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Dear HuskerBoard family, After 16 years of running HuskerBoard, it's time to turn the page. Jump to the last few sentences to find out where HB goes from here. Continue reading for my full "best man" wedding speech. I started HuskerBoard a few years after graduating from UNL in 2003, b/c I was a Husker zealot looking for someone to talk Husker football with while living in KC. I began by creating various profiles and having conversations with myself ... Shortly after, I convinced my old college buddy Eric, to join the schizophrenic conversation. We goofed around, shared our idiotic commentary with our multiple personalities, and our old school version of memes. Suddenly, people started showing up. Actual, real, not voices in our heads people - like you guys. Some of you even became our friends, and some lifelong friends - b/c of a crazy little place where adults click buttons and type things about sports stuff. Today, HuskerBoard stands strong at nearly 12K members and counting. The largest 100% FREE Husker forum on the web. With easily the most respectful and intelligent members and moderators. I'm extremely proud of what HuskerBoard has become. And it most certainly wouldn't still be here without MANY amazing contributors over the years. Too long to list them all, so to avoid missing someone I won't even start. You know who you are, so thank you from the bottom of my heart. And of course you incredible SOB members that are just as nutty about the Huskers as us. And some who may actually be clinically insane, you added a nice dash of color and entertainment to the board. It's been an honor being the Lord of the Flies; although some of you don't even know WHOTF I am, as I've been behind the scenes the past several years. I had to put my Husker addiction on the back-burner when I had my first daughter 7 years ago. I now have 3 kids, and my time is being stretched more everyday. I recently decided it was time to pass the torch. To someone I knew would maintain our values, and keep the HB spirit of ethics alive. David Max, the longtime owner of HuskerPedia and now HuskerMax will be taking over the board effective tomorrow August 27. I know the board will be in good hands, as David is a solid human being and amazing Husker fan. He vowed to maintain the board as a FREE forum, and will surely take it to even better places than I've had time for lately. And special thanks to Mavric for leading the crew so expertly the past few years. Mavric is the man, and is planning to continue onward & upward with HB. So please follow his lead and continue building HuskerBoard into the best Husker forum on the web. Thanks again to all, and GBR!! ~Mic drop~ Chad aka Blackshirt P.S. - David will make an announcement soon about his upcoming plans for the board, including an invitation to his Tailgate Party this Saturday!

If he were my son I would tell him to go to Oklahoma

Hats off to Adrian Martinez today. I thought he played a very solid game during an extremely shaky year. He lost his starting job this season, split time today with Luke, and still completed 18/20 passing and added yards on the ground with a score. He also had a long run called back for a holding penalty. He battled terrible snaps all day, putting him in bad positions to make a play. He never made a stink after losing the job to Luke and he seems to be such a solid team guy. This is the guy I want leading our team. When he is rolling and confident, he is extremely hard to stop. Yes, he had a very costly fumble during a crucial part of the game, but that guy played his a$$ off for us when the chips were ALWAYS stacked against him. He was as solid today as it gets for the Huskers this year. Well done.

