OldTimer

ANYBODY but Bent Fussberger is great with me. The Oklahoma-Missouri game made me absolutely sick. I've never heard such a biased one-sided call in my life. Old Brent apparently forgets that at least half of his audience may be interested in what is happening when the other team has the ball. The only thing that is worse is when he calls a USC game. Then he sounds like a high school kid who is going to get lucky with the whole USC cheerleading squad if the Trojans win. :-) Just be glad it's CBS and not ABC/ESPN.

I agree 100% with TrueMizzou. I spent 30 wonderful years in the Cornhusker State and still bleed HuskerRed every Saturday, but I am ashamed even to think that this might have happened. Surely this will be investigated by Coach Pellini who I respect and admire. And if it is true, the young man will be discplined or thrown off the team to serve notice that this can never happen again. Some of you are making light of this and saying, hey what's so bad, or blaming Missouri's QB for even mentioning it. If you really wonder why it's important, then you've never had anyone spit in your face. You don't know how degrading that is and how it makes feel. Try it some time. Have one of your best friends spit directly in your face and then maybe, just maybe you might understand. But then stop and realize that was a friend. Suppose it came from someone that hated and was disgusted by you. A little different then.

Amen to all your remarks Robsker. I agree Missouri has a fine team this year and played an excellent game against us. There is no doubt in my mind they could have added another 14 points against us and practically gave us our last 7 points. But unlike OU, they didn't want to run up the score by keeping their QB in their the entire game. I haven't seen the "spitting incident" addressed. I hope to gawd it didn't happen, but I have to believe it did. Thete is no reason Chase Daniels would say such a thing if it didn't happen. He's an honorable young man and I hope Coach will investigate and the young man will admit what he did. This is truly the worst thing that a player could do. Not only unsportsmanlike, but it puts the whole team and the state into a bad situation.

OK, Right about now everyone in the country is looking at today's score and wondering what the hell has happened to us. The announcers say that's the worse defeat we've ever suffered. don't know whether that's true or not, but it hurts. When my wife and I left that stadium a little while ago it hurt and hurt bad. The KU fans poured in on by pouring drinks on us and throwing stuff, but hell I guess they have a right. We've beaten them what 37 out of the last 38 times out so they have a little bit of anger stored up against us. They say that you have to hit bottom before you can turn around and start back up to the top. Maybe today is that day. I read yesterday that KU was right up there among the top defensive teams in the country and yet we managed to hang 30+ points on them today. Folks, we have an offense. Despite it being his first start, Mr Ganz went out there today and showed what he was made of. He played an outstanding game. Did he make some mistakes. Sure he did, but he was playing against some incredible odds and he showed improvement as the developed. I haven't seen the stats, but I'm sure they will look good. Alas the defense is pitiful. They missed tackles that shouldn't be missed in a Pop Warner football game. Is it coaching ? lack of skill ? preparation ? frustration ? I'll be damned if I know, but those one handed, loose arm grabs are just not cutting it. They just looked whipped almost from the opening kickoff. I know we are suffering from incredible losses to injuries but today's performance was inexuseable. I left today's game wondering about a couple of things. Why would a coach want to humiliate a rival team so much that he would leave his star quarterback in the game to run up the score until there was only four minutes remaining ? Does this show the ultimate lack of class in a coaching. I remember Coach O pulling our first string 3 minutes into the start of the 3rd quarter when he knew the game was well in hand. Yet Coach Mark Mangelo with 2 out of 3 very hard games coming up and with a 30 point lead allows his quarterback to remain in the game and risk injury so he can run up the score ? Say what you want about Callahan, at least when the TV cameras pan to him, he doesn't embarrass us by looking like he just ate the team mascot :-) Yes Kansas is a happy place tonight. But those of us who bleed for Big Red should be happy too. Happy that we don't live in a state that people throughout the country aren't terrified when driving and they see a Kansas license plate and never know if a left turn signal means you are really turning left or right. And knowing that you don't live in a state that harbors a hate mongering racist Fred Phelps leader of disavowed Topeka Baptist Church whose homosexual hating fanatics picket Iraqi veterans miliatary funerals across the nations should make you proud to be a Nebraskan Yes be thankful you live in a state that still respects dignity and honor in sports and intelligence. And KNOW YE THIS........When the Missouri Tigers visit the Jayhawks in just a few weeks, they will revenge what happened today and burst their bubble. Hopefully we won't run up the score, but the Tigers will destroy their hopes of going undefeated :-) Lifetime Husker loyalist now residing in Missouriland

