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Oh. I had forgotten it's colder in Nebraska sometimes than it is in Florida. Thank goodness there's another person to remind me.

Confirmed that Saunders is in fact Dirk.

Yep. Few more years and we would have been able to complete a screen pass. Just didn't have enough time to get it done.

Ummm......there have been members of his team plead guilty to conspiracy against the US.

This is the man Eichorst was telling everyone was the best coach on campus. So glad both are out of here

The university has pissed away opportunities to promote themselves positively in recent years, particularly the athletic department. I'm personally familiar with one such relationship they couldn't effectively negotiate because they wanted to provide less of their product for more money. They then tried to come crawling back months later to see if some resolution could be found and the other part declined to entertain them. This was pre-Moos. Ultimately, Dirk is a reporter. It's not his job to shed the university in a positive light or be overly negative. IMO, I think he does sometimes go a bit too far but there's an audience for what he writes, and then there are other times he does incredible work.

Not quoting that whole post from my phone. No, Nebraska is not in the middle of the division in talent. The recruiting rankings aren't perfect but they aren't far off. I believe we've had the best recruiting rank every single year in our division. At worst we're in 2nd. We just haven't had coaches who use it correctly and coach it to be better.

well, the team has reached the half-way point of the season. they are 2-4 in Big 10 play, 14-14 overall, and the potential for regional play is essentially out the window. so much for the pre season pick of finishing #2 in the Big 10. I think we all started to think this season would go down hill when they lost at home to Northern Colorado and Northwestern State. anyway, one of the bright spots about this season has been the play of Scott Schreiber. Dude knew what he was doing when he came back for his senior season. Scott is hitting 0.389 and has 9 HRs already. with the remaining schedule, it is not a stretch to think he could hit 0.400 for the season. Scott's abilities at the plate are about the only thing that keeps me tuning into the games this year.

I know its baseball season so there probably isn't anybody on this forum interested about football yet, but here is some boring Spring Football video. Apparently the Hooskers got a new coach, Steven Frust or something, who cares.

And the winner of the Huskerboard Tournament Challenge is War Pony. I finished in second place while crews finished in third. Great ride everyone, and I think this should be a yearly thing going forward.

Passed the 4 hour license exam for psychology with flying colors today.

There's only one problem with your "there's good and bad on both sides" assertion. In the past 10 years the Republicans have made it abundantly clear they will not compromise with Democrats for the betterment of the nation. From The Grand Bargain, to immigration, to healthcare, to just this year when Schumer would have funded the wall in exchange for making DACA recipients legal citizens. One party pretty much initiated the scuttling of negotiations when they didn't get exactly what they wanted. Sure people like Sasse and Flake talk a tough game against Trump, but they are either not running for office again, or their tough talk doesn't match their actions.

This is awesome. Love what they were doing at UCF with KnightFlicks. Let's keep it rolling. Hopefully Sam can find something to write about with this.

Well, we have a guy on scholarship so hopefully that's worth it. --->>>Barret Pickering If not, Cole Frahm is a Rs Fr. walk-on.

This is the "scheme theme" month for The Solid Verbal, and they had the excellent Chris B Brown on to talk shop. Chris is a lawyer by day, and X's and O's nerd by night. He has his own site (smartfootball.com) and has written a couple really good books that talk about random football scheme stuff in common terms. I could read and listen to him all day. Anyway, on this episode, they talked about playcalling methods, terminology and tempo. And Chris gushed over Scott Frost... alot. Specifically the way he crafts his offense, calls plays, and uses tempo. https://www.solidverbal.com/2018/03/20/chris-b-brown-football-communication/ Check it out.

This is a great topic, worth a listen. A huge part of what it means to define a system. Even though he didn't go into it because it's somewhat tangential, this topic is one reason why I really like how Frost allocates responsibility amongst the offensive staff. The past several Nebraska offensive coordinators, and many other schools, have the offensive coordinator be the QB coach, and be the play caller. That's really three jobs when you think about it; coordinating the entire offense, handling the QB, and calling the play. When the offensive coordinator is in the booth removed from these other roles, he can watch the game and make suggestions. He isn't thinking about what to tell the QB between series or figuring out the next play call. He can focus on how to fix the problem of that unblockable 3 tech. Humans aren't very good at multi-tasking. It's very hard for one person to macro level strategize, relay that information to other people with the detail level of a play call, and solve problems as they happen. Even though the offensive coordinator doesn't get the credit he should in this system, because most everyone does it a different way, it is in my mind a better way. You have the advantage of the play caller on the field where he can better communicate, but the coordinator with the vantage in the booth.

Fisher quote from McKewon's article: "Whether they were coached like that or they decided to play like that, I don't know, but on film they played a little soft." Might be just a bit of an understatement... Tempted to switch my vote to Fisher. He has the right attitude to change the DB room to get some hitters in there. I like this whole coaching staff though, so it's hard to pick just one.

When I was in journalism school a professor told some of us, “you sports guys need to learn news too.” I said “you news people need to learn sports too.” She said I was wrong. You can always tell when a news reporter/anchor doesn’t know a thing about the sports story they are covering. rant off. Hog-Molly away.

I felt a helluva lot better after we lost to Wisconsin in ‘16 than after the following game against Ohio State.

Great visit for Rahmir. https://www.landof10.com/nebraska/nebraska-recruiting-first-junior-day-largely-successful-rahmir-johnson-loves-lincoln

+1 It’s just just a poor me attitude and you’d expect more from a grown ass man.

You honestly can’t say there is no difference between being down 35 points at half in a home game vs being down 6 with your offense having a chance to win the game in the final minute, even if both end in a loss.

Exactly. The Media will get to see a ton at the Spring Game, just like the rest of us.

