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3 minutes ago, Ulty said:

Minnesota talking smack to Nebraska:

Intimidating 4-8 titans of the gridiron!

1 minute ago, Redux said:

Not surprisingly the Minnesota fan considers being 26th as "being ranked"

Do you understand how quotation marks work?

2 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

I guess that's a possibility.  But I'm not sure how much weight these voters are going to give to cross country results.

You'd have a better cross country team if Nebraskans wore shoes.  At least fake it, people - you can cover your feet with shoe polish and nobody will know the difference.

3 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

You gotta admit that's fair, though. 

It's fairly certain the Gophers will spank the Huskers this year.

18 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

Minnesota seems absurdly low. What do you make of that?

You get used to it as a Gophers fan.  If Minnesota finished a season as undefeated NCAA champs, the next preseason they would be unranked.

Nebraska, on the other hand, can finish with four wins and be #26 in the preseason.

It has to do with reputations and assumptions.

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22 minutes ago, Undone said:

Picking Minnesota to finish better than Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Iowa is just beyond stupid.

Because Wisconsin's 37-15 loss to Minnesota proved that they're better than the Gophers, Iowa is the West version of Ohio State, and Nebraska is obviously the only team that can improve from year to year.  Beyond stupid.

4 hours ago, cornhuskers4ever said:

This is the first time, in a long time I have heard "We... The team.. We will,,, we will... As a team"

 

That's a strangely constructed sentence fragment.  Is that what they chant at the Nebraska School for Stutterers when they score a T-T-T-Touchdown?

On 7/18/2019 at 2:25 PM, suh_fan93 said:

 

 

 

He doesn't mean it.  That's a pity endorsement.  He wants Frost to last a few years so we get easy wins the next few seasons.  ;)

46 minutes ago, Huskers93-97 said:

Meanwhile somewhere in Minnesota, the team starts training.

 

That's the rowing team, silly.

On 7/11/2019 at 9:56 AM, Nebfanatic said:

I'm sorry but I don't fear Minnesota whatsoever. It's like the same thing as our team except yall have worse talent. What did you guys do last year? Won some games down the stretch, just like we did. We have better talent, a better QB and better coaching. Yes yall got better after we played you last year, but we ran your Gophers out of our stadium and honestly I don't expect it to be much different this season.

That's fine, I don't fear Nebraska either.  Sure, Nebraska scored 53 on Minnesota last year, but then Illinois scored 55 on the Gophers, we replaced our DC, and held Purdue, Wisconsin, and Georgia Tech to 10, 15, and 10.  Those teams were all better than Nebraska or Illinois.

Nebraska doesn't have as much developed talent as you seem to think, and there's nothing special about your team this year.  You're trending upward, but so are we.  I'll see you on October 12th!

Yes, meaningless.  Nebraska is rapidly improving, but it would be remarkable if they finished this season as a top 25 team.

Reality check: your Huskers won four games last year.  And yeah, they improved at the end of the season, but so do most well-coached teams.  So did my Gophers.  The Huskers and Gophers are going to be neck and neck this year, and neither team is going to finish in the top 10.

This Gopher wanted coach Les Miles.

On 6/29/2019 at 11:42 AM, Salsa Red said:

One thing about the B1G that bothers me is the "loser" mentality compared to other conferences. The conference puts itself in a disadvantage where it is harder to compete. For example what Michigan did in baseball is considered a miracle due to the conference self appointed recruiting restrictions. Also most other conferences over-sign but the B1G restricts that as well, more conference games, higher academic requirements, etc all put every school in the B1G at a disadvantage.

It seems the B1G thinks they are "too good" to do what everyone else is doing and makes it harder to compete. Even the big 10 network doesn't push for it's teams to get into the playoff when they have legitimate claim (PSU, WI, OSU have been passed by other teams with same losses by the committee and the B1G didn't put up much of a fight) like all the other networks do. It could be that the conference always wanted to go to the rose bowl as it's prime goal but I think the attitude needs to change if it wants to have long term success. 

 

The money is great for the schools but the self appointed restrictions will make winning championships even more difficult.

I'm with you, man.  Honor and integrity are for losers.  Nebraska to the SEC, where if a student athlete can read and write it's just icing on the championship cake!

