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This post right here. Forde's just butthurt the Big 10's head cook told NU to hop ahead of Mizzory in the lunch line.

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While fingers can be pointed all over the offense, I can't fault the plays called - I can fault the fact that we can't seem to put a complete series together without some silly penalty on the line (jumping the count seems to have been the major one) or the inability to open a hole or prevent a pass rush at critical times. A lot of that has to do with the injuries - but a lot has to do with mental focus and technique as well. With a dominate line, a lot of the problems simply disappear. Right here. It's hard to do much of anything with an INEPT O line. Yes yes, our QB had a severed limb in his throwing arm... Yes our two main weapons at RB were disintegrated for a good portion of the year.. etc etc. It doesn't matter a hill of beans with the O line performance we had. I assume most of us saw what was going on, on the sidelines with Bo and Barney? There is the problem on the O and Bo knows it. Look at what we're doing with recruiting, notice the massive influx of bodies going to the O-line? There's a reason for it. This team's offense, whether it's ran by Watson, or Osborne, begins with the O-line, and last year, our O-line performance from the players and the coaches was wretched. Fix it and this team is fixed, even with a questionable QB. Someone above said "Next year is Watson's 'make or break year'". And that if he has another bad year Bo will fire him. This is one of the single most stupid things I've read from a fan on a message board. I guarantee you, if we have another year as bad or even worse, offensively as we had this year, Bo won't be firing Watson, T.O. will call Barney into his office and have a nice prestigious administrative opening with his name on it. Bo AND Dr. Tom both know they've got quality in Watson. I think that would be evident from T.O. ASKING Watson to please stay on after sacking the last regime. As well as Nick Saban offering Watson the big bucks to go work for him. Yeah.... Saban and Dr. Tom.... two clowns who should be reading the message boards to really find out what they need to be doing. I'm happy with Watson. He believes enough in the power run game we all love. When we finally get back on our feet as a program, I feel that most other Husker fans will too.

Looks awesome. Going to be some great games coming up.

Funny you'd mention Bo in GB. My first football game I ever went to was at Lambeau. The last game Bo coached there I think. Packers vs Bills. My wife was a resident in Marquette, MI and one of the coronary surgeons had his own suite, box seat, whatever you call it. He invited us to go and it was me and my wife's first football game ever. She was 8 months pregnant with our first son, but it was pretty comfy in that suite thing. I wanted my first game to be a Husker game (turned down three offers to see Michigan in the big house) but I rationalize it by saying my first college game was a Husker game.... 2007 ISU and 2009 300th sellout game are the only other two times we've got to go to games. But Lambeau was a nice experience. Not sure but it sure seemed a lot smaller than Lincoln.

Pat Forde graduated from Missouri. That should tell you all you need to know. Ahhh...enough said! Thanks for the info Yeah. Ever wonder just how bitter and nasty Mizzou is about NU getting "their" spot in "their Big 10"? Just read his article.

I agree. But IMO the Thu. night games have a stigma of being "lesser" tams trying to get on TV. I prefer my team to play on Sat. Thursdays are for Louisville, Boise St and MAC schools. I still don't mind watching them though. It better than the alternatives usually. I'm with the PSU guy on this. I love the Thursday night games. Especially when it's NU. Nice way to get another cfb event in the week.

Thanks for posting this Nexus. I would have never caught this, as busy as I've been this summer. I think it's awesome that there are people in the media who are actually speaking their minds on the health of the big 12 unloaded. I still think it's going to literally explode when the conference caves in. Some decent programs are going to be left out in the cold for not taking action earlier.