I’ve been browsing your site and figured some of your fans might be interested in the opinion of a 40 year TUFB fan. Full disclaimer, I am just a fan w no dog in this fight. As a long suffering loyal season ticket holder and booster club member, I think I can offer slightly more accurate recollections but I would have to admit some of data might be slightly skewed. Nevertheless, here goes. I am not a relative or a hype man but I think you will like this hire. Matt Rhule came to Temple in 2006 as part of Al Golden’s first staff. From what I heard he was virtually a walk on coach. He literally showed up on campus and knocked on Golden’s door. Both Golden and Rhule played at Penn State. Golden being a Starting TE. Rhule playing very sparingly at LB. Very sparingly I understand. I suppose that was his in. Now Temple football WAS AN ABSOLUTE SHAMBLES, in the 15 years leading up to Golden,s hire. Yea 15 years ! We had been kicked out of the Big East, playing in front of 1,500 people in a pro fb stadium, revolving door of players and a completely destroyed prep school relationship. No local coaches would send their kids to Temple. (Go ahead, look up the 2005 Temple Owls FB results and the 14 years before) from what I heard, when hired, Rhule was the lowest paid member of the coachingstaff earning less than 50k. Not bad, considering the money you are now committed to paying him, right? in a matter of weeks, the woeful recruiting all changed. Al Golden himself identified Rhule as playing an integral part in the recruiting. I heard Golden say Rhule was sleeping in cars off the interstate scouring the mid Atlantic and northeast region for players under the radar.. in their 1st year, Temple picked up 5 players in the densiveline who would play in the NFL. None of them had a single offer from a 1A school. That included finding a guy who they stowed away in prep school for a year. Muhammad Wilkerson would become a #1 draft pick who stayed committed to Temple after all the other schools found out about him. I could give you dozens and dozens of players who had no other 1aoffers or certainly no P5 offers who were absolute studs at Temple. Again, Rhule was a key figure if not the most prominent reason this happened. Indeed relationships w players is one of his attributes. You might be surprised to learn going into this season Temple had contributed the most NFL players from a G5 school. I would wager all of them had some interaction or relationship w Rhule to get there. I can also tell you the vast majority of these guys were high character people. They weren’t overlooked because of conduct, it was because they weren’t known, an inch too small, a half step slow. Rhule and his staff developed them into terrific college players. As his reputation grew, Templebegan taking players from upper level P5 schools. Temple was winning recruiting battles w players who never would have asked where Temple was let alone committing. You probably didn’t know Kenny Pickettwas a Temple commit until Matt Rhule left for Baylor my school went from a laughing stock to a competitor. It took a few years but we began dominating teams who only a few years earlier were bearing us by 60 points. I’m not exaggerating either. For some reason, when Golden took a promotion to Miami, Rhule did not go w him or was offered the job. He might not have been polished enough. Rhule took a job w the NY Giants. The new regime came in and won w players already on the roster but began slipping.quickly. When Steve Adazzio parlayed temples players into a P5 job at Boston College, the players wanted Matt Rhule hired. Rhule then took his lumps w the players he was given and by the end of a 2-10 year, he was playing many of the walk ons and no star recruits he had found again. 2 years later we were playing for the Conference Championship and 3 years later won it’d and if not for a were a western Michigan win away from playing on New Years Day. Seriously, a temple ! I’m not Matt Rhule.s agent. In fact a quick funny story. Rhule had been promoted to Temple’s OC. I didn’t really like his offense. Lots of motion,packages, substitutions. We were playing a game at Kent State (yea we weren’t big time ) and I was letting Rhule hear it. The game was one of those MAC games on a Wednight on ESPN. Julian aedelman was Kent’s QB.it was a miserable night There wasn’t 750 people in the stadium. I couldn’t believe We were losing and made my opinion known. One of Temples players came over tome and told me to STFU. They had Rhulesback and he had theirs. It is the kind of loyalty he inspired. I learned my lesson. I followed Rhule a bit at Baylor. I left the same kind of message there when I read fans balking at his hire. I believe he was very successful there.I did not follow Rhule in the NFL. It’s a very different job and I’m a much bigger college fan. im going to leave you with a couple final thoughts which you can think about or research yourself. Rhule left temple in 2017. His predecessor had a decent season then parlayed Rhule recruits into a fat contract at Georgia Tech. Geoff Collins was fired already and We gradually fell completely off the map again. It wasn’t a coincidence. im one of literally a few hundred people who have been going to Temple FB games for 30 years. I can tell you Rhule.s association w Temple paralleled the only successful and really enjoyable times I had following them. It’s not all him. It’s others as well and some are likely going to be the same people he brings to staff at Nebraska because did the same thing at a temple, Baylor and yes, Carolina. Again, I think the Sunday league is a lot different. Rhule and his staff will recruit the hell out of the Midwest and he will probably pluck some nice players out of the mid Atlantic like he did for Baylor. I’ll leave this video here. It’s a couple minute clip of Gameday coming a Temple game in 2015. In the 90’s 00’s and thru 2013, I would have never dreamed ESPN Gameday would be featuring a Temple game. But it happened and Matt Rhule was very responsible for it. good luck

Hey now Jurgens threw a couple deep balls.

