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It is way to early to tell. I get really tired of guys like Kirk Herbstreit throwing crap out there just to get a response from people. By June 1st we should know a lot more. That is almost 2 full months away. At this point I am optimistic. .

This is so true. It wasn't that he was bad or terrible or what ever. He needed to take a step forward and be better than he was the year before and he didn't do that. He took 1 step back basically and was fairly average. There were probably a lot of reason's for this, all of which have been discussed. Injuries to him, missing WR and RB from year before and replacing 2 key offensive linemen. This team needed a good to great AM to have a really good season and they didn't get it.

I knew what you were talking about right away. The shovel pass on the goal line. That whole sequence of plays at that point is maddening. The whole Purdue game just makes me sick. At that point in the year Purdue is playing pretty bad and is racked by injuries. At the very least they should have been winning that game 21-14 at halftime and at the very best it should have been 28-10. Instead they are losing 13-14. The first half play calling was terrible and it was probably Martinez's worst half of play all year. The defense actually played fairly solid in the first half other than giving up a 20 yard play on 3rd and 15 from your own 23 yard line. The second half Frost finally figures out that they can run the ball straight at them and they score some short yardage stuff, but then the defense can't get off the field and lets a 3rd string QB drive right down the field for the winning score. That is upsetting, but it should never have been that close.

It's got more to do with having a couple of WR that can run the route effectively. Robinson and Spielman aren't big enough to get the inside position necessary for the route. Neither was Noa, all three of those guys are really slot receivers. Really the only WR with the size to do it was Warner and he was hurt for 75% of the season. Nebraska ran it some in 2018 with Morgan. All of Minnesota's WR are fairly good sized guys. At least 6 foot and all about 210 or better. I know Robinson is listed at 5'10 but he is probably closer to 5'8". Spielman is about 5'9".

I guess for me you still have to try that deep ball some. I know they ran some QB draw/power with some success. Another thing in the RPO stuff that they never do is run the slant RPO. That also is most likely due to a lack of personnel, or it is just not what Frost and Co like to do. Minnesota's RPO is all about the 7-10 yard slant, which is a much easier pass to throw than swing or flat screen.

After watching it just one time the paragraph I bolded is my conclusion also. Perimeter blocking was terrible on most of the negative or short yardage plays or the pass was behind the receiver or off target or both. I will add one more thing. When the RB goes in motion right before the snap and leaves an empty backfield it is really telegraphing what they are doing. I mean they know where the ball is going in that situation. When you combine that with poor blocking and a poor pass it can lead to disaster. I will also add that the flat pass/screen/swing pass is one of the hardest things to throw accurately with a lot of consistency. To hit someone in stride when they are running down hill is tough.

I think there are several factors that have played a roll in the University of Nebraska becoming less Nebraskan in its roster. I am not sure your "country strong" view of rural Nebraska is very accurate. Kids playing 8 man football in Nebraska lift just as much in the weight room as any kid in Omaha or Atlanta, Ga. for that matter. The manual labor involved in any farming, including dairy and hog farms is greatly reduced. The last national championship for Nebraska in 1997 was a high water mark for homegrown Nebraska players. The talent in the state began to decline after that. There hasn't been as much raw talent so that will lower the number of players from in state. I think we are starting to see the talent level come back though. The amount of raw talent is also down because there are fewer kids playing football. There are a lot of reason's for this. Kids are specializing in 1 sport more, that happens even in your small rural schools, though not to the extent in the bigger schools. Moms and dad are worried about concussions so they don't let their kids play. Other/different sports are becoming popular. Soccer keeps getting bigger, Lacrosse is becoming very popular. Lots of kids not playing anything. For lack of a better term they are lazy. They don't want to put the time into playing football. It takes a lot of time. It is a lot easier to do nothing. The constant changing of offenses has had an effect on player development. Nebraska ran a power I option based offense from basically 1978 through 2003. Consequently HS's ran that type of offense. Central HS in Omaha produced a ton of great running backs for basically 20 years. With a sprinkling of other great backs from other metro Omaha schools. The last one to earn a scholarship before Jaylon Bradley was David Horne I believe and that was what, 2002. It then went West Coast offense, Spread, West Coast with spread elements and now back to a spread offense. Smaller schools SDU, SDSU, NDS, NDSU and so on playing at the 1AA level are pulling a ton of kids away from Nebraska that in the past would have walked on at Nebraska. In 1997 all of those schools were division 2 schools with limited amounts of scholarships. Now they have 65 and play some very good football. The lure of playing football on a good team and getting a full ride scholarship to do it is a big draw. College tuition is expensive. Though it does seem that Frost and Co are getting some of these kids to come and walk on at Nebraska again. We will see if it continues. Lastly what the article states is true. Bill Callahan, Bo Pelini, and Mike Riley didn't think the talent was good enough in the state. Callahan was the worst about this and severely cut the walk on program to boot. He wanted to run it almost exactly like a pro football team. I think he would have been happy to have exactly 85 guys on the team. Pelini was pretty bad also. He let numerous players go to other schools, mainly Iowa, because he didn't trust what he was seeing because they played in smaller classes (Ott and Byzata). He slow played kids (Harrison Phillips) or only recruited them for the specific position he wanted them to play, but they didn't want to play (Fant). He pissed off HS coaches in the Metro Omaha area and burned a lot of bridges. Riley was probably the best of the bunch, but he wasn't here long enough to really know. He was really only here 2 full recruiting cycles.

