To refresh your memory, Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan were kicked off the Husker wrestling team last year because they appeared naked on a gay porn website called Fratmen.tv. Both men say it's not fair—not because of the whole gay thing, but because everyone on the team (including themselves) are guilty of far worse crimes that no one has ever been punished for. But Nebraska couldn't cover up naked internet photos, so these two guys had to go.

And go, they did. Donahoe transferred to Edinboro College and Jordan went to Purdue. However, while Donahoe made his way to the NCAA finals this season, Jordan had to sit out a year and is still waiting to see if Purdue will actually give him a scholarship. Why the different treatment? Some say Donahoe was given permission to transfer worry-free, because he won a National Championship for the Huskers and was head coach Mark Manning's favorite son. Others say it was because Donahoe blackmailed the athletic department, threatening to expose numerous instances of wrongdoing unless they gave him an unconditional release. And by "others," we mean that it was Donahoe who said that himself.

But when ESPN did a follow up interview seven weeks later, to find out more about this alleged wrongdoing, suddenly he didn't remember ever saying that! How convenient. He also said he was going to return to Fratmen.tv, but has yet to keep his promise. (I guess he really likes jerking people around.) However, Jordan did confess that athletes gambled large sums of money on poker games—playing against their coaches—and two other members of the team got into a bone-crunching fight after getting drunk at Manning's wedding. (They were underage, too.) Nearly one-third of the program's athletes in the last two years have been charged with a crime and a former Husker football player says it's better to commit a crime in Lincoln than a NCAA violation, because the school isn't concerned with enforcing actual laws.

It isn't really fair for Nebraska to kick two people off the team for doing something that isn't at all illegal, but after watching his interviews it is kind of hard to feel sorry for Donahoe. He really just seems like a cocky little prick—although that isn't why he's so popular over at Fleshbot, wink, wink (NSFW, duh)—who is ticked off that for the first time in his precious life, he wasn't allowed to get away with something. Both Donahoe and Jordan had plenty of legal troubles while in Lincoln and probably should have been kicked off the team long before they were given the official boot. Gay porn was certainly the least of their crimes.

Jordan, who is no saint himself, was treated much less fairly, but at least he has a good perspective on things. "We did some porn. Get over it," he says. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that one....

Wrestler Paul Donahoe's nude photos cost him a college career at Nebraska [Outside The Lines]

Paul Donahoe was kicked off the Cornhuskers grappling squad last year after he and teammate Kenny Jordan were discovered just as God made them on the naughty picture site Fratmen.tv. Donahoe left Lincoln and enrolled at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, which is Division II in all other sports, but is somehow Division I in wrestling.

His record this season? 24-0

Donahoe is the top-ranked 125-pounder in the country and he hopes to become the first wrestler to win an individual NCAA title for two different schools. (He won his weight class in 2007.) The team is coached by former Olympian Bruce Baumgartner, who felt Donahoe deserved a second chance. Apparently, he came to the ground-breaking conclusion that taking your clothes off for the sexual delight of others is only slightly more scandalous than rolling around on a mat with other muscle-bound dudes as leering onlookers shout their lusty approval.

Wrestler in porn scandal unbeaten at new school [Outsports, via the very penis-friendly Fleshbot (NSFW, duh.)]

Collins — whose given name is Thunder — is accused of first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and felony weapons charges following an incident in Omaha.

From a 2006 story on Collins by KETV-TV7:

Collins showed flashes of brilliance in 2001 as a Husker I-back, but those moments would prove fleeting. "I remember them like yesterday," Collins told KETV NewsWatch 7. Four years later, the star-crossed former Husker is trying to build new memories by finishing what he started in Lincoln. He's back in school at NU, rehabilitating some recent injuries and standing just a semester away from earning his degree. "I'm basically trying to stay focused and get back to where I belong," Collins said.

Collins, 26, said that he was just a few credits short of earning a sociology degree. He said he was trying to turn his life around, with the goal to make it in the NFL. Apparently, a sad end to the story.

Former Nebraska Running Back Charged With Murder [NBCSports]

Take defensive high-schooler Will Compton for example. On Wednesday, the 6-foot-2, 225-pound linebacker prospect from Bonne Terre, Missouri, reaffirmed his pledge to Nebraska. Why? Because NU assistant Mike Ekeler is down with the kids.

The Huskers' first-year linebackers coach showed up at Compton's home Sunday with a temporary tattoo on his arm. It read "Compton" in Old English lettering above a Blackshirts emblem.

"Knowing him, that's not surprising," Compton said. "When he did that, it put a big smile on my face."

College Football Coaches Are Weird [RTC Talk]
Compton Reaffirms Pledge To Huskers [Omaha World-Herald]

A head football coach should be able to inspire his troops to wring every drop out of their potential, and motivate them to walk through walls. This shot clearly exemplifies Pelini's ability to do both.

Anyway, if you're still up for it — and by "up for it" I mean lying on the couch with chips — tonight's schedule pits No. 1 USC at No. 14 Nebraska (ABC), No. 21 Boston College at No. 15 Georgia Tech (ESPN 2), Arkansas at Satan's school (ESPN) and whole bunch of other games I'm too lazy to look up. But whatever, I'm sure you'll find a game you like. You're smart like that.

And oh, before I go, you should probably know that I'm considering joining my buddy's birthday golf pub-crawl tonight. It's pretty simple/stupid: one drink equals one stroke, a pint's par is four. So, yeah, if I don't start posting until like 4 pm tomorrow, you'll know I drank a strong back nine. Until tomorrow.

But we're awfully close, in the person of the one and only Lawrence Phillips. Turns out, Phillips could be starting down the barrel of his third strike (if we might play the Stephen Colbert metaphor game for a moment).

