tjohn deaux

So happy for Stanley. He has been a great Husker, through thick and thin. I hope to see him do well in the draft.

This is my pick. These two are amazing.

this is pretty accurate FWIW

woah, ok, I was way out there.. forgive my blondness. I had the years all messed up, kind of makes everything else I say look dumb! I should have gotten MY facts straight. But I'll say it anyway, as for the top 25, I would call top 25 very good, but not elite. I believe Bo has to get better to be elite, although he is failrly new at the HC game... even newer than I once thought! Now even top ten regularly wouldn't be good for many, because look at LSU and Georgia fanbases who want their coach fired when they don't win the NC. I like Bo, don't get me wrong, I just don't expect him to be dicussed as elite in the long run and I'd really like to see Nebraska back in the national championship hunt, and prove my doubt wrong. May not be hard to do judging my previous statements of "fact". PS - now I see why I am labeled "Scout Team" This is only Bo's 5th year. Came right after he helped win your tigers there NC. No worries, hope you can see why I was completely confused at first yes I can! thanks for going easy on me

woah, ok, I was way out there.. forgive my blondness. I had the years all messed up, kind of makes everything else I say look dumb! I should have gotten MY facts straight. But I'll say it anyway, as for the top 25, I would call top 25 very good, but not elite. I believe Bo has to get better to be elite, although he is failrly new at the HC game... even newer than I once thought! Now even top ten regularly wouldn't be good for many, because look at LSU and Georgia fanbases who want their coach fired when they don't win the NC. I like Bo, don't get me wrong, I just don't expect him to be dicussed as elite in the long run and I'd really like to see Nebraska back in the national championship hunt, and prove my doubt wrong. May not be hard to do judging my previous statements of "fact". PS - now I see why I am labeled "Scout Team"

I don't follow this logic. I believe it was posted sometime last week where Solich had a better winning percentage than Bo does. What is your definition of success? We won the Big 12 in 99'. We played for a NC in 01'. Exactly. We already fired a guy that may have been doing a better job... The logic I use is that Solich took over the reins from TO who had built a dynasty and just won the NC. Players would come to Nebraska and ride the pine with the hopes of playing a year, over playing for 3 at another school. Solich won games with these players, at first, but it became clear he wasn't recruiting well enough to maintain the level to which Husker fans were accustomed. I'm sure the Athletic Department is looking at more than record (which is what fans look at) when making the decision to let Solich go. He lost like 7 games in 02 I think. Pelini came in and tried to get it back together. He had some really bad seasons but has brought them back up compared to what he inherited. Do I think he is the guy who can hold Nebraska at a level of the national elite? No. He's not that kind of coach. Solich was a long time Husker who clearly loved the university, and had a good resume, but just let the team decline too far under his management, so I don't think he was more successful than Pelini. Like I said, Pelini, although among the top 25 coaches in the country, will never live up to what TO accomplished. That's what I mean when I say that once you've tasted being the best in the world, second just don't taste so good. LSU fans are the worst at this. Every year when Miles fails to get them in the NCG, there is a certain number of them who call for him to be fired. Fans' memories are clouded. It is impossible to stay on top year after year. Even TO lost big games now and then. Saban is the closest thing to TO college football has had, and it will be a while before anyone sees another one. I wonder what team will have him. When did Pelini have really bad seasons? He isn't good enough to get us to elite status but then you say he is a top 25 coach??? Is anyone else lost or is it just me? 2004-2005 record 5-6 no bowl game 2007-2008 record 5-7 no bowl game It may be just you that is lost, but you are definitely lost. You consider top 25 elite??? yeah you're lost Are you looking at any facts, or just like to argue?

I will jump in this one as I am a Husker fan second. My wife's family are all Huskers, from Omaha. I don't think it is unrealistic to expect, with the Big Red tradition and history: Compete for the conference championship every year. By that I mean if not play in the conference championship game, be the team to beat in getting there. Field at least one All American at some level annually Be a top 25 team every year Go to a solid bowl game every year Have a recruiting class to get excited about every year Win the games that should be won, and some that shouldn't Be able every year to truly say, "If we play to our ability, we can beat anybody." Just be able to get excited about every game that is coming up, that's what it's all about anyway.

