Cobs of the Week: 'Bama, Boise, Okie State, Iowegia, and an Irrevelvant Commissioner

by Husker Mike on Nov 29, 2010 8:53 PM CST in Nebraska Husker Football

Before we move onto this weekend's Big Eight Championship game, we still have one final task from last weekend, and that's the awarding of the Cob of the Week for the worst of this past weekend's college football. And though Jon wants us to ignore that commissioner guy, he already had been nominated. So he's in the mix, along with several other candidates. So if you want to prove that Husker fans are so over the doofus in Dallas, here's your chance.

Or if you want to make a statement, go that direction as well.

Alabama: Blowing a 24-point lead against your rival, especially considering you have two of the best backs in the country to help milk the clock.

Boise State: Pperhaps the saddest cob of all time. Kicker Kyle Brotzman missed a chip-shot field goal at the end of regulation to send the game to overtime, then misses another in overtime to effectively seal the win for Nevada. If you're one of those guys who focuses on the end, on the clutch, Brotzman wasn't. If you're one of those guys who remembers football is a team game you'd say - where the hell was his team in overtime? They knew the guy just missed an easy field goal - if they wanted to save themselves, they'd have scored a touchdown in overtime and made it tough on Nevada. Kyle Brotzman - sad cob for you.

Oklahoma State's defensive secondary. Specifically the play at 2:42 of the ESPN highlights:

I realize it was play-action, but how do you let a guy run right by you like James Hanna run right by you like that when the game is the line? There are five defenders chasing him, but none near him. Choklahoma State all over again!

Iowa: The Squawkeyes started the season ranked ninth...then found a way to lose the final three games. Wisconsin and Ohio State, I can accept. Arizona, that was on the road. Ok, tough draw. But Northwestern? And Minne-freaking-sota? You gotta be kidding me. Getting held to 218 yards by a Kevin Cosgrove defense?

The Clueless Commissioner: Could this man be any more ridiculous? First he refuses to send a representative to Lincoln in the event Nebraska defeats Colorado and wins the old-Big 8-minus-Oklahoma division, claiming that it's too dangerous to send anybody from his office. Really? A representative flies in, gets a University escort to a hotel then the game, watches the game from a suite, then is escorted to the locker room? That's too dangerous?

Ok, ok. So maybe Big Boy could be instantly recognized. But how about somebody else? Maybe, oh, Ed Stewart?

Maybe we're being petty about that. Saturday, he told the Lincoln Journal-Star that he thought Texas A&M's Tony Jerod-Eddie was simply going after the football and nothing more. And since Ben Cotton said the same thing, why should he think anything different? Oy!

So who's your choice for Cob of the Week?

Poll

So who's this week's Cob of the Week?

Alabama

69 votes

Boise State

65 votes

Oklahoma State Secondary

24 votes

Iowa

80 votes

The Clueless Commissioner

288 votes

526 votes | Poll has closed

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Going for the football??

Maybe we’re being petty about that. Saturday, he told the Lincoln Journal-Star that he thought Texas A&M’s Tony Jerod-Eddie was simply going after the football and nothing more. And since Ben Cotton said the same thing, why should he think anything different? Oy!

Are you fu*$ing kidding? Did he have that pigskin hidden up his ass, tucked behind his sack, or stapled to his taint or something?

by HerpieHusker on Nov 29, 2010 9:04 PM CST reply actions

Oh man oh man what nominees we have this week

I’ll toss out Iowa and Okie State because wacky upsets happen all the time and we already knew OSU’s secondary was one of the worst in the conference.

That leaves Bama, Boise, and Beebe…..all three showed unfathomable ineptitude, and in Beebe’s case, ignorance. Actually, Beebe showed both incompetence and ignorance. He wins.

"My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season." - Tom Osborne

by jdhusker on Nov 29, 2010 9:13 PM CST reply actions

I so wanted to pick

Alabama for the CU type of meltdown,,,,but had to go with the clueless Comish!!!!

