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By TL you mean... Tyjon Lindsey? Boy do I have some news for you.

I loved playing against s#!t talkers. most of them couldnt back it up. Someone as myself having come from a naturally strong family truly enjoyed it.

Brief update this morning. Apparently the mortgage firm his mom works for has a branch in Lincoln so he made it sound like she could move to Lincoln and have a job. He was also asked if he was a Sun Devil fan growing up. His response: "growing up they had Todd Graham, so I didn't really like the program that much." He did not secretly sign with a school in December.

You’re predicting Nebraska could be 19-25. Athlon is predicting 19. One of these is crazy AF to you for some reason.

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No one is saying they’re the 19th best team in the country right now. That’s what the current 2018 season poll is for.

If you see us finishing 19-25, why is Athlon “high AF” to put us at 19? Polls are supposed to show how good a team is compared to the other teams. It means they think Nebraska will be the 19th best team this season. If Nebraska ends up at 19-25, the people who had us unranked at the beginning were the wrong ones.

Trump took the Republican party hostage and snuck in the back door to usurp and take over, but every GOP member in the three branches of government has actively remained a GOP member for the last two years as their party and platform have become Trump's party and platform. They've stayed on the train for their own self interest. What they did before isn't really relevant. If they believe in conservative principles that's even more damning evidence of their culpability with Trump and even more gives proof that what they really care about is power, not a conservative ideology. People like Evan McMullin have walked the walk of their talk of true conservatism.

This thread will serve as a Megathread/reference guide for all the pre-season previews for the 2019 season. Click the team links for each dedicated preview thread. Once I have an initial preview for each team, just click the team name below to be taken to the thread for each team’s previews. Way-Too-Early & Spring Rankings/LookAheads Athlon Way-Too-Early Top 25 College Football Rankings for 2019 (01/02) ESPN: First 2019 Way-Too-Early Top 25 (01/08) SBNation: 2019 S&P+ Ratings Posted 2019 Nebraska Previews CollegeFootballNews - 5 Things To Know & Prediction (05/16) Athlon - #17 Nebraska Preview & Prediction (05/22) ElevenWarriors - Don't Let the 4-8 Record Fool You (06/17) The Athletic - Confidence surges at Nebraska as Huskers again ‘play for each other’ under Scott Frost (06/24) 2019 Opponent Previews 08/31 - South Alabama 09/07 - @ Colorado 09/14 - Northern Illinois 09/21 - @ Illinois 09/28 - Ohio State 10/05 - Northwestern 10/12 - @ Minnesota 10/26 - Indiana 11/02 - @ Purdue 11/16 - Wisconsin 11/23 - @ Maryland 11/29 - Iowa Pre-Season Rankings Athlon projects the top 25 teams for 2019 Preseason Conference Picks & Predictions 2019 Previews: Athlon Sports Big Ten Predictions (06/06) 2019 Previews: 247Sports Big Ten Record Predictions (06/11) 2019 Previews: CollegeFootballNews Big Ten Predictions (06/22) 2019 Previews: "Unofficial" Bit Ten Media Days Poll 2019 (07/17) 2019 Previews: ESPN - Bill Connelly's Big Ten Preview (07/18) 2019 Previews: The Athletic - Predicting Big Ten football for the 2019 season (08/14) If you find a new preview, post it in the relevant thread, and we'll embed it in the root post.

Usually pretty spot on with my husker predictions- not so much this year what I was wrong about: didnt think ozigbo would ever see the field because he used to not be able to run zone worth a darn and too slow didnt think Washington would ever make it to fall camp as eligible Didn’t think we would have so many untimely penalties thought our special teams would be vastly improved/ they were bad early saw some good progress had as us on 6 wins didnt think our guys would be able to compete against Ohio state love the direction and improvement- hes definately got our team moving in right direction

I agree, but the sun will come up in the morning for most. I'm laughing at the bi-polar posters. It is hilarious!!!!

