Ulty

Terrell Farley, even though he shone for only one year?

Even though the '95 defense was full of stars, Farley was a standout and always seemed to fly to the ball and be a disruptive force. Lavonte David reminded me a lot of TF, in fact.

Among Bartoo's insights : that Nebraska has less recruiting attrition than many teams. He pointed out that in all Div 1 of all players that signed an LOI only 36.1 % were on that same team roster this season. He currently has Nebraska at 15 and third in Big 10. Nebraska and many Big 10 schools are recruiting above their normal composite which shows more talent will be coming into the League. Nebraska tipping point this season having 11 players from 2008 class which gave valuable experience. Iowa, Miami, Boston College having really poor recruiting. He will have projections for next season before spring ball.

 

Maybe its the Mike's Hard Fruit Punch, but I have a hard time believing that only 36.1% of the players we sign in the 2013 class will be on the team in 2014. That number seems awfully inflated. Is Buffalo or Idaho or similar program losing their whole recruiting classes on a yearly basis?

I'm no recruitnik, so only wondering/guessing, but could that low percentage at least partially be a result of teams (particularly in the SEC) oversigning so much? When you oversign, you can't possibly keep everyone on the roster.

Don't forget Gomes and Hagg.

I don't recall a more exciting/potent defensive backfield than when we say Amukamara, Dennard, Hagg, and Gomes back there at the same time. It's hard to rank them in comparison to having Mike and Ralph Brown together for four years, or to the 1995 unit (the DL got way more well-deserved pub, but the DBs showed against Florida that they had it goin' on), but the 2009 DBs were so much fun to watch and inspired a lot of confidence (in combination with Suh up front) when we knew the offense wasn't going to get it done.

what is funny about this Miami debate....are they really coming to Lincoln?

when I young....I saw Nebraska going to Miami nearly every season.. ...Now Miami is going to pull the plug of coming to Lincoln?

 

+1

 

I remember when the game was announced, couldn't believe it myself when I saw that Miami for once is getting off their lazy butts to come up here and play us. Really was unfair back in the day that we had to play them so much on their home turf with such huge stakes on the line.

I only hope our fans treat them well..

When I went to the Rose Bowl to watchus lose to that 2001 Miami team, I was dreading running into Miami fans and having to hear them talk a buynch of shite. However, every one of the Miami fans I ran into in the 3 or 4 days leading up to the game were very polite and classy. I was pleasantly surprised. Apparently the fans who actually travel are much different than the personas of the players on the field. I would hope and expect that the Miami fans who come to Lincoln for the game in a couple years will be classy and knowledgable, and that it will be a good experience for Husker fans and Cane fans alike.

I actually liked the last Star Trek and am looking forward to the new one next summer.

I'd actually have to agree with you. Yeah, they took a nice shortcut with the whole "now the whole timeline has changed" bit but other than that I thought it was a pretty good effort.

I've accepted that I am in the minority for hating that movie. I actually thought the skewed timeline angle was a pretty clever way to reboot it, but I hated almost everything else. But I feel so alone.

Without answering all of the questions, I consider myself a realist - I'm happy winning 10 games and contending for conference championships, even if we never become National Champions again - as long as the program stays clean and I'm entertained.

I like Bo. I don't really think he's a great head coach, but he's pretty good. My biggest concern has been lack of discipline. He seems to have become more personally disciplined on the sidelines, now it just needs to be instilled in the team on the field.

I like Martinez...now. I was not a fan of him his first couple years, but he has really grown as a player and a leader. Overall, he is good for the Huskers and I can see him having a dazzling season as a senior. Not one of the top-5 all time, however.

I really like Beck's offense but harbor no ill-will toward Watson. Watson is good at what he knows, but he was not good at what Bo wanted. I'm glad Watson is successful in his new gig, he probably should not have been kept at Nebraska as long as he was.

I don't have favorite (or least) favorite media personalities. Dirk is usually a tool, but I actually like his perspective in many of his articles (maybe that makes me a tool too?). McKewon is a very talented writer whom I enjoy reading, but sometimes he tries too hard. I hated Jim Rose as a play-by-play guy on the radio.

I always liked Terrance Nunn - his reputation took a dive after the Texas fumble, but he had overall one of the best careers of any receiver at NU. Didn't he start as a freshman? He had a great game in the Alamo Bowl to help beat Michigan and was solid throughout his career. He faded some during his senior year but overall (except for that one fumble) was a bright spot during a dark time. I wouldn't necessarily put him near the top of the list, and I even think all of our current starters are better than Nunn, but I was always a big fan.

Nunn was overshadowed in his last year or two by Mo Purify, who I think was one of the most talented receivers we ever had. It's too bad Purify only really had a year and a half to play, and he was under-utilized. He seemed to be able to make insane grabs when the ball was not on target. In the 2007 Kansas game, which was a horrible debacle, one of the few bright spots was Purify having a really good game against Aqib Taalib, who was regarded as one of the best CBs in college football that year.

Kenny Bell has that same kind of ability as Purify to find the ball, with more speed, and four years to showcase it, which is really exciting.

