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While I totally get what your saying, your rationale makes no sense to me. Are there many teams that would like our stats over the past 3 years? Sure, but I don't really care that Minnesota or Indiana are envious of us. I believe that the Huskers are one of the premier programs in the country or at least should be. In comparing to the elite programs, are they envious of us? Is Michigan? Is Bama? Is OU? Those are the programs that Nebraska should be worried about, not the cellar dwellers that have never done much. Have we put a lot of players in the NFL? Sure, but I've never cheered for players to go pro. I don't sit in the stands while we lose a game and think, man that number pp is gonna be awesome when he goes pro.

I'm fine letting them play out their scholarship. When the player commits to a university, the player cannot go to another school of the same level without sitting out a season. The players are expected to honor their commitment and I think the universities should honor theirs. Too many recruits don't see the field because they are either in the dog-house or have not been good enough to play

Stats are nice, but don't really tell you much unfortunately. Could you put Jamal Lords numbers in there. I believe his numbers compared very will to Crouch's Heisman season, but I don't think anyone would make the argument that Lord was as good a Crouch.

1) I'm ok with the doghouse, but I don't think Bo's doghouse has an exit. He needs to let guys out of the doghouse. 2) Could JT have made a difference? Sure. We lost a close game to NW. I could easily see JT making at least 1 difference making play were he used. 3) I know. Really worries me. How do we close the gap? We have a 3 year head start and are trailing 45-17???? Hoke inherited possibly the worst defense in the country and an offense full of player not suited for his system and we get woodshedded? 4) No idea what the situation is there. I put it more on losing Sanders. How are good secondary players for last season horrid this season? 5) I've never bought into the "hopes of recruiting" mindset. I'd rather focus on maximizing what we currently have. I think we have good players, but they aren't put in positions to take advantage of their talents. See JT, TMart, triplets, K Reed, etc.... 6) Agree. He has a "hunter" mindset. NU should rarely be the hunter, we should be the hunted. Big difference. 7) Really worried long term. Fundamentals are highly improved from last season. Philosophy may have actually gotten worse. I don't think we'll go anywhere significant with our mad-scientist mentality on offense. We still won't stick with what works and are very inefficient on offense. I attribute a lot of that to Bo's philosophy, but Beck doesn't seem to be helping and he does call the plays. 8) Can't put Barney in the Cosgrove category, but I see what you are saying. I gave him benefit of the doubt this year as I thought a lot of past failure was on Wats, but our blocking schemes, especially lately, have been getting WORKED. Seems that any half-way intelligent DC, dominates the schemes in the trenches. 9) I'll take consistent and methodical over firery any day. Players get used to constant fire. Ever seen a parent that yells at their kids all the time? Has zero impact. Then watch a parent that never yells, raise their voice a little...fear of god usually results. 10) Not bashing Bo at all here, but what has he done to make LSU come calling?

There were some horrid blocking schemes against Michigan. I'd rather see a guy getting beat than watch guys not even block. There were many times we'd have 3 guys in the area of 1 defender and 1 guy in the area of 2 defenders.

Uhm, Michigan is in year ONE of there HC. He inherited possibly the worst defense in the county and a bunch of offensive personnel that was recruited for a system vastly different than what Brady wants to run. Should Michigan be saying what your are saying not us?

I hope we have atleast one game this year where they run diamond a lot a get stuffed so you guys will put it to rest. The 'Diamond Formation' is the 2011 version of 2010 Rexcat. Mistakes limit this offense, not a formation. There are lots of mistakes. Blocking mistakes, catching mistakes, scheme mistakes, play call mistakes, etc...Most of our mistakes I attribute to coaching. There were a quite a few plays in which our OLine blocking schemes were not close to there pressure scheme. They'd have 1 guy coming in the middle, near the C and 2 OG's, with multiple guys coming from near our RT. Our 2 OG's and C would block that one guy, while our RT was trying to block 2 guys. I put that on the coaching not the player. There were many various types of things like that today and most games tbh. That is destroying our offense imo.

I think we see too much creativity. I wish they would stick to what works and add in some wrinkles. We are too busy being "creative" and running our RB under center to run the Diamond, as an example. Beck kinda seems like a mad-scientist and comes up with some really cool stuff, tbh. The challenge, imo, is that we do so much of that stuff that we never get really good at the basics. There is a high amount of sloppy play/execution which I attribute to not enough reps because we are too busy reaping Burkhead under center, Wildcat, Pistol, Diamond, I form, I form with Burkheat at FB, Zone read,...ect. Boil the thing down to the basics and get highly efficient, THEN add the wrinkles.

