I pray that my school have a better winning streak than last year, we were blown out mainly because we had a team full of freshman but this year ithink it will be okay:)

U of Memphis Tigers will go at least 7-5. We lost Deangelo Williams to graduation, but I think that we will be loaded, and we will beat Ole Miss on Labor Day eve.

By the way, Ohio State is the most overrated team. I can think of three to four teams that can beat the Buckeyes.

Actually, that sounds like us. We were so bad I don't think we could have cheated correctly if we had tried.

With Frank Solich in his second year as coach, we're hoping for improvement.

The Cornhuksters never cheated while he was there, did they?

I imagine Nebraska always cheats. But yeah, I don't see that cheating would work well for Ohio, I don't know that cars or cash is gonna pull guys away from OSU.

The other part is that in Ohio you also have Miami, Kent State, Bowling Green, Toledo, Akron, Cincinnati, Dayton, Youngstown State and a lot of smaller, private schools.

Within a very few hours drive, there's Michigan, Indiana, Pitt, Marshall, West Virginia and lots of others.

If you look carefully at Michigan's roster from year to year, you will also notice that they recruit heavily from Ohio as well.

It's tough to recruit for a school like Ohio, or any of the other public colleges in Ohio.

It wouldn't of mattered, we still couldn't of accomplished anything under Frank the Tank. There's about err, the entire state of Nebraska (minus a few trolls here and there) that's glad Frank Solich is no longer the head coach of the Nebraska Football Team.

This is what it looked like when Callahan took over. These were pics from the spring game 2003 and the results of Frank's recruiting. When BC was asked about the talent level now compared to where it was when he first got there he just said he wasn't going to discuss that issue. Cosgrove said when he first got here the players were "pencil necked." Not anymore. They won't win them all this year but you're not going to see this crap anymore. Those days are OVER.

http://vmedia.rivals.com/uploads/928/377711.jpg

Here's a picture of the type of guy Callahan is bringing to the team...

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Now, with that said...I respect what Frank Solich did for the Huskers as a player and assistant coach under Osborne. However, he turned a National Championship contender into an average Big XII team. I give him the best of luck at Ohio, and offer this simple advice: Stay away from the booze, Don't blame your DUI on someone drugging you with GHB, and pay attention to road signs!!!

Yeah, thats true. Ohio is within a couple hours of some powerhouse programs. It must be tough for them, being a state namesake school and still not getting even close to a stranglehold of their home-grown talent.

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Looks like this guy has been BOMAR-ed.. You gotta love it.
Anyone got a used Escalade or a red Lexus for sale? :D

And I'd just like to say that Florida State has WON at 6 of those stadiums, excluding our own Doak Campbell. We've never played at the remaining three, by the way - Oregon, Penn State, or Wisconsin.
Home advantage - we don't need no stinkin home advantage!
GO NOLES!!!

you said it girl!!

GO NOLES!!!

Nebraska's backup and annoited "golden child" for next year, Harrison Beck, disappeared from practice yesterday. The Nebraska rivals board went into a meltdown.

Here are some quotes from Beck's mom in an article from the Lincoln Journal-Star:

The kid has done nothing to earn the respect of the older players. Everything I've heard from friends on campus is that the kid is the most immature person ever, he's far more concerned about his death metal band than football, and he hates Nebraska b/c he didn't really consider anything other than football when he committed - like the weather, class, etc.


Also, our top returning CB - one of Mel Kiper's top 25 for next year's draft - is out for the season after tearing his ACL. That pretty much ruined my day b/c our secondary is the weakest link on our defense (front 7 is going to be all world however). But at least he'll get a medical redshirt.

If Thompson can actually make some good in-game decisions, he'll be a good QB. If not, then we have problems, and a serious lack of depth.

As for the scandal -- do you seriously want to start comparing programs and their reactions to this type of thing? It turns out that Bomar, for example only received $2,000 or so in undue benefits. I can think of two players for other teams off my head who have received less in the way of penalties for similar infractions:

USC -- Jarrett received thousands in free rent from Leinhart's father -- 1 game suspension.

Ohio State -- Maurice Clarett, need I say more?

I'm not too worried though. The head of the NCAA has publicly announced that he was very impressed with how Stoops handled this. I don't think there will be any NCAA repercussions unless they can prove there was institutional involvement.

