CheeseHusker

Football is a fall/winter sport. Some people just need to grow a pair

Right now, the B1G plays three games in Florida at pretty much the same time. We could probably lose the Gator Bowl or play it on a different day. It seems like there use to be much more watchable games prior to Jan 1 than there were this year. I only watched two December bowl games this year. And they got to get the names under control.... a sponsor name is fine, but when the sponsor is the only name, it bugs me. Why can't it be the Capital One Citrus Bowl?

Taylor isn't the poster child for diplomacy, let's put it that way.

Dirk can write some pretty puerile stuff on occasion but I have no problem with this article.

No, I noticed it too. It was a pick play. In fact, I thought two of their long TDs were pick plays. Technically it is offensive pass interference, but it rarely gets called. UCLA was doing it too. Offensive pass interference just does not get called anymore, in college or NFL, as it is defined. 10 years ago-heck, maybe even just 5- that gets called in a heartbeat. I think it's one of them things that gets turned away from in order to support this age of offense. Let's face it. Offensive players-esp in the NFL-have numerous advantages rules-wize. I think this is becoming another. Yep.... the rules are as offensive-skewed as they've ever been, at least in my lifetime. They'll throw DPI on almost any sort of contact these days. Holding has to be blatant to get called. All borderline hits on quarterbacks are called. So yeah, it is a much tougher climate to be a defensive coordinator than it was 20 years ago.

I think I may have sparred with you a couple of times on a Martinez thread.... so if so, then I apologize too. I'm gonna try to lighten up a bit in the future in general. You know, it's all good - we all support the same team, we all want them to win, we want nothing but the best for players and coaches and everything. Some of us just get too emotional and use this place as a place to dump all our excess rage. I know I do it.

No, I noticed it too. It was a pick play. In fact, I thought two of their long TDs were pick plays. Technically it is offensive pass interference, but it rarely gets called. UCLA was doing it too.

In 1981, Nebraska went 9-3. It won a conference championship. It played for a national championship, and had a very good chance to win it. In 1990, Nebraska went 9-3. It lost to Colorado at home, got blown out by an unranked Oklahoma team, and wasn't competitive in the bowl game. I would call 1981 a successful season and 1990 a poor one by our standards. That was probably Osborne's worst team. The W/L record is identical. The W/L record never tells the entire story.

Assuming they beat Notre Dame, Bama will have won it with one loss twice. We had three perfect seasons. Debate about level of competition, conference championship games, etc.. is fine and probably somewhat justified, but we had three perfect seasons. Just sayin'

Needs more Clowney. Actually, I wonder if Lavonte had still been around how much he would have helped.

I think it is generally because Nebraska played a good game and was simply beaten by a superior team. Sometimes it just happens.

Nebraska would have totally won the Rose Bowl if the team that showed up today was there.

All ridiculousness aside, Tim Beck did a great job this year and I'm very happy with the direction Nebraska is going offensively. Just need to eliminate the turnovers and penalties.

Back then, the losses were 16-15, 13-12, 9-7 type of games. I guess those are equally frustrating in their own way. I don't know how you go from that to 63-38 and 70-31.

Averaged 53.5 points and 595 yards of offense allowed in the four losses. Nebraska scored 30, 38, 31, and 31 in those four losses.

Cody Green..... still tormenting Iowa State no matter where he goes

Haha, I can only imagine how that would go over. NW comes to Lincoln and beats NU again.... I can't even fathom how bad this board would be if that were to happen. Northwestern is a good team. They won a bowl game today. We shouldn't sell them short.

The problem is the ones the guy completed were all 80 yard TD bombs.

I'd love to see the Packers draft him. I'd totally take him.

The sky already fell a month ago No, things are not so bad that they can't get better. Most of this team's issues are so fixable; therein lies most of the frustration, I think. Nebraska could and should have knocked off a top SEC program today, and were doing it until they put the ball on the ground on a routine play.