The Weekly Buzz

Continuing your education beyond college is a very important topic to me. If you're not learning something new in this day and age, you're going backwards. Plenty of learning experiences have been happening this week, from coaches trying to find out just how others do what they do, to media trying to keep the lesson simple. Let's also not forget about people learning the odds, as they've found out just what Vegas thinks of the college football landscape next season.

Monte Kiffin and Bo learn a thing or two? » Ex-Husker football player and coach Monte Kiffin spent some time with Bo Pelini this week in an exchange of ideas. The USC defensive coordinator was in town to help he son, Chris, pack up and join the Trojans coaching staff lead by head coach Lane Kiffin, brother of Chris and son of Monte, thus completing the family reunion. Chris was previously an offensive assistant intern with the Nebraska staff.

Lesson number one: Suh is the best » CBSSport's Gregg Doyel clearly states that someone would be stupid to think that anyone, let alone Gerald McCoy, is a better choice than Ndamukong Suh in the NFL draft this year, especially at DT. I broke down some of the numbers this week comparing the two from 2009 season stats to NFL combine results. There's no comparison.

Who loves ya? Vegas Baby! » Nebraska is an odds on front runner for the National Championship race next year. Seems there are five teams with better odds to win it all next year, including Texas. So we could be seeing a match up in October have national implications.

Joe Schad's top players to watch » Jared Crick made number 30 on ESPN's list of top 100 players to watch in 2010. I wrote here last week that the combination of Baker Steinkuhler and Crick will be the one-two punch needed to keep the defensive pipeline going. It always seems that the best tandems at Nebraska are dynamic duos on the front line.