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EVERYBODY uses this excuse, and it's highly inaccurate. His most costly interceptions of the games he played in were when we had a very comfortable lead on CU, and his picks gave them a fighting chance. Not to nitpick, but Joe Ganz's first pick against CU came when you were ahead 35-31 at the start of the second half. A four point lead with the entire second half to play is hardly comfortable, especially with a defense like you had last year. Wrong. We were up 35-24. Then, first nebraska drive of the second half, on third and long, Ganz throws a pick six, which THEN makes the score 35-31, like you said. Next drive, next Nebraska play in fact, he throws another one. Led to another score, and Colorado didn't look back. Edit: And sure, an 11 point lead still isn't all that much, but it was that in addition to the fact that the second half completely belonged to Nebraska and we were rolling on Colorado before that second half. I stand corrected, but it doesn't change my point much. And since you didn't cross midfield in the second half until the fourth quarter, didn't score until there was about five minutes left to play in the game and you were down 58-35, and since we scored 34 straight points on you in the second half, I'm wondering how you "owned the second half?" Or maybe you meant you owned the second half until the interceptions? On a slightly more relevant note, I think Joe Ganz is a pretty good quarterback; if you should be worried about your offense its because of your line. Bo Pellini will get you guys turned around but straightening up the mess left by Callahan is going to be quite a job. Have a great season(until thanksgiving of course).

EVERYBODY uses this excuse, and it's highly inaccurate. His most costly interceptions of the games he played in were when we had a very comfortable lead on CU, and his picks gave them a fighting chance. Not to nitpick, but Joe Ganz's first pick against CU came when you were ahead 35-31 at the start of the second half. A four point lead with the entire second half to play is hardly comfortable, especially with a defense like you had last year.

Hopefully.... I heard the sale of Alchohol was stopped at games at CU finally, is that so? I had heard awful things, but I went out last year (Tickets bought that summer, b4 bandwagon accusations fly), people were ok, not nice, but not awful at least. They stopped selling beer at Folsom in 1996. The luxury boxes sell beer though.

Bill Jennings Oops. I'd probably have remembered that if he'd signed Sayers, though! I'm sure if he's alive he's glad Bill Callahan has replaced him as least popular former head coach at Nebraska.

That is no joke. Arguably, the 2 best players to ever come out of Omaha, went to other schools(Nile Kinnick and Gale Sayers). Bob Devaney wasn't the head coach when Gale Sayers was recruited; a guy named Bill Petersen was, if I remember correctly; and he did offer a scholarship to Gale Sayers, and losing him to Kansas sealed his fate. At least, that what Gale Sayers said in his book, "I am Third." A classic.

Well he's related to another player at CU not sure who but the kid is his Uncle. Sounds like the kid wanted to go to Texas but his family kind of pressured him into going to Colorado. His uncle is Josh Smith, WR. He was on somebody's freshman all-american team this year, so things are looking great for us. As for his family pressuring him to go to CU, if DS really wanted to go to Texas he would have gone. From what I've seen from DS and Josh Smith, they seem really close(Josh Smith lived with Darrell his senior year in hs), so I'm sure family had a lot to do with it, but Darrel said the deciding factor was Dan Hawkins and his vision for the CU program. I'm just glad he's one of us now. He's going to make all of us proud! There is nothing wrong with using family ties to get a recruit was just pointing out if his Uncle was not at Colorado the chances of his going to Colorado diminish tenfold. As a Husker fan I'm hoping the running back from Texas winds up here because of his brother coming here this year, so it would make me look like a hypocrite to complain about CU luck. Sorry if I seemed defensive, purely unintentional. Texas fans are throwing a hissy fit on hornfans because somebody actually would rather come to Boulder than Texas. The day before signing day Darrell Scott was the second coming of Ricky Williams, and now he's a mama's boy who was paid off. Those people are truly crazy. If you guys want to get a running back away from UT, just show them the boards on hornfans. They are trashing Darrell Scott, his mom(cause trashing a players mom is a good idea), CU, Boulder, the NY Times, and probably Osama Bin Laden by now. We play them this year in boulder and I'm looking forward to it. And by the way, congrats on salvaging the recruiting class. Hopefully the CU-NU game will decide the conference again soon!

