Patrick Witt Transfers From Nebraska
cornnation.com 2/23/2009 — Bo Pelini issued a statement this evening announcing that quarterback Patrick Witt is transferring from Nebraska at the end of the spring semester .  Witt has a 4.0 GPA so far, though it's not clear whether he's leaving Nebraska to pursue ...

Assumptions About Nebraska to Color Every Off-Season Conversation: Better Blackshirts
bigrednetwork.com 2/24/2009 — I thought this was supposed to be the off-season, a time of the year to be endured, a test of will, a newsless nuclear winter that we spent all fall fattening up for with real games, stats, stories and the such. The past couple of days have felt like anything but your typical down-time what ...

Building the Right Foundation
bigrednetwork.com 2/18/2009 — While there’s a lot of excitement surrounding Nebraska football coming off a Gator Bowl victory, there’s certainly some recognition that the team still has a lot of rebuilding to do. That’s why it would have been tempting for the Husker coaching staff to load heavily with junior college players ...

Assumptions About Nebraska to Color Every Off-Season Conversation: Quarterback Play
bigrednetwork.com 2/17/2009 — Every 2009 prediction you see from now until July for Nebraska is going to be based largely on the measureables. How many starters are returning? Who do they have to replace and are there legitimate candidates in place to do that? When they lost, did they lose close or lose big last year? Were ...

Nebraska's QB Battle Turned Upside Down
ncaafootball.fanhouse.com 2/25/2009 — by Tom Fornelli With Joe Ganz graduating this year, the Nebraska Cornhuskers were going to have a quarterback competition in the spring with junior Zac Lee and sophomore Patrick Witt . There are a couple of other freshman candidates who will be ...

Stewart Mandel: Nebraska "Biggest Disappointment" Statement Could Be Correct
cornnation.com 2/9/2009 — Stewart Mandel, the head sage of all things college football, has a ringing endorsement on Bo Pelini's first full recruiting class: Biggest disappointment (in general): Nebraska. You know the formula: Hot-young coach takes over at tradition-rich ...

What Others Think About Nebraska
bigrednetwork.com 2/9/2009 — We all have our own opinions about the Nebraska recruiting class this year, but recruiting services and experts are mostly positive towards the group of young men the Huskers are offering scholarships. Overall, this is a solid class, full of athletes with the type of potential to lead a team to ...

The Value of Returning Starters and Further Reason for Hope in 09
bigrednetwork.com 1/28/2009 — The reasons for pessimism regarding Nebraska's chances in 2009 seem to center around the following: 1) Nebraska returns the second fewest number of starters in the conference (11).Only Missouri (10) has fewer. 2) Chief among those non-returning ...

QB Scuttlebutt
bigrednetwork.com 3/17/2009 — As a former wide receiver--or split end in the parlance of the times--I hate giving more attention to quarterbacks. They already get it all (always have, always will) but as a Nebraska fan I've resigned myself to the fact that the QB race is going to be the dominant conversation of the spring ...

Cock Blocked: Post UK-South Carolina Thoughts
straitpinkie.com 2/26/2009 — We all billed Wednesday’s matchup of UK and South Carolina as a showdown of the two frontrunners in the SEC East. I think we all expected a barn burner similar to the one we watched in Lexington when Devan Downey downed the ‘Cats with a late step back J. I expected that even though South ...

Pro ranks are unlikely destinations for Pete Carroll and Urban Meyer — L.A. Times - College Football 2/22/2009
USC and Florida coaches don't fit into the NFL's current trend of hiring inexperienced and relatively inexpensive coaches who can relate to players better than the high-profile leaders with the whopping price tags, especially in this down economy.  ...

USC's Pete Carroll tops national salary list — L.A. Times - College Football 2/23/2009
Football coach is highest-paid private university employee in U.S. in 2006-07, according to report, earning four times as much as college President Steven B. Sample. >  ...