Mrp542

So much this. Honestly, our first half went better than I expected. Especially considering almost everything was fixable with Tim Miles being Tim Miles (for example, first half 0-11 3PT, second half 4-10). Nebraska has a tendency to overhype games. And there was no way that wouldn't affect the play of a young, relatively inexperienced team. Once they settled in though... a 13 point deficit was not insurmountable. But, to reiterate, every time we cut it to single digits... 5:30 into the second, NE pulls within 9. In the next 3:30 Baylor had 12 FTA vs NE's 1 - Baylor's up 18. Next 8 minutes, both teams get 2 FTA - NE pulls within 9. Next 2:30 Baylor gets 12 FTA vs NE's 4. The refs made sure Baylor couldn't lose. With one caveat I thought we could have/should have won that game. Baylor fan quote: "Baylor has seen all types of officiating this year. We've seen 'breathe on a guy and it's a foul.' We've seen 'no blood, no foul.' Blind refs, 'you're playing in Austin and will get no calls refs,' we've seen it all. Nebraska looks and plays like they have not seen that variety of officiating all season, which favors Baylor mentally." Which I think one could argue showed up in our 7 blocks and 9 steals vs their 2 blocks and 7 steals. And, I know one of the reasons this one bothers me so much is that I watched the NDSU Oklahoma game the night before. The one where 2 NDSU players had major scratches and through incidental contact one of them got kicked in the head. And this is such a turnaround. (I wonder if Hess saw that game, too?) My counterpoint is something that no one else seems to be harping on except Baylor boards ("Miles definitely acted like he had never been there before.") is that this is the first time Miles has been ejected from a game. In 19 years of being a HC. With 2 NAIA–II titles. And this is his 7th postseason appearance. The first time he's been ejected. Why? (Baylor fan quote: "he was literally on the court and across midcourt from the coaching box") Nevermind that Scott Drew crossed the midcourt while the ball was in play, during the game, too. I definitely took some positive takeaways though: We're not in the Big 12. We're in the B1G. Our team played hard in the second half - there was no quitting. In addition to 3, we adjusted well. This is a very young team. In addition to 5, next time won't be the first time in the tourney for most of our roster.

An alleged sexual assault by an athlete at Missouri in 2010... sounds familiar. Was the alleged perpetrator Mike Dixon? Nope, that was in January 2010. The alleged victim (a tutor) decided not to press charges. He remained on the basketball team. After 2 years, in 2012, when a second alleged sexual assault incident came up he was forced to leave MU. Was the perpetrator Derrick Washington? Nope, that was actually in June 2010. When Derrick Washington - after having sex with the victims' roommate (a tutor) - assaulted her roommate (also a tutor). He was convicted. (She would later clarify, saying, basically, that this wasn't her opinion she was repeating was told to her, by the tutors) But, fortunately, the MU AD investigated: Now, a 3rd alleged incident. This time in February 2010, involving 3 football players. At least the tutoring program isn't involved in this one?

That's a good article in the NYT and highlights the benefits of an extraordinary S&C program. On that same note, S&C might be Georgia's biggest weakness. http://www.reddit.co..._bad_luck_from/

Here's a link to a lot of the TPDs documents. http://www.talgov.co...d-documents.pdf I think it's worth a read. By the way, "The System" is a book that should be suggested. It really was enlightening to have a working understanding of the Derrick Washington and BYU cases before this one came public.

http://www.collegesand.org/schools 31 atm 16 started the program in 2012. 15 started the program in 2013. 2 more committed to start in 2014. Just for more information: the preseason #1 - Pepperdine - includes Lara Dykstra (no antagonism, just information).