Well he's related to another player at CU not sure who but the kid is his Uncle. Sounds like the kid wanted to go to Texas but his family kind of pressured him into going to Colorado. His uncle is Josh Smith, WR. He was on somebody's freshman all-american team this year, so things are looking great for us. As for his family pressuring him to go to CU, if DS really wanted to go to Texas he would have gone. From what I've seen from DS and Josh Smith, they seem really close(Josh Smith lived with Darrell his senior year in hs), so I'm sure family had a lot to do with it, but Darrel said the deciding factor was Dan Hawkins and his vision for the CU program. I'm just glad he's one of us now. He's going to make all of us proud!

Say...how did you guys do against Iowa State last year? Looked like your "boatload of freshmen" were cruising around the Big 12 in the Titanic and the iceberg was in Ames. Nebraska seemed to have avoided the humiliation of being beaten by the worst team in the Big 12 North...so, frankly, the only difference between CU and a tub of sh#t seems to be the tub. You're right Cy, we did lose to ISU in ames. We deserved to lose that one. We also beat the conference champs Oklahoma on national tv, so I'll have to be content with that for this year. When was the last time ISU beat OU? And since you admit that ISU was the worst team in the north this year(quite an accomplishment), maybe you could tone down the trash talk a touch? Of course, it doesn't really matter who we consider our rivals, right now it matters who ABC considers our rivals; if both Nebraska and CU don't get their sh#t together it'll be Missouri and Kansas playing the day after thanksgiving, which won't be good for either of our programs.

The same year our fans threw WATER bottles (not whiskey bottles, dude) your fans threw water bottles all over the field when you were losing to Oklahoma. And unless you missed it, we beat you 65-51 this year, and the series is tied 4-4 this decade, so unless your definition of "year in, year out" is "except for this decade," you're a little off. Of course, you used to beat the crap out of is year in year out, but that is the past. As in, the past you keep living in. Congatulations! You guys beat the worst husker team to come through Lincoln in over 60 years!! That being said, Colorado is still sh#t!! As i said earlier, your proudest moments in football history are No.1- beating undefeated NEBRASKA in 2001 at folsom and No.2- winning a tainted national championship on FIVE downs! That to me sounds like tradition. no matter how much you dont want to think about it we will always be the measuring stick, and you guys will all come up short! Maybe we could take a page out of your recruiting tactics and try and salvage our class by offering them women to rape??? This aint intramurals brutha!! If we beat you, we didn't come up short. The series is dead even this decade, so, again, if you're talking about the present and not the increasingly distant past, if we're sh#t, so are you. And considering that we played a boatload of freshmen and you guys we supposed to have "restored the order", I'm feeling pretty good about where CU is at. And really, our biggest win this year was against Oklahoma, and anytime you beat third-ranked Oklahoma starting two freshmen on the offensive line and another at qb, that's a good year. And as for tainted national championships, are your national titles in 71-72 tainted by Johnny Rodgers holding up a gas station and Bob Devaney getting him out of jail? Are your titles in 94-95 tainted by Lawrence Phillips beating the crap out of his girlfriend in front of witnesses and only getting suspended from the spring game, or Christian Peter raping Miss Nebraska? Are you sure you want to go there? CU football isn't the only program that hasn't always been as clean as it should, to say the least. But please, be my guest, keep living in the past and imagining that any program that is passing you by must be cheating, or that its still 1983 and Turner Gill is pitching to Mike Rozier. I'm sure that will fix your program. Keep it up and we will have to start considering Kansas our big rival, and silly threads like this one will be superfluous.

The same year our fans threw WATER bottles (not whiskey bottles, dude) your fans threw water bottles all over the field when you were losing to Oklahoma. And unless you missed it, we beat you 65-51 this year, and the series is tied 4-4 this decade, so unless your definition of "year in, year out" is "except for this decade," you're a little off. Of course, you used to beat the crap out of is year in year out, but that is the past. As in, the past you keep living in.

