... military life, and since I've spent the entire 2009 season watching the Huskers from a cafeteria on Patrol Base Woodcock in Iraq, I fee like the best way to make sense of the ups and downs of this season will be to review it in AAR fashion.

What were we trying to accomplish?

Despite what may have been said in the media by the extremely optimistic Pelini before the season, the Huskers couldn't have realistically expected to compete for a national championship.  A realistic high-end goal would have been to win the division and possibly take the conference championship game as well.  The low-end goal should have simply been to take the North Division crown.  One of the goals of the Nebraska program for several years now, that is extre...

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