And neither does adding Texas to anything

I found out yesterday that I was selected as Teacher of the Year. It just so happened that yesterday was also Sports Day, where we could wear attire representing our favorite teams. Pretty certain I'm the only guy in Louisiana rocking a Nebraska Cornhuskers hat and a throwback Bucs SUH #93 Creamsicle jersey.

Gebbia is by all accounts a great kid, a talented quarterback, and a leader on the team. He may be the hardest worker on the roster and poured his heart and soul into winning the job. He’s also a young man who’s just been told that despite all that work, sweat, drive, and leadership, it just wasn’t enough. So he’ll have to watch someone else lead the team this fall. It’s hard to imagine how hard that would be. Cut Gebbia some slack. He’s earned it.

I just wanted to point out that @jessica0 has been on this board since October and already has something like 238 rep points. I've been on here since December of 2005 and have 255 points. It always fascinates me how newbies can come on here and pretty much seem to dominate the board and then become the next "guru" on the board. I mean no harm by this post ... I actually was hoping a few folks would simply +1 this post so I can get out ahead of Jessica on the rep points. Thanks for any +1's. :-)

Shoutout to Mickey Joseph! He took over a mess that Frosty left us! He loves this program and even though he wasn’t perfect he set us off into the sunset with a W in Iowa City! You are a standup man representing this program exceptionally and I hope that you stick around in some capacity to continue to salvage our program! We have been blessed to have someone with his leadership abilities and his fire to not only lead these young man on the field but off the field as well! Thanks Mickey! I think I speak for all of us when I say you are a TRUE HUSKER and we can’t thank you enough! GBR!!!! Now let’s !!!

I heard that they tried to fraudulently acquire a Husker related message board, and then maliciously incited panic by announcing a fake 10am outage. Frost doesn't stand for that kind of crap.

My wife's sister is my sister in law. Her husband is not my brother. What is this, Alabama?

Pizza's are $10 House parties are bad When texting ex-girlfriends Use the phone of a dad

F**k Iowa

Huskers in the morning: Huskers in the evening:

I learned that we need to pay Tony White whatever he wants to keep him here.

It's not about the defense getting better. It's about removing people that are poisoning the culture of the program. If Mickey's firing someone, it's because keeping them on board would do more damage than letting them go.

Frost is the worst head coach in the modern times of NU football. I'm not sure how much worse we can get.

This is what the 90s looked like. Dominating Offensive Lines, a fleet QB (although Martinez is a better passer than our QBs back then), the Option confusing opponents, a rabid and attacking defense, backups playing in the third quarter when we're up by 30+ points. And Scott Frost on the sidelines. I guess that part is the same.

