Leaderboard

Didn't Tom's wife ask him to stop coaching as well? I remember TO saying something to that effect? Anyone remember? As far as indiscretions, I heard several ugly things at the time as well. But I blame Pedersen. I will always support the contention that had Frank been given one more year, and it was an awful one, then there would've been stronger grounds to dismiss him. Again, to me it was the WAY that Pedersen fired him. I would've rather heard that Frank had 'retired' or decided to resign instead of being 'fired'. I know that's just semantics but I think it would've set better with many fans, myself included. He just didn't deserve to be treated that way. (I'll get off my soapbox now.)

To play football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

I think this belongs under this thread title.

The worse a DB's stats are...the better he might be. (I feel like Dalton from Road House)

Well that sucks, but he's gotta do what feels right for him. He's a young guy with a lot ahead of him.

Well, California has a very large economy, so debt numbers will always seem high without context. For example, California's combined state and local debt is $426.1 billion and their Gross State Product (GSP, equivalent to gross domestic product for a country) is $2847.6 billion, which gives a debt-to-income ratio of 15.0%. In comparison, Nebraska has a combined state and local debt of only $18.9 billion and GSP of $122.9 billion, which gives a debt-to-income ratio of 15.4%. So California and Nebraska have about the same debt burden when you account for the size of their economies. And if you want to compare per capita, California has 39.8 million people for $10953.73 debt per person; while Nebraska has 1.9 million people for $9947.37 debt per person. Or about $1000 more person for California, which doesn't seem like a whole lot.

That’s a blow to the OL for sure. They were clearly better when Decker was at center last year. Had to have been a hard decision for him. Best of luck to him.

Here are the things I know. TO did promise Solich the job so he did feel obligated to retire at the end of 97 season to make way for him. TO also felt he owed it to his wife to slow down and give her more attention. He also thought his health was failing after the few scares he had with his heart. Which as we know is not true. He really wasn't that old, he was 60 when he retired. Solich is 73 right now and still coaching. I think TO did regret retiring. He is a type A personality, he got board, why do you think he ran for congress? Why do you think he readily came back and took over being AD for what 5 years? He likes to be busy. I think he would have liked to have coached another 5-6 years minimum. As far as Solich's indiscretions where there is smoke their is usually fire. There is probably some truth to things. Pederson and Solich didn't like each other when they were underlings so it was a bad mix when Pederson was hired.

JJ Watt continues to be an amazing person.

Definitely did for the 300th sellout.

Did y'all get up to watch the royal wedding?! Omg! So cute! *barf*

lol....i know it's fake....but still lol

https://amp.freep.com/amp/621590002 Interesting article here. It is about Cannabis legalization efforts in Michigan and an anti-cannabis group who is now asking the state legislator to legalize. Why you may ask? They are pushing their republican state legislator to legalize cannabis so less voters turn out at midterms to vote Dem. If a bill is not passed by midterm and it goes to a ballot initiative the group will then oppose legalization. A great example of how politically motivated groups are willing to flip flop on any issue to maintain control.

@Husker-Joe

Still the best summary of the America's gun control debate (or lack thereof): Ever since then, I watch each one of these tragedies as someone who supports moderate gun control efforts to at least stem the tide of dead children and have to just shrug. The problem is there is no amount of gun control that's acceptable to gun enthusiasts & gun rights folks, so what are the rest of us to do? The structure of the House ensures they have more representation that won't budge.

My favorite win of the Pelini era (maybe not his best, but) was the 2014 win over Georgia in the Gator Bowl. When you live in the South, you are constantly hammered with SEC talk. The 99 yard Armstrong pass to Q was just fantastic. I can’t begin to tell you how satisfying that win was!

I'd take the Pelini's passion over the Mike Riley blank stare at his feet with his hands in his pocket.

Was Solich the reason Osborne retired early? I believe from what I have read a while back, Solich wanted to pursue a head coach position, but Osborne saw him as his successor so he told Solich he would retire in 5 years and make way for Solich to take over the program (this was around 1991, I believe). Osborne has stated before that he could have kept on coaching and did indeed miss coaching in the years following his retirement. So if Solich had been content to stay as running backs coach, then would Osborne have still retired in 1997 or would he have continued on for at least a few more years (and perhaps more championships)? Does anyone know how exactly this went down? In a sense, is Solich the reason TO retired (way too early, in my opinion) from coaching? Also, I have read many suggest transgressions on Solich's part when he got fired. I was not up on the day to day going-ons with NU at that time. What all did he do off-the-field that was problematic? I have no ill-feeling towards Solich as I can definitely appreciate all that he did for NU as a player and assistant and head coach. But I am genuinely curious about the above two things.

