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I would just like to remind the fan base that this weekend is one of the highest profile weekends in a long time and that regardless of the outcome of the game or how drunk we all might be that there are plenty of impressionable future Huskers in the stands and to really show them what it means to be a true Husker fan. Get back to our roots and stay the whole game and cheer for your team. If we win party like it's '97, if we lose congratulate Wisconsin. Cheer loud and be proud and as always GBR.

Lack of accountability? How about this: - Christian Peter: arrested 8 times during his career at Nebraska. Accused of rape. TWICE. Sentenced to 18 months probation after pleading no contest to a charge of 3rd degree sexual assault. - Lawrence Phillips: quick summary - scales wall, breaks into Scott Frost's apartment, drags ex-girlfriend down the stairs by her hair. Misses 6 games. (Yes, I know TO's reasoning.) - Shevin Wiggins: Arrested and charged with sexual assault for allegedly fondling two 14-year-old girls. - Riley Washington: charged with attempted second degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony. - Tyrone Williams: charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm and use of a weapon to commit a felony. - Reggie Baul: charged with stealing a wallet from a woman at a restaurant. - I'm sure there are more, but these examples are enough. I'll take guys skipping class or smoking weed (both of which happen on nearly EVERY college football team in the country), and talking crap (boo hoo, my feelings are hurt because the football player said mean things about me) over charges like the guys on TO's teams faced. But hey, what am I thinking, TO's guys won titles...all is forgiven. Give me a break with the "lack of accountability" crap.

Holy balls!! That video is surreal. We really are turning into Idiocracy.

Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State.....duh.

I'm sorry, I don't understand. Were Tommy's 39 rushing yards last year really a huge bonus over his 38% completion percentage, zero touchdowns, and two interceptions?

That must be a pretty legit intramural team.

That loss to Oregon was bad. We got boat raced in the first half and Oregon took the foot off the pedal during the second half. It was similar to the '14 MSU game where the final score was a lot closer to the actual game played between the teams.

Look, I understand that he got cut by the Bills, but I don't think Brandon Reilly's gonna give up on his NFL aspirations right now just to come back and be AD.

This will end up looking so stupid on tv. Mostly red with some black areas trickled in. If youre going to do it, do it full on. Like someone said, provide the shirts like the NBA does. But they wont and it will look stupid.

What about when people are literally incapable, even if they're doing all they can, of doing what they need for themselves? Either through injury, illness, whatever. Health care doesn't work as a free market because people's lives are held hostage.

State of Wisconsin Sarlacc pit

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Pretty high on Frost...Why are you so sure he's the right guy? Are you sure his offense, the Oregon offense, will work at NE? He's not coming and bringing the option back. If he comes here, he's running what he runs now. You sure those edge based perimeter runs, the sweeps, bubble screens, etc., will work any better in the BIG weather than what they're doing now? What types of teams cause Oregon problems? Physical defenses like Stanford and Ohio State. Seems to me there are lots of physical defenses in the BIG. The term "West Coast Offense" is like a fallback for some fans. They can't describe it, other than it's not what TO ran, and they think it means the offense must pass 50 times per game. Have you heard Sam McKewon compare Nebraska's offense and Wisconsin's? They're essentially the same thing, with each coach stressing a few different things. Wisconsin's advantage lies in the fact it's developed o-lineman like clockwork for decades. Chryst is benefiting from this. On the other hand, would anyone classify the o-line play under Pelini as outstanding? I'd guess not. Riley is having to work through this part. Is the line as good as it seems like it should be? No. But has it dropped off dramatically from where it was? I don't think so. Under Pelini it's struggles were masked somewhat by the use of tempo, which works when playing against lesser athletes, but not so much when playing against fast, physical defenses (hence the reason NE puts up record offensive numbers against FAU, but did jack squat against better competition - see offense's struggles against WI in 2014, as an example). The run game under Riley, schematically, can and has worked in the BIG. It becomes about the ability to consistently execute those runs. This is where the team has struggled, and this is where the most improvement is needed.

Mike Riley has had three years to build this program. In year three Nebraska has lost to NIU, got 600 yards put on them by Oregon in the first half, nearly lost to Ark State. Trolling because I refuse to buy into the narrative that he needs more time? Bo Pelini took Nebraska to a championship in year 2, what am I missing here?

So, as a competitor taking the foot of the pedal, when do you choose to apply more pressure? When the opponent gets within 3 scores? 2 scores? A single score? And does this reduced foot pressure also apply to your defense? What about if your opponent comes out at half time with adjustments? Do you calibrate the amount of easing off proportional to the improvement in second half performance by the opponent?

If you read HuskerBoard it's: 1. Offensive line coach 2. Backup running back 3. Everything else

Agreed, @zoogs. To say that Riley's attitude "permeates failure" is irrational at best and probably more accurately, downright spiteful. I don't think it was an attitude of failure that lost the game against Northern Illinois, but I was terribly disappointed with the staff's inability to adjust an overcome a 14 point defecit to a non-Power 5 school. Regardless, there are seven games left to play. Maybe our O-line meshes and plays tougher. Maybe Lee finds a rhythm. Maybe our younger wideouts do some really special things in our big games left on the schedule. Maybe Diaco puts together a 3-4 scheme that dominates against the run. We'll see what happens. I do expect for Riley to get his team ready against Wisconsin tomorrow night; it's indisputably the biggest game of the season.

There it is! Does it matter what sport we played? Or just youth sports in general? Funny thing in life, sometimes you don't necessarily have to have first hand experience to know when things look bleak. For example, I don't have to be a meteorologist to see a funnel cloud and think, oh f#*k this can't be good.

Riley's issue is not that he can't get good kids here. His problem is that his demeanor permeates failure. Look at his body language on the sideline. It is as if he has already lost the game. These players pick up on that crap. The bone headed play calling by Danny Langsdwarf is pitiful, the Oline development is pitiful. You are feeling optimistic because we beat Illinois and Rutgers, well my intramural team could beat those two cuckolds. If we don't win more than six games this year, homeboy is gone.

Sigh...

Part of me wants to troll you. But every time I do I see Ruxin and picture your posts in Ruxin's voice and I just start laughing instead.

In my opinion and based on past attempts, here is what the "black out" will look like Saturday night.

If we're not hiring Frost, we shouldn't be firing Riley, in my opinion.

The Iron N is, in fact, staffed entirely by amateurs.

Over or Under? Tanner Lee pick sixes thrown 1.5

ALL THE WAY AT THE BOTTOM. AT LEAST ON MY PHONE

Frosts offense at NU with a top 20 defense wins you the West 75% of the time in my opinion

The way the over/under thread works is you're supposed to answer the over/under from the last post, and then ask a new over/under for the next poster.

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Paul Chryst Bob Dole

Holy hell. This is a big story and much more encompassing than I had thought. Yeah, nuh uh. "I don't remember those emails" may be true, but it doesn't fly given the content of those emails. Nobody is mad about Dan Lyons' memory of who he is.

Haha. In no way, shape, or form would something like "husker football recruiting" ever get in my way of living. You can choose to act like it's not odd, but it does raise eyebrows... in my opinion.

Suh

That was the line on Mike Riley, fwiw.

I am just a die hard Nebraska fan and I know that this school and team can do much better. There are a lot of red flags that Riley Raises. and it stems from a lack of accountability. Nate Gerry not going to class- still plays Stanley Morgan getting busted for weed- not suspended. Alex Lewis talking crap to the fans- no repercussion. Tanner Lee 2 pick sixes- stays in the game.

You seem obsessed with Pelini. Let me ask you a simple question . . . would it be better for the coach of the team you root for to take over a losing team and take them to a 9-4 season his first year, or would it be better if he took over a 9-4 team and took them to a losing season his first year?

Frost is the guy, this thread is so irrelevant. Like if we were in court I would object to this all day long on relevancy grounds. Points. John fox did not win a super bowl in Denver, lol, Von Miller and the rest of the Bronco D did. Point 2. Whoever recommenced Josh McDHole, are you for real? who in their right mind drafts Tim Tebow in the first round? Point 3. Nebraska has an identity, we are a smash mouth football school that cannot recruit five star kids at will. But what we have here is a recipe for success that unfortunately AD's have shoved in the back of the kitchen cabinet. Look at how bad Michigan was until Harbaugh came home. Nebraska is a sleeping power house that is waiting for the right chief to come in and put all the ingredients together. Frost knows what it takes to win in Lincoln. My biggest issue with what has been going on for the last fifteen years is that we have had leadership who willfully choses to be blind to the fact that we have an identity. Steve pederson hired a west coast coach, that did not work, then shawn eichman comes in and hires a west coast coach. It was as if Eichorst had no clue that the west coast experiment already failed here. Nebraska will not out recruit Ohio State, or Michigan. But we can run a niche system that utilizes the talent to the best of its ability. Every now and then we will get a phenomonal QB and he will take us to the promise land.

