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Hey Branno, I've read some of the discussion on here and have wanted to comment but have resisted the urge to do so but I'm just curious and you may not want to answer my question but.....are you able to work from home and continue to draw a paycheck, make a living? Forget about the "Will we play football this season?" question. If you are waiting on a vaccine, a true, legitimate vaccine that has gone thru all the protocols, the levels of development, testing and studies, etc, you may never come out of your house or do anything, ie, work, shop, vacation, or play, etc, in a normal manner ever again cause it is quite possible they will not be able to come up with one. Have never had a successful HIV vaccine, it is treated with antivirals and such and some of these other viruses, ie, SARS, MERS, ZIKA, still do not have definite successful vaccines to combat them. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115365/) Not sure how to post links here and not necessarily interested in finding out but that is a very interesting read. Suffice it to say this, the initial concern for our health and safety was legitimate and there is still a need to proceed cautiously but the numbers do not bear out bringing us to our collective knees economically or otherwise, they are just not there. Protect the vulnerable, ie, our elderly and those with underlying conditions and get on with living. Ignore the MSM Fear Porn and know that if we don't get going, and very quickly, we will emerge from this in a very different world and it will not be because of the CoVid19 virus........rather our reaction to it. Oh btw, I believe we will have a football season! If I'm wrong it will not be the first time

This isn't the Spanish Flu. Modern Medicine is light years ahead of 1918. We have solid information on how to avoid the spread. The numbers would be much better if we could get some of the non-English speaking minority groups on the same page. Take a look at the nationwide demographics and where a large percentage of the cases are. Keeping the country under lock down isn't going to fix that.

Honestly? When it comes to actual treatments for most viral infections (that aren't prevented with vaccines), we're really not that much farther ahead. We've got antibiotics, but that's for bacterial infections, not viruses. There's still no cure for the common cold, or flu (Spanish or otherwise), or coronavirus. About all we can really do is treat the symptoms (which is one area where we're much better off) and hope the body can purge the virus on its own. The basic methods we're using to prevent the spread - spacing and masks - are about the same now as they were then.

This may not be an unpopular opinion but while Scott bringing his whole staff here had some upside, it may not have been the best for the situation Nebraska was in. Big stage demands big time DC and OC. Scott should have brought more experience with him to Lincoln.

People know they played college football in 1918, right? During the peak of a pandemic much worse than this? I didn't take the time to read 23 pages of nonsense to check if we'd talked about it (hey, can we get 50-post pages again?) Reduced capacity. Fans wore masks. Nothing formal, but fans just "spread out" more in the stands. Cool picture from a Georgia Tech game in this article. https://www.startribune.com/lessons-from-18-old-pandemic-is-a-murky-guide-for-sports/570651632/ We are playing football this fall.

I'd be interested to know the public health harms caused by COVID response. Also ask Sweden how much not shutting down helps your economy during a pandemic. Or Philadelphia in 1918. The pandemic is what is causing economic hardship, not the response.

Bob Diaco was an experienced DC.

In the CCG against Texas, Suh provided greatest individual performance I have ever seen from a football player all night long. Of all the things that went wrong with the offense, penalties, and the final kickoff/drive, I would be hard pressed to identify anything from Suh as a critical mistake in that game.

After two solid months of the economic shutdown the best one can say is the spread of the virus has been slowed somewhat and even that is unproven. The spread continues unabated. The numbers of cases is still climbing and recent guesstimates suggest another few million more will get the virus in coming months. Studies by many different professional orgs give contradictory results and recommendations as to what should be done. Apparently the experts don't agree on much of anything basically. Absent a miracle vaccine soon (within a few months), the infected will probably outnumber the non-infected. Chances of a vaccine are less than 10% in that time frame and based on the experts’ predictions likely less than 50% in twelve months. A year from now the spread will be nearly universal. The basic question which ought to be answered is how many have already been infected and can be determined easily with random sample testing. If as many as 15 to 40 million have had the virus without serious health issues, then the panic and massive over reaction will be exposed as the biggest public health and economic policy blunder in history! Thus the likely reason we don’t have the question answered. There is no apparent rationale to continue the shutdowns if they are not stopping the spread or ultimately saving lives in big numbers (hundreds of thousands). We know there are public health and economic harms from current shutdown policies.

Nebraska will be successful with Scott Frost as head coach.

All white WR’s are not created equal.

