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That is hilarious. It probably is a signal of some sort, but it sure looks like Dr. Tom throwin' the bones! Great video. Who is #25 in the sack showed twice between 0:20-0:28? He looks like a wolf leaping on the back of his prey, and is a blur in slow motion!

2 tight ends, running up the middle, it's a 73-31 final.

You got that right...Iowa State demoralizes them, we bury them!

I thought I saw a lot of new numbers in there, yes. Missouri just scored. Assuming they hold on, the North is assured of having at least a tie in North-South game. KU over OSU tonight gives the North a 2 game edge. I've spent a lot of the last 5 years in Texas listening to this "dominance of the south" talk, completely forgetting about how it was in the early Big 12 years, and likely wouldn't last too long. Very sweet! North-South domination goes in cycles. Texas and OU can't be on top forever and they will go down eventually just like we will rise again with a vengeance. If it wasn't clear, I meant that the Texas people had forgotten. I still had a few memories!

Maybe Callahan can text him, "Not coming to midfield. Don't call."

I thought I saw a lot of new numbers in there, yes. Missouri just scored. Assuming they hold on, the North is assured of having at least a tie in North-South game. KU over OSU tonight gives the North a 2 game edge. I've spent a lot of the last 5 years in Texas listening to this "dominance of the south" talk, completely forgetting about how it was in the early Big 12 years, and likely wouldn't last too long. Very sweet!

At least some of the line is backups as well, though I saw Nicks and Byford still in.

B)--> QUOTE(Husker B @ Nov 10 2007, 02:36 PM) 264908[/snapback] Why is our 1st team still in the game? Weren't alot of Husker fans complaining about KU doing the exact same thing just one week ago? I don't really care for that either, except that it's good to get Ganz more time. I'm enjoying the game immensely, but don't want to rub it in too badly. I can kind of see giving the players some fun time though, after the season they've been through, so whatever happens, happens. I haven't taken any cheap shots at Callahan or called him Clownahan or anything like that. I'm just calling this like I see it. Ganz with the passing TD record, breaks Steve Taylor's mark against UCLA, IIRC.

Agreed. And it's pretty stupid, you can pin a team deep from the 50, but if you don't make it you turn it over in decent field position. Just because it worked doesn't make it not stupid. But mostly classless. I think Callahan knows he won't be coaching in college again, so why not? Thanks for leaving behind lots of good will, Bill.

Iowa State has put up 24 in a row and is now beating Colorado!

A bunch of them did that in South Bend. Well, not so much this year. ;-) But it was quite a sight in 2000 when they had those 2 long returns against us, even though I was in pain seeing the game turn around so quickly on us.

Yes, it was very nice!

Wow...just Wow

Wasn't Dennis Miller funny once upon a time? Almost hard to believe anymore. (referring to TV commercial that runs about every timeout, for those of you not watching on TV)

Nice start to the 2nd half, no letup by the offense. Let's see a 3 & out by the D now.

Such a wonderful visual. Wish I could be watching it, but I had to work. And I have to be careful, my supervisor is a KState grad. It was an extremely accurate visual! 3 man rush on the last play in the half, Freeman actually turned around and started running towards his own goal, (not just a bit but 4-5 steps, kinda zig-zaggy), Turner got off his block and made the sack!

Winning the trenches on both sides of the line, great second efforts by the running backs (helps a lot that they get room to run to begin with), and Ganz is on fire! Finally see some passion and guys jumping on each other out there!

The Dukes have a great D1AA team, and have a great marching band! My daughter and I walked on their field this summer when we visited campus. She just applied there.

