Mavric

Ouch...

If they wait to determine the New Year's six, pretty much all the top half of the B1G will have to wait to see how many teams get selected. ESPN

Except for like, Oregon and Wisconsin. As far as Wisconsin goes, they are pretty good on defense. #10 in the country in yards per play. They averaged giving up 4.75 yards per play. We averaged 4.07 yards per play against them. So we were significantly below average compared to the rest of their opponents this year.

Except for like, Oregon and Wisconsin. Currently 4-8 and dead last in their division. This was their worst team in 25 years. I'd argue that the Oregon team we played was a different one than we saw afterwards, but regardless, they still have more/better talent than us and they played a really tough game. Maybe I mistakenly took, 'with a pulse' to mean teams that battled and competed closely, instead of teams with great talent On offense? Yes. On defense? Not so much.

I guess Ameer Abdullah would disagree with you. So people have different opinions. I will say he's probably not an ideal RB for the offense Langsdorf wants to run. But I don't think he has a really good feel for how to develop a running game either. So it makes it kind of hard to tell.

No worries here. You can only do message board lists so many ways. +1

These arguments are always one-sided - pointing to the time that TA passed on another throw. My argument is that there are other games when we were calling different types of pass plays that didn't have the deep options for TA to choose. There were several games where we almost exclusively had short routes and TA had high completion percentages those games. My point is we did not seem to be calling those same types of plays in other games. That is the play caller's fault. Not exactly, its not that easy. Predictably on offense is a great way to get stopped by even a mediocre defense. Langsdorf did a good job of mixing up his attack and trying to exploit an opponents weaknesses but to do that you need a more polished passer and that's not Armstrongs forte. The only thing I will slam Langsdorf for is not using the QB run more last year, this year with the Line situation most of his strengths were negated against good teams. Thus the yolo bombs. Let him throw it up there and see if he can make a big play. This years offense was a unit playing hurt and limited on playbook, most of our running plays we couldn't even call due to injuries/incompetence. Lets be patient before we ride Langsdorf too hard. Well it pretty much is that simple. We did basically that in at least four games this year and probably five. I'm not saying never throw deep. A couple times here and there will keep them honest. But there's no reason to do it a dozen times a game. And especially on about every third and 6 we come across.

No. His defensive scheme last year was an abomination. This year's is significantly better but still nothing great. We've benefited from playing a lot of terrible offenses. The only two good offenses we've played this year we had trouble stopping (Oregon, without their best offensive player for most of the game) or literally couldn't stop at all (Ohio St.). So I'm not a Banker fan. Although the reason I bring that up - and why it's in this thread - is because I think Bray is going to start getting calls and we may have to find a way to get him a promotion to keep him. Probably not this year but it's not going to be long. And I think losing him would be bad - worth shipping Banker out to keep him. Banker isn't going anywhere this year, and if the time comes to replace him someday you do so by hiring a great, proven DC. Not a position coach you are afraid to lose. Your entire thought about Bray is verbatum what people said about Papuchis at one point. How did that work out? And that was with a defensive minded head coach. You seriously think firing Banker and handing the D over to a guy who has never called plays is a good plan when Riley is all offense at this stage of his career? I don't particularly want Bray moving on but if he does then the way you replace him is with another stud linebacker coach not by putting him in a position he likely is not ready for - expecially at a program like Nebraska. So tired of people wringing their hands and worrying if people are going to leave someday like this isn't f'n Nebraska. A big problem the past decade plus is for some dumb reason we started making decisions that make the program weaker in fear of losing talent. If good talent leaves it sucks , but you man the F up and treat it as an opportunity to upgrade and get stronger. Quite certain the first bolded never happened. Not sure what you're referring to on the second bolded but I'm not really sure that happened either. If we had a pretty good DC at the moment, I wouldn't be in favor of making that move. I really don't think there's any possibility that Bray would be worse and think it's entirely possible that he'd be a decent upgrade so I'm not seeing the down-side.

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I think they're usually right about some storm coming through the area. The thing that's hard to know very far ahead of time is exactly what path it's going to take.

Conference Career W L Pct Current W L Pct Big 12 11.7 91.4 50.6 0.644 8.9 73.2 36.0 0.670 SEC 9.6 54.6 30.2 0.644 3.8 29.6 17.2 0.633 MAC 11.7 68.5 38.2 0.642 3.9 22.9 24.8 0.481 ACC 14.1 81.6 45.6 0.642 4.5 34.4 21.6 0.614 Pac-12 11.3 71.7 44.0 0.620 4.8 34.8 23.3 0.600 Big Ten 10.8 57.9 36.7 0.612 4.6 34.4 22.3 0.607 SEC No Saban 7.5 42.8 27.9 0.605 3.3 23.0 17.2 0.573 AAC 7.0 51.0 33.5 0.604 3.1 20.4 15.8 0.564 MWC 8.0 45.4 34.4 0.569 3.8 24.2 21.7 0.527 Sun Belt 6.2 39.0 30.2 0.564 3.3 18.9 17.5 0.519 CUSA 8.8 36.2 33.9 0.517 4.0 23.9 23.3 0.506

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Reading an update on him and "Okie from Muskogee" comes on SiriusXM. It's a sign.

Dang.

https://twitter.com/KenKensmiley5/status/804058037883379713

Hope this doesn't screw up travel plans....

Not that I know of.

Parrella to attend their state championship game on Saturday.