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Well, for starters, Fisher helped recruit Westerkamp and DPE along with Monte Harrison. He also helped on Terrell Newby, Chongo Kondolo and Chris Jones and helped get the ball rolling with Stanley Morgan. So that's probably four of our offensive starters this year.

He coached the WRs involved in the #9, 10, 13 and 20 most passing yards games in Husker history.

He coached the #3, 4 and 8 passing yard seasons in Husker history.

On the receiving side, he coached two of the #8 games in terms of receptions by a player in a game and the #5, 17 and 20 games in receiving yards by a player in a game.

The #T-6, T-9 and T-9 100 yard receiving games in a season, T-3, T-7 and T-11 100 yard receiving games in a career

The #4, #7 and #10 receiving yards in a season along with #7, 8, 9 and 10 seasons in receptions.

The #1 and T-5 TD receptions in a season and #3 and 5 TD receptions in a career.

The #3, T-4 and T-4 consecutive games with a reception.

In addition to all those records, our WRs were widely regarded for the effort and effectiveness of their blocking.

But, you know, #golfcoach.

In April, the Association of Students at the University of Nebraska -- UNL’s student government -- passed a resolution encouraging Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst, administrators and regents to “revisit a conversation on implanting a responsible policy” allowing alcohol sales at the arena and nearby Haymarket Park, where the Husker baseball team plays.

UNL’s student athletes feel differently.

In a letter to Eichorst following the ASUN resolution, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee said alcohol sales at Husker games would “significantly impact the experience of other spectators during athletic contests.”

The committee represents more than 600 Husker student-athletes.

Written by softball player Mattie Fowler and wrestler Ian Ousley, the advisory committee criticized ASUN for “doing a disservice to their constituents” by supporting a measure that would be “antithetical to the Nebraska way.”

“It is our belief that opening the door to alcohol consumption at our games would only lead to significant negative impacts on the welfare of Nebraska student-athletes,” the letter says. “The safety, positive fan support, and the status as a model for the rest of college athletics would all be in jeopardy.

“Surely the reputation of Nebraska as a leader in college athletics by ‘doing things the right way’ would be tarnished.”

Chancellor Harvey Perlman sided with the student-athletes, saying UNL administrators and the Athletic Department have discussed the matter.

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The Huskers have the most first-team selections (four) and the most overall picks (six).

 

The first-teamers are return specialist Johnny Rodgers, center Dave Rimington, offensive lineman Will Shields and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh. Two Nebraskans made the third team: quarterback Tommie Frazier and offensive lineman Dean Steinkuhler.

 

Next with five overall selections were Ohio State and Pittsburgh. Schools with four were Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas. Those with three were Florida State, Georgia, Michigan and USC.

 

...

 

To be eligible, honorees must have been a first-team FWAA All-American. (So don’t yell at me for Gale Sayers not making it. He wasn’t on the list.) The votes from our 1,400 members went to the 11-member selection committee.

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75th ANNIVERSARY FWAA ALL-AMERICA TEAM

FIRST TEAM OFFENSE
QB Roger Staubach, Navy
RB Archie Griffin, Ohio State
RB Herschel Walker, Georgia
WR Larry Fitzgerald, Pittsburgh
WR Jerry Rice, Mississippi Valley State
TE Keith Jackson, Oklahoma
OL John Hannah, Alabama
OL Orlando Pace, Ohio State
OL Will Shields, Nebraska
OL Ron Yary, USC
C Dave Rimington, Nebraska

FIRST TEAM DEFENSE
DT Lee Roy Selmon, Oklahoma
DT Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska
DE Leon Hart, Notre Dame
DE Ted Hendricks, Miami (Fla.)
LB Tommy Nobis, Texas
LB Mike Singletary, Baylor
LB Derrick Thomas, Alabama
DB Ronnie Lott, USC
DB Deion Sanders, Florida State
DB Jack Tatum, Ohio State
DB Charles Woodson, Michigan

FIRST TEAM SPECIALISTS
P Ray Guy, Southern Miss
K Kevin Butler, Georgia
RS Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska


