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Friend of mine posted this on Facebook. Sorry if this has been posted already. Explains the Suh stomp. Doesn't make it right, but at least it gives him a reason for doing it.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Former-Green-Bay-Packer-Matt-Brock-Evan-Dietrich-Smith-instructed-to-untie-Ndamukong-Suh-shoelaces-121511/

Very interesting article and video on Mike McQueary and whether Penn State should have football.

http://espn.go.com/e...ootball-culture

They fired the president of the university. They fired Joe Paterno, their legendary coach. They allowed the athletic director and a university vice president to at least temporarily leave their jobs.

 

It's a start.

 

But the trustees who govern Penn State have more work to do. Much more work.

 

If the university intends to cleanse itself of the toxic culture described in agonizing detail in the report of the Pennsylvania grand jury that issued the indictments in the allegations of a sexual abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, the trustees must continue to scour the athletic department and remove all who placed Penn State football ahead of the safety and welfare of needy and vulnerable young boys.

 

It is conceivable that the process could lead the trustees to consider a total shutdown of the football program as the best way to excise all that is wrong.

It was, after all, a culture that, under Paterno's unquestioned leadership, apparently enabled Sandusky to perpetrate his alleged atrocities on an unknown number of boys in these ways, according to the grand jury report:

• Allowed him systematic access to these children.

• Ignored obvious signs of perversity.

• Provided locations (weight room, sauna) and events (bowl games, road trips) for Sandusky that were irresistible to troubled boys in State College, the ultimate college town.

• Covered up for Sandusky whenever the possibility of detection arose.

• Ignored legal and moral obligations to take action that would embarrass the supposedly impeccable football program.

Despite the astonishing revelations of the past several days, it will not be easy for the trustees to do what they must do. They will face Paterno's legions of fans and his significant influence metastasized through the university, based both on his decades of success and his generosity to the university community. It is difficult to estimate the extent of the role Paterno's image and presence will have on the effort to change the athletic department culture.

 

Another reason it won't be easy for the trustees is that instead of recognizing their failures, some of the principals involved in the scandal are parsing and rationalizing what happened. The athletic director and the university administrator are claiming that a graduate assistant who, according to the grand jury, saw Sandusky raping a child in an athletic department shower in 2002, did not mention anal sex to them in his reports. It might have been simple horseplay, they suggest.

 

It is conceivable that the process could lead the trustees to consider a total shutdown of the football program as the best way to excise all that is wrong.

It was, after all, a culture that, under Paterno's unquestioned leadership, apparently enabled Sandusky to perpetrate his alleged atrocities on an unknown number of boys in these ways, according to the grand jury report:

• Allowed him systematic access to these children.

• Ignored obvious signs of perversity.

• Provided locations (weight room, sauna) and events (bowl games, road trips) for Sandusky that were irresistible to troubled boys in State College, the ultimate college town.

• Covered up for Sandusky whenever the possibility of detection arose.

• Ignored legal and moral obligations to take action that would embarrass the supposedly impeccable football program.

Despite the astonishing revelations of the past several days, it will not be easy for the trustees to do what they must do. They will face Paterno's legions of fans and his significant influence metastasized through the university, based both on his decades of success and his generosity to the university community. It is difficult to estimate the extent of the role Paterno's image and presence will have on the effort to change the athletic department culture.

 

Another reason it won't be easy for the trustees is that instead of recognizing their failures, some of the principals involved in the scandal are parsing and rationalizing what happened. The athletic director and the university administrator are claiming that a graduate assistant who, according to the grand jury, saw Sandusky raping a child in an athletic department shower in 2002, did not mention anal sex to them in his reports. It might have been simple horseplay, they suggest.

 

The unavoidable facts, however, are that a grown man was in the shower with a boy, and it was not the first time. And neither Paterno, athletic director Tim Curley nor university senior vice-president Gary Schultz reported it to law enforcement authorities.

 

As the trustees continue their work, they must purge the culture of the denial and the delusion that apparently allowed Sandusky to operate with impunity for years. They must establish an atmosphere of responsibility and accountability in a culture that encourages coaches, staff and students to do what is right instead of the bare minimum required by the law. One way to help make that happen is to institute seminars and training sessions that define the basic duties of citizenship and establish a new standard of behavior for all members of the university community. Instead of assuming that people will do the right things, the university's management must define what the right things are and create an atmosphere in which that proper behavior is encouraged.

 

And the trustees must do this work publicly and definitively. Their investigation must be detailed and transparent if they hope to eliminate the old and re-establish an atmosphere of integrity in the football program.

