[Husker] Mizzou Pregame Stunt

[David Strong]

Thank you for posting!

Dave

--- On Mon, 11/1/10, Agris Taurins <taurins at scifipenguin.com> wrote:

> From: Agris Taurins <taurins at scifipenguin.com>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Mizzou Pregame Stunt
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Date: Monday, November 1, 2010, 11:43 AM
> That "stadium employee" was me. 
> I typically work sideline security and got
> pulled into this.  To be honest, I wasn't sure who had
> the "right of way"
> when I got called over but I had no ability to move the
> Missouri players,
> coaches & staff out of the way even if I had wanted
> to.  There was quite a
> shouting match going on between someone from our athletic
> department in
> charge of the visiting recruits and someone who claimed to
> be head of MU's
> head of football operations.  I decided to move "our"
> folks out of the way
> just to prevent anyone from getting hurt.  I actually
> only moved folks into
> the bench area instead of all the way to the 50.  MU
> wasn't going to be able
> to make use of that area in any event because of the
> pre-existing bench
> equipment.
> 
> As I was trying to move folks back, I was blind-sided by a
> MU player doing a
> drill.  Although several NU folks started yelling
> "cheap shot" and "he
> targeted him on purpose!!" I don't believe that.  It
> wasn't a hard hit and
> when I got up and looked back, they were doing a drill
> where the LBs where
> running backwards.  I'm sure he just didn't know I was
> there and just ran
> into me.
> 
> But Dan's report here is pretty much spot on as far as what
> was going on.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Dan Draney <ddraney at windstream.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Before the game the Missouri coaching staff pulled a
> bush league stunt on
> > their hosts. According to the radio, they demanded
> full access to the
> > sideline during warmups on their half of the field.
> This meant that all the
> > Nebraska people and guests had to move to the north
> side of the 50 yard
> > line. I haven't seen anything about this in the paper,
> but I can attest
> > that
> > NU did clear out the sideline south of the 50 during
> the warmups. That made
> > the area north of the 50 pretty crowded.
> >
> > According to the radio report at the time, a Mizzou
> player doing warmup
> > drills collided with a stadium employee on the
> sideline who was helping to
> > clear the area. I did not see that. Meanwhile, MU
> players, staff and guests
> > had full access to the entire west sideline area.
> >
> > I'm inferring that this demand was made on gameday
> without any advance
> > notice, although that may not be the case. If so, it
> seems to be an
> > attempted "psyche-move" on Pinkel's part to intimidate
> NU. Obviously, given
> > the Huskers' slow start yesterday, it was quite
> effective. :)
> >
> > Dan Draney
> >
> > P.S. Best sign I saw at the game: "Hey, Mizzou.
> Congrats on your invitation
> > to join the Big 10. Oops. NevermindŠ"
> >
> >
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