The guilty plea from 2000 would be his first strike (the previous dragging his girlfriend down a flight of stairs doesn't count as a strike). His "taking his anger out on a bunch of kids who beat him at a pickup game in a sport he used to play professionally" crime (also defined above as assault with a deadly weapon) would make his second strike, and therefore double the maximum sentence to 20 years.

If all goes bad, Phillips could soon be facing his third strike. On top of all of these, he's also awaiting trial on charges he struck his live-in girlfriend in San Diego and strangled her into unconsciousness in 2005. I just hope it wasn't the same girlfriend as the 2000 incident.

So yeah, matters didn't turn out to well for Mr. Phillips. If only Dick Vermeil had tried harder!

Lawrence Phillips: Delay Of Conviction [Lion In Oil]

Right now, you too can buy your very own Nebrask 1996 Fiesta Bowl jockstrap. And boy, does the seller ever do an outstanding job of hyping it.

Over the years we have mentioned that players receive many gifts and are well taken care of while playing at a major college, Not just Nebraska, but many of the major colleges give the players many items and when a team goes to a bowl game, players get many gifts, I have also said in the past that the Nebraska players get so many items - that they get items right down to their jock strap.

And of course, we have had people email us and tell us to stop exaggerating about the JOCK STRAP. Well, we were not exaggerating, we were telling the honest to goodness TRUTH. And, to prove our point WE ARE OFFERING AN AUTHENTIC NEBRASKA JOCK STRAP FROM THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.

All right, all right, we believe you, now stop it. Bidding is currently stuck at ... a penny. Imagine that.

NEBRASKA 1996 FIESTA BOWL PLAYERS GIFT GAME JOCK STRAP [eBay]

Which is serious problem when your light source is 4,000-square foot LED television. The Nebraska Cornhuskers just installed the mammoth device at Memorial Stadium, and it is doing little more than attracting a ridiculous amount of moths.

While we wonder whether or not that Fred Smoot fumigator is busy or not, we nevertheless expect, if the Cornhuskers get off to another bad start, the moths and flies and Them Bugs to count toward positive attendance figures.

They're Working Out Bugs At Nebraska [The Wizard Of Odds]

"This is a tough one to take," Osborne acknowledged. "It's hard. It's hard to lose the last one."

Osborne actually did well in Nebraska's "urban" areas like Omaha and Lincoln, but lost the race in the state's rural areas, which answers a question we'd always had: There is, in fact, a person on the planet less urban than Tom Osborne.

Gov. Turns Back Osborne [Lincoln Journal Star]
Nebraska Republicans Say No To Osborne [The Wizard Of Odds]
Olbermann Vs. Swann: Battle Of The Intellects [Deadspin]

Strange thing about this site? It shows up for about five minutes, then retires from the Internet, then tries to go back online again 10 minutes later.

E-Crouch [Official Site]

Alright, from here on out, it's football. And DAMMIT, Paul Maguire.

What's that? Your car is facing the wrong direction? On a one-way street? What in the How did that happen? Sorry? The car is in "drive?" Well, there has to be a reasonable explanation for this.

Why did you decide to have that fourth appletini, anyway? We know it was half-off at the Athens Applebee's, but you really should have thought about at least snacking on a Baja Potato Boat appetizer first. Now you're all out of sorts. And you were asleep for a while. And that guy still has the light. And now he s knocking harder.

At least you're not in Lincoln anymore. At least you have that.

Ohio Coach Frank Solich Convicted Of DUI [FanBlogs]

(Sorry about the tech issues earlier, by the way. We should be good to go now.)

(Update: We're told that there is not only not an Applebee's in Athens, Ohio, there is, in fact, NOTHING in Athens, Ohio. Unless you're able to sneak in underaged at The Greenery.)

(Second Update: A reader writes: "While there may be no Applebee's in Athens, there's no Greenery either anymore. For about five years now. Solich could have come from BW3's, the Smiling Skull or any other of the umpteen bars in the five-block radius. A newcomer to Athens, Solich forgot the cardinal rule of OU students: Drink and Walk. Much safer.)

So we're watching the end of the Nebraska-Colorado game on Saturday — Nebraska hammered Colorado 30-3, by the way — and the sideline reporter (whose name we have forgotten; sorry) goes up to Nebraska coach Bill Callahan, who has just had a bucket of Gatorade dropped on him. We pick up the exchange there:

Sideline Reporter: Great game, Coach, congratulations.
Callahan: Thanks.
Sideline Reporter: You're covered there, Coach. Was that one of the more satisfying dumps you've ever taken?
Callahan: (blinks) Uh, sure.

Sorry. Poop humor. You understand.

I Had A Feeling About This Game [Scarlet Fever]

(Update: It appears Phil Mushnick noticed this as well, which makes us feel about 45 percent dumber.)

Some have questioned whether police were targeting Musburger, which would be a surprise to no one who has ever heard him broadcast a game. But we know what was really going on: Musburger was getting an early start on The Brent Musburger Drinking Game.

"Jack Arute". Whenever Brent says "Our ol' buddy Jack Arute" everyone has to say "AROOOOOOT!" Last one to do it has to do a shot. If everyone does it simultaneously, the Pardner must do a shot.

Musburger Cited By Lincoln Police [KETV] (via The Mighty MJD)
The Brent Musburger Drinking Game [Fanblogs]

Well, Green just plead out with prosecutors, and he'll do some community service, mostly picking up trash and trying not to punch anyone. But now that he has admitted at least some guilt, the NFL can punish him, perhaps even suspending him for a couple of games to start the season. This is as good a time as any to remind that Green went to Nebraska, by the way.

Green Could Play After Deal [Watertown Daily Times]
EARLIER: Green Pleads Not Guilty [JS Online]