SECOND TEAM OFFENSE
QB Tim Tebow, Florida
RB Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh
RB Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State
WR Fred Biletnikoff, Florida State
WR Randy Moss, Marshall
TE Mike Ditka, Pittsburgh
OL Bill Fralic, Pittsburgh
OL John Hicks, Ohio State
OL Calvin Jones, Iowa
OL Jonathan Ogden, UCLA
C Chuck Bednarik, Penn

SECOND TEAM DEFENSE
DT Merlin Olsen, Utah State
DT Randy White, Maryland
DE Hugh Green, Pittsburgh
DE Bruce Smith, Virginia Tech
LB Brian Bosworth, Oklahoma
LB Dick Butkus, Illinois
LB Luke Kuechly, Boston College
DB Champ Bailey, Georgia
DB Kenny Easley, UCLA
DB Jerry Gray, Texas
DB Ed Reed, Miami (Fla.)

SECOND TEAM SPECIALISTS
P Russell Erxleben, Texas
K Mason Crosby, Colorado
RS Raghib Ismail, Notre Dame


THIRD TEAM OFFENSE
QB Tommie Frazier, Nebraska
RB Bo Jackson, Auburn
RB Doak Walker, SMU
WR Anthony Carter, Michigan
WR Calvin Johnson, Georgia Tech
TE Gordon Hudson, BYU
OL Barrett Jones, Alabama
OL Willie Roaf, Louisiana Tech
OL Jerry Sisemore, Texas
OL Dean Steinkuhler, Nebraska
C Jim Ritcher, N.C. State

THIRD TEAM DEFENSE
DT Steve Emtman, Washington
DT Reggie White, Tennessee
DE Bubba Smith, Michigan State
DE Jack Youngblood, Florida
LB Jack Ham, Penn State
LB Lee Roy Jordan, Alabama
LB Chris Spielman, Ohio State
DB Dré Bly, North Carolina
DB Dave Brown, Michigan
DB Troy Polamalu, USC
DB Roy Williams, Oklahoma

THIRD TEAM SPECIALISTS
P Rohn Stark, Florida State
K Tony Franklin, Texas A&M
RS Derek Abney, Kentucky

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Huskers in Red. Players the Huskers played against (off the top of my head) in Bold.

Tavita is recruiting him and telling him about how we use our TEs.

Plays more of a WR role currently so he's going to see how we use our TEs to see if he likes the fit in our offense.

Was Bailey the one who came up when Burtch got hurt? The other options are Ty Bltka, Brett Classen, Blake Holtmeier and Conor Young assuming they stick with WRs which seems likely.

 

PR2????

I believe that was Alstons best chance to help the team this year.

 

He was pretty likely going to redshirt. I suppose there's a chance he wouldn't with DPE hurt but I think we have other options.

Question on these injuries....

 

When one happens, are they calling up someone not on the original 105 to fill the spot?

They have been. There was a walk-on WR added to the 105 man roster when Burtch got hurt.

 

ABC News

Politico

US News & World Report

 

Just the first few that Google came up with.

OK...just looking at the ABC story, all it is is a very small paragraph talking about "this is the reaction to the report" and then a bunch of quotes from Republican politicians all up in arms and alarmed about the report.

Shocking.....

 

I would like to see where the "report" came from and the facts behind it.

 

Yeah, I didn't really look at the content of those, just the first ones that came up in Google that were talking about it. The ABC story isn't much of a story. And it's definitely unsubstantiated for now. But it's not exactly the type of thing that anyone would hold a big announcement for either, is it.

I don't think he's worth 7-10 points, but to say he's not a difference maker is silly. On average he's probably worth 3.5 points/game. Kinda pulling that out of the air but: 5 TDs in 13 games = 2.7 points. Then add what he gives us with field position. Sometimes TDs, sometimes FGs, sometimes nothing. But... that's not including how good he may have been as a WR for the first 6-7 games. And it's also not counting that the back up punt returner, whoever it is, might be pretty good too.

