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Apparently you missed the fact that Missouri trailed unranked San Diego State at home with less than a minute to go in the game? A TD with 52 seconds left to eke out a win against an unranked, crappy opponent kind of fits what enhance was saying, no? You're welcome to pound your chest, and your team has earned you some boasting rights, but let's not lose our minds here. Missouri is by NO means invincible. True they are not some power house but to be fair knappy they are #31 in the AP poll. They are not nearly as bad as you and others make them out to be. Outside of you guys almost losing to Sad Diego St, the only reason people even remotely remember that school is Dan McGwire... Yeah because nobody remembers Marshall Faulk, Joe Gibbs, Don Coryell, Herman Edwards, John Fox or Robert Griffith.... Gibbs, Edwards, Coryell, Fox and Griffith are remembered for their exploits elsewhere more than their connection with SDSU. Faulk still gets a lot of association with SDSU, though.

This isn't the only board on which I talk football. There are many non-Husker fans who see it the way I do, and many who see it the way you do. It's not a clear-cut case of a player intentionally spearing another player. Nobody here is saying it was a totally clean hit. Nobody is saying it was a totally dirty hit, near as I can tell. Most everyone says there is gray area. Guess which side of that gray area Husker fans are going to land on? Further, your attitude towards clearly illegal hits seems to have been in absentia last year when your boy Weatherspoon punched our TE as he lay on the ground. I seem to recall a deafening silence from you and the rest of the Tiger fans about that play - for which Spoon was not suspended. You, sir, have zero room to talk to anyone about opening eyes.

What about that rule means the OSU player should not be suspended? Was he flagged for helmet-to-helmet? I don't recall that he was....?

Here is the perfect opportunity for Watson to silence his critics. He has the horses. He has the WRs. He has a game-changing TE. He has an offensive line. He has weeks of film on his opponent. Now is the time to put all of this together with a nice game plan that takes advantage of our strengths and keeps his opponent guessing. It's time to move the ball, score some points, and dictate, rather than react. If he cannot do that in this game, then he cannot stay.

That was a good read, but the author is absolutely high if he thinks both teams will score under 20 points. I would imagine both will score between 24-35 points. As good as both defenses are, both offenses are very, very good.

You gotta tip your cap to enhance. That guy knows his stuff. I'm a big fan.

I dont have the rich seats knappy... long live he blue hairs!! because those tradions are dead among your young fans and they are no different than the fans at MU,TX,OU,KU,KSU,ISU and so on. That is a rep that is slowly dying. I think its a cool thing, i try my darndest to rep MU in a good light. Sometimes even going out of my way to be friendly when wearing MU gear. Im not even a NU fan and I think it sucks that its dying off. And knapp, i have no doubt that if you were there you would have clapped buddy. No doubt. You're right in that a lot of our younger folks aren't embracing that attitude. It's disheartening to see, but the good news is that typically when they age, they mellow, and things like good sportsmanship and being generous with praise to your opponent becomes more important. The tenets by which Husker football tries to live are not always easily grasped by the hubris of youth. You have to chock that up to immaturity and give us a pass on that, to some extent. It is impossible to police all things, and you cannot make someone be nice. Some people are just asshats.

I would like to keep that trophy and display it prominently until doomsday.

The trophy room is accessible to the public before the games at the North door of the weight room complex, north of the stadium. This is the door with the statue of Osborne and Berringer, which is another must-see. Inside that door is a vestibule holding our national championship trophies, as well as other trophies from major bowl victories. To the left as you walk through the vestibule is a small room that looks like a refugee from a Star Trek set. Inside there you'll see the Heisman Trophy presentation room, with the actual factual trophies, and a couple of pretty decent films, one showing the Heisman winners' highlights, the other showing the tunnel walk video. I would recommend getting there as early as possible, like 10am for this game, to see these things. After checking this stuff out, you can wander around the Husker Nation Pavilion area in the Ed Weir track just east of the trophy room. There are a zillion tailgates in this area as well. About three hours before the game you should be either on the East side of the stadium or around the door by the Osborne/Berringer statue to watch the team walk into the stadium during the Unity Walk. The band is there, the cheerleaders, and a bunch of fans. It's pretty fun.