I think he can be a good fit at OLB. I think that also means they feel decent about what they have at ILB.

One thing I will say is this, I hope he isn't a plan B kid for Nebraska. If they slow play him he will end up somewhere else.

I am from the same hometown as Seth. I know his dad, Alex well, though I haven't probably talked to him in 10+ years. He was about 5 years behind me in school. His dad was an absolute stud athlete. State champion wrestler played 4 years of football at Peru. He is a fireman in Omaha and I believe he is a captain. I think he ends up at Nebraska. You will get an absolute working in this kid. Good farm family stock. He is an athlete that I think ends up play OLB. He will top out about 235.

This has been done before it was called Behind the Music

If you don't like the bowl season and the number of bowls, don't watch. It really is that simple. IMO there may be a few to many bowls, but I would only reduce it down by about 4-5 anyway. I like the bowl season, because it is more college football to watch. If I were commissioner 1. I would allow non bowl teams to get practice at the end of the season even if they don't get to a bowl game. That extra practice is important in a team's development. Maybe they only get an extra 10 instead of 15. 2. I would make the review of plays a coach challenge just like it is in the NFL. That is one of the few ways the NFL has it right. You get 2 a game and that is it. 3. I would move the starting point of OT back to the 35 yard line. That would IMO make OT go faster and a team would have to get at least a first down to have a decent shot at a FG.

Rick Berns was probably my favorite RB at Nebraska when I was a kid. I actually got a #35 jersey in like 1982. People would ask me if it was Steve Damkrogers jersey and I would say no, Rick Berns. I think Rick's mother was Filipino. That is why he has a little Asian look to him.

AM doesn't have another thing going for him that Joe Borrow did at LSU. Joe had great receivers to go along with a new passing game coordinator. Even with improved play on his part, which I think he can do, he doesn't have the targets Joe had this year.

The mixed reviews are a good sign. Reviewers aren't necessarily Star Wars fans. Remember most critics liked The Last Jedi.

This, I pretty much watch every game. If I can't watch it live I DVR it. i like college football in general. If I can get away with it I will watch games casually all day on Saturday while I do things around the house. I don't go hunting 10x a year or fishing with the guys. So I think I have earned the right to watch some football. on Saturdays.

I think you have to look at historically how the season's played out. Sabin has won all of his championships either in a playoff or when 1 and 2 were matched up. TO didn't get that scenario. In 83' Nebraska doesn't even play Miami if they are matching 1 and 2. In 82' Nebraska and Penn St. are playing again for the NC. In 96' Maybe Nebraska is #4 team in a 4 team playoff. In 1999 Nebraska is in a 4 team playoff.

Not an Urban Meyer fan at all, but he should be at least top 10.

I think everyone should be happy they placed him that high. It is the fact that he did so well over the last 5 years of coaching that he is that high. I think he should get credit for being consistently great over a long long period of time in an area of the country that is not talent rich.

