ATLHusker

yeah 40 times aren't anything to worry about. there's a right way and plenty of wrong ways to do it, and you won't find many high school kids who know the right way.

seems like he has a completely different top 5 every time i see this updated.

always seems to be in good position, and i love the way he tackles. looks like he can throw the big hit, but always sets himself well and wraps up. i'm tired of watching people bounce off missed tackles because we didn't wrap up. seems to high point the ball really well when he goes for a pick or a deflection too. i want him N.

i think everyone would vote for that, but as far as what has happened so far in the b1g northwestern is the closest thing to a rivalry in my mind.

i voted

saw a picture of snoop with jim mora with some UCLA gear on. i think snoop switched sides, but either way this kid doesn't leave LA, unless he really likes his new offer from FSU. either way, he isn't coming to lincoln.

if you guessed zero on how many holding penalties they were called for, you would be right again.

i get frustrated with beck and pap just as much as anyone else, and maybe more than some, but i do have faith in the system that's in place. we showed great improvement as the season went on, even with all the injuries we had. we had a lot of talent, but it was young talent. once they grasp the system, which i think we started to see, i think we will return to being at least a very good defensive team. i wouldn't be surprised next year if we have the best front 7 in the conference and one of the best period. i'm still not entirely sold on beck yet, but we haven't exactly got to see what he can do yet, and i choose to stay hopeful. we've got a lot of question marks going forward (secondary, qb, etc.) but i think there is a lot of promise, and i think the worst thing we can do is to start making massive changes. i know that nobody was thrilled with our first couple of recruiting classes, but you have to remember what we were dealing with. clownahan had basically run the program into the ground. most of the top level talent comes from the south. living down here, i know what the perception of UNL is. it's REALLY difficult to get high profile recruits to give up warm weather and pretty co-eds (believe me, the one's here are better than ours) to go play football in a cornfield when the team in said cornfield HASN'T BEEN WINNING. i know we all were spoiled by dr. tom, and expected success to just happen; but for anywhere not in an ideal geographic location, bringing back success does take time. i honestly don't feel that we are really behind schedule. sure, this past season was a little disappointing, but how many players did we lose? 20? i'm sure we would have managed at least 1 more win with an even halfway healthy roster. at the risk of being called a sunshine pumper... give it time guys, i really feel like we're close. that bowl win is going to help a lot. we haven't seen any direct benefit yet, because the powers that be in the media made sure to remind everyone that murray wasn't playing (no mention of martinez of course), but by next year all anyone will remember is who won and who lost. especially if the guy they played turns out to be good next year. who knows, signing day might even give us a couple of nice surprises.

janikowski might have been a make up pick for leaving peter warrick off at WR. he definitely deserved it more than blackmon.

it's amazing that so many people here complain about the alternate unis once a year, and then follow it up with some nonsense like "we have a lot more important things to worry about". i assume these "more important" things include putting a conference or maybe even national title contending team on the field. guess what guys, those things aren't mutually exclusive. as much as you may not like it, high school kids that we want to play for nebraska one day really like the flashy new unis, and that trend isn't going to change any time soon. you can laugh at oregon and their ridiculous uniforms all you want (i do it sometimes), but the fact is that they win, and they win because they get top level talent. it isn't like it has always been that way. anybody here know the first time they won 10 games in a season? 2000-2001. like it or not, tradition doesn't mean nearly as much to today's generation of players as it used to. they care much more about how they look on tv. for the record, i though that our unis against wisconsin looked horrible, but my opinion isn't the one that matters. what matters is the opinions of the players and the recruits, who for whatever reason seemed to like them. i'm not saying we should be like oregon and do this all the time, but i am saying that whether you like it or not you are going to have to put up with it once a year. well, if you want to keep getting anything resembling a good recruiting class you will. as much as i hate to admit it, this isn't the 90s anymore. we are no longer a premiere destination for recruits. lincoln is nowhere near a beach, it's cold, and the co-eds have NOTHING on SEC schools (and i doubt we pay nearly as well). we have to have some sort of attraction to get them interested in visiting. i like our chances with any recruit we can convince to give us an OV, because we have things nobody else can offer; but we do have to get them here. if that means wearing a uniform once a year that the fans hate, so be it. you may hate the uniforms, but i bet you hate losing more. i know i do.