I think that's a pretty good guess at it. But then you also have to figure what the replacement would do. I don't know that we have another guy to do the same but the replacement wouldn't be zero. Even if the replacement calculation would be 1.0-1.5 ppg, the loss would be less than a FG.

Don't get me wrong, DPE is great and he will be missed, as you said. But I agree that 7-10 ppg is way overstated.

ABC News

Politico

US News & World Report

Just the first few that Google came up with.

 

 

A Wednesday press report that Iran will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site believed to be the center of its nuclear weapons program is raising new concerns about whether Tehran can be trusted to keep its word.

The Associated Press said a document seen by its reporters would allow Iranian experts, rather than the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, to verify concerns about the Parchin military facility, believed to have been the center of Iran's past nuclear weapons research.

The process for dealing with Parchin is laid out in a side agreement between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is separate from the broader nuclear deal reached in Vienna on July 14.

 

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I would have to read this somewhere other than the Washington Examiner to give much credibility to the story. This sounds way too much like a made up fact about the deal.

 

It's an AP report.

A Wednesday press report that Iran will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site believed to be the center of its nuclear weapons program is raising new concerns about whether Tehran can be trusted to keep its word.

The Associated Press said a document seen by its reporters would allow Iranian experts, rather than the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, to verify concerns about the Parchin military facility, believed to have been the center of Iran's past nuclear weapons research.

The process for dealing with Parchin is laid out in a side agreement between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is separate from the broader nuclear deal reached in Vienna on July 14.

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I'm not saying Israel has no culpability in the situation. And I think we are too involved in any number of situations around the world.

But simply saying there are some in Israel who want to strike first is meaningless investigating answering why.

You had said in an earlier post that this deal would make it harder for warmongers in Iran (and other places) to find people willing to keep arming. Then the fist thing Iran does is go out and start buying more weapons. It's possible that it slows the progress of the biggest weapon but that's a far cry from changing the attitude. And it seems at best all it's doing is kicking the can down the road.

Pretty spot on, imo:

The reason I think completion percentage is a better indicator than yards per attempt is that completion percentage translates better to winning big games that yards per attempt. Particularly last year, our passing game largely lived on the big play.

Averaging 9.3 ypa against Florida Atlantic, 7.8 ypa against McNeese State, 12.4 ypa against Fresno State, 7.9 ypa against Illinois, 7.6 ypa against Northwestern and 7.4 ypa against Rutgers is nice and it makes the season stats look good but it doesn't mean a lot when it drops to 6.3 ypa (completing 46.5%) against Michigan State or 3.4 ypa (33.3%) against Wisconsin.

It's not a magic bullet as both numbers were pretty good against Minnesota and USC but it's a lot easier for one or two plays to skew the numbers when looking at YPA than it is on completion percentage. Not to mention a lot of big plays are a shorter catch and a lot of running. If you looked at air yards per attempt, that would probably be the best number.

We completed 55.5% of our passes in those first six games I listed so it wasn't so much that we were passing much better, just getting big plays against sub-par teams. When we don't get the big plays against better teams, the offense often struggles because we have trouble completing the other throws we need to keep the offense moving.

Trick question. Yards per pass is the correct answer.

I agree that yards per attempt kind of balances out completion percentage but not totally. If I complete a 40 yard pass then miss my next four, I average 8.0 yards per attempt which is pretty good but I haven't helped the offense score a lot of points (necessarily). We've probably still punted two or three times.

The nuclear proliferation agreement with Iran was reached in July. The sale of these S300 missiles was known about in April, well before the deal was signed. If this was a deal-breaker, likely the deal wouldn't have been signed.

 

People need to understand that Iran is going to make the best defense deals for Iran. It's not like they're going to lay down weapons because they signed this agreement with the U.S. Every time they buy or make missiles, planes, bombs or boats doesn't need to be news - unless you're Israel, and you want to use this as some kind of scare tactic to drum up more support from Moneybags 'Merica.

Between Israel and Iran, which has advocated the destruction of the other?

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