Cobs of the Week: ESPN, Chris Spielman, Husker Receivers, State of Texas, & Stanford
by Husker Mike on Nov 14, 2011 12:51 PM CST
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Our nominees for the "Worst of the Week in College Football" were all over the board after a leading candidate. We've combined several to make this a little more interesting...but I think this vote probably is going to be rather onesided.
Like last week, the alleged monster that was revealed last weekend was off-limits for this vote. "Cob of the Week" is supposed to be a humorous stab at what went wrong in college football...and there is absolutely nothing funny about child abuse. Doesn't mean that there are candidates on the periphery, though.
ESPN
But I'd like to nominate ESPN and their horrific coverage of Saturday's game. Maybe instead of splitting your crew to give us play-by-play coverage of the idiots in JoePa's front yard, you could like, oh, I don't know....cover the damn 
game? Worst example: Nebraska fumbles a handoff to Tyler Legate, and Penn State takes possession. Meanwhile, Bo Pelini is pretty animated with the officials on the sideline. Maybe you should run a few more replays to see what Bo wanted to challenge. Nah...ESPN goes with crowd shots and Bo arguing with the officals. Leave it to the folks with DVRs at home who discovered that Yoshi Hardrick actually recovered the ball.
Wouldn't know that from the actual ESPN broadcast. ESPN got owned by CNN and MSNBC on Wednesday night, and didn't do any better covering the game itself.
Chris Spielman
Genuinely stunned that Nebraska can throw the ball. Read the stats from last week, Chris? I know you were filling in for Urban Meyer, but pick up a paper or use that fancy Internets that everyone is raving about. Another favorite when it looked like Kenny Bell missed his route. "That was just a bad read by Martinez ...or by Bell ." No shit.
Nebraska Wide Receivers (Tight Ends excluded)
Catch the goddamn ball! You have 2 jobs: catch and block. You do only one well.
The Entire State of Texas
We had nominations for just about every school in Texas...and decided, why not just nominate the entire state and be done with it.
Texas A&M? Texas A&M taking a dump again in the second half. I would hate to be an Aggie fan this year knowing that even double digit leads aren't safe with this team. I'm sure things will turn around when they play the likes for Alabama , LSU, et al.
Texas Tech? Good lord. Though Oklahoma should get a co-nomination with them (call it a "handcuff" nomination) for losing to those clowns at home.
Baylor? Needed overtime to defeat Kansas?
Texas? Moohahahaha.
TCU? Just be glad Boise doesn't have a field goal kicker.
Stanford
"Suck for Luck" only applies to NFL teams. You really think Andrew Luck might want to return next season? Really?
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TCU shouldn't get laughed at.
No one expected them to win. Put up a challenge? Sure.
Win? Ha, no.
A Cornhusker through feast or famine. Get up, dust yourself off and run the ball. That's the Nebraska way.
by Salt Creek and Stadium on Nov 14, 2011 1:08 PM CST reply actions
Is it...
the fact that NU could never beat UT on the field or the fact that they could never match UT’s on field success and size and dedication of their fanbase and resultant benefits that has so many Cornheads continually upset about the state of Texas?
by rationalthought on Nov 14, 2011 1:20 PM CST via iPhone app reply actions
Yes you found us out...we are very jealous of your 6-3 team
UT’s last 3 games:
Kansas St
@A&M
@Baylor
6-6 is not entirely out of the equation here. The Alamo Bowl trophy awaits for the self-appointed “kings” of college football.
1-9 vs UT while in the Big 12
Pretty clear where the hate stems from. And how many natl titles have you played in or won in that time period? A program is built over many years, and NU has many great ones to go to match UT’s success in the last decade. With winning comes certain benefits. Note that I said “winning” and not “whining” (the Pelini bros trademark). And note that I don’t troll. I have posts that mention the Longhorns sent to me automatically. It just happens that several programs (yours included) like to talk about UT. Wish I could quarantine the stupid ones, but they sneak in there too.
by rationalthought on Nov 14, 2011 11:22 PM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
You don't troll?
Do you not know the definition of “troll”?
You log on to another team’s page, a team you obviously have little regard for, and then proceed to make inflammatory comments.
If that is not “trolling”, what the hell is, in your book?
A Cornhusker through feast or famine. Get up, dust yourself off and run the ball. That's the Nebraska way.
by Salt Creek and Stadium on Nov 15, 2011 11:22 AM CST up reply actions
And furthermore
you’re going to say that a “program is built over many years” and then completely ignore the decades prior to the Big XII?
Ted Heise - 40 year Nebraskan, now in Bloomington, Indiana
Also.
LONGHORN LONGHORN LONGHORN LONGHORN UT UT UT UT TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS
A Cornhusker through feast or famine. Get up, dust yourself off and run the ball. That's the Nebraska way.
by Salt Creek and Stadium on Nov 15, 2011 12:04 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
Also, Nebraska fans envy the dedication of UT's fanbase?
That’s a good one. Please, come around here and troll some more. This is fun.
by Cheeseandcorn on Nov 14, 2011 2:08 PM CST up reply actions 7 recs
BEVO Invited A Lot Of Empty Seats, Didn't He
Lots a pine showin’….. :D
Paddle faster, I hear banjos!!
Hmm
To be honest, I haven’t thought much about Texas lately? How are they doing? Back on top of the Big XII this year? How’s it looking for next year?
In the deed, the glory.
Corn Nation!
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by Aaron Musfeldt on Nov 14, 2011 2:56 PM CST up reply actions
Thanks for stopping by and sharing that with us!
We appreciate your contribution and I hope you have a great day!
(Remember, if you guys keep bringing this up, you’ll be living in the past!)
A Cornhusker through feast or famine. Get up, dust yourself off and run the ball. That's the Nebraska way.
by Salt Creek and Stadium on Nov 14, 2011 3:09 PM CST up reply actions
Like Boise State
Chris Spielman and ESPN appeared to be headed towards winning [my vote]. Then, out of nowhere a Texas troll reared it’s ugly head.
ESPN’s broadcast of the Penn St/Nebraska game was extremely one-sided and would have easily taken my vote but Texas just plain sucks.
by HuskerINtheArmy on Nov 14, 2011 2:55 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Dave Pasch
was the bigger cob for me. That guy can go sit on a pineapple.
Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
Not sure if this is Cob of the Week worthy
But I go nuts whenever I hear about how Martinez can’t throw. The coverage after this week’s game was no better. Several national (read: clueless) writers wrote some variant of: “Martinez again had trouble hitting receivers on Saturday…”
How about we actually watch the games guys? NU’s receivers have hands made of stone? Fair critique. Martinez has trouble hitting receivers? Maybe if you consider 75% of his passes hitting his receivers in highly catchable areas as “having trouble.” Look, I know his delivery is flawed. I know he’s at times inconsistent but this ESPN-led “Martinez can’t throw har har har” schtick is really getting old.
(yeah the CotW kind of caught this with Spielman, but this goes way beyond him).
Went with ESPN’s coverage though. We were basically the de facto bad guys on Saturday.
"My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season." - Tom Osborne
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Given the results of the poll and long held Husker feelings how about using ESPN’s real name, txPN, on this page. These four little letters say so much.
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