Short list of unemployed coaches: Urban Meyer Mike Leach Mark Mangino The question becomes, will they be willing to come here when Bo has made it to a bowl game each year he's been here, won a minimum of 8 games (and likely nine) every year, and yet we still fired him? The answer is "no." No good coach is coming in here after firing their predecessor who has that kind of record. Bo is also 3-1 coaching bowl games. Again, you don't get solid replacements to come in after you fire that guy. Urban is obviously great, but how many titles do Leach and Mangino have? We can even count division titles if you like.

I think he was hanging out with Jamal Turner, Braylon Heard, and Aaron Green.

Just to once again try to get people to get over this issue, NU's offense is multiple. Multiple is EXACTLY what Bo wants. One of the first questions asked at his presser upon being hired was what kind of offense he wanted. His answer was MULTIPLE. This always comes out after a loss. However, it is what Bo wanted, so I guess in some people's eyes that will be another reason to get rid of him. Why would I get over the issue that I believe is our number one problem when that issue has not been fixed. I totally agree with you that it is exactly what Bo want's. I never pointed the finger at anyone, but if your pointing it at Bo, I'd have to agree. Regardless of who is at fault for that offensive philosophy, I don't think we have big success until that philosophy is gone.

Defeatest attitude. Young players? Who? The young players that actually play are not, or should not, be "young" players at this point of the season. We'll have many young players next season because they don't play this season...Jamal Turner. We just got our asses handed to us by a FIRST year coaching staff. We got flat out-coached. Michigan had one of the worst defenses in the country last season and they have offensive talent recruited for a system that is NOTHING like what they want to run and we get our asses handed to us in our HC's 4th season. This loss, especially a blowout loss, is inexcusable imo. Number one long term problem is our lack of identity, by design, on offense. When our OC calls our offense a mutt, we have serious problems. That is why we are "bi-polar", that is why we are inconsistent, that is why we have execution issues. A team cannot have attention to detail when they do basically everything. We had this problem under Wats and we still have it this season. Many things have gotten much better with Beck at OC, but our philosophy is busted.

How so? I mean...what kinds of questions did you want?...which team do you think eats more corn? Which team wears red? Well considering this... 1) Who wins? - Michigan's favored 2) Which QB runs for more yards? - Robinson runs a ton and Martinez's running roll has been greatly diminished 3) Which QB is a better passer? - Martinez has the worst throwing motion in football and this question can easily be interpreted as that...notice it didn't say "which QB will pass for more yards" 4) Which is a better football environment? - I love me some Memorial Stadium, but pretty hard for anyone to compete with the Big House 5) Which program is historically superior? - Again, lots of tradition at Michigan I'm not crying conspiracy theory or anything, but I would think Michigan would be favored in all of these questions if someone were looking at it and being completely objective...which I am not...which is why I voted for Nebraska in all of them! Yikes. You got your blue ready for tomorrow?

Haven't seen these reports... That said, Barry Switzer was far from a saint too. Didn't keep Nebraska fans from respecting Oklahoma, or Switzer for that matter. Switzer is STILL very popular in Nebraska, despite the huge scandal he oversaw at Oklahoma. The people who are saying they can't respect Penn State - the program or the university - because of this scandal are being unfair to the vast majority of people who are a part of that institution who had nothing to do this whole thing. The stuff that Switzer did makes him look like Mother Theresa compared to the stuff that's coming out of PSU right now. Not even a fair comparison. Exactly. The PSU situation has no rival....not even close.

Totally disagree. Case in point. 83 Orange Bowl. The 2 pt conversion attempt failed, but it was not the wrong call. I see good play calls that don't work quite often and laughable playcalls that work sometimes. The ubiquitous term "armchair quarterback" disagrees with you. The whole reason that term exists is the second-guessing nature of the American sportsman. One anecdotal example doesn't obviate a widespread trend. And to be clear, I'm not saying those armchair quarterbacks are right. Just that they'll second-guess whatever call is made if it doesn't work. Same goes for the guys in the booth, who often dub OC's geniuses or fools depending on the success of the play - after the fact. I didn't realize you were talking from the armchair QB perspective. In that sense I totally agree with you. A quadruple flea flicker reverse on 4th and 1 to decide the ballgame is a brilliant play call by the armchair QB when it works. When it gets stuffed for a 17 yard loss...outcome the pitchforks.....

