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Ripped from today's headlines:

Glad you had a good time, minus the drunks. Idiots are, unfortunately, everywhere. Good luck to your Tigers for the rest of the season. If you guys win out and we stumble, you're in the Championship Game. If we both win out, you may make a BCS at-large bid.

You're right about the points, and you're right in implying that nobody is going to confuse Zac with Taylor anytime soon. Taylor is clearly better. But as Zoogies pointed out in his post between ours, those INTs last year are hard to pin on Lee. To add a caveat to this year, Lee had only played a few plays all year prior to Saturday, so the fact that he was rusty wasn't a surprise. He played fine, though, and that pass to Reed was a thing of beauty. Gabbert couldn't have thrown it better. With a week to know he's the starter I would figure we'll see a very different Zac Lee against ISU (if that's how it plays out).

What? I think Nile's fumble going into the endzone and all of the other fumbles by the backs looked downright horrible. Zac played OK. Wasn't one of his INTs late in the game? One was late in the game when they had eight back in coverage, another was a bobbled catch that fell out of the receiver's hands into the defender's. Laying blame on any one player for that game is misplaced. It was one of the most freaky collections of odd circumstances you'll ever see in a game. The way these turnovers happened, balls bouncing around on player's legs and Niles freakish fumble down the sideline, can only make a person shake their heads.

Frank Solich is the only Nebraska coach that beat Texas. Which just lends credence to the bizarro-world freakishness that is the Texas/Nebraska series. Never has a series been more even in talent, yet more lopsided in results. There's not much you can do as a Nebraska fan but tip your cap to them and say, "You got us. Again and again and again...."

Under! Over/Under - Nebraska has 2.5 turnovers.

Apparently Osborne won't be penalized, if I'm reading this correctly. It's Tuesday. Nebraska was informed last Monday that the conference was considering suspending Martin last week, and we were given time to prep a response. Apparently that hasn't happened this week:

Let's just say that HuskerBoard has some pretty observant Moderators, and leave it at that.

We are starting to have some pretty redundant threads regarding helmet-to-helmet calls. Might be time for another mass merging.

Amid all the justifiable hoopla over this or that star player making star plays, one of our very own, a walk-on from Elkhorn, played a major role in Nebraska's most important win of the season. Ladies and Gentlemen, Kevin Thomsen: Some snippets from articles around the land: Hooray Walk-Ons!!

OK. Whatever you say.

Even so, that is 25 years where a team from Kansas never once got lucky nor did Osbornes team come out flat and lose one they shouldnt. It is a testimate to how well prepared TO's teams were. Definitely. And there were times when Kansas was pretty good at the end and gave us some tough games. 1993 when we held them on the two-point conversion at the end of the game comes to mind right away.

While amazing, Osborne's tenure also coincided with Kansas and Kansas State both not being bad, but horrible. It was only towards the end of Osborne's 25-year career that either team rose to even a modicum of respectability.

Wonderful story. Congratulations, Fahie.

From the outside looking in, it did appear that he did an awful job of managing the game especially in the third quarter. However, we do not know how much of this was his fault. We don't know if the OC was getting the plays in late. We don't know whether or not the Mizzou staff had the right players in there for the plays that were called. Etc. Freeman was a pretty high draft choice, and I've got to think Gabbert is a lot better than Freeman. The biggest reason I cut him some slack is because of our goalline stand. Mizzou had like 6" to get into the endzone. Their OC dialed up two running plays from the gun? I think the Mizzou coaches should accept the majority of the blame. I'm still trying to figure out why after having so much success running against OU that Mizzou chose not to against us. If Mizzou makes the long fieldgoal and gets into the endzone rather than settling for a fieldgoal, the game looks completely different. I thought for the most part Gabbert did everything in his power to win the game. We won that game because we won the trench war. Our OL dominated them, and our DL dominated them. Again with the if this happen or that happened, what if. Give it a break as I said in another post before game time. I said the little tigers are going to have to prove it! No excuses, bring the players that can play and the Husker will do the same. Prove that they deserved to go to the conference title on the Huskers ball field. The game is over, they were not prepared, they mentally were lost for awhile. A little to late, period. Either they beat us or not. Not what if, it did not happen. I did say no excuses!! What the...???!?! You're calling Junior a troll? Disagree with him if you want, but Junior is one of the pillars of HuskerBoard. The guy is a troll like I'm the Pope.

