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Every year, Husker fans find reasons to be excited about the football season. And, without a doubt, at least in my mind, the Tanner Lee story is the reason for hope. This quarterback looks like a can't miss. He looked great in the spring game, but that performance has more anecdotal evidence than any other spring game performance. A great many football minds have said this kid is going to be good. And Lee came out of the Manning Passing Academy with the Mannings, Archie if I am not mistaken, saying that Lee was a better passer than Jared Goff. At the same time, I have feelings of trepidation. Remember all that was said when Mike Riley got here in the first place. A lot of Husker fans were thinking negatively. But the university supported talk soothed those nerves. Riley was a guy who had been around the world in about every kind of football. He would manage the roster right, manage the game right, put our guys in position to succeed and we would be successful right away. Most of that turned out to not be true as 5-7 would attest. We were also told that Riley would recruit great. Look at Penn State's current class. That's recruiting great. We have been backpedaling for sometime with this current class and we are out of the top 40. Coach Riley has yet to have that knockout class. This year, it's Lee. That's what we are hoping for. Oh sure, the defense is supposed to be improved under Bob Diaco, but there has to be a few rough patches for them, right? We don't have the ideal players to run this system and we couldn't line up in the base defense for the spring. That's a concern. But if Lee can manage the team, be accurate with the football and chase defenders away from the LOS with a good quick game and with savvy pocket awareness that leads to bigger throws and bigger plays ... well then we are going to be awesome. OR.... Lee could come out, be very average and throw the ball into trouble areas on the field where defenders can intercept. We know that Lee has thrown about as many picks as he has touchdowns... granted that was at Tulane. Do I want to believe in Lee? Yes. But I am also wondering if this is all a set up for a bad outcome. Anyone else feeling like this? Because, quite frankly, I hope no one, or at least very few. GBR!

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would love to add a mountain moving offensive lineman from the #808

I seriously think Cav has a calendar reminder set on his iphone that goes off every few days that says "send zip code tweet about an OT today"

Barry's (the bar) already agreed to host the trophy when we win, and they're finding a coordinating bar in Minny. Barry's said they'd be building a trophy case. https://twitter.com/BarrysBarLNK/status/900490992725446656

Nope, I think Lee is the real deal, for the simple reason we have heard the positives about him from everyone. This isn't just coming from MR, DL and the players it is coming from everyone that has watched him. First it came out of the Manning camp, then we have heard it from a couple of NFL type scouts, then we here it from all the BTN guys, then we here it from all the local media. Does that mean they win 10 games next year, I don't know. There are a lot of things that go into it than just a QB. I think he gives them a really good chance to win games though. Some of your other observation are just that. NU did go 5-7 that year, but lots of things did not go their way. It could have easily been a 9 win season with a couple of breaks in some games. I do put the losses against Illinois and Purdue that year on the coaches, but basically every almost every other loss could have been a win with a couple of breaks in the game. It doesn't make me feel better about losing, but it does really show you how winning and losing can come down to a couple of plays. I heard this morning on ESPN that Clemson had 8 1 possession games last year and went 7-1 in those games. I am not sure why you are comparing PSU recruiting and Nebraska. Most years Penn St will out recruit Nebraska. There are more D-1 recruits within 200 miles of Happy Valley than their are within 500 miles of Nebraska. It is just simple math. Nebraska has a really nice class going right now, it is not going to be a huge class which is what a lot of recruiting rankings is based upon. Look at the overall star rating and you will be a little happier about the class.

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Source Being someone who has a 4K tv, I'm interested in seeing how well this is done.

Utah State got jobbed. Targeting needs to start taking into consideration what the offensive player is doing. How are you supposed to account for an offensive player ducking when you've already started your tackling motion?

When the series against Iowa was scheduled, they were a pretty bad team in the Big Ten, but had just hired Hayden Fry. Even then, they weren't a great team. Florida State was nobody when they agreed to play Nebraska. Yes, they became great, and them beating NU in Lincoln in the early 80s was a big part of that, but Florida State was very low level at the time they agreed to play NU. Did you notice how Florida State came to Lincoln for every one of those games. NU never went to Tallahassee. That was a paycheck game for Florida State at the time, and they wanted to play super tough competition. Auburn was a meddling SEC team at the time, as well. When they played NU, Bo Jackson was a true freshmen who barely even played against NU. Penn State was really the only legitimate team back then. 35 years ago, there wasn't as many D-1 schools maybe not even 100, and the scholarship distribution wasn't like it is today. So, while those schools may seem like huge names now, it was a totally different era in college football.

