KJ.

Except Texas in 2010.

You really can't have one magic number at this point. It's 3 for Michigan, but that doesn't hold for other teams. Say Michigan loses out and so do we, we would have satisfied the "magic number" but probably still wouldn't make the CCG since NW would probably sneak in there.

Easy there.

We only have Bondi, who is much more inconsistent and doesn't have as high of a ceiling. Have you seen him kick in warmups? He's no where near as good as Maher. He approaches the ball too slow and doesn't tilt it, leading to a soft kick that is highly affected by things like wind and temperature which misses wide left half the time. It's a good thing we don't give him a chance.

Las Vegas: Nebraska 23, Michigan St. 21.5

I don't know if they still do this, but the band would practice in Memorial about 4 hours before kickoff and they let the public in free to watch. I've known a few guys who don't have tickets who just never leave after watching the band, they just go sit in the student section and blend in.

Trump spoke about the birth certificate thing on Letterman last night, and I don't understand why this is an issue. Since it is (roughly) a rule that you have to be born in the United States to be President, after Obama was elected don't you think some official would actually verify this? I'm assuming that they would have required an actual birth certificate instead of taking his word for it. So there's only two options, A) Everything checks and people need to move on to something else to complain about or B) Nobody actually verifies eligibility to be President. If it's B, I'd say that's a much bigger issue.

There are ways of dealing with this issue, you know.

I know that our schemem is widely known as "matchup zone" Simply hybrid of man and zone, but technique wize, it seems as if guys still play it like man, watching their man, not the qb. This is where I always thought a spy would help, but the issue there is designed qb runs and that spy getting caught up in blocks. Makes me think we need to see more straight zone coverage so DB's can be facing the LOS more. It could result in getting picked apart, but it couldnt be any worse than the current philosophy of forcing the offense to pick their way down the field. It could also cause some indecision for guys like Colter and Robinson if they're contained in the pocket and having to navigate the ball into windows. I dont know much, but this is the way I see it. I hear ya. What they play is called pattern matching, and it's even worse than man-to-man. It requires the secondary to watch multiple receivers instead of just one. Here's a quick link. It probably explains why sometimes it looks like we have a bunch of robots out there; it would be easy to spend more time reading than actually playing football.

The general Pelini defensive philosophy is to put an extra guy in pass defense, which leaves rush defense vulnerable. We'll give up 3-5 yard runs on a consistent basis on the hopes that the offense will either mess up somewhere in their 20 play drive, or will get greedy and try to get bigger chunks of yards and fall into the trap. This is fairly easy to see since our scoring defense ranking (points) is consistently better than our total defense ranking (yards). Now, when the QB can run you are far outnumbered in the run game. 3-5 yard runs turn into 8-10 yard runs. We try to prevent this by putting an extra safety in the box, but now our secondary is playing down a player from what they're used to. That creates problems. And when that extra safety is missing tackles in the run game, you're creating problems for nothing.

For someone that doesn't even know what extrapolate means (junior high math term), you sure do have a lot of opinions on the inner workings of the economy and health care - two things that are highly mathematical. You can have all the "this is why i'm liberal" reasons you want, but the fact of the matter is you have no idea what you're saying and are regurgitating some bullsh#t you've heard somewhere else. Don't sit there and tell me how a change in variable A affects the price of insurance, and don't act like you know the components of claim costs. You have absolutely no idea what goes into these things, but you either a) think you do, or b) don't care. Whichever it is, you fit in with all your other clueless liberal buddies.

What was Jeff Jamrog doing in your section?

When Sean Fisher is on the field we might as well be playing with 10 defenders. If you actually watched him from play-to-play you'd have seen that this was a typical Fisher performance. We're lucky Wisconsin/Stave isn't all that smart, because Montee Ball was wide open downfield every single time they didn't motion him into the backfield and he went out for a pass instead. Every single time. Not going to blame Fisher for the coaches making him play that position, but he definitely isn't good at it. But hey, I'm sure he knows the playbook really well and that's all that matters.

What size capris do you wear?

You couldn't be more wrong. Philip Rivers fumbled on a (basically) kneel-down last year and the other team recovered, and went on to win the game. That was the difference in the Chargers making/not making the playoffs. Nice try, though.

Year - Neb Scoring Defense - National Average - Standard Normal 2011 --------- 23.4 --------------------- 26.6 ---------------- 0.3118 2010 --------- 17.4 --------------------- 26.8 ---------------- 0.0958 2009 --------- 10.4 --------------------- 25.7 ---------------- 0.0126 2008 --------- 28.5 --------------------- 25.9 ---------------- 0.6370 2007 --------- 37.9 --------------------- 27.6 ---------------- 0.9331

It will be the people who come to games to socialize. If they don't think there'll be more people wanting to get into the "big" games, and show up later, then they deserve to not get in at all. Right because everyone who comes to the game late is only there socialize... I've had to show up late for games before because of work, or a group meeting for class, and various other things. Over selling is just a dumb idea and would be more bad PR for an athletic department that students aren't the fondest of anyways. This is really a non issue in my opinion, and it was only exaggerated by the new tickets exchange. Most college kids have a good time on Friday nights and when you're out past 2am it's kind of hard to get up for and 11am game against an inferior opponent, especially when the previous week was a major let down. In years past people would just be able to hand their ticket off to a friend with an N card if they decided not to go last minute, but it doesn't seem like it's that easy/efficient anymore. I think this is on the athletic department more than the students. They already do it to an extent.

That's completely wrong. I've spent time in the press boxes over the last three years for some games instead of being in the student section, and the student section fills up for big games. It was an 11 a.m. game against Arkansas State! And as I pointed out above, there were were sizeable gaps over in west stadium, where it looks like you snapped this picture. Don't throw stones in a glass house brosef. So your definition of consistent is only counting "big" games, and ignoring the lesser games? It solves one problem and creates another, but that problem has advantages. Oversell by ~10%, and when ~90% show up to 11am games the section is full. When everyone shows up to see Wisconsin/Michigan, who is going to be the 10% who doesn't get in? Will it be the diehard fans who will be screaming, or will it be the people who come to games to socialize and take duck-face pictures to add on Facebook?

It never filled up completely. And although freshmen had a hard time getting tickets last year, this same problem persisted. I really don't care what the excuse is, seeing gaps that large in Memorial Stadium should never happen. Either cut it back or start overselling, because it's pretty obvious that the student body can't fill it on a consistent basis. There's plenty of people out there who would have gladly paid for a ticket and woken up early to see a Husker game.

I'm not sure what you could see on TV, but here's what the student section looked like at kickoff: As a student, I will be the first to say that the size of the student section needs to be cut back. For as much as the students complain about getting crappy seats, they should be lucky it isn't worse. I wish it was.

Channel 7 just said it was flu like symptoms. I believe that statement released said the same thing. Yeah, because there are no other conditions that share the same generic symptoms as the flu.

+1 we played a terrible game and only lost by 6, to a team that far superior talent on both sides of the ball. speedin: Isn't that part of the problem, though? Dude: That's just the exact opposite of 2007, but still similar in the sense that we only had 1/2. 2007 = talent but bad coach. 2012 = bad talent but good coach. How are we to know which is better?