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He was joking.

What the hell does having the "crud" have to do with NU football? Have you WATCHED our team this year?!??!? From Wikipedia: "Crudités are traditional French appetizers comprised of grated raw vegetables soaked in a vinaigrette. Crudités often include carrot sticks, pepper strips, celery sticks, and asparagus spears." That's probably more than anyone cares to know, but I thought I'd be helpful.

So you think the ONLY PLACE IN THE STADIUM where Nebraska fans were sitting was in the little diagram that scrumptious drew up? Come on, man. Let's be realistic. I will say this - judging by their behavior, those students would have made model players for Barnett's team.

I typed it really fast and my French is rusty.

It's not his fault??? WTF? Is that him or not? It's him, he is saying it, that means its his fault. I like Matt, but this will be a black eye for him. I'm sure you never swear, but if you were to drop some F bombs and someone else were to record it and put it online, do you think YOU should get in trouble for that? It's his fault he is using all of that naughty grown up talk, but he wasn't doing it on the air. If he were saying something racist, that's a whole different bag of babies. Let me tell you - I swear enough to make a sailor blush when I'm driving around the streets of Lincoln EVERY DAY. I couldn't care less that Davison dropped a couple of bombs. What irks me is that some idiot who's supposed to be in charge of editing this stuff put the wrong file up on the Interwebs, and Davison is going to take heat for it. Now, Dave M - if you know that Matt is responsible for the content that gets uploaded and not some tech, then let us in on that, too. Otherwise yeah - it's not HIS fault.

After a night tossing and turning, fearing the just wrath that is our only problem CU fan, I have decided to throw in the towel on this one. I admit: * Boulder is a friendly and welcoming place to watch a football game as an opponent. * The myriad instances of hostility reported by those traveling to Folsom Field are all lies. Lies, I say! * The University of Colorado’s athletic department – specifically their football program – has long been a shining beacon of diversity, understanding and openness. Any report to the contrary is entirely fictitious and only serves to show how persecuted this fine institution really is. * The events of 11/25/05 have been blown wildly out of proportion, and rather than being what they seemed (two entire sections of students run amok to the point they had to be ejected from the stadium), the situation actually was one of referee overreaction, and all reports to the contrary are obvious falsehoods. Further, local news outlets in Colorado fully covered this situation and did not in any way minimize it. Ignore the first part of this article, too. * Joe Roy, Chief of the CU Police Department, was lying when he said, "Batteries, coins, rocks and other objects have been placed in marshmallows and thrown in the stadium and have injured people who have been struck." This never happened, and is obviously another overreaction by the officials. * The fact that this kind of thing also happened at two SEC schools within the last two months wholly legitimizes the actions of the CU students. Anyone still thinking they did anything wrong is lying. There, I’ve said it. It’s all lies. I feel better admitting my guilt now.

Somehow, SOMEHOW, I'll just have to cry myself to sleep tonight knowing the likes of you thinks less of me. Maybe I won't survive. It's gonna be tough.

He used potty-mouth words. I hope he doesn't get in trouble for this. It's not his fault!

You're pathetic! You have zero credibility. I will refute each and every one of your weak points tomorrow when I have time. Seriously. It's all a made-up lie. Everyone is out to get poor, poor CU. Sheesh.

I'm not the original poster of this thread, home boy. If you've got a gripe with the title of the thread that's cool, but don't bring it up with me.

Did you read what I wrote? Where did I insinuate that all of their fans are like that? If you read a few posts up there I told BeachBuffs that I would bet more than 95% of their fans are fine people. It's the vast minority that gives them a bad name. It's generally not a great idea to tell people who have friends who were the recipient of the bottle-and-cup barrage in Boulder that they complain too much. Just so you know.

The fact that you are uneducated about the reality of what Husker Fans have faced in Boulder, CO doesn't mean it's not real, nor does it mean calling them on it is wrong. Frankly, this "discussion" wouldn't be taking place if our friend from Colorado would simply own up to the fact that what happened in 2005 was a pretty egregious act, and stop trying to minimize it. Seriously, what the hell would you do if you were watching a game in Lincoln and you started having bottles and cups full of beer (and God knows what else) thrown at you? What would you do if it got so bad that stadium security had to empty two sections? Would you just pass it off as "the college atmosphere" and forget about it? What if that was your mom they were throwing bottles at, dude? What then?

You really, really need to take off your buffalo-colored glasses, man. That section wasn't ONLY cleaned out because a couple of people tossed a little bit of garbage on the field. Do you really not know what happened? If so, why don't you know? From Colorado's website: This is from the "alcohol and related issues" section of your school's website. It wasn't that they were throwing stuff on the field only, they were pelting the Nebraska section with whatever they could get their hands on. Do you really not know this or are you just pretending not to know what happened that night? Either way, your level of credibility is taking a serious hit by downplaying this, and further by trying to cast Colorado as the aggrieved party here by saying they weren't given enough credit for their efforts to stop the situation. You want more evidence of the problem? This is from the Colorado Springs Gazette: Want more? How about an article from USAToday: There's more in this article about the CU team leaving their warmup area and heading toward midfield to talk trash to the Husker team. Maybe that's what prompted the students to act up - they figured that if the Colorado coaches were going to allow their team to behave that way, they would be allowed to behave however they wanted. The sad reality is that this incident wasn't the first time this has happened. For over a decade these things have been going on every time the Huskers play in Colorado. It's just that this time it got so out of hand that your own security had to remove your students. How are you defending that? How are you guys the victim in that? Seriously - what are you trying to convince us of? That Colorado is and always has been a welcome place for Husker Fans to watch a game? We know better, dude. The record of your behavior is there. Let's remain in the realm of reality, OK?