Hmmm....interesting thoughts. If by "backing" you mean the other schools, such as OU/OSU/A&M/Tech, then all that says is that these regional rivalries have become so intense (and profitable) that none of the parties involved is willing to see them fall by the wayside. Indeed, Nebraska/OU was a huge rivalry for years, but it was more profitable (apparently) to break it up. And could you please explain to me how Texas has power over other schools through the Texas Legislature? Uh, no. Here, it's the leg that tells ALL the schools what to do. It if wasn't that way, U.T. and A&M would have made the jump to the Pac 10 when the SWC dissolved. Instead, the members of the leg forced it into the union with Tech, Baylor and the members of the Big 8. U.T. believes the big money is on the West Coast....always has been, always will be...and U.T. will eventually wind up with those schools. The Pac 10 will still take U.T. and many of the former Big 12 South schools in a heartbeat. It would have happened already, had A&M not broken up the party. Now that U.T. has figured out that A&M is tired of playing second fiddle in many aspects to U.T., it simply has to make up its mind that letting the traditional connections between the two schools go is worth the pot o'gold that it believes awaits out west. Indeed, this delay will give U.T. the additional time to start up the Longhorn Network, which it will bring with it as part of its admittance into any western alliance. Your thoughts? My thoughts are that you think we're naive enough to believe you when you try to spin the texas legislature as not looking out for UT first and foremost. It's always been that way and just because the lion's share of us don't live in texas, we still know it works that way. When I heard that UT, TTU, OU, and OSU were going to probably go to the Pac, and aTm had voted and was ready to head to the SEC, I was overjoyed, but I knew that it wouldn't happen, because that would not be as controlling of a situation for UT as the Big 12 unloaded was. And sure enough, the texas Legislation stepped in and told "both" schools to "not do anything" until the powers in texas could convene on it. As it turned out, the decision didn't even get that far. The next day it was announced that people were going to try to salvage the Big 12. Could you imagine UT going to the Pac with only TTU in their corner? Instead of aTm, TTU, and Baylor? Cripes Mike, that's a new conference! Rules have to be changed to help UT out. How are they supposed to do that with only one other texas school in there to vote on what's best for UT? Like I said in another thread, OU may in in UT's corner right now, but they can't control OU in a sticky situation like they can the other texas schools. also... "Now that U.T. has figured out that A&M is tired of playing second fiddle in many aspects to U.T..." Ehhh... Did you just really figure that out? Because the rest of the country has known it for about 90 years now.

Oh sheese. This is going to really miff some Texans off in powerful places. Tommy doesn't understand he's not supposed to say this kind of stuff in UT's conference. Especially when the conference is limping and UT is doing everything they can to make it credible. Better look for some hard cover Tommy...

Nice. I'm feeling good about the game for the first time since 99. And haven't heard of a single horn fan who thinks they'll loose. This is going to be sweet kicking them in the hind end.

If you hear anything more let us know. I hadn't heard anything about it. Sounds like there's trouble in paradise...

UT and aTm had an invite to the Pac 10 back when the Big 12 was formed. They pulled the same stunt with them and the Big 8 back in 94'ish that they tried to pull with the Pac 10 last month. They got the Big 8 interested and wanted to bring the leverage baggage, the Big 8 didn't want TTU and Baylor, so UT went to the Pac 10 and got them interested and then went back to the Big 8 and said "take all four Texas schools or we'll go to the Pac 10" (which was actually just would have been UT and aTm to the Pac). I've heard numerous times how that Dallas Dodes guy brags about how "UT was a fax away from being in the Pac 10" at that time, aka "everyone wants us". Kind of a half truth. UT just pulled this crap with the Pac 10 again with their "11th hour demand" that was turned down after they'd gotten Beebe's revamped plan to hold the Big 12 Unloaded together. Nice thing about it was the Pac folks leaked UT's 11th hour demand and people know that's UT's M.O. It's not going to work when the Big 12 Unloaded falls apart in a few years. There's now no room for TTU and Baylor (plus we know the Pac's stance on Baylor anyhow) if OU/OSU hops along too. UT's support structure is crumbling. Everything now hinges on the Big 12's credibility in the upcoming years, along with maybe ooc scheduling.

Oh....my....goodness. Please read your history. And PLEASE explain what this means while you're at it Mike.... Tell us about our history.

Spot on. We threw them the rescue line they needed to survive. The only problem is when the line was thrown NU were the kings of the conference and the other Big 8 programs saw turning their back on NU as the only way to bring NU down to their level of competition. Oh God. Not to start this, but all the Big 8 did was throw the Texas politicians (who loved Baylor and Tech) a line when U.T. and A&M were about to bolt for greener pastures. You won't find many people in central Texas thanking anyone for the Big 12. Greener pastures? When talking about the old SWC (the most lice ridden den of corruption and scandal in all of cfb... ever) I'll use a line from Reign of Fire. "Look out the window, Eden isn't burning... it's BURNT" taken from a UT fan no less. Greener pastures? lmfao. You guys were sitting in the middle of a fire ravaged Mississippi junkyard that a tornado just tore through. The UT football program was so degutted in the 80's and early 90's most young people following cfb didn't even know UT was a school in Texas. You were a joke. Nobody watched SWC football, staunch "hard core" UT fans were wearing crimson and cream. And it was all a direct result of the SWC's flagship program, UT running it into the ground. The Big 8 was arguably the most dominant conference in the mid 90's and you guys used your "look at all our possible tv sets..." line and got your greedy hooks in the Big 8 teams around NU to pull yourselves out of obscurity. Greener pastures??? wtf? What are you talking about? The Pac 10 deal... that you really didn't want? Please tell us about these "Greener pastures". And please tell it from the perspective that UT was in at the time. You know, your junkyard. Good grief. At least at our lowest point in half a century we still sold out all our games and our fans still stayed true. You UT folks have the most bandwagon fans I can think of outside of Miami.