If you're a politician, you have to at least pretend like the voters have some power. You can't say bulls#!t like "look at the alternative" - that takes away voters' power. It's telling them they "have" to vote for you, even if they don't think you'll do s#!t for them. That's exactly what he's doing when he says if you don't vote for him you're not Black. Maybe he should take a page out of Trump's playbook and try to tell the voters everything they want to hear even if he knows he's not really going to do it. It's still true that it would be a disaster if Trump wins over him, but he's bad at this and I still don't understand why Democrats wanted him. I would've put him at 4th or 5th on my list of the major candidates.

The press was censored and didn't report that there was a pandemic (which is why it's called the Spanish Flu, their newspapers were the first to break the silence). There were multiple waves, with the virus spreading all the way to 1920, and upwards of a million people died in the US (up to 50 million world wide). But they played football. Maybe we instead of looking to the 1918 pandemic as a sign of what we SHOULD do, we should learn from our mistakes and try to do better.

You know what I noticed about this video?

There's definitely an alternate universe version where the Akron game happens, 2AM doesn't get dinged up against CU on a cheap shot and Nebraska's kicking situation doesn't implode in 2019. How many extra wins would those 3 things have been worth? 4? 5? 6? Heck, even more?

There is a major difference between a risk that cannot be taken away from the game (injuries) vs. something that can be easily avoided (waiting until a vaccine is available before resuming play). While it would really suck, I would understand it if we didn't have a 2020-2021 season. In my opinion, anyone that advocates for playing this season - without widespread testing and vaccines - is essentially deciding that their entertainment is more important than player health. The argument that players have a choice is bulls#!t though. If there is a season, they effectively are given no choice. Just like workers are given no choice if their employer reopens. You could always just quit football and lose your scholarship if you don't want to possibly die to a preventable disease is not a good argument to make.

Nice. Hope that could lead to a commitment. I think this kids recruitment will blow up. It has to be hard for rivals and recruiters right now trying to evaluate and rank kids without summer camps to observe.

That's rather presumptive of you. I'm all for having a conversation with as much pros and cons on the subject as possible, combined with the relevant data, to be able to make an informed decision. Your following sentence makes the bolded, classic projection, as it is a "hand wave away" of a discussion because you don't agree with the comment....and you'd be welcome for the "laughs" if the situation was laughable.

Goodnight I hope you’re wrong! But if he plays the corners as deep against Nebraska as he did when coached the buskers, then our bubble screen game should be pretty darn successful!

I'm guessing this has more to do with covid-19 than anything else, so I'll put it here.

And Diaco probably would have done pretty well under a competent and cohesive staff not under toxic leadership. It's so weird when people think that coaches or players who come here and don't do well are showing their true colors instead of Nebraska being the poor performance anomaly because our admin has been so inept and corrosive. Diaco is a good DC - he's proved it all over. Except here, because the top 10 DC's in the country wouldn't have been able to do it here at that time.

Well, lots of teams worse than ours have beaten teams better than those before. So, as long as we actually show up to play, we can beat any of them.

I regret to bring this up even, but here it is.

Selling program trajectory and Pruitt is a very good recruiter. Him being from Alabama made this easy imo. They are at 24 but won't sign everyone committed. Good news is they can only take so many commitments now.

I agree with you 100%. But this is the unpopular opinion thread. My WISH was that McCoy didn't feel the pressure as much, he may have held on to the ball 1 sec longer. But you can't fault SUH for trying to take him down.

https://theathletic.com/1809943/2020/05/21/purdue-boilermakers-schedule-roster-depth-chart-state-of-the-program/

I was basically scanning what you wrote, and got to this part and realized there was nothing I could say that you wouldn't just hand wave away. I then re-read the parts above it more carefully and laughed. So thanks for that.

I think we have to be, if we have hopes of a postseason. If we are aren't good enough to win more than 5 out of the first 7, we might not be good enough to find a sixth win in that brutal final five game stretch.

Suh made 2 critical mistakes at the end of 2 important games in 2009: VT: He was too passive in his rush at the end of the game - giving the VT QB time to find a receiver in the end zone Texas CCG: SUH should not have rushed McCoy as hard as he did at the end of the game - it forced McCoy to throw the ball out of bounds, leaving one second on the clock. VT game: http://web.archive.org/web/20090926030226/http://www.omaha.com:80/article/20090919/BIGRED/709199808

Jim Leonhard is the best DC in the country?