I believe it would behoove Coach Frost to hire me as a consultant for the Nebraska football program. Why you ask? 1). I am very familiar with Nebraska. I had an uncle who lived outside of Union and I cried every time my dad threatened to take the family there for a visit. Still do. 2). I can find Nebraska on a map 3). As a lifelong Iowa State player and fan, I am on intimate terms with losing and futility 4). Everytime I drive by the Gotham exit, I say "I'm Batman" Now that my credentials have been established, here are just a few ideas I have for building morale and producing success for the Husker program: Helmet Stickers - Helmet stickers inspire fear in opponents! No one wants to face off against someone with his headgear covered with tomahawks or walnuts or whatever. Helmet stickers make the opposition quake in fear! Little does anyone know what these stickers represent. Do you get them for doing something great? Do you get them for learning to tie your shoes or for getting kicked out of Applebees? No one knows and...as long as no one leaks the information...that guy across the line is going to be scared. Oh...all the stickers will be shaped like ears of corn and you get your first one for figuring out how to get the backing off the sticker. Award Helmets - This was a brilliant idea brought to Iowa State by that coaching genius Jim Criner. While all the regular schlubs on the team had to wear the boring scarlet helmet, the prior weeks MVP got a snazzy gold one to wear. This had the dual reward of recognition by your coach for your effort and recognition by the opposing team as the only decent player for Iowa State resulting in 11 opponents ignoring 10 ISU players while attempting to remove the head...with shiny gold helmet attached...from the 11th. Receipients of the Award Helmets usually spent the week attempting to find someone else dumb enough to wear it...a kicker perhaps. On game day you could usually find the award helmet sitting on the bench, next to a freshman walk-on who suddenly found himself missing his boring scarlet helmet. The award helmet may sound like a bad idea but I would utilize it in a different way...by giving it to a starter who might need a little jolt to up his play. We tell him it's his award for his hard work...meanwhile hoping that he'll get smashed enough times that he'll finally figure out he's wearing a big bullseye on his head and will do anything he can to get rid of it...or...just die. Either way, problem solved. New Color Schemed Uniforms - Again, I drawing from experience from Iowa State coaching legend Paul Rhodes. When Paul took over he changed the Iowa State uniform color scheme to look exactly like the uniforms worn by the USC Trojans. This was quite effective. When Iowa State took the field, opponents became disoriented...thinking they had somehow been magically transported to Southern California. You could hear them muttering to each other "Hey...that's USC over there! They're tough! We're gonna get our asses handed to us". Unfortunately the illusion was shattered when our kicker tripped on the tee or our return guy dropped the kick off then ran away from it...except when we played Kansas. Those morons still think they gave USC all they could handle. Nebraska can't dress up like USC but...perhaps Ohio State? Opponents would be at a total loss if they expected Nebraska and Ohio State ran onto the field...especially Ohio State! The only thing that would give it away would be the ear of corn helmet stickers! I don't suggest copying the uniforms from an NFL team however. That just makes your team look like pathetic losers...or Iowa. The Band - Encourage players and fans alike to assault the opponents band members. Its fun, keeps everyone occupied during TV time outs and enables Iowa City lawyers to continue to buy their mistresses pretty things. These are just a few of the many ideas that leak out of my head on a continuous basis. Please forward my contact information to Coach Frost and I hope to hear from him soon.

Welcome to Nebraska, where we're used to plowing Fields

I've noticed quite a bit in discussions on both what the offense next year will look like and in recruiting that it's a certainty that Frost needs a "run-first" QB to make his offense work at a high level. Look at the stats, though, and that seems to be a bit of a fallacy. For comparison's sake, let's look at the rushing attempts and completion percentage of QBs at Oregon and UCF during Frost's tenure at both places, and how that might affect how he wants his QB room to look at Nebraska. Frost as WR coach: 2009: Jeremiah Masoli - 12 games/121 attempts (10 att/game) (58% completion) 2010: Darron Thomas - 12 games/93 att (7 att/g) (61.5%) 2011: Darron Thomas - 13 games/56 att (4 att/g) (62.2%) 2012: Marcus Mariota - 13 games/106 att (8 att/g) (68.5%) Frost as OC: 2013: Marcus Mariota - 13 games/96 att (7 att/g) (63.5%) 2014: Marcus Mariota - 15 games/135 att (9 att/g) (68.3%) 2015: Vernon Adams - 10 games/83 att (8 att/g) (64.9%) Jeff Locke - 5 games/61 att (12 att/g) (61.6%) Frost as HC: 2016: McKenzie Milton - 10 games/100 att (10 att/g) (57.7%) 2017: McKenzie Milton - 12 games/93 att (8 att/g) (69.2%) On average, offenses that Frost has been involved with (or that have inspired his offense, if you will) have ran the QB around 8 times a game (or 2 times per quarter), with a completion percentage hovering in the mid 60s. Compare and contrast that with QBs that we have seen at Nebraska: Tommy Armstrong - 45 games/423 att (9.4 att/g) (53.3%) Taylor Martinez - 44 games/585 att (13 att/g) (59.8%) Joe Ganz - 24 games/115 att (5 att/g) (65.1%) - 2008: 12 games/92 att (7 att/g) (68%) Jammal Lord - 39 games/516 att (13 att/g) (48%) Eric Crouch - 43 games/648 att (15 att/g) (51.5%) Scott Frost - 24 games/302 att (13 att/g) (53.5%) Tommie Frazier - 35 games/342 att (10 att/g) (49.5%) My conclusion is this: I don't believe that Frost's offense absolutely needs a Taylor Martinez to be successful; I think it needs a Joe Ganz. Put someone back there with a completion percentage in the 60s while also being able to run the zone read/designed run an average of one to two times a quarter. I think that both Gebbia and POB can do this, should they be called upon next year. *2021 EDIT*: since we're 3 years into Frost's offense, we can add more data to see how our thesis is holding up: 2018: Adrian Martinez - 11 games/140 att (13 att/g) (64.6%) 2019: Adrian Martinez - 10 games/144 att (14 att/g) (59.4%) 2020: Adrian Martinez - 7 games/91 att (13 att/g) (71.5%) These are by far the largest numbers of QB carries a Frost QB has had, and they coincide with the 3 worst records a Frost team has had......things that make you go "Hmmm".

