Nov

24

Husker News and Notes

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Cornfeed around the :

  • Sources say 69-year old  Bill Synder is coming back to K-State to coach.
  • is interviewing for the Wyoming vacancy.
  • Shawn Watson may soon become a hot head coaching prospect himself.
  • Tim Griffin has the Huskers 6th in his power rankings.
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Nov

17

Breaking: Further proof Kansas State is a joke of a program

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This video was played as an introduction to the Kansas State-Nebraska game.

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Nov

17

Nebraska Cornhuskers - Kansas State Highlights

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Nov

15

Nebraska wallops Kansas State 56-28

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GO BIG RED!

A fantastic effort by the Cornhuskers today, with the Blackshirts holding Kansas State to just 247 total yards and QB Joe Ganz breaking a number of single game and season records.

More in-depth analysis is coming in the next 24 hours. In the meantime, let’s check out some stats that really jumped out at us.

Blackshirts are Back, big time:

  • The Nebraska defense registed four sacks for 49 yards in today’s game, pushing its season total to 25 sacks. Nebraska finished the 2007 season with 13 total sacks.
  • The Huskers have produced nine sacks in the past two games, totaling 91 yards lost.
  • Kansas State managed only two offensive touchdowns, as the other 14 points came courtesy of defensive and special teams touchdowns.

Cornhusker Offense - Clicking On All Cylinders:

  • Nebraska ran for 340 yards on 53 carries in today’s game, NU’s highest rushing total of the season.
  • Nebraska’s 340 rushing yards were its most in a game since posting 352 yards against Kansas in 2002.
  • Joe Ganz’s 16 completions today give him 247 pass completions in 2008, good for a new Nebraska record. held the previous record of 237 competions in 2005.
  • The 95 rushing yards for Ganz are the most by a Nebraska quarterback since Jammal Lord ran for 109 yards against Texas A&M in 2003.
  • Ganz moved past (4,481) into No. 4 on the career passing list with 4,660 career yards.

Post-game Quote from Bo Pelini, on Nebraska going into a bye week and thought process of remainder of season…

“I think our guys know what is in front of us. I would like to play straight through, but it does not work out that way. I think it comes at a good time for us because we are nicked up a bit and we could use a couple of days off. This will give us a little extra preparation time and can give us a good jump on recruiting heading into the summer.”

Nebraska now moves to 7-4 overall and 4-3 in the Big XII conference, which translates into second place in the North standings.

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Nov

10

Just for laughs: the Kansas State Promo video

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Nov

9

Kansas State-Nebraska game will be on PPV

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Another Pay-Per-View, but the way the Huskers are playing, it’s money well spent.

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Nov

5

Another Big 12 coach bites the dust…

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Ron Prince is gone after less than 3 seasons.

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Jul

7

Corn Feed for the Week (Updated)

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Q:What would you consider to be the lowest point in your career?

OSBORNE: Maybe the Lawrence (Phillips) situation, because we took a lot of pride in doing things the right way here. The NCAA rules of graduation, our players, being consistent in terms of how we enforce discipline. Obviously what Lawrence did was not right, and yet we were labeled as win-at-all-costs, that type of thing. Yet we just disciplined Lawrence in accordance with our discipline policy and code and we thought we did it fairly. So it was a difficult time because we had a great team in 1995, we had great players, undefeated and nobody came close to us that whole year. (It was) painful.
Q: What was the No. 1 thing that separated Pelini from the rest of the coaching candidates during the interview process? What did he have the other candidates didn’t seem to have?

OSBORNE: We needed a lot of help on defense, and I didn’t know of anybody that had better defensive coaching credentials. The other thing he had going for him is [that] he had coached here in 2003 for one year, and had turned our defense around in that year into one of the top defenses in the country from a rather average defense in 2002. So I knew that he understood and could motivate players and communicate with players and (get them) to play with intensity and passion. The other thing that was in Bo’s favor was I was able to talk to a lot of players who played for him in 2003 and a lot of assistant coaches who worked with him on defense. And in his last month, he was named interim coach when (Frank) Solich was fired, so Bo coached the bowl game for about five weeks, [and] he acted as the head coach. All of the comments I got from the former players and former coaches, all of whom I knew well and trusted, were very positive. So I was able to get more information on him. In most other people, you would get information on simply by interviewing them. So that was the main decision on Bo.

  • College Football News looks at must-win games for the North Teams. Nebraska’s outlook:

Nebraska
Big Win: Virginia Tech
Must Win: Kansas State

Last year’s team could score on anybody and be scored on by anybody. In the last three games of the season, a total of 335 points were scored. Thus, enter in Sir Bo Pellini. ’s last hand-picked successor didn’t quite pan out the Husker-faithful had hoped. Lincoln eagerly waits for the revival of the conventional defensive ‘blackshirt’ mentality that is brought to the table by the former LSU defensive coordinator.

Virginia Tech comes into Memorial Stadium for a non-conference game that should prove to be explosive, if anything. The performance will be indicative of the outlook for the rest of the season as the new look defense will take on a solid, but not especially overwhelming Hokie squad. Winning this game would be a big step towards overhauling the team and bringing some relief to the Big Red Nation.

The Huskers will have some competition from unlikely places, and Kansas State is a program that’s not about to willingly backtrack in the North. Ron Prince added a bevy of junior college talent that should shore up defensive issues. Although Nebraska won last year’s game by 42 points, losing to this team on the round would be a serious setback.

  • Spencer Hall assess for damaged college football properties (including Nebraska) and their chances for them to be ‘flipped.’ Final assessment:

    • Perhaps less than a year from move-in: The Huskers could be, with some touch-ups, looking ready for market by the end of the season. Big qualifying if: IF the defense gets its majestic malevolence back, something Pelini happens to specialize in…

  • 7 Huskers will be inducted in the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame.
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Jun

27

Further proof Kansas State is a joke of a program

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Kansas State Pride + Lack of Tradition + JuCo’s Running the Marketing Department x Insecurity in Program Stature = Really Cheesy Kansas State Video

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