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David Shaw inherited a winning Stanford team from Jim Harbaugh. All he had to do was keep it going. Only Callahan himself could've derailed that PAC-12 train. Gus Malzahn is a different story, he inherited a train wrecked Auburn team from Gene Chizik and turned things around after just one season. Too early to tell if he can keep the team going. Brady Hoke turned things around at Michigan, and now he is on the hot seat for a recent slump despite very good recruiting classes.

Its not elite talent if he struggles on the field then people wonder how bad the position really is if he was suppose to be the best they could play. It makes me cringe when I see a true freshman take the field, I feel there is a lot of expectations out there for him and he has to live up to that or his talent gets criticized negatively along with coaching staff. Perfect example from last year was Josh Banderas. Great kid with a lot of talent, but was rushed onto the field and struggled. People criticized the hell out of him after the UCLA game.

Especially when you lob him into the mix of the same coaches on that list that have coached in the same career total that he has. Coaches that went against Top 25 teams 20 to 25 times in their career, only Clemson coach Swinney and Utah coach Whittingham have a better percentage than him, and its not by much. Bo Pelini - 9/14 Dabo Swinney - 9/13 Paul Rhodes - 4/19 Randy Edsall - 1/24 Brady Hoke - 4/20 Dan Mullen - 2/21 Pat Fitzgerald - 5/15 Charlie Weis - 4/20 K. Whittingham - 9/13

The only times we've played ranked OOC opponents have been: 2009 Va Tech - Loss 2009 Arizona - Win 2010 South Carolina - Loss 2012 Georgia - Loss 2013 UCLA - Loss 2013 Georgia - Win Not sure where you're getting the extra 2 from but it's inaccurate. South Carolina wasn't ranked in 2011. UCLA and Georgia were ranked 2012 and 2013. But you are right, I made the mistake of adding Washington and South Carolina as ranked opponents since it was a bowl game. Thanks.Your statements are still incorrect, South Carolina was ranked, UCLA was not in 2012 and the other team is Virginia Tech 2008 who was not ranked. I didn't count Virginia Tech from 2008, but from 2009 in Blacksburg.

The only times we've played ranked OOC opponents have been: 2009 Va Tech - Loss 2009 Arizona - Win 2010 South Carolina - Loss 2012 Georgia - Loss 2013 UCLA - Loss 2013 Georgia - Win Not sure where you're getting the extra 2 from but it's inaccurate. South Carolina wasn't ranked in 2011. UCLA and Georgia were ranked 2012 and 2013. But you are right, I made the mistake of adding Washington and South Carolina as ranked opponents since it was a bowl game. Thanks.

You have to think that an overwhelming majority of these wins come from conference play, right (and to a much lesser extent, bowl games)? So not sure what to make of the numbers when looked at that way. Unless I'm missing something, which I certainly might be. If your talking about Bo, you are correct, Bo's Big 12 record against Conference Top 25 teams is 4 - 6, 2 of the losses being the Big 12 championship games against Texas and Oklahoma. As for Big 10 record against Conference Top 25 teams, its 3 - 4, 1 being the loss to Wisconsin in the Big 10 Championship game. As for his Non-Conference Top 25 record, Bo is 2 - 4. Those 2 wins coming from bowl games. Bo Pelini has never won against a non-conference Top 25 team during the regular season. But then again, disregarding the bowl games, Bo has played the Huskers against 24 non-conference games, and only 3 of them the opponent was ranked in the Top 25. UCLA being two of them.

Imagine what he'd say if we still Taylor wasn't hurt. What I love about this group of rb's is that they have such great attitudes and bust their asses to get better. I expect Newby to really take a step forward this season. I hope he improves on handling the ball. We can't afford offensive turnovers.

I wouldn't say so Hunter, Guys like Cotton, Sterup, Pelini, Moudy all got good reps and rotation last year and performed well. I know I have seen Price take the field a few times on mop duty, but he is no where near experienced as those other 4. It does sound like he learned quite a bit during the offseason and it pushing for more playing time. And the JUCO kid, Kondolo looks good as well. I just hope that guy works out better than Hardrick did. We had a very good offensive line with plenty of depth. The bad thing about last year we had quite a few injuries on the OL, The biggest hit was losing Spencer Long. Then Qvale got hurt, Sirles later. What worries me about the offensive line, is when they need to move guys around to fill in spots where the injuries happen.

it will be interesting to see how DJ does on the defensive line, though looking at his film, you can see he has BIG potential on the offensive line. The kid has great upper body strength and once he hits you, he pushes you back and knocks you off balance. I can see Pierson-El finding a way onto the field, kind of how Moore found his way on the field last season. With Pat Smith gone, I think the job is wide open for Drew Brown, as Bondi will handle kickoffs and Foltz will handle punts. Defensively, Peyton Newell might see the field. Secondary wise, its hard to say. I mean you have 4 true freshmen that seem to be getting praise while in fall camp, but I doubt we will them burn 4 redshirts on all 3 of them, unless things are really bad in the secondary. I would hope to see only 1 redshirt get burned on either Williams/Jones/Mosley/Kalu. 2 max.

