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muffler dragon;2267134; said:
This is part of the reason why I like the Pac-12s consideration of playing it in a team's home stadium instead of a neutral location.
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Exactly. And give the team with a better record an advantage to make it into the upcoming 4-team playoff, rather than losing a shot at the NC at a neutral field without a college atmosphere.
 
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muffler dragon;2266030; said:
Typically, I would be gung-ho for the 'Huskers in a game like this...

However, my wife's d-bag brother-in-law had this on his FB page yesterday:

I am very excited for Ohio State. Excited that they will celebrate their unbeaten season on the couch watching football just like me. Maybe they will all go out and get a tattoo?
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I've honored my wife's wish of not responding in kind (or taking it to a-whole-nother level on his fat ass). But I'd love it for someone out there to help me get my head back on straight about who I should be rooting for come this next weekend. I can't believe that I'm actually at "fuck 'em both" level. :shake:

Edit: forgot to mention for those not aware, my wife is from NE, and thus, fuckstick above is a Husker as well. Maybe I can get hortdog and knapp to take a short trip to Omaha and lay the wood for me.
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Good pickup for the huskers.

The recruiting forum is a Buckeye recruiting archive and is tightly moderated. Updates are provided if former OSU recruits announce elsewhere, or become famous (or infamous) in college.
 
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RB07OSU;2290534; said:
Good for Nebraska, I would really like to see them thrive in the Big Ten and make the conference stronger. Plus Stanton looks like one heck of a pickup for you guys at QB.
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Stanton is hurt (torn ACL last season), and Newby looks like a pretty decent player....but is it too much to ask to get a bigger back some time in this lifetime again?!? Is it too much to ask for a kid who played behind a freaking fullback?!?

We have Imani Cross - but he completely disappeared the last few games of the season.

ALSO - How funny is it that he ran for 232 yards against Notre Dame? Who HASN'T ran for lots of yards against Notre Dame?

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4JT9s8zdFM"]Running Wild on Notre Dame...[/ame]

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Still not quite sold on the smaller guys, but this is a pretty sick run (starts at 1:44 of the vid):

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hF0uuD3BIU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hF0uuD3BIU[/ame]
 
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LOL - here's the obvious 'No shiat' opinion of the year:

I concur, sir!

The impending tenth anniversary of Super Bowl XXXVII between the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers had former Raiders receiver Tim Brown reminiscing on a radio show Saturday. But they weren't exactly good memories.

The NFL Hall of Famer suggested on Sirius XM NFL Radio that then Raiders coach Bill Callahan sabotaged the game against his former boss Jon Gruden's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, changing the offensive gameplan two days before kickoff. The Buccaneers ended up winning 48-21 in the most lopsided Super Bowl of the past 11 years.

"We all called it sabotage . . . because Callahan and [Tampa Bay coach Jon] Gruden were good friends," Brown said. "And Callahan had a big problem with the Raiders, you know, hated the Raiders. You know, only came because Gruden made him come. Literally walked off the field on us a couple of times during the season when he first got there, the first couple years. So really he had become someone who was part of the staff but we just didn't pay him any attention. Gruden leaves, he becomes the head coach. . . . It's hard to say that the guy sabotaged the Super Bowl. You know, can you really say that? That can be my opinion, but I can't say for a fact that that's what his plan was, to sabotage the Super Bowl. He hated the Raiders so much that he would sabotage the Super Bowl so his friend can win the Super Bowl. That's hard to say, because you can't prove it."​
No, you definitely can't prove it. Also, it makes no sense. What good would it have done for Bill Callahan to damage his own coaching career in order to help Jon Gruden? Had Gruden given him a kidney? Saved him from some sort of tragic accident? Had someone murdered on his behalf? The idea that an NFL coach would throw away his chance to add "Super Bowl winning coach" as a lifelong prefix due to some grudge towards Raider ownership or current players seems ludicrous. Bringing it up a decade after the fact doesn't exactly lend credibility to the story either.
Brown's main evidence is that Callahan switched the Raiders' game plan from a run first offense to a passing one against the Bucs, despite that his team "averaged 340 pounds on the offensive line." Brown suggested that Callahan's last minute adjustments might have actually been the trigger that sent center Barret Robbins AWOL in Mexico on a drinking binge and bipolar episode.
"Now, should Barret have manned up and tried to do it? Absolutely. But everybody knew Barret was unstable anyway. So to put him in that situation ? not that he was putting him in that situation ? but for that decision to be made without consulting the players the Friday before the Super Bowl? I played 27 years of football. The coaches never changed the game plan the Friday before the game. I'm not trying to point fingers at anybody here, all I'm saying is those are the facts of what happened. So people look at Barret and they say all these things, but every player in that locker room will tell you, 'You'd better talk to Bill Callahan.' Because if not for Coach Callahan, I don't think we're in that situation."​
Former Raiders fullback Jon Ritchie didn't exactly deny Brown's claims, although several other Raiders teammates did in this ESPN report.
"I've said it for years. What we practiced heavily during the week is not what we ran in that game," Ritchie texted Chris Mortensen. "Could have been due to Barrett's absence. It was never explained to me. I believe I said it on the record every year we talked about the Super Bowl (when he was with ESPN for four years). I always thought it would get sensational like this."​
Saying that Callahan might have intentionally sabotaged a Super Bowl seems a little extreme. Maybe he just wasn't a very good head coach. He was fired after going 4-12 in a 2003 season riddled with infighting and was hired by Nebraska the following season, a four-year tenure most Huskers fans view as an utter failure.

Brown isn't the only Hall of Fame player to lash out this season about Super Bowl teams of old. Former Bears defensive end Richard Dent told a Chicago radio show this summer that Mike Ditka's inability to manage the team's quarterback position cost the Bears multiple Super Bowl wins.
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Saying that Callahan might have intentionally sabotaged a Super Bowl seems a little extreme. Maybe he just wasn't a very good head coach. He was fired after going 4-12 in a 2003 season riddled with infighting and was hired by Nebraska the following season, a four-year tenure most Huskers fans view as an utter failure.
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"Most"? There are poeple that don't view it as an utter failure???
 
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