On 5/17/2019 at 10:48 AM, Husker in WI said:

It's just a weird culture Fleck is building there - clearly it can work to some degree, he won at Western Michigan. They really need that defensive turnaround to be real though, and a QB to take huge steps forward.

Prediction: Zach Annexstad will be the QB, and he'll do fine.

On 5/17/2019 at 10:18 AM, Mavric said:

 

Yeah, be fair though - that's a fifty year old trophy that they present to the winning team after the spring game, then put back in storage for a year.

And don't most teams get a ring to commemorate a win in a bowl game?  I think they do.

A poorly written article on an awful website.  Not worth a Husker's time or attention.

I don't know much about wrestling, but that's cool to watch.  Striking how slim the kid is.

Nebraska

The Cornhuskers seemed to get better every week in coach Scott Frost’s first year in Lincoln. After an 0-6 start, Nebraska finished 4-2 over its last six games. Additionally, the two losses in that span came to Iowa and Ohio State by a combined eight points. Of the Cornhuskers’ eight defeats overall, five came by a touchdown or less. The Big Ten West Division is loaded for 2019, but Frost’s team is poised for a big step forward. Quarterback Adrian Martinez (295.1 total yards a game) returns after a terrific freshman campaign, with Maurice Washington is poised to anchor the ground attack after rushing for 455 yards as a backup to Devine Ozigbo in ’18. Go-to receiver Stanley Morgan Jr. will be missed, but JD Spielman (66 catches) is back, and Nebraska should be able to tap into its recruiting class for help, including top-100 prospect and all-around threat Wandale Robinson. After giving up 31.3 points a game in 2018, there’s plenty of room to improve on defense. Coordinator Erik Chinander is losing a handful of key seniors, but linebacker Mohamed Berry returns after pacing the team with 112 stops, and the cornerback spot is in good shape with Lamar Jackson and Dicaprio Bootle back. Oklahoma State transfer Darrion Daniels should provide a boost in the trenches, and there should be some natural progression for this unit in the second year under this staff. Nebraska also has one of the Big Ten’s most favorable home schedules with Wisconsin, Iowa, Northwestern, and Ohio State set to come to Memorial Stadium in 2019.

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Hot seat: trending cooler...

Nebraska and Minnesota are going to be the two big surprises in the Big Ten next year.

I don't want to take anything away from Nebraska, or diminish them in any way.  Let me just point out that our defensive personnel were too good to give up 53 points to Nebraska in 2018.  Our pts given up in Big Ten games before firing DC Robb Smith: 42, 48, 30, 53, 31, 55.  Pts given up after replacing Smith with Joe Rossi: 10, 24, 15, 10.  Things will be different in 2019.

Aggravating to this Gophers fan - after our 3-1 finish with blowout wins over Purdue, Wisconsin, and GA Tech, that Nebraska is ranked higher than Minnesota.  That, my Cornhusker friends, is the lingering benefit of Nebraska's longtime reputation.

8 hours ago, ColoradoHusk said:

Honestly, I like college football, but I’m a Nebraska fan more than anything else. I just want to worry about NU’s successes before thinking about the rest of the conference...[blah blah blah]

Who is Nebraska playing this week?

I'm pretty sure the Big Ten tried to entice Georgia Tech a few years ago, but that was before Rutgers and Maryland demonstrated how beneficial the B1G gravy train could be.

Random thoughts:

• Maryland has a long history in football, and they've been very good at times.  Historically they have one national championship, 11 conference titles, they recruit a talent-rich area, and they bring the Big Ten Network the Baltimore market.  Let em stay.
• Rutgers has a long history in football, but historically they've been bad to mediocre.  But they recruit a talent-rich area and they bring the Big Ten Network the NY/NJ market, and that means major dollar signs.  They aren't going anywhere.
• If the Big Ten is doing "protected rivalries," Minnesota-Michigan is the one I want to protect.  Screw Iowa and Wisconsin!  And Penn State is nothing.
• PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, Big Ten, don't add Texas.  No matter what, keep those cross-eyed jerkoffs out out of our nice conference.

Teams to add:  I don't want Texas and I don't care about Oklahoma or Oklahoma State.  Kansas would be a good addition, and you could add Oklahoma or Kansas State with them, but Georgia Tech would be a better fit academically, plus they bring a prosperous alumni base and the enormous Atlanta TV market with them.