[Husker] Re: NU v MU (fwd)

[Harmon, Josh]

They showed the whole BC v BSU game in Texas.... much to my chagrin (although the ending was interesting).  I'm actually surprised to hear that ESPN does split broadcasts by region.  Thinking about  it, I may have been able to catch the NU game on ESPN alt.

I watched the game with a Nebraska friend who went to Michigan.  His allegiance was split.  Anyway, I don't really recall too much about the officiating now, but neither of us were real impressed with the sunbelt conference refs.  I have a feeling part of that was simply a bias against the sunbelt conference.  I do wish the instant replay was handled differently.  One shouldn't have to sacrifice a timeout to hope the replay official has enough time to decide to review the play.  It should either be reviewed by the next "occurence" (time out, play, quarter end) or they should have coach's challenges like NFL and Mountain West does.  This middle ground is rediculous. 

Anyway, what a game.  Loved the Stanford/Cal ending.  I think that last play clearly showed Michigan had better athletes on the field (said somewhat tounge in cheek), but Nebraska had more heart.  What I thought was interesting from my biased prospective (and was echoed by the "idiot" announcers) was that where Nebraska really excelled -- was the run game (most of those lineman were built for the run block).  Granted -- the pass game opened that up.  No way does Cory get that many yards on a 80% run offense.  Regardless -- that was one hell of a game.  I declare Nebraska Alamo Bowl champion and 1997 uncontested National Champion (it was in the Alamo Bowl contract's small print).

Ahem, I still wouldn't have put Beck in :)

Josh


-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Mike Nolan
Sent: Thu 12/29/2005 12:22 AM
To: husker at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: [Husker] Re: NU v MU (fwd)
 
> You must have been watching a different broadcast. Turico and Herbstriet are 
> probably the most insightful college broadcasters that  ESPN employs. The 
> way that they continued to point out the deficiencies of the officials, 
> question why Nebraska continually abandoned the run in stretches, and 
> brought insightful analysis made the game enjoyable to watch.

However, they also spent FAR TOO MUCH TIME in the first half talking 
about tomorrow's Oklahoma game, and they got sidetracked too many times 
in the 2nd half.

Though I agree that this is one of ESPN's better booth teams, this was 
not their best performance of the season.  Not even close.  Their best
moment was on the last play of the game.

BTW, based on the end zone view, I'd have to say that this game was
a total team effort, especially on that last play.  :-)

The sideline reporter was beyond terrible, her reports were meaningless,
her recounting of the 'interviews' with the coaches at halftime seemed 
trite.  The stats team seemed out to prove points with little relationship 
to this or any other game.  Who gives a fig about how many NFL quarterbacks 
have come out of Michigan?  The camera crew was faked out more times than 
I cared to count.  Thankfully they had enough cameras that they usually
had the play from other angles.

If I was a Boise State or BC fan, I'd probably be pretty pissed that
they dropped coverage at a time when that game was still up for grabs.
(Couldn't they have had the game in a window in one corner of the screen?)

Lloyd Carr's postgame comments are going to be interesting reading, I'll
have to watch the Fox channels on cable to see when his coaches show
airs, he might have calmed down a bit by then.  Is he now on the bubble
at Michigan?  (Alternatively, is Michigan dumb enough to fire him?)
--
Mike Nolan

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