Texas may be desirable but their attitude of having things their way won't go well when these other conferences are making more money than the Big 12 will leave them on the outside looking in. That's if Texas stays dominant, if they start having mediocre seasons then they won't be that desirable. The state of Texas staying closed to other conferences won't last. sooner or later they won't care and just start recruiting in the state. Every conference would take UT now, next year, or whenever they called. Everyone can already recruit in the state now, but as long as none of the major schools in the state are in one conference, other conferences will meet with limited success. Your Texas connections will be hurt over the next 5 years. They won't dry up immediately, but go see how many rivals 5* and 4* Texas kids play in the Big 10... Saying that: "Every conference would take UT now, next year, or whenever they called." ...is simply not true. At least not after what happened this last month. Texas is really... REALLY in a tight spot right now as far as, where they CAN go in the future if the Big 12 folds. They will NOT go to the SEC, simply to much competition and losses would begin to add up with that move. The Big 10 isn't viable because of the distance, and the Pac 10 just took two more teams... The big issue with the Big 10 and Pac 10 is they simply won't accept taking Texas's "leverage baggage". Simply put, Texas can't go somewhere with only taking aTm, OU, and OSU. UT ran into a brick wall in the Big 10 with TTU, and with Baylor in the Pac 10. Texas only has power over the Texas schools through the Texas Legislature. They may get OU and, in tow, OSU to "go along" with what UT wants, but if things get hairy (like when aTm was ready to really screw UT over with an SEC jump), in the Pac 10 or Big 10, UT could really only force aTm's hand in support. In the Big 12 they have aTm, TTU, and Baylor, who can be made to "agree with what's best for the state of Texas (which really means their flagship school UT)". And it helped them climb out of the post SWC crap hole they'd drove their team and conference into. When the Pac took CU and Utah, THAT is what will come around to bite UT in the hind end in 4,5,8 years when the Big 12 finally folds. They won't really have a conference left where they can take a bunch of support. Imo going independent won't work, so UT is going to have to find a way to really make the Big 12 work. If the Big 12 caves in, UT is going to be in a very tight spot down the road. So saying "everyone would take UT in a heartbeat" isn't true. Sure they'd take UT.... but UT won't make a move on their own to a new conference without the backing they've become accustomed to since the early 1900's.

First time I ever heard or saw this from a PSU fan. This needs to be a sticky post. Meh, I want a clean game for just this reason. I don't want to be second guessed for the next 30 years. I can think of a LOT of crappy arse calls that have cost us HUGE over the last how many seasons prior to the instant replay. It sucks. Paterno has always pushed for instant replay and for good reason. I don't like when it goes against us, it shouldn't go against our opponents, either. Seeing that play...yeah, that sucks for sure. This play is still, in my mind, the absolute worst call in all of college football.... ever. I'm 38 and have seen a lot of bad calls, but that one takes the cake. Forget the 93 FSU game, and all of the non holding calls in the big 12, etc. That Penn St. call in 82 was the worst. It cost us a National Championship and it was so blatant, that many of the old school voters in 94 came out and openly stated that was the reason they voted for NU to take the NC alone, even though PSU was deserving that year.

So, can you explain why the Big 10 was interested in adding Nebraska when it's all about "TV markets?!?" OU is just as big a TV draw as Texas everywhere outside of Texas. And even Texas fans will watch OU play, in hopes of watching them lose. To suggest Texas is the only team the Pac 10 was interested in is a bit naive. I have to agree with Dusty on this one. Everyone is so focused and wound up on "TV markets" etc they're forgetting about exciting college football match-ups that people actually want to watch. Both NU and OU have the "wow factor" when it comes to playing. People flipping through channels will pass up a lot of games to see NU or OU playing someone, anyone. Especially if it's an other competent team. While I don't think the Pac 10 had it's eyes set on OU, if OU had went to them and said "we want in" the Pac 10 would have backflipped to get them in. Even if the Pac intended on stopping at 12, and had CU and Utah, if OU went to them and said they'd move, The Pac 10 would blow things up and pull in OU and someone else (probably OSU) but they'd take OU in a heartbeat just to get those awesome match-ups. Personally I think both NU and OU have a lot more of the "Pizazz" factor nationwide than UT does.

