tandoor Inn Williamsburg village Italian : Vincenzos in the Haymarket American : Mistys Hotel : Cornhusker or Embassy Bar, depends how old you are but before the game, Barry's. Frindaynight anything on O street.

Here you go... Square peg Keller comes full circle Quarterback found he didn't fit in at Arizona State, where he was a rising star before a USC comeback and an injury derailed him. Now at Nebraska, he's about to get another shot at No. 1 Trojans. By Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 11, 2007 LINCOLN, Neb. -- "Destiny is not a matter of chance," the quotation reads above the entrance to the Osborne Athletic Complex. "It is a matter of choice." The phrase is credited to Nebraska politician and statesman William Jennings Bryan, but the words might as well be inscribed on a chain around the neck of Nebraska senior quarterback Sam Keller. Two years ago, while starring at Arizona State, Keller disappeared into halftime at Sun Devil Stadium with a 21-3 lead over No. 1 USC. Keller raised his arms to a jubilant student section on his way to the locker room. The upset victory was going to make Arizona State a national title contender and possibly make an All-American out of Keller. A reporter for the Arizona Republic proclaimed "game over" in the press box and a reporter from Los Angeles scribbled the premature proclamation on his notepad. Less than a year later, Keller woke up here, running Nebraska's scout team. Bad dream? "Probably the luckiest thing that's ever happened to me," Keller said. Keller played that second half against USC in 2005 and had four passes intercepted, the last hitting star receiver Derek Hagan in the hands before the ball trickled somewhat miraculously into the arms of USC's Kevin Ellison, who made the game-cinching pick while flat on his back. USC rallied to win, 38-28, and it was Keller's turn to go belly-up. He suffered torn thumb ligaments the following week at Oregon, relinquished the job to Rudy Carpenter, then earned his starting spot back before the 2006 season, only to lose it the next day when Sun Devils coach Dirk Koetter, reportedly under pressure from players, gave the job back to Carpenter. And that was Keller's cactus career. He transferred to Nebraska, sat out last year, and will be in the huddle here Saturday night when No. 1 USC plays the Cornhuskers. Nebraska is ranked No. 14 in this week's Associated Press poll. Arizona State was No. 14 when it played host to top-ranked USC on Oct. 1, 2005. "Kind of weird how it ends up," Keller said in a recent interview on campus. "You get another crack at a team that was, in actuality, your last point of success as a starter. . . . I never would have foreseen this." Keller foresaw beating USC two years ago and leading Arizona State to the Pacific 10 Conference championship, if not the national title. After stepping in for injured Andrew Walter to win most-valuable-player honors in the 2004 Sun Bowl -- he threw for 370 yards in a victory over Purdue -- Keller opened the 2005 season by passing for a school-record 669 yards in his first two games. Forty touchdowns and 4,000 yards seemed possible. Keller might even have turned pro. "That could have happened if I didn't get hurt, or that could have happened if I had beaten USC," he said. Plans changed. Arizona State went one way and Keller went another. Nebraska was running low on quarterbacks after touted prospect Harrison Beck transferred to North Carolina State. "When he raised his hand to come, I said, 'Absolutely,' " Nebraska Coach Bill Callahan said of Keller. What happened at Arizona State remains somewhat a mystery. This is Keller's don't-want-to-talk-about-it version: "It was a business decision they made, players and coaches alike," he said. "Me, I made my own decision . . . and that was not to stay there." One story: Keller's teammates didn't trust him with the quarterback keys, so they revolted at a team meeting. Keller had a reputation as a partyer. There were posted pictures of him in the company of booze and girls. The Omaha World-Herald, in a recent article, quoted an anonymous former Arizona State player saying a couple of seniors complained about Keller's off-field behavior and essentially "threw him under the bus." There was another plausible theory that, if a choice had to be made between quarterbacks, Keller was more expendable. He had only one year of eligibility left compared with three for Carpenter, who might have transferred had Koetter stuck with Keller. Keller, who turns 23 on Sept. 28, has never denied that he likes to socialize. He is of legal drinking age. When frequenting bars now, Keller is careful not to have a drink in his hand when someone snaps a picture. He also says Internet stories regarding him were overblown. Rather than beat the stories down, Keller said, he ignored them. "You can't let it bother you or it will tear you up," he said. "Half the reason people say some of the things is they want a reaction out of you. They want to see you go in the tank, they want to see things get worse and worse. And the reason is, you were once way up there. And once you're on top they want to knock you off." Keller knew there would be trust issues when he transferred into town. "You come to a place and you're new, and your picture is on the front page of the paper before you even get here," Keller said. "It's like, 'Who is this guy?' " He couldn't just walk in here with his gunslinger reputation, so he made a calculated decision. "The minute I got here I went to work," he said. "I became a grinder." Callahan knew about the rumors that trailed Keller from Arizona State. "None of that factored in," he said. "People asked me the same thing you're talking about. I don't know what went on, I don't really care what went on. All I'm happy about is that he's here and playing for us." Nebraska players said they would have been suspicious had Keller walked into town with an attitude. "If he would have come in with a big head, he obviously would have shunned some guys," senior safety Bryan Wilson said. "Sam's not that guy. . . . He came in humble. He ran the scout team last year." Wilson even did his own research on Keller. "I knew a couple of guys who went to ASU," Wilson said. "Everybody said the same thing. He's a good guy. He wasn't arrogant; he was just a fun-loving guy who loves football." Go to school, go to practice -- "books and ball," as Callahan says. Isn't that how a new player earns respect? "You just show them," Keller said. "Talk is cheap. Everything that circulated [in Arizona] was all talk, know what I mean? I just had to come here and be myself. The whole process made me realize how much I love football, and how blessed I was to have this second opportunity. Because it was taken and yanked away, and I've had to crawl my way back." Keller has not been spectacular in victories against Nevada and Wake Forest. He is averaging 225.5 yards passing per game, with two touchdowns and three interceptions. Part of Keller's problem in the past was that he sometimes took too many chances on the field -- that's the gunslinger in him. He has had to accept a more mature approach in Callahan's West Coast offense. But even Callahan says: "I don't want to kill his spirit. I told him, 'All I'm trying to do is get you to maintain your poise, keep you thinking ahead, keep you thinking through the job.' " Unlike with the Arizona State team he led in 2005, Keller has a marquee tailback to lean on at Nebraska in Marlon Lucky, who is third in the nation with 323 yards rushing. As far as destiny goes, well, Keller made his choice and it wasn't by chance. And now top-ranked USC is coming back to town -- a different town. Two years after Keller thought he'd flushed it all away that day in Tempe, the gunslinger gets one more shot here in Lincoln. Don't expect any first-half fist pumps this time. chris.dufresne@latimes.com

