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Belief in Bo's Huskers has been fading since 2011. Thinking of Bo's eighth year just makes me tired. You gotta ask yourself: Am I a fearful, crouching masturbator? Or can I take a risk and live with the consequences?

I don't think the players boycott the bowl.

 

I could see them players taking the bowl game and all of the goodies that go with it, bend the rules about what they can or can't do, and then just phone in a performance.

 

It will be interesting to see if the various bowl committees treat us like Nebraska like it has AIDS, though.

The players say that Pelini doesn't just coach, he develops men. I'll take them at their word and expect them to play hard in the bowl game.

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I thought there were reports that he let the snake peek through the grass a second time.

Just plain bizarre behavior on his part. Too bad, because he was a great find by the staff.

Edit: This is in response to Dagerow. The quote function isn't working for me.

On a tangent:

 

Heard from a guy who knows TJ well and told a funny story about his time here in Nebraska. Appearntly there was a premier event for the team at the Cornhusker in Lincoln, TJ shows up, already one full season into his Nebraska gig, when he arrives another booster asks him for a cocktail and valet parking thinking he was a staff member of the Cornhusker.

 

Cultural experiences can really turn people off to places like Nebraska. Nebraska is embarassingly white, I am sure he can feel comfortable in Aggie land at least

What type of booster wouldn't recognize the secondary coach?

That type of interaction would be just as likely to occur at nearly any college in the country. I don't want to stereotype here, but my assumption is that boosters (i.e., people who can afford to give a lot of money to a football program) probably aren't the most the most diverse group of people.

Between Nebraska and TAMU, if you picked the school that has historically had diversity issues, it wouldn't be Nebraska.

We were Top-20 in Pass Efficiency Defense in 2010, 2011, 2012, and now 2013 with three different DB coaches. #BoKnows

 

Either Bo has made some stellar hires or he can coach the hell out of a secondary. I think it is the latter.

Probably has a little to do with the scheme he runs. There are some trade-offs.

Bo's Wikipedia page still has the following line at the end, which made me smile a little.

Pelini remained defiant in the post game press conference . . . declaring, "If they want to fire me, go ahead. I don't apologize for anything I have done." Pelini subsequently apologized for his behavior after the Iowa game.

How is an athletic scholarship different, you're brought in to perform athletically. An academic scholarship, you're brought in to get grades, does the university have loyalty to you because you slack off and don't take things as serious as you should so you lose your GPA? No they send you on your way, why in football should that be any different?

 

And when in the world did I say a word about cutting guys with injuries? I didn't, that's what medical hardships are for.

 

And finally SEC schools cut kids all the time and don't have a problem getting kids to keep joining their classes in bunches. Those kids go in with the mindset that they will succeed and they're accepting of the challenge, and not that afraid that "oh no I might get cut" mentality.

Ha! I was just going to post something like this. I'm not with you on the oversigning part. I think that perceiving the football program as a white knight is too important to the fan base.

But I don't know why everyone isn't upset about the same issue with academic scholarships. Lots of kids come to school, work hard, and just can't make the grades. It seems just as unfair to pull their scholarships. I had an academic scholarship that would have been pulled if I wasn't in the top 1/3 of my class. I worried about it a lot, almost to the point of sickness, but it also made me work a lot harder.

Ciante got a well deserved pick for first team all conference by the coaches and second team by the media.

While this might be possible, it's doubtful we'll have this discussion for five more years considering his contract is up in three. No way given this type of "success" does he get a contract extension. On a side note, I can't believe the Duke Bluedevils are ranked ahead of us. The longer we stay irrelevant, the more likely it becomes permanent.

Stranger things have happened. Like getting an extension in the afterglow of a 70-31 loss to Wisconsin.

Holy hell Southern Miss won.

I believe there's no shortage of coaches more competent than Bo Pelini Nebraska could land provided the Regents let the AD do his job.

So have we reached a moot point now?

Until next year. Fair or unfair, Bo isn't going to shake off this stink unless he has a break through season. It's going to be the same song and dance next year. This whole thing really is toxic for everyone involved.

Maybe you took what I said too literal. If we truly had coaches interested, I think they would be here. A PROVEN head coach. The ONLY head coach that has been a PROVEN head coach that has been mentioned on this board about coming here has been Jim Tressell. Do you think we could honestly get a coach with his high profile in a bitchy and spoiled fan base? We have yet to have one, EVER. Every head coach we have had take over, has never had head coaching experience (except Callahan with the Raiders).

