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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.

If they reduce stadium capacity, how do they decide who gets in and who doesn't? Do they do away with the student section to make more room for paid seats? Does the price of each seat go up since there's fewer available?

i think bidens apology is good. and refreshing. when trump flubs something he has the entire far right propaganda arm wage war telling us that we are snowflakes or we just hate trump for taking him to task. Joe actually apologized for his mistake. i know there are those that are predisposed to hate joe for anything and everything....but having the strength of character to apologize is good IMO https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-tells-black-radio-host-problem-figuring-trump/story?id=70834037 "I shouldn't have been such a wise guy," Biden added, “I don't take [the black vote] for granted at all. And no one, no one should have to vote for any party, based on their race, their religion, their background. There are African-Americans who think that Trump was worth voting for. I don't think so, I'm prepared to put my record against his. That was the bottom line and it was really unfortunate, I shouldn't have been so cavalier,” Biden said.

Surprised it took all day for someone to bring this up. When will libs realize that any race/sex/age can vote for whoever they like. Thinking differently creates the impression the person can’t think for themselves. Honestly, is Biden liked by blacks because of Obama? I don’t get it.

If this is unfiltered Pelini, then what is the Pelini that calls his AD a "c***" and a "pu&&y" and calls his fans, "fair-weather f#&%ing fans".....Please they didn't get unfiltered Pelini - they got Puff Piece Pelini.

AM was pretty good against it but many of those are the middle of the field plays where our receivers took the biggest hits. JD was pretty good at finding the holes in the zones but man did he pay the price for it sometimes. Hopefully we find balance with the added talent at receiver this year.

That's as solid of a perspective as I've read on this board of late and basically sums up my take on this current state of Husker football. When the break from the current state of losing happens it is going to be from one season to the next, here's to it being in 2020!

Up until a couple of months ago, it was Dave Aranda, but if you want to talk about doing more with less, give me Morgan Scalley.

There is not a program in the country that will take a kids scholarship for not playing because of Covid. Could you imagine the PR nightmare for the school, the staff, the conference...No chance. I agree the safest thing to do is wait and I am fine with that. But I am not a 20 year old player on a college football team that only has a certain amount of time to play the game.

I am not asking them to do that. If they don't want to play, they should not play. But every practice and game they are putting themselves at risk of getting hurt (really badly) and they still go play.

Some folks forget that the other team has a defensive coordinator. If an offense can simply stick with what works, he will get fired.

Those results are not good enough and I believe Frost would tell you that directly without hesitation. Those last 10 years look like Iowa smh. No way we would be happy with that.

Discounting NFL players as less than good seems to be not based in reality.

I don't get this at all. We ran it 62% of the time last year with 540 rushes to 323 passes. Do you want us to run it 70 or 80% of the time? Should we never pass? Wisconsin is one of the top rushing teams in the conference and they ran it 63% of the time. Also, if you understand Frost's offense it is exactly what you describe wanting. It has a set of base plays and then the entire offense is based off of those base plays with changes in formations, motions and reads. So, my unpopular opinion is we have the run first offense that Husker fans want and with the reads and options it is as close to Tom Osborne's 90's offense as you'll ever get in today's game.

The downfall of the program was not the firing of Frankie..rather it was just a series of bad hires.

SOUNDS LIKE AKRON'S KICKERS ARE NOT VERY GOOD OR AT LEAST PRETTY INCONSISTENT