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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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!

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

If I was a player I'd get on here and leak a bunch of vague, possibly false, info and claim to have a secret inside source, just to troll all you f'ers.

10 different Huskers with a reception so far.

... and VV, and Cross, and Turner, and Gerry, and Banderas, and Collins, and ... Sounds good! Now what about the future of the coaching staff?

That means our best tackler hasn't even been on the field!

Armstrong and Kellogg have each completed exactly 7 passes for 117 yards and a touchdown.

If we could read Tim Beck's thoughts: "Well, now that we've got a comfortable lead and I've proved the doubters wrong once again, I'm going to take the second half off. I deserve it."

I was at that Okie State game and stayed until the bitter end in a mostly empty stadium. There was something about that game that seemed historically significant, like I made a point of wathching it all. Kind of like the little boy taking responsibility for shooting Old Yeller himself. However, I turned off the Ohio State game in the 3rd Quarter, in my mind comparing it to Okie State, and thinking if we went through all this again, NU would never be back to the top. I only rushed back in the 4th Quarter after flabbergasted texts from friends and my brother. So that night, I was a f'ing fairweather fan, but never again will I shut it off early. Ironically, when I shut off the Ohio State game, I spent time with my wife instead, until I ran back to watch the end of the comeback. F'ing fairweather husband.

What would be the alternative to these two outcomes? Gravitating toward mediocrity?