With a decent amount of interviews so far (and no actual on field performance to gauge), which assistant coach is your favorite on the new staff? I’ll start out with Walters. I think he does a great job of explaining and seems to have a ton of passion for coaching. Like him more and more the more I hear him talk.

There is many reasons we get good kickers here, tradition, history of professional play, play in championship teams and so on. One that doesn't get talked about enough is that this is actually a difficult place to practice and learn kicking. The weather kickers get to practice in here rivals any NFL team. The wind is awful, the temperature can change from 100 to 30, and every single kick is under intense pressure inside our stadium of 90000. The conditions of kicking here are brutal and good kickers want to come kick here. That tradition will continue and the nations best kickers will continue to come because of the preparation for the NFL.

If Michigan pulls off the win tonight the Huskers have the satisfaction of knowing that we beat them this year. (Beat the NIT champs-Penn St. As well.)

The Rise and Conquer (rebranded, of course) is the one thing, besides the results, that I'd love to see "copied" from his previous coaching gig.

Yeah, I like Gottfried quite a bit. If I'm say...Pitt I say eff it and hire Pitino. They are at absolute rock bottom and literally their entire team is trying to transfer. I'm sure Pitino would love the chance to stick it to Louisville if he could.

I voted Verduzco - just because he is crazy. I like all of the guys. I also voted for Ruud. Ruud has been relatively quiet in relationship to others but he is my 'emotional' favorite - former great player coming back home to make a difference. I'd like to think the LBs will be greatly improved next year if they play wt the same intensity that he played with. If we could win games based on 'coach speak' alone - this team will be undefeated next year. They say the things we've been wanting to hear for years and if they can translate words into action on the field - we'll be doing just fine. Give me some of this:

Moos probably had the political capital from the Frost hire to fire Miles even after this season if he wanted to. I think he probably had his sights set on one to two candidates in particular and once that didn't happen figured it would be best to regroup at the end of next season

I completely understand and it's why anytime I mention that Trump is an idiot and needs to go...the first reaction instantly is still...."WHAT??? You liked Hillary???" I want to bash my head against the wall. AND....it's why I said the Democrat has to be someone who is at least reasonable. This is talking about congressional and Governor races. In 2020 when, God forbid, Trump is running again, I will NOT vote for him. Now, the Democrats will also need to earn my vote with someone reasonable. They failed miserably in that in 2016. So, I found myself not voting for either of them. I will vote for someone in 2020 that earns my vote. The Republicans would have to run someone other than Trump. The Democrats have a chance and I will listen to what they have to say. But, my vote there is far from a sure thing.

I don't want to get too political, but I actually prefer cool weather to warm weather.

thanks Trump. So much for the rousing market. Trump's verbal assault on amazon is leading a huge decline in tech. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/futures-slip-trade-concerns-tech-113603761.html

This isn't necessarily directed at you, but the bolded bothers me. There are plenty of sane and logical Republicans out there, and a good portion of them opposed Trump. Some have tried to deal with him to get something accomplished, not because they agree with him on much of anything. On the other side there are plenty of Democrats that are insane, corrupt, and impossible to work with. Where our country has failed is having such a division between the two parties that many people have become so hard-lined that they vote straight tickets and pay absolutely no attention to the individuals. There are good and bad Republicans. There are good and bad Democrats. The only things that will help this country are some common sense and cooperation... and maybe a swift kick in the backside for every politician.

I mean, yeah Dirk is negative, but to be fair... it's not like the last 2 decades have been the pinnacle of Husker football either. His "turnover problem" article from a few years back was spectacular.

I don't really hear that argument, ever, from anyone. But I do hear the argument that people's priorities aren't straight when it comes to sports/football and academics, which is perfectly reasonable.

All of them. There is a tangible sense of relief on the part of the players when discussing this new staff. They don't even hesitate in their adulation. Remarkable.

So how about those post-practice pressers. Anywho, I think this defense has nowhere to go but up. With the abysmal and lackluster performance of last year, we should improve in a lot of areas. And some of you may be caught up in the team's record, I want to see improvement and a want to attitude. If it means going 6-6 or 10-2 I don't care I want to see improvement. Especially on defense because we did not care last year, so these coaches will get them playing harder and better on gamedays. If the team gives its best effort and it results in another OSU blowout that is fine because as long as these players fight for 60 minutes and play to the best of their ability that is all I as a fan can ask for. So many times people get caught up in Ws and Ls that they don't realize improvement, which to me is what is important for the 2018 season.

Really liked his visit today. Really impressed with the facilities. Might come back next weekend and for the Spring Game.

Really liked his visit. Said he talks to Frost and Held quite a bit. Said Boston College, Rutgers, North Carolina State and Mississippi are other schools recruiting him the hardest. Said he didn't have a list of favorites but if he did Nebraska would be near the top. No other visits scheduled due to track season. Said he runs a 10.5 100m and 21.4 200. That'll do.

I agree with all of this and I also believe decent coaching is what we've been lacking. To be honest, I'm trying to find something to temper my expectations. I realize where we've been the last few years but with all this talk, exciting new coaches, etc., I'm having a hard time thinking we won't win 9 or 10 this year. I know that is a bit irrational coming off the pathetic season we had last year but that's where I'm at. So I'm inventing scenarios and questions to help slow my roll.

I don't think is so much comparing to Riley's staff as just to a lot of other football staffs in general.

Adam Carriker is living out his dream of talking Husker football while playing a wrestling character. I can't fault him for it, because he's clearly found an audience to the point where he's in multiple publications in the state with his schtick. That being said, I don't follow it, and I wish it didn't take up so much cache in the OWH that it pushes other coverage out.

"Recruitment is open to better opportunities" Translation: "These teams kinda suck, but they're the best offers I have."