3 fouls in 3 minutes

Haha. This guy said what I always think when I see a tweet like this from Nebraska media

Yeah, I get that. He can be a bit of a blowhard.

The video Mav posted is a really good example of why this offense is so hard to stop. I like this video because it’s against good defensive play. They’re not poorly aligned, there isn’t a bust, just an example that you can’t cover against everything in this game. The two safeties are split, with a LB shading between the trips set to the field side and the formation. Both safeties are about 10 yards deep, giving decent run support. The LB in the box can fill any gap because he has two contain players to the top and bottom. The problem is that trips set is so wide that there is going to be no help over the top and that’s what’s dictating that outside CB the most. A good route, as seen here, and he has practically no chance. This pass concept is called a ‘snag’ or ‘triangle stretch’. It’s easy to see why if paused near the end of the video as you can clearly see the triangle shape. It’s a primary passing concept in this offense as it stretches a defense both horizontally and vertically. It’s good against man and zone. The out and flat receivers are a high-low read to the outside and that spot route just sits in a hole. Frost juices it up with the threat of a QB run. Finally, that’s a ridiculously tough throw, running left then torquing the upper body back the other way. This is why Mario seeks out athletes that can throw on the run, not just anybody can make this throw. This play really highlights the lethality of this passing game married to Martinez’s ability.

That is exactly what someone who secretly signed with a school would say...

Ya but after reviewing the play you were ejected for Targeting.

Only the OGs remember

But yet....you think that's where we will be???

By Athlon’s wording, it’s a prediction for how they’ll end up. They talk about our path to possibly winning the west and our toughest opponents being at home. I see all preseason polls as predictions, though. What is the purpose if that’s not what they are? Why not just have the previous season’s final poll and then the first poll after week one? Most/all of these preseason polls take graduations and schedule into account. They’re predicting how good they think the teams will be in the future because they don’t know how good they are right now.

I guess the preseason polls mean different things to different people/pollsters. If I were a voter, I would rank the teams the first week in how I would project them to end the season. After the first week, I would then rank the teams based on the body of work during the season. I guess my rankings would have the potential to fluctuate from week to week, but that's how I would do them.

Aren't preseason polls predicting the "finish" to the season, not the starting point? If that's the case then having NU in the preseason top 25 isn't all that crazy.

It only matters if you think that integrity is more important than winning a sports game. Displaying INTEGRITY in every decision and action; Building and maintaining TRUST with others; Giving RESPECT to each person we encounter; Pursuing unity of purpose through TEAMWORK; Maintaining LOYALTY to student-athletes, co-workers, fans and the University of Nebraska. Hmmm, nothing about winning in the Athletic Department's Mission Statement. Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory Something totally the opposite of "win at all costs" inscribed into the stadium.

No, that's not what that thread of tweets said, although sure there are probably some people that believe that. The point is not "if you support conservative policies you are an enabler." It's that, Trump is the reflection of the constituents they are seeking votes from even now, and republican voters support him and his policies at like 90%. When they look in the mirror as a republican lawmaker they should see his ugly mug staring back at them, he's everything they've been dog whistling for 50 years to get support come to pass. He is the right wing narcissistic policies embodied and put into practice. The point was, when your party base is Donald Trump, by design (because the party built it that way since Nixon) you cant lament for the good old days, because those "good old days" were window dressing covering up all the "Donald Trumps" just under the surface. There is no "principled moral republican party" it doesn't exist, and maybe it never did, but it certainly hasn't since at least the dawn of the southern strategy and Nixon secretly extending the Vietnam war. So its time to stop pretending if you are Mitt Romney or any Republican lawmaker that wants to claim some sort of moral high ground, and if they aren't pretending then they're fools maybe for buying into it in the first place, but certainly for trying to claim it now.

