Tuesday certainly wasn't your average Nebraska football press conference. Thanks to the Cornhuskers losing four of their last five games, an TV reporter from Omaha who apparently fancys himself as some type of hard-hitting investigative reporter showed up seemingly bent on trying to provoke a verbal confrontation with NU coach Bill Callahan.

This "journalist" asked Callahan such questions as "Do you feel your job is safe?" and if he was the AD, would Callahan fire himself? Great questions from a guy who last showed his face at a Nebraska football press conference in 2003 after the Missouri game to try and pull his same tired on-camera dog and pony show act on Frank Solich after former player Kellen Huston had punched a Mizzou fan while coming off the field.

Of course, this reporter is the same one who likes to go around proclaiming that he's the only one who will ask the hard-hitting questions and that the rest of the media covering Nebraska football is soft and only there to eat the free food. If Mr. 60 Minutes actually attended more than one football press conference per year, I might actually have a little respect for his questions, but they smack of grandstanding when you haven't seen his face the first three-plus months of the season. Where was he during fall camp or even during "Gesture-gate"?

What he fails to understand is that the rest of the Nebraska media has to cover the Huskers every day. Someone on the beat may write or say something critical or ask some prickly questions, but they do it with at least a measure of respect because they know that they've got to return to Memorial Stadium the next day and will need comments for many other less-controversial stories.

As for Mr. 60 Minutes, we probably won't see his act for the rest of the season.

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