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Just looked it up, it was in 2001. So I wasn't too far off.

Yeah, that one was done probably 20 years ago. AM Hall played Mutt Lange, he was the only semi name actor in the movie. It was OK nothing great.

I am all for having great facilities for athletes, but when I saw this the first time when they were showing it on ESPN, I thought this was dumb and a little over the top.

I don’t know about as good as Osu, but they have run the real well all year. Some fans need to look at what teams have done in the past before they have a melt down Illinois had moved the ball and scored on most teams this year. They just can’t stop anyone.

That is actually a pretty good analysis. If you are waiting for Michigan’s defense it is not going to happen, it will get better though. One more thing give Illinois some credit they have actually moved the ball and scored on most teams this year, they just can’t stop anyone. The RB that got hurt is a 1000 yard guy. He has ran all over teams this year: It is not like Illinois is scoring 10 against other teams. They are averaging in the mid 20’s

There is so many things that went wrong with Mike Riley and his HC stint at Nebraska it is hard to count them all, but lets try. 1. He was the wrong fit for the job. He had spent his whole coaching career on the west coast. I would equate it to the hire of Howard Schnellenberger at Oklahoma in the 90's. He only lasted 1 year though. 2. He was past his prime. I knew who Mike Riley was unlike a lot of Nebraska fans. I watch a lot of PAC 12 football. I actually thought he might be a good hire in 2007 when BP was hired. He was in his prime at Oregon St and winning a lot. By 2015 he was not getting things done like he was 5-6 years earlier. I really think he looked at the Nebraska job as a way to breath life back into his desire to coach. 3. Truly great coaches all have one thing in common. They all hate to lose. Everyone likes to win, great coaches can't stand to lose. It didn't bother MR nearly enough when he lost. 4. Sean Eicherst micromanaging everything. I am sure there are other things. With all that being said, he still knows more about coaching football and the x's and o's of the game than anyone on this board.

That really wasn't my point if only one was to commit to Nebraska I want the 4* tackle.

I would be much more excited if they got this kid than the WR that just committed. Darian Chase is a great get, but this team needs offensive tackles badly and this kid can come in and compete for playing time right away. Ideally if they did get him would be to have him come in and play in 4 games and RS for the season.

Planning on getting to Chicago and NW in the near future. The wife says we can't go until the youngest graduates that is in 2022. 1978 Kansas I think Craig Johnson had a great day toting the rock. 1983 Orange Bowl vs. Clemson 1985 OSU I think good game like 45 to 10 1989 OB vs Miami 1998 OSU in Arrowhead Took a tour bus on a whim with my wife and another couple. Were 2 miles from the stadium 3 hours before the game started the traffic was funneling from 6 lanes down to 1. We had tickets to a pregame tailgate for drinks and food. I walked into the stadium with 6 minutes left in the first quarter. I was very pissed and immediately started drinking a lot of beer. 1999 Iowa St. Sat hillside. 2013 UCLA Went with my wife and brother and SIL. Started tailgating at like 1 for a 7 kickoff my SIL got so drunk she got kicked out of the stadium. My brother wasn't happy. I wasn't happy because Pelini couldn't figure out how to stop the crossing routes and gave up a bazillion yards and lost the game. 2017 Oregon the game sucked but it was kind of a family reunion, spent the weekend on the Oregon coast. Also been to BSU games and went to a Wisconsin at Iowa game in 1984 with friends who went to Iowa. That was Chuck Long, Ronnie Harman era. The game was boring as hell it ended in a 10-10 tie. This is back when Wisconsin was no good. The did have Al Toon on the team.

That is the best time you can have for this game. OSU is going to be out to prove something and has 2 weeks to prepare and stew on that loss. They don't need the added noise of a drunken mob at the stadium at 6 pm. The fans will at least still be asleep. Hopefully the buckeyes are too.

Tommie Frazier was a great great football player and exactly what the team needed to get over the hump at the time and go on their run. I can appreciate all he did for Nebraska football as a football player. Tommie Frazier, from all I have seen since his playing days is not a great human being. Even when he played his teammates said he wasn't always the most likable guy, but they respected him. He is still living his glory days and seems to be a little angry with his life in general.

Yeah, I understand what you are saying. You want to be OSU. In order to be OSU Nebraska has to be Wisconsin and Iowa first. That doesn't mean they have to play the exact same brand of football, but they do need to be a solid disciplined hard nosed football team that gets the most out of its players. They need to be able to consistently be 9-3 or 10-2 before they can be 12-0.

Very good listen, I really like Rob Z perspective on what is going on. If you listen to the pod cast regularly he is pretty positive about what is going on down in Lincoln. He also gave Thorson a lot of credit for the come back. He also talked about the penalties and basically said what I have been saying. Nebraska is a known high penalty team so they tend to get a couple of really ticky tack calls every game. He thought the roughing call against the Davis twin in the end zone was very ticky tack. He also said they were holding the d-line terribly and there should have been at least a couple of holdings called against NW.

