Mavric

Right now I have us at 66 on-campus guys on scholarship who are eligible to return next year plus 13 commits. That would leave us with 6 open spots plus we can over-sign by 3 which would be 22 in this class. Could be a couple more if guys leave early between now and January.

Agree with your analysis of the tweet but not the PKs. She was moving but the keeper pretty much has to guess which way to go and she was guessing wrong. Once you're moving one way and the kick goes the other way, there's nothing to do.

No, I just disagree. When Taylor was healthy his junior year and beginning of senior year, he looked at minimum just as good, if not quite a lot better throwing the ball than he did his freshman year, imo. Tommy's always been the same in my eyeball test. I pretty much agree with this. Taylor was OK to start, was terrible after his injury but got better later in his career. I don't see any difference on TA from Freshman to last year on straight drop-back passes. Maybe he's worse at falling backwards on rollouts but I don't remember him rolling out nearly as much early on so I'm not sure.

Agree with this. Not the greatest but he sold it pretty well. And some combination of play design and when it was called seemed to work well. Kyler Reed against KState, Enunwa against tOSU (I think) are a few that come to mind.

I would be pretty sure that he'll be making a decision right away and enrolling for this fall. So I doubt he'll have any knowledge of what those guys are doing. Nor will he probably care.

I think you are going complete revisionist here. Martinez: Fr - 59.2% completions, 8.3 ypa, 10 TDs, 7 INTs, 138.8 rating So - 56.3%, 7.3 ypa, 13 TDs, 8 INTs, 126.5 rating Jr - 62.0%, 7.8 ypa, 23 TDs, 12 INTs, 141.6 rating Sr - 62.7%, 6.1 ypa, 10 TDs, 2 INTs, 140.0 rating Armstrong: Fr - 51.9%, 7.37 ypa, 9 TDs, 8 INTs, 124.3 rating So - 53.3%, 7.81 ypa, 22 TDs, 12 INTs, 133.0 rating Jr - 55.2%, 7.54 ypa, 22 TDs, 16 INTs, 128.6 rating I don't know what "general sense" you are talking about. Martinez's worst completion percentage is better that TA's best. Only TA's freshman year - where he played 2/3 of a season - is better that Martinez's worst year throwing INTs. TA only has one year better than any of Martinez's for QB rating. Now, if you don't like how Martinez looked throwing the ball, that's fine. But he was FAR more effective at doing it that TA. And I'll take production over style points every day of the week and twice on Saturday. And it's not "nitpicking" to talk about TA's footwork. Martinez's wasn't any good either but he overcame it much better than TA has. For both of them, it's not some footnote. It's the fundamental reason why neither were as good as they could have been.

Women's soccer loses 4-3 on Penalty Kicks. Out of the tournament

Going to PKs......

Banker was at OSU from 03-14, just like Riley...I think he knows that Beaver fans want to Banker out for a very long time There's, what you're speculating his intent was and what was written.What was wrong with what I wrote? Beaver fans wanted him fired from OSU from like 2010, which was years before Riley came to NU. True. And after last year's 0-12 and the possibility of 0-12 this season, all of the sudden Beaver fans are looking at Riley and Banker with different feelings. First, facts are nice. Second, does that mean that all Husker fans are looking at Pelini with different feelings as well?

This is an interesting take considering many often claimed that Bo's defense only worked with elite-level athletes. That, I think, is always the go-to excuse card(s) But there is truth to it. Go and look at Bo's most successful years, whether it be here or LSU. He had outstanding DL and it paid dividends in the back 7. Banker's defense is the opposite. It was mentioned when he got hired that his defense is very similar to what Michigan State runs. If you look at their defense, they have had outstanding DBs and LBs that play on an island. I think the actual answer is every defense (and offense for that matter) works better with better players and not as well with lesser players. People like to throw the "elite" in there to make it sound like more of a pronounced difference than it actually is.

Newby is going to be the starter this year...I really think that Who does he beat out. Young or rose. I think Newby is a stud athlete but young is a monster and rose is the most consistent LB we have Yeah, I think he has mainly been working behind Young but I think Young is going to be really good. I think Newby will have a better chance to take snaps away from MRI, especially since MRI seems to have trouble staying healthy.

I would think that Dzrius is playing Base. I was a little surprised that Freedom gained quite that much - though he has the frame to do it - because I would think he'll be our main pass rush threat this year.

This is an interesting take considering many often claimed that Bo's defense only worked with elite-level athletes.

No they weren't. He's always had terrible footwork. That's a lot of the reason why he was a 51% passer that year. I'm pretty convinced that having such a strong arm is why he never developed proper footwork. In high school he could always just muscle the ball wherever he wanted it to go. He never had to try to develop good footwork to be a good passer because he could get by on arm strength. Plus he could could make up for lack of passing skills with being such a better athlete than most other guys he played. But once you've had that bad of fundamentals for that long, it's almost impossible to change them. You can look better in practice but when things are happening fast during games you revert back to your old habits.