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Doesn't really mean anything, but Herbstreit tweeted that our win was #9 on the 10 most impressive wins of the week.

Hahaha...now that says a lot to how convincing the win was if Herbstreit was willing to admit it. Probably took everything he had to say that. Now, if we can only get some of our fans to believe that.

Bet we could manipulate a poll to show that 2013 Nebraska is the 3rd best college football team of all time!

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that it's close to midterms. I can't speak for everyone at UNL, but I have two midterm tests next week. That very well could have been part of it too.

You're right, most college students are probably studying at 11am on Saturday mornings.

I learned from reading this thread that we have a lot of fans who are utterly determined to look at the defense as a glass-half-empty unit. This was an OBVIOUS step forward for the defense, and while it was not yet a complete game, they held a pretty potent Illinois offense to half their typical production.

 

But rather than look at that, people feel it's more important (cooler? more "realistic?") to point out the flaws. Our championship defenses had flaws. The 2009 defense had flaws.

 

Celebrate the successes when you have them, even the minor ones. This is a fickle game and success can be quite fleeting.

Yep. After everything else we've seen this season, I don't know how anyone can look at today's defensive performance and not be at least somewhat more encouraged than we have been since the end of August.

I'm loving what Tommy Armstrong is showing us so far, but I don't think it's enough to unseat a healthy Martinez. Armstrong hasn't faced adversity in a game yet, and we know that Martinez has the ability to rise to the occasion it tight spots, even if he is mistake prone at other times.

Going back to Martinez's freshman year, even as bright as his future looked, he still had a number of freshman jitters that cost us, and almost any freshman starter can expect the same growing pains. I would still prefer to have Martinez in those situations when we get to the tough stretch of our schedule, assuming he is healthy enough to be out there.

I agree he has NFL talent, but his history of fumbling will hurt his value, imo. It's hard enough for any RB these days to be a high draft pick, unless he totally eliminates the fumbles altogether (he certainly looked great today), I would find it hard to imagine that his draft stock would justify skipping his senior year of college.

Good thing them crystal footballs make it ok for Saban to act like a complete f'ing prick.

If I were a media member, I would have immediately started asking questions about the situation, especially the things that he specifically said not to even ask about, just to get a soundbite of his pissy reaction.

I'm the Dalai Lama!

I thought this was Animal Science:

I don't think Marvin has enough experience to be a DC.

Sanders was DC for 3 years at North Carolina and for one year at FAU, in addition to a pretty good resume as DB coach, so I don't think experience would hold him back.

But from the rumors I've heard (no idea if they are accurate, but seems to be consistent with the same rumors that others know), Marvin's ship has sailed from NU. I don't think it was a criminal issue, but certainly philanderous and scandalous.

Thanks for the research. I've done some serious lifting back in the day and I thought that seemed pretty sick. (hard to believe the local wrap could make a mistake... )

 

I'm more apt to believe and recognize Pitchford at 300 with his mass. Add his explosiveness, strength, 6"11 size and attitude and he could really be something special.

It's pretty impressive for a guy that tall. Bench pressing is difficult for tall guys with long arms, so anyone near 7 foot that can press 300 is darn good. Dwight Howard is one of those freaks who can move a lot of weight, if the youtube videos are to be believed, but a lot of others cannot. Kevin Durant could not even do a single rep of 185 at his pro combine. Of course, bench press strength has very little carryover to b-ball skills on the court, so whatever I suppose!

 

Wilson says that, knowing the 6-2, 203-pound Peltz is also the team’s strongest player, with a bench press of 380 pounds. Pitchford is next, with a bench of 300.

Peltz with a 380 bench ? Typo ?

 

Gotta be a typo, that is huuuuge weight for a guy that size.

The collegiate powerlifting record for bench press for a 198 pound guy is 391. http://www.goheavy.net/records/viewrecordset.aspx?recordsetguid=1cc8f861-7faf-4416-ad40-59525efe5df4

It would be absolutely mindboggling for a 6'2" basketball player to approach a bench press record.

And Poor JoePa.........probably still alive if no Penn State fiasco.

 

 

 

What? He might be. Lord knows coaching Penn State was the only thing keeping him alive. Haven't you ever seen an elderly person retire and instantly age way faster than they did before?

I was more referring to the "Poor JoePa" part.

And Poor JoePa.........probably still alive if no Penn State fiasco.

 

 

Talent alone won't win you anything.

You and I would simply disagree on this point.

If talent alone won you games, don't you think Texas would have a couple more championships? Or USC? Michigan? Coaching is just as important as talent.

We could say that Texas' lone championship was based more on talent than anything, specifically Vince Young's talent to take them over the edge. But with the amount of talent that they have had, better coaching certainly could have carried them to more championships. Auburn's championship rode on Cam Newton's amazing talent, I don't think many people think of Gene Chizik as a great coach. But winning championships is hard, it takes a hell of a lot more than just a windfall of talent. You gotta have excellent coaching, and even a few strokes of luck here or there (although a well coached team tends to make its own luck) to get all the way to the top, and especially to stay there for any period of time.

I still don't get the fear of Michigan State. They are so bad on offense that I just can't be afraid of them.