It's not just "player safety". It's the safety of the students on campus, professors, family members of students and athletes, local businesses, etc.... The more this spreads, the more pointless social distancing and masks matter. At this point, we might as well go the "herd immunity" route and just write off the 1-2 million people that will die or have life altering organ damage from it... I don't agree with that strategy, but it's what were working towards. Might as well just call it what it is.

- Taylor Martinez gets too much unnecessary hate. - Bill Callahan gets too much hate. To be fair, this dude walked into an incredibly toxic situation. He recruited incredibly well, and seemingly ran a clean program. I believe he cared and did his best, it just didn’t happen to work, which I can respect. Unlike another pro style coach from the west coast we hired.

Nebraska football hasn't been as enjoyable since we left the Big 12. Not cause we sucked, cause we sucked in the Big 12 for a bit as well. I personally don't care about any "rival" or conference opponent in the Big 10. We just feel out of place.

Really? Thats why I said who cares and hes still better than Trump? Its my opinion that he did it. He sniffs kids. Hes a creep. What part of that is untrue? That leads me the believe he is capable of this. Im sure tons of politicians/athletes/businessman have abused their power and gotten away with stuff like this. If you want to stick your head in the sand and think these people are good human beings than by all means, be my guest. But Im not saying this because I dislike him. I dislike him bc his policies suck. Not because of this.

I agree, not being critical of AM. The safeties, as mentioned previously, just didn't have to respect the deep ball so they punished JD for those catches.

What do you think, it's a subject worth discussing. Maybe half capacity, maybe less, maybe more. I know this, Covid19 will be waiting for you and I when we decide to come out and work or play. It's not going away. In fact the flattening of the curve has prolonged the inevitable and I'm not saying we shouldn't have done everything possible to flatten the curve. The odds are very high, in the near term, that many, if not most, people will contract this virus sooner or later and they will make it thru or they won't. The current data says most people will be ok and I am not downplaying those that didn't make it or won't make it. I would suggest people start, if they haven't already, to do anything and everything they can to build up their immune system and their personal health. That is the first and best line of defense.

Disappointing, but not surprising.

Bob Diaco was enabled by the toxic leadership at the time, and would have been pushed to HC if the whole regime had not been removed.

A few more details from the OWH. https://www.omaha.com/sports/college/huskers/teams/mens-basketball/while-on-the-path-to-success-ex-husker-dylan-talleys-life-took-a-turn-hard/article_345103a1-36e0-5981-956d-dec6a31838b5.html

Not so much an unpopular opinion, but a what if? If the Akron game in 2018 isn't canceled, Scott Frost squeezes into a bowl game his first season at Nebraska, and the mood lightens considerably.

Another unpopular opinion might be that I think NU will win more games when the majority of total yards gained are rushing vs passing and we must average 450 a game as well. Rushing yards are more valuable than passing. I believe this is a truism of fundamental football. Always has been although the rule changes have tended to balance the scale somewhat the past decade. I think a vigorous and dedicated effort to win the ground game battles is absolutely critical. A bevy of 4 star WRs won’t fix our run game deficiencies.

Doug Dubose only had 1 prominent season before he tore up his knee before his junior season, and Jarvis Redwine spent his first 2 years are Oregon State before transferring to NU in 1978. I can see how Newby accumulated yards over his career at NU, and has more than Dubose or Redwine.

I understand that it's not the most common outcome, but it can happen. When we're asking some young men to put themselves at risk of it for our entertainment it's an important thing to remember.

I think it just reiterates things we already knew. A segment of the population will simply say "F*ck you, no" to anything, even if benefits them. Efforts to decrease pollution from car emissions have been put in place, and yet there are people who alter their trucks so that they emit and pollute more. We all benefit from clean air, why do that? We can't agree on clean air or clean water, why would we be able to band together during a pandemic? There are people who vote against Medicare for all candidates, measures, etc, when they themselves would benefit from medicare for all. If you don't care about your own life, why would you care about anyone else's?

As expected, your definition of "power running game" is "they have to run out of a certain formation. Not the case.

He does and he does.

What high death rates?

Agreed. Had Frank been retained, I think at best he’d have essentially been Kirk Ferentz. Multiple 6, 7 and 8 win seasons. The downfall of the program was not letting Bill Byrne do his job, and a lack of stability and unity at the top.