The Southwest Conference. Hell, that's what's in store for it - a return to the old SWC. There was a reason Arkansas bolted from the SWC when it had the chance... I agree completely on the SWC reference and I think that people in high places have to start noticing a trend with UT ruining conferences and running them into the ground. Kind of a Matrix reference, but I like *The Big 12 Unloaded* for a new name.

Am I the only one here who thinks we're going to beat UT soundly this year? I know our offense was horrible last year, but every portion of it should be better this year. QB with more exp, OL with more exp and talent, TWO healthy capable RB's vs none for a good portion of last season. I think our O's going to come along fine. On Defense I really think we'll be better. Our D line will be stout, maybe not as awesome as last year, but I am thinking Bo's going to do some different things with our DE's that will really shake things up. And the Crick/Stien combo should be solid. Our secondary should rock. Only question mark is LB like everyone is saying, but I think overall the defense will be at least as good (I think it'll be a tad better) and it was pretty dang good last year. This team got the most important thing they needed last year, and that was confidence imo. Knowing they can hang with the big boys, and beat them now is going to be paramount, and they can do it. I think we'll avenge the ISU loss in good fashion, de-cleat Mizzou, and surprise everyone with a dominant victory over UT. I think UT will have a down year and have three losses, 1 to OU, 1 to us, and 1 so.... someone else. But we meet OU in the ccg and I don't know what will happen there. But I'm pretty confident we'll whip UT and surprise everyone with the type of win.

This is not a joke. It's raw, unbridled, stupidity. Jerry needs "the big 12 unloaded" to pick up two more teams so he can get cash for a ccg in jerry's world. ND..... wouldn't sniff this with Michigan's nose. And Arkansas doesn't want anything to do with UT after getting out of the corruption riddled SWC... to get away from UT like we did. AND why would Arkansas leave the most successful (even if it's rough sailing) SEC to join the national media joke of a conference big 12 when everyone knows it's got a life expectancy of 3 - 5 years.

It's ok. I'm completely ready to be made the bad guy in this.... for a while. UT has single handedly borked up two major conferences. I don't expect the Pac 10 to deny UT what they want because if you look at it from the Pac 10's standpoint, they have their backs to a wall. However, they'll soon find out what everyone else who's been around Texas knows, they'll be sorry in about 6 years. USC won't be able to stand up to UT, they'll own that conference worse than they do the Big 12 right now, and the rest of the old Pac 10 will be screaming bloody murder. The biggest problem in this scenario is that the teams that you want to see Texas play, because they're spoilers who'll upset you now and again..... will ALL be in the North, and Texas will only have to worry about playing one of them in a championship game. Oregon, Oregon St, Washington (if they get it together), Cal can bite you in the butt, and USC and UCLA have the potential..... But UT will be allowed to dominate all the subservient chumps they've been jacking over for a century in addition to..... Arizona and Arizona St. As for being made out to be the bad guy, get ready for the UT spin machine. I'm not to worried though, it won't take long for the rest of cfb to see what UT does to a conference. Time is on our side.

2002 started me on some sort of a numbing cycle. I am always nuts for cfb season, but I've tempered it a bit here for the last few years. I'd have put a 6 but put a 7 because I feel we are going to tromp three shades of $&%# out of Texas this year. We're going to have a good year, and I'm excited about all aspects, defense should be killer, and offense will be much improved. I'm still waiting for us to be top 5 and nc contenders each year again like in the 80's before I'm ready to say we're "where we need to be" but I'm stoked about the program and where it's headed right now. Fall, cfb and hunting season is always my favorite time of year.

Man oh man I remember this game. It was about my third year following the Huskers. I still remember my dad smacking an old orange fold up chair with the flyswatter when PSU got that late touchdown. And I do like the uni's, but I HATE not having the names on the jerseys.

I want a home at home with Rutgers, so I can go down to their dump of a stadium, and take leak on their "birthplace of college football" sign That works. Plus it's still more exciting than playing Iowa. You could also take a leak in their stadium, and take a dump on their sign.