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I do not mind the jersey or pants. They don't look much different than what the regular ones look like. Now the helmet is a different story. Hideous. Embarrassing. Head scratcher. Most people will look at them and think, "What the hell do they represent?". Leave them in the equipment room and wear the standard N helmet. When Nebraska first entered the Big Ten and played in Minnesota for the first time {where I live} of course I attended the game. I had friends who were also there who told me just seeing that white helmet with the simple red N on the side put chills down their spine. Why change THAT?!?!

Coach Frost obviously must improve the line play, primarily the Offensive Line. He cannot coach up the current crew....they are what they are. I want to see him study other schools in the Big Ten and see what can be learned about depth, conditioning, and recruiting. Tom Osborne got help from Florida State's coach, Bobby Bowden in the 90's concerning speed in the defensive backfield, took his advice, and subsequently won two National Championships. Adrian Martinez will not survive the pounding he is getting particularly in his freshman body. He will grow physically in the next couple of years but right now he is very vulnerable to injury and I worry what the rest of the season will bring. Mike Riley neglected the physical side of the game, relying on finesse players at the skill positions. He recruited QB's well and got some receivers to commit but that is Pac 10 football. Obviously it didn't work in the big ten. I hope Frost realizes this isn't Oregon and this isn't the Pac 10 conference. And it must be said that he never played or coached in the Big Ten conference either.

much will be revealed. Living in Minnesota, I had lunch with my big ten connections yesterday. Gophers and Badgers mostly. My gopher friends are sick of Wisconsin and want Neb to knock them off the top spot since they know their team, the gophers can't. We all agree it is time to unseat Ohio State and Michigan. No one seems to know what to expect from the huskers in this neck of the woods but all are genuinely disappointed in the Huskers and their performance in the conference. One of my friends works the chain gang for gopher games and said the biggest prick in the big ten coaches is Jim Harbaugh. As a chain gang guy he spends much of the games in pretty close proximity to the head coaches and has some crazy stories to tell. His favorite is the guy at Northwestern who, he said, is polite and friendly, talkative and genuine in wanting everyone to enjoy the game.

Trev Albert?

If Nebraska wants Scott Frost they will have to come up with more money than they are paying Mike Riley. He will not command Urban Meyer money but if Nebraska wants to win like they did during the Osborne era they will have to pay a bigger name coach than Frost. This could turn into quite a mess since it is possible Nebraska has won it last game of the 17 season. Fans are not going to be happy by the end of November if that happens. The pressure will be immense to get a new big name coach with a history of winning. Not sure who that will be but Nebraska it at a major crossroad right now. Mike Riley has painted himself into a corner and he will have to win nine games to keep the Huskers on the road to an annual top ten ranking. It can go either way right now. If Tanner Lee plays like he did last week against Wisconsin and the defense keeps playing the way they have since halftime of the Oregon game we can sigh and hope for continued improvement. But Lee was a 53% passer at Tulane and before last week was holding pretty steady at that number here. It makes one ask what made us think moving him into the Big Ten conference would improve that percentage. We wanted to believe that the quarterback genius (Riley) would coach him up but so far there has not been much evidence of that. If the Illinois game was an anomaly we are in trouble Husker fans.

We do not need Memorial Stadium to be black. We need our quarterback to not throw interceptions and our coaching staff to not get outcoached by their opponents. Then we may win.

There is always someone who wants to make a change for the sake of change just so they can say they caused it. There must be a reason for it to catch on. And someone, mostly an anonymous someone on the internet, suggesting it is usually not reason enough to make 90,000 people to do it.

I have decided the football schedule should be extended by two games. The regular season ends in late November but the bowl season does not start until mid December and for most Big Ten teams bowl games start in late December. The NFL season is 16 games long while the college season is 12. Basketball season has been extended over the years as well as baseball so since there is the time why not football? With rules changes full contact practices are very limited after the first game so I do not think injuries are a reason to not do this. Revenue would increase of course and while I do not know the affect on academics I cannot imagine that would be much of an issue with Christmas break. I doubt most fans would be against this but I would be interested in hearing the Pros and Cons. Most of what is driving my thought is my personal love for watching college football. I think the players are in better shape now than they were 20 years ago and with the facilities they have now, weight training, medical treatment, academic tutoring, and conditioning is much improved over when I was that age. 20 years ago it was rare that a player came out of college NFL ready. The common observation was that NFL games were faster and it was easy to notice if you attend the games. Not so true these days. Players are stronger, faster, healthier, and smarter than in years past. They are in shape 12 months out of the year and I imagine would love the extra two games to showcase their talents for NFL scouts. What do you guys think?

I really liked what I saw out of the QB's in the Spring Game. All three of them in fact. The RB's look pretty good too. Recruiting is really good right now. More 4 Star players than I can remember although I do not follow it as close as many do. I am as optimistic as I have been for decades about our team. I am not smart enough in football to know if our offensive line is as good as they must be nor our defensive line but I know we have more speed in the corner backs and our receivers are going to be really good. The summer cannot go by fast enough for me.

Suh and Aaron Taylor don't play here any more. News flash.

This sounds like a SNL skit but it isn't funny. Cliche's all over the place. "I need everybody in that stadium to blah blah blah." "Curse if you have to". WTF! Do these guys get paid to do this? You get better analysis in a bar.

He didn't say self-indicating. He said self-indicting which means the team put themselves in the position to lose that way.

If he succeeds at UCF he will be in the market for a football powerhouse. Sadly Nebraska has fallen out of that category. We are Oregon State, Kansas, Indiana, all rolled into one. It is sad but true. And I am not sure how long it will take to get back into the top ten. Recruiting is much more difficult than it was back in the Osborne years plus neither Riley nor Frost are TO. The only way we succeed in the next decade is if Riley can win a conference championship before he retires because if he doesn't then we will begin the rebuild process once again with a different guy. Also, there has to be a reason it has taken him so long to get a head coach job. One would think that with the winning Oregon did while he was there under Chip Kelly, he would have been snapped up by a mid major sooner than now.

It is time to face facts. Eichorst did not hire Riley to win the Big Ten. He hired him because he was tired of hearing from boosters that Bo was an embarrassment. He was tired of having to deal with Bo's tantrums on the sidelines. He probably told Riley during that trip to Portland that the personnel was in place and that his only expectation was that Riley conduct himself like he always does on the sidelines and not embarrass the university. Eichorst made the mistake of thinking coaching doesn't matter. Think about it....he didn't even interview anyone else. He was single minded in the whole process and set out to solve one problem. Now he is starting to feel what it is like to not win at Nebraska. Now he is starting to understand that the fans want a winning team. He is screwed and I am sure if he isn't already, he will start getting a boat load of heat from the Board of Regents, the Boosters, and us little people or as his predecessor put it, "No boosters of any significance". I am not sure what the solution is. I hate the idea of firing a one year coach since that screws up recruiting but if things don't start changing recruiting will take a dive anyway. One thing kids want to do is go to bowl games. That is not going to happen this year obviously. Perhaps it would be best to cut losses and start the process all over again. Take the heat up front and recruit a young energetic coach with Nebraska roots. Someone who played here and understands the culture. Someone who will get a statue erected of him 20 years from now out in front of Memorial stadium.

Has anyone said that? that is the way I feel. Does that directly relate back to the last 7 years?? It has been about a 7 year slide including two straight losses to Minnesota, now a loss to Illinois. So I suppose you could say tha.