1) How long have you been a member of Husker Nation? 14 years. Moved to Lincoln from Cali at age 16. 2) What/who led you to The Nation? Family in Lincoln. 3) Where are you from originally? Oakland California (Born in England) 4) Where do you live now? Lewisville Texas 5) Favorite Husker memory? rear ending Tommy Frasier when I was 16. 6) Worst Husker memory? That oarnge bowl we gor robbed by Florida state. 7) Number of home games attended? 15 -20? 8) Number of away games attended? 2 9) Favorite Husker memorabilia/apparel? 1971 autographed team football. 10) Favorite place to watch a Husker game? (section in Memorial, bar, friends house etc.) My big screen. 11) Favorite all time player? Ahman Green. 12) WCO or Option? WCO 13) Stevie Pederson or Billy Byrne? Stevie 14) Lil Red or Herbie Husker? LIL 15) Favorite Husker play? Fumble ruskie (no idea how to spell rooskie?) 16) Favorite game-day beverage? Red stripe beer. 17) How did you find HuskerBoard? (referral source) google

Thanks much for the help.. Didn't see the Game plan package at first. I do now.. Well, can't wait till saturday and flying my Husker Red in Texas. Anyone know if Cody Glenn is ready to play?

Been living in Lincoln for awhile now and just moved to Texas ( I know I know) last week. Just got my cable installed and it doesn't look like Time Warner has that College football package they had last time I lived out of state. Was really wanting to not miss very many husker games. Does anyone know of a place online you can catch them? Apparently the Nevada game will be on espn.360 but I guess they don't allow time warner cable on their either.. Any ideas on how I can catch the game would be appreciated.. Thanks.