Thanks to Cavanaugh, any of the kids he coached can have a second career as a matador. ¡Olé!

yes

Not really. We now have no freshmen - unless Jurgens moves to ILB. We have Pernell Jefferson and Avery Roberts as sophomores that I know of. Which is to say that's what they played last year. It's possible there could be some shuffling. But we'll need a couple ILBs in this next class now.

Get him down to 310 and you have a monster.

Best quote: "I'm never happy when any student is tased..." --Principal Vincent Alessi Wut?!? How often are students tased at this place??

I wonder if the people that say we're hypocrites since we've interfered in other countries' elections think this is fine too? NO COLLUSION! NO COLLUSION! WITCH HUNT!

I guess he never heard of Husker’s ladies bowling. Probably the most dominant college athletics program of all time. But Disco was better.

So I guess our previous coach didn't have a huge impact on Decker. You know, coach Mike Reilly. ("I thank coach Mike Reilly, ... ) /spelling smack

He didn't list us as the Huskies so that's a good sign

Gary Sharp was making the points as well. Seeing as he has been around for a few decades and called Nebraska baseball for a few years (before Jim Rose started getting people fired for some reason), I think he has some access to info.

a day that will forever live in my own personal infamy. We got a freak snowstorm, and we were without power for a week after. Our power went out during that game and I had to go out to my car and finish the game via radio. We've since installed a whole home generator because, it's just so uncool not to be able to see the Huskers play on tv. Oh, and having running water is nice, too.

Kinda seems like everyone is saying that. We've been blaming four coaches and two ADs for not sustaining the run, but that's a wicked expectation level to maintain. Mike Riley's greatest contribution may be providing a palate cleanser for the next run.

I think that many people thought it was time for a change but the way Frank was kicked to the curb was just cold, especially since he did what the administration had asked him to do. That’s no way to treat someone who had given so much to the program. Frank was one of us. He deserved to at least go with some dignity. Do you think he got a fair shake? Maybe he wasn’t going to be a great coach but I would have liked to have seen him given a fair chance.

Of which claim? Taking Sean Chandler last minute and not notifying the IWCC staff of their intentions was not beneficial to relations. I’ve heard from parents of former players and high school recruits that don’t think highly of our current staff. Sharp and Benning dedicated a segment, Monday I believe, to the poor reputation around the state that this staff has with HS coaches. Also the proof is in the pudding - for a state that produces so much talent, we only have one contributor on offense that is from the state and he wasn’t even a scholarship player.

Alienating the local HS coaches and JUCOs (IWCC) is so dumb, yet that’s exactly what this staff has done. That coupled with the fact it’s locally known that our pitching coach will ruin your arm - idk what parent/coach would send his kid here. Offensively we have recruited slow, .200 hitters - who don’t know how to run the bases correctly (90% of them from out of state). I think Moos would be shocked to see who he could get to run this program if we just put the effort in. The last national search yielded us Van Horn...

Visiting today

That 11am MSU game was such a clinic on defense. Nothing crazy flashy just no one open and no running lanes. It was also the first time I realized some of the O street bars did not open at 9am on game day. I was shocked. Do they not like money?

I don't think we would have missed out on Frost if we'd had someone who was somewhat less bad than Riley. In fact I think the decision was harder for Frost because he'd only been at UCF for 2 years. I think if he'd had his druthers he would've stayed there 4 years then come here. A problem would have arisen if we'd had someone too much less bad than Riley who might've stayed more than 2 years longer and Frost got restless and took another P5 job. I don't think he would have taken a P5 job last season though. I always felt it was us or UCF in that moment in time.

I picked Miami. Not because it was such a significant game. But, I was there and I have honestly never witnessed or experienced a Nebraska crowd like that in Memorial Stadium. It was truly a strange experience.

And they've only offered kids in Florida, Georgia and at JUCOs, right?

It was daytime, lol.

From all accounts Burrow is very well liked at OSU by the coaches and players. He just wants to play and he doesn't see a path at OSU. He graduated and has the opportunity to go somewhere else to go to school and play and I don't think anyone blames him. I am sure that OSU would love to have him in the QB room but it didn't work out that way. I don't see anyone blaming OSU or Burrow in this whole thing other than some fans that wanted him to start. Some people just like to make a story bigger than what it actually is and read into something that just isn't there.

Also, here's their Nebraska Capsule: