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Amazing that a town of 68,000 can put 21 players in the NFL. That town may have more top recruits than the whole state of Nebraska.

There are certain posters around here that throw around the Sagarin ratings a lot during game week. I'm wondering if anybody has actually take a long look at these? A two lose Wisconsin team ranked ahead of Ohio State? 4-7 Utah ranked at number 26 (25 if you take out the FCS team)? Link: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/

Is it time Timmy starts looking for a new gig? Some of his calls are Pants On Head Stupid

I asked the question in the game thread because honestly I didn't know. Who is our special teams coach? So I looked it up and apparently Ross Els is our linebackers coach/special teams coordinator/recruiting coordinator. How is one guy supposed to do so many things a year? Keep him at linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator and give someone else the duties of special teams. I honestly feel bad for the guy being asked to do so many things.

You know the drill. / jacked from AR Husker Fan's Look-alike post last year. How could anyone improve on this?

D-II Football Scandal Was Evil And Brilliant

Don't hold back... Brady Hoke Chris Christie

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It seems like every Husker football fan has an opinion right now on who should be the next coach at Nebraska. But really, what coaching candidate is there that would choose Nebraska over USC or Texas? Don't get me wrong. I'm not running down Nebraska. But realistically, both USC and Texas have more money and more resources than we have at Nebraska. Just the advantage in recruiting alone would make it hard for any coach to pick the Huskers over these other two programs. This makes Eichorst's task all the more daunting. That is, IF he is even conducting a search at all right now. I say "IF" because it is a very real possibility that the Huskers are not actively looking right now. Maybe they are trying to fix things--trying to put the wheels back on the wagon. Instead of getting a whole new wagon. Another factor working against us is our own history. We fired Solich when he was 10-3. That alone would give pause to any top coaching candidate considering the Nebraska job. Thank you Steve Pederson. And remember how Pederson bungled the coaching search? It was a joke. We went after half a dozen coaching candidates back in 2003, Only to be rebuffed each time. When we finally hired Callahan most of Husker nation was glad to have an end to the pain. (Unfortunately, we only thought the pain had ended.) And that's not to mention the money. If we fire Pelini now we'll end up paying $4.5 million in buyout cash. That's a pretty steep price to pay for any school, let alone a Midwestern land grant university. Have we even paid off the Callahan buyout yet? All I'm saying is that I hope things don't spiral out of control like they have the past two times we made coaching changes. I hope Eichorst has the wisdom to guide us through this thing into better times. I hope we don't act rashly and dig an even deeper hole for Nebraska football. Because if we don't, things could get worse before they get better.

Congrats!! / Looks like this is a list put together by the B1G bloggers, Adam Rittenberg and Brian Bennett.

“He has the best hands on the team — best hands,” Enunwa said. Nuff said

Pretty straightforward question, but note - I'm not asking who YOU loved more, but who you think the fans as a whole loved more. For obvious reasons we can't include Tommie Frazier, hence the odd cutoff. I'm pretty sure I got everyone who started a majority of games in a season. Guys like Sam Keller get in because he played most of 2007 before getting injured. Cody Green doesn't get in because he started only four games spread out over a couple of years during the Martinez era. Tommy Armstrong isn't in because he's started three games in his career. Let me know if there's someone I missed.

Our 2018 Big Ten opener will be at Michigan http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131016/SPORTS0201/310160079/Michigan-announces-Big-Ten-football-schedules-2018-2019 I will post the rest as it comes out. Michigan was the first to announce so far

In a game that should be pretty one sided, just a few things pop into my mind. On defense, identify Akeem Hunt and punish him. He's their best play maker and can be explosive with the ball. Shut him down and then create havoc for a freshman QB making his first start. Interior presence opposite VV. Going Thad shows up, but I don't care if its him, Curry, whomever someone needs to play big going forward. LBs continue to improve in space. Young teams need to continue making baby steps forward throughout the year today is another step. Offensively, a strong running game alone can put this game away. 300 yards should be achieved. When the passing game is called for, open it up looking at those 15+ yard throws. Finally injury free. No need to use the bye week to heal injuries from today. Hope it goes as expected and is impressive our else we get to look forward to another two weeks of derp hell. GB f'ing R!!!!!

