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Pelini will never admit it, but his change in demeanor and rosy proclamations are because he is feeling the hot seat and knows he has no choice but to produce this year. What that definition of producing is this for 2012 is open for debate, but I would think he should be no more than a game back of the Leaders division winner. Coming in middle of the pack again will leave certain boosters asking for a change. No excuses now, these are his recruits & coaches. Oh do tell??? How do you know this????

then why bring them up? just kind of pokin fun at everyone that hates the cotton recruits - thinks they should walk-on, etc. didn't want people to think i was in that crowd so made the note. no worries.

http://www.omaha.com...IGRED/701199862 Among other Nebraska assistants, both Barney Cotton and Ron Brown will see bumps from $220,000 to $240,000; Ross Els from $170,000 to $220,000; Corey Raymond remains at $200,000; Rich Fisher goes from $160,000 to $180,000; and John Garrison from $140,000 to $160,000. I didn't know he was kept at the same salary, either. holy hell, how did Cotton get a damn raise?........... he gets a raise every time he lands one of those blockbuster blue chip cotton kids on signing day. (this is not meant to be a bash Ben/Jake/Sam Cotton comment) then why bring them up?

You should just post "I don't like Bo Pelini" every single time you post. It would save time. LOL The same should be said for KC.

??? ?????????Please explain. What needs explaining, exactly? Never mind, I found my answer to my very poorly worded vague question.

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Outstanding.

The feeling is pretty much the same. That's why we disagree with ya. "we" looks more like YOU.....shorty. Keep thinking that. You look more like a hater of NU sports everytime you post.

The feeling is pretty much the same. That's why we disagree with ya.

And when they don't met your expectations then what? The next QB. What FACTS are your opinions based on????? that they are so much better. What I see is someone that has a lot of hatred for this kid and you'll say anything to discredit anything he does. People disagree on how you feel about him, get over it.

Well then stop giving him sh#t all the time.

I have said before, the QB is the "face" of the program and will get all the blame. It is really a whole lot of crap that needs to get fixed. For me, it involves the staff and their inexperience to lack of depth/development, poor execution (penalties, missed tackles, blown assignments, dropped passes etc) perceived talent gap, complicated scheme, new league etc...... The list could go on, but the staff really needs to point the thumb. If players are not executing, then it is the staff's job to get them to or find kids that can. I would love to see them implement a system that would allow true fresh to compete and actually get some playing time. Instill the mentality of playing to win instead of playing to not lose. If we are ahead, get the back ups in. If we have a phenom kid who can't get the whole system, give him a few plays to get in the game. On the bolded part..... I get what you're saying, but I just don't see that as being the coaches' fault. You can coach a lot of things but when gametime comes and crap like this happens, how do you blame the coaches and not the ones who are actually the ones making the mistakes?... I agree. you can only teach a player so much then it his responsibility to take what he's learned and apply it. It's not always the coaches fault. Experience has a lot to do on how they play also.

How much manning up do you see on the field during the games? I have every game on DVR. I watched them all and can't see 1 single time where a player on this team grabs another player by the facemask and tells them to "man up". Other than Lavonte David, it didn't look to me like anyone else out there was ready to take this team on their shoulders. You could say Burkhead carried the other side of the ball, but I didn't see once that those guys displayed the vocal leadership on the field. I didn't see a team that rallied around each other. Neither side of the ball seemed to feed off each other's energy. Taylor Martinez sure as hell doesn't open his mouth out there. This lead by example stuff is great, but sometimes it takes more than that. Grant Wistrom, Tommie Frazier, and the Peter Bros' could all say a thing or two about that. Broderick Thomas, Trev Alberts..so on so forth. Those teams weren't just great for no reason. Those guys fought hard for each other, and held each other to a high level. I don't see it on Bo's teams. They answer to Bo and that's it. What about answering to each other? These guys are supposed to be brothers? Where is the brotherhood? LOL. you kill me. No, these people kill all of us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=286UlugVW40&feature=related No these people had nothing to do with your entertaining post. LOL But I will agree NOT good.

So now he's wrong for feeling that way.

How much manning up do you see on the field during the games? I have every game on DVR. I watched them all and can't see 1 single time where a player on this team grabs another player by the facemask and tells them to "man up". Other than Lavonte David, it didn't look to me like anyone else out there was ready to take this team on their shoulders. You could say Burkhead carried the other side of the ball, but I didn't see once that those guys displayed the vocal leadership on the field. I didn't see a team that rallied around each other. Neither side of the ball seemed to feed off each other's energy. Taylor Martinez sure as hell doesn't open his mouth out there. This lead by example stuff is great, but sometimes it takes more than that. Grant Wistrom, Tommie Frazier, and the Peter Bros' could all say a thing or two about that. Broderick Thomas, Trev Alberts..so on so forth. Those teams weren't just great for no reason. Those guys fought hard for each other, and held each other to a high level. I don't see it on Bo's teams. They answer to Bo and that's it. What about answering to each other? These guys are supposed to be brothers? Where is the brotherhood? LOL. you kill me.