You can take this for what its worth, but here is the short version: After you guys beat us 30-3 in boulder in 2005, I was alarmed at what bill Callahan was doing in Lincoln. After he hired Shawn Watson, who we had just fired, I stopped worrying. Longer version. first, Shawn Watson is not imaginative, either in game-planning or play-calling. When you run the west coast offense, as we did and you have the last few years, the point is to keep teams off balance and beat them to the punch, as bill walsh used to say. In my section at folsom we used to predict what play we would run, and usually we were right. He never ran more than 5 or 6 plays in a game, 10 tops. The year we beat you 62-36, we ran exactly five plays: a toss right, a counter back to the left, and a fake toss trap up the middle, and a couple of bootlegs. Thats it. We got away with it because we had an offensive line that was cutting people down like ripe wheat, and Chris Brown running through the holes. But teams notice when you only run 5 plays. The last year he was here, 2005, he would run mainly three running plays, a counter play, a stretch play, and a run right up the middle. Our passing game was all bootlegs. by the end of the year, teams would just have their DE run straight at where the qb was going to be after the playfake, and level him. Second, he can't exploit matchups. In the passing game, he was simply unable to get fast guys into open space, big guys isolated on small guys, etc. Thats where big plays come from in the passing game, and that's why we always had a 3 yd completion on 3rd and 6. The west coast offense is based on taking what the defense gives you, but the trick is making them give you what you want. Thirdly, he was unable to minimize weaknesses. When we were playing a faster team, he would stick with his slow developing counter plays and sweeps, and we would get killed. When a team had a good pass rush, we would never use sprintouts and half-rolls to make the qb a moving target, or use wham blocks to cut the ends and slow them down. Lastly, when things went wrong, he would never make any kind of adjustments during the game. He would get stubborn and run the same things all game and we would lose big. To sum up. The scheme was sound, and when we had few weaknesses and dominated the line of scrimmage, the offense rolled, at least until the other teams caught up to what we were doing. When we had good but not great talent and a good but not great o line, we would get by against teams with inferior talent but teams with similar or better talent would beat us. and when we started to go down, we never came back, ever, because we never made adjustments, ever. I don't know how much autonomy Shawn watson had while Callahan was the head coach, so I don't know how much Nebraska's offense owes to his thinking. I'm guessing not much, as Callahan was an offensive oriented coach, but who knows. For what its worth, i'm awfully glad that we have Mark Helfrich and Eric Kiesau running our offense now. P.S. Shawn Watson was a lousy recruiter, too, if memory serves.

OldFogey: Thank you for the gracious compliment. It is in both our schools' interests for CU and Nebraska to be the top teams in the conference again, and that's not helped by tearing each other down while Oklahoma buys recruits with "jobs" at car dealerships.

This statement in particular... oh man but this one is true....lol....been proven in the past!! Uhh... do you really want to get into this argument? You really don't have much of a leg to stand on here, Colorado has consistently held its players to far higher standards than Nebraska. Sure, CU players aren't immune to bad behavior, but they're actually punished for it when it takes place. Oh, AND it should probably be mentioned that CU loses at least 2 or 3 recruits every year on account of their not having good enough grades to get in... when's the last time you heard about that happening in Lincoln? I'm not intending to rag on the education people receive at NU at all, but I really don't think you're in any position to be slandering the academic integrity of Colorado. Lol...it wasn't that long ago they got caught having someone take a test for one of their football players....yeah....I would take you up on your offer.... That is nonsense. No one has been caught taking tests for football players at CU. Maybe you have a news link where you read this? Or maybe its just wishful thinking on your part? CU players can't get academic credit from playing football, unlike several other Big 12 schools. And CU players can't major in gym, like at other Big 12 schools. And when CU players do wrong, they are disciplined by both the football team and the university, unlike Nebraska, or have you already forgotten Mo Purify missing one lousy game for multiple offenses including domestic violence and drunk driving? Or Lawrence Phillips missing one practice for beating the crap out of girlfriend in front of witnesses, or Christian Peter raping Miss Nebraska, or Johnny Rodgers robbing gas stations, etc. Colorado football doesn't always make me proud but if anyone should be calling the kettle black, they aren't pots from Nebraska, dude. And if you want to know what might make CU appeal to recruits, HuskerTrucker, you might want to read your own posts. I respect most Nebraska fans but making bigoted remarks about hispanics? Not what I'd expect from fans who consider themselves the classiest in college football.