<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=08PBDW_0vnOVsHs00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=08PBDW_0vnOVsHs00" width="620" height="320" ><figcaption>(Photo: Marc Lebryk , USA TODAY Sports)</figcaption></figure>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – You'd rather not read a story about laundry, I'm sure.But sometimes the laundry is thrown in your face so much during a game you can't miss it.By the end of Nebraska's 28-10 win over Purdue on Saturday, the Boilermakers had 13 penalties for 165 yards and Nebraska had 11 for 94. Make no mistake, some of those penalties were well earned.The Huskers earned themselves two bad false start penalties on third-and-1 and fourth-and-1 to contribute to their first-half offensive woes. Purdue seemed to earn every one of its six pass interference flags.And no question a key moment in Nebraska's surge was when Purdue's Joseph Jefferson earned a taunting penalty after tackling Jacory Barney to set up a third-and-4 with the Boilermakers leading 3-0. The flag gave NU a first down. A touchdown march was in the making.But Husker fans were no doubt as fired up as Matt Rhule when Thomas Fidone was called for a pass interference, taking off the board a would-be 22-yard touchdown catch by Rahmir Johnson on a fourth-and-4 in the first half. Rhule pointed at the video board as the official stood near."I thought everything that could go wrong went wrong in the first half," Rhule said in the postgame. "(Rahmir's) touchdown gets called back. We didn't touch the guy. We didn't touch him. We did not touch him. So it was not about if he was behind the line or not (when he caught it). We run at the guy, we avoid him. So we didn't touch him. So (players) know that they executed that play and it gets called back."Some guys could get frustrated ... 'Man, we can't do anything right.' But I thought the guys responded and was really proud."Rhule would later get called for a 15-yard penalty after he thought NU was wrongly flagged for an illegal block in the fourth quarter with Nebraska up 14-3."I threw my headset, and I was on the white (boundary). So I was under the impression on the white I could throw my headset. … I'm not here to complain about officials. I'll turn them in (on plays), I'll get the responses on Monday, or on Sunday. I think we had a tough go of it last week," the coach said in reference to the Nebraska-Illinois game. "Here's what I know: Someone is going to have to start to fight for Nebraska. So I'm here to fight for Nebraska. Troy (Dannen), our A.D. will fight for Nebraska in that way. But I wanted the fellas to see me out there fighting for them today."He said that was just his third 15-yard penalty as a coach that he can recall.One was in the NFL when a ref ran into him. Another was him arguing a blindside block in a Baylor game against Oklahoma State. And now this one."There's not been many. I don't speak disrespectfully to the officials and all that but I did throw my headset. But I thought it was OK because I was in the white," Rhule said. "That being said, it's called a penalty. And Emmett (Johnson) went away and made me right (by picking up a second-and-28 on a screen pass). So I felt bad. I don't want to affect the game in that regard."A penalty is a penalty, he added, but he doesn't believe Nebraska is an undisciplined team."We're doing things right. We're doing high-level things and when it gets called I'm going to stand up for it. That's a hard job. I can't imagine how hard it is. I respect the men who do it."</div></body>

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – You'd rather not read a story about laundry, I'm sure. But sometimes the laundry is thrown in your face so much during a game you can't miss it. By the end of Nebraska's 28-10 win over Purdue on Saturday, the Boilermakers had 13 penalties for 165 yards and Nebraska had 11 for 94. Make no mistake, some of those penalties were well earned.

Rhule proud Huskers overcame some obstacles – including the flags

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