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Back to the 5 straight NCs, anybody think there's any chance that they have Berringer not dying in the plane crash and taking over after Frazier? I can't remember if Berringer was a JR or SO in '95, but I like the thought of them putting Nebraska as having 5 National Championships in a row, just to prove just how dominant those years were for the Huskers. Of course it could happen that since Nebraska beat FSU in '93 they'll lose to Miami in '94 because they already won Osborne his NC. If they have the '95 Nebraska losing any game, I'm automatically calling bullsh#t.

I didn't see today's, but I guess they probably had something for the '95 PSU team that went undefeated and had a great offense.

College Football Live has been doing a What If? series for the past couple weeks where they ask questions about pivotal points on the College Football landscape and progressing with how things might have gone if the opposite had happened (ex. the Ohio State vs. Miami pass interference call, the Bush Push USC vs. Notre Dame, and the 2 point conversion call in '83 NU vs. Miami). On Monday they will be asking What if Nebraska hadn't missed the field goal at the end of the '93 championship game against FSU? Who wants to bet that they say that Nebraska will end up winning 5 straight NCs?

My thoughts this year for the Safety positions will be Smith and Gomes winning them, but Gomes will slide over to the Dime position and Rickey will come in whenever Nebraska uses 6+ DBs. He'll contribute, just not as much as he probably would've last year (where he would've been the 7th DB and came in on the Dime downs when Dennard was hurt, moving Gomes outside).

I'd give Bradley until the next Concacaf Cup (is it the Gold Cup?) or even the Confed Cup to prove himself as the US coach. A finals appearance is definitely a must, and even then they should only lose to Mexico in that game. It's just that I think Bradley plays guys that he's familiar with too much. Why he started Clark and Findley (who'd been ineffective in the first two games and missed a golden opportunity in this one) is beyond me when he had a line-up that had produced and shown that they could play at the highest level. I won't put down Bornstein because he did have his two best games these last two and his mistakes (if there were any) didn't lead to anything bad. Though I'm looking ahead to 2014 and coming into this WC I thought that we'd have more of a chance to do a deep run in 4 years rather then this year. A lot of our contributing players are in either there early 20s or in their mid 20s. Given another 4 years to develop and I don't think there will be a team that would/could dominate us. We could lose some of our defenders (losing Boca will probably be the hardest hit with Demerit next), but I'm sure we have a defender somewhere that could step up (there's Goodson that made this squad and was somewhat impressive in the lead up games). Onyewu has one more Cup in him (and playing for AC Milan will only help him). Just with a lot of our players just now in the last few years playing overseas in the top leagues, the US can only get better. I am disappointed that this Cup ended the way it did for the US, but I look at the future with a great amount of optimism.

Has the Big XII banned them? We get one year of annoying the hell out of the opposing team and we might as well break them out for the Texas game.

Here's the link to the boards group, I'm sure you can find what you need from that. Link

Think it might be something to put Prince back as a returner along with Paul. All of us saw what he did with his return against Oklahoma, it's indicative to what he could do on kickoffs and punts. Put him back there and lets see a touchdown or two from the kicking game.

England and the US are in win and they're through situations. If both of them tie their next games, then Slovenia wins the group and it's to the goals scored tie breaker for the US and England (US is up 2). Slovenia beats England, and all the US has to do is get a result other than a loss and they're through.

I think the game we should all hope for if we get to the Big XII championship game would be against Oklahoma. Think about it, it could very well be the last time we play Oklahoma for a while once we jump to the Big 10. Add to that you could say with a win over both Texas and Oklahoma during the season it would shut people up about us running away from the competition in the Big XII. That's what I'm looking forward to most, proving people wrong.

Ford Field, Lucas Oil, Lambeau, hopefully a future Vikings home. There are enough NFL stadiums to use for a rotation for the championship game. I'm sure you could find a stadium in every Big 10 state (besides Nebraska and Iowa) that would be a fine venue for the game.

Well within our goals for the next two years. Texas is going to be down this year (well relatively, they'll still get 9 or 10 wins), Oklahoma would be a winnable game in for the championship. Getting to the championship this year was always our first goal (followed by winning it). But I also think it got that much harder because of our going to the Big 10 next year. The forgotten four's going to play us like it could be their last games against us, thumb their noses at us before we leave.

