Cobs of the Week: Us, Bo & Carl, Greg Burks & Friends, Tony Jerod-Eddie, & Purdue Punt Protection
by Husker Mike on Nov 24, 2010 1:45 PM CST
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PrintJust when you think we couldn't get any later with this...we get later. It's Wednesday and still no Cob nominations? Well, we were working on them, but they just didn't get posted. So we'll nominate ourselves first as our penance.
Who else? Well, there's no end of nominations from the Nebraska/Texas A&M game, so we'll start there...
The Pelini Brothers: Bo freaked out at Taylor Martinez and side judge Gene Semko. Carl freaked out on Brandon Jones and his camera. Whether they had a point wasn't the issue; the point was how they made it known.
Greg Burks and his Big XII officiating crew: Even Texas A&M fans had to wonder about that "roughing the passer" penalty flag against Courtney Osborne. That horrible call gave the Aggies a first down and the eventual game-winning field goal, rather than facing a fourth down and likely having to punt. And we're going to behave and not bring up your track record of throwing flags in games involving the Huskers. Suffice it to say that even the media is wondering.
Tony Jerod-Eddie A&M coach Mike Sherman says he's handling the Jerod-Eddie situation, but would not disclose anything further. That apparently includes whether the rest of the Aggies are being issued "soap on a rope", or whether Jerod-Eddie can use Sherman (or Ben Cotton) as a reference on his job application with the Transportation Security Administration.
Austen Moret: On punts, Purdue deploys three linemen behind the line of scrimmage for a reason to make sure nobody gets through to the punter. Great strategy, as long as the linemen actually move out of their three point stance. Austen Moret channeled his inner Lydon Murtha and waved as Denicos Allen ran right past him to block the punt to set up the game winning score.
Moret is in the group of three blockers about 7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on the right side; look under the "N". Watch him stick out his arm and not even move his feet.
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Gotta be the officials - not even close in my book.
I wasn’t happy with Bo, but I’ve never seen a game more dictated by poor officiating. The fact that they aren’t getting a public reprimand by the Big 12 speaks volumes about the current state of affairs regarding Nebraska.
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
Tony Jerod-Eddie A&M coach Mike Sherman says he’s handling the Jerod-Eddie situation, but would not disclose anything further. That apparently includes whether the rest of the Aggies are being issued “soap on a rope”, or whether Jerod-Eddie can use Sherman (or Ben Cotton) as a reference on his job application with the Transportation Security Administration.
OK, that will be the funniest thing I will see all week! And it sums the whole situation up completely. This is my cob vote … and that laugh was well worth the wait. Thanks Husker Mike
I voted
for those damned lazy ass CN editors.
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I chose...
Bo and Carl. They are professionals and they need to act like it even in the face of getting jobbed (which we were, but honestly, SCORE. MORE. POINTS. and the game wouldn’t be in the official’s hands.) I am surprised that Carl wasn’t suspended. Glad they both apologized.
I didn’t vote the kid from TAMU because that is what he is. A kid. He is going to do dumb things like that and it wasn’t the first time or last time something like that will/has happened. I figured that Sherman would be a cob of the week choice since he did NOTHING publicly to show the kid is punished. Not even a suspension…….lame, Sherman. Really lame.
Second place goes to the officials. I know that Bo was riding the hell out of them, but they also need to uphold the rules in an impartial manner. They need to be suspended for the remainder of the year by the B12. If Bo is going on too much, then use the powers you have like throwing a sideline flag until it stops. But you cannot punish the kids on the field by throwing non-existent infractions to show the coach who is boss.
It wasn't so much throwing non-existent infractions
At least for me, it was NOT throwing hardly any infractions against our opponents.
Most of our penalties were clear. Some were ticky-tack or out-and-out wrong. But out of 16 flags, at least 11-12 were clear and unarguable. What WAS arguable, is the same team getting flagged 8 times a game suddently only committed two minor flags?
I don’t care if a crew is strict and throws a flag at the drop of a hat, or blind as a bat and lets everything go. But do so equitably. That’s why the officials got my cob vote.
I agree with you
about no flags for the opponents. BUT I must point to the non-existent roughing penalty as THE reason their game winning (ugh…) drive was even possible. That ref saw an opportunity to throw the flag in spite of our coach on a judgement call which was obviously not roughing.
