Jay Green

The most interesting part of this article to me was the fact that it assumed Tom Osborne had a major decision making role within the direction of the football team.

To be honest, I think we should proceed with caution. We don't know how much of a drop off there will be with Michigan State, Wisconsin, and Ohio State. Also, I'm not sure how much improvement there will be with Northwestern, Penn State, Michigan, and Iowa. Those teams are somewhat in the same boat we are in: the potential is there but the team isn't quite there yet.

I'll settle for any one or two of them. The more I calm down from the Washington game, the more I begin to realize that we could do worse than Watson. Actually, if I were to order those three as to how much I want them gone it'd be Gilmore, Cotton, Wats.

Pederson will sign the "biggest" name on the market, so I think it will likely be one of the recently fired NFL coaches, but that's just me.

1- Zach Taylor - Did a ton for how little he had around him. Also, won close games. 2- Eric Crouch - Heisman, but always pissed me off a little. 3- Joe Ganz - Same as Zach Taylor only not quite as effective. Still, a ton of fun to watch. 4- Jammal Lord - Up this high due to lack of quality in this list. Frustrated the hell out of me to watch. 5- Zac Lee - Too bad he didn't get much playing time. Good decision maker. 6- Sam Keller - Also always pissed me off. I felt like he had somehow earned Divine Right to his QB job 7- Taylor Martinez - Same as same Keller, but will likely jump Sam Keller and maybe Zac Lee with a good year. 8- Cody Green - I feel like Cody takes a lot of crap that is undeserved. He does all the right things and I'd love for him to develop into our starter. 9- Joe Daily - It was actually really exciting watching him play, but mostly because it was a new offense.

I actually think the problem is that Bo Pelini has too much control of the offense. I think at some point (probably between last year's Big XII championship game and our Holiday Bowl vs Arizon) Pelini drank the Kool-Aid himself. He saw Martinez's speed and decided that if we have a big-play, spread option read offense we could be really good. I think Pelini got greedy. I, personally, don't think that Watson all by himself would initiate an option reed offense. I don't think it's him.

What is hockey?

Yes Hurt, probably around 80% healthy last game. I expect him to look a lot better this week. Yes I honestly think it had something to do with us trying to look classy against a Gill coached Kansas, though the end of the game makes me doubt that. This week, I'm afraid it's going to be the Paul that fumbled a ball he never should have taken out of the end zone. Don't worry about it, we weren't trying anything that was going to trick KU. Everything we did they've already seen on tape. No use exposing your defense over a 3 win team. I think there is no doubt Bebee would love to see us lose out. Kansas did a good job covering the big plays. Also, Taylor is hurt. No. I think we are underrated. I believe we should be ranked either 5th or 6th. Behind all the undefeated teams except possibly LSU (who I could very well be overrating) Absolutely

I want to play OSU. They'll be ranked higher and we have the best pass defense in the nation. I know Blackmon will still burn us at times, but I think their style of offense plays into our defenses strengths.

I want to say that my opinion on Paul has been constant since he started returning kicks and I'm not just jumping on the Paul Sucks bandwagon. As a reciever, he's fast and can get open but is inconsistent catching the ball (notice how every other week there is a "Niles Paul Redeems Himself" story). But as a kick and punt return, he is one of the worst. Given how easily Bo gets upset, I'm surprised he doesn't have a heart attack every time Niles lets the ball bounce 1 yard in front of him and roll just past his foot. He should not be returning kicks. I don't care if he had a really good return against Oklahoma State this year and Texas last year. Also, on that note, against Texas, the whole 1 second incident would have been entirely avoided if Paul could have gotten past the punter to score a touchdown. Big time returners make the punters miss every time

I bet they worked for Beebe.

Also, with the officials the way they have been against us, we would not have gotten that roughing the passer.

I entirely forgot we had to block a field goal to stay in the game.

My hypothetical situation: 1) Nebraska has to win out (including the Big XII championship game). Doing so, I believe, will make the Huskers jump Wisconsin, Stanford, LSU. LSU may seem like a stretch, but you do really think a non-"division winner" LSU would be ranked above a conference champion Nebraska? I doubt it, but I guess it'd really be up to the voters. 2) South Carolina wins the SEC (with a strong defense performance they could do it). This eliminates Auburn. 3) 2 of the 3 teams have to loose: Oregon, TCU, Boise State. This is a huge longshot, but possible. It also doesn't really have to happen, if the voters would vote Nebraska over some teams who haven't lost, but also haven't beaten anyone impressive, then we could be talking. So really it's a longshot, but still very possible. I do think, however, as long as we beat A&M and Colorado, if we lose the championship game we could still go to a BCS bowl game, which should be considered a successful season.

That's really good for him. He's a hard worker.