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13 minutes ago, UniversalMartin said:

Harvard and Yale students did a 45 minute on the field protest against climate change(ok?)..lol...I can just imagine the smugness and self righteousness on the field by students and the pure amount of "Dont give a F***!" by everyone else.

 

 

They should have called for blocking and tackling drills with the protesters.   LOL

Kade Warner has a great block on Spielmans catch.

1 hour ago, Ziebol said:

Mills could be out some boards are saying

Which boards?

I expect that we win handily and convincingly.  And immediately thereafter predictions of 10-2 results for next year will follow.

Huskers    44

Twerps     17

passing     285

Rushing     235

# of gallons of koolaid consumed after good looking performance:    billions and billions

On 11/17/2019 at 8:00 PM, gorp512 said:

 

How's the battery life? 

Sh!tty of course

1 hour ago, gobiggergoredder said:

At this point, what difference does it even make?

I see what you did there.   Additionally, I suspect that Russian interference has resulted in most of our loses this year!

What if I ate silicon, vinyl,  silver, gold and Plexiglas and crapped a cell phone?!

Saw this topic pop back up and it reminded me of a Knute Rockne story I read once (who knows if it is true, probably not). 

For spring conditioning, he was going to have the Irish play some soccer.  He said the rules were simple.  If the ball is near you,  run over and kick it.  If the ball is not near you, run over and kick the nearest player. 

They were ready to start practice, when he realized no one had brought the soccer ball along.  He announced "my assistant has gone back to the locker room to get the ball". 

One of the defensive linemen said "OK coach, can we go ahead and get started?"   

1 minute ago, DefenderAO said:

Not sure about you but "looking like what we think" should include championships.  It's a phased approach to expectation and deliverable, yes, but ?I'm not good riding the future out at 9-4 every year.  I'll absolutely take it when it comes; it better not be the ceiling.  

Oh, I agree, Championships at both levels are in the "what I think" realm, but occasionally, and a bit in the future.

I looked at Scott Frost's 7 year contract as the whole deal.  I'd not be surprised if it takes most, if not all of that time to get us back to being a very good football team.  And I'm not talking about Nattys or Conference Championships every other year...I'm talking 9+ wins per year and not getting blown out in the losses....and looking like what we think Husker football should look like.

This fella just looks like he'll be a typical, stud BIG O-Lineman.  Need as many as we can grab.

2 hours ago, Hayseed said:

I don't have a lot of confidence in these self-appointed rankers anyway. Half of their supposed 4 star players don't pan out and a 10 year old could tell you the team that gets all the highest ranked players will have more options. They just don't seem very useful once you get out of the top ten schools and try to rank ordinary teams.

Did you mean "rankers" or "wankers"?  Probably the same in many cases.

1 hour ago, Mavric said:

 

For 2020, Clemson has #1, #14, #15 and #56 (in the Top 100)

Ohio State has #2, #4 and #66

Georgia has #3 and #60

Texas has #5 (Tim Beck, if you're curious), #34, #39, #48 and #67

LSU has #6, #7, #11, #41 and #74

Notre Dame has #8, #47, #68 and #87

Oklahoma has #9 and #82

Auburn has #10, #37, #38 and #73

Oregon has #12, #42, #59 and #63

Alabama has #13, #21, #24 and #43

Texas A&M has #16, #17, #54, #79 and #92

 

That's nearly half of the Top 100 on those 11 teams.

 

But I don't think those recruiter rankings are all that reliable.  It requires 247 to apply the proper guy recruiting a player to each player.  I'm far from convinced that actually gets done correctly and uniformly.  And it's skewed to the teams that have have traditionally recruited well.

 

For example, Ohio State almost always pulls in a Top 5 class but only has two of the Top 60 recruiters and Larry Johnson doesn't even make the Top 100.  Georgia has the #5 class in the country and only has one inside the Top 60.  Oklahoma has the #10 class and only has one of the Top 80.  

 

It's just a fluff piece to get clicks, imo.

And, if you look at those programs and the recruiting level of their respective recruiters, you need to take into account the recent success of those programs.  A program like Alabama or Clemson will certainly allow an average recruiter to look like a superstar,  just because of the product they are selling.  None of them are recruiting to teams that have been in the dumpster for 10 years.  The fact we get any four star recruits is a freaking miracle in my book, considering our recent lack of success on the field.

13 hours ago, Waldo said:

Why do people love comparing this staff to Osborne’s? Just because it worked for Osborne doesn’t mean it will work for Frost.

Osborne had far superior talent than Frost does and most of the teams they played back then. 

Were you around for TO's first 10 years?  I didn't say just because it worked for TO that it would work for Frost.  I only tangentially mentioned talent.  My only intent was to show that at one point our defense sucked, we made changes and got better.  And it took 2-4 years.  And finally, I said I wasn't sure it would work,  but swapping coaches every 18 - 24 months hasn't exactly worked either.

I'm terribly frustrated by the defense.  Just about as frustrated as I used to be when the Florida teams would destroy our season.  I remember saying, outloud, "Oh cripes, we've got Florida State at 3 and 17, right where they freaking want us!"  Then they'd hit a 20 yard pass.  Over and over and over. 

Our defense could NOT defend against that. 

I, and everyone I knew wanted the defensive coaches replaced. 

But Tom brought the defensive coaches together within a teaching confine and they learned, how to do the seemingly impossible. 

We changed players, we changed schemes, we changed mentalities, but we kept our coaches.  And we succeeded. 

Still, it took two - four years to happen.  But, it, happened.

That doesn't mean that Chin is the answer, but it seems like he should be given the same chance.

This is the number 2 defense in the country we are facing today, am I correct?

1 minute ago, suh_fan93 said:

Only saving grace for dignity's sake will be if this offense can go down and score at this point.  

Sadly I hope for that, but honestly fear a pick-6 too.  I'm a pathetic fan.

1 minute ago, TheSker said:

There was more than one guy Chin didn't recruit that went to the league off the D.

So he developed other peoples recruits...talent development you're saying?

1 minute ago, ndobney said:

Its 3rd and chinander The team is full of idiots

As is this board.

Just now, Scarlet said:

Yes, he should be over 200 yards by now but we went away from him.  Not sure why OCs have to do that

Just now, Scarlet said:

Yes, he should be over 200 yards by now but we went away from him. Not sure why OCs have to do that

Pretty sure it is in their contract.

We are getting pretty much clocked today on the scoreboard.  Still, does anyone else see some areas of improvement?

Just now, gorp512 said:

 

They practice really well

Wonder if Chin is feeling the strain yet.  Can anyone see it?

28 minutes ago, Jason Sitoke said:

This thread is already a downer. 

 

That’s ok though. I’m sure things will turn around at kickoff. 

LOL...yep, I'm sure it will!