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Everyone gets that 1994, 1995, and 1997 are gone and even the most adamant hanger-on has triggered some kind of coping mechanism by now. Husker fans that witnessed those legendary teams were lucky, those that didn’t are luckier; but not because they can’t truly grasp just how steep NU’s decline has become, ...

Over the years, there have been a number of Husker losses that - for a number of reasons - felt somewhat like wins (1984 Orange Bowl, 1994 Orange Bowl, 2009 Big XII Championship, to name a few).

But I can't think of too many Husker wins that felt like a loss.

Maybe that is due to my glass-half-full personality. I like to think that I'm a pretty positive guy. Or maybe it is because I have the dubious distinction of watching the goal posts come down in every Big XII North stadium, I don 't take too many conference road games for granted. A win will always be ...

Before the season began, who would have thought Bo Pelini's coaching career might hinge on the outcome of the Northwestern game? Maybe that discussion is a bit premature, but make no mistake, this is a HUGE game for Nebraska, especially for a football program and coaching staff trying desperately to avoid falling farther south.

To be sure, lose ...

I apologize for the delay in getting this out, but after Saturday’s blowout loss, I needed to take a few days to step back from all things Husker: no newspapers, no message boards, no blogs, no Twitter, no sports radio, no reading the comments on various Facebook posts. Just detach, let go, and pretty much convince myself that this game never happened.

Unfortunately, it ...

Keeping with current events, truths in an election year are off the hook. If I were to say that the debt has grown by $5 trillion in the four years of the Obama administration, that’s an indisputable truth, but simply by saying that, I’ll still draw the ire of Democrats as if I were the flag draped pachyderm himself. The fierceness of contradicting truths is a fascinating phenomenon in the internet ...