I was having lunch with my dear friend Nebraska this week when an "old friend" happened by......

Hey, Nebraska! How you doing, sweetheart! You look great! As wonderful as ever!!! 

Barry! Oh, it's so good to see you! 

 I miss the times we had together. Wish we could see each other more often! (sees Tom Obsorne and quickly saunters off after him). Don't you ever change! (wink)

 That's a little disgusting.

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Darrell Scott - can you blame him for wanting to transfer? No. When the ship's on fire, it's every rat for himself, ain't it?

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Boy, it's getting tough to pick these. Normally you have your good teams and your bad teams, but this year we have half-good and half-bad teams and they trade positions every quarter. Everyone but Texas that is. Texas has done one thing really well so far this season and that's crush the hopes out of everyone else in the South.

The Big 12 North is still fun for everyone! Everyone's still special and everyone still has a chance to be a winner! Unless you're Colorado.....  I think.

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Paul Rhoads did not suck this week. The coaches that opposed him.... well, they're nominated, aren't they?

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What a wretched, wretched week, and I'm not just talking about Nebraska, I'm talking about most of the Big 12 North. Well, not even the whole Big 12 North, but Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. The three teams that was expected to win the upper half of the conference can't get out of their own way. Neither can Colorado. Or Texas Tech. Better include Texas A&M in that. And Oklahoma State for the Dez Bryant thing. And Oklahoma because their offensive line got their quarterback killed and they just suck this season. 

Come to think of it, just about everything and everyone in the Big 12 sucks with the exception of Texas, Iowa State and Kansas State. The first because they keep winning. The latter because everyone thought they were jokes at the start of the season when the joke is on all of us. Maybe the media and the fans suck too.

Maybe it's just one giant season of SUCK. 

You know how this works right? Every week we nominate three of the worst performances in the Big 12. You vote on them, picking the weekly winner. At the end of the year we have a Big 12 Cob of the Year, a cobapalooza, and we select the Big 12 Cob of the Year! 

The way this year is going, everyone will get a chance to win, especially Dan Hawkins! 

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Some dude from Texas A&M trying to give Brandon Banks a huge. No wonder they can't play defense down there!

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I was thinking about nominating Corn Blight for his earlier post about getting rid of the black shirts, but I have a feeling he'd ban me for a week or two, so we'll just let that one go. He clearly needs to drink more kool-aid. Or get a better attitude. 

Once again this week there's plenty of poor performances to go around. If Husker fans think they've got it bad with that performance against Texas Tech, well, how'd you like to be Kansas or Texas A&M this week? If those aren't weird enough, what about Kansas State? Talk about your mood swings. 

And nobody nominated the Big 12 North after we've all figured out that we're the last year's ACC? Wow. You guys need to pick it up a notch. 

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Mike Leach - accepted as offensive genius, but really a diabolical sneaky bastard.

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Using Corn Nation's vast and elaborate network of spies, we have obtained information about a new offensive information that the diabolical (quirky) offensive genius Mike Leach (code name "Captain Weiner") intends to unveil against Nebraska. 

The formation is specifically designed to counter the ferocious, unstoppable, force otherwise known as Ndamukong Suh (code name "House of Spears"). 

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October 15, 2007 is now considered one of the greatest days in Nebraska Cornhusker history.  No national championships were won that day; heck, the Huskers didn't even play that day.  It wasn't on the field, but something off the field that caused many fans to celebrate like they did on January 1, 1995, January 2, 1996, or the early morning hours of January 3, 1998.

That event was the announcement by Harvey Perlman's office that Steve Pederson had been dismissed as Nebraska athletic director.  Husker fans celebrated VSP day much like their grandparents celebrated V-J day in 1945.

The announcement really didn't surprise fans that much.  The internets were full of rumors that this was coming, and in fact, the rumors also indicated that both Bill Callahan and Kevin Cosgrove were also going to be terminated.  But as the day progressed, it became clear that the original rumors weren't completely accurate.

I was listening to KOZN-1620 AM's special coverage after the Oklahoma State loss just hoping there was some sort of truth to the rumors running amok.  At around 1:30 pm, a KETV-Channel 7 reporter stationed outside Perlman's office reported that Steve Pederson had just left the Chancellor's office after a brief meeting offering a "no comment".  The Chancellors office said that they had nothing to say at that moment, but to stand by.

Then came the press release issued at 2:15.  Pederson was gone, and Husker nation rejoiced.  That hour, a post I wrote earlier calling for Pederson to be fired was Googled once every three seconds.  Radio talk shows lit up as fans celebrated the departure of the man that had failed Nebraska football so badly, so arrogantly, and so carelessly.  One staff meeting I attended later that afternoon was delayed so we could watch Harvey Perlman's press conference explaining the firing.  Productivity across offices in this state I'm sure reached record lows that afternoon as the scourge of Husker fans everywhere received his comeuppance.

So tell me...where were you when you heard the news, and what did you do at that moment?  And are you celebrating today?

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Kansas State's Bill Snyder asks an official if they can do "two hand touch" during the second quarter of a game against Texas Tech. During the fourth quarter, he rescinded the request with another. "One Hand Touch, then? Okay? No????"

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It's that time of the week again! Time to vote for your candidate for the worst performance in the Big 12 last week. 

There are times at which it's hard to come up with nominations... like the non-conference season when everyone plays a blind high school team on the same weekend. Now that we're in Big 12 conference play, there's no need to fear the lack of nominations! 

I especially can't wait for next week! Will the mighty Sooners or Longhorns be amongst the candidates? After all that hype, you know something stupid is going to happen! 

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What's even worse than Oklahoma embarrassing the Big 12? Having 'Canes players blabber on about being "back" the week after Virginia Tech utterly destroyed them. Apparently it doesn't take much to be "back" for some people.

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You might have thought that the bye week would have left us a little short of nominations. Not so fast, my friend! There's plenty of choices!

Texas A&M should have made this list for such a bad performance against Arkansas. Oh, look, they do!!!

Corn Blight:

My Cob nomination goes to Oklahoma. The offensive line is horrible not because they're bad athletes, but because they're playing poorly. Even Trent Williams, one of the best in the nation got so frustrated as to pick up a personal foul penalty for a leg whip.

The Sooners looked directionless, leaderless and faithless against Miami. Even then, they only lost by one.

Husker Mike:

Once again, Colorado gets my nomination.  On the opening play, Colorado failed to cover a West Virginia receiver sprinting downfield...but was overthrown.  So on the next play, Noel Devine ran untouched 77 yards for a touchdown. 

And it was all downhill from there.  West Virginia even tried to help out the Buffies, turning the ball over four times in the first half, but the Buffies are simply beyond help.  Nice way to show up on national television.  Is one of the Denver TV stations planning a telethon to help pay for the coaching change?

Jlew:

My cob goes to the ISU/KSU decision to move their game, "Farmageddon" to Kansas City. Sure it was a good game for a pillow fight, but it sounds like the traffic was awful, and the environment was sterile. The attendance was sad as well, only 40,851.

Keep college football games on college campuses where they belong.