Black Friday disappointment was still at its furthermost point on the scale, just moments after the loss to Iowa, when that word "Blackshirts" came up.
Nebraska defensive coordinator Mark Banker has been in Lincoln just one year now. But the coach is a quick study on what that word is supposed to mean.
"When you say Blackshirts, you think about shutouts, you think about just stone-cold defense, guys who are a bunch of slobber-knockers just knocking the s--- out of people," Banker said. "Anything that people throw at you, you have an answer for and you just battle.