I'm sure this is the way Bo has looked at it. If you guys remember from last year, he didn't hand out the blackshirts until we won a game we weren't favored to win (Kansas). He will probably won't hand them out until something like that happens again. But, who knows? Maybe as a confidence booster and after the way they played in the 300 game, he'll hand them out before Mizzou?Yeah if we would have won against VT I would have said you can hand them out then. But I pretty sure I would wait at least until after Miz game. We have not played well down there or up here the last few years so until we can win a big game I dont see handing them out.
For most of this decade we have been a very mediocre program and the elite connotation that went with the "Black Shirts" became somewhat laughable. That will not change until we BEAT SOMEBODY. Bo, I believe is trying to restore that elite defense and if he thinks it is an incentive to rise above mediocrity, I'm all for it. Will it work? Who knows, but we are on the third coach and are still looking for the Blackshirt Defense. Perhaps it's time to use them as a reward. Really, an Osborn team that lost the only game against a BCS school in a tough game and whipped 3 Sunbelt patsies would have been embarrassed to claim the "Blackshirt Defense" that Nebraska football was famous for.What is wrong with everyone? Until last year the Blackshirts were never a carrot given only upon reaching some achievement beyond being a starter. For the entire history they were given out to the starting defense at the beginning of the year. That included many years of mediocrity.
Everyone is always talking about respecting our traditions. Holding back the Blackshirts is not our tradition. I'm supportive of Pelini in a lot of things, but he is flat wrong about this one. This is not our tradition. You're either for our traditions and history or you aren't. Don't bust out the tradition argument anywhere else if you are willing to ignore it here...
Yeah if we would have won against VT I would have said you can hand them out then. But I pretty sure I would wait at least until after Miz game. We have not played well down there or up here the last few years so until we can win a big game I dont see handing them out.
Conference games or not, pasting a GOOSE EGG and 55 points is a dominating game. Parity is the word nowadays, anyone can beat anyone on any given day... so why wait for conference play to hand them out? Give the D a shot in the arm, and give them their blackshirts! That will raise the bar... "you earned em, now you gotta keep em".Yeah if we would have won against VT I would have said you can hand them out then. But I pretty sure I would wait at least until after Miz game. We have not played well down there or up here the last few years so until we can win a big game I dont see handing them out.
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Yup that's a blackshirt performance ... hand em out!Conference games or not, pasting a GOOSE EGG and 55 points is a dominating game. Parity is the word nowadays, anyone can beat anyone on any given day... so why wait for conference play to hand them out? Give the D a shot in the arm, and give them their blackshirts! That will raise the bar... "you earned em, now you gotta keep em".Yeah if we would have won against VT I would have said you can hand them out then. But I pretty sure I would wait at least until after Miz game. We have not played well down there or up here the last few years so until we can win a big game I dont see handing them out.
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Agreed... but didnt Bo and staff just say this past week were the BEST practices since the new coaches came on board? Its time... quit doing the carrot and stick to these kids. Some are seniors, and only have a few months left... Bo, do the right thing!This is my opinion, take it for what it's worth.
BLACKSHIRTS's are practice jerseys.
Bo and staff put a HUGE emphasis on practice being an indicator of game week.
Maybe we won't see the Blackshirts until Bo believes his Defense is practicing at the intensity level that Jason Peter talks about. Maybe Bo wants to see his boys be nasty and mean and SMART at the same time in PRACTICE!
He may know they had a great NonConf season, but still doesn't see the nastiness he wants. They might be smart (expaining the current status) but not nasty and mean enough to "the Galaxy" he wants them in.
I don't think they get them by winning, I believe they will get them when they bring the attitude EVERYDAY!!