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I would love it to see a blowout. I hope I'm wrong but I think this will be tougher game than many think. Shenault will be the best skill player we play all year, and Montes can get the ball to him as he proved last year. Montes is a gamer. Mel has a great Defensive mind, and the cupboard isn't bare. I think we may win, but close game. 35-28.

Yeah, I'm of the opinion Stanley wasn't a game breaker or game changer. As already mentioned his separation against talented DBs was minimal. I'd take it one step further and say I wasn't always that impressed with his hands either. I think why he originally captured scouts attention is his overall athleticism. He was all around a good WR at the college level but didnt stand out in any one category. That being said I think he played a key leadership role for this team, and without him the season could've been even worse. Call me crazy but the tape for kanawai noa makes me think he's got better hand, is more physical, and runs better routes than stanley. I guess that's what highlight tapes are for though, haven't seen anything but highlights.

I disagree with everyone saying there isn't an upside to firing a coach who has lost control of the team. Its been seen before where a firing points the team in a unified direction (which we are lacking) for the remainder of the season. It can then be apparent to the players that instead of blindly following a dead man walking you are playing for the future, and the film the next Head Coach will watch. That is for sure an improvement. I also believe it gets the attention of the recruits who are on the fence or recently decommited. None of they guys he had committed were committed to Mike Riley, they were committed to the University of Nebraska. We still have so much of what they liked, they need to know we are moving forward. Seriously how great would it be to watch a Parella lead Huskers with nothing to lose? Sounds pretty fun to watch.

Id love to see a Husker team lead by Parella to finish the year. They literally could not be less effective on Offense no matter who is coaching. We could send Larry the Cable Guy out their with a magic 8 ball and 10 fortune cookies and we would get better play calling.

I was born in Omaha, but outside of that I never lived in the state of Nebraska. Spent most my life in Georgia and So-Cal. I'm a Husker fan because they represent to me everything that's right with America. They represent a state of people that bust their ass to get what they get and don't expect handouts from anyone. Just like my parents and their parents. The Husker have always represented the "good guys" to me. Not in the sense that every fan feels, but in the sense that I have always felt they were a clean program who didn't represent drunk rednecks living vicariously through their team, but hardworking families. I have been to plenty of So-Cal and SEC game-days and there is nothing to this day like Lincoln, NE. My sisters boyfriend went with us for the Oregon game a year ago, as a die hard and lifelong Georgia fan he admitted to me that he had never been to a game-day like that day. Its a one of a kind team for a one of a kind place. I have faith they will be back. No good program has ever avoided having down periods and we are no exception. We will be back because Nebraska is special, in its fans, facilities, traditions, culture, and prosperity. I go back every year for a game for the last 8 years. This year will be no different.

Embrace the pain. It will make you stronger

Touche' sir, you just need to watch them 220 times and bam it's Saturday

The season is close, but not close enough. Enjoy these few videos while you wait for the soon to come glory (or doom depending on who is reading this).

My cup floweth over with KoolAid

I have Vue as well. I really enjoy it with all the major game carriers.

Mike Riley doubters frequently point to the fact he was a .500 coach while at Oregon State, and this means he will always be a.500 coach. Gary Andersen (Remember the guy who destroyed us when we were ranked 10th?) took over a 5 - 7 Oregon State football squad and has proceeded to be .25 at Oregon State. Does this change your perspective on Mike Riley's record at OSU? This is Andersens 3rd year with OSU and he has his own guys, but they just started out with a blowout loss to Colorado State.

Lots of good points here. I really wish I could know specifically what is was they saw in one scrimmage that made them feel confident enough to stake publicly that they had pulled away from the rest of the B1G west.

Saw that noted as a quote from Gerry Dinardo after watching a scrimmage Friday. McKewon even noted he thought that Wisconsin was a playoff contender this season. I gotta be honest the last few years I have written off everything that the BTN crew has said as just a guess. Last season though I noticed that despite our 7-0 start we ended up about where the BTN crew said we would in the divisional rankings. I went back and looked at their quotes from our training camp and saw them pointing out a "softness" that at the time I excused as bias, but there is no arguing we saw that later on in the season during the blowout losses. This season I decided I would take their evaluations further into account when setting my expectations and was pleasantly surprised with the feedback that we got. Now I see this though and I wonder if thinking we can beat Wisconsin (which until now I gave us a 60% chance) is realistic at all. What do you guys think? Beating Wisconsin realistic this year? Do you believe the BTN crews evaluations are accurate?

I'm pretty bullish on the offensive line. After re-watching each of the games last year the perception that our O-line wasn't good typically comes from in part the following things: - Starting 2 guys who were not starter quality, due to injury - Tommy's pocket presence/ lack there of (seriously I re-watched every game multiple times and don't recall one time he stepped up into the pocket effectively) - Inability to run the ball at times due to 7-9 guys in the box because the defense knew we weren't throwing it successfully This year with a healthy O-line and a QB that keeps defenses honest and understands the pocket I think we will see a lot of improvement.

I think on the Stanley Morgan play Tommy had said something to Morgan about running a poor/incorrect route. My opinion is it was just a (very) inaccurate pass, and apparently Stanley felt the same and wasn't too happy about Armstrong putting it on him.