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He's not my favorite quarterback ever by any means, but I really don't understand how people can continue to place even a plurality of the blame on him.

You sir, are disgusting. Their breakfast burritos are way, way better than they should be. Way.

"presides over and calls the plays for the second-ranked scoring offense in the nation (behind only Baylor)" I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around this sentence.

So do you think that Bo and his staff either 1) don't pay attention at practice or 2) are too incompetent to see when a player is hurt in practice?

Bo sounds scared.

Yes, he said "if we played today," but when directly asked if Tommy would be starting this weekend, he said he didn't know.

If he were to restructure the staff-- essentially make himself DC and appoint someone to be something like his XO to carry out some of the head coachly duties (but with Bo's input). This would kind of flip the way it seems to work now: bo trying to be the head coach and just meddling in everything enough to, apparently, confuse the hell out of everyone. I'm not sure what the big answer is, but I think Bo as DC could still be good. I do think that he meddles but doesn't take over and JP doesn't know how to run Bo's D but, simultaneously, isn't allowed to craft his own.

Albert Einstein said that (lest anyone think that Mark May has ever said anything intelligent). So then repeating this attribution and expecting it to be true makes a person insane?

Yeah, I don't either. I wonder what the average is (but not enough to start the data collection myself!).

I don't think being or feeling negative constitutes a "bandwagon fan." I think the only time people are bandwagoners is when they go from being indifferent to suddenly becoming temporary super fans right up until things go badly and then they return to their default position of not caring. Being upset when things go badly, when trying to find solutions (desperate though they may sound at times, especially when emotions are heightened) is not being a non-fan. I mean, think about the teams you're not a fan of-- do you care about what Northern Illinois is or isn't doing, for example? I sure don't. I don't get upset when things don't workout for them, I couldn't care less about their coaching decisions, because I am not a fan. If I saw that they were running the table and suddenly got a NI hat and talked about how much I love those.. um... Northern Illinois Fighting Mascots, I'd be a bandwagoner. Not being happy when your team swerves into the ditch? Being upset about it? Wanting them to be good? Being **interested***? How on earth does that make anyone a bandwagon or fair-weather fan? That should only apply to people who turn their interest on and off. Swinging from apathy to fandom makes you a bandwagoner. Sorry. I just hate those terms being applied to people who care and are just disgruntled. /end rant.

Because the normal play wasn't working.

Jesus christ True. What the f#*k is going on. This is an embarrassment. If Martinez trots out for the first snap next Saturday, I'm walking out that north stadium and not watching another play all year. I like Taylor as a person. and he's been a warrior for us. And i've tried to be nice about saying these past 5 weeks the it's time to move on, but it really is. I just dont get it anymore. If what Benning is thinking has any substance, then Bo really does need to go. Seriously, what does the Martinez family have on Bo that we have to continue down this road. it's one thing to call for the backup when we've never seen them play (ala Carnes, Green, etc), but we've seen the team play with a level of fluidity and confidence under Armstrong and kellogg in all 3 phases for 3 games that we havent seen consistently ever under Bo that I know of. Bo said in the presser today that it wasnt Taylor's fault. That the team played poorly and didnt execute all across the board bla bla bla. But why? Doesnt everyone see that Taylor being back in the game, that the team reverted back to playing sh**ty like they did before Taylor's injury. The players know who gives them the best chance to succeed at qb. We saw it plain and simple today. Total regression. And after the progress made on both sides of the ball last couple games, Taylor's presence is the only explanation. hell, even our punter couldnt do his job today. What gives? It's just not working. Was I supposed to read this post sarcastically? Should we be blaming Taylor for Ameer's fumble, too? And on top of all of that-- look at who we played in those games. I guess we can't definitively say it *wasn't* because of Taylor, but let's Occam's Razor this and look at the quality of the offenses that the D has had to stop these past several weeks.

I'm sorry, but winning by running similar plays that work is no way for an offensive genius to win. A true genius will mix it up, razzle and dazzle, and show that he's creative and lose with a flourish. "They'll never expect us to stop doing what works!" <-- a genius thought process.

