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I respect Tom and all the things he's done at Nebraska. However despite Pelini's record our team is ranked below the Duke Blue Devils football team. Basketball yeah but I never thought I would see a Nebraska football team ranked lower than Duke in my life time.

It only would have been illegal if TA was past the line of scrimmage. Technically, it was a pass. Yep same concept as a shovel or Utah pass.

Jeff Monken from Georgia Southern. The guys a darn good couch and knows the triple option as well as anyone in the country. He could get Nebraska back to it's roots. I'd love to see what he could do with the type of tallent Nebraska has and can recruit.

The Husker played well today. Yeah there were mistakes, yeah our defense is the worst it's been since the Billy era, but you have to give these kids credit. They hung with a team that was just seconds from playing in the national title game. This game even though we lost showed us that there may be light at the end of this tunnel. Next year we have a serious shot at the Rose Bowl provided we do some serious development over the off season. I think 2013 could be a very good year for the Huskers. 2014 though will turn out to be a nightmare that will make Bill's worst year look like a dream season. Mainly because Bo hasn't developed any tallent over the last couple years that can step up once next seasons seniors are done. Seeing this game really gives me hope for breaking 10 wins next season.

Good deal now I'll have to listen to all the Dawgs fans at work gloating every time I wear my Husker gear. Bad enough I have to listen to all the FSU and Miami aholes. Hmm 8 hours of incessant barking noises outside my office door.....awesome. At least we can all come to an agreement and point and laugh at the Vols fans.

Ok lets just for a second travel to Pelini fantasy land where Bo is a defensive genius and gave his kids the right calls to stop Wiscy and their complicated tricky offensive scheme (which was kind of like the Konami code of college football: sweep left, sweep right, run up gut, first down, rinse, repeat). Ok Bo if the kids aren't executing at what point and time do you pull them and sit their butts on the bench and teach them that this type of performance isn't acceptable? If the back ups can't handle coming in for a few plays to teach the starters a lesson then what are they even doing on the team eating up scholarship money? If you don't execute you don't play...period. This debacle rests completely on Bo's shoulders. The buck stops with him. Basically his players aren't executing and he does nothing to discourage it. For all his yelling and other antics Bo needs to learn a thing about applying discipline. Bo take a lap then come back and do up downs.. go move it, move it.

Hmm Georgia, aTm, or LSU. What is the NCAA record for most points scored on an opponent in a single game? Two out of the three might have a shot at breaking that record based on our defensive performance yesterday. I'll wager the first play out of the gate by these teams will be a sweep.

Who's the best high school coach in Nebraska? Pay him a fraction of what we are paying Bo and I bet that high school coach could make adjustments to stop the jet sweep.

I don't have a problem with Wisconsin "running up the score". If these players and this staff don't like it then feel free to stop them. Oh wait we still have our starters in the game and we haven't been able to stop them all night even with a "defensive genius" at the helm. Personally I hope Wisky continues to lay the hammer down and finally show everyone that this coaching staff especially Bo is inept.

TO wasn't making millions either. It's different today. We pay these coaches a ton of money to win NOW, not in 3 or 4 or 20 years. Why can't we recruit SEC type players? LSU, and Bama keep reloading, OU stays in the hunt every year, and so should we. Bo needs to step his game up before we start losing all of our recruits to Ohio St., Michigan and Wisconsin. Also, if it's a 5-10 year upward battle then what happened to Turner Gill at KU. They too want to compete and win NOW, not in 10 years. We can't currently recruit SEC caliber players for multiple reasons at this point for multiple reasons. For starters blue chip type players want to be on teams with current winning traditions in the hopes that they too will be able to be on a bowl, conference champ, national champ winning team. That pretty much counts out our program. The Nebraska of the 90's is no more. I live in SEC/ACC country and in the 90's teams here loved to hate us kinda like Nebraska fans hating teams out of Florida back then. Back then I always heard comments when I would wear my Husker gear. Now I walk into to a sports bar and not a single comment is made unless they want to ask me about our move from the big 12 to the B10. We as hard as it is to accept have slipped into mediocrity. Second how can we expect truly talented players to come to Nebraska when they aren't gonna see play time (even when were beating down a FCS non-conference team). Bo doesn't play enough of his non-starters to encourage incoming players. That is if that potential player even follows Nebraska football. Which is doubtful unless they come from a transplanted Husker household. However once they are recruited I bet they pay attention to the fact that Bo simple doesn't play anyone off the bench. Up coming players also want to play in systems that are going to give them a better chance at making it to the next level of play. So with our current offensive scheme it will be extremely difficult to recruit players wanting to move on to the next level. High end QB recruits are not going to be interested in an option style offense because they have almost no chance of moving on to the next level as a QB. WR's will be reluctant to come here because they will not be playing in a system that will show case their talents. Also I would say that once they begin to pay attention to our football program Bo's antics on and off the field are going to be a major turn off for many recruits. Who wants to play on a losing team with a coach that clearly can't control his anger? No thanks, I'd go play for Dabo Swinney at Clemson or any number of ACC/SEC coaches/teams before I would play for Bo and the current Husker program. Oh and yes at 9-4 and possibly not ranked in the top 20 or 25 makes Nebraska a losing team by SEC fan standards.

