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Saturday, December 17, 2005
Getting to know people
The bowl game previews are starting to focus on individual players, though AP's coverage of Nebraska's pre-bowl press conference does note that coach Bill Callahan sees this game a quite the building block for his program.
» Posted by Jon at 5:21 pm
Let's have a playoff
Lloyd Carr has apparently decided that it's time for major college football to have a playoff -- 16 teams on the field. Maybe getting passed over for that New Year's bowl caused a little more hurt than Big Blue was letting on.
» Posted by Jon at 4:27 pm
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Coaches and switches
Been a little tardy but there's a few stories out there about the history between Lloyd Carr and Bill Callahan (both longtime Big Ten assistants) and the new offense the Huskers are working on.
» Posted by Jon at 10:29 pm
Saturday, December 10, 2005
The all-important recruiting game
In college football, recruiting is almost as rough a battle as the game itself. In Michigan, they're showing off a new building. In Nebraska, they're fretting about how little some of the high schools are getting visited by the new head coach.
» Posted by Jon at 9:36 pm
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Those Big Red writers
Here's one of the differences between college football in Michigan and in Nebraska: in one place, they occasionally get distracted by things like basketball. That place is not Nebraska. Most of today's Michigan sports pages focused on the basketball game between the Wolverines and Delaware State, and had nothing about the football team. In Nebraska, they were blessed with stories surrounding the start of bowl practice.
» Posted by Jon at 10:20 pm
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Getting more practice
Nebraska gets its bowl practices underway today, using its new indoor practice facility. These would be the extra practices that didn't happen after last year's team wasn't eligible for a bowl game, extra practices that the elite football programs get almost every year to develop young players and sharpen everybody's work habits.
» Posted by Jon at 10:33 pm
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
A few other blogs we'll watch
I've run across a few other places, mostly where these papers attempt to run blogs. Who knows, some of them might even be worth reading.
» Posted by Jon at 7:47 pm
Let's start the previews
It's a game of tradition-rich programs, a game people have been waiting eight years for, a game that features two coaches blah, blah, blah. It's a December bowl game on cable. But for one team its a step up, a step back toward rebuilding. For the other, its a step backward after some disappointments in an injury-riddled year.
» Posted by Jon at 9:26 am
Monday, December 5, 2005
A look at the Alamo
I'd be remiss if I didn't take over coverage of this year's Alamo Bowl. After all, I know all of the principles. For the first time since 1986, Michigan will face Nebraska, in a game that the Wolverines didn't want to be in, but I think the Cornhusker faithful are happy to get to, since they had to stay home last season.
» Posted by Jon at 9:29 pm