I agree
Bo’s frustrations can be justified, yes. But he’s our head coach. He’s not just a head coach. He’s ours. We’re the Nebraska Cornhuskers. We’re better than that.
That said. We’re all human. All of us. I expect him to lead the young men on our football team toward a higher standard than toward the kind of standards in which, well, you can see the “standards” I’m talking about if you watch “the Youtubes.”
I think that a very big positive can come out of this if Bo recognizes his mistake, which he says he has, and shows everyone that he has learned from it by moving forward, with both humility and stoicism. If he is acountable for his mistake and if he changes his behavior, it can be a very powerful lesson for every young man on that team and those who come after them.
Go Big Red.
Farley was a gifted comic who should still be here, making us laugh.
He’s another sad example of a genius whose self-destructive tendencies got the best of him.
Every college football program has its script. I don’t need to tell you this. The rivalry games we’ll watch this weekend will have some of the best examples. In the minutes leading up to kickoff, we see the same shots that we do every year, hear the same history lessons, and cringe at the same clichés. We know our storyline better than the others, but it’s not much more than just a storyline. Our story may be true, and we may be the best fans in college football, but there is no way to quantify this, and, if someone steadfastly disagrees with this claim, there is no way for it to be proven.
Situations like this can be hard to look at objectively, but imagine, if you will, your fiercest rival coming into Memorial Stadium. For the sake of argument, let’s say it’s Texas. Imagine that a game played out between Nebraska and Texas plays out as last week’s game against A&M, but imagine that we’re A&M and Texas is last Saturday’s Nebraska team. Bo Pelini’s Huskers from last Saturday, in their Longhorn uniforms and with their Longhorn attitude, are playing against us Memorial Stadium. What would we have thought about Bo Pelini then? We know the things people are saying about him now. Wouldn’t we be saying similar things?: “Sure, the calls weren’t all that fair, but Pelini’s Longhorns were in Lincoln — on the road in a tough stadium — playing a big game, and couldn’t they suck it up? Couldn’t they lose like men? Why the temper tantrum? Why make it so much worse on themselves?” We might say a lot worse about him, yeah? And not just about him. How about his older brother? Because, as an added bonus, imagine that, after the game, their DC goes after one of the guys from this blog who is down there with a camera. Not after an Aggie. After your buddy. Imagine that.
Is this who we want to be?
Let’s be honest. We are football fans for reasons beyond a love for the game. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, we want bragging rights. I want to be able to tell my friends and family who are Sooners, Longhorns, Trojans, Buckeyes, and Tigers from Auburn and LSU both that yesterday afternoon and this season, we were better than they were. Part of being a Nebraska fan is that, win or lose, we’re good sports about it. At least that’s how the storyline is supposed to go, right?
Maybe it’s not our storyline. And, even if it was or is, it doesn’t have to be our storyline any longer if we don’t want it to be. But there are plenty of people out there who don’t like Husker football and who love it when we lose. Why do we want to give them any more satisfaction than necessary?
I don’t. And I also don’t want to send the message to the student athletes on that team and the student fans on campus that this is how adults behave when they lose a game. I like our storyline just fine, thank you.
Go Big Red.
As I hear
it’s not unusual for an official to throw a flag because he’s pissed at the coach but not the whole game..
You got hosed
I lost whatever faith I had left in Big 12 officials after this no-call from last year.
"I’ve established a reputation for integrity. I have maintained those high standards" - Craig James
SEE - SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT!
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
Yeah
And he’ s staring right at the play. The ref…he STARING at it!
Although, this season that probably would have been called.
"Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game;
In the deed the glory"
GO BIG RED!
by Brian Speers on Nov 25, 2010 8:51 AM CST up reply actions
Where is the Big 12 Vote Option?
I would rather vote for Dan Beebe or the Big 12 as a whole for NOT SUSPENDING Tony Jerod-Eddie for what he did to Cotton. Martin gets suspended for a LEGAL HIT, but an absolute groping doesn’t get anything besides, “We’ll take care of it internal”. That is ridiculous.
by VarangianGuard on Nov 25, 2010 10:23 AM CST reply actions
I chose the refs because
They should be held to the highest standard. Fairness to all interested parties is in their hands. They failed.
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