Utah_Husker

Very well said. I agree.

Wait a minute....Williams was 1 star on Scout, but 5 stars on rivals? That's ridiculous and proves how insanely subjective all these recruiting ratings are.

That's what I was going to say.

I agree with you on the '98 points. I can't say 'we should have won'. I guess my point was that the losses weren't as bad as everyone tries to make them. Same with what people say about the losses this year, I guess. With 2001, again I fail to see how the Colorado game was Solich's fault. Yes he's the head man and the buck stops with the head man, but is it really his responsibility to game plan for the defense and tell the LB to stop overrunning and taking themselves out of every single play? Again, 500 yards, 36 points. Should be enough to win. Certainly shouldn't have been a blowout. And with Miami, yes they had some close games. But their defense gave up less than 10 points per game. That's insane. They got up quick and again, is that all Solich's fault? It think the end of 2001 was the indication that Bohl was not going to get it done for us and we saw that solidified in 2002. You make great points about what could have been done. I wanted to try Dailey after the Texas game. Yes, maybe Solich should have loosened the reigns a bit. But I can't blame him, he knew his job was on the line...I'd want control too. Anyway, I know this is all water under the bridge. I wasn't the hugest Solich fan...he could be very frustrating. I just thought one more year would have been the way to go. I honestly think last year would have been big. If it's a disappointment, then let him go. You don't have near the controversey, and I don't think he would have lost 6 games last year. But I guess as the title of this thread alludes to...if BC works out, Pud will be a genius.

I'm not jumping on you, so don't take this personally. But to me this post and my answer to it proves that we're all going to see things how we want to see them to justify our current opinion. 1998: Am I the only one who remembers all the injuries we had that year? Weren't we on our 4th string QB ala 1994 at one point? Yes, we lost to KSU for the first time in 25 years or so. But that was the best team Snyder ever had vs a relatively young Husker squad. KSU would have been playing for the NC in the Fiesta had they closed the deal against A&M. And we barely lost to them in Manhattan. Anyone remember the facefask? The extremely close Holiday bowl loss to a 1 loss Arizona team was not an embarassment. They were exposed the following year? I don't think that means very much. Didn't they have an all-american running back that they lost plus a bunch of other key guys? That's like saying that Cal was exposed as overrated last year because they had a crappy season this year. Doesn't work. 1999: All I remember about the Texas game was we fumbled at the goal line twice and lose by 4 was it? Maybe that's on the coaches but you can only do so much to keep your kids from dropping the ball. It happens sometimes. We win the rematch handily. IMO, if we don't fumble, we beat FSU or VT handily in the Sugar for the NC. 2000: Loss to national champion Oklahoma (in Norman) who had a killer defense. Loss to KSU in Manhattan (by 2?, can't remember). But I do remember that we controlled the second half of the game only to see KSU go ahead with about 3 minutes left. That left us enough time to win, but right after they scored, it started snowing really hard and all we could do was fall down on that rug they had. I know, it's an excuse, but it was frustrating. 2001: Great year. One of Solich's best jobs coaching against OU. Great gameplan. Colorado, I don't know what the heck happened. Where were our linebackers? But again, was that Solich's fault? We had 500 yards of offense and 36 points. Miami had one of the greatest, fastest defenses ever. They destroyed everyone. 2002 and 2003 were frustrating years, yes. FS made the necessary changes after the '02 disaster and things looked a lot better in '03 though we weren't where we needed to be yet. Jamal Lord just wasn't the guy to alter the offense with. I think '04 would have been a great year had everyone had patience. Again, not ripping on you, just showing how differently we interpret how things went down. Wow that was long.

I agree with both points. Texas will get enough pressure on Leinart that USC will be forced to go to Bush to win the game for them again. Granted, why wouldn't you go to the best College Football player in recent memory to win you the game? But I see Leinart getting knocked around a lot making it more easy to play to contain Bush. Not to mention the Texas D is a lot faster than FS or ND. But then again, Bush could go off for 500 yards again and win it by himself. Just my gut feeling that won't happen though.

Sure, everyone does. But I think the point is that no matter who is in charge, you have to have top notch facilities, no? I can't argue with that. Maybe I'll have to rethink my position on this. Interesting.