Nebraska (4-1, 1-0 Big Ten) travels to West Lafayette Saturday to take on the Purdue Boilermakers (1-4, 0-1 Big Ten). Nebraska is coming off a 39-19 victory against Illinois. Purdue is coming off of a bye week but the last time we saw the Boilermakers they were demolished by Northern Illinois, 55-24. This is the first road game for the Huskers. There is a chance for some rain in West Lafayette on Saturday, but if rain does fall it will be toward the later half of the ball game. Otherwise temperatures will hover right around 70 with winds out of the South at 10mph. Nebraska's Defense and the Big Play Nebraska's defense went into their game against Illinois knowing that they had to get better. They had to be fundamentally better and they had to be mentally better. Coming into the Illinois game, the Husker D allowed 18.4% of the plays they had faced to be either rushes of 10 yards or passes of 15 yards (i.e. "big plays"). Worse yet, those 18.4 % of plays accounted for 61.7% of the total yards given up by the defense. People will point out that yards don't mean anything, but I'm a big believer that yards tell a big part of the story because you have to get yards to get points. Nebraska's young defensive group through 4 games of the season was highly susceptible to giving up the big play, and there was great concern that Illinois could exploit that and come away from Memorial Stadium with a victory. That fear was legitimate. Illinois's offense through their first 4 games of the season was indeed explosive. In fact, the numbers pointed to a potential doom and gloom picture for the Husker faithful. Heading into their game against Nebraska, Illinois's offensive numbers were: 1914 yards, 161 points, 285 plays = 6.71 YPP | Big Plays: 57 (20%), 1300 yards (67.9%) = 22.8 YPP | Adjusted = 228 plays, 614 yards = 2.69 YPP Those numbers pointed to the Illini offense being all about the big play. They had the talent and they had the scheme to exploit the defenses they played (yes, they even did so against Washington: don't let the low yardage total fool you, 238 of Illinois's 327 yards were results of big plays). With Nebraska's defense being highly vulnerable to getting busted open for big plays, Husker and Illini fans were both bracing for a high scoring battle. It didn't happen. Nebraska did much better against an explosive Illinois offense. I could ramble on and on about Afalava's play, the defensive line getting pressure, our tackling in the backfield, and our ability to be opportunistic, but I'll let the numbers do the talking. You have our defensive numbers above; here are the numbers from the Illinois game: 402 yards, 17 points, 80 plays = 5.03 YPP | Big Plays: 9 (11.2%), 154 yards (38.3%) = 17.11 YPP | Adjusted = 71 plays, 248 yards = 3.49 YPP The 5.03 YPP total was 1.68 YPP lower than Illinois's average and 1.41 YPP lower than Nebraska's defensive average. That's a huge improvement. Furthermore, When Illinois hit the big play, which was 8.8% less than their season average, it went for 5.7 YPP fewer. Nebraska's D turned Illinois into a team it was uncomfortable being. Without those big plays, Illinois didn't have the chance to finish off their drives. As a result, the Illini didn't get into the end zone until well into the 3rd quarter. It was definitely a step in the right direction for the young Nebraska defense, who dealt Illinois's offense its worst performance of the season. I know Bo Pelini looks at the film and is encouraged, but not content with what he sees. I am confident that the Nebraska defense worked their asses off this week to get ready for Purdue, and have no doubt that they'll be ready to play on Saturday. I'm not expecting a huge day from Purdue's offense, despite our defensive woes. Aside from their game against Northern Illinois, the Boilermaker offense has been the very definition of anemic: 1508 yards, 85 points, 335 plays = 4.5 YPP | Big Plays: 37 (11%), 731 yards (48.5%) = 19.76 YPP | Adjusted = 298 plays, 777 yards = 2.61 YPP Purdue's offense should play right into the strengths of Nebraska's defense. Their offense has just a hard of a time generating a big play as our defense does stopping a big play from happening. However, in both of their last games, Purdue's offense and Nebraska's defense showed great improvement from their averages. Purdue's offense was more explosive than normal, Nebraska's defense was stingier than normal. So it'll be interesting to see what will happen come Saturday. My bet is that the Husker defense makes another step forward, holding Purdue to their average and further improving those big play numbers. Football is obviously won on both sides of the ball, and Nebraska's offense and Purdue's defense will be the focus of my next entry.

Opponent Yards/Game: 440.5 -- ranked 8th in the B1G and 82nd nationally Opponent Points/Game: 26.8 -- ranked 9th in the B1G and 59th nationally Opponent Yards/Play: 5.8 -- ranked 9th in the B1G and 89th nationally Opponent Yards/Rush Attempt: 4.3 -- ranked 9th in the B1G and 73rd nationally Opponent Yards/Pass Attempt: 7.9 -- ranked 9th in the B1G and 84th nationally Opponent Points/Play: .354 -- ranked 10th in the B1G and 56th natoinally Takeaways/Game: 2.2 -- ranked 2nd in the B1G and 28th nationally Probably about what you thought they were when you opened this thread. While our defense has been opportunistic with takeaways, we still have a long way to go in just about every other area.

This is blatantly stolen from Hail Varsity's mailbag, but it's a great question from a Husker fan: What would the Husker Horseshoe be worth if were to be auctioned? Would it crack $10,000? $50,000? More? Less? If, arguendo, it were to be auctioned today, I can imagine a pretty significant bidding war developing between some of our wealthier Husker fans (sadly, not I).

Nebraska vs. Stanford http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/bowls/predictions THIS BETTER NOT TURN IN TO A TAYLOR MARTINEZ THREAD

I worry about further tapes or videos being released. Although the tapes/vids listed below are pure speculation, they could be damaging to our Husker football program: . audio of Pelini berating the paperboy for throwing his newspaper in the bushes. (The paperboy starts crying). video of Pelini killing a unicorn. And eating its still beating heart. audio of Pelini making the "Mike Rotch" prank call to Dirk Chatelain during the OWH Christmas party. (Chatelain starts crying). video of Pelini leaving a flaming bag of dog sh#t on Tim Miles’ front step. Hazing the new guy. video of Pelini riding on a moped with his young, attractive girlfriend. (Our cheap boosters—sheesh! Too cheap to get Pelini a motorcycle like Hogs boosters got for Petrino.) video of Pelini goofing around in the lockerroom, and giving Tyler Moore an over-the-head super wedgie—the real reason Tyler Moore left the team. . . Okay Huskerboard, it's time to shake out of our funk! We got a game tomorrow!!

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/HaHa_Clinton-Dix?Title=Alabama-assistant-strength-coach-placed-on-administrative-leave-for-providing-money-to-HaHa-Clinton-Dix

World Series: BOS vs LAD BOS in 7 Glad to see the Pirates win last night, really good and young team.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNOyDMzn2bY http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1087292_motorcycles-mob-range-rover-carnage-ensues-video?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MotorAuthority2+(MotorAuthority) Those bikers got what they deserved, imo.

You know the drill. And they got some talent

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