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  1. What’s important to you? What’s NU’s strengths? What is its weaknesses? What’s the best part about being a Husker fan? What’s the toughest thing? Link
  2. Linkaroo It was mid-January, the dog days of recruiting season, and Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini and offensive line coach Barney Cotton sat in the home of linebacker recruit David Santos. Santos, one of the best defensive players in the Houston area, had a perfectly natural question. “Who's my coach going to be?” he asked Pelini. In December 2010, Mike Ekeler had taken a co-coordinator job at Indiana. Pelini chose not to replace Ekeler until after signing day. He first wanted to secure what became his best-rated recruiting class. Nevertheless, in a typical Bo moment of unwavering certitude, he leaned toward Santos. “Oh, don't worry,” he said. “I'll get you a good linebackers coach.” Cotton's thoughts naturally turned to a friend he'd hired almost 16 years before to coach quarterbacks at Hastings College. The quarterbacks coach became head coach at Hastings, leading the Broncos to a No. 1 ranking and two undefeated regular seasons. And then he coached with Cotton at New Mexico State. Ross Els.
  3. http://sports.omaha.com/2011/05/16/a-five-year-snapshot-of-nebraska-baseball/
  4. Link Brown already seems to have a pet project in junior Collins Okafor, the Omaha Westside graduate who's produced little in his four years on campus. “I want to find a role for him if there's a way to do that,” Brown said. “But this is his time now. He's going to get a great opportunity.” Okafor has good speed for his 6-foot-1, 225-pound frame, Brown said. But he's a “thrasher,” the equivalent of a powerful swimmer who splashes a lot during his stroke and turns in a bad time as a result. “We've got to keep smoothing him out,” Brown said. “He's got to be able to use his body.” To illustrate, Brown keeps pounding a fist into his palm. He wants Okafor to get downhill on running plays and stop trying to pick and slide well before he reaches the line of scrimmage. Even in high school, Okafor had a habit of drifting laterally to find daylight instead of blowing holes open. “I'm trying to get Collins not to waste motion,” Brown said. “He's a very smart guy...he needs a lot of repetitions. That's how he is. And he studies like that. He's a relentless studier off the field.”
  5. After three years of a hybrid West Coast/spread attack that played to diminishing returns in big games and had critics sniping at the heels of Shawn Watson, the new leader of Nebraska's offense - Tim Beck - is officially hitting the reset button and putting the “gas pedal to the floor.” In a bold, upbeat first interview since becoming NU's latest offensive coordinator, Beck told the “Sports Nightly” radio program Tuesday night that he intends to completely overhaul the Huskers' attack for their inaugural Big Ten season in 2011. “You can't be afraid to start over and junk everything and get a system in place,” Beck said during a 15-minute, wide-ranging chat. “Even though there may be things your guys know, change is good. And you've got to make those changes and live through those early times, because once the foundation is laid on what you plan on doing, you're going to be set for years to come with it.” And what will Nebraska's offense look like? Beck didn't offer precise details. But he gave two notable statements: http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2011/02/22/4d647ec7acb3b
  6. ***Nebraska football officially made the move on ESPN from the Big 12 to the Big Ten last week. The Mouse's compilation of articles were very complimentary of the Huskers, and athletic director Tom Osborne said Big Ten officials have been in and out of North Stadium prepping NU for the transition. “So for the last six, eight months, we've had a fairly steady flow of people from the Big Ten who have come out here: compliance, business office practices, academic consulting, Big Ten Network and on and on,” Osborne told ESPN. “So we feel very good about the outreach and the effort that the Big Ten has put in to assimilating us into the conference.” The NU-Big Ten marriage will have a long, fruitful honeymoon. Nebraska will be eager to please and travel to all of the Big Ten sites. Minneapolis and Chicago better brace themselves for an onslaught of red every other year. The Twin Cities will become, for some, the new Kansas City – the place where folks go in the summer just because. Might take a decade, but the shift will be sure. There will be less and less reason to venture south for leisure if one of the key cultural connective tissues has been severed. More...
  7. 1. He'd better land a new job then. 2. Not happening 3. Hard to execute with shorter QBs. 4. So Helu and Burkhead sit in favor of Austin Jones? 5. Not until they get that five-yard slant "detailed."
  8. See for yourself the stats after Martinez got hurt, or 6½ games, plus five plays at the end of the Missouri first half: Total: 449 plays, 2,079 yards, 4.63 yards per play Rushing: 311 carries for 1180 yards, 3.79 yards per carry Passing: 77-138 (55%) for 809 yards, 10.5 yards per completion Avg NCAA Rank of Opponent Defense: 71st Now, for something disturbing. Here are the stats for the last 6½ games of the 2009 season, when NU's admittedly-hamstrung offense retreated into a candy-coated shell and let its otherworldly defense win games. Shawn Watson called it the “Apollo 13” offense because, just as astronauts were on the dark side of the moon, NU was riddled with injuries at every position except receiver. Total: 397 plays, 1,675 yards, 4.21 yards per play Rushing: 272 carries for 970 yards, 3.56 yards per carry Passing: 67-125 (53%) for 729 yards, 10.8 yards per completion Avg NCAA Rank of Opponent Defense: 43rd When you consider the caliber of defenses NU played in 2009 vs. 2010, folks, that's the same offense. The offense Husker coaches assured Nebraska fans would never see again.
  9. "Nebraska is to win football games without his team blowing up the police blotter or bludgeoning the NCAA rule book. All of the “accoutremois” of the role, as the Winnebago Man might say, land on a sliding scale of importance. Bo can win with star-gazing blue-chippers or five-heart walk-ons. He can open practice or run it in a bunker. He can kiss the rear of the press or tell it to kiss his. He can throw block parties or dine alone on blood sausage and Montmarte cheese. So long as he wins. But should the breaks ever beat Bo's boys for a few weeks in a row – or even a whole month, as is happening to Mack Brown's bunch in Austin – it's the equity he builds with the folks who ultimately pay his salary – fans and boosters – that'll keep the wolves at bay. And Pelini did himself – and really his players – few favors Monday by lighting into the Memorial Stadium crowd for producing a scrimmage-like atmosphere for last Saturday's Kansas game. He didn't back away from those comments at Tuesday's presser." More
  10. You refuse to be wrong? That has to be a fun life. I'm guessing that, uh, an exaggeration. Anyway, Peter's idea of "tough" is, to some extent, a cultural precept that Nebraskans just aren't going to embrace. Or a guy like Suh, for that matter.
  11. Journalists do not always cite sources, though. Correct? Aside from that, agree with your post. No. But the story suggests that the LJS wasn't using Fisher's name. It was.
  12. I think that's trying to make it look a little different than it was...Steven Sipple's twitter: I guess it's not worded incorrectly. The first time I read it though, made it seem like the writers' tweets were unspecific about the name. Oh, I'd argue it's worded incorrectly. Sipple's twitter was at 7:31. The LJS story was at 8:30. Both had Fisher by name, citing no sources.
  13. Of course the option can still work, and work well, within a college system. One only needs to look at what Navy did to Missouri last year. I am not personally, however, a fan of the wingbone, which is what Johnson runs. Osborne ran it sparingly, mostly when Fryar was there.
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