 

As the trustees attempt to reset the priorities of the university and its football program, here are some things they must do:

• Investigate the Second Mile Foundation. Founded by Sandusky in 1977, it allegedly provided him with a continuing supply of young boys. The foundation is not formally a part of the university, but it uses the school's facilities for its camps and is intertwined with the football program in numerous ways. Can the foundation be salvaged? Should it be shut down?

 

• Re-examine the investigation of another shower incident, this one in 1998. Why was no action taken after a probe by the police and a child welfare agency? What was the role, if any, of this incident in the "retirement" of Sandusky from the football staff in 1999?

• Examine the role of attorney Wendell Courtney, identified in the grand jury report, who was the university lawyer during the 1998 investigation and then moved to the Second Mile charity as its lawyer, where he served during Sandusky's alleged predations.

• Analyze the accounts of the victims described in the grand jury report (and of any additional alleged victims who come forward) to determine what staff members knew about Sandusky and these boys, and what the staff members did nor did not do about it. Determine if there is reason for any of these staff members to continue their employment with the university.

 

• Consider the cancellation of the football program for a period of at least two years. It might not be possible to establish a new culture without the total elimination of the old one. A two-year hiatus might be the only way to eliminate a systemic problem. How important is football to an institution of higher learning that serves 95,000 students and is supposed to be dedicated to the pursuit of excellence? When Tulane University was caught in a basketball point-shaving scandal in the mid-1980s, the university leadership eliminated the sport for several years to allow a complete renewal of values. When the U.S. Congress discovered a series of abuses in 2008 in its page program, which was designed to offer opportunities to young people, the members of Congress agreed to eliminate it altogether.

 

All of that is a tall order for the trustees. They demonstrated exemplary citizenship and fortitude when they dismissed Paterno and university president Graham Spanier on Wednesday night. As they continue their work, it is most important that they do it publicly and transparently. They cannot allow an atmosphere of denial and cover-up to continue. If their investigation uncovers embarrassing things, they must be forthcoming in describing them in detail and in public.

 

As the governing body of the university, the trustees must find and hire a new president and a new football coach. In theory, the trustees would hire the president and allow the president to hire the coach. But given Penn State's history, the coach very well could be the more important personnel move. As they search for a president and coach, the trustees must find leaders with the character and integrity required to undo the damage and establish a new order of priorities that goes beyond X's and O's and bowl games.

 

If the trustees can complete this work in the same way they made their decisions on Paterno and Spanier, they will be on their way to establishing a new model of "Success with Honor."

EDIT* sorry about the spacing in the quote, I did what I could.

http://www.omaha.com...EWS01/711099783

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman issued the following statement on the scandal at Penn State on Wednesday:

Graham Spanier is a great personal friend of mine and a longtime supporter of the University of Nebraska who left this institution a better place than when he arrived. Everything I know about Graham makes it difficult for me to believe he would ignore clear allegations of child abuse. I can only wish him the best as he works through these tragic events.

 

This has obviously been a very emotional week for the Penn State community. We hope for the best for everyone, particularly the children alleged to have been mistreated or exploited. The allegations of abuse, if true, represent personal failings. Penn State, our Big Ten colleague, is still a great university.

 

Looking ahead to Saturday's game, others will pour many issues into this football game. Nebraska's participation in no way condones the conduct that has been alleged or makes a statement about the truth or falsity of the allegations. In the end the game is about the student-athletes from both institutions who have worked hard to be in a position to play football on Saturday. I hope all fans will be respectful of the contest between these student-athletes, even as we share in the outrage of what is alleged and the pain suffered by the victims.

Interesting article on ESPN.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/37062/nebraska-defense-finally-earns-its-stripes

Yeah I really like our chances. Could potentially be a trap game though.

Its supposed to mean that he is not an accurate passer.

I hope that Martinez uses this 'madness' and channels it into passion and drive for the Ohio State game.

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Oops beat me to it haha, I was reading the previous posts so I was a bit late

I learned that a defense that is forced into a situation that our team was put into tonight, will eventually break, no matter how good they are.

You've also got to take TOP into consideration as well. When your offense is constantly leaving the field early, you will get tired. The defense was doing well the first few possessions, but then had to start making up for the mistakes of the offense and it just snowballed from there. Give the defense credit, they tried their hardest with what they had. Yes they made mistakes, but those are corrected with time. Give these players a few years to get situated. We'll be playing for a B1G Championship.

Taylor Martinez I would LOVE to see as a slot receiver or maybe our go to speed receiver. I think he could do it. And we don't need Peyton Manning, just a QB who makes smart decisions and can consistently get the ball to the WRs. What I wouldn't give for Zac Taylor or Joey Ganz right now. Even Cody Green I think, if he had been allowed to develop, would be a better QB then Martinez.

Thanks haha yeah I know what you mean, where is their team spirit! I'll probably just listen to it on the radio then if I have to. Maybe I can still convince at least one of them to let me come over and watch it.

