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Carnage continues at Nebraska/ND

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USA Today

 

By Mike Lopresti, Gannett News Service

 

This is not college football anymore for Notre Dame and Nebraska. This is the Land of Disbelief.

 

Really now. Could anyone imagine seeing Notre Dame 1-8? Even though Knute Rockne once lost 12 games … in 13 seasons.

 

Could anyone conceive of Kansas scoring 76 points on Nebraska? Even though the Jayhawks once put up 60 points on Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne … in the entire decade of the 1970s.

 

The carnage has gone from surprising to shocking to staggering.

 

Notre Dame has dropped five consecutive home games and allowed 43 quarterback sacks — four to Navy, who had a total of five its previous eight games.

 

Nebraska has given up 47 touchdowns, or 36 more than Ohio State. The Cornhuskers have lost five in a row, allowing an average of 45 points a game. The Elite Eight Kansas basketball team did not score 76 points in 17 games last season.

 

"We are doing everything that we can," Bill Callahan said. "We don't have any other options at this point.

 

"We need to help the players get through this because this is a tough time for us."

 

Charlie Weis, meanwhile, did not want to hear about any Navy streak. "These kids are 17. Do you think they're worrying about 43 years?" he said. "They are worrying about right now."

 

The natural instinct is to open fire on the coaches. Yet … one inexplicable factor of these incomprehensible meltdowns is the past feats of the staffs.

 

Callahan coached a team into the Super Bowl. His defensive coordinator, Kevin Cosgrove, had a long stint leading Wisconsin's highly respected defense. ( :wtf )

 

How does that go in the same picture with a Nebraska team that had allowed 48 points in a game only four times in 56 years before this season but just gave up that many in one half?

 

Weis designed plays for a Super Bowl dynasty.

 

How does that fit with Notre Dame last in the nation in total offense? There are 38 teams that average more yards in a half than the Irish average in a game.

 

These men did not one day wake up inept. They did not develop amnesia. Their programs did not suddenly suffer from pestilence or plague.

 

But they have become historic losers, and the most fascinating question this season is not who will get kissed on the cheek by the BCS — we get that every year — but how this happened at places named Notre Dame and Nebraska.

 

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I'm a little surprised by the number of people who are NOT NU FANS express sympathy to me and hope that we get back on track next year. NO ONE I've encountered is gleeful or making fun at NU.

 

My guess is that the Devaney - Osborne eras set a standard for good football played with class and people respect us for it.

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