Can we just move onto the Big 10 now? Not until we have their championship trophy.

I will 100% guarantee you that the Husker fans left in the stadium applauded Missouri as they left the field. As sure as there are stripes on a Tiger, Husker fans show that respect to the opponent. My folks have gone to every game since 1990. They were applauding, if nobody else was - but I know they weren't alone.

Very good find, Drumline. As has been mentioned several times in this thread, there are a multitude of helmet-to-helmet hits in every game. The reason that Oklahoma State player wasn't suspended is very simple - next year his team will still be playing in the Big XII.

I must say I find it amusing that a thread like this was started by a Tiger fan, yet now that we have several visitors showing little respect to the Huskers, this thread has made its way to page two, and obscurity. Pot, meet kettle.

We do - and we applauded Chase when he left the field after beating us. Then he made stupid comments about our fans and claimed our players spit on him. Daniel was no saint, he shot his mouth off about our team and our fans, he showed no respect, so he gets none in return. Pretty simple equation.

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There most certainly is a question about it. He led with his shoulder, as he has done on dozens of similar hits throughout his career. Helmets touched, but he did not lower his head and lead with the crown of his helmet.

Good points all around in this thread. I would be surprised to see Watson stick around long enough to be our OC in five years, but it's possible. Most likely he'll be gone, like you say, and we'll be looking for someone else.

Aren't we going through growing pains with Bo right now? All those personal foul penalties he got his first year - he grew out of that, right? His craziness with the press is getting better, etc. Every coach goes through a curve. Some take longer than others. Maybe Watson never finds his path and can't escape his cycle of good/bad. Hard to say.

You are correct, sir. All Martin's suspension does is cost us depth. He hasn't been starting. It'll make it harder, but it's still not impossible to overcome.

I'm no Watson supporter. I haven't seen enough consistent evidence from this guy that proves he's the real deal. There have been plenty of stats posted in the past showing his sketchy record over the years. One thing I will say is this - and it's not binding or prophetic by any means, I'm just sayin' - a lot of the stuff being said about Watson now was being said about Charlie McBride in the late 80s and early 90s. People wanted Charlie's head on a platter. They wanted to run him out of town something FIERCE. Osborne was patient with him, let him learn from Florida State and Miami, and we ended the 90s with some ferociously good defenses. One other thing I'll say is, we used to pride ourselves on the longevity of the coaches on our staff. That can still be a good thing.

Listen, the quote from the announcer was "He's a rugby-style kicker...blah, blah, blah." Not "He has a rugby kick in his arsenal," and not, "He's kicked like this before." They said that's what he does. That is where I'm coming from. There's no reason to get snotty with sd'sker over this. EDIT - further, anyone listening to the broadcast who thought these announcers truly understood the nuances of this Husker football team is dreaming. They were making stuff up as they went along, they made other stuff up (because they had NO idea Alex has punted this way before, guaranteed), and they made this up, too.

"It feels real good, man," Green said. "Weird, man, but I can finally call myself a Husker. I'm proud."

Sorry, have a hard time believing that. Watson is the offensive coordinator and no one in their right mind would simply put everything on any defense regardless of how good they were and hope that defense alone would win games. A lot of Watson defenders (in this thread anyway) and by all means I'm open to hearing both sides. That's what makes this place so interesting and keeps things going. As for me Watson needs to go and it's over due. I wish the best for our team, I want us to win every game we play and am not immune to the fact that even the best teams lose. In the end it's still Watson calling the individual plays and our record and offensive output against teams with halfway good defenses speaks for itself. That's all I need. If it helps, I'll throw my hat in that ring. I have no link, but this is what I heard, too. It was pretty commonly discussed this past offseason.

i agree, but should 'bama be penalized for playing in an incredibly strong conference? Of course not. In a playoff system, neither Alabama nor Boise would be penalized.