I caught this on the radio last night as they were announcing it, then plum forgot about it until now:

Here is the guy we've got coming in the 2011 class. Sounds like an Alex Henery clone: Here is the link to the HuskerBoard thread on Sade. We also currently have Jason Dann on the roster, who is supposed to be pretty decent.

This link has been posted in several threads already, and several dozen (if not hundred) people have sent emails to ESPN over the past ten days. What makes you think that this time it'll work? They don't care. You're going to get the exact same response that everyone else gets, generated by their computer. They don't even read these things.

Your opinion is a wonderful thing, but the reality is that any player can get hurt on any play. Kickoffs are among the most dangerous aspects of the game. Henery is too valuable to this team to risk in an open field environment. On a punt he at least has two levels of players directly involved in shielding him. On a kickoff... there's nobody. If your sole contention is that Henery could do Kunalic's job, that's not a convincing enough argument to sway the coaches. EDIT - where are the statistics that you're speaking of, by the way? I'd love to peruse the link.

How is her role any different than Chris Fowler's? Neither played football in college, both have a Journalism degree, and Fowler has given game analysis. I don't see the difference?

I don't think it's as simple as having a great kicker next year. I think we're concerned with having the pieces in place all over the field to win it this year. Our schedule this year set up VERY well for a MNC run. Without the dropsies against Texas we're ranked in the top three right now with a serious shot at making the title game. The decision to go for it all this year has to be made that first game, and it was the right call. This is the approach that we should take every year, but I don't get what they were trying for by not allowing Adi to redshirt. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that Henery could boot kickoffs into the endzone just like Adi. When you already have a kicker on staff who can do what Adi is doing, why not grant Adi his request and redshirt him? It can't be about leg fatigue for Henerey because he already does the PAT's, punts, and kicks. If we're scoring a lot, he's kicking off rather than punting. If we're not scoring much, he's already punting. If we get Henery hurt during kickoff coverage then we're screwed on punting and place kicking. It's an unnecessary risk.

If Missouri wins out I think they have a strong case for an at-large bid. Good point, Junior.

What more punishment does he want? We're outside looking in without a LOT of help for the title game, whereas had we won that game we'd be in the top three, if not the top two, right now. How is that not punishment? Further, our loss affected us more than Alabama's loss affected them. Bama was first in both polls, then fell to eighth with their loss. Nebraska plummeted from fifth (AP) and fourth (Coaches) to 14th (AP) and 13th (Coaches), falling two more spots than Alabama fell when they lost. Since losing to South Carolina, Alabama has beaten unranked and unheralded Mississippi and Tennessee, while Nebraska has beaten #17 Oklahoma State and #7 Missouri. Clearly we've put together a better resume than the Crimson Tide after our loss. This guy isn't looking at the facts, he's just putting forth opinion. Pure and simple.

I don't think it's as simple as having a great kicker next year. I think we're concerned with having the pieces in place all over the field to win it this year. Our schedule this year set up VERY well for a MNC run. Without the dropsies against Texas we're ranked in the top three right now with a serious shot at making the title game. The decision to go for it all this year has to be made that first game, and it was the right call.

I've read comments around HuskerBoard from guys who've had bone bruises and they've said it hobbled them and prevented them from pushing off, so that seems to make sense. I would be very surprised if the team was giving out exactly what is wrong with Taylor. Taylor has "an injury between his hip joint and his toes." I think that's the most we can guarantee right now. I've heard speculation, but nothing that leads me to worry. I just don't think we're being told everything about this. This is most of the reason why I think we should sit Taylor this week. The offense may not be as sexy without him, but Lee/Green can lead us to a win, no doubt in my mind.