OK, let's talk about recruiting. Times have changed for the Huskers. We no longer have the reputation we used to have. We have to admit that we are no longer a school that kids are breaking their necks to attend. Aside from our home grown athletes who know the tradition, why would a recruit from say Florida or California, or Texas want to come to Nebraska. How many NFL picks have we produced in say the last five years ? With scholarship limitations, Florida has new colleges which we never even heard of just a few years ago (South Florida for instance), that are grabbing up those class athletes that here to for were going to Florida and Florida State. Try telling those kids that they would be better off coming to Nebraska's tropical climes, our sunny beaches, and oh yes, our high academic standards. (that by the way is a place where we can still hold our heads high). Now add in the fact that we will probably finish with a 4-7 record. Parity is here to stay and with it comes a new challenge in recruiting not only for Nebraska but for all of the Big 12 schools. Despite what has been said, I still lay the blame at the feet of Steve Pederson and his grab for control. If anyone thinks Callahan is really running the show then there is still hope for the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. The current coach was rammed down everyones throat with little or no investigation into other possibilities. The only thought was to get rid of Solich and everyone else connected with Orborne. There are a lot of skeltons in the closet of the AD and hopefully someday that closet will be opened for all to see what transpired. I just hope I live long enough to see it.

Perhaps I should have been more explicit in my remarks about Callahan. I said I thought he was a fine Coach. I meant that he was a fine Coach in the NFL ranks, but the West Coach Offense is just too damn complicated for any college team. You can't expect a college team with the restrictions on practice times to learn 300-400 plays and excute them in the same manner than a pro team is able to do. A pro team has a quarterback for years to learn a system. No one can ever expect a college quarterback to learn such a system. I totally agree that what we need is a college rank coach like the ones mentioned in some of the other posts. I stand corrected.

I did something today that I've never done before. I left after hearing the Cornhusker Band perform at halftime, a band of which I was once a member, 45 years ago. Since that time I've watched my beloved Huskers play in more than 200 games, at home and on the road. My wife and I have traveled more than 6000 miles and watched more than two dozen Bowl Games. We've been pelted by frozen oranges in Miami when we played Miami, jeered in the Sugar Bowl when we played LSU and had our car spray painted by drunken Buffalo fans in Colorado, but I've never left a game. We left today because I could no longer sit and watch our players being humiliated for the second week in a row because they were underprepared, demoralized, and just plain whipped. Half way thru the first quarter I could see they knew they were not going to win against a team they knew they should easily defeat. Last week I saw the same look in their eyes when they dropped to 14-0 in a game plan that was ill-suited against a team using an offense that took advantage of their inadequate defense. Make no mistake I am not blaming Coach Callahan. I think he is a fine Coach and is doing a fine job with what he has to work with. The blame should start with the man who decided many years ago that making money was far more important than the game of football to the state of Nebraska, Steve Pederson. Pederson's personal vendetta against former coach Frank Solich was the beginning of this whole mess and someday this will all come to light. Callahan's "West Coast Offense" may be excellent, but it was doomed from the start for Nebraska for one reason and one reason only. Nebraska will never be able to compete in recruiting with the likes of California, Florida, Texas. For an offense like that to work, you need top-level quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, players that Nebraska can almost never recruit successfully. Sam Keller is an amazing talent, but why would we choose a player with only one year of eligibility ? Next year we have to begin all over with someone who has no game time. When was the last time Nebraska had an NFL quality quarterback ? Vince Ferragamo is the last one I can remember and that was 30 years ago. We're 4-3 after today and I can see us losing the next four games. How can we expect any more from our defense when they are on the field most of the game ? Is there a morale problem in the ranks ? I don't know. I just know there is something wrong. Nebraska has the best fans in the world, and the best kids out there on the field and in the stands. Get rid of Pederson and his catering to the elite fan base and money grubbing and let's get back to real Nebraska football. I want to enjoy the game again like it was played under Devaney, Osborne, and Solich. Climbing down off my old softbox. Thanx for listening to this old fart.