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I think your rant reflects more on how you're feeling right now than the mood of this thread. It's an, "Oh, by the way..." thread, not a, "They're out to get us" thread. It's football talk. What else do you want to talk about in this game? I think most people have had enough of the scandal by now.

Lighten up. You're making a huge deal out of semantics. You can label it any way you want. Bottom line is, the ball hits the guy in the hands. He drops it. Use whatever label makes you happy.

I think BK's sprained thumb has a lot more to do with his drops than anything. He's a bad example. But yes, the will to catch the ball that hits your hands seems lacking. I don't see how that's up for debate. So basically you're saying you don't believe they want to catch the ball badly enough? The ball hits the receiver in the hands and he doesn't catch it. What label do you want to put on that to make it OK?

That endzone shot with Burkhead on the ground and Legate rising up on the left - I believe if you look at the other angle, at about this time the line judge was already signalling that PSU had recovered the ball.

DVR the game and go to the funeral.

For that matter, look at the late 80s when we were ready to ride both TO and Charlie McBride out of here on a rail. Into the early 90s, like 90 and 91, people wanted McBride OUT. Today he's a legend, a cult hero. It's foolish and myopic from someone who claims to be watching games for 50-ish years to not have learned the lessons those years taught us.

I think most people here are on board with Cotton being canned, or promoted out of direct coaching. There's no evidence to support firing Carl yet. Nor is there any evidence to support firing any other coach, aside from Cotton, as of now. A team that wins ten games a year three years in a row shouldn't exactly be overturning their staff due to poor performance.

If he legitimately has health concerns, diving back into coaching isn't a great idea.

So what's your solution? Or are you just here to bitch about Pelini?

I think BK's sprained thumb has a lot more to do with his drops than anything. He's a bad example. But yes, the will to catch the ball that hits your hands seems lacking. I don't see how that's up for debate.

I'm not telling you that, the stats are. The results are plain. Bo has beaten more ranked opponents in the past year and a half than Callagrove beat in four years. Bo went to as many bowls in his first two years - after inheriting the worst defense this school has seen in fifty years - as Callagrove went to in four years. Callagrove ran our bowl streak into the ground, ran our defense into the ground, turned away our alumni, turned away the front-office personnel who made this program great, and you're crying because he's gone. Sorry you feel that way. Maybe you should be a fan of another team.

It has far more to do with a will to catch the ball than with a consistently-thrown pass. If it hits you in the hands, you catch it. If you can't, that's on the receiver, not the QB.

Gary Pinkel of Missouri is the longest-tenured coach in the Big XII North, and beating them twice in the last two years was no mean feat. Pretending those wins were meaningless is a pretty crappy way to treat the players who played their asses off to win those games. You sure you're a Husker fan? Sure doesn't seem like it.

Lol I work on the other side of campus. The trophy is no longer there. However! I do have a picture that proves that the location was closer to planet sub, and that there is no BK. But, I dont know how to post pictures on the board. I'm pretty sure that in the absence of a pic, BK still exists in the Union. In fact, I'm going to eat there tonight, just to show you. I'll get a Royale with cheese. I didn't know Lincoln used the metric system. Look at the big brain on Hammerhead!

That's a lot of derp for one post. Let's review: Callahan's SOS averaged #36.5 per year. Midway through Bo's fourth year, his SOS averages #41.25 - with games against Michigan and Iowa remaining, and whatever bowl opponent we get. At the end of this year, they'll be nearly identical. Callahan won 27 games in four years and lost 22. Callahan ended our three-plus decade bowl streak. Bo has won 37 games in less than four years against 14 losses. He has gone to a bowl every year he's coached. Callahan inherited this team (from 2003) Rushing Offense - #7 Passing Offense - #114 Scoring Offense - #83 Total Offense - #74 Rushing Defense - #24 Passing Defense - #1 Scoring Defense - #11 Total Defense - #2 He inherited those defensive numbers from Bo Pelini, Defensive Coordinator. By the time Callahan was shown the door, he had flipped those numbers to: Rushing Offense - #66 Passing Offense - #7 Scoring Offense - #9 Total Offense - #28 Rushing Defense - #116 Passing Defense - #75 Scoring Defense - #112 Total Defense - #114 He took an offense that was mediocre at best and made it respectable. He took a defense that was a world-beater and ran it into the ground. And this is the guy you're pining for? So, with the above data as Bo's starting point, coming off a 5-7 season and a second missed bowl game in three years (thanks, Callahan!), he promptly turned that team into a bowl contender with these stats: Rushing Offense - #37 Passing Offense - #15 Scoring Offense - #12 Total Offense - #17 Rushing Defense - #21 Passing Defense - #52 Scoring Defense - #85 Total Defense - #80 Bo took that team to the Gator Bowl and won. Not a remarkably different team than Callahan had the previous year, yet the turnaround was startling, especially on defense. Today we sit at: Rushing Offense - #13 Passing Offense - #101 Scoring Offense - #50 Total Offense - #36 Rushing Defense - #66 Passing Defense - #29 Scoring Defense - #38 Total Defense - #36 So you can go on about your boy Bill Callahan, and cry yourself to sleep curled around your Kevin Cosgrove doll, but the rest of us are going to be just fine with a coach like Pelini. Sure, he has flaws. Every coach has flaws. But between Pelini and Callahan, I'll take Pelini every day of the week and twice on Saturdays.

