And, by the end, chants of “Go Big Blue!” provided the soundtrack as the final seconds ticked off the clock. Mark Pope, the first-year coach with the weight of a Big Blue Nation on his ...

"The talk is he's one of our own. And let's give him a chance and get behind him and go [Big Blue Nation]," Brumleve said. "I was surprised that they had to go that far down their list to get a ...