Just wondering if there are any sites where you can watch the game online for free? Thanks. I don't have a tv and all of my friends think that we're going to lose so they don't want to watch it...

What was the other shove? Was that the one where he just rammed into our guy?

The sliding penalty was the right call, but it wasn't on purpose.

Ok thats what I thought, was just trying to get a second opinion.

After that hit I was waiting for Ed Cunningham to pipe up

Haha your right, but then he'd be saying it through gritted teeth.

I'm just wondering what your opinions are of the slide by Martinez and the shove (I forgot who got pushed) that resulted in penalties. The shove was clearly intentional and deserved to be a penalty, but I remember one of the announcers saying that he disagreed with the sliding penalty because Martinez slid after the defender had already launched himself.

I still think its a penalty, but what do you guys think?

Also, what led up to the shove? I didn't catch the actual play, just the replay (was using the bathroom). I'm glad that there was no payback though, shows were a better program, even though the announcer said that there might be haha.

Is it wrong that I really, really miss being called "sweetcakes"?

 

 

But there is this really old Mexican Woman at work that almost allways hits me in the shoulder after she flirts with me...And sometimes gives me candy.

 

 

 

LOL who is Zac Lee scratching our heads? Really... they had to have announced a game or two with him in it. Or at least heard about him. Zac Robinson... yeah.

Very interesting. I too am looking forward to see how this plays out.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that their fans think that their team is the next best thing. A few years ago when they first came to the scene people liked them because they were the underdogs and beat several very big teams. Then though came the holier then thou attitude of their fans, thinking they are the greatest team in the country and that they DESERVE a BCS bid because they always win out.

They win out against fluffball opponents, and their schedule, like the above poster said, are usually filled with only 2-3 true tests a year. They can take it easy the rest of the time, whereas their opponents from tougher conferences have to slog it out each week. The announcers of the game even said that Boise State typically didn't face tests like it did tonight against Nevada, both physically (their defense was "gassed"), emotionally, and mentally.

I personally would prefer to play Oklahoma, because we haven't played them yet this year, and it may very well be one of the last times we are able to play them, at least for a very long time. I also like our defense against their offense better.

Well, Mizzou held them to 9 points as well. Except that, because they have a consistent offense, they managed to put up 30 on them.

I was just talking to a girl from work that I like tonight... and I need an outside opinion on the situation I'm in. She's 19 and I'm 22.

I like her, but I'm not sure if she really likes me. We flirt at work all the time, but she parties a lot so I'm not sure if its just how she is. Lately though shes been calling me after work and we've been talking late into the night about random stuff.

Heres the situation. She posts this on her Facebook a little while before she calls me tonight, I don't see it until during the actual call:

i wish he could see how much i really liked him.... but it doesn't even matter because i will never be good enough...

Now I might have made an error by doing this, but I brought it up, saying what was up with her status, and how she shouldn't be so down on herself all the time. I didn't actually bring up the guy thing, but I implied it. She then tries to change the subject, and suddenly "has to go" but tells me to text/call her tomorrow.

Any ideas on what all this means?

Its okay. Youve got ALL the best talent of Texas at your disposal and have only THREE championships in your entire history to show for it. +1 satisfaction

We lossed to a sub-par Texas team, if there was any year where we could do it, any year when we could FINALLY beat Texas, it was this one. And yet we still lose. Texas did what it had to, but we only beat ourselves.

 

Disagree. People kept telling me (neutral fans) that NU would romp in this game b/c texas sucks. I tried to argue that Texas was easily the best two-loss team and better than most if not all the 1-loss teams.

they laid and egg (as teams tend to do once or twice a season) and lost to UCLA b/c they were thinking about OU and they lost to OU because the Sooners were just better.

 

All the two losses in a row did was piss them off UT's players and maybe lull some of the Nebraska players into thinking they weren't as good.

I didnt say Texas was a bad team. Very talented players, good coaches, etc. Just compared to the teams of the last say 7-8 years under Young and McCoy this team isnt as good. In a year or two I think Texas gets to the NCG again under Gilbert.

We lossed to a sub-par Texas team, if there was any year where we could do it, any year when we could FINALLY beat Texas, it was this one. And yet we still lose. Texas did what it had to, but we only beat ourselves.

Just an interesting article that the Nebraska Cornhusker's page on Facebook posted. HERE is the actual link.

At a 2009 congressional hearing about the BCS, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, whose home-state Utes had finished the previous season 13-0 but had no shot at playing for a national title, asked Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman (then chairman of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee) what more Utah could have done to prove its merits.

"They could have played the schedule Nebraska played," Perlman replied.