Huh?

Some of you doom-and-gloomers need to take a step back from the ledge.

If he wins this bowl game that is the magic "9 wins" and he may find a way to do it every year for eternity. This is Husker purgatory.

If he does worse next year, we fire him. If he finally breaks through, he'll leave at the first decent offer he gets. The only way Bo stays is if continues to do what he's done the past six years. And that's probably what is going to happen.

Six years is long enough to know, as well as you can, who someone is and what they're capable of. Hell, I married my wife after I only knew her for 4 years. We've seen what Bo can do and I guess that's good enough for us.

The key part that I read was that they never flat out said that he wouldn't be replaced after the bowl game. Just that people shouldn't fuel that fire in the media. This thing may not be over yet.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

If you think we're bad, you need to broaden your horizons a little. Follow some of the other big programs and you'll realize that our aberrant scumwads pale in comparison to the vitriol that spews out of other fanbases.

Learning to deal with those among us who are just plain bad people is part of becoming a mature adult, and is something our staff should be helping the players with.

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I used to put wrong answers on there on purpose a year ago.

So, you're the reason I used bleach to remove a red wine stain on my carpet. I've been looking for you, a-hole.

TOs 6 th year is when the fans got so bad he almost went to CU. perhaps he knew something about how important it was to have some security since there would be a new AD and Bo wouldn't have the same type of assurances that he himself had under Bob Devaney.

I could see TO viewing his job as the AD from his perspective as a former coach. I have a harder time seeing him make an important decision like this in order to be petty and "give Harvey the finger," as you said above.

There's a difference between non-binding assurances and a contract. Kirk Ferentz hasn't exactly flowered into the coach that Hawkeye fans once thought he would become. You seem certain that Bo is going to break through here whereas I'm less sure of what the future holds. I don't want Bo fired Friday night but I also don't think we needed to extend him to 5 years, especially under a laughable "performance" pretense.

Yep approximately a 7.2 million dollar buyout. Based on article 12 of his original contract it looks like he and the AD do a performance appraisal each year. Resigned in December, 12 days after a 70-31 loss to boost the contract to 5 years total. Wow.

So Bo did resign...

I might be wrong, but I'm guessing scbhusker meant "re-signed," as in Bo signed again, instead of "resigned" as in Bo quit.

That still doesn't explain why we gave a coach an extension after he led the team to one of the most embarrassing blowouts of this century. It doesn't seem like TO would act against NU's best interests just to spit in Perlman's eye.

This Severe guy says he got a copy through a Freedom of Information Act request.

We're reverting back to a defense that we ran back in 2009 and 2010, and we have the talent in those positions. What we also have is better skill players on offense. We'd be nuts if we don't let Bo have a chance with the players he's helped put on the defensive side of the ball.

First, we're not reverting to the defense we ran in '09 and '10. If anything, we started the year with a scheme more similar to what we ran in those years and began moving away from that scheme during the middle of the season.

Second, do you think that the talent we've recruited the last couple of years is any better than the talent Bo had in '09 and '10?

Santos and Mitchell tweeted that a guy threw eggs at them. Mitchell also said some guy threw a glove at him. Sounds like the Huskers were greeted by an interesting mix of people.

Florida has lost how many in a row now? Can you imagine what Huskerboard would be like? The mods would probably have to shut it down and put half of the posters on suicide watch. I have watched Husker football for a long time through many ups and downs, I still love it and this team (and coach) has more potential than some seem to think (especially over the next few years).

Six, with FSU on deck. Georgia Southern didn't complete a single pass. It's kind of fun reading the Florida boards. More than a few posts about whether they got run on worse today than in the "Fiasco" Bowl against NU, comparing Georgia Southern's YPC with NU's, etc. They remember!

Wonder if their AD is reconsidering that vote of confidence he gave Muschamp. I bet a loss to an FCS team wasn't on his radar.

Some of the Gator faithful are still blaming a lack of execution:

Muschamp can't make the LB's not over pursue and play like middle schoolers. Too many players hurt to really say that it's his fault on defense. He is calling good plays but the players are not executing. GatorCountry