[Husker] Some Pre-Game Thoughts

[JEN_SENS]

I believe you are correct, but what disturbs me is this team hasn't proven 
anything yet to show they are good enough to take a week off.

Gerald


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> One point that no one has stated seems only slightly obvious
> to my mind. Last
> Saturday in the Wake Forest game we saw the Huskers looking
> ahead to USC. Even
> with the 2006 success of the Demon Deacons they were not the
> foremost thought on
> the minds of players and coaches when preparing for or
> playing that game. Combine
> that with the road game element plus a decent WF squad and
> you get a 20-17 win by
> a team that doesn't look much better than their opponent.
> Saturday night we see whether or not that fixation pays off
> with a win. To all the
> smarmy LA Times types who are writing this one off as a
> Trojan walkover, I can
> only say be careful what you wish for if you play according
> to past efforts and
> run into a hostile Husker crew which refuses to lie down
> before the USC juggernaut.
>
> GO BIG RED!
>
> Kerry Hookstra
>
> Erick, Oklahoma(Soon to be from Downs, Kansas-two weeks from
> today)
>
>
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> From: Steve Stone <sstone at pvtnetworks.net>
> To: "husker-tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com>
> Subject: [Husker] Some Pre-Game Thoughts
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:07:14 -0600
>
> If I know anything about coaches, Bill Callahan has been
> preparing  specifically for Saturday's game for, say, eleven
> months and about  three weeks. How well such planning will
> pay off is yet to be seen.
>
> I have no idea whether last year's game plan was terrific or
> pathetic, but I do think it was the only possibvle one under
> the  circumstances: no possibility of beating the Trojans on
> their home  turf, a still-developing Husker offense, and a
> shallow and hastily  reorganized  defensive backfield. The
> best that could be done was to  prevent disaster. In that
> respect it worked.
>
> The Huskers wound up on the wrong end of a 28-10 score, but
> I did see  one rather surprising and encouraging facet as
> the game drew to a  close: the Trojan offense took
> possession of the ball near the red  zone but made only a
> pro forma attempt to advance the ball. In a  post-game LA
> Times interview, Trojan linemen admitted they they had  had
> all the football they wanted that evening. They were
> exhausted.  To me, that meant the Huskers had been outscored
> but not outmanned in  the trenches.
>
> In my view, this year's Huskers are a clear step ahead of
> last  year's, and playing the game in Memorial Stadium
> should make it a  little harder for the Trojans and a lot
> easier for the Huskers. But  the Trojans' biggest challenge
> may come from having played only one  game and having had
> two weeks to prepare for Nebraska without seeing  any Husker
> film worth watching: Bill Callahan revealed practically
> nothing in the Nevada and Wake Forest scrimmages.
>
> Having seen my first USC game at Stanford in 1946 and having
> attended  Muir College in Pasadena and UCLA, followed later
> by a teaching stint  at USC (when it was known as O.J. Tech)
> I've seen a lot of Trojan  football over the decades. Then
> and now, when the Trojans think they  have the opponent on
> the ropes, they become supermen, but when the  opponent
> unexpectedly stands his ground and gives no quarter, they
> become suddenly human - - as last year's UCLA game proved.
>
> That could be Nebraska's edge. I'm hanging my hopes on the
> premise  that Bill Callahan has been operating with this in
> mind.
>
> Steve Stone
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