Just lost my mom this year to liver cancer. It's a hell of a hurtful time. T-Mo's dad was 62. My mom was 64. Way too young.

Many TVs tuned into Nebraska-Penn State Posted by: Brian Christopherson on November 17, 2011 at 6:17PM CST You may have wondered how many people tuned in to watch this past Saturday's Nebraska-Penn State game after all the news coverage about the scandal in State College. The number is significant. Below are the rankings for the Top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen for the week of Nov. 7-13. You'll note the Nebraska-Penn State game is second only behind Monday Night Football. Even the college football scoreboard show that followed the Nebraska-Penn State game, which focused almost entirely on the scene in Happy Valley, ranked 10th in the rankings. On a lighter note, you'll find that SpongeBob continues to ride strong. The numbers: 1. NFL Football: Chicago at Philadelphia (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN, 12.21 million homes, 16.84 million viewers. 2. College Football: Nebraska at Penn State (Saturday, 12:04 p.m.), ESPN, 4.18 million homes, 5.42 million viewers. 3. "Walking Dead" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), AMC, 4.08 million homes, 6.12 million viewers. 4. NFL Football: Oakland at San Diego (Thursday, 8:30 p.m.), NFLN, 3.77 million homes, 5.27 million viewers. 5. "SportsCenter" (Monday, 11:57 p.m.), ESPN, 3.44 million homes, 4.35 million viewers.

if we can not trust keven kugler, who or what can we trust? Chip Brown Shawn Watson Shawn "Chip" Watson-Brown

I wonder if he's saying you're wrong because he's presuming you're showing their percentage of all passes, and not each players' individual drop percentages?

By the way. Speaking of taking appropriate action, contrast what happened to Lauren with what happened to Pinkel. I hate to say it, but Missouri has firmly put their foot down, and we barely did a soft-shoe tap. I hate that Missouri is showing more integrity than Nebraska in sports discipline.

So.... I was partially right.

I don't know why it hasn't. But it's not for me to talk about.

So you saying her license wasnt suspended????? I believe it was. That is why everybody is making a big deal about this. A DUS is a class 2 (sometimes class 3) misdemeanor which involves jail time if convicted. Which she is already guilty of by hitting someone(just like the 65 year old lady). The fact is she got special treatment of who she is. She made a mistake, but she is an adult and should have to face the consequences for her actions(just like you and me). Putting her into a pre trial diversion and suspending her for 2 games isnt teaching her anything. Her dad shouldve atleast done the right thing and suspended for the rest of the year. Im sorry my preciption of John Cook just went down a few notches. Scott, read what I wrote. I said it was a misdemeanor, but I also said that her suspension likely got tossed, which often happens when a felony is involved. I am less upset about the pretrial diversion than I am about the two-game suspension. I'll say this until I'm blue in the face - Lauren Cook isn't the person society needs to be protected from. I bolded the part of your post I most definitely agree with. We do things the right way at Nebraska. This was a big deal. It should have had big consequences.

All I know is, I saw this pic on Erin Sorensen's Twitter, and it was retweeted by Kevin Kugler, and Kugler said it was the Corn Bowl Trophy. I can't believe Kugler would mislead us like this.

Reed clearly needs to be targeted more. If he's not hurt, we are WAY underutilizing him.