Im actually really wondering what goes through your mind when watching this team play? It took me 7 years to fall off the Pelini bandwagon, so Im usually one for giving coaches time, but anyone with a pair of eyes can see that this is NOT good football. And when you break down film its even worse.

Frost finally did whatever everyone always says he should do and didn't do any coach speak or talk about good practices or provide any quotes and now everyone is mad that Frost was short and seemed angry. It's almost as if Frost can't win no matter how he handles press conferences...

BREAKING: Tennessee has offered their head coaching position to Mike Gundy. He has asked for some time too.... mullet over.

Scott Frost.

Thanks for the "update" that has zero information, Brandon. When is the last year that there wasn't actual attrition, let alone "rumblings"?

If I was compiling summaries from 247 and taking credit for them, I'd be telling the members here that Jackson Bratton is a legit get for us. I am selective for a reason and thats because 98 percent of the time, I really don't know. My most "insider" moments here go back to the 2010-2011 years and thats because I knew and grew up with the CA kids on the roster, Jason Ankrah, and believe it or not was a point of contact for Curtis Carter during his recruitment. I had to speak to Joni Duff to get clearance for that, because Curtis and I hit it off through FB, which was an NCAA violation at the time. I can tell you exactly when the recruiting fell off on that. I worked at a Community College here in SoCal and met a bunch of college coaches, camp directors, and recruiting analysts. If I ever speak about the recruitment of kids, it's because I sent out a text asking someone who is in the know. It's through those contacts that I found out about Frost signing with Nebraska, and that it took a little longer than expected because of a staff hold up with Troy Walters. For the rest of the members on this board, I am sorry for divulging all this stuff, and coming off like a name dropping idiot. I hope you guys understand.