Reading the article is just painful - the guy won't even acknowledge two lines on a graph track together.

Zeke Nnaji is visiting this weekend. 6-8 210 three star power forward from Minnesota in class of 2019.

I'm not sold on the Badgers offense. NW held up pretty well against their run game. Their defense looked stellar though.

So we must recruit to one specific, yet undefined offense because of recruiting? I don't understand that when Wisconsin's offensive personnel and philosophy is very similar to Riley's stated goals and they don't recruit as well. The point of this conversation is that we must be like Wisconsin, right? Recruiting is more impactful on the defensive side due to its reactionary basis and need for force multipliers. If the argument is true, that we can't recruit to Nebraska, then how do we have a high level defense? I agree that the walk on program is important. I think Nebraska can also better utilize the tremendous JUCOs in the area. There are certainly unique challenges. What I haven't heard is why that limits offensive choice to such a narrow degree. The weather is stated as a reason yet in the surrounding states there have been a myriad of successful teams running various styles. Tom Brady and Brett Favre are two of the greatest pro QBs of all time playing in two of the harshest winter environments in pro football. What makes Lincoln such a meteorological anomaly?

Because for 25 years Osborne figured it out. We CAN'T consistently recruit top players that's why the walk on program was so strong it obtained the very best they could get. The weather in Lincoln is not so favorable for a pro style offense to sling it 35-40 times. Callahan failed at it, Riley is failing at it. Throwing the ball around like that ensures one thing, INT's or an incomplete pass on 2nd and 5 or 3rd and freaking 2. We went from recruiting fast and slim players on defense to stop spread offenses in the Big XII to the Big 10. We have no identity under Mike Riley. We haven't had an identity since probably 1999-2001. Solich was an awful recruiter, that was his downfall. The same can be said for Pelini. Osborne figured it out, he had to commit to the run and be the most physical team there was and recruit speed on defense. Of course today, there's scholarship limitations and the elimination of the Proposition 48 rule. This killed Nebraska football. We are limited, geographically, it is easier to find, recruit, and teach OL to run block than pass block as well. Why fix something that wasn't even broken to begin with??? The Pederson era and everything he did to destroy the program has to be undone. Perlman being gone as I've said in the past, is the best thing that's happened to the football program in a long, long time. Green and Bounds made it clear, they'd like to return our football program to the consistency and level of success that everyone saw in the 90's. Sure, we won national championships but by God people were sh***ng in their pants to play us. This is what we need to get back. Our identity, toughness, brutality, hard work. We have a head coach who has no accountability or disciplinary skills. We have had nothing but coaches who coddle the players like they're babies since Frank Solich. The players will hold themselves accountable and begin to compete at a high level when they have a coach that exudes these qualities. We don't have it and we have to get it. Teams in the Pac-12 can execute what they do well because of, again geographical area, weather, environment, etc. most Californians aren't going to come play for Nebraska, no, they'll play for USC, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, and others. The same can be said for Texas now. They can go to OU, Texas, or hell, the SEC and play for A&M. These teams do what they do well because of where they're located and how much easier it is to recruit there. Wisconsin has been the Nebraska of the Big 10 like Nebraska was for the Big 8. Because of Barry Alvarez who is... Ding ding ding a Nebraska alum! Wow, look at that. A former Nebraska player who tries everything he can to emulate his program just like his Alma mater, walk on program, recruit the best OL they can find, a physical running attack and continuity on defense without changing much. Nebraska used to be able to run 10-15 plays to perfection during our winning tradition days. Our practices were, like Mark Banker said about Iowa's practices, "a bloodbath." These things worked for Nebraska in the past and again, why change something that wasn't broken to begin with? Nebraska used to have the best offensive and defensive lines in the country. We've paid the price for firing a 9-3 head coach in 2003. We lost our way. We've seen some of the worst defeats in our programs history since. We've had losing seasons including one under the current regime, and a poor start to this one. We've lost our way and now it's time to get it back for good.

Perhaps you should be looking at the reaction from the female journalism community (as one of many possible examples) and then ask yourself why you remain so committed to dismissing their voices -- or really, dismissing any voices in this arena that speaks up.

I can envision a lot of things. Doesn't mean they're going to happen, and it's pretty foolish to count a game as a loss before it's played. If that's your thing, honestly, why are you a fan? Nebraska had no business beating Michigan State a couple of years ago, but we did. Had no business beating Iowa that year, almost did. You go to those games and yell your ass off and hope for the best. If we fall, then you can start bitching about it. But preemptively bitching about a loss is a waste of everyone's time.