kramer

Maybe we should bench him and bring in Dyches because it wasnt' directly place in the center of the uprights.

I can't believe this kid was ranked the number 1 kicker in the nation last year

I can't believe the staff has faith in him

1) What was on ETRs mind in Pic # 3?

Pull a Joe Pesci and snag the truck

2) Why does the truck only look half full in #4?

Somebody beat him to it.

3) What is ETR distracted with in #4?

He likes BUD LIGHT more

4) Did ETR & Biggie make a stop at the pokey before the Rogue?

Without a doubt

5) What exactly did ETR drink before pics 18, 19 & 20?

Bud Light!!!!!!

6) What just happened before #28?

Looks like a guy just geekin out.

7) What is the guy in #29 trying to tell ETR?

"I just stuck this finger up my nose."

8) What is the guy in #36 trying to tell ETR?

Haah!, I got these two fingers up my nose!!"

9) Did ETR meet a NY co-ed?

ALways

10) Who fell down on the bus ride home - ETR or Biggie?

ETR

11) Bada Bing.. ?

You bet, Where else is there to go

This guy seems to be as good as committed!!!!

Former Husker shows support for veterans

By Beverly J. Lydick/Tribune Staff

Former Nebraska All-American Freeman White forfeited his tickets to this Saturday’s game in Lincoln.

Not because he’s tired of watching the Huskers — although he feels strongly about the current program — but because he wants as many military veterans as possible sitting in Memorial Stadium.

White, a Detroit native and member of former head coach Bob Devaney’s first class of recruits, played split end for the Cornhuskers from 1962-65, during some of the Vietnam War years.

Thousands of soldiers, most the same ages as White and his teammates, went overseas. Some returned to face, at worst, ridicule, at best, disregard.

“I remember what happened to the veterans of Vietnam,” White said this week from his home in Kansas City, Mo. “I do not want to see that happen again.”

As a sign of respect and a token of appreciation, White and his wife, Sallye Benecke, donated their tickets for the game against Kansas State to the Tickets for Veterans campaign sponsored by the Nebraska Book Store.

In September, the Lincoln business asked fans to donate their Nov. 12 game tickets, then invited military veterans to sign up for a chance to win one or two.

As of Tuesday, 1,189 veterans — including many who served in Vietnam, the Desert Storm campaign and Iraq — had signed up to win one of 165 donated tickets.

“I think that is horrendous,” White said of the imbalance. “We can always go to games. But some of these (veterans) are going back (to Iraq.) Their time could end at any time.”

Members of White’s extended family are currently serving in the military.

“I’m against this war,” he said. “But I want to show my appreciation and I want to show my respect for their dedication.”

White, a 1965 All-American, knows something about dedication.

In 1965, his senior year, the Cornhuskers posted a 10-0 regular season, won the Big Eight championship and were ranked third by UPI prior to a 39-28 loss to Alabama in the Orange Bowl. The Associated Press ultimately ranked the Huskers fifth.

During the Colorado game that year, White and Husker quarterback Fred Duda combined for a record-setting 95-yard touchdown pass. Forty years later, the record still stands.

White’s father got to see him play just once.

“My father came out my senior year on Parent’s Day,” White said. “My mom never did get to see me play (in college.)”

White credits his parents for the work ethic which helped him succeed on and off the field.

“I was 17 and in school and the only job I could have was an early morning paper route,” he said. “Dad would get me and my brother up at four in the morning to do our route.”

During four years of high school, White said he only missed one-half day of classes.

“I was getting letters from colleges,” he said, a fact that impressed other students and boosted White’s ego to the point of obnoxious.

He got mouthy, he said, and “for being a smart butt, I got suspended for half a day.”

White still has opinions, especially about NU Athletic Director Steve Pederson, Husker head coach Bill Callahan and the current state of Nebraska football.

He said he’ll “never forgive” Pederson for the way he went about firing former head coach Frank Solich, White’s NU teammate.

Pederson fired Solich in 2003 after a 9-3 season and prior to the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio.

“My loyalties are with Frankie,” White said. “When you play for Nebraska, you’re family — and you don’t treat family like that.”

He also considers Callahan’s attitude counterproductive to Nebraska’s program.

“How can you, as a head coach, go on national TV and say, ‘I don’t have the personnel to do what I want.’ Any coach worth his salt will not bring in a system that his players can’t handle. He’ll make his system adjust to his players.”

Despite his annoyance with the program’s administrators, White has faith in the team.

“I know what they’re going through,” he said. “They’re still kids.”

Following his NU career, White played four seasons with the New York Giants and one in Canada before returning to work for the State of Missouri as a youth counselor.

His son attended NU and his daughter, Penn State.

White jokingly said he only resumed speaking to his daughter after she started giving him grandchildren.

“I had to do it for the grannies,” he said, laughing.

