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Don’t go chasing Wan’dale falls, please stick to the Toure’s and the Omar’s you’re used to. I know you’re that you’re gonna have it Wan’dale or nothin at all, Betts I think you’re Martin too fast.

Nebraska55fan: We should do this! Mavric: We did do that this year. Nebraska55fan: Oh, so you're on board doing exactly what we've been doing and obviously disagree with me about a totally separate special teams suggestion! Just stop dude. We all agree the special teams sucks, and has sucked for Frost's tenure. Many people agree with you that we should have a dedicated special teams coach. But most people, when informed that their idea had actually already been implemented would say something like "well I'm glad they are at least trying some new things, but given the results I still think a dedicated coach and other steps are needed." Not flip out at the person pointing out that we've been doing the practice suggestion and accusing them of not being on board with any special teams changes.

247 Sports - Spartan Nation I think this is going to be a battle. I do. I think this one's going to be a big one, but I am not a person that looks down on Scott Frost. I know things are difficult, I know it's not gone as smoothly as everyone wants, but I think you saw a lot from them with that Oklahoma fight and with the absolute best environment and college football being what Nebraska is. I think at the end of the day on a last-second field goal, the Huskers win. Nebraska 20 - MSU 17 i think he is trolling us

After a few series, MSU will realize they haven't played anyone as physical or talented as Nebraska. Should be a fun game. Huskers win.

I like to remember JD Spielman as the guy who was about to hold every receiving record at Nebraska, an absolutely clutch possession receiver who took massive hits on poorly thrown balls, and sometimes seemed to keep Nebraska in the game by himself. Whatever mental health issues he has now, he had then. I take zero comfort that he's not succeeding elsewhere. Wandale is succeeding because Kentucky is using him almost exclusively as a receiver, and not pretending he's also a traditional running back. He's an exciting player, but Frost was treating Wandale as the offense's only legitimate threat, and that wasn't good for Wandale or the offense. Wandale could still be thriving on a Nebraska team with more traditional wide receivers like Toure and Manning by giving him the role he was born to play -- wingback. Like Bobby Newcombe and Johnny Rodgers. Like Kentucky is doing.

I know my wife and I have been holding back the urge.....oh wait, that's just marriage.

As far as the O-line situation goes, I'm gonna copy & paste this post I saw elsewhere, because it seems to make a lot of sense. Basically, it's a domino effect of a couple guys going down/not being 100%, and a lack of depth. Arguably, the biggest takeaway is that we should've hit up the transfer portal for some experienced guys to add some depth to handle this sort of situation.