 

Condescending as the comment was, few could have disputed the notion that a team from the lesser-regarded Mountain West didn't play the same level of competition as a team from the Big 12 like Perlman's Huskers. Certainly not in that 2008 season, in which the Big 12 produced five teams that finished in the top 20.

But is that still the case in 2010?

 

With debate raging over Boise State's schedule and merits of playing in the BCS championship game, it's worth revisiting Perlman's statement. Would the Broncos -- or TCU or Utah, for that matter -- really prove that much more by playing Nebraska's 2010 schedule?

 

So far, No. 3 Boise State has beaten two ranked foes (Virginia Tech and Oregon State). If No. 25 Nevada continues its torrid play over the next two months, the Broncos could well face a third ranked team on Nov. 26. Meanwhile, the sixth-ranked Huskers could feasibly end up playing ... none.

 

Having opened the season with wins over heavyweights Western Kentucky (0-4), Idaho (2-2), Washington (1-2) and FCS member South Dakota State, the Huskers open Big 12 play next Thursday at 4-0 Kansas State, which is currently listed among the "others receiving votes" in both major polls. Nebraska's marquee game figured to come the following week against Texas, but the Longhorns' disastrous 34-12 loss to UCLA last week may have ruined that possibility. Texas plummeted from seventh to 21st in the AP poll, and it's fair to assume the 'Horns will drop out completely if they fall to No. 8 Oklahoma this weekend.

 

The Sooners, mind you, do not appear on Nebraska's regular-season schedule. Nor does any other team currently ranked in the AP Top 25. Missouri (which visits Nebraska on Oct. 30) and Oklahoma State (which the Huskers visit the week before) check in at Nos. 23 and 24, respectively, in the coaches' poll. If the Huskers run the table, they'd almost certainly face a ranked foe in the Big 12 title game. Beyond that, however, there are no guarantees.

 

Boise State's strength of schedule currently ranks 30th according to Jerry Palm's formula on CollegeBCS.com. Nebraska's ranks 96th. Obviously, that will change dramatically over the coming months when the Broncos face six WAC teams currently ranked lower than any of the Huskers' remaining foes. In terms of "body of work," there's little chance Boise will finish with a higher SOS than nearly any BCS-conference team, which is precisely the point Perlman was making and which so many fans of power-conference teams are using to discredit the Broncos' title merits.

 

But let's not kid ourselves. Nebraska, which most would assume a shoe-in for Glendale should it finish 13-0, is hardly staring down the same gauntlet as a team like Alabama, which has faced two ranked foes already (then-No. 18 Penn State and then-No. 10 Arkansas) and will face at least four more presently ranked teams (No. 7 Florida, No. 20 South Carolina, No. 12 LSU and No. 10 Auburn) by season's end; or Ohio State, which previously beat then-No. 12 Miami and has No. 11 Wisconsin, No. 22 Penn State, No. 17 Iowa and No. 19 Michigan still ahead. Boise State would have no realistic argument over either team if all three finished undefeated.

 

A popular argument among Boise detractors is that while the Broncos may be capable of beating any given team on any given week, they wouldn't survive the eight-week grind of a major-conference schedule. That may be true, but it's entirely hypothetical. The only thing we can say with reasonable certainty is that Boise would be at least a touchdown favorite against every team on Nebraska's schedule, save Texas.

 

Fortunately for Nebraska, this may be the last year it ever has to worry about detractors of its schedule. Upon joining the Big Ten next season, the Huskers will be assured of at least two to three (if not more) games against ranked opponents, particularly if they reach the league title game. In future years they have home-and-homes with UCLA, Miami and Tennessee.

 

In the meantime, Boise will deal with the unavoidable reality that, despite what Perlman said, it doesn't have the option to play Nebraska's schedule. This year, at least, it really shouldn't need to.

When we don't make mistakes, such as dropped passes, or penalties, or fumbles, or interceptions, our offense is basically unstoppable. Hes doing a pretty good job, just the players need to stop making small errors and we are fine.

Well I'm gonna get really tired of either a Texas or a Oklahoma (or a Boise State) team getting to the championship every year after we leave. I'm sorry but a one or even two loss SEC or Big 10 team deserves to be in the championship before a no loss Big 12 team.

I mean look at the Big 10 and SEC. They have GOOD teams. You will most likely not get through a season without at least ONE loss. Then look at the Big 12 next year. They've got Texas and Oklahoma, maybe Texas aTm every few years.

The BCS is supposed to put the two best teams against each other at the end of the year, but thats not gonna happen if strength of schedule isn't taken into account. I honestly think that there should be some sort of playoff system in place. That way the actual two best teams will play for the championship.

I'm sorry, you need to play more than one difficult game a year. I would still take a one loss Big 10, Big 12, or SEC team over Boise any day assuming it was a close loss.

I.e. Texas and Oklahoma.