Perhaps someone could check my numbers, but for the 2013 Rivals 250 I came up with: North Dakota: 0 South Dakota: 0 Nebraska: 1 (Committed to NE) Iowa: 1 (Committed to Iowa State) Wyoming: 0 Minnesota: 0 Wisconsin: 0 Colorado: 2 (Michigan and Vanderbilt) Missouri: 2 (Ohio State and Missouri) Kansas: 0 Oklahoma: 2 (Oklahoma and Oklahoma) Arkansas: 2 (Alabama and Arkansas) Illinois: 5 (Mississippi, USC, LSU, Michigan, Illinois) Texas: 2 [within 500 miles] (Ohio St., aTm) Which is a total of 17. Dirk's article says there were 25. We had the same 21 for 2012. The rest of the article is a normal Dirk: cherry picked numbers and examples, a complete focus on time based comparisons of Nebraska to Nebraska ignoring all other schools. But, my favorite part of the article is where he argues that the 500 mile radius is relevant today. jk it doesn't exist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x5D5NWIoAY

Because that's the way it should be? Cotton has been the O-Line coach for 4 years under Bo and was here under Solich as well. He has NEVER produced anything close to a great O-Line. A couple were fairly solid but none were great. Barney is the head O-Line coach. The line production falls completely on his shoulders. - expecially when you take into account what the other two guys are responsible for. Garrison is a full time coach right now primarily because Barney couldn't get it done alone, he'd have been one eventually anyways but he was kinda fast tracked from intern to full coach (skipping the GA position entirely) because of Barney's incompetence. He's been on the staff since 2008 but the first three of those were as an intern where he worked mostly with the S&C staff. 2011 was his first year as a full time O-Line/TE coach. His primary responsibility on the line is to work with the underclassmen and the walkons. Guess who the best linemen on the team were last year. Honestly the dude has been kinda awesome at his job with those guys - Caputo, Long. Choi etc. Stai is still an intern and he's been here only a very short time as well. Why the heck would he get any blame for the line? Yes he works with them but his involvement is kind of limited by the rules. Trying to give any blame to Stai would be like giving blame to LaTravis Washington if the Linebackers have a bad game. If we got rid of Barney, promoted Garrison to the actual O-Line coach and promote Vince Morrow to a fulltime staff member as the new TE coach where he can recruit... (something he's actually very good at) Then either promoted Stai to GA where he can help Garrison a lot more (or bring in someone else who can coach the line as a GA if Stai doesn't want to do this job full time), Honestly we'd be in pretty dang good shape. Well then, for you also.....I guess Uncle Milt didn't meet your minimum standards either as he needed help from Dan Young, right? You bet, anybody who needs help s*cks in a major way. And oh yeah, Kyler Reed, while a great threat through the air, just might be the worst blocking TE in Div1 cfb. Who was the TE coach last year? We've NEVER put together a pancaking Oline since we canned smashmouth for fluffball under the mighty Clownahan. Four full years of fluffy performance from the road-graders before Barney came back with Bo. I'm not even going to go into the horrible previous recruiting for Olinemen we had in 2008 & 2009 because you'll just ignore it. In his previous "one" year stint at NU in 2003, NU was the 7th ranked rushing team in the nation (236 ypg) despite having an almost zero passing threat with J. Lord. NU & Barney faced ultra stacked boxes every single game but were still reasonably effective running the ball. Lastly, since the addition of Garrison & Stai in 2011, why did NU's game rushing averages (248 to 217) & ypc (5.7 to 4.6) decrease from 2010? Milt and Dan had well defined roles that weren't the same. One coached run blocking the other coached pass blocking (and, IIRC, some work on special teams). Well defined roles help people evaluate what's being done well and what's being done poorly and aids in not passing the buck. In the case of Milt and Dan both of them did well. I have serious qualms about judging a coach based upon 1 aspect of 1 player that he's been working with for 1 year. Especially when that player had injuries off and on throughout that year. I wonder, did any other TEs play that we could evaluate? The pancaking Oline just doesn't happen anymore. Football has changed. The previous year that Barney spent here (in 2003) Barney had mostly players that had been coached by Milt and Dan. In 2003 we saw a slight decline in offensive production and rushing; although some of the key players remained the same. I'm going to write it off to a new coach (Barney) and say that in 1 year, unless you see a significant change there's nothing really laudable or blamable about that year. (See above, I'm not a fan of judging on one year, unless there's a significant change) I can't think of any B1G reasons why the rushing average would change. As was mentioned by zoogies perhaps it was the "loss" of Watson, the loss of Helu, the lingering injury to Martinez or the lack of a viable back up for Martinez. Maybe, just maybe there's another reason our YPC could have decreased.