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Worst call in a Husker game ever? Allow me to consult my Mike Riley Playbook...

It was more of a no call. Much like the no call PI for the Saints. The no call face mask by K-State on Eric Crouch.

The Crouch facemask against KSU made for some amazing photos.

Kenny Bell block against Wisconsin. Horrible call.

No he does not

I pretty much agree with @BigRedBuster - I don't think the lines have been as bad as people like to make them out to be, at least parts of the time. They are an easy target for anytime anything goes wrong. And they get blamed for more than is actually their fault - people still blame the offensive line even if it's a tight end that misses a block or the defense brings more rushers than we have blockers. During the Taylor Martinez-Helu-Burkhead-Ameer years we put up some pretty impressive numbers on offense. We were basically always a Top 20 rushing offense in the country and regularly in the Top 10. We had many of the best season and career rushing and total yard marks in school history. You don't do that without pretty good offensive line play. And the offense was far from our biggest issue during that stretch. But people didn't like the overall results so they just complained about what was easy to complain about. During the Riley era, I think the biggest problem was scheme. People were so excited to get rid of Beck's offense and get back to using the fullback. But when you line up in a bunch of heavy sets - fullback and tight ends - all that does is bring more defenders into the box. If there are 8 or 9 guys in the box, how are five offensive linemen supposed to block them all? And that's before you take into account how predicable our play-calling was and how basic our running schemes were. So I think our line can definitely get better. But I don't think they've been nearly as bad as most people seem to want to believe. We have several OL in the NFL right now - Lewis, Sirles, Slauson, Sterup, Gates, Long and Qvale. Each of those guys was a mulit-year starter here. They were on the field a lot during what was supposedly a bad time for our OLine. I don't think those two things make much sense when you put them together.

Come on, teach, you're being deliberately obtuse because you don't want to admit that symbols have meaning. Wearing a MAGA hat is a political symbol.

My big issue here is that the church group would consider Donald Trump and MAGA synonymous with their supposedly Christian values, when nothing about the man or his administration is remotely Christ-like. The adulterous porn-star banging playboy has made boilerplate pro-life statements to get some love from his base, but that's it. Also, there's not a single Covington student in that video who is capable of getting pregnant.

Congrats, Jordan! Click the CC button in the video to follow along with some of the Russian dialogue. https://twitter.com/vcdinamokazan/status/1087343910526029825

Agree with most of the posts in this thread: The KSU facemask has always been the most obvious to me since everyone in the entire stadium saw it. I mean, some things can be questionable judgment calls, but it could not be more obvious. Inexplicable not to call that. I truly felt like NU would have scored on that drive and won the game. Agree on PSU and FSU being most costly: If replay existed in 1982 and 1993 NU would have two more national championships. The entire TAMU game in totality was the biggest hose job I've ever seen. The other bad calls can be attributed to refs making stupid mistakes. But that TAMU game was a travesty that cannot have been unintentional.

Surprised to see no one mention the 2009 Big12 championship game

To be fair, his head didn’t go all the way around.

How about the phantom block in the back in the FSU natty game

I forgot that Tom Brady played for A&M.

Why do you assume he’s going to hit 280-290? We have a nutrition program. He’s going weigh as much as our coaches want him to.

Miles biggest problem has been he attaches himself to transfers and those guys dont seem to play much team ball. Well, actually his biggest problem is he doesnt run an offense and for some reason guys cant make open looks when they get them. Teams simply fall back into a zone the guards the rim. One guy attacks the guy with the ball and the others wait for him to try and drive and defend at that point. The rest of our player stand their and watch the show. Rutgers was doing the same thing offensively to us last night and yet for some reason we couldnt figure out to just sink into a zone around the rim and force Rutgers to shoot. This is the best we are going to get from Miles. Assistant coaches have come and gone yet our offense is still garbage. Miles has done a great job to re-energize the Nebraska brand but now lets actually get something from it. new batch of players in the state of NE coming through. A guy like Hoiberg can keep them signed on and actually coach them up. I get transfers can help but lets actually build a team instead of the band-aids. I would love to see Miles be successful but it wont be here. He is a tremendously likable guy. He just proved it is hard to win at this level and we need a coach who can.

