Tales from the Heart of Huskerland

Can you believe it's been 10 years and we still aren't one step closer to competing for championships than we were during that horrible 2007 season? 10 years ago today, on October 20th 2007, Nebraska had just fired the Athletic Director Who Shall Not Be Named after suffering through one of the most humiliating home losses in recent memory, being thrashed by Oklahoma State 45-14, a game in which Nebraska's offense failed to pick up a first down until the 3rd quarter. I remember the crowd sarcastically releasing their balloons after that first down much like they did last week against Ohio State. Now Nebraska was limping into a home game against the Texas A&M Aggies carrying a 4-3 record and a new athletic director with them. Sounds familiar, right? Well it's not exactly the same, but it's pretty darn close. Nebraska would go on to lose to Texas A&M much in the same fashion they did to Okie State, this time by a final score of 36-14, but what's odd abo...

Trips like this remind me there truly is no place like Nebraska. Walking into Memorial Stadium in Champaign is quite a different experience than walking into the stadium of the same name in Lincoln. For starters, 30 minutes before kickoff there were hundreds of college kids in the fields surrounding the stadium playing intramural games of soccer, basketball, sand volleyball, etc. 30 minutes before kickoff as if there wasn't even a game going on. In Nebraska, those students would have been in the stadium an hour ago. Kacey and I outside Memorial Stadium in Champaign, IL Going on my annual road-trip to a fellow Big Ten stadium often reveals a world quite different than the one we inhabit 7 Saturdays a year in Lincoln. Most of the time that's pretty cool. It's fun to experience other school's traditions and atmospheres. Other times, it can be a little sad. In the case of Illinois, it was kind of sad. I've definitely traveled to stadiums that were less than...