I have been pretty caught up in the "game" of recruiting lately, even defending over signing but got a bit of insight at the lives it effects by reading the above story. Good article about number of recruits vs number of scholarships. Just another reason to hate Iowa too.

Rutgers head coach, Greg Schiano, has departed from the school to coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers just a week before National Signing Day. This could have a positive effect for Nebraska as we are competing for the signature of N.J. native Devin Fuller who seemed to be narrowed down to just a few schools left including Rutgers. Does this also open the conversation back up with Quanzell Lambert, who previously gave a verbal to Rutgers over Nebraska?

Prayers for the Paterno family and for the Penn State community as a whole. Lung cancer is the official cause, but you have to wonder about his will to go on after the events of 2011.

Needless to say, we need a pair of reliable hands in the receiving corps, and Westerkamp is as good a candidate as any to fill that role. The 4* receiver out of Illinois never decommited from NU, but he made plenty of Husker fans sweat by taking a late visit to Notre Dame and was openly considering the Irish.

It is imperative that big Will dons the "Yellow Blazer" while T.O. still walks with earthly feet. Roger Craig needs to get a bust statue in Canton, OH, too.

My sympathy is with PSU regarding their scandal and the emotional hurt involved with that...HOWEVER I have no burning to desire to see their football program return to top tier form, and I don't find it overly likely that O'Brien will take them back there.

Primarily an NFL coach with a thin resume as a playcaller at either level and has never been a head coach before.

Meyer? Pelini? O'Brien? Oh yes.

While reading this story, I had an interesting thought: Mild-mannered "nice guy" Tom Osborne may become the first Nebraska AD in at least 50 years to fire a football, baseball, and men's basketball coach during his tenure. Because if the "hardcore loyalists stop caring," a change will be required.

A Champaign (IL) newspaper reported that cheerleaders from a local high school will be performing with Lady Gaga prior to the Capital One Bowl.

The Capital One Bowl reported via Twitter that Gaga isn't going to be part of the pre-game show unless she dresses as a mascot or piece of turf.

So much for that.

Defensive line coach Rick Kaczenski has left Iowa to pursue another coaching opportunity. Where could that be? Well, someone tracked a plane from Iowa City to Lincoln this afternoon...

Kaczenski has coached several all-Big Ten players while at Iowa, including Adrian Clayborn