2021 Game 5 “Expert” Picks: Nebraska @ Michigan State (-5) ————— CollegeFootballNews.com Why Nebraska Will Win Really … has Michigan State beaten anyone who’s any good? It’s an underground hipster theory about Alabama’s win over Miami to start the season – Miami might not be any good. Bama is obviously amazing, but it might not be Alabama like everyone thinks it is, at least based off that win. Michigan State beat the Canes. It also beat a bad Northwestern team and Youngstown State … oooooooh. The Huskers aren’t playing all that poorly. The Illinois game looks more and more like a loss that would’ve been avoided if the Fordham game came first to work out some of the kinks, and the 23-16 loss at Oklahoma might have been – relatively speaking – among the best games yet under Scott Frost. Why Michigan State Will Win The balance on the Spartan offense has been almost perfect – 791 rushing yards, 769 yards through the air. It’s finding ways to move the ball as needed, it worked out the passing game timing against Youngstown State, and it’s been able to run well in all three games so far. The O has been better than expected, and the defense has been a rock so far against the run. Nebraska’s Adrian Martinez is throwing well, and he leads the way in rushing, but the MSU D will take its chances with the ball in the air. As long as Martinez isn’t hitting the big home run with his legs, the Spartans should be okay. What’s Going To Happen Nebraska is playing better overall lately, but Michigan State is just too sharp, too balanced, and playing with too much confidence in all phases. Like the Oklahoma game, the Huskers will hang around and make it competitive, but they’ll come up just short when the chances are there to take over the momentum. Michigan State won’t exactly break it open late, but they’ll get the big fourth quarter drive to put it away. MSU 34 - Nebraska 20 ————— ESPN FPI MSU - 73.4% ————— DRatings MSU 28 - Nebraska 24 MSU - 62.7% ————— ESPN Bill Connelly SP+ MSU 27 - Nebraska 24 MSU - 55% ————— AP - Ralph Russo That bad loss in the opener at Illinois might be obscuring some real improvement by the Huskers MSU 27 - Nebraska 24 ————— Sporting News The Spartans continue to roll with Kenneth Walker III and a punishing rushing attack, and Nebraska is coming off another emotional loss against Oklahoma. The Huskers are 9-2 all time against the Spartans, but we're trusting the better team. MSU 30 - Nebraska 20 ————— Big Red Wrap-Up Mike’l Severe: Nebraska 27 - MSU 23 Jay Moore: Nebraska 24 - MSU 20 ————— CBS Sports Dennis Dodd: MSU Tom Fornelli: MSU Chip Patterson: N Barrett Sallee: MSU* David Cobb: MSU Shehan Jeyarajah: MSU Jerry Palm: MSU ————— USA Today Jace Evans: MSU Paul Myerberg: N Eddie Timanus: MSU Erick Smith: MSU Heather Tucker: MSU Scooby Axson: MSU ————— Dallas Morning News Scott Bell: N Chuck Carlton: MSU Corby Davidson: N Josephy Hoyt: MSU Ric Renner: MSU Selby Lopez: MSU Kevin Sherrington: MSU Brett Vito: MSU New Scruggs: MSU ————— Athlon Sports Kevin McGuire: MSU Steven Lassan: MSU Ben Weinrib: MSU ————— 247 Sports - Spartan Nation I think this is going to be a battle. I do. I think this one's going to be a big one, but I am not a person that looks down on Scott Frost. I know things are difficult, I know it's not gone as smoothly as everyone wants, but I think you saw a lot from them with that Oklahoma fight and with the absolute best environment and college football being what Nebraska is. I think at the end of the day on a last-second field goal, the Huskers win. Nebraska 20 - MSU 17 ————— Lincoln Journal Star Chris Basnett: MSU 23 - Nebraska 22 Parker Gabriel: Nebraska 23 - MSU 21 Clark Grell: MSU 30 - Nebraska 23 Nate Head: MSU 24 - Nebraska 20 Steven M Sipple: MSU 27 - Nebraska 24 ————— Lansing State Journal Las Vegas had the wrong underdog in MSU’s first two matchups against power-five conference programs. I think Vegas has it right in this one, with MSU a five-point favorite over the Huskers. It’s not that Nebraska can’t cause MSU some problems. But if you’ve watched these teams play through the first few weeks of the season, and trust your eyes, there’s no way you’re picking Nebraska. The Spartans have been balanced, dynamic, disciplined and dangerous offensively. The Huskers have lacked that discipline and efficiency. If these two teams are who they’ve been, the Spartans should win. MSU 31 - Nebraska 21 ————— Husker Extra This line started at a field goal and moved up quickly to five. What do the sharps know? I think I like Nebraska here in a close win, for once. Tough MSU crowd to deal with though. Nebraska 24 - MSU 21 —————

As per usual, you are accusing someone of being "wrong" when all you are doing is disagreeing. You can't prove someone "wrong" by making all the assumptions and generalizations that you are doing.

Oh man....the other headlines health officials could be creating. "Both test negative for STD's? Oregon Health Officials say you can Raw Dog during consensual sex again!"