Number 2 on your list is what I have been saying all along. When you got the rep of being a sloppy penalty prone team the refs tend to look a little harder for penalties. It is human nature. That is why Nebraska probably gets 2-3 calls a game that are borderline. When you are known for playing clean you get the benefit of the doubt. Northwestern plays clean, but no one plays 64 passes in 1 game no holding calls clean. Ohio St is known as a penalty prone team also, they just are good enough to overcome the penalties.

I think the big problem is that ABC/ESPN/Disney is trying to do too many games and their production suffers. The one SEC game that CBS does on its regular network is its flagship station. The production for games on the CBSsports channel is not nearly as good.

I agree, I am just saying that would probably be the officials argument against the call on Martinez. Heck if you want to get real technical they might have been able to call targeting on the fumble by Martinez on the scoop and score. He got rocked pretty hard on that one.

yeah that should have been called. But they didn't call Mo Barry when he spiked Thorson in the knee on a slide either.

No I wasn't at the game. I am not justifying the penalties. Nebraska gets a lot of penalties and pretty much earns all of them. I am just saying that because they are a highly penalized team the 2-3 calls that most would consider borderline get called. Yes on initial viewing a thought a lot of the PI calls were bad calls. They did look closer on replay. When the ball is under thrown like on a couple of the PI there is not much the DB can do when the receiver is coming back for the ball. They are impeding him getting back to the ball. The one I described on the crossing route was very iffy. Yes there was a lot of holding that could have been called on NW offensive linemen.

It is just human nature. Nebraska earned pretty much all of their penalties on Saturday. One of the PI on a crossing route was very ticky tack. I thought it was a good play, but Nebraska's defender had his hand on the WR hip, so technically it is pass interference, but it is only called some of the time. The roughing in the end zone was pretty iffy.

Nebraska has the reputation for being a sloppy undisciplined team. Because of that they never get the benefit of the doubt. They get 2-3 penalties a game that are on the ticky tack end of it. Nebraska earns 80% of their penalties the other 20% are borderline calls that get called because they are sloppy. Northwestern has the reputation of being a disciplined football team. Because of this they always get the benefit of the doubt. The ticky tack calls that Nebraska gets called for they don't. They get a little more leeway in the secondary. They get a little more leeway in the O-line. It is not a conspiracy it is just that both teams have earned what they have over time. With that said, Northwestern dropped back and threw the ball 64 times in that game. To not get called for at least 1 holding call in that time is almost impossible.

Makes perfect sense to move him to the offensive line. TE get converted to O-linemen all the time. The fact of the matter is he is a big guy that is very athletic, but his pass catching abilities are not as good as some of the other TE.

This I agree with. If they can play clean penalty wise, I mean like maybe 6 or so and go plus 2 in TO they have a chance. I think NU's offense can move the ball on Wisconsin some. This is not a vintage great Wisconsin defense. It is a good defense, solid and doesn't make mistakes but, the only team they have really played with an offensive pulse this year is Iowa, and they had like 4 TO in the game. They have to sell out to stop the run that is what they have to do. You can't let them run for 250 yards and expect to win. They need to keep it at about 125-150 yards and make Hornibrook beat them with his arm. If he does than hats off to Wisconsin and they win. BYU beat them by playing very physical at the LOS I don't know if Nebraska has that capability. It really comes down to playing a clean game penalty and TO wise and I am not sure that NU can do that. If they had in the other 3 games they are probably 3-1 right now.

I have always thought Bill Murray shines more when he is doing a supporting roll or in ensemble stuff.

Yep, a 10-3 season in 03 sucked. I much prefer the 5-7 in Callahan''s first year. Yeah I know your counter is that all 3 losses were blowouts. I don't remember Nebraska really having some chance at Ngata. Wasn't me committed to NU for about a week and a half, them committed to Oregon?

I didn't want Solich fired in 2003 for one simple reason. He needed more time with his new staff to recruit and develop his own program. He actually made some very good hires and had a pretty good recruiting class started when he was fired. At that point in time Nebraska didn't need a complete rebuild it needed fine tuning, but everyone got impatient. Too many people didn't realize that Nebraska was still a really good program at the time. The were too worried about being great. It still boggles my mind that so many people thought when TO retired it would just go on forever, without any drop off. I knew it wouldn't last forever. When legendary coaches retire things are not the same. Alabama muddled through about 25 years of very average football after Bear Bryant retired. They had 2-3 really good years under Stallings but he was an old man when he took the job. Look at FSU, Miami, Tennessee, Texas, USC all traditionally great teams that have struggled of late. It takes a great coach. I think SF is that coach, but it is going to be a rebuild and not be something overnight. It takes time. It took years for Barry Alvarez to build Wisconsin into what they have now, it took Ferentz 4-5 years to bring Iowa back to respectability. It might take years at Nebraska.