I hope this post was therapeutic.

????????? If anybody has a clue how he's going to be it's Riley. If he was skeptical he wouldn't be starting.

Hurry up and hide this from StPaul Husker.

Police motto is "To protect and Serve", right? So why would them doing their job need to make the news?

Lets start a GoFundMe to raise $5 for the $5 Bits of Broken Chair trophy

You're twisting my words. Do cops sometimes need to use deadly force to subdue a situation? Yes. Without question. Do cops unnecessarily use deadly force and not face consequences? Yes. A simple Google search will give plenty of examples.

Close.

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Nebraska doesn't "need" the money because Nebraska has done the things to bring in a metric crap ton of money every year (for those unfamiliar the metric crap ton is larger than the English crap ton) You want to play more home and homes? MOST of the college football universe would stand and applaud while the AD's at your peer schools would pants you when you get the courage to talk to the pretty girl in the hallway. Miami is play A-State home and home, Missouri, Ole Miss, and Iowa State have or have scheduled a home and home. Buy games exist because buy games work. More money for the schools with big crowds and donors giddy every time the AD invents a new way to part them with their money. They work wonderfully for the opponents as well. It puts a seven figure number in the revenue column that buys the AD some grace with the university chancellor when creating a costly budget. Home and homes are the province of schools who cannot afford to buy games and the province of G5 schools that can afford to host those games. When people bemoan that FBS is too large, well the solution is simple. Don't buy home games. Make a San Jose State or Louisiana-Monroe survive on what they make at the gate, they will eventually run out of money.

#25 Blake Grupe - Kicker Banjo kid from Deliverance

For as many times as you say it, you should just change your name to "I have a girlfriend." We get it, man. You're getting laid. We're all super happy for you. Other options include, but are not limited to, CMRA for "Creepy Mike Riley Avatar," ISoFG for "Inappropriate Shouting on Fridays Guy," or (and this is my favorite and real suggestion) IAAPNGBIGALE for "I'm a pretty nice guy bug I'm a little excitable."

My plans for the first game:

WTF.....you said this would get me through till Saturday. That's something like 33 hours from now. You only posted roughly 9 minutes of videos.

first half: Second Half (with beer, not pop):

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Ya I have no idea what that defender was supposed to do in that situation. The receiver ducked when he was coming in for the tackle at his midsection.

Someone needs to write a fantasy story with an orphan/bastard who spends the whole series trying to find out who he/she is and then in the end finds out his/her parents were a couple of jerks with no money or power.

***Banned***

I'd say there is a 100% chance the story is not 100% true. But It isn't athletic dept. propaganda either. There's been plenty of people outside the program saying how good he is. Tanner Lee will do about as good as his pass protection allows. I'm expecting him to do well in this offense and better than we've seen the last few years. I'm not expecting anything approaching unbelievable. You can just tell that Riley is truly, finally excited about this offense. It should be good...it better be good.

Should add that Hulu Live comes with 50 hours worth of cloud storage/DVR recording time for free. You can buy up to 200 hours for $14.95 a mo but personally I'll just be using the free 50 hrs worth. Very happy to not have to pay for any DVR service with this.

Sitting in my new seats in Section 38 Row 11. The wife's first night game. GO BIG RED!

Joe Beninati is a great PBP guy. Here is one of his better calls that you might remember:

Speed to burn. Damn.

this is my bold bold PREDICTION

I heard crosswalk is a real baller. Does a good job of cutting off traffic

Not normally. I think it's the subject matter that has me off. Lee B's article is bullsh#t I'm just tired of P5 schools playing non P5schools I can't stand the chair trophy argument And I didn't like the Fox NU ad. Just a bad week for me, I guess

Nope it's on Shefield. It's called Kirkwood.

You do realize that Beth Mowins does play-by-play and Ed Cunningham did color commentary/analysis. That's 2 totally different broadcasting jobs.

#25 - Blake Grupe - K Geek from Sixteen Candles - Anthony Michael Hall

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