unfortunately there were several "pinkel factor" losses to take away from what was a transitional year. losing to nu when they were winning handily is a classic pulling a pinkel. tigers had throttled the huskers easily and were winning the kicking game, with a baby qb who was suhdified and hobbling should have kept it more conservative and won out.
MU has a great recruiting class coming and will have a huge edge in skill players over rest of north and it's not even close and best returning QB in conference but with same coordinators who just arn't very good not sure if it will make much difference. fans are desperately defending bad coaching and are happy with mediocrity, pinkel has no clue as to what would make a good d and no d coaches that know either, so that will offset superior talent. If Gabbart starts picking up secondary receivers and stays healthy he will have a monster year, has a fleet of very fast, big recievers for next year already with several good ones in new class as well. won't mean much if they can't stop anybody.
bo is a superior schemer and defensive strategist but his recruiting of offensive talent is strangely not good. what's up with that? no qb in class and medicore wr's? too bad his staff couldn't keep original commits and they would have had something. Green will have to produce as Lee is what we thought he was, just a guy. If green can take the job and show some of his very good talent, would make a huge difference for nu. best thing for huskers is pinkel is too loyal to really good guys he has for assitants but they arn't coaches good enough to make a difference, they are just a bunch of guys who can recruit but not coach up the talent they attract. Pinkel's stubborness and ineffectiveness on gameday is only reason Mu won't get past the level they are now. But it's NU's opportunity. Rest of north didn't recruit anyone and won't do much.
ahhh.....so refreshing to see your vast knowledge of football (and the english language) back on display here on huskerboard. may i remind you that you are speaking so highly of school that just got humbled by a service academy. Not to mention, this particular service academy's game plan is written on opposing coaches foreheads weeks before the game. :dumdum
now lets talk recruiting. mu's class is as good as they've ever had. it also has very few defensive recruits, very similar to how nu's class lacks offensive recruits. if you knew your team or our team, you would realize the number of returning players (defense for mu and offense for nu) is why the classes are filled that way. pelini is not a bad offensive recruiter. he picked the guys we have because that's what we need. as far keeping our committed recruits.....it might help we we stayed away from 1 family......considering we only had one other decommit (CC - which most nu fans will tell you is just fine).
i for one say you might want to take off your black and gold colored spectacles and come back to earth.
you can have the skill players you speak of if they can make grades...it's very well known that 2 of your 4 :star kids most likely will not be on campus next year. i'll take my defense over your vastly superior (?) skill players any day.
you want to know how bad your defense is? like the above poster said, the worst offense nu's had in decades, out-gained your skill players in rushing and passing. your team let nu score 27 points in a frickin monsoon. wow.....i'd be a little more reserved when talking smack my friend.