They are not bigger- Michigan's average weight per their 2 deep of both lines is 306.5. Nebraska's is 306. Nebraska has a clear size advantage at the receiver and tight end position. We are not giving up size to Michigan. Stronger?? No way to measure this objectively. Michigan had serious depth issues coming into the season along the lines and brought in transfers to help fill the holes. Yes, their backups have more stars by their names but most are unproven. The last time we played, both teams were completely different. Our last game against them was in week 3 of Scott's first year. Martinez was hurt but played about half the game. We had Bunch under center... this is the week after we lost to Troy. If you can go watch the Troy game and then any of our last three games and tell me we aren't a different team, you are crazy. Michigan was also a vastly different team. They won 10 games with their only conference loss to Ohio State. Minnesota is a good football team. They might beat us again... but it isn't a guarantee and they definitely are not a superior team in measurables. They have played cleaner football and have better special teams. Those two areas will likely be the deciding factor in our matchup. If we play clean, frankly we are a better team and should win 8 out of 10 times. It's almost as if you haven't seen Nebraska recently. We have big linemen, huge receivers, and have dramatically increased strength and conditioning. If our special teams was good this year, we would likely be a top 15 team sitting at 4-0.

TBF Culp hit a 51 yarder against OU.

This game tells us whether or not we learned anything from the Illinois loss and the close fight against Oklahoma. It's a huge game with bigger implications than just the results on the field. With all that seems to be on the line with this game, I am very much looking forward to an emotionally invested Saturday night.

What I've been wondering lately is if this is Held's strategy for player development. You make it clear that anybody can get the lion's share of carries any week, and the guy who works the hardest gets it. It actually potentially works if it really does motivate each guy to give 100% during practice. The fans don't like it because it gives off the appearance that the staff is fickle and doesn't know what they're doing. But for example, what if Johnson's max potential is tapped through this strategy and he shoots through the stratosphere this season because of it? Would be pretty awesome, IMO. The staff isn't stupid; I think this is all mainly a byproduct of having four guys that are roughly on the same level.

I feel like our defense gets relatively little talk on this board and elsewhere. I think the reason for that is because losing to Illinois (understandably) skews the fan base's perception of how good our team actually is this year so far. But think about it: Our defense only gave up 21 points to Oklahoma. And our defense only gave up 21 against Illinois. The two losses we've had occurred because of mistakes we made offensively: -Against Illinois: Missed some throws, missed some blocks, committed some dumb penalties. -Against Oklahoma: Really mainly just missed three kicks. We are close. Close doesn't count, but it's still a true statement - we are close.

@Reduxcalled it. Why is he not a good source? I agree some of his current allegations were by his previous positions, which isn't definitive by any means. But it doesn't make him wrong.

I’m glad they are releasing the full audit report or at least they better. And if it shows/showed Biden won by the original or close to the original margin, that should be touted many times over the coming weeks as confirmation the election was held fairly according to the rules set in place at the time.

I think the Huskers will play well enough to win by a couple scores, but turnovers and home night game will keep the game even. Special teams cost Huskers the game in the 4th in a close one. A faction of Husker fans would find a way to complain about an upset over tOSU. Nothing but winning the B1G will get Frost off the hot seat. I think Frost has got at least one more season though unless we lose the rest of our games.

They win this game and then follow it up losing to NW at home next week. Because that's how they roll.

I'm surprised the Ninjas didn't just outright fabricate 12k+ votes for Trump. Seriously. Still an absolute embarrassment for AZ that it was allowed to go on, but whatever.

If someone posted this on HB, the first thing we'd do is ask "how so?, where are you seeing this?" Random people on Twitter making claims (even though they may be true) is silly without citing their sources. I'm so sick of social media...

Too bad Kade Warner graduated. Most naturally gifted blocker on the team.

The conundrum with looking at this stat is that MSU greatly affects that stat since everyone has played so few games. So, we still don't know really if MSU's running game is absolutely amazing, or are these run defenses really just that bad? I'm sure MSU's running game is good. It can't be taken lightly and the Huskers have their work cut out for them to contain/slow down that RB. But, by the end of the year, these defenses might not look quite this bad and MSU might not look quite this good at running the ball.