Totally disagree. Case in point. 83 Orange Bowl. The 2 pt conversion attempt failed, but it was not the wrong call. I see good play calls that don't work quite often and laughable playcalls that work sometimes.

I like the Chiefs. They have sucked since the early/mid nineties though, so I follow a lot of football in general. After the Husker and Chiefs, I'm probably more of a fan of a type of football. I love physical, smart, in your face, football. You know, what the Huskers, and Chiefs for that matter, used to be. As a result, I'm loving me some 49ers this year. I'm loving me some K-State this year. Watching the 9ers and Wildcats beat up on teams with way more advantages just makes me smile. Alex Smith? Manhattan KS? 1st year NFL HC? Father friggin time? If I were a HC and lost to old-man snyder, I'd be embarrassed. Seeing teams like the Baltimore Ravens lose to J'Ville 12-7 in a game in which Balt passes 41 times while rushing 12 times cracks me up. Heya George, lets drop Flacco back to pass 41 times and have Ray Rice carry the ball 8 times...laughable. Remember back in the day when these teams would have these cutsey offenses and then play us and get destroyed? The Fun n Gun? Texas Tech? It seemed to go on and on...watching those WAC minded offensive teams getting worked by teams that played physical football. Now it seems that everyone wants to out-finesse each other. Out cutesy each other. As Gundy would say...makes me wanna puke.

That was conservative? Rex Burkhead passing out of the gun on 1st and 10? Rex taking snaps under center? Toss sweep passes? Evidently his thoughts on conservative are rather different than mine, lol.

HAS to be clean.

That's where you lost me. Not smart. Not smart at all imo. There is a reason you basically never see RB's under center. I don't believe that we are "smarter than the rest of the room" regarding the history of great offensive minds.

Just another game. Nothing special with an institution that covers up for child molesting predators. Nebraska was classy in how they handled Saturday, but PSU is pretty much the scourge of the earth imo. I'd rather we never played there again, tbh. God Bless JoPa signs? Sick.

Have you read the grand jury report? To say they are not responsible seems absurd if you have read it. If someone see's something happen, if someone knows of a trend of things happening and they still do NOTHING...they are responsible.

Your analogy doesn't jive. In that situation, only the bad professor should be punished. Sticking with your theme, once there was suspected activity by the professor, he retired. Then the admin game him keys to the campus and he would bring kids onto the campus. A few years later, a young professor saw that former professor doing inappropriate things and told the Dean about it. Again, not much was done and the bad professor continued on. This extended for over a decade. This is not the situation of a rouge coach did something bad and was removed. This guy did many bad things and was allowed to continued access.

This. Instead of pulling out they should have announced that they will donate the same amount they pay for the commercials to a child protection charity. Maybe we should stand next to the people from PSU and the Penn State community and not demonize them. It was the act of one sicko and the non-actions of a few. After all 99.9% of all Penn Staters are as innocent as you and I. Yes, but that 0.1% are the people that were the core of the University...not your standard 0.1%. Because so very few did wrong you abandon the rest too? Did you ever read the Consitution? It starts with "We the people of the United States...". It doesn't say "I, the President of the US..." or "We the administration...". Penn State is not JoePa or Graham Spanier or Tim Curley or McQueary or f'ing Jerry Sandusky. Penn State is currently 96,519 students who, apart from some idiots still worshipping JoePa, feel the same way as we do. Shocked, disgusted, speechless of what happened and why it wasn't stopped. To abandon those simply because they are Penn Staters is ridiculous. The constitution? Seriously? When I say drama you say queen... Institutions are measured by their leaders, not the masses. I'm sure most of the workers for Enron were great people...would you invest there? I've never said, nor implied, that all the people at PSU are bad. You stated that 99.9% are good and not to discard the whole because of a few bad apples. That argument is perfect for the "riot" after JoPa was fired as most students were not violent, only a few. You 99.9% argument doesn't apply in this case as the 0.1% that failed are the leaders of the institution. You have to look at the leadership of the university and see what percentage are bad.