A new era means a new department for Hawk Digest. I wanted to start getting something out a little quicker after the games. Quicker will be defined as when I sober up enough to type. Thoughts:

"To boldy go where no Jayhawk team has gone before"
I had no idea that I was going to cause some sort of cosmic shift in the universe by throwing that on top of a blog post Friday night, but that whole experience was ... well strange. It all felt weird and the play of the secondary actually had most of us a little distraught about allowing 39 points to the Corn. The only thing that got us pointed in the right direction is thinking about how we probably used to annoy some of those Nebraska teams when we'd roll up 20 points during those NU routs.

"Run it up, go for two. Hell, I remember when Nebraska would score 70 on us all of the time."
It happened once. Nebraska beat KU 70-0 in Lawrence in 1986. I like that Mark Mangino plays with honor and did not try to run it up. As often as Nebraska was scoring, it was actually into the fourth quarter before I felt comfortable with our lead.

"Sit down you red &^%$& $%^&*$!!!!!!"
I apologize to the lone Nebraska fan that stood up to enjoy the early NU lead. My escort was wound a little tight for this one and we got her to ease up and practice a little better sportsmanship for the rest of the day.