Also....at this point you'd have to be pretty naive to wear a Make America Great Again hat and expect people to think that you, like most Americans, simply want America to be Great. Of course the people who wear those hats in public are not naive at all. They know and expect the responses they'll get.

You're doing this on purpose and it isn't a good look. You know there is a difference between buying and wearing an adidas shirt and a MAGA hat. The fact you aren't willing to acknowledge the difference is quite sad.

Well yeah. They were both appealing to the same thing: this almost magical time when everyone know who we were, behaved strong and brave, and had nothing but bright future spread before us. What most of these people are remembering is their youth; when their parents we alive, the rules were clear, they felt safe, and the future hadn't played out yet. The actual America of those wistful times was far more complex. Many in that generation were probably wistful for World War II, when the nation came together and defeated clear evil. But you can't say you want to get back to World War II again, right? The racial subtext is there, too, whether they want to talk about it or not. And if you really study Reagan, in both words and actions, he would have been the bleeding heart Hollywood lefty on the Republican debate stage in 2016. Donald Trump is taking America to a much darker place, and has played unambiguous race cards to appeal to an angrier base. The surviving veterans of the Reagan revolution have largely lined up against Donald Trump, some pretty vociferously. Also, many of those Reagan era policies designed to make us great have backfired horribly. We don't talk about that much.

LOL,, Nah he played with my son. So I told him congrats and great Job. He gave my other son who is a Soph his Oregon Wr gloves. No bag money here.. lol

I can honestly tell you that is the most frustrated I have ever been watching a game of Basketball. Rutgers is pure flaming garbage and yet we somehow let them win. I could go on this major rant but its all been said. I will say this, and let me start by saying this isnt a fair blanket statement but I think it is valid in some situations. If you build your team on Transfer players, you better expect games like this where you lack leadership. Guys transfer for a reason and I think one of the reasons is because they couldnt cut it elsewhere and werent willing to do the work to make it. James Palmer gave up last night. He quit on this team the same way he quit on Miami. I believe he is a leader but he shut down. He looked apathetic. He was missing free throws. Who was leading that team last night? It surely wasnt Watson, or Copeland, or Roby. I would expect Watson to be our floor general but he just wasnt and so Palmer took that role and it didnt happen. I believe this team is still a tournament team. When they play as a unit, they are really freaking good. But man when they suck, they REALLLLY suck. I am still firmly on the bandwagon and I think they will get a few big wins still... but we need Palmer to start playing better. His numbers are deceiving. We need Roby to actually figure it out. I guess I lied at the top.. I did go on a rant, and I apologize. I just am sick of it.

No it's not safe to assume that. He doesn't play football for the 49ers. Trying to correlate the 2, in my opinion, would be like thinking someone wearing a red shirt is in favor of the President because red is the color of the republican party.

If he can't get arguably the most talented team Nebraska has had in who knows how long to play motivated, how is he going to be successful when his 3 seniors are gone next year?

I know KenPom is great but one thing they do not factor in is Free Throw Defense, from what I have heard, Rutgers is one of the best teams at Free Throw Defense and it really showed last night. They must have watched the MSU film to see how MSU defended the charity stripe.

One of the things he loves doing is running trips to the wide side and setting it up as screen action, but running something like a trap play inside this detached box. This does a few things: forces split safeties, puts LBs in conflict, (maybe) generates a numbers advantage, but perhaps most importantly makes clean reads for the linemen. It’s easy to identify the front and the play acts as a constraint. Nobody can really come from unexpected areas because they’ve been bound to their assignments. The base run play itself isn’t necessarily easier to block than in other offenses, but the defenses responses are more limited. He loves to force defenders away from the box and run against the flow of the play.

