Cali Sker (in Boston)

Stop. Please, just stop. "The refs stole the game!" Don't blame the refs. Please. They don't take or steal anything from anyone. Short of an official taking a bribe from a team or intentionally blowing calls in favor of one team, refs don't cost anyone anything. So please, just stop. Sorry, but I have to disagree with you! All of us can think of many BAD! calls by refs over the years that have hurt many teams that should have won a game in any sport. Since we are talking about Nebraska, here are a few. 1. How about Texas in 03 (When Pelini was Defensive coach) we wouldn't have won the game. But, there was a catch we clearly made that was ruled incomplete. 2. As shown earlier, the Pen. St. game were the sideline seemed to grow about three feet so the catch that was clearly out of bounds was ruled good? 3. Also the 94 Orange Bowl, (93 season) there were two bad calls. A. the supposed illegal clipping call that no one has been able to ever find that cost us a touchdown. B. The fumble at the One yard line by Florida St. that we recovered and the refs ruled a touchdown for them. So, yes refs are human but they can and do make some extremely bad calls that have hurt many teams in the past. Yes, they make bad calls. But please, stop with the "they stole this" or "we got robbed by the refs". And even a single horrible call is but one play out of more than 100 in a given game. Blaming the refs is petty and childish. Besides, I can think of a few plays to offset the examples you gave where the blown call was in our favor. When that happens, you don't often hear Nebraska fans saying, "Thank God the refs were on our side and stole that game for us." I will fully agree we have had some bad calls that have favored us. Also, I don't believe most ref's do it on purpose so as to cost any one team a game. My only point is that they have cost teams a game in the past do to some very rediculous calls. Thankfully, now we have instant replay to overcome mistakes. By the way, isn't that why we have instant replay, because the NFL or the NCAA or who ever has realized that human error has cost teams games that should have won? You mean like the human error of a guy dropping a pass? The '94 Orange Bowl was lost when a 40-some yard field goal was missed. Nebraska also let FSU drive down the field in the last 2 minutes. The Penn St. game that started this thread was lost when Penn St. scored AFTER the play in the video. How many 3rd downs in that game did Nebraska miss? How many times could they have won without giving the refs a chance to miss a call? Again let me make this perfectly clear: referees do NOT "cost teams games"! I DO NOT DISAGREE WITH YOU! At least on your point that ref's don't do it on purpose. Seems like you are so hell bent on proving your point that you don't actually read my posts. But, all I am saying is that bad calls have costs us and other teams games many times. To deny that is pretty blind, again I don't think it is done on PURPOSE! My initial response to your first post wasn't necessarily directed specifically at you, but at people in general who think refs "stole the game from us". You then responded that ref's "cost us the game", which you reiterated multiple times, and I replied that no, the play of the team cost them the game. You then called me blind for thinking otherwise. I have read every word of your posts. What have I said that makes you think I missed something? My point was that UNLESS done on purpose, refs don't cost teams games. You have stated otherwise. So I think we do disagree.