I get "doubling down" when you are wrong about something, most of us posters do it (especially about politics) but that Florida Gov is like doubling down on a double down on a double down.

So now the conversation will start about how “the left” shouldn’t believe Biden won because they’ve been calling the audit a sham and a mess since the beginning… Also something about not trusting the media, I’m sure…

To get to a bowl game, we have to win this game or 'steal' a game from some place else. Time to start a winning streak. I'm going with Nebraska by 7. We finally get over the hump and win one of those close games. I think we end up with a score in the 24-34 range by both teams While a win would be great, I don't think it will be a signature win as I think the season will prove MSU is not worthy of the top 25 ranking.

i actually like this memorial trophy idea between the 2 schools

Damn, you're right. That is sad.

Wow. Jon Rosthein is emceeing.

It's the way we Huskerboard. If we can't refute the assertion directly, we resort to either: Genetic Fallacy (your source sucks) Tu Quoque (what about the things that you do that suck?)

Everybody's talking about Omar's voice, but his own mama doesn't know the sound of it...

Frost said late in fall camp that he didn't want to have an RB by committee approach. That should pretty much tell you what's going on: the coaches aren't swapping RBs in and out just for s#!ts and giggles, they're doing it because as of right now, they feel that they need to.

CBS Sports' top ten transfers super seniors - was mentioned as honorable mention. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/college-basketballs-top-10-super-seniors-villanovas-collin-gillespie-lead-group-back-for-bonus-season/

This is true, and very frustrating since we always play you late in the year. How has Potts been doing with Ibrahim out? I see he's getting his yards, but there was a massive drop off when Ibrahim was out against OSU - which is to be expected, Ibrahim is a stud. But he was by far the scariest guy on the team, and if Potts is only decent instead of very good that makes life tougher for Morgan.

FWIW..i am seeing some right wing posters saying the cyber ninja report also says there was a lot of fraud in the election. but from the bits i've seen apparently a big part of that "fraud" was mail in ballots that were sent out but never returned.

remember when the republicans were telling hillary to quit crying. check out their alpha male since the last election.

I suppose at this point any win over a B1G that is ranked is a big win. Signature? Hard to say, although we have several signature losses. A signature win for me would be Wisky, Michigan or tOSU. Maybe Iowa??

Agreed 100%. I hate drug dealers with a passion. So many lives ruined.

A friend of mine's son died of this recently. These f#&%ers can rot in hell.

I'm rooting for the signature win, for all the talent to step up, to build on the confidence we saw against Oklahoma. It's more than possible. But gun to my head? Betting my own money? I've had my hopes dashed too many times. There's a good chance Michigan State learned more from the Oklahoma game than we did. Also it's a home game, where weirdly enough we seem to do worse. Competitive in spurts, but MSU by 17.

Followed by a smear campaign of said source once cited

A couple notes on MSU's opponents so far: Miami is #79 in the country in rushing defense. #103 in total defense. #113 in scoring defense. Northwestern is #106 in rushing defense. #97 in total defense. #74 in scoring defense. Youngstown State is #98 in FCS in rushing defense. #116 in total defense. #105 in scoring defense.

The Trumpists are already saying that since the report is full of errors and faulty conclusions that this means that Biden didn't win since the report couldn't find any fraud and shouldn't be believed. It's up to you to back up your assertion.

What's odd is that it's being pushed by the same people who stand with science on every issue but gender. They must of skipped biology class.

I feel for ya jj. The guy who picked Marshall to cover - "R U kidding me?!! What a dufus! This is a miracle, wow!!!" The guy who picked App State to cover - "Your team up only 1 point! What a dufus! You an idiot!!" The RB - "I saw NFL one time"

How about you just stop insisting you know a whole lot more than you actually know and then when you called on it just move the goal posts and argue against strawmen?

If the kicking team recovers the punt behind the LOS, they can advance it. Back in my coaching days I really wanted to run a "fake punt" where we "shanked" it out toward the gunner and they picked it up and ran with it.