Big Red has since sold to a new owner, and the GM who did all of this has overnight become a local pariah.

Yeah , whoever said OU was going to get the death penalty is an idiot. They will never do that to an athletic program again. It completely destroyed SMU and it still hasn't been close to coming back.

Stoops handled the situation so well that I think the NCAA has to take that into consideration.

So Harrison Beck drove all the way home to FL over the weekend. He was apparently stewing about being placed as 4th string in meetings on Saturday. Some think that this was being used as a motivation technique...

It was pretty much assured that Beck thought he'd be coming back until he heard about the comments his mother made. Having heard those he knew that he couldn't come back and so asked for the release of his scholarship which was granted.

The sad thing is that those comments were supposed to be off the record, and the kids mom told the reporter that. He used them anyways to get the scoop, and pretty much ruined Nebraska's QB depth and this kid's current situation (what with school starting in two weeks). There are a lot of people angry at this sportswriter here in NE right now.

Could Oklahoma not get lack of institutional control?

Oh, you hope not. Then who would the Horns rag on on Orangebloods.com?

P.S. I lived in Texas for 20 years, so although I'm a Seminole Grad, the Horns are my #2 favorite team.

It remains to be seen whether there will be any sanctions at all. Even the pro-aggie media up here is saying that it's likely that the NCAA will be satisfied with the self-imposed restrictions (expulsion of all involved, severing ties with the donor).

Really, even given the recent problems with other teams (men's BB)?

really, OU Athletic department has not had a good last 18 or so months - first the racist comments by the baseball manager, the Kelvin Sampson violations and subsequent leaving for IU, and now Bomar...

1) Racist comments -- coach was fired, almost immediately.

2) Recruiting violations -- these do not affect Oklahoma since Sampson took his restrictions with him to IU. You can't actually expect the compliance director to investigate the cell phone records of coaches who know the rules -- asking this is unreasonable. Coaches should know the rules. Sampson did it, now he's facing his own personal sanctions. The institution was employing the same oversight as anyone else -- the coach just didn't feel like following the rules. I can say that I was disgusted with his behavior, and I'm glad he's gone despite having Capel who is as much an unknown factor as you can have as a coach (but Castiglione has done pretty well with his hires, so I'll withhold judgment).

3) Bomar/Quinn: Dismissed from the team. The compliance office's own internal investigation turned this up which means that they were on the ball. Instead of sweeping it under the rug a la Ohio State/USC and trying to minimize the impact on their roster, they dismissed the players from the team. Had it been A.D., or Stoops' own mother, they would have been dismissed. Again, the head of the NCAA has already publicly said that he was very impressed with Oklahoma's reaction. At this point, it's doubtful that Oklahoma will face any further restrictions due to the fact that it self-investigated, and has dealt with the issue as well as anyone possibly could (instead of doing what some teams do and waiting for the disgruntled booster [see: Reggie Bush] to come forward and say that, for example, he had bought the player's family a house).

Harrison who??


Just one of the reasons we brought Callahan and staff to Nebraska: RECRUITING. Rumors are Harrison was aware of the new QB coming to fall camp, and already being at #4 on the depth chart pissed him off...

Story from omaha.com

Looks like ESPN has Iowa in its Final Four fantasy playoff bracket.

Slight hijack.

Did anyone else note that the venerable old "ABC Sports" brand is going away.

Starting sometime in the near future, it will be "ESPN on ABC."

DH mentioned that to us recently and I thought it was strange.

I'd like everyone to go look at ESPN.com's predictions, and look how my Auburn Tigers swept the experts picks for both the SEC west and SEC champion. Half of them picked AU to play in the title game, which scares me, we're not a good team when hyped in the media.

War Damn Eagle :D

Let's hope it is a good year with two undefeateds squaring off for the championship, preferably teams without recent Championship glory.

1. My wish is that Iowa kicks ass.
2. My second wish is that Iowa plays in a bowl game that is not at asscrack A.M. on New Year's Day. Please be kind to us here in the west, thanks.
3. NIU will beat Ohio State. THERE. I SAID IT. Garrett Wolfe, represent.

We are going to beat Ohio State as well. Sorry, guys....but we have an absolute realistic and very likely shot at going undefeated. Ohio State is our only true test......and we play them in Austin.....they have 0 defense and lost their starting badass tightend. Ohio State will be nothing more than a decent team with a good offense.