I don't think there is a normal route. I've seen coaches fired mid season and leave, and a few stay til the end (like Bunting at UNC last year, and Bennett at SMU this year). Obviously we've seen a fired coach not coach the bowl game. I can't recall a fired coach who stayed for a bowl but it wouldn't surprise me if it happened. Most schools want to get a new coached named ASAP so they can start recruiting. Urban Meyer stayed on to coach Utah in a big bowl after he accepted the Florida job, didn't he? But Mack Brown was not on the sidelines for UNC's bowl game after he took the Texas job in December. Carl Torbush took over as interim head coach, then the interim was soon dropped. In another spin, two years later Torbush was all but fired. Word leaked that he was out at the end of the year. The team rallied behind him, beat rival NC State and begged for him to stay, and he got another year. Can't remember specific instances, but it seems like assistants will almost always come on board right away, though they may go back for their old team's bowl game if the team wants them. I'm sure there have been variations of that as well. I would guess most ADs have a short list ready in case they decide to fire a coach due to performance or other reasons, health or personal reasons cause the coach to resign, or they take a job elsewhere. I would also guess that Osborne's list is much more up to date then the Florida or Ohio State's AD's list, since Tressel and Meyer are very unlikely to leave anytime soon. I've read other people's speculations on how an AD sends out informal feelers to other coaches and I don't know how that works. But when you see a new coach hired almost immediately after a firing, you would think the selection, negotiating and decision making didn't happen overnight.

Farley was a real gamebreaker and certainly one of my favorites on defense, along with Jamel Williams. These guys could really fly to the ball and make big hits too.

First off, we don't even know for sure Gill is even on Osborne's short list. TO might think that Gill isn't right for the job, and may only give him a courtesy call or interview. Our list, and sports writers' lists, really mean nothing. So while "we" may be talking all about Turner and Bo, Osborne may have an entirely different list based on what he knows, which is a lot more than us. Likewise, we don't know who is on A&M's list, or SMU, or wherever. Gill may be at the top, and their fans may not know it because they don't really know him. So it's all speculation that we're the only ones interested in Gill. Reasons why Gill might be on our list and not others'. 1) We'd be pretty certain he'd take it. Why go after someone who's not interested? We blew a lot of time last time on people not interested. 2) He'd be very likely to stay. We don't really want someone using this as a stepping stone to another job. It'd be nice to hire a coach and have him stay for 25 years if he's successful. 3) He's a known quantity to us. To the rest of the country, he's a second year MAC coach with limited success so far. We understand better than most outside of the MAC where he's taken Buffalo from. Maybe in two years he'll have Buffalo undefeated in the MAC and everyone will want him, but right now we have the inside info. We know the person, as opposed to maybe finding out a Steve Kragthorpe may have had success at Boise St because of his assistants, like Louisville may be finding out. 4) He'll have a comfort zone in Lincoln. He knows (I assume) that he'll like Lincoln since I assume he did before. He knows the facilities, the media, the high school coaches in the state, has friends, etc. All this means he can hit the ground running, as opposed to someone who may have to adjust to life in Lincoln and may get off on the wrong foot somehow, or find that this isn't really what they expected. A happy coach with a happy family will have a better chance at success. He's still got to be the right man for the job, but I think Turner has a better chance of success here than say, Michigan if Carr leaves.

Turner Gill if I had to just name one. Frazier was a real winner. Grant Wistrom is another favorite, especially for coming back his senior year. I loved Redwine and his breakaway speed, then Rozier came along and was such a dominant runner in speed/power/moves/everything. Joel Mackovicka was another fav or mine too. I was at the Orange Bowl after the 97 season, 2nd row behind the bench at about the 25. Had a handheld TV along, and as I hear the sideline announcer report that Mackovicka was injured and done for the game, I saw him stretching it out and you could just tell he wasn't going to be out for long--and he wasn't.

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Exactly right. He has no idea what kind of offense we'll be running next year, or if a new coach will even want him. He commited early based on Callahan and a Nebraska program that looked to be well on it's way back. Now he has every right to re-evaluatea his options. And if he re-commits, I'll be all the more sure that he wants to be here, rather than feel an obligation to keep his word only to get here and find he screwed up. I know that if I picked a job out of many offers, only to have them tell me before I started that I might be doing something quite a bit different from what they offered me, and couldn't tell me what it was so I could see if it was something I was even very good at, I'd be looking back at the other job offers.

Wear red to the game in a couple weeks, and put Nebraska plates on your car for the day, and let us know how it goes.