I'm in agreement wt BRB on this. I HATE the way conservationism has become tied to Trumpism. There are times as the Romney oped notes where Trump is correct on the issues - I attribute this to any adults in the room and not any core beliefs / values from Trump himself - he has none but 'whatever benefits me, is good policy'.

All talk, zero action. Or, for the Texass fans that happen to drunkenly stumble over to our site, all hat, no cattle. Until Romney takes action to rally the few remaining sane, moderate Republicans (in what is otherwise a party hijacked by religious fanaticism and catering to the LCD among their supporters), then this *is* the easy way out. Romey gets to stand up in a couple of years and say 'hey, I wrote a scathing editorial about Trump' and claims he did something...when in actuality all he has done is put into print what we've known for some time and little else. Romney has to stoke the fires within his own party for Trump's removal for this to mean anything--calling friends, starting a movement within the GOP to kick out Trump and the Tea Party/MAGA vermin that have infested it. Reset the GOP to the Eisenhower days (sans homophobia and racism), and you'd have a moderate party that would capture the election in a heartbeat.

Without getting into the results of the Trump Tax Cut (you know, the one that was supposed to benefit workers and the stock market), there is more than just voting in Republican lock-step. There are also Congressional oversight duties that have been abdicated, or even worse, used to conceal/defend Trump. After two-years of confirming Trump's grossly unqualified nominations, Flake feigned leverage as a lame duck to protect Mueller. (We still don't have legislation protecting Mueller).

Saban is the best coach in the history of major college football.

IT JUST MEANS MORE ........ except when we don't care that it does.

I don't think Miles is the main reason for a KU visit. Emmett Jones the new KU WR coach was coaching at South Oak Cliff HS then TT. That seems to be the relationship of note.

To this day I don't think LP should have been reinstated.

No we don't. No we don't.

Like Osborne often wasn't the best coach in the stadium when he lined up against Switzer? Sure if you want to equally compare a first year head coach at a nothing, no history program going up against a coach in his 23rd season of building a giant elite machine. Then yeah, okay, whatever, Tom Osborne beat him once. Actually, comparatively, at least in the first 4-6 years or so of their respective careers, Tom did less with more. He took over a program that was already an elite dynasty and kept it rolling along at a somewhat lower level. Saban took over a dumpster fire and turned it into a juggernaut. Two different times, actually. When did Tom Osborne coach somewhere he didn't have a great chance of winning almost every single game? What adversity did he ever coach through with a lack of advantages? The answer is none. lol I think you're the one that's actually using that sort of simplistic definition. I am not. Tom Osborne career record coaching at a blue blood program - 25 years, 255-49-3, .836 Win% - 13 conference championships (one every 1.92 years average), 3 national championships (one every 8.33 years average) Nick Saban career record coaching at a blue blood program - 12 years, 141-20, .876 Win% - 6 conference championships (one every 2 years average), 5 national championships (one every 2.4 years average) If Bama wins the championship Monday, they'll have gone 68-5 with three championships over the last 5 years. Pretty on par with the best run in the history of football when we went 60-3 with three championships. Except he did that right after going 60-7 with three more championships the 5 years before that.

I wonder why the republicans disrespect the military so much. And yet yet they support a draft dodger with bone spurs. Happy New Year.

You know how good poets can take a complex idea and reduce it to a couple of beautiful words and still get the point across? OP is the opposite of that.

Where does "Trojan Insider" fall on the list of unfortunate names?

Top performers from Day 1 of the 2019 All-American Bowl

I’ll say again, Nebraska wins a lot of games in spite of Tim Miles bc the talent covers the coaching deficiencies. Unfortunately this wasn’t one of them.

What a freak out reaction to some double calf cramping. Definitely thought way worse based on his reactions

Classics never go out of style, dude!

So you've never heard of Bob Devaney.