Decent Team with Good Offense = Texas Tech. Texas Tech = Perennial 2 - 3 loss team.

While realizing that a Buckeye is a tasetless, scentless nut with little social value, I would't overlook them this year.

Kinnick Stadium, Big 10 Night Game, Buck the Fuckeyes, College Gameday, ABC/ESPN nationally telecast, undefeated Iowa squad, pink locker rooms, a completely wasted student section from over 12 hours of tailgating...pure madness

Oh, i'm not overlooking them.........I just think they are going to lose 2 - 3 games. I think they were better last year by far.

Well I'm an ASU grad so I should support them, but after what the coach just pulled, I'm hoping they lose this year (sad as that sounds).

Since I went to U of A for a short time, maybe I'll support them this year. LOL.

From the home of the original White Out and Zombie Bounce:

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PSU isn't going to go 11-1 again this year but I'm telling you, last year wasn't a fluke. 9-3, 10-2 is very possible this year with a New Year's Day bowl.

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WE ARE PENN STATE

I only visited that stadium one time -- and came home with bronchitis (sp?).

That was when I was in college.

We also lost the game. Badly.

Great tradition there.

Well, while the Carpenter/Keller/Koetter thing was certainly weird, my Huskers immediately become much better for 2007, so I'm glad it happened. What sort of things do you know about what happened?

Basically nothing. A bunch of hearsay and BS. From what I understand Koetter announced he chose Keller as starting QB. Then supposedly there was this meeting with 19 of the players and I guess these 19 claimed they weren't "happy" with the decision of Keller being the starter. So from the sounds of it Koetter decided to make those 19 players "happy" by booting Keller to the curb and having Carpenter be starting QB.

It was such a big deal for a couple of days. But that was all any could gather. They did pass along that if Keller chose to go to a Division 1 school he had to sit out for a year or he could chose to go to a Division 2 school and immediately start playing.

My whole issue with it was the Koetter chose Keller first. He should have kept Keller as his starter and next season given the position to Carpenter. The way Koetter did this was just so backhanded. It seriously made me think that Koetter just "stabbed" Keller in the back. I lost a lot of respect for Koetter with this situation.

I watched and interview with Carpenter and wasn't impressed with him at all. He was like (and I'm totally paraphrasing basically what he was saying) "oh well, I don't want us (ASU) to go to the Insight Bowl again, we should be going to the Rose Bowl". I was like OMG are you kidding me. He sounded like an arrogant ass. But then again, ASU has totally jinxed themselves in my book. They are walking around being like "oh we made the Rose Bowl in 1986 and then in 1996, this is our year to go again". The moment they start "assuming" the team is unbeatable and that they will make it to the Rose Bowl is the moment they don't. But they (ASU football) is going on this assumption that they make it to the Rose Bowl every 10 years. Hell, they have even put up a billboard, right of I-17 saying ASU & Rose Bowl (which made absolutely no sense to me the first time I saw it since the Rose Bowl is played in Pasadena, but now that I know the 10 year thing, I get it).

Yeah, well the sitting out a year is a NCAA requirement. We're more than happy to have Keller in Nebraska, b/c he's just going to redshirt this season, and then compete for (and more than likely win) the starting spot for us next year. It works out well for Keller b/c he gets to work with former NFL coaches in an NFL system and we get a proven arm.

My favorite picture from yesterday:

http://espn-i.starwave.com/media/app...85b627912b.jpg

D-IAA Montana State 19
Colorado Buffaloes 10

Oh yeah, did I mention the Sea of Red once again has come alive, this time the largest ever crowd with an announced attendence of 85,181 to watch the 49-10 dismantling of Louisiana Tech? The Huskers finished the game with 584 yards of total offense, including the first time Nebraska has had over 250 yards of rushing AND passing since 1996. QB Zac Taylor finished 22 for 33 passing with 287 passing yards and 3 touchdowns, and the Huskers were also made 11 of 16 third-down conversions.

BIG RED IS BACK!

No. 23 Tennessee Vols stun No. 9 Cal
 

GO BIG ORANGE!

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TEXAS 56
UNT 7

Next week is making me nervous. Yes, I have tickets.