Enjoying the hell out of your posts. I played football for 11 years and coached for 7. People throwing around these 40 times like there a dime a dozen isn't accurate. The only person I think I have heard of with a super low 40 time is Deon Sanders at the combine....I think. Bo Jackson still holds the record. 4.18 40 they actually claimed he did a 4.12, and then did a 4.18 the next week. 40s weren't electronically timed at the NFL combine or pretty much anywhere else until 1999 though, so anything timed before that is up for debate. since 1999, there have only been 18 official 40 times at the combine of 4.30 or under. one of which was by our very own fabian washington at 4.29. the record is 4.24 held by chris johnson in 2008 and rondel melendez in 1999. to echo what a few people said earlier, the 40 is an extremely overrated statistic that when not electronically timed is extremely subjective. it also greatly favors people who have been trained to run it. one of those 18 i mentioned earlier is marquise goodwin from texas with a 4.27, who represented team USA for track and field in the olympics. he has obviously been taught the correct technique. does anyone really think kids in high school are running a time as good as his? edit: deion sanders allegedly ran a 4.27 in 1989. i'm sure that one is fairly close to right, but 4.1anything is laughable at best.

a lot of CCs in GA have semsters ending in early may, and do 4 week courses where the classes are longer and taken every day in may, june, and july. where he is might do the same, which would mean he really has 2 semesters left before june. i hope so, because 24 is ridiculous. my question is, what was he doing before now if he needed to cram 52 credit hours into 8 or 9 months?

Braves, UGA Football.......Falcons, Hawks....................................................................................................................................................Georgia Tech Football Close... UGA football easily #1, Braves #2, Falcons #3, Auburn FB #4, Bama FB #5, UGA gymnastics #6, GT Basketball #7, UGA equestrian #8, Hawks #9, GT FB #10... you still have the hawks ranked too high. they're (somehow) behind GT football, all high school football, GT baseball, the gwinnett braves, florida football, fsu football, tennessee football, and the lady vols basketball team. i would have put bama football ahead of auburn football a couple of weeks ago, but we have lots of bandwagon fans in this state, so that might have changed. the hawks only managed to get 12k people to show up for a game against OKC a few days ago. that's about as sad as you can get. don't be surprised by the reaction of the UGA crowd to anything they perceive as a slight to their school, team, or conference. almost none of them are aware that football is played outside of the south, and the ones that do are convinced it's completely inferior to the brand that the south plays. the vast majority of UGA fans don't know or care anything about teams who don't play in the SEC, and that way of thinking even applies to the team FSU put on the field this year. i would be willing to bet that 70% of UGA fans (not the internet ones, all of them) think that auburn will not only beat FSU, but will do so in spectacular fashion.

any arguments about who teams beat being good or bad based on rankings is sketchy at best. as long as we have preseason rankings (so... forever) the rankings will be skewed toward whatever conference is perceived to be good at the beginning of the season, with teams from conferences the media doesn't like at a disadvantage. these preconceived notions will continue to affect the rankings as the season goes on. this is the reason that while SEC teams beat each other up, with nobody dropping very far in the rankings, it will be perceived as the entire conference being outstanding. at the same time, the same thing happens in the B1G, and it therefore obviously must mean that nobody in the conference is good, because they struggle to be dominant against each other. don't get me wrong, the SEC IS the best conference in the country right now. living down here with all their insufferable fanbases makes it hard to admit it, but it is a fact. however the gap is not NEARLY as large as the rankings generated by media outlets with a financial stake in their continued success make it out to be. i guess the point of this rant is to make sure we keep some perspective. just because a team is ranked does not necessarily mean they are any better than a team who is not. we can all agree on who the very best are, but outside of that the rankings aren't really very important. we won't really know anything about how the conferences match up against each other until the bowl games are played.

as someone living in the south who watches a lot of SEC football, i will tell you that they aren't nearly as scary of a conference to play as they have been lately (except alabama of course). i think our chances against any team we might possibly play are no worse than they were against michigan state, who will tell you the best players they had on the field that day had Ns on their helmets. personally i would rather play OU or the evil empire from austin, but i think we would get more national exposure playing against the SEC, so i'm happy either way. the best high school players in the country are in the south, so i think beating a team from down here is better for the program. not to mention it's a shorter trip for me from atlanta to florida, but i drive from here to lincoln every year, so that's not a huge deal.

this. that was big texas conference ridiculous. there were a lot of poor calls today going both ways, but that would have been laughably pathetic if i wasn't a husker fan.

armstrong will be johnny's backup next year.

let it be by the code

I'm pretty sure I saw something about Saban spending a couple of hours on Skype with Brice Ramsey. I don't want to rain on anyones parade but being from the south I know that when Bama talks kids listen. I'm thinking a commit flip might be possible. In which case, regardless of what I said earlier about fitting into the system, Jennings seems like a probable second choice targret for UGA. If he's a UGA lean that doesn't seem promising for us. Thoughts?

I honestly cannot remember any package deal ever come to fruition, kids always talk about though. Da'Rick Rogers pretty much demanded his high school QB get a scholarship to Tennessee before he signed but that's more of a hostage situation than a package deal.

Georgia already has their QB in 4* Brice Ramsey. He's a pro-style qb, so they may not offer Jennings. BTW, thanks for the profile creation Corncraze, as I know some posters were getting anxious lol. Don't be too concerned about UGA not offering. Jennings probably wouldn't be an ideal fit for their offense. Besides, as a Husker fan living in Georgia I would hate to feel like we based anything we do off of them.