I don't follow this logic. I believe it was posted sometime last week where Solich had a better winning percentage than Bo does. What is your definition of success? We won the Big 12 in 99'. We played for a NC in 01'. Exactly. We already fired a guy that may have been doing a better job... The logic I use is that Solich took over the reins from TO who had built a dynasty and just won the NC. Players would come to Nebraska and ride the pine with the hopes of playing a year, over playing for 3 at another school. Solich won games with these players, at first, but it became clear he wasn't recruiting well enough to maintain the level to which Husker fans were accustomed. I'm sure the Athletic Department is looking at more than record (which is what fans look at) when making the decision to let Solich go. He lost like 7 games in 02 I think. Pelini came in and tried to get it back together. He had some really bad seasons but has brought them back up compared to what he inherited. Do I think he is the guy who can hold Nebraska at a level of the national elite? No. He's not that kind of coach. Solich was a long time Husker who clearly loved the university, and had a good resume, but just let the team decline too far under his management, so I don't think he was more successful than Pelini. Like I said, Pelini, although among the top 25 coaches in the country, will never live up to what TO accomplished. That's what I mean when I say that once you've tasted being the best in the world, second just don't taste so good. LSU fans are the worst at this. Every year when Miles fails to get them in the NCG, there is a certain number of them who call for him to be fired. Fans' memories are clouded. It is impossible to stay on top year after year. Even TO lost big games now and then. Saban is the closest thing to TO college football has had, and it will be a while before anyone sees another one. I wonder what team will have him.

Abdullah is very good at moving laterally in the tackle box and finding lanes. The problem defenses have with him is not strength, but quickness, intelligence, and speed. He sees the field well, and is effective as the alternative to Burkhead. Martinez can be dangerous if he can stay focused all game. If he gets too rattled, the game could get away from him.

David and Te'o are different kinds of players, but I would take David over Te'o in a heartbeat. David was EVERYWHERE and IMO a better one-on-one play maker. Te'o seems to me to benefit from being involved in lots of plays, but it doesn't seem to me he makes the kinds of plays in space like David always made. It is a media popularity contest for the Heisman, no doubt.

few people on the planet could ever come in and follow Tom Osbourne. It would be like... well... Conan trying to do The Tonight show behind Leno and Carson I know Pelini is not the only one to follow Osbourne, but he is the most successful.

What a great representative of the University and the state. Rex will surely be missed. I hope he stays healthy and has a long NFL career. He is a classy guy.

Good assessment. I agree. I do, however, believe that there is more of a possibility the Huskers win than most may think. UGA just came up short in their Super Bowl, while Nebraska failed to offer resistence to Wisconsin, who they and 4 other teams had already beaten. UGA played a good game overall against the soon-to-be national champs, and have settled for the cap one bowl. Nebraska is happy to have another chance to end it right, and like you already said, up the stock of those wanting to enter the draft. I'm gonna go out on a limb sparsely populated and call 31-27 Huskers who will hold UGA off from scoring late.

Well I have had frustration with him all year, he makes incredible plays that help his team, then can make incredible mistakes that hurt them, mainly becase he tries to make something out of nothing too much. I don't think they are in this bowl without him. If he improves this off-season as much as he did last one, Big Red will play Ohio State for the B1GC at worst. I just am not convinced Peliini is the kind of coach that will have them competing for a NC often enough. Poor guy. however, is in the shadow of Osbourne and will never live up to that standard. LSU fans are similar in that they call for Miles' head and are hard on the players when they don't go undefeated and win it all every year. It's hard to not be on top once you've tasted it.

You should since our fans jumped shiped. Georgia is fast and huge but nebraska might give you some trouble... I believe the Huskers will give the dawgs trouble. GA. Southern. did for a half with an option QB. Martinez can throw and is a true dual threat if he keeps his head together and trusts his team mates. He has to stop trying to do it alone.