Monday Recycle: Texas Week

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Every morning since November 13, 2004, my day has started with the same thought -- we're going to pound Texas on November 15, 2008. If there is such thing as justice, it must be. As the date approaches, I'm not quite sure that I could have ever envisioned us entering this game on such a brutal low.

Based on the early Mangino years I would have thought that Memorial Stadium would be an impenatrable fortress by now. Texas Tech blew that theory up with some sort of nuclear weapon. Of course, Tech looks like a team with a higher purpose, so you can maybe walk away from that one.

A nice bounceback against a weak KSU team and it looks like we're on schedule. However, you giftwrap a division title for Missouri by getting physically manhandled in Lincoln and all of the sudden there is bleakness all around. No, it's not how I projected this week at all.

However, I think I'm more curious now than ever as to how the Jayhawks will approach this game. The Jayhawks have been through a lot of highs and a lot of lows and as Mike Rivera said yesterday, they just keep fighting. That's why I'll be at Senior Day on Saturday -- I want to see if the Hawks keep fighting.

LB EARNEST NORMAN BAILS
Rock Chalk Talk has the best free details on this one. Another tough blow, but I always view these the same way -- if he didn't want to be here then we definitely don't want to blow the scholarship.

REMEMBER THIS ONE
“We wanted to come out today and regain some of that respect that Kansas may have lost for us as a program. You know, we’re still Nebraska and they’re still Kansas.”
--DE Zach Potter doing his best impression of a KSU player

PAY-PER-VIEW
When I have to put down $29.95 to watch a football game on TV, I expect high-definition and a yellow line for the first down marker. Also, I'm not sure if I am in agreement that a home team should be allowed to decline a TV broadcast.

UNDEFEATED LIVES IN LUBBOCK STILL
How green with envy am I? The Red Raiders are one tough game away from playing in the national title game. That's what it's all about.

Full list of perfect teams and next opponent:
Texas Tech 10-0 with a bye week, then at OU
Alabama 10-0 vs Mississippi St. (Sat)
Utah 10-0 at San Diego State (Sat)
Boise State 9-0 at Idaho (Sat)
Ball State 9-0 at Miami (OH) (Tues)

Off the List:
Penn State drops out of the club with a 23-24 loss at Iowa

Comments

[hiphopopotamus]

Did Nebraska really decline a broadcast? I had no idea.

[DJ]

That was the rumor on the message boards. I'll try to reference the thread.

[DJ]

I can't track it down. The search function on the grid is brutal. Call it speculation, but there was discussion that NU didn't want another early game. Generally, I'm skeptical of conspiracy theories, but when you look at the selections for the day, it definitely raises some questions ...

[moyae84]

I was listening to either 610 or 810 and they had a guy on whose name I can't remember, anyway, the guy on there was saying that Nebraska made more money from the PPV than being on the Versus network. He also said something that Pellini didn't want to play on TV if they had to kickoff at 11:30. Take that for what it's worth.