At least I don’t have to worry about people questioning my fandom for wanting to get rid of Miles anymore

At the same time, conservatives don't like to own a lot of the racism inherent in their base.

It is Clouse.

What if these 2 board room coaches are actually Mike Dawson and Jovan Dewitt fighting on huskerboard over who gets him at OLB or DL

No doubt there have been a handful of overly obvious bad calls but the one that cost us the most has to be the 82 Penn St out of bounds catch that led directly to them winning. That was our only loss and PSU ended up #1.

Why is that?

He's definitely not sharing.

Yep, which is why I think Moos was preparing for this. He knows what he's doing.

Yep. ^^^ I remember watching games during the Riley era where my wife even knew who was going to get the ball and where it was going.....and my wife doesn't know anything about football. How in the hell can an offensive line efficiently block a defense when THEY know exactly what is coming? I'll tell you when I become comfortable with our offensive scheme. When I'm watching a game on TV and every once in a while there is a run play and I'll realize I'm watching the wrong player....or, even the camera man gets tricked. That's a good sign and that happened this year. I think it was Ameer's last year, he was leading the country in yards before contact. Well, he was one hell of a running back and I'm not taking anything away from him on that. But, you also don't get that statistic without at least a decent O line.

I think Moos has a short list of replacements for Miles. I think that was a high priority after getting Frost here. I don't think he was looking bc he knew he was going to fire Miles but I think he was preparing just in case bc he knew this probably wasn't going to work, like the rest of us.

Buying and wearing merchandise with the slogan of a president is a direct campaign contribution. This is not up for debate. The purchase is a literal show of support. This is not up for debate. What is up for debate is what the merchandise represents as far as his ideals. But the purchase and display is unequivocally support.

Once again, if you buy a MAGA article of clothing and wear it, you have made a contribution to the campaign of Donald Trump. Therefore, you have given support to him and his ideals.

Nope it would be safe to assume they were in support of the 49ers, an organization Colin Kapernick hasn't been a part of for years. MAGA hats on the other hand are Trump campaign merch. If you can't equate a maga hat to Trump support then you are looking through rose colored glasses.

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Do you wear Nike as a symbol of who you are? Do you go to rallies and unapologetically defend Phil Knight no matter what he says or does? Again, I think you know what is being said here.

I learned things from you today that helped my perspective. There's no reason to leave so quickly.

My constant complaint about this type of graph: Yes, it's true. But all that is saying is "Look at how great our recruiting services are!!! We can tell that Trevor Lawrence is going to be a better prospect than some benchwarmer from Arthur, Nebraska!!!! Aren't we great?!?!??!?!?!" Yes, obviously the five- and four-star guys are going to be the better players. But it doesn't take a genius to be able to tell that an all-state guy from California, Georgia, Texas or Florida has a much better chance to be a college/NFL player than 99% of other players out there. The real question is how well they did compared to some expected value. The trick is figuring out what that expected value should be. For example, "60% of five-star recruits should be NFL draft picks." Even that seems low to me but I think that's even a bit higher than actual over the last several years. Then you work down the list: "30% of four-star players should be drafted in the NFL", "1% of three-star players should be drafted in the NFL", "0.001% of other players will be NFL draft picks" or whatever those numbers are. That's what you should look at to determine if the scouting services are doing a good job or not. But of course they like to point out the gross numbers because it's basically impossible to be wrong when looking at it that way.

Well, he signed in December, and Frost and co had to know that. It wouldn’t make much sense for them to back off recently, since they’ve know for a month that he’s already signed.

You should look into starting a 403(b). Just like a 401k but for non-profit organizations. Unfortunately there's no match for teachers but it comes directly out of your paycheck. Even if you were to get the full amount projected from the pension, you likely wouldn't be able to retire comfortably on that alone anyways. Side note: Another reason companies have gone from pension funds to matching 401k is because it transfers all the risk from the employer to employee. With pension funds, all the risk lies with the employer.

Settle down, Harrison.