Dead Dog Alley

The free beer was to make you forget that you travelled overseas to watch two 1-11 teams go at it.

My favorite memory of Kedrick Ford was waiting for him to have that one big game just like Demetrius Buchanan. Who, I'm saddened to say, passed away a while ago. He had one game where he came off the bench in the second half and just absolutely tore it up, but then never did that again. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/southbendtribune/name/demetrius-buchanan-obituary?id=14423278

I can't say for 100%, it's from a second hand source but from one I trust - a former player and graduate assistant who has plenty of contacts. I heard this at the start of the 2021 season.

Fine upstanding citizens usually don't get a lifetime ban from the Lincoln Country Club, especially when they have the highest profile job in the state.

Much of the problem seems to be that much of his focus and energy went to living it up as a result of that very large contract, and not to what that very large contract was paying him to do. If they had only paid him, say, a million a year he probably wouldn't have spent all his time flashing off his newfound wealth, and probably wouldn't be considered as the worst coach of the last 20 years in all of college football.

Maybe someday we will really be much improved and get back to winning three games a season again. But we’re a long ways away from that.

He should have had to find his own way back from Boulder. It was clear then by looking at the coaching performance and looking at the future schedules that four straight losing seasons were going to happen.

The debacle in 1990 was in Norman. It was also Husker Bob’s last road game, we saw him the next morning and rolled down the window to talk to him. He said only “going to McDonalds!”. Ten months later he died inside Memorial Stadium, which I assume was the place he always wanted to go.

I didn’t know who actually caught it until the radio replay at 2:30 am driving back from the game, from the opposite end zone all you could see was the Tiger mascot running through the sprinklers.

Reba McEntire.

The Gundy brothers went 1-7 vs. Nebraska, with the sole exception being the game with the cheap shot on Mickey Joseph that cut his calf muscle in two. Bonus question - who sang the national anthem before that game?

To stink it up so badly that he gets canned before his buyout drops?

There are many similarities to Bernie Masterson, from 75 years earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Masterson

Better plan on living to 196 if that's what you want to see.

Maybe that's why we never actually win one, we would lose our identity and our best recruiting angle. Then where would we be.

Expecting 3 wins and 7 wins might be overly optimistic this year.

The list of extremely ethical, squeaky clean coaches is extremely short. It's not a profession you should lend blind reverence to. For example, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Coach of the Year Award is named after...Grant Teaff. One of the biggest cheaters you'd ever find. Tom Osborne despised the guy. Anyway, don't worry, we probably will end up with Lance Leipold, who by the way is two months older than Urb.

I also tried to start that rumor in 2002. Hopefully this time it will be more successful.

The only ones I've heard are the ones I started...

Keep up that level of improvement and you're on pace to go undefeated in year 10.

I'm sure that a lot of coaches will be beating down Nebraska's door next March, since it's a football school that absolutely sucks at football and the basketball job puts you on a career trajectory to end up at Southern Miss, San Jose State, or permanent retirement.

People forget that many riverboat gamblers ended up being fish food.

Hello 2-10. Might as well fire him and make him find his own way back. He should have been fired that day in Boulder. There's no fixing stupid.

Here's how it works: if he had come here, he would have had another cardiac event. But since he couldn't be cleared here medically, he'll go on to have a 15 year NBA career.

Too short to play at Purdue. Not goofy looking enough to play at Iowa. I guess that leaves the Cyclones.