Um, yes, yes they are. Fluid dynamics and electromagnetism and linear algebra and advanced calculus and ... are far harder than 20th century fiction or native american history of the 1400s. You know that physics falls under "liberal arts," right? Natural sciences are part of liberal arts. And, you know, no, they aren't easier; as was said, they are different. I know plenty of people who could pass a math course but could never pass a literature course.

Agreed. Liberal arts graduates make excellent coffee. Ah, so you don't know what the term refers to, then.

Offense looks appropriate, though

Man, that defense looks pretty bad. Again, we're lucky the competition just isn't very good and makes mistakes. Say what you will about that big hit, a better receiver would have held onto that and the ball made it there anyway.

I totally missed this. I had CJ in class, and he's a good guy.

I heard that bo bought some containers specifically made to transport salt water fish.

I would avoid saying things like this if you want to be taken seriously. 2008 6-2 2009 5-2 2010 6-1 2011 6-1 2012 7-0 2013 3-1 so why exactly shouldnt we take him serious? through the first 5 years they have only averaged 1.2 losses at home a season and had won 10 in a row until the ucla loss. Because it has no real relationship, beyond coincidence, with the present or future seasons. It's far more meaningful to look at the teams that will actually be playing than a record that includes teams made up entirely of players who aren't even here any more. If you start doing that, it really starts bordering on magical thinking.

At the end of the first quarter I was hoping that JP would get fired at halftime. SDSU is a good team with a really good running back but even late in the game our defense was making huge mistakes that a better team will exploit. Please, enlighten me on what Paps/Bo did wrong on play calling... I saw WAY more piss poor missed tackles, and wrong tackling techniques than I saw the wrong defensive plays being called. Kirby Smart wouldn't have even been able to stop what was going on with the tackling issues we had today. This does fall back on coaching, but it doesn't fall back on play calling. The only thing I didn't agree with, was putting Santos on Zenner. It should have been Bando covering him. if you can't coach up your kids on the basics, doesn't make any difference what scheme you have called....basics, basics, basics....when does that get taught? Didn't you hear? They should have learned basics in high school regardless of how different playing at this level is, so they don't need it to be coached. If they can't do it, it's not up to the coaches to teach it; we can just fall back on how they should have learned it in high school and how it's all on the players for not having talent.

So we should all be Alabama fans, then, because they must totally be The Nebraska Way.

That couldn't be more perfect.

Yeah, it's kind of scary that he doesn't even need to invoke some far-fetched scenarios in order to make a Jackrabbit loss win seem like a somewhat reasonable expectation. However, Wyoming has been smacking the everloving crap out of their opponents since they played NU, so i think he might be underestimating their offensive power. We'll see, though! I do hate, though, that he was able to reach his conclusion with a rational evaluation of the teams. I do like the out he gives himself at the end

What coach in their right mind would come here? My lord, the approval rating of a coach is less than a president searching for mythical WMD's unless you win 88-0 every game and win the MNC and move on to challenge the Super Bowl Champion and win that too. Oh yeah.... $$$ > sanity We don't have high expectations. Most of Bo's faults are simply football 101 and for someone who grew up in the profession he should know better. For real. I don't mind the number of wins, it's the quality of the losses that is just horrendous. I see a lot of people talking about the program moving in a "good" or "right" direction, but I don't see multiple blow outs to moderately ranked or even unranked teams as a a good direction to be going (or a good status quo). They aren't flukes, they're regular, predictable occurrences. Osborne's losses are frequently invoked as an equivalent comparison-- but look at whom he lost to, their rankings, and how he lost. Losing a close, hard-fought game to a top 10 team is heart breaking, sure, but at least there's hope in a close game. There was no hope against UCLA. There was no hope against Wisconsin. You can't look at a huge loss like that and say, "Wow, if only..." because there isn't an "only," there's an "every." "Wow, if everything had been different, we could have won that game."