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Amid Uncertainties, Joseph Focused on Hawkeyes

‘One thing I’m going to be able to control is getting this team ready for Iowa’

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With all the uncertainties that are coming after Friday's Nebraska football season finale, interim head coach Mickey Joseph says he's focused on something more concrete. 

 "One thing I'm going to be able to control is getting this team ready for Iowa. After Iowa, then we have some decisions are going to have to be made. But right now I'm just going to control what I can control."

A decision on who will be Nebraska's permanent head coach could come this weekend. How will Joseph spend a rare Saturday off with that matter hanging in the balance?

 "I'm going to be on my couch until I get a phone call, OK? I'm going to be real with you. I'm going to be on my couch," Joseph said. "I'm going to coach them up until Friday and then Saturday I'm going to spend all day with the family. Then Sunday I'll probably come in and get some things done. But until I hear anything, everybody's going to kind of just take some time away."

The team has won just two of eight games under Joseph, but he said the players have made strides. "They can see the growth in themselves, and I can see the growth in them. And I think that they know that you can build something there. They know we're a couple pieces away."

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JOE HUDSON

Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.

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