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bowl tie-ins are dumb anyways. Match up the two best teams available. Period.

Surprised I haven't seen anyone bring this up yet. Did anyone else notice that #31 for MSU (Dennard) through a punch at Brandon Kinnie on the play were he was flagged for a personal foul?

Carnes may be fast, but he is a pass first quarterback. Our offense is again showing a reluctance to adjust to the strengths of the players that are actually on the field.

Except we lost to texas two weeks before. We beat Okie st. the week before muck fizzou.

and prince for defensive player of the year

I do not for a moment disagree that we lost that game by ourselves, it was just frustrating to have to sit through a texas "injury" every 2 minutes of the game

Not sure why the injuries to the texas players that seemed to happen every time the husker offense got some momentum was never discussed on a national level. CBS is now talking about a similar plot by Cal used to slow down the oregon offense.

Cal suspends assistant for fake injury strategy

Posted on: November 29, 2010 11:34 am

Edited on: November 29, 2010 12:53 pm

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Posted by Tom Fornelli

There was a whole lot of uproar and outrage coming from the Pacific Northwest following Oregon's win over Cal a few weeks ago, as there was plenty of evidence that Cal players were faking injuries on defense in an attempt to slow the Oregon offense down during the Ducks' 15-13 win on November 13. It was rather obvious in this video that a Cal defensive lineman wasn't really hurt when he went down, unless a sniper in the crowd shot him in the leg with a BB gun.

Well, head coach Jeff Tedford denied it at first, but now it seems that the head coach has changed his tune. Cal suspended defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi over the weekend for being the mastermind behind the evil plot.

"This is a young coach who made a mistake. We make mistakes in life a lot," said Cal AD Sandy Barbour in a statement. "He stood up and he accepted responsibility for it. The head coach accepted responsibility for it and I accepted responsibility for it. That's what we do as educators."

While Lupoi may have fallen on his sword, Tedford has no plans on firing him.

"I respect him a great deal," Tedford said. "In the heat of the battle and trying to get a substitution in, he used poor judgment. That's no reflection on his character whatsoever or his love for Cal and the program. ... He's a great football coach. A mistake was made. I'm sure we'll learn from it as a whole. We will make sure that we stand for the right things and move forward."

Yes, I'm sure Tedford and his coaching staff will learn from it in the future. Next year, they'll make sure that their players know to fake the injury before being sent out there, instead of waiting for a signal from a rogue coach on the sideline. Whom I'm sure was acting alone.

link: http://college-football.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/26138702

Why is it that the only people that think this is a legal hit are Husker fans? ... Open your eyes people.

 

Does this still look like an illegal hit once you see it from a better camera angle? Perhaps you should open *your* eyes Tiger Timmy.

Why are you posting this picture in several threads? That's clearly NOT an OSU player being hit, and therefore not the hit being discussed from the NU-OSU game.

this pic just shows that eric martins hits may come across to viewers as him trying to go helmet to helmet while he is clearly attempting to tackle with his shoulder

anyone else think its funny that on his rivals page he is wearing a nice red husker shirt even though he is now committed to kansas? http://rivals.yahoo.com/kansas/football/recruiting/player-Dylan-Admire-100357

that would make sense, but why wouldnt they set up a deal where the home team for each game of the series would get primary rights?

Minnesota-Texas series canceled

July, 29, 2010

By Adam Rittenberg

The jury is still out on Tim Brewster at Minnesota, but the fourth-year coach already has made an extremely positive impact in one area: scheduling.

Minnesota has significantly upgraded its nonconference schedule during Brewster's tenure, adding the likes of California, USC, North Carolina and Oregon State. The Gophers no longer live in Cupcake City in September like they did under Glen Mason.

That's why it was disappointing to see Minnesota's two-game series against Texas canceled Wednesday. The Gophers had been scheduled to host Texas on Sept. 19, 2015, and visit Austin on Sept. 17, 2016. Minnesota attributed the cancellation to "a contract impasse concerning video rights," which relates in part to Minnesota's commitment to the Big Ten Network.

School officials didn't hide where they think the blame lies.

Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi told the Associated Press, "It’s extremely disappointing. The kind of agreement we could not come to is the same agreement every other school on our schedule agreed to. Every other school in the Big 12 agreed to this."

Maturi added: "We have a signed agreement. If we wanted to go to court, we’d win. But that’s not our style."

"I'm extremely disappointed that Texas has chosen not to play us," Brewster, a former Texas assistant who cut his teeth under Longhorns head coach Mack Brown, said in a prepared statement. "This was very unexpected, considering we had an agreement in principal. Our fans and our team were excited to play Texas. Obviously, they weren't as excited about playing us. We plan to fill that slot in our upcoming schedule with a quality BCS opponent."

Minnesota has a bit of a cushion to fill the vacancies, and here's hoping Maturi and Brewster add a solid team from a major conference. I doubt the replacement will carry the prestige of Texas, but Minnesota should continue its aggressive approach to scheduling as it tries to enhance its national profile.

it seems like texas did not want to help the big 10 network gain any extra revenue.