Stop. Please, just stop. "The refs stole the game!" Don't blame the refs. Please. They don't take or steal anything from anyone. Short of an official taking a bribe from a team or intentionally blowing calls in favor of one team, refs don't cost anyone anything. So please, just stop. Sorry, but I have to disagree with you! All of us can think of many BAD! calls by refs over the years that have hurt many teams that should have won a game in any sport. Since we are talking about Nebraska, here are a few. 1. How about Texas in 03 (When Pelini was Defensive coach) we wouldn't have won the game. But, there was a catch we clearly made that was ruled incomplete. 2. As shown earlier, the Pen. St. game were the sideline seemed to grow about three feet so the catch that was clearly out of bounds was ruled good? 3. Also the 94 Orange Bowl, (93 season) there were two bad calls. A. the supposed illegal clipping call that no one has been able to ever find that cost us a touchdown. B. The fumble at the One yard line by Florida St. that we recovered and the refs ruled a touchdown for them. So, yes refs are human but they can and do make some extremely bad calls that have hurt many teams in the past. Yes, they make bad calls. But please, stop with the "they stole this" or "we got robbed by the refs". And even a single horrible call is but one play out of more than 100 in a given game. Blaming the refs is petty and childish. Besides, I can think of a few plays to offset the examples you gave where the blown call was in our favor. When that happens, you don't often hear Nebraska fans saying, "Thank God the refs were on our side and stole that game for us." I will fully agree we have had some bad calls that have favored us. Also, I don't believe most ref's do it on purpose so as to cost any one team a game. My only point is that they have cost teams a game in the past do to some very rediculous calls. Thankfully, now we have instant replay to overcome mistakes. By the way, isn't that why we have instant replay, because the NFL or the NCAA or who ever has realized that human error has cost teams games that should have won? You mean like the human error of a guy dropping a pass? The '94 Orange Bowl was lost when a 40-some yard field goal was missed. Nebraska also let FSU drive down the field in the last 2 minutes. The Penn St. game that started this thread was lost when Penn St. scored AFTER the play in the video. How many 3rd downs in that game did Nebraska miss? How many times could they have won without giving the refs a chance to miss a call? Again let me make this perfectly clear: referees do NOT "cost teams games"!

Did we have some dude named Peterson playing D-back against FSU or Penn St. in the '80s?

Stop. Please, just stop. "The refs stole the game!" Don't blame the refs. Please. They don't take or steal anything from anyone. Short of an official taking a bribe from a team or intentionally blowing calls in favor of one team, refs don't cost anyone anything. So please, just stop. Sorry, but I have to disagree with you! All of us can think of many BAD! calls by refs over the years that have hurt many teams that should have won a game in any sport. Since we are talking about Nebraska, here are a few. 1. How about Texas in 03 (When Pelini was Defensive coach) we wouldn't have won the game. But, there was a catch we clearly made that was ruled incomplete. 2. As shown earlier, the Pen. St. game were the sideline seemed to grow about three feet so the catch that was clearly out of bounds was ruled good? 3. Also the 94 Orange Bowl, (93 season) there were two bad calls. A. the supposed illegal clipping call that no one has been able to ever find that cost us a touchdown. B. The fumble at the One yard line by Florida St. that we recovered and the refs ruled a touchdown for them. So, yes refs are human but they can and do make some extremely bad calls that have hurt many teams in the past. Yes, they make bad calls. But please, stop with the "they stole this" or "we got robbed by the refs". And even a single horrible call is but one play out of more than 100 in a given game. Blaming the refs is petty and childish. Besides, I can think of a few plays to offset the examples you gave where the blown call was in our favor. When that happens, you don't often hear Nebraska fans saying, "Thank God the refs were on our side and stole that game for us."

I can't find too much to disagree with. Except...there's no way we don't absolutely dominate in special teams. Henery and Kunalic are easily the best kick/punt combo in the country.

Stop. Please, just stop. "The refs stole the game!" Don't blame the refs. Please. They don't take or steal anything from anyone. Short of an official taking a bribe from a team or intentionally blowing calls in favor of one team, refs don't cost anyone anything. So please, just stop.

Loaves and fish. Enough for all of Florida.

Hands down, absolutely no contest: Captain Morgan and apple cider. It even has a distinct autumn feel to it. And up here in the northeast, the apple cider is fantabulous. After living here almost 2 years, I will also say that the beer in the midwest kicks the crap out of anything they brew up here. You like Sam Adams? You can keep it. Give me my Bud, Boulevard, and some Leine's. I'll even take some PBR.

