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Thanks for the "update" that has zero information, Brandon. When is the last year that there wasn't actual attrition, let alone "rumblings"?

WTF?? What's not to like? Walk-ons don't cost a scholie. Sometimes they really come through for us. Andy Janovich, Spencer Long, Stewart Bradley are three from the not so distant past. Several starters during our epic run in the 90s were walk-ons. And we've done extremely well with walk-on kickers and punters. Alex Henery and Sam Koch come to mind. I wish we had a couple more walk-on kickers on the roster right now! I applaud ALL Husker walk-ons for their sacrifice and commitment they put in to suit up as Huskers. Not just the ones we see on Saturday, but also those who toil in relative anonymity for their chance to contribute.

Why is anyone talking about competing with Clemson? I just want us to beat the teams we have out-recruited the past 8 seasons.

psst...april. you left the 'h" out of your name.

I heard that we are on the verge of loosing a whole class. Most of them are giving up football too. Gotta question what the staff is doing wrong here. Who lets graduation get in the way of building a football team.

Neb 247 guys say we are looking into getting him up here for Indiana or Wisconsin.

Did some digging from reporters of other teams involved in his recruitment, here are the latest updates from them: 10/15 South Car: Has reportedly made some progress in his academic standing however is not guaranteed to be a qualifier as of right now. Hints at a commitment coming and appears SC is team to beat and would probably take his commitment. 10/16 Auburn: Auburn didn't ask/invite him to visit on 9/28, he asked them if he could attend the game and they said he could. They have three LB's committed and are likely full there. 10/17 South Car: A decision later this week is possible but won't likely be SC. Academic concerns are too big that SC won't take a commitment. They only have 4 spots left and can't afford that risk.

These same things have been discussed on here over and over again. Those 4* players that Riley brought in are not on campus due to transferring or not qualifying. You also have to take into account that we are now running a no huddle spread offense compared to a huddle up pro style offense. Complete changes were made. The few good players that were left over didn't even get drafted. What talent did he leave us with? Comparing us to Alabama is foolish at this point. All the talent is down South - check who has been winning for the past 20 years....No other coach is going to come into Nebraksa and get us to relevance in 3 years. We can't keep turning over coaches - we will never be successful that way. Frost needs a minimum of 5 years to show what he can do.

I have no issue with ads on the site under the idea of making enough revenue to keep HB operating, but a number of topics have ads in the middle of threads, and that's a bit too intrusive. Top of the page and along the margin on the right is fine, because it doesn't interfere with the actual use of the site. Also, ads reloading at the top of pages are shifting/scrolling the page; it's terribly distracting when attempting to write a post, particularly when the page scrolls past the reply box.

Frightening. Happy Halloween.

What was your family's ethnicity before the potato blight?

He did well on the 4 plays that were blocked properly.

Or drops and having no protection aren't counted against him in their grades. It didn't matter who the qb was last week, nobody else on offense did anything.

I think everybody is really tired of you and your whining

You know what's funny about that time frame? It featured fewer walkons than we had during the 80s & 90s.

otKeep believing that. Riley actually recruited a lot of talent....they all left when Frost got hired...I love coach Frost, but a lot of his asst coaches have no business coaching in the B10. They are all his friends and pressure will be put on him to send them away. I think Scott should keep his mouth shut about how he is gonna dominate the B10. He is so enamored with skill position guys he has forgotten that every football team starts on the OL and DL. Especially in the B10!

Brett Maher, Alex Henry, & Sam Foltz...the list goes on

soooooo you'd prefer not to have Spencer Long, Brandon Reilly, Andy Janovich, Eli Sullivan, etc on the team?

Just wondering why huskers fans only gave Mike Riley three years but they are willing to give Frost the full seven on his contract? Right now Riley in year 2 would kick the crap out of Frost in year 2, not even close.

We talking about all the members of this board we are losing?

Martinez heading to Alabama where a Heisman-candidate talent such as himself actually belongs. Washington heading to prison. Everything is fine.

Yea, that was a classic Cavanaugh tweet. Wasn't he the guy that created "articles" based off threads from here a few years ago?

We've played three of the top 26 defensive teams in the country. We still have to play two more of the top 15. That's not an excuse. But it isn't easy either.