Welp. Here we are again. 4-8, no bowl game, not even remotely ranked. Just like last year. Or... is it? I'm not going to blow sunshine up your behind and tell you that you should be happy with 4-8. But there are many reasons for optimism. Three more years of Adrian Martinez, three more years of Maurice Washington. JD Spielman will be back and badder than ever. In all, 17 of the 28 players in the offensive 2-deep for the Iowa game and 14 of the defensive 2-deep are back. And we've got some talent waiting in the wings. But most of all, we've got this coaching staff. And the second half of this season showed that they know how to coach, how to turn a ship around, with a lot of players they didn't recruit and a bunch of guys who resisted the buy-in. Some of those guys left, and we saw the result from the second half of the season. Against one of the toughest schedules we've faced in years, this staff had these guys ready to play in (nearly) every game. Michigan was an outlier, and irredeemably ugly. But that was the only such game. Last year there were five games just like that. Comparing 4-8 seasons with a bunch of uncommon opponents is tough. But in-conference we played seven of the same teams as last year. And we went 2-5 against that group, same as last year. But these weren't the same losses. We scored more against every one of those opponents this year compared to last year, 143 points in 2017 compared to 247 in 2018. That's more than two TDs per game better. We gave up fewer points to three of those teams, giving up 265 points to them last year compared to 247 this year. Just under 3 fewer points per game - and that's including Illinois who scored 29 MORE points this year thanks to AJ Bush and Purdue scoring 18 more this year thanks to David Blough. Both are seniors, both are gone next year. Despite playing Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio State and Northwestern on the road, we gave up 40 fewer points to those teams. So the defense, despite being the weaker of the two sides of the ball, definitely improved. Last year they gave up 50+ points to three of those seven teams. This year - zero. Last year we finished 1-5, half of those six teams scored 56 points. We weren't even contending to win four of those games. This year, we finished 4-2. None of those opponents scored more than 36 points. We could have won every one of our final six games. We also suffered zero soft-tissue injuries this year. So, yeah. We're 4-8 again. No improvement in the win column from a season that saw a coach fired last year. But man, there's plenty of improvement to see this year. It's like a completely different team. Get ready, Husker fans. Only 281 days until next season kicks off.

Love that for him. Absolutely hate that its for the Patriots.

Come on, man. Diaco was no Hitler. Hitler actually blitzed too often.

Lee, why did you vote for Michigan for the AP title in 1997 when they had played a worse schedule than Nebraska, eked out a lackluster, asterisked win over a weak #8 Washington State team featuring Ryan Leaf and a cast of nobodies, and after Nebraska had DECISIVELY trounced a #3 Tennessee team featuring Peyton Manning and a cast of future NFL players? FOLLOW-UP: Lee, how many times did you rank Michigan #1 in the final AP ballot in the 1990s? Lee, why do you have such thin skin that you block anyone who disagrees with you on Twitter? FOLLOW-UP: Lee, how does your "block them all" attitude correspond to your employer's desperate pleas for more online subscribers, and do you personally see any conflict with those two positions?

Best win: getting Frost. /end thread.

Still trying to figure out how we have a couple of well recruited QBs in that room and a so called "quarterback whisperer" on the payroll and STILL have to have conversations about bringing in other QBs..??

This sounds like something a "f***ing Hillbilly" would say....

On behalf of the B1G, we at Buckeye Nation just wanted to say thank you Husker Nation! You guys are more B1G than some of the traditional Big 10 schools. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything you guys have done and continue to do so we can have football this fall. Forever a Buckeye! And now - Forever a Husker!

No problem. Happy to help. Thanks for helping me find the condescending attitude. Wasn’t sure where to find it.

It seems a fair number of you have already given up, waved the white flag and surrendered out of fear. Why even bother playing the game right? Why get out of bed and try something, because it might end badly? Why go outside when there are scary things out there? We should probably just forfeit now because there is a chance something bad happens. Are we going to do that? No we aren't. We are going to create a mad house on Saturday night with or without all of you who are afraid of your own shadow. It will be fun as hell because Memorial Stadium at night for a big game is one of the best places on earth. To achieve anything in life you have to take risks. To get better you have to test yourself against those who are better. Any of you want to find some backbone and join us? Or would you rather still sit in the corner, waiting to post comments about how you were right to be scared? Win or lose we will stand up and cheer for the victors and we will have enjoyed the ride, with heads held high as Huskers. Go. Big. Red.

Why was she looking at the Nebraska team and not waving at the kids?

Negative- I now have 3 1/2 hours of a Baylor game on my DVR.

If he were my son, I'd tell him to stop listening to Mike Riley.

The Clouse kiss of death.

Frost went on to make millions a year and they're doing a local radio show. That's my guess.

I learned that being 5-3 feels much better than anythng we've seen in the previous 5 years.

If we beat Indiana all the idiots stop talking for another week...