Matthew 11:28-30
Smoke em' if you got em'!!!
Low and Slow!!!

by sd.husker on Nov 29, 2010 9:16 PM CST reply actions

my rational is the following...

Dan Beebe doesn’t even register on my care-o-meter at this point.

Alabama gets my vote. How could you? You have a 24 point lead at home on the number one team in the nation and blow it!?!?!?

Iowa was a close second. How can you lose to Minnesota?!?!?!?

OSU secondary had mistakes but that awesome pick saved the day for their cob, plus i am selfish and wanted them to fail.

Again, Boise State is an afterthought for me. I have no ill will towards them.

by JimmytheRed on Nov 29, 2010 9:18 PM CST reply actions

I went with Iowa.

Getting a head start on the new rivalry.

by Cheeseandcorn on Nov 29, 2010 9:52 PM CST reply actions

How do you not score more points against a Kevin Cosgrove defense?

by George W. Beadle on Nov 29, 2010 10:20 PM CST up reply actions

EXACTLY...

that’s why I went with Iowa. I really don’t give a f*@k about the sorry a55 commish.

GBR!
throw dem bones!!!

by hskrntnfreak on Nov 30, 2010 12:21 AM CST up reply actions

Went with Alabama

but if I were to vote in spite, the kind of spite that is drummed up from listening to Iowa fans repeatedly trash talk the Huskers more than they even acknowledge their own team, I would have gone with Iowa.

by HerpieHusker on Nov 29, 2010 10:02 PM CST reply actions

Agreed on Iowa fans

I know a few and last year they were all over me about how awesome they were and how much we sucked….never mind that we lost 3 games we should’ve won and they won 3-4 games that they should’ve lost. I have to say that it’s been fun watching them shit all over themselves in the final minutes of every close game they’ve been in this year.

"My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season." - Tom Osborne

by jdhusker on Nov 29, 2010 10:06 PM CST up reply actions

Try being from central Iowa.

Nothing, you hear NOTHING about Iowa football. All you here is how bad Nebraska sucks. I think a well-season psychologist would have a hayday analyzing that one.

by HerpieHusker on Nov 29, 2010 10:09 PM CST up reply actions

I was talking to a counselor at school about the Boise State game,

and he pointed out how much money that kicker cost the university. They get my vote.

Anthony Tolliver says "Get that weak stuff outta here!"

EXTEND JASON RICHARDSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Omaha Sun on Nov 29, 2010 10:44 PM CST reply actions

Isn't

that kid a senior? Isn’t he the highest scorer ever for them? I believe that kid has done enough for that university and putting it all on his shoulders is bullshit. He is competing to the best of his ability.

by JimmytheRed on Nov 29, 2010 11:13 PM CST up reply actions

I realize

my post may look like I am blasting you. I am not. I just finished an article on all the people in Boise who are on this kid and beating him up in social media and campus. So, really, my statement stands with regards to this kid as I stated below, but it was in no way to tell you I thought you were being “out-of-line” or anything.

by JimmytheRed on Nov 29, 2010 11:19 PM CST up reply actions

I agree, Jimmy.

If they truly belonged, the game should have not been so close.

That said, the loss in that game cost them more than 12 million dollars.

by HerpieHusker on Nov 29, 2010 11:28 PM CST up reply actions

Kind of like

what a lot of Husker fans did to Niles Paul after the Husker loss…

by redvalley on Nov 29, 2010 11:36 PM CST up reply actions

exactly

and i would expect true Husker faithful to go shake Paul’s hand and tell him thank you for giving so much effort to NU. I felt very badly for him after the Texas loss and almost everything being pinned on him. It isn’t fair. Just like for this kid at Boise.

by JimmytheRed on Nov 29, 2010 11:42 PM CST up reply actions

I absolutely hate it

when one player makes a mistake at the end of a close game, and all fingers are pointed at him (or her).

The way I see it, every game has a lot of mistakes and missed chances in it. If those mistakes hadn’t happened, then that last-second-win-the-game play would not even exist.

by redvalley on Nov 30, 2010 12:00 AM CST up reply actions