You were just waiting for that spelling error so you could pounce, weren't you? Well, thanks for the tip. I never have been a good speller. Certain words always get me, like whether and weather. The "all-or-nothing" mentality is what I disagree with. I am unsettled by the direction of the football program. If I had money to be a big booster, I would approach it this way: I'm still a fan so I'm not going to completely desert the team. I'll buy tickets to the games when I can and maybe some merchandise. But I can't justify writing a multi-thousand dollar check. It would be my way of voicing my displeasure. If I was completely disgusted and wanted nothing to do with it, I wouldn't buy tickets or anything. What about the people who waited to write their checks for the facility until Solich was fired? Were they being hypocritical? Shouldn't they give all the support they can even if they didn't think Solich should be retained? I don't think so. They didn't agree with how the program was going and chose to show it by witholding the big dollars. Dang it...I did it again. Starting........Now.

whether you like Pud or not, donations for the athletic facility is a reflection on the fans, NOT THE AD OR THE COACH......IMHO........we need to support the team and the building of world class facilities.....we can always get another AD or coach later if need be....... hunter I'd have to disagree with you and agree with what roadrat says. It simply means not everyone is ready to blindly follow this guy. If people are unsettled enough to close their wallets, then something needs to be fixed. But like everyone says, winning cures everything. I'm sure if BC manages a Big 12 North title next year (which I think should be the measure of weather next season is a failure or not), then the donations will come rolling in. But don't insinuate that people are bad fans just because they don't want to keep donating even when they don't agree with what is going on. Or they want more assurance that this is going in the right direction before they write checks.

South Omaha has good thrift stores.

I'm chalking this one up as another "that's nice......." thread. But....... I don't think that's a great strategy, seeing how the name "Bill" also has 2 Ls...... ...... But, uh...... ....... Good Point. If we were going to play that game, this year it would be LLLLoyd Carr vs. BiLLLL Callahan. Actually, I guess it could Just be BiLL CaLLahan, huh? It is an improvement over BiLLL CaLLLahan, though.

I've always been kind of annoyed by the whole NU thing. We all call it NU, but it's the University of Nebraska. Oh, well...at least we don't go as far as putting it on our helmets like Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. It seems to be an old Big 8 school thing. KU, MU, OU, CU, NU.....I've never quite understood it myself.

If anyone has the right to be upset about a personal attack, it's me not you by making that childish remark instead of responding to my post. Grow up I'm dizzy after trying to follow that logic. Let's make sure I have this straight: I shouldn't be offended because you just attacked the message and not me but the message is a reflection of the person who wrote it so if you call my posts idiodic its my fault for writing them and....wait I got lost. Maybe you'll have to explain it to me again. I'm not going to detail all the things you said that most would consider insults. But the fact that you pretend you don't insult people during debates is what is so annoying. Yes, you come to the table with a lot of numbers and research and that's great. But you seem incapable of having a serious debate without completely dismissing the the other's argument as 'stupid, asenine, or idiodic.' Then you usually finish it off with something like 'period', or 'that's fact and cannot be disputed', as if that's supposed to end the debate. It's like when you see something you totally disagree with, you can't help yourself and you go off (hence my Megadeth comment, which was pretty funny I thought). Anyway, this whole thing started when I called a comment you made conceited and elitist, and I stand by that. We are sensitive to such comments out here in Mid-Major land. I tried to point out that it was ridiculous to think lesser teams should take disrespect from teams like Michigan and not be upset, while Nebraska has a right to be indignant, especially considering Nebraska's current standing. If you haven't noticed, in the national media up until the CU game, Nebraska has been a punchline for two years. If you ask me, ANY team that is treated with disrespect has a right to be upset. But you only reinforced my first impression of your comment by calling the WAC 'sh**ty' and so forth. I forgot, I was planning on solving all this by not responding to your posts again. So I'll have to pull a Kramer and say I'm taking my vow of silence starting...........now.

Is that just your gut feeling or is there something more out there on this? I know the article says he was mulling his options, but I always thought he was leaning towards staying. Regardless, many think Booty is better than Leinart (we'll see if he's as smart), and I think they only lose one off of that offensive line. They'll be tough no matter what happens.

That's the most impressive display of simultaneous horse-beating I've seen in a while. Look at 'em...all perfectly in time.