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But at least we are right in the middle of it at this point

Buffet has come out and said the reason he doesn't write a T. Boone Pickens type check is that the football team is already profitable. There is no point in giving money to someone that did not need it. If they actually needed the money then he would. Until then he would primarily donate to the educational side of the house.

Is there a site that ranks 40 times? They could even have their own star system. Then we could have a 'speed star ranking' and end all of this pointless debating!

He got popped last year for steroids.

I'm sure Riley is working lots of angles but I don't think this is one of them. The players voted for their captains. They just happen to have more underclassmen this year.

Because you keep reading. Just stop a little sooner and life gets better

I recall that the B1G will also be scheduling games with better teams playing each other more often instead of a rotating schedule so the in conference games should be more appealing/difficult as well. I think this starts in 2017.

He was dominant last year. He had about 50 tackles and 4.5 sacks. All those sacks coming towards the end of the season. Pretty salty stat line for any DL, let alone one who was in his first year as a starter. He is a rare breed of strength and quickness. I wouldn't call him dominant last year, but he came on pretty strong toward the latter part of the season.When he was given the green light, he was pretty dominant. Not bad for a 3-star with only 7 other offers amiright? They guy is good, urrite. But not dominant yet. Suh was dominant, i.e., could take over a game, but he couldn't do that until his senior season. Part of the problem w our DTs is they haven't had much back up, hence, play too many downs, hence, get tired. That should change this year some. MC could be Suh 2.0 in 2 years, IMO, and that's saying something. I doubt he cranks it up to that level this year. BTW, whatever happened to Dwayne Johnson, the one that's on our team? Anybody? Redshirted 2013. Played scout team last year. Don't remember hearing anything about him from the spring. Probably still a pup working his way towards playing time.

I have been saying this!!! But their wr coach did not come over with the new staff. Hope the new guy can fix the "quality depth" issue

I think the argument can be made that he didn't win it all until he abandoned the Hector identity. Not entirely, but just enough. That's bullsh#t. I'm getting real tired of this revisionist history that wants to claim that Osborne went a little dirty to make it over the hump. And primarily because of the Lawrence Phillips thing. Read some of Tom's book on the subject and find out why he really gave LP too many chances. Spoiler alert- it wasn't to win a natty, it was to do all he could (yes, probably too much in hindsight) to help a young man who just couldn't be helped. If you guys want to confuse the issue... Osborne would be more like King Priam than Hector/Achilles. Agamemnon would be the Switzer type. A coach can knowingly skirt the rules or live comfortably within them. Neither has any bearing on the roster makeup. Osborne did not have LP on the roster because he was a charity case. He was there because he was a damn good football player who could help the team win. LP just happened to be an Achilles.

So let Achilles go to jail for a few years and lose the physical dominance,his strongest asset, and then be surprised when Hector beats him doing things the "right way"? Not sure that holds up in college football.

It might not have to be that way but Tom Osborne may not be the card to play on this one.

But the point is that you won't win championships with Hector. You can have very good teams but will fall short when you run into Achilles, regardless of scheme. Is that still good enough?

Average ranking across all sites by player overall rank. The number, out of 100, are how close they are to a concensus #1 overall recruit. "The 247Sports Composite Rating assigns stars based on an approximate average distribution of stars from the industry." http://247sports.com/Article/247Rating-Explanation-81574

Are they going to say they have a couple of good ones and bunch of local kids that are barely rated if at all? Marketing is something that this staff knows how to do and the media is going to follow their lead ad long as they are winning.

Caption contest? How old is the picture? He's probably already eaten the 6 by now as well...

There seem to be several misconceptions around the clothing. First, the $500 annual voucher is not a voucher. You bring in receipts and the school cuts you a check. It is on the school to keep track. But you have to qualify for a pell grant to take advantage of the program. Second, the clothing deal with adidas is only providing clothing for practice and competition. There is also some cold weather gear thrown in. There are not dozens of anything provided. A few shirts and shorts, a few pairs of socks, and some shoes are the lions share of what gets handed out. You could make nice with the equipment folk and score a few more small things when you needed them but that was about the only abuse you could get away with from my experience.

Wow....that is an impressive recruiting tactic. It seems to me like he was trying to say that Michigan was a great academic school and Daishon's grades were not good enough to merit entry. Fortunately, through football, he could have access to that level of education. I understand it was not taken that way but I doubt that Mattison would shove his foot that far in his mouth. This is not his first rodeo. edit: huskerhill beat me to it. Darn my slow fingers...

Has he done anything wrong since then? He was banned from the University for one year. If they weren't going to allow him back, ban him for life. I find it hard to believe he would have stuck around, instead of attending school closer to home, without some kind of commitment from the school. Then again, we know how the Administration handles commitments. Pretty sure he was banned for four years(or lifetime) with a possible appeal after one year.