That's the most selectively biased list of things I've probably ever seen in my life. Especially because Saban hasn't even coached for 25 years Anyone can play that pointless game. Averaged 11.75 wins a season: Saban at Bama - Yes / Osborne at Nebraska - No Teams ranked in top 10 90% of the time: Saban at Bama - Yes / Osborne at Nebraska - No Won 6 National Championships as a head coach: Saban at Bama - Yes / Osborne at Nebraska - No Won 8 Conference Championship games: Saban - Yes / Osborne - No Won 12 Conference Divisional Titles: Saban - Yes / Osborne - No Won 14 Coach of the Year Awards: Saban - Yes / Osborne - No Turned Around Two Mediocore/Poor Programs and Made Them Elite: Saban - Yes / Osborne - No Developed a massive and prestigious coaching tree: Saban - Yes / Osborne - No Despite that being perhaps the stupidest thing I've ever engaged in, and none of those things really mattering, your whole, "Saban isn't the best because he did it at ALABAMA" thing just makes no damn sense when you turn around and talk about how Osborne is so much better. Osborne didn't have to build anything. He inherited the keys to maybe the most well oiled machine in the whole country. He was never not the head coach of an elite program. He never had to rise through the ranks of smaller, disadvantaged schools. He was the head guy at the school that invented strength and conditioning and had a competitive edge over almost everyone.

A few thoughts about this. The Big 12 GOR can't be renewed/extended unless all teams agree. If it is true that Oklahoma wants to go to the Big Ten then they will continue to not agree and will be free to leave without penalty for the 2025 season. If they go, I think Texas goes too. WHERE they go is the question, so they might end up in the Big Ten but might end up elsewhere. If they end up in the Big Ten I wouldn't worry about them throwing their weight around though. The Big 12 had an unequal power structure due to the unequal revenue sharing and the concentration of teams in Texas that voted as a bloc, that's not the case in the Big Ten. They won't have any more say in how things are done than OSU does now - and if anyone thinks they have more say than Iowa or Northwestern just look at how revenue splits for away game gates are done which is clearly to the disadvantage of teams like OSU/PSU/Michigan with monster stadiums. The Longhorn Network isn't the issue some people think it is. ESPN is losing $5-$10 million a year on it, they would likely PAY to get out of the contract early. Texas would be totally happy with a lump sum payment and an immediate full share of Big Ten revenue (they'd get that concession for joining due to what they bring...not a slight on Nebraska but like Iowa your team is in a state with a small population that's nowhere near as attractive for TV as Texas) Texas is getting $15 million a year for Longhorn, and BTN's payouts including profit sharing are close enough to that now they'll probably exceed that number by 2025. So Texas wouldn't lose anything even if they walked away from Longhorn with no payout from ESPN. As for pods, also not a concern. We'll almost certainly have an 8 team playoff by then, and the only way I see that as being workable is if they force conferences to drop the conference championship game (otherwise they'll be meaningless for a top 3 team who might choose to sit their best players since they know they are in either way) Let the Big Ten winner be decided the old fashioned way, by the best record (plus tiebreakers which could include the playoff committee's ranking) Then you don't have to figure out a pod system to work around the rivalries and stuff, instead you give each team 2 or 3 protected rivalries and round robin the rest. Yes, the schedules won't be equal since you don't all play the same teams but that's already the case in the divisions, and across the divisions, so what else is new? If a really great Iowa or Nebraska team went undefeated in the Big Ten and so did Ohio State because they didn't play that year (like what happened to Iowa in 2002) and the playoff committee ranks Ohio State higher, like they probably would, it is no problem because you have the two at large bids to fall back on. The third bid would be to the top G5 team, aka the "shut up Boise State and UCF fans, we'll give you Alabama and watch you get destroyed" bid.

NES Classic with an extra controller and extention cables for the controllers.

i think tom sums it up nicely

I wonder if we'll use negative recruiting on this guy from Finland: SF: "Florida? Yeah, I lived there. It's hot as hell in Florida! Just miserable weather twelve months out of the year."