Published on: 7th January, 2010
The Big Ten is back—or that is what people would have you believe based upon the conference's 4-3 record in this year's bowl season. Not so fast, I think. It is a sign of the Big Ten's continued inferiority complex that its supporters argue that a barely above average bowl record qualifies ...Published on: 25th December, 2009
The 2009 Nebraska Cornhusker football season has been a roller coaster to say the least. Sometimes tired old cliches just decribe it the best. The atmosphere in Lincoln was close to poisonous in October after a disastrous loss to a mediocore Iowa State team that started backups at quarterback and running back. Nebraska was back in ...Published on: 16th December, 2009
The college football world is abuzz with the news that the Big 10 will officially consider expansion to a twelve team conference. This news coming from the conservative Big 10 conference is surprising. Put it on a par almost with the news if tomorrow Iran's Islamic dictatorship would announce it was embracing ...Published on: 14th December, 2009
Confusion is never an emotion that a head football coach wants to inspire in his players or his team's fans. This Sunday as the Chiefs were in the process of losing to the Buffalo Bills 16-10, confusion about the Chiefs' offensive philosophy and identity was as apparent on the sidelines as it was in ...Published on: 11th December, 2009
A week into Lew Perkins' quest for a new head football coach at the University of Kansas, the list of potential candidates is growing clearer. The search has not been without a few curveballs. Pundits were shocked to learn that Perkins had conversations with Ole Miss' Houston Nutt and Minnesota's Tim Brewster. Both Nutt ...Published on: 9th December, 2009
Bo Pelini's Nebraska Cornhuskers and their quest to return to relevance on the national stage took a big punch to the gut today. Arguably, the pain from this blow is harder to take for Husker fans than the last second loss to Texas in the Big 12 Championship Game. In the all-important recruiting wars, Nebraska ...Published on: 9th December, 2009
It's been less than a week after Mark Mangino resigned and Kansas's athletic director, Lew Perkins, must already be feeling like the ugly and awkward kid who can't get a date to the high school dance. Sources connected to Perkins first said he was going after Stanford's Jim Harbaugh. You should give ...Published on: 7th December, 2009
So, you thought when Mark Mangino resigned that the circus surrounding the Kansas Jayhawks' program was over? Wrong. Original reports out of Lawrence after Mangino resigned was that Lew Perkins, the Kansas athletic director, was targeting Standford's Jim Harbaugh. Those reports fizzled as it came out that Harbaugh was waiting for ...Published on: 7th December, 2009
Well, its official. The 2009 Nebraska Cornuskers' offense was the worst since 1968. For those of you who are mathematically challenged, that means it hasn't been this bad in Lincoln in 41 years. The 2009 Cornhuskers finished ranked 102 nationally in yards per game. If you are wondering, those statistics include the Sun Belt ...Published on: 4th December, 2009
Mark Mangino is gone. No explanation for this has been given by Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins. We know that there was an internal investigation into alleged verbal abusive by Mangino and that its findings will never be made public. We know that Mangino and Perkins were never friendly with one another and we know ...