Just seen this movie too many times. Although, Beckton did pull Tannor out of Georgia.... if he does it again man oh man. Tisdol, Groce, Bryant-Strother....yes please. That's what you'd call flipping a room in two years.

The new owner is the Mike Riley of Huskerboard. He's destroying a good thing and making a nice buck doing it. Mike didn't care about Nebraska and the new owner doesn't give a bleep about this board. This site is almost unusable now.

Why would walk-ons hurt our team? What's the downside?

Imagine bashing a kid for going to their dream school and sacrificing a whole lot. Many of these kids get offers from schools like Wyoming and South Dakota State, but they just love this school and team so much that they will work their butts off and pay for school them selves to try and accomplish their dreams of stepping on that field and being a husker. Walk-Ons have my upmost respect.

Another sign of Trump's bad influence on Americans. Think how Trump has turned the 1st Amendment on its head.

Why does it matter whether she’s a veteran or not? I haven’t read any of the stuff on this but I get tired of people using “he/she is a veteran” to try to defend them or suggest they’re immune to scrutiny, unless the subject is related to one of their areas of expertise.

What you did there.... I see it.

I'll add this: as someone who has played a lot of sports and done some coaching as well, I'll tell you that it's a hell of a lot easier to start with a blank slate and coach them to do it your way than it is to coach players who have been coached a certain way, or developed poor habits. A lot of times, they'll do it the right way in practice, but then they'll revert back to their old habits during games.

I heard that we will have at least 16 scholarship players leave after our last game.

I agree. I’ve never really bought into the fast paced high scoring offense stresses your own defense because they get tired, etc. I don’t think it has to be that way. these players should be in outstanding physical condition plus with rotating in a good two-deep and all the media timeouts there should be plenty of time to get a breather.

I did this last weekend and it is surprisingly similar. They have a couple of 0.92 type guys and so do we. They have a two unrated guys that have been in the program for awhile, while all of ours are rated, we have at least one that is rated at a completely different position playing o-line for the first time in his life. They have an upperclassman D line as do we, they have some youth on their o-line as do we. Honestly, it was a wash but Minnesota did seem to have a slight edge when adjusted for years in program. I've been meaning to post the breakdown but just haven't had time yet this week. I can try later today but no guarantees.

We kind of went through some of these ideas a couple days ago in the 'Defensive Play' thread. But, I'll make another go at it. If anyone's interested, I can probably fairly quickly look up Minnesota's offensive & defensive line's recruiting rankings coming out of high school. If I do that and show that they average less talent than our lines, does this count for anything for anyone? Genuinely asking before I go to the trouble. Because if a lower-recruited player than ours goes to the NFL and ours doesn't, what accounts for that? The recruiting sites being totally wrong...or that Minnesota develops talent better than our program?

I heard ads only pop up for people with less than 500 rep points

Yep, this is my gripe. If you're going to cover 2/3 of the screen with an ad that scrolls with the page, I can't use the site.

Rewatch was brutal, the 40 minute version is on youtube for now. We had 14 plays on their side of the 50 on our first 2 drives. Just stupid things - illegal substitution, a bad block in the back on a huge play. I think by the time Hixson got steamrolled in the second quarter the DT was just living in his head, he was schooling him from the second drive on. Early on we were moving the ball fairly well, but then we'd shoot ourselves in the foot with sacks and penalties. There is no reason to score less than 24 or so on that defense. And then once we lost Wan'Dale it was over, nobody else was stepping up.

The bolded is the bigger concern and worth looking into, IMO. @BigRedMax ? Some of the current ad positions (including the one directly above this text box) are serving different ad sizes, seemingly in an alternating fashion. I believe the one at the top of the site is doing the same thing. It causes all of the posts, and the text box, to shift up and down constantly in a thread. If I had to ball park, it looks like the ads switch from 90px height to somewhere around 250/300 and then back to 90. I think we need to explore a standard ad dimension option in order to improve the user experience.