NU's D has a knack for allowing mediocre offenses to have big days. And our offense is consistently inconsistent. On the other hand, Martinez shredded a pretty good MSU defense last year, and we crushed them last time they came to Lincoln.

When was the last time Michigan lost a home game in November to anyone but Ohio State, other than during the miserable RichRod years?

Quite the qualifiers for a question. That leaves THREE games in the last 5.5 years.

But yes, you are right, they won those three.

 

Lol, I didn't think about how much that limited the most recent years, you're right. But I was thinking even before RichRod came on. Lloyd Carr didn't lose at home in November either (or very rarely anyway), not that he has anything to do with anything today. The point is, Michigan has a pretty good homefield advantage. They'll have much better odds of winning against us than the OP lays out.

I'll be the first one to say it and probably get blasted,( I'm not even sure what the rule is). What if Taylor is out say the next 2 or 3 games and Armstrong/Kellogg play good that Bo decides to try and get a medical redshirt for Taylor?

Nope. Taylor already used his redshirt, he will not have missed two seasons due to injury, and I'm not sure that turf toe would count as a season-ending injury (he can still play, he's just not 100%). No chance at a medical redshirt.

A special case involves the eligibility of a player who loses the majority of a season to injury. Popularly known as a medical redshirt, a hardship waiver may be granted an athlete who appears in fewer than 30% of his or her team's competitions (with none coming after the midway point of the season), then suffers a season-ending injury. A player who is granted such a waiver is treated for the purposes of his or her eligibility as though he or she had not competed in that season.

On rare occasions, a player may be allowed to play in his or her sixth year of college if he or she suffered a serious injury which kept him or her from playing for more than one season. Former Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Jason White is perhaps the best known example of this, as he had redshirted his freshman year, then subsequently tore the ACL in both knees, causing him to miss nearly two years of eligible playing time. A more recent example is former Houston Cougars quarterback Case Keenum, now a member of the Houston Texans practice squad. His story is similar to that of White; Keenum redshirted his freshman year of 2006, and then tore an ACL three games into the 2010 season, which would have otherwise been his final year of eligibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_(college_sports)

I always wondered that myself. Personally I think it looks sort of ridiculous.

You know what else is ridiculous? The way kids these days wear those oversized tennis shoes with the laces taken out. What if they had to run? What if they were being chased by a bear?

 

November 9th @ Michigan (The Big House) Sagarin Ranking #34

 

Probability of Wolverine Victory = 52-57%

I don't know how these percentages were calculated, and I know Michigan hasn't looked too impressive so far this season, but I would tend to think that they have a higher probability than 52-57% of winning ANY game in the Big House, regardless of the opponent.

In fact, I'll go as far to say that to only give Michigan a 52% chance of winning this game is ridiculous. When was the last time Michigan lost a home game in November to anyone but Ohio State, other than during the miserable RichRod years?

I agree with Newby's five yard horizontal levitation into the endzone. That was pretty cool...for a freshman.

If this isn't appropriate, then I'm okay with deleting it.

 

When debating something said in another post, it is often helpful to copy and paste what was said into your post. However, what is with copying and pasting the last three pages of the thread?

 

My guess is that some here don't know how to cut and paste a statement and then use the quote HTML to mark it as a quote.

 

Here is how it is done:

 

1. Find the statement in the other post you wish to include in your reply. Highlight it by right clicking the mouse, holding the right click, and dragging it across the sentence, paragraph, or however much needs to be included.

 

2. Once everything is highlighted, hit CTRL and C simultaneously, which is old school keyboard for "Copy"

 

3. Now go to the window of your reply. Left click where you want the quote to be, and press CTRL and V simultaneously. That will put the statement (or "paste" it) into your reply

 

4. Now highlight that statement by right clicking the mouse button, dragging the pointer across the statement until it is al highlighted.

 

 

 

5. Now find the quote icon in the toolbar. It will look like the caption bubble you see in cartoons. Click on that, and there will be a quote in brackets at the beginning of what you want to quote, and a quote with a slash at the end. It won't appear as such when you post your reply, it will put it in a box that denotes it is a quote.

 

Feel free to improve or correct these instructions as needed. My guess is that the amount of server space taken up by unneeded and unnecessary quoting of the entire thread would be huge.

 

If a person doesn't know how to do something and no one shows them, then they will continue not doing it. As an IT (computer) guy, I run across things like this more than one might think. Last week, I showed an office worker how to save a Word Document to "My Documents"...she has had a computer on her desk since Windows '98...but no one showed her how or explained to her why. Same with another guy who had a computer for eight years on his desk and didn't no how to send an e-mail...he could reply to one that was sent, but nobody showed him how to originate one himself.

1. Get frustrated with excessively long quoted posts.

2. Write excessively long and inefficient post giving a five-step guide for how to quote a post.

3. ?????

4. Profit

(just for fun I decided to quote the entire post)

NU: 37

Illini: 26

Pass: 250

Rush: 275

Woke up at 3...won't be able to get back down now.

 

Begin "Wisconsin is trashy and has no class" discussion...

What's that? Couldn't hear you over all the "eat sh!t f**k you" chants.

 

Ah there it is.

Come on now. You literally asked for that comment to be made in your OP!

 

Begin "Wisconsin is trashy and has no class" discussion...

What's that? Couldn't hear you over all the "eat sh!t f**k you" chants.