He scored his medical redshirt and will have two more years left.

a Wistrom jersey DOES have power

 

 

Yes, it's powers are great, hence the hesitation my friend. They worry me. BUt as great as they may be, they fade fast when used. It's only KState, but it is KST. Dowth hate no school like the Wildcat.....

 

 

Ahhh, the debate rages on

Be careful young one

As much as Pedersen wants to believe, and as much as many Husker Fans would like to believe Pedersen's comments that he wouldn't concede the Big 12 to Okalahoma and Texas, you gotta give credit to a K-State team that had the answer to any problem OU threw at them. I'm not one of those fans who will say 'we are the new kings', but if you refuse to recognize that K-State is for real, you might just get 'Stooped' over and over. Might proud to be a Wildcat!!!

No, never your school is useless.

It looks like he'll give NU an honest look. He's on his way to Lincoln

Don't waste it. Save it. It has great powers.

NU 21

KSU 20

rush 98

pass 189

McBride retired after the '99 season?? Why??? Did he see the writing on the wall, lack of players and recruiting going down? Did he not like what Solich was doing? Tenipor sure didn't ....

9-0 - Nebraska’s record when it leads at halftime under coach Bill Callahan.

1's v 1's, what an interesting phenomenon

 

NU did that back in the good ol' days, when they had great coaches who knew what they were doing.

 

Progress, I guess

Callahan is very conscience of injuries and bends over backwards to make sure guys don't get injured. WHether this is good or not, is up to you. He wants all his players to practice "high and hard".

Maybe it explains a big part of the offensive line problems??

 

You certainly have to walk a fine line, but NU became much better (90's) when the emulated UM and started doing more 1 v 1 drills during the regular season. If I remember correctly, they maybe did 15-25 "live" plays per week, but it sure seemed to work.

But how much depth do we have? Not very much. What if Mann goes down??? What if Austin goes down? They aren't the best but it's the best we have for right now. We can't afford to let them go down

FF, your right, back in the '90's we had incredible depth, we could afford to do that. But there is no way we can let them kill each other in the practice.

Anyoone see any of this on the defensive side of the ball. I know I see alot of blitzing when the Huskers overload one side and I see three guys going at one hole or between offensive lineman.

Defensive Line Basics: Mind the Gap

With Fuma-Thomas "unknown" or "not made public" injury , what ever that means, also makes you wonder what the coaches are hiding, Murtha will start this week. and then for the next three years.

www.huskers.com

Koch Named a Semifinalist for Ray Guy Award

Courtesy: NU Media Relations

Release: 11/02/2005

Courtesy: Scott Bruhn/NU Media Relations

Senior punter Sam Koch has been named one of 10 semifinalists for the 2005 Ray Guy Award, given to the nation's top punter.

Nebraska senior punter Sam Koch has been named one of 10 semifinalists for the Ray Guy Award as announced Wednesday by the Greater Augusta (Ga.) Sports Council. The Ray Guy Award is presented annually to the nation’s top college punter and is named after former college and NFL punting great Ray Guy, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

The 6-1, 225-pound Koch has been a major factor in Nebraska boasting one of the nation’s top special teams units. Koch is averaging 45.0 yards per punt this season to rank ninth nationally in punting average. Koch’s strong leg and punting accuracy has helped Nebraska rank second nationally in net punting at 39.9 yards per attempt.

The Seward, Neb., native has placed nearly half of his punts inside the opponent’s 20-yard line, as 21 of his 43 punts have been downed inside the 20. Koch has also shown his power, connecting on three punts of 70 yards or more, including an 84-yard punt against Pitt. The 84-yarder was the second-longest punt in school history and the longest in Big 12 Conference history.

Koch is one of three Big 12 Conference punters on the semifinal list, joining Colorado’s John Torp and Kyle Tucker of Kansas. Koch is the second straight Nebraska punter to be named a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award. Former Husker All-American Kyle Larson was one of three finalists for the award during his senior season in 2003.

A national voting body of Division I-A coaches and sports information directors, national media and former punters will determine the three award finalists, and ultimately the winner of the award. The winner will be announced live on ESPN during the Home Depot College Football Awards show on Thursday, Dec. 8.

2005 Ray Guy Award Semifinalists

Name School Year

Danny Baugher Arizona Senior

Dave Brytus Purdue Sophomore

Gordon Ely-Kelso Georgia Junior

Chris Hall Florida State Senior

Sam Koch Nebraska Senior

Ryan Plackemeier Wake Forest Senior

Nic Schmitt Virginia Tech Junior

John Torp Colorado Senior

Kyle Tucker Kansas Sophomore

Eric Wilbur Florida Junior

He is officially our go to guy......how long will he last? Why is he getting so open?? Has he become or go to guy just because he can catch the ball.

Swift

1620

It's the best part of the KU football team, and the picture could NOT look more gay. Do you need another reason why KU's linebackers are the athletes of the week?