Also, I lol'd at seeing Frantz Hardy's name anywhere close to a best-of list. Niles Paul had some good talent and flashes of brilliance, but way too many drops and mistakes (I think Paul's drops made us forget how many Hardy had). Paul had some clutch plays that won us a couple games, but some really bad performances that lost us a few. Never lived up to the hype.

J.J. Abrams is going to direct it.

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=787250&affid=100055

Kind of weird that the same guy doing Star Trek isnow going to do Star Wars. I think a lot of people like Abrams and the stuff that he's done, so maybe people will be happy with this, but it does nothing for me.

I've never been impressed with Abrams, and I thought the Star Trek movie he made a couple years ago was really frickin terrible. I mean gawd-awful. But I haven't found many people who agree with me on that, people seemed to love that movie for some reason.

If that was no-holds-barred wrestling, that's still legal.

http://www.theonion....eadline:default

I Just Want To Apologize To Manti Te'o For What I Put Him Through

By Lennay Kekua

The worst part about this embarrassing scandal is that it has all been at the expense of a generous, kind, and, above all, trusting man named Manti Te’o, whose only crime was caring for me: an imaginary person who does not exist.

LOL!

Read it CN. Thorough. Detailed. It has to be true. You literally can NOT make that stuff up. I dont see how it's not true.

Seems pretty obvious, right?

There is no Lennay Kekua, but the woman whose image was used to create Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend appears to be one Diane O'Meara, a marketing executive in Los Angeles. Yes, she has a lawyer, and, no, she won't be telling her side of the story right now. The New York Post,Inside Edition, and local Los Angeles news stations are just some of the many outlets scrambling for interviews with O'Meara, whom they have identified as the woman Deadspin called Reba in its account of the hoax concocted around the Notre Dame star and the woman whose private Facebook and Instagram photos were used on national TV and appeared on Kekua's fake Twitter account.

 

http://www.theatlant...nd-photo/61160/

 

Side note: Diane would get it.

O'Meara? So now we have an Irish name directly connected, which correlates with my connection between the Irish and Samoan mafias as stated above. Irrefutable!

Here's another theory that is totally plausible, and if it turns out to be true, I get full credit:

Lennay Kekua is real, and she's still alive! But she's a middle-boss type figure in a vast conspiracy that involves the Irish Mob, Samoan drug lords, the Church of Latter Day Saints and the CIA. This thing is huge.

It's all part of an extortion ring to elevate the public persona of Manti Te'o and put Notre Dame back at the top of the world of athletics. The above mentioned organizations were all involved in promoting Te'o and fixing many of Notre Dame's games. The LDS church also wanted to use Te'o's rising stardom to boost its own image and further its influence, which would have come to fruition had Mitt Romney won the presidency (more on that later). Lennay's family and the Tuiasasopo's have been involved in or indebted to Samoan mobs for years, and the Samoans have been trying to gain a foothold in the international drug trade. The Samoans finally struck a deal with the Irish Mob, based on the east coast, to work the drug trade together and take over the American drug market using a two-front pincer movement. Of course the Irish Mob have been runing Notre Dame University for years, and as part of this new drug coalition, have been funneling in steroids to the university, and helping Somoan recruits (like Te'o) get in there.

Now, Te'o was coerced by both mobs to go to Notre Dame, as they recognized his star appeal, his intelligence, good looks, boy scout image, and athletic talent. What a perfect pawn! If this kid becomes a star, even a Heisman candidate, his notoriety could vastly increase the already notable wealth of Notre Dame University and both mobs. This is where Lennay comes in - she is real, but actually in her 30s, not early 20s (she just looks young) and is a major player in all of this. She was used to seduce Manti Te'o to further gain his cooperation in this whole scheme, and he fell for it. The Tuiasasopo's were coereced into being a part of it as well. However, as his senior year began, and all the drugs and resources pumped into Notre Dame by these mobs finally started to produce a contender, a compelling story using Te'o would all but guarantee a stranglehold over the drug market by the Samoans and the Irish. Te'o saw what was going on and became uncomfortable with it. He wanted out. So what did they do? They wacked his grandma and his girlfriend, and threatened even worse if he didn't comply. Once Te'o was a huge star and bringing in NFL contracts and endorsements, the true extortion would kick in.

Now the CIA was secretly backing Romney for president for their own twisted behind-the-scenes political agenda, and they had been secretly working with the LDS church to promote Romney. The CIA, no dummies, were aware of the activities of the Samoans and Irish but were waiting to see how it played out. The CIA figured they could stand to profit from the mob's activities but could take them down once they got too powerful. So they even helped nudge them along for the time being. At the same time, as Te'o's star-power started to become evident, the LDS wanted to promote him even further as well. A Mormon President and a Mormon Heisman Trophy winner with a heart-warming story? Mormon missionaries were drooling at the thought, and Mormon HQ in Salt Lake City was planning a full-scale campaign to take over American religioun beginning in 2013. So all of these groups were working together in earnest.