I think Nigeria's keeper is earning himself a whole load of money with his performance against Argentina (especially stoning Messi 4 or 5 times). He just needs to keep up his form in this game for the rest of his tournament.

Adding Boise before July 1st will allow the MWC to use them in the formula that the BCS uses to ascertain which conferences get automatic bids. IIRC it was said that the MWC was on the cusp of getting it and I think adding Boise will allow them to get the AQ status.

That's a good thing. I still say we're in first with him, we're only changing conferences, nothing else within the program has changed.

3 seconds of runoff when the clock is supposed to stop does not equal the time that it took for the clock operators to stop the clock once the ball hit the ground during the Big XII championship game. That one second wasn't in my definition of egregious, especially when 2 other high profile games ended on similar clock situations (ND/Mich and Miami/FSU). Rules were bent to get Texas into the BCS championship game, and that's what makes it hurt that much more. I won't say that it isn't right for them to put that second on, because that would've been the right call. The officials just used an interpretation of the rule that hadn't been used all year in similar high profile situations.

Sheffield played lights out. The numbers aren't there but every time we'd get them into a third and more than 10 situation, Sheffield would dodge out of the way of the rush and throw a perfect strike that was just out of reach of our DBs. Seemed like it happened every time in that situation, just really frustrating. Then after our lone touchdown, they did it again. We just flat out couldn't get them off of the field.

Not Mike Golic but the other Mike was giving some mad props about the NU/OU rivalry. Called it his favorite college rivalry growing up and said that if there was one game you were going to see, it'd be that game. But then he showed how out of touch he was in some things by implying that NU/OU was still the same type of rivalry. No matter how much Nebraska wants it to be, it isn't. Oklahoma chose their rival when they decided to not play Nebraska every year when the Big XII came into existence. He was also lamenting about how Nebraska and Oklahoma were now going to be in different conferences. Had some bad things to say about money driving the decisions in college football, and that's pretty much it.

I think the recruits we have right now are the ones who really are 100% committed to coming to Nebraska, no matter where Nebraska is going to play it's football. Will this affect our recruiting this year? I don't think so, or not that much. You look at a number of the guys we're looking at in Texas, and they'll probably first say that they want to win. Aaron Green's looking at playing with his brother and playing in a system that would compliment his abilities. I just think the impact of recruiting when Nebraska moves to the Big 10 isn't going to be that big. Even with a greater emphasis on recruiting Texas since Pelini came on it still seems like we're only getting the kids who've been lifelong Husker fans (Turner), or the Texas and Oklahoma leftovers (which admittedly are still pretty good players).

I'm looking forward to being able to play Minnesota every year. Hopefully when things get aligned, Nebraska is in the same division/pod/whatever that Minnesota is in. My whole family pretty much lives in Minnesota (either close to the Cities, or less than an hour away), so I'd have the option of going up to see them on Friday, go to the game on Saturday, and come back to Nebraska on Sunday and only have to pay for the travel expenses and the ticket to the game.

One thing I'm wondering is why exactly is Texas pushing to move to the Pac-10? Sure Nebraska's a big part of the Big XII (gives the conference a legitimate conference championship game, except Nebraska hasn't been at it's best this past decade), so what's stopping Texas from grabbing another team from somewhere (say Houston, TCU, any team that's been named recently) to fill the 12 team line and then see just how much money they can get when the next round of TV contracts comes up. Texas is pointing it's fingers at Nebraska for breaking up the Big 12 when it'd be just as viable a conference just as long as Texas and Oklahoma were in it. Then in 4 years (or in a couple years) when everyone's looking towards expanding to 16 teams, try to grab the best of the MWC and Conference USA, maybe even Louisville.

I think there's too much smoke here for there not to be a fire. Maybe things haven't been reported exactly how things went down, but I wouldn't just throw this thing away just yet.

PTI is talking about Nebraska moving to the Big Ten right now (both Wilbon and Kornheiser like the move, but talked more about the inevitability of it more than Nebraska). But there's nothing outside of the bare basics we know. Board of Regents have approved the move in an informal meeting, Osborne telling the staff that they're moving, and Fox Sports Ohio reporting that the Big 10 gave the invitation.

I think if Dorsey comes here it'll be a great get no matter the character issues he has everywhere but here. As long as he buys into what Pelini says it's ok with me.

Good story, nice to see they're naming the Strength and Conditioning center after Suh, and they're already using some of the money Suh gave to improve the facilities.