Look at the picture of him and Westerkamp. It's his watch.

Coach was out of town at a funeral

He did not eliminate us. He was telling everyone else that he was not actually committed.

His verbiage certainly does not help but the concepts are not complicated. There are two driving principles: make the defense unable to disguise anything. And win with small battles rather than large ones. Limiting the ability to disguise: By taking a legitimate receiving tight end and splitting him out wide you are able to force whoever is covering him to show their hand. This is even more visible when a linebacker is the one in coverage. It is hard enough to help in run support or cover a receiver so the defender will usually cheat towards their primary responsibility. Very few defenders are athletic enough to get away with not tipping their hand. Beck will use this information in his play calling to have more of an educated guess as to where weaknesses will be in the defense. It also allows for smaller battles by getting men out of the box. Winning with small battles: Nebraska purists love nothing more than to see a fullback and running the ball down the throat of the defense. There is nothing wrong with that. But trying to understand what Beck is doing from that mindset is not going to work. The classic running style is all about getting more bodies at the point of attack. However, due to the nature of a tighter formation there are more defenders able to help on a play. That is exactly what Beck is trying to avoid. The example below should show this more clearly. Simple example demonstrating the differences assuming a running play from an I-formation and a defense in a base 4-3. This scenario would give 7 blockers for 7 defenders and the running back does his best to find a hole in the crowd. Even if you pull a lineman and create a numerical advantage you still have 7 blockers for 6 defenders. The danger is that you have to have 6 successful blocks or risk the play being blown up. This is the key, for me at least. Now, if you split out the tight end(and they actually have to honor him as a receiving threat) then you have removed 1 blocker and one defender from the equation. Everything else from above being the same, the net result is only needing 5 successful blocks. If you were to run a 4-wide set it lowers the number to only needing 4 successful blocks. Being able to effectively use a qb run game drops the number to 3. So, essentially, he would rather rely on 3/4 people being successful than 6. This style is seen as gimmicky because it is not traditional and enables teams to neutralize talent deficiencies. It is all about finding what 3 or 4 guys on my team can compete with 3 or 4 of yours. Once you have that matchup figured out you just scheme it so the others players have as little impact on the play as possible. Hope this helped. He doesn't use a tight end in many of the plays already, he has the goofy double receiver set up like this. x xxxxx x x x x x It doesn't matter if it is a receiver or a tight end as long as it gets the defender out of the box. Have Homer Simpson call me whatever you like. I am just trying to help the "3 yard and a cloud of dust" crowd understand what Beck is trying to do. The complaining about him won't stop, but hopefully be better informed.

His verbiage certainly does not help but the concepts are not complicated. There are two driving principles: make the defense unable to disguise anything. And win with small battles rather than large ones. Limiting the ability to disguise: By taking a legitimate receiving tight end and splitting him out wide you are able to force whoever is covering him to show their hand. This is even more visible when a linebacker is the one in coverage. It is hard enough to help in run support or cover a receiver so the defender will usually cheat towards their primary responsibility. Very few defenders are athletic enough to get away with not tipping their hand. Beck will use this information in his play calling to have more of an educated guess as to where weaknesses will be in the defense. It also allows for smaller battles by getting men out of the box. Winning with small battles: Nebraska purists love nothing more than to see a fullback and running the ball down the throat of the defense. There is nothing wrong with that. But trying to understand what Beck is doing from that mindset is not going to work. The classic running style is all about getting more bodies at the point of attack. However, due to the nature of a tighter formation there are more defenders able to help on a play. That is exactly what Beck is trying to avoid. The example below should show this more clearly. Simple example demonstrating the differences assuming a running play from an I-formation and a defense in a base 4-3. This scenario would give 7 blockers for 7 defenders and the running back does his best to find a hole in the crowd. Even if you pull a lineman and create a numerical advantage you still have 7 blockers for 6 defenders. The danger is that you have to have 6 successful blocks or risk the play being blown up. This is the key, for me at least. Now, if you split out the tight end(and they actually have to honor him as a receiving threat) then you have removed 1 blocker and one defender from the equation. Everything else from above being the same, the net result is only needing 5 successful blocks. If you were to run a 4-wide set it lowers the number to only needing 4 successful blocks. Being able to effectively use a qb run game drops the number to 3. So, essentially, he would rather rely on 3/4 people being successful than 6. This style is seen as gimmicky because it is not traditional and enables teams to neutralize talent deficiencies. It is all about finding what 3 or 4 guys on my team can compete with 3 or 4 of yours. Once you have that matchup figured out you just scheme it so the others players have as little impact on the play as possible. Hope this helped.

Things will always be different when they get there. Regardless, my money says he was promised to start from day one. Every kid likes to hear that.