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the Cotton Bowl, Insight Bowl, Capital One Bowl and maybe even the Las Vegas have better matchups than 2 out of 5 of the BCS games...

Wait until they have an away game to Boulder...

I think the staff puts the pedal down on a good JUCO TE if there is one to be had... We need someone in the system yesterday. Or maybe a December grad...

Yeah, what he said ^ You think they are going to hire a bad coach at the U? They will bring in someone to give the program some promise and probably look better in these recruits eyes anyways. Plus they are on equal footing with returning starters if they can graduate in december due to implementation of a new system.

Two conferences without a clearcut winner. 3 deserving teams come out of the Big Ten this year that all deserve a share of the crown. 3 teams in the South and two in the North share the same conference record after the regular season finishes for the Big Twelve. How can you clearly state any given team out of these 6 or 8 (depending how you look at it) truly deserves the title over any other one? Quite a year in terms of parity in two powerful conferences which have proven their case in being some of the best in the NCAA.

They have a much better passing game and possibly a better running game this season than Nebraska did. They do not, however, have as good of a defense. If they had a Nebraska defense, they'd be winning the national title this year.

Leach is what you call in the biz, a lawyer. No legal fees!

The refs thought they were doing him a favor by calling the PFs so that he couldn't be suspended for his actions on those plays, regardless of their legality

Unfortunately there were a number of penalties (6-7) which were legitimate. The issue mainly is with 1) The Pass Interference which Herbstreit commented was a bad call 2) Courtney Osbourne's Legal hit 3) Eric Martin's unexplainable penalties which were believed to be legal play by Pelini. Pelini got in Cotton's face about his kicking, do you think he wouldn't have done the same if Eric Martin had been making poor plays? I'm not so worried about them picking up the flag, that was questionable. I would have wished they hadn't thrown that intentional, but it was in the questionable area as well. The procedure and false-start penalties were pretty normal. Mostly it is the opinion calls (PI, personal fouls) which are the issue. It was obvious that they were interested in making this a hard day for Nebraska. Pick up the 3 bad flags and maybe the fourth and you are talking about 60 yards. Considering two of them (PI and Courney Osbourne's hit) led to extended drives which resulted in 6 points, it is game-changing. We had you on 4th down in 3 cases in which 2 of the calls were legitimately bad calls and the 3rd was still not a cut and dry case. We're not talking about 1st down penalties. All of the calls came at inopportune times. Pinning us on own our 5 or 2 yard-line and extending your drives on 3rd downs.

Sweet, a 2020 Prospect in the making!

4'11 is only an inch or two over some of the 8-year olds in the class I teach and they seem fairly normal in terms of size with parents who are not overly tall. I'm more inclined to look at the barrel chest on that fella and imagine him putting up reps on the bench in the future.

I'll take this double post opportunity to say that chili is a damn good meal, I only wish I had made a bigger pot...

I'm fairly certain there was an NU to Wisconsin change this week and maybe another within the Big10. They happen, but not often.

I'm not terribly worried about this one because our strength (best pass defense in the nation) matches up well with what you do. You are a great team, but you are playing a team built to battle with the likes of A&M. I'd be more worried if Christine was still in the lineup and ready to gash us on the ground. It should be a good game, and you'll need a good home crowd to push this one in your favor. Good luck!

Impossible due to the improvements in speed and strength for modern athletes. When impacting at the types of speeds we're talking about, you are bound to end up with head injuries in this type of situation. It would give offense too much of an advantage in the end. Already hard to play defense.

The real question is what kind of Sanctions this could put on Florida as well...

I'm mostly concerned about managing against the between the tackles pounding we may get from Iowa and Wisconsin. The "Big 10" is not the issue. The issue is a particular subset of this conference which can trip us up on the way to competing for a MNC. Obviously we will shut down the passing game and they won't be able to run to the outside very effectively. Our DL has not shown the ability to shed blocks and make plays in the run game. Our LBs have not shown the ability to consistently (key word) make tackles at or behind the line of scrimmage on large RBs. We will give up a lot of 5-8 yard plays to these teams up the middle and if they have high ToP we will get worn down. We'll see how our depth is and if we can rotate in enough to handle it.

Boise plays the Big10 Champ in the Rose bowl. The Rose bowl is obligated to take a non-AQ school if a conference champion is playing in the MNC game. This rule came into effect this year I believe.

The NCAA has all of their financial documents, I'm sure if this was going to amount to anything it would have already.

I am glad we got him, but I seriously don't understand why anyone would play for anyone but Bo or Saban if they are looking at Corner/Safety. We are the #1 pass defense in the nation and are putting two corners into the NFL this year probably.