Answer man

The last two weeks, Reggie Bush has rushed for 51 yards and one touchdown, and 97 yards and no TDs. He had two catches for 18 yards, and four catches for 40 yards with no TDs. He had one punt return for a touchdown. Can you explain why he's a Heisman candidate? His rushing yardage isn't great, his receiving yardage isn't great, he's ranked 36th in punt returns and 98th in kick returns. It seems to me that he's just been average-to-good all around, not Heisman quality. Or is "exciting" all that is necessary to be a Heisman winner? --Mark Stover, Austin, Texas

Notice the address. We can only assume Mark is "dirty campaigning" on behalf of his man Vince Young, which is understandable. Young and Bush are pretty much considered to be in a dead heat. Fortunately, the last time I checked, this wasn't fantasy football, and Heisman voters (at least we hope) actually watch the players in action rather than fixating on their stats. And no one who saw Bush hurdle that guy against Notre Dame, run past Arizona State and Oregon defenders like they were standing still or pull off that ridiculous punt return against Washington would sanely call him "average to good."

If I wanted to make a similar argument against Young, I could point out that he has a lower completion percentage than UAB's Darrell Hackney, that he trails BYU's John Beck in total offense, and, therefore, is "average to good" at best. Fortunately for Young, though, I've watched him play.

Answer man turns questioneer

As an alum and avid fan of Nebraska football, I am beside myself regarding the current state of affairs in Huskerland. At what point does AD Steve Pederson realize what he has done to the Cornhuskers, fire Callahan and submit a letter of resignation? He has turned a once perennial power into a mid-major. --Mike, New Jersey

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Record-wise, the Huskers (5-3) are pretty much where most nonpartisan observers expected them to be in Callahan's second season. I picked them to go 7-4 before the year, and that's still an attainable goal (though Kansas will be a lot tougher than usual this weekend). However, just as stats don't always tell the whole story about Heisman candidates, teams' records can be deceiving. If you're a Nebraska fan, you have every reason to be embarrassed right now. Since when do the mighty Huskers rush for 16 yards ... in two games? Since when does the offensive line -- long a staple of Nebraska's success -- allow nine sacks in a game? Since when do the proud Blackshirts allow an opposing quarterback (Missouri's Brad Smith) to run for 246 yards? And since when does the head coach of one of college football's traditionally classiest programs (Lawrence Phillips notwithstanding) give a ref the throat-slashing gesture and blow off the opposing coach (Bob Stoops) during the postgame handshake (there's video of both floating around the Internet if you need confirmation).

That said, winning cures everything. Like it or not, both Callahan and Pederson will be back next season. A 10-win season will put a lot of the discontent to rest in a hurry. Another year like this one, though, and one or both parties are as good as gone. You saw it last offseason with Florida and Notre Dame: Three years, not four, is the new window of patience.

Is it too early to say UCLA coach Karl Dorrell is coach of the year? --Mark

Prank frightens team

By TODD HARMONSON

Orange County Register

LOS ANGELES - Minutes after USC tailback LenDale White stormed off the practice field with his coaches swearing at him, he stood on the roof of a neighboring building.

"(Forget) football!" White shouted Monday night.

His teammates had just been told they didn't need distractions like White and would continue to win without him. Then many watched in horror as equipment coordinator Tino Dominguez reached for White and missed before No. 21 fell from the roof.

Of course, the real No. 21 was flat on the roof while the dummy dressed in his uniform plummeted from a four-story science building in Trojans coach Pete Carroll's Halloween prank for his team.

"Well done," Carroll said when White returned to the field. "We killed them."

Carroll has thrived at USC with planning, preparation and putting players in the right places to succeed. He used all those elements to give most of his staff and players their fright for the night.

He limited his co-conspirators to White, fellow tailback Reggie Bush, offensive line coach Pat Ruel and Dominguez, who threw a "spy" dummy off another building a few years ago. The plan came together just before practice, and the casting was appropriate.

Bush passed on the chance because he didn't want to go on the roof. Besides, he said, "It was a lot more believable with LenDale."

White has a bit of a reputation for surliness, and he ran with it Monday the way he does with the ball on Saturdays. He complained to coaches about a lack of carries, said he was quitting, climbed on a cart when he left the field and hurled his gloves away to convince the reporters who followed him outside to the street.

"We had to get my teammates to really believe in it," said White, who had thoroughly convinced some teammates who were visibly shaken after Ruel played his role and pointed to the scene on the roof.

And for any Trojans who weren't shaken enough, free safety Scott Ware added a little scare after practice when he put his 3 ½-foot lizard "Croc" in a shower full of players. Then he turned off the lights.

"It's one thing when you could see him but another when it's dark," said Ware, who said nearly 20 players went scrambling.

Scored this from another board. Some sports headline in Arkansas

"Nutt decides to replace Johnson with Dick, for game against c$%ks"

Maybe the worst ever at NU

No, but pretty damn bad.

I'm sort of like that, but when people get like that in a bar, they just say the dumbest things.