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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.

He's definitely not sharing.

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

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.

You realize people of color support Donald Trump too right?

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.

I've been beating the offensive line drum (and saying that exact sentence ) for a long time now, even in parts of the Pelini era. Generally speaking, I'd say our lines in the last ~15 years have swung like a pendulum from being below average to above average and/or good. Sometimes, that'd be a week to week swing. It hasn't been very consistent. We've had some good lines but none that I would consider great or among the nation's best. I felt last year's line got a lot better as the season went along which makes me optimistic for 2019. They weren't great, but, we shot up the rushing rankings massively compared to 2017, one of our backs averaged 7.0 YPC and we had a 1,000 yard rusher for the first time since 2014. You definitely don't get there with a bad scheme and o-line play.

After watching them lose a 13 and 8 point lead and then Rutgers drained a 3 to take the lead in the 2nd early on, thought “I’ve seen this before” and turned it off. Jumped on Call of Duty Blackout, played 5 duo games with my brother and won 2 of them so I made the right decision hahaha

One point that I haven't seen addressed much (possibly because there is such an overwhelming plethora of other glaring weaknesses), is the utter lack of court leadership. Generally this would fall, by default, to the seniors, but this particular group of seniors just doesn't seem to possess the requisite characteristics necessary. Copeland is too quiet, Palmer is too casual and Watson is too enigmatic. Next in line would be Robey, but he seems spiraling on regression. This is not a knock on these kids, just an observation about their mental makeup. I firmly believe that if we had a strong, decisive, tone-setting player willing to command (even with a touch of anger) on the court, this group would not look so rudderless when negative circumstances occur (especially away from the comforting womb of the Vault). JMHO

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Rex got kicked off my list last night.

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

I guess it's a bit off topic, but it floors me that they bussed kids to DC to participate in the March for Life. I get that it's a catholic school and everything, but that's pretty heavy handed on the dogma for teenagers, isn't it?

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.

Settle down, Harrison.