I've been wondering for a while now what all would have to happen in order to get a rematch with Vagina Tech. Basically the only way I see us in a BCS bowl is to have (insert Big XII North team here) win out and us win out except lose to (same Big XII North team). BCS bowls do not like to take conference championship game losers for at-large berths (see KU/MU 2007), and I don't think we're quite there yet as far as winning the conference. I hope I'm wrong on that last part, though... As far as getting a rematch with Vagina Tech, since we're anchored to a different bowl than the ACC, I can only see #2 getting that to happen (I don't see Vagina Tech getting an at-large berth if they don't win their conference). Damn. I want another shot at those guys...

Who's Ricky's backup? PJ Smith. I'm not too worried. We know he can tackle. Just ask Fisher Seriously though, I thought the secondary, especially safety, was where we were thinnest on defense. I'm sure glad to hear Asante should be OK. And I feel REALLY bad for Thenarse. I hope the ACL rumors aren't true. He seems like a good kid.

I wouldn't go that far. I wouldn't disrespect Solich for his playing career or years as an assistant, but being completely honest he was less than average as a head coach. The success he did have was with Osbornes recruits and there was a considerable drop off of talent and success after that. Unfortunately for him he falls under a long list of head coaches that failed to succeed in replacing a legend. I have to disagree here. Dude went to the title game in his 4th year. So you can't really use the "he was playing with Osborne's recruits" argument. Yes, he lost, but there are a lot of "above average" coaches who don't even get there. While the guy was no Osborne and wasn't capable of sustaining the unsustainable (who can sustain when Nebraska had going in the '90s?) to say he was less than average is doing him a disservice.

Oklahoma 01 Michigan 05 Just off the top of my head may be more however point taken I stand corrected I guess. I thought we hadn't beaten a team since #2 Washington. You're probably thinking of the "haven't won on the road against a top 20 team" (not top 25) that we heard about leading up to the Vagina Tech game. And I believe you're also thinking of 1997. And it looks like that streak won't end this season, as Nebraska probably won't play another top 20 team on the road this year. Mizzou isn't ranked in one poll and doesn't figure to move up enough on a bye week, and I don't think KU will still be in the top 20 when Nebraska plays them (I'm thinking losses to OU and TTech). But enough nit-picking. Nebraska will beat Missouri. It won't even be close. I know Mizzou will be fired up, but 2 things I can't get out of my head: 1. They almost lost to Bowling Green. In Columbia. 2. They almost lost to Nevada. A team Notre Dame shut out earlier this year. And as far as being snake-bitten, tell that to Colorado and the poor kid standing behind Hawkins in that great clip from last year's game...

Finally. Someone took the bait. Maybe it wasn't a bad call. But it was a "worse" call than the incomplete. Looked to me like the D lineman pushed our guy over and fell on top of him. Or maybe I was just drunk.

BC's teams had discipline? Were we on the same board back then or wasn't that one of the biggest complaints about the players back then? Did you actually read my post before you responded?????????? If not read it again, especially this part "this team lacks the same discipline that BC's team did." I did read it again. And again. And THEN I got it. Sounds like you were saying that this team lacks discipline, but BC's teams had discipline... And to address other posts, from what I've heard Bo says in his other interviews, he certainly does take responsibility and puts blame on himself all the time. Didn't he say as much after many games last year? My recollection is that he took all the blame himself after the OU game.

Again, you need to keep control of the ball when you hit the ground for it to be a catch. Whether the knee was in bounds and the foot out or vice versa. I believe it's rule 2 section 2 article 7 point 2: "Loss of ball simultaneous to returning to the ground is not a catch, interception or recovery." If you guys want to b!tch about a blown call, how about the hold on the previous play when McNeill caught his TD...? I am not arguing that. I believe he had control when his knee hit and that he didn't lose control until out of bounds which was after he already had made the catch and was down. I do not believe it was simultaniously. You're misreading the "simultaneous" part. The knee was down before the ball was out, so that is not simultaneous. BUT the ball came out simultaneous to the body returning to the ground. Therefore no catch. And seriously, NO ONE is going to say anything about the holding call?