Teo's grandma really was killed, but Lennay, with whom Te'o was in love but didn't realize that she was involved in this whole operation, was kept alive. Te'o didn't know it - the mobs directed the whole story to further promote Te'o and Notre Dame. Along with the fixing of games, it was working perfectly. Shortly after the real death of grandma and fake death of Lennay, Romney dominated the first presidential debate, thanks to the CIA feeding him answers via remote. The plan continued, but when it turned out that Romney was going to lose the election after all, things started to unravel.

After the election, the LDS got cold feet. They were a little too entrenched with the whole plan. The church was not afraid of the mob, but was afraid of it's legacy and reputation should the public find out their involvement in this vast conspiracy. But they knew too much, so the charade couldn't continue. LDS pulled out, and the CIA began working with the mob to remove any records of Lennay's existence. This involved purging records, silencing witnesses, etc. Lennay and the Tuiasosopos were kept alive because they were still useful cogs in the Samoan mob's drug trafficking operations, and they were going to need all the help they could get now that the plan was falling apart. To top it off for the CIA, the mobs helped to create a scandal which led to David Petreus leaving the CIA. And with Petreus gone, so were all of the secrets of this nefarious plot. The woman with whom Petreus had the affair became involved with the Irish mob during her time at Harvard. The mob began working with her to seduce Petreus as soon as he took the head role at the CIA.

With the LDS and CIA out of the picture, the mobs tired to continue their operation and kept Te'o in the limelight as a desperate promotional tactic to further the drug operation. The story of Lennay continued to be a national sensation, even as her records were wiped clean. Lennay herself faded back behind the scenes. Without the safety net of the CIA's involvement, though, tensions rose between the Samoan and Irish mobs, and the partnership fell apart altogether. That's about the time that Te'o received a call from Lennay's number - the Tuiasasopos were trying to send him a message to protect him, but they couldn't really say anything without jeopardizing their own lives. Te'o won't come out with the truth now, for the same reasons - he looks like quite the fool, but to speak the truth would mean certain death for him and his family at the hands of the mob. Of course Notre Dame got rolled in the NCG because the mob was no longer fixing it. ESPN and other institutions of journalism never dug any deeper because their own ties to the mob prevented it. But Deadspin is not yet mob-controlled and broke the story wide open.

So Lennay is still alive and in hiding. Te'o was duped and was a pawn in this whole devious game all along. The Tuiasasopos aren't talking because of the Samoan mob. The CIA is now waging an underground war with the Samoans and Irish. And the only ones paying the price for all of this are Manti Te'o, his grandma, Mitt Romney, and David Petreus. Everyone else gets out with their hands clean.

ST gunners get no love.

Oh yeah, Brandon Rigoni!

Tyrone Hughes was an awesome returner in the NFL - but I don't recall much about his Husker career.

Johnny Rodgers, DeJuan Groce, Alex Henery, Josh Brown and it's a tossup for the fifth.

Kris Brown was better than Josh Brown (although Josh had a much better pro career).

https://twitter.com/LennayKay

My statement: This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but I have been told by Alabama's offense that Manti Te'o is not real.

Meh, whoever is hacking that account can't be more creative or amusing than that? Come on, man, the whole sports world is watching, troll us better than that!

Can this story get any weirder/better?

Absolutely - we have yet to hear actual motives, who all was involved and to what extent, and other embarassing details behind it all.

In comparison to other scandals in which dark secrets and cover-ups became unraveled before our very eyes (like Jerry Sandusky, Bernie Madoff, Trayvon Martin, Charlie Rogers, etc.), this one is not about lives being ruined by murder, abuse, grand theft, or other criminal activity. This is just pure entertainment (except for those directly involved, of course).

Yes/No question to HuskerBoard - Can this story get any weirder/better? Remember, we're supposed to get an update from "the girlfriend" via twitter in an hour or so.

From a g-g-g-ghost?!?!

I haven't been so intrigued by a developing hoax story since the balloon boy in Colorado a couple years ago. Remember him?

I remember that. The dad did time for that stunt, didn't he?

Yes, but I think it was mainly because they had so many government agencies involved and he racked up a nice bill with them. I mean other than lying to the authorities that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax

Did a little time and some restitution for all the police services. I remember watching the balloon's flight live, and after it landed it was empty!!! Then the circus afterward was a lot of fun. That won't even compare to the Manti Teo circus if this story takes off, though. He'll probably wish he had his own weather balloon to escape in.

I haven't been so intrigued by a developing hoax story since the balloon boy in Colorado a couple years ago. Remember him?

Husker football?

/moved to rumorville

Sorry, rookie mistake.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Is the whole story a hoax? This seems reeeeeeally weird.

There may be serious NCAA sanctions coming for Oregon soon. The investigation is winding down and almost complete so.... we will see.

 

I have been following Oregon and NCAA violations - what are they looking into and is stuff that would fall directly on Kelly's shoulders?

If it does fall on Kelly's shoulders, how does that effect his job in the NFL? The Eagles HC position? The NFL has already set the precident that they can and will punish for actions prior in college with the Tressel and Pryor situation.

I don't think Pete Carroll didn't suffer any repercussions when he bolted for the NFL as