No, I believe it's like every other topic that goes on for too long. It always comes back to how they hate Nu football, Bo, BC, and now CR. Some of these poster really get butt hurt over the littlest things. The funny part about it the only people that got but hurt about what he said are the fans. The players probably felt he was right and they understand they need to get better. :dunno

With those low expectations, it makes it easy for the team to have a successful season. Well.... we'll see! These were my expectations for the past tow years as well --- and, each of the past two years there NU was at season's end --- not in the NC, conference, or division championship picture For what it's worth, last year Nebraska won the Big12 North division and should have beaten Oklahoma in the CCG and won the conference title. If we would have won, we could have played UConn in a BCS bowl and most likely ended the year on a high note, likely in the top 10. Instead, we pissed the 2nd half of the CCG down our leg and layed an egg vs a team that we never should have been matched up against in the bowl game. In fact, had we played well against Texas or aTm, we would have been undefeated, pushing for a bid in the national championship. It all comes down to that one word that so many fans hate so much: EXECUTION. Bo knows what he is talking about, and one of these days, we will see a Husker football team that executes and wins every game on the schedule. It's a difficult thing to do, but I am still a Boliever, and I think that is where this team is headed with Bo sooner than later. Good for you Shark. I like the enthusiasm and the hopeful expectations. And... you may be right about the future. In fact, I hope you are. The past is the best --- in particular, the immediate past --- is the best predictor of the future. On that basis, the Huskers next year aspiring to much more than essentially what happened this year... is not very reasonable. This coaching staff that you are a believer in has not produced a focused, polished, intense, fundamentally sound team yet --- not on any consistent basis. It has not often made halftime adjustments as well as our opponents. And the talent level differential relative to the conference elite (like OSU, Michigan & Wisconsin) is, probably (though this is hard to measure) going in the wrong direction --- that is, the talent gap that these programs have over NU is widening rather than narrowing. Again, time will tell.. Back to the original topic. I do not think that TM's personal performance will change much re: where NU lands in the conference. If he improves somewhat we still end up #4 or #5 in conference. If he stays the same... NU lands, probably, in the same spot. The bigger determining factors are again team preparedness (are they focused, will they play hard all game, will they be fundamentally sound and catch passes better, create turnovers more, limit penalties, and will the coaches make adjustments better than our opponents, etc.) --- these things will more decide where NU lands than TM's performance. And... nothing from the immediate past would suggest a massive improvement in these areas. But... there is always hope. Love it when posters post about facts based on non-experience. Your right NU will get worse and every other team will improve. I understand you don't like NU. ,

Your right Glover was a beast in the 70's but he alone didn't win the NC's, he had quite a few great players around him that helped win those NC's.

I think what the fanbase is looking for 'more of' is production, not bodies. Honestly, how can Pelini not look at his team and realize, 'you know, I've brought in some pretty highly touted o-linemen every year since I've been here, and yet every year I mark that as a need... maybe it has something to do with my o-line coach,' but for whatever reason that thought has apparently not crossed his mind. Wow what a surprise.

Come-on kinda pushing the envelope on this aren't you. They are both great players in there respective generation. You can't compare one to the other. just think if the other players could of help Glover win those game, maybe we could of won a NC.

So a game manager == Experience. (at that position) and the QB for Bama is a bad example of a game manager.

What's weird is that you're doing here what you get mad at Bo for doing in the game. You are way overreacting to the situation with a wild analogy. You even admitted it when you said you knew plenty of people would disagree with you for that analogy. So how is your overreaction any different than Pelini's? Mine isn't seen by 15 million people - and I don't represent the University/state? So do as I say not as I do. Pay me 3 million I'll keep my temper under control throughout the game - guarenteed. Heck, I'll give you a discount at 1 million, and still no yell. BS

I actually had no problems by how he acted this year. But some do.

Did you ever see him play? 158lbs at fullback and always left it all out on the field. We seem to have had quite a few great running backs, when he was coaching the r/b's position. He is a Husker through and through. You must be one of those "what have you done for me lately" guys. GBR!!! His playing days have nothing to do with his coaching at NU. If anything, it's more appalling that since he is one of us that he allowed the program to get lazy. I never understood why people don't hold that against him. Interesting that you include yourself in the "one of us" cadre when I'm guessing your particular contributions to Husker football don't quite measure up to Franks.....................just a guess though......... And regardless of what you think of his coaching abilities, thirty some odd years of service to the program as player, coordinator, and head coach probably deserve a modicum of respect from every Husker fan for longevity alone. (unless you think Pederson was "justified" in his adolescent behavior pulling all references to Frank from the football offices as if they never existed) I'd bet that when they do honor Solich, Memorial stadium will respond with a thunderous and sustained ovation of respect. good post.

love how positive you are all the time It's the truth, he turned our porsche of a program into a beat up pinto. Yes, lets say thanks for Franks first full team of his own players being bad enough in that he had to beat an FCS team to reach a bowl in 2002. Then due to his bad recruting NU was passed by OU, UT, KSU, ISU and Mizzou as programs on his watch. Anyone can win with the great talent he was given by Tom. of course.