What do you mean by that? What's wrong with supporting the team? And why does saying "support the team" make you a "liberal?" Man, I'm finding a lot of your posts confusing!

It's not that the tire slashing or assaults have happened to 90% of Husker Fans, it's that 90% of us have heard the accounts of those things happening. I have never in my life ever heard of an entire section of a stadium having to be cleared out of a game because of unruliness. That fact alone lends credence to these stories, you have to admit. It shows that the mentality that would precipitate those actions exists there. However... I would bet money that it's upwards of 95% of you guys. The problem you face is that the minority of you who are acting like soccer hooligans give the rest of you a bad name. We know Colorado Fans aren't horrible by and large - you're not geographically far enough away from us to be that different from us, for one thing. Your biggest obstacle are those wholly true reports of slashed tires, broken windows on cars, beer bottle missiles at Folsom Field, and all the other stories we've all heard, all of which are done by the vast minority of "Colorado Fans."

From the land of unnecessary comments...

Although I'm taking part in the Callahan bashing, I would agree with you that the whole angst-ridden posting thing is getting old. But these are the times we live in, as this post so eloquently says:

Why? Both of you - or anyone else who wants either of these two guys - tell us why they would be good, and/or why they would be better than the other guy. I will go on record as saying I doubt either Gill or Pelini gets the HC job here. Gill needs more time and Pelini doesn't seem any more like a Husker than BC ever did.

Come to Lincoln this Saturday, go to the ticket window, and try to get tickets. That'll answer your question better than any of us can. While you're here be sure to stop at Lazlo's in the Haymarket. Best microbrew in 500 miles.

Some nitwit has a nationwide radio show and you believe what he says about this program rather than guys here who have been following Husker Football for 30, 40, 50 or more years? Man, W.C. Fields was right about suckers being born every minute. I will say this about Cowherd - he's more than likely right about Nebraska not returning to what we were in the late 1990s. However, NO team will EVER return to what we were then. People just don't get how utterly dominant those teams were. USC isn't what Nebraska was then, and they're the closest thing to it in college football today. The 1995 team would wipe their feet on any of the recent USC championship teams. Of COURSE we won't be that again. What is very possible, even likely if we get the right staff in here, is that we return to what we were in the 1980s - a solid team every year. Every year we vie for the conference title. Every few years we vie for the MNC. That's very attainable with the facilities, the program, the boosters, the fans, the tradition and the culture of Nebraska Football. This program wasn't built in a couple of years. We're not Kansas, people. We're a force in college football, current situation or not. Let's please stop listening to these airbags on their four-hour, desperate-for-content radio shows as if they actually KNOW anything. They're just filling air so you listen to their commercials. They have NO IDEA what Husker Football is about. K?

So.... if people ask you if the sun rises in the West, which direction are you going to look come sunrise? Seriously - learn how ticket sales at the University work before worrying about this. It will take years and years and years for the sellout streak to end.

Let's say I had a favorite steakhouse. Let's say I ate there every Saturday for 30 years, and for 30 years I had great meal after great meal, the next one greater than the last, until finally after 30 years the last dozen or so meals were the most magnificent food I had ever eaten. Then let's say the Head Chef of the steakhouse retired. They hire a new guy. The food is good for a while, but after a few years you can tell - it's not the same. They're using different spices, or the veal isn't so fresh. So in a fit of pique the owner cans the new chef and goes out to find a new chef. After a search he says he has found THE GUY. This guy doesn't know how to cook steak to save his life, but he CAN make crudite like nobody's business. So this guy comes in and starts making food. Every Saturday I go in, but clearly the food is not good. It gets worse, it gets worse still, until finally I get food poisoning so bad that I spend a month in the hospital, clinging to life. I get better, and in the meantime the Head Chef fires his sou chef and promises to get a new sou chef, and wants me to come back. Now, are you telling me that I'm supposed to be happy with this guy because the croutons on my salad were pretty good? I don't know about you, but I wouldn't eat there again. And I'll tell you another thing - neither would Tom Osborne.

As ga-ga as Callahan is over QBs there is NO WAY he would let Blaine Gabbert walk away from his verbal without a huge fight if he even remotely thought he was staying here. Callahan knows he's gone and he's not doing anything to convince his recruits otherwise. That's proof enough for me.

Couple of things - I think you are overrating recruiting stars. The recruiting services have been "off" quite a bit lately (see: Notre Dame, Nebraska, Michigan, etc.) and further whatever a kid does in High School really doesn't mean much to their success in College, just like success in College means next to nothing in predicting success in the Pros (see: Ryan Leaf, Joey Harrington, Mike Williams, etc.) Also, don't count on Nebraska needing even three years to "rebuild." We have an atrocious coaching staff that can recruit players but cannot coach them or gameplan properly. We have a LOT of talent on this team, and a lot of young talent. See what Bob Stoops did with the players he inherited his first year, and his MNC in year #2. We have that kind of talent on our team, we just have a staff who doesn't know how to motivate or exploit it.

Eh. You've got a point about the rehashing. And you've been here longer than me. ;-)