I actually expected this team to lose 5 or 6 games this year so they did better then my expectations. However this team has a long ways to go to get to the level I'd like to see the Huskers playing at. Yeah I dream of another 90's TO like dynasty but realistically I'd like to see us at least compete for a conference title and finish in the top ten. I question if this team and this coaching staff are capable of that in the next 2 to 3 years though.

I think the major thing with T-Mart is the fact that his fundamentals are not there. The guy is a pure athlete (would make a good receiver, corner, safety). Even his harshest critics can't deny that. However T-Mart is completely lacking in the fundamentals he needs to be a great QB in any system. As has been pointed out his throwing mechanic is the worst I've ever seen in a starting QB on nearly any level outside pop-warner football. His pocket awareness is sub-par and his ability to read a defense has improved but is still not to a level that is expected of a top 25 starting D1 QB. He is fast north south but has no ability to shrug off tackles or move east/west to elude defenders. On the plus side Taylor is improving, as has been pointed out he has a lot to learn about being a QB. His numbers are what they are because of his pure athletic talent against less athletic teams. He is the type of person that at the high school level would be a coaches dream to cultivate. The problem with D1 FBS football is you can't really use the starting QB position to cultivate that kind of raw talent and expect to win big games against talented teams. Sure against less talented FCS schools your pure athletic ability can win the day but not against solid FBS schools (I don't count Ohio St. and Penn St. this year to be solid FBS teams). No T-mart is not the biggest problem on this team. The biggest problem this team has is the basic fundamentals (penalties, blocking assignments in pass protection, reading offenses/defenses), and controlling the emotional aspects of the game (penalties, giving up in the face of adversity). So T-mart becomes a clear target because he is one guy that fans can clearly point to as an example of the teams lack of proper fundamentals. He's not the only one. The entire teams lacks it with a few notable exceptions. This teams problems are not about talent imho (we have plenty of it), it all comes down to coaching. Bo can come up with a good game plan and that's great for the first quarter. However in every game we lost this year our team lost because the other team had players that were obviously better coached and the teams coach during the game simply learned our initial game plan and out coached Bo and Co after the half.

PSU-21 NU-13 Pass: 110 Rush: 105

Well the poor performing Nitty Lions offense did score 34 on Northwestern and win that game. That being said it's their defense that is going to win this game for them. Their defense in my opinion is the best in the B1G. Other then LSU they are the only team to hold Alabama below 30 points. That and the Offense was able to put up the second most amount of points against Alabama this year. I have a feeling that our offense is going to have a very hard time moving the ball on PSU. So far our D hasn't shown me anything special. The MSU game we won not because we beat MSU and our defense stopped MSU. It was because MSU imploded after having all those high profile match ups with OSU, UM, and Wisc and winning. If the MSU team that played in those games had shown up we'd be sitting here with 3 loses right now. PSU is going to score on our D plain and simple despite how "bad" they are. Our O is going to struggle unless Martinez suddenly becomes a passing threat, as PSU has shown they can stop national title contender running teams (Alabama). Stack the box and make Martinez beat you with his aweful throwing machanic. I honest think PSU can stop our running attack. Not saying totally lights out but they will shut our running down just enough that we will have to throw to keep up. That and sure PSU has a lot of distractions going on right now, but like IlliniHusker said. This is going to be Joe Pa's last home game. That is huge and that team is gonna pull out all the stops to make that last game a W imho. PSU 21 NU 13

Texas: So we can give them the beating we should have given them last year. However given our record against them they'd more then likely beat us and even if we did beat them their fans still wouldn't shut up. Clemson: Simply because that's my wife's team so she'd be in a good mood after a bowl win and she can console my bruised ego. *wink* Florida St.: Because they are the only team I hate more then Texas, and surely to God after we beat them in a bowl, pollsters would stop putting them in the freaking top ten after a 5 loss season. Any SEC team that's not LSU/BAMA and win: Just so the SEC fanboi's will stfu. I get so tired of UGA/Tenn fans talking about how great the SEC is when their team sucks.