Red Report: Going for a bowl
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By the Lincoln Journal Star
It may not seem like much to you, but Friday’s chance to get a sixth win and extend the season sure seems like a big deal to one Husker.
Senior safety Ben Eisenhart grew up in Culbertson dreaming of playing football for Nebraska. Now that he is a Husker, he’d just assume having the chance to put on the uniform one more time for a bowl game.
To do that, the 5-6 Huskers must win at Colorado on Friday.
“The mindset has just been ‘one more.’ We’ve got to win this game and we’ve got to finish this season off the best we can,” Eisenhart said. “We’ve got to get it done because as bad as this season’s been in some people’s eyes, if we end on a positive note, that will definitely be exciting for us seniors and for the guys next year.”
Taking on the cold: Friday’s temperatures in Boulder will definitely be the coldest Nebraska has played in this season.
High temps are expected to be around 34 degrees, with the possibility of snow showers.
While none of the Huskers at Monday’s press conference seemed all too excited about playing in a cold-weather game, junior receiver Todd Peterson doesn’t expect the weather to hurt the offense.
“We have played in cold-weather games,” Peterson said. “In the Big 12 Championship last year, we still tried to air it out. Whether or not some of our misfortunes in that game were due to the cold weather, it is hard to say. I do not think that is going to affect our game plan at all.”
Nebraska lost 21-7 to Oklahoma in that Big 12 title game, played in freezing temperatures.
Peterson wasn’t about to act macho when talking about playing in the cold.
“It is just no fun to play in cold weather,” he said. “It hurts. It hurts to get hit.”
Quick hits:
* Anyone who doubts that junior quarterback Joe Ganz can take over a huddle needs to talk with Peterson.
He said Ganz’s intensity “comes through in practice some times, and not always the best way when he gets on you. He will not let up on anyone. He always has his foot on the gas pedal.”
* Never mind the 510 yards passing and seven touchdowns against Kansas State. Those aren’t the statistics that gives Ganz the most satisfaction from record-setting performance almost two weeks ago. “The thing I’m most proud of is throwing no interceptions.”
* Husker coach Bill Callahan took some criticism for calling Ganz a “product of the system.” Ganz defended his coach, saying he took no offense to the comments. “I think you guys looked into it a little more. I think he was just trying to say that I kept working hard and kept learning the system, kept taking his coaching and really let the system work for me instead of … trying to go out there and find big plays.”
* Husker senior receiver Maurice Purify is just as curious as everyone else to see what comes out of Callahan’s Saturday meeting with interim athletic director Tom Osborne. Purify is one person who is hoping Callahan is around here for a while. “He is a good coach. It is not all on the coaching staff. Coaches call plays and players have to perform. We have not performed that well, so it is not all on the coaches.”
— Brian Christopherson
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