I don't know if many of you listen to morning shows on 1620 The Zone when they talk Husker football, but I enjoy listening to it. Anyway, this morning they talked about changes on the Offensive Line that Garrison might be moving towards. let's be real, our offensive line is alright, they have their moments of great blocking and moments of terrible blocking. But thing they mentioned that hasn't been a staple of Huskers offensive line play has been putting defensive linemen into the ground and knocking them off the line scrimmage. Pancakes, if I'm not mistaken is what they call it in football, when a Offensive Lineman puts a Defensive Lineman into the turf. They also talked about teaching them to hustle and play until the end of the whistle. My old high school coach always taught us if he saw us doing the so called "fast walk" as an offensive lineman, it was an immediate 10 laps on the "Hill". I really hope that Garrison is pushing these kids to play harder, faster and stronger. Its really the next step for this offensive line to take to the next level. It honestly is something you don't see a lot of nowadays from any team. Perfect example, during Ameer's long TD run against Illinois. Not taking anything away from Ameer, but seeing the hustle from guys like Sirles, Pensick, Cotton, and Long to get in front of Ameer and provide that cutback lane for him is truly something special and I hope it carries on with these newer offensive linemen.

Used to be a tIght end, right? *nvm, I was thinking of Soph. Trey Foster.

I found this comment ridiculous to say. Do you agree that Tommy Armstrong is an option QB? If so, ask yourselves, how many option QBs are accurate with their throws? I don't expect Tommy Armstrong to have a completion rate over 70% like some folks are expecting him to have in order to be successful.

I found it interesting that Bo said during the BTN LIVE tour bus, that the new GPS project with Catapult that will help them monitor each players workload on and off the field so the coaches can work with individual players in toning down the amount workout they do so they don't injury themselves later in the season. Bo went on to say it should eliminate soft tissue injuries. While I don't agree with the "elimination" part of soft tissue injuries, it will be interesting to see if it does "reduce" the amount. I hope they stick with this project for not just one season and ditch it, but rather keep it around for a few seasons to see if it truly does work.

Curry is rumored to be looking into several transfers, such as TCU, Kansas State, Okie State. A few others i can't think of right now.

According to his parents, sounds like Curry wanted to be closer to home. Course you can read into that more and come up with your own opinions of that.

I love the fact that Dinardio called Tommy Armstrong, the corn-back.

there are a few stats that I would love to see improved this season. But the most important is turnovers. We need to reduce the amount of turnovers we give on offense, and create more turnovers (fumbles) on defense. the 2nd stat would have to be giving up yards on 1st and 3rd down on defense.

Ah, but who was a better passer, Taylor Martinez or Michael Vick?

It doesn't change my expectations for the season or the coaching staff, because I'm sure it doesn't change their expectations or goals for the team. However, seeing that I am a fan I have the luxury of being able to be lenient on a record that might not come close to what we had last season. As a coach, you can't do that, because you project it on your players as weakness, when you should be showing them strength.

I've always felt that in certain situations, players can be more to blame than coaches. They are young adults, between 18 - 22. When you were that age, did you listen to a man 20 - 30 years older than you telling you how to do something? Or did you think you knew everything and could do what you wanted to do without someone looking over your shoulder? I bet you every young man who goes into that locker room for the first time comes in selfish, but its a coaches job to break that mentality of selfishness and propose unity, teamwork, and leadership. You guys ask, well who are these selfish guys in the locker room? Look at the past games, who did awesome one game and was suddenly no where to be seen? Who has transferred out of the program? Who created conflict on the sidelines? I listen to PJ's comments and I remember an old saying, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can coach all you want to and pound the same teachings into the head of a young football player, but that won't guarantee he will listen or even put the knowledge he learned out on the field. But if he is the best athlete you have in that position, then what do you do? And if you don't put him in, people scrutinize your decision, calling for you to be fired. You think a selfish player cares if his coach gets fired? I'm not saying one side is to blame more than other, they are both equally to be blamed. Even if the coaches take it upon themselves to take full blame. For the record, it was mentioned in fall camp that PJ needed to step up and be a vocal leader for the defensive secondary his senior year. PJ mentioned he often was afraid of that leadership role. Sounds like he didn't overcome that fear. Now that you think about it, when was the last REAL leader we had for the defense? A vocal leader? A passionate leader? Could that be a contributing factor to a sloppy defense?

It would be cool to stop or slow them down. But its nearly impossible to defend against a mobile QB. You know what, even with all the hype around Braxton, he still hasn't proved he is a passer. Despite the poor play of Taylor Martinez, he still put up more passing yds and had a better completion rate than Braxton Miller.

I learned that the next game is Oct. 19th @ Northwestern. It's gonna be a long two weeks.

Burkhead might be done for the night. Can't seem to make cuts on that knee. Baptiste really needed that INT.

I'm calling it. Nebraska wins because they scored 31 points. Huskers are undefeated when they score more than 30 points.

Can i meltdown about burkhead being injured?