I agree that having top talent at AD and having a President and Chancellor that understand things is probably most important. I don't agree that Alabama has remained on top for the past 50 years. From the time Bear Bryant retired in 1981 until Sabin was hired in 2006 Alabama was pretty average most of the time and downright bad some of the time. They had about 4 good years under Gene Stallings but nothing else that was that great or sustained. Alabama wondered in the wilderness for about 25 years waiting for a coach.

I got curious and googled Bond movie rankings. Every list was different and all over the place. Most had Goldfinger at #1 but one had it as low as 9. https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/life/movies/2019/06/12/every-james-bond-movie-ranked-worst-to-best/39571451/ https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-james-bond-movies-list-ranked https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/24/james-bond-on-film-ranked https://collider.com/james-bond-movies-ranked-worst-to-best/#goldfinger Here are 4 sites to look at if you want. Lots of different opinions. The last one has a View to a Kill at 13. I would rank it about 24,

Each guy that played Bond brought different things to the character. I like all of them in different ways. Sean Connery was such a lady killer. The first 3 he did Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger were really good. They went downhill after that with him. George Lazenby only did 1 For Her Majesty's Secret Service it is actually one of my favorites. Bond is vulnerable and falls in love. Roger Moore's Bond was much more humerus and campy. He played Bond in the most movies. He played Bond 7x and probably should have stopped at 4 or 5. He was actually older than Connery just looked younger. My favorites of his is probably the least well received. I like the Man with the Golden Gun. You can't go wrong with Christopher Lee as the bad guy. His later ones just got silly. Timothy Dalton was probably the Bond that was most like character in the books. Much more serious and ruthless. Similar to Daniel Craig, but the world wasn't ready for Bond to be serious. His 2 movies are considered pretty good though. Pierce Brosnan as someone said had pretty bad scripts. I thought he was good as Bond but his movies got way too gadgety. Goldeneye was pretty good. Daniel Craig is good as Bond. More like Timothy Dalton not quite as angry though. I like his take. One thing that makes his movies better is that he has better actors surrounding him. Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, in recurring roles. Casino Royal and Skyfall are really good movies. Spector is pretty good. Only the second one which I can't remember the name of is not very good.

Exactly, if you can't kick it into the end zone. Find someone who can put it high and to the 20 yard line. If it is done well they are going to fair catch it and get it at the 25 same as a touch back. It also allows for a miss handle and recovery which happened in the game. They did return a couple out to the 40, but it was mostly done well.

I was born in Nebraska and lived there till I was 10. We moved to a small town in SW Iowa and I finished HS. I then went to college in Missouri. Most of Iowa would actually seed SW Iowa to Nebraska if they wanted it. Basically from I-80 over to a little west of I-35 and down to the Missouri boarder is pretty much ignored by the rest of the state. Eastern Iowa, basically anything east of Des Moines is the uppity side of the state. We always had season tickets to NU games so it was never a case of choosing. There was always a lot of Nebraska fans in SW Iowa. In fact I would say it was split more between Nebraska and Iowa St fans. The fandom of Iowa in the SW part of the state is more of a recent thing. Basically it goes with the demise of Nebraska and relative rise of Iowa. People that never had much allegiance to any team have latched onto Iowa as their team. The "hatred" IMO stems pretty much from Nebraska's arrival into the B1G. Even when Iowa wasn't as good as Nebraska at football they always held on to the fact that they were a B1G schools which is a much better academic conference than Nebraska was in at the time. Now they can't say that. I had friends that went to Iowa out of HS and I went and visited them only about 2 months into their Freshman year. They already were preaching the superiority of the B1G. This is in 1984 mind you. Anyway I would really like to see Iowa lose to Nebraska. My BIL is sorta an Iowa fan. Born and raised in Western Iowa, he has lived in Nebraska the last 20 years of his life and is actually more of a very casual football fan. He just knows I am more die hard about it and loves to get under my skin about. Just a big loud mouth about stuff in general. So if for nothing else it will make him shut up over the weekend.

This is very true. This is not just a Chinander problem this a Frost/Chinander problem. They way overestimated their ability to put points on the board and way underestimated the importance of being able to stop a team in the B1G. The B1G is a big boy defensive league. Teams stop the run and tackle. There are plenty of good offenses, but it has to be paired with at least a decent defense. Talent seasoned talent is lacking big time at the linebacker spot and they need a couple of pass rushers. Shore up those things and the defense will get better.