Guy Chamberlin

I actually think it will help this team to go on the road. They could use a chip on their shoulder and might as well go hell-deep into the pit of adversity. Of course they could also use a creative gameplan on both sides of the ball. That's what good coaches do, and they do it with the talent they're given. Another blowout is simply unacceptable. I'd settle for the game still competitive in the third quarter. Tom Osborne teams - for the first 20 years at least - often had a hard time accepting that the bread and butter plays that worked so well against weaker teams weren't working against ranked opponents. They made more 4th quarter adjustments than halftime adjustments, and sometimes that was too late.

I miss winning as much as the next guy. But I'd still rather watch Joe Ganz complete 65% of his passes than watch Jamal Lord rush for 1,200 yards.

Really? "Goofball" earns you a warning? Even when the supposed offendee has been dabbling in ad homs of his own?

Let me get this straight: Last year we lose in Columbia 41 - 6. It's embarassing. We blame Callahan. This year at home the offense scores four more points (I'll skip that last touchdown as well) and the defense gives up 11 more points (and Mizzou could easly have had 59) and everyone is blaming the playcallilng of the offensive coordinator?

Every Saturday a couple of teams will craft a strategy and dig deep to beat a team with considerably better talent. I think Nebraksa needs to be that team at least once this season.

I liked Zac Taylor a lot, but I think you may be viewing him with the warm haze of remembrance that comes from a team that could occasionally run the ball, stop an opponent on third down and win a key game.

So.....uhm.....nobody thinks the defense is a bigger problem than the offense? Is this just because people are venting but don't want to vent at Bo? Yet?

I suppose Watson could give the ball to Lucky, Castille and Helu more often and determine which one had the better 2.6 yard gain. Or he could take what Ganz gives him, which is 290 yards in 38 attempts. This is the same offense that marched right back against Missouri with a surgical drive to tie the score, the same defense that forced the offense to play catch-up, the same team that committed way too many penalties in a game where there was no margin of error. None of this suckage and disappointment can be laid at the feet of the offensive play calling. Curious that with Missouri scorching the Nebraska defense for more points than last year, the finger-pointing is aimed at the offensive coordinator. It was the defense that had no where to go but up, and the head coach was brought in as a defensive genius. And from where I was sitting — in a motel with a hooker on my lap — it looked like the defense simply made no adjustments. And just like last year, Mizzou soon realized it could do whatever it wanted.

Don't know about the blocking schemes much beyond being physically overmatched on the line and without a single all-conference caliber running back, but one reason you line up your WRs on one side and roll out to the opposite side is to fool the linebackers and possibly hit a tight end or running back on your roll-out side. Benning may be remembering the days when Nebraska QBs weren't allowed much improvising in the passing game, and ran a few very simple plays for guys who weren't comfortable looking off receivers and simply threw at the targeted receiver whether he was open or not.

Just when we had Kirk Herbstreit saying nice things about Nebraska, we let him down. The spitting incident will pass. The only reputation problem is that nobody is afraid of lining up against Nebraska anymore. They seem to be licking their chops at the prospect.

Don't be hasty, gang. Joe Ganz is a better quarterback than Sam Keller. He has great footwork, a rocket arm, serious competitive chops and can check off the whole field quickly, which he has to do given his o-line and an increasingly one-dimensional offensive scheme. He can run the ball and take a hit better than most pure passers out there. A lot of things aren't working as hoped, but it's not Joe Ganz. I don't think Pelini and Watson were planning on him throwing 450 yards in a losing effort he did last year. I think we're wasting the senior season of one of our best quarterbacks in years. And Joe Ganz looks more like a pro prospect than Sam Keller did, though he's easily lost in a year of top-shelf Big 12 QBs.

p.s.: it's not gonna be Missouri.

Nebraska is going to have to win at least one game against a team with better talent because that's what well-coached teams do.

I live in the Bay Area, so I was listening to the game on the San Jose station. The play by play guy was describing Paul's kick-off return for a touchdown and I couldn't understand what was happening because there was nothing in the crowd noise to suggest a game-changing kick return was taking place. For what it's worth.

When are we going to wake up and fire Pellini?

I think they said something about Joe Ganz impregnating a 17 year old and killing a moose in Alaska, but I may have been toggling between CNN.

Rev. Phelps hatred is a pretty good sign that Nebraska is doing something right. Just curious as to which is more evil, the option or the WCO?

I don't think it's paranoid or premature to wonder if the era of Husker dominance might be over for good. The things the program can control appear to be heading in the right direction. The thing they can't control is the expansion of parity in college football. All the legacy programs - the Notre Dames, Penn States, Alabamas, Michigans, Miamis - are going to be fighting to get back into the mix. But now your Central Florida, Rutgers, Wake Forest and Kansas have established expectations that never used to exist. And no one can afford to overlook an Appalachian State (or Western Michigan) again. I don't think you rattle off 30 some years of 9 and 10 wins anymore. On the plus side, Nebraska fans should finally get to enjoy something other college fans have enjoyed for years: pulling off an upset.

ESPN has always treated Nebraska football with the utmost respect. Except when we haven't earned it. Deal with it.

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There were a few games last season where it seemed Steven Wright was coaching the Huskers. Bill Callahan? He's just not funny. Sorry.

When meaningless speculation is outlawed, only outlaws will be on Huskerboard.com

Yeah, that Colorado loss was ugly. But you know what? That 2001 squad was not one of Nebraska's greats. They got to 11 - 0 on fumes. That Frank Solich managed to coach an average Husker team to the national championship game was a testament to Solich, the program and the computers. I still don't think firing Solich was the wrong decision. Sometimes in my bad dreams I see a tape loop of Jamaal Lord getting 4.8 yards on a busted play.

I think the point he was making was that if Ganz is not out there gunslinging like crazy to make up a 30 point deficit, overall passing efficiency should improve. If short passes to Lucky in the flat become a staple - and I think they will - it's a pretty high percentage game.