I thought Vedral played well enough for us to win. Pretty much every other part of the team was a different story. I just think more than anything, Vedral playing ought to take heat off AM because people could hopefully see the same crap happened no matter who was in at QB. But hey, the snaps were better. So hopefully that continues

Wow unbelievable. I'm off this board for good. I literally have ads popping up in the middle of my phone screen with each page I visit on this site and NO WAY TO FING CLOSE THEM FOR 30-60 SECONDS. You really think I'm about to wait that long to read a fing forum? Who the hell is the new owner. Way to ruin a perfectly fine board that I've been apart of for 7+ years. See ya hope others follow

He has less vision than Mills. He just tries to outrun everyone and he gets zero yards after contact. He had made some nice plays but he's not tough and can't be counted on A couple thoughts on this statement. 1. Mill's vision has improved, but most of the time he has very little room to run. s#!tTY BLOCKING 2. Washington has great vision and moves, but is getting hit in the backfield on about 75% of his touches. s#!tTY BLOCKING 3. Both Mills and Washington's play calling the last two games has been odd. It like we are flip flopping what plays we should be running for these two. I think we are trying to trick our opponents, but of course you really cant when - s#!tTY BLOCKING 4. Not being able to move the db's from creeping up to the line, because we cant stretch the field hurts the running game. and of course s#!tTY BLOCKING

This is pretty succinct.

What was Michigan's excuse? Or Wisconsin's excuse losing to Minnesota last year? They have had their coaches longer and got beat badly. It happens to a lot of teams. Chill the F out man.

My family has been Irish-American since the potato blight of the late 1840's but I'll try to give a rough explanation. The green is for the Catholics, the orange the Protestants, and the white unity between the two. The Dutch and the English fought the Irish and French in Ireland over the crown that once belonged to the Catholic King James (often referred to as Séamus an Chaca (James the Sh*t)). The decisive battle was fought at Aughrim and makes for a particularly interesting story from the days of King James. Oliver Cromwell is likely the most vilified of the English authorities. Vikings and Norman English forces had conquered previously but didn't try to eradicate the culture like the English did following that time. You couldn't speak the Irish tongue nor practice the Catholic religion and keep your land under the Penal Laws. This is tip of the iceberg stuff, of course, and I'd recommend people study up online, at least, if they're interested. I know I didn't get much of an education as to Ireland in American schools. It's somewhat maddening that people don't know Ireland had enough (non-tuber) food to feed itself during the so-called "famine," for example. p.s. - This was a cool site that gives you a lot in very little space: Irish History

This man is a genius. Any of you who didn't redshirt your star freshmen in NCAA football... are lying or were crazy.

That's great for Oklahoma, but pretend you're an 18 year old and Nebraska offers you and so does Nebraska and you want to play for NC are you really going to pick NU regardless of what they say and offer? Nebraska in the next few years is not going to sign a 5* four 4* and three 3* regardless of what we want. You don't think Frost is trying to sign classes like that? Of course he is, but those kids aren't coming so he has to get kids he has the opportunity to develop. I don't know why people on this board seem to think that the staff is just ignoring higher talent. They're not. Those kids are not coming to a 4-8 team plain and simple whether you're the best freaking recruiter in the country. They have better options. So, in the meantime we have to get the high rated kids we can and fill out a class with kids to develop to win games and prove to those high rated kids that Nebraska is worth attending to win. I point out the lack of talent on the OL now because that's what Riley left. If 4 years from now our OL is still total garbage I can look back and say it's Frost's fault for not getting better kids here. The OL talent issue is not because of Frost it is still plain and simple a Riley problem. A kid like Benhart is rarely going to come in and be able to play against two, three or four year starts in the B1G. The line will take more time to fix. Meanwhile the one Frost recruit on the OL has progressed this season into probably our best OL at the moment.

That's kinda part of the point, look who Frost is recruiting to fill the lines Michael LynnCherry Creek (Englewood, CO) 6-6 / 291 0.8614 851 67 5 Enrolled OT Brant BanksWestbury Christian School (Houston, TX) 6-7 / 265 0.8613 854 68 113 Enrolled OT Matthew AndersonLeesville (Leesville, LA) 6-6 / 260 0.8572 935 77 30 Enrolled OT Jimmy FritzscheGreenville (Greenville, SC) 6-7 / 240 0.8301 other than Benhart the others aren't up to par when you look at better schools.