Folks--quit focusing on the bootleg. Quit focusing on the Big XII-level officiating.
That was just ONE PLAY and ONE CALL in a whole game of gaffes, miscues, piss-poor team management, and overall stubbornness and ignorance displayed by our coaching staff.
Bottom line, this game should not have been close enough for the officials or one missed bootleg to sabotage the whole thing. Riley and Company messed up, and heads need to roll at the end of the season for this. Including Eichorst's.
And as for Eichorst, someone else pointed out during the Miami game thread (correctly) that he's 0 for 2 in coaching hires. The man is batting .000 at two major historical collegiate football powerhouses, and at Nebraska, football is our bread and butter. If he won't remove Riley and admit that he f****d up, the boosters need to line up his ouster and get someone competent in there ASAP.
This s**t is ridiculous, and it's going to put the sellout streak in jeopardy...or worse yet, invalidate the meaningfulness of the sellout streak when Eichorst, Perlman, et al, conspire to keep it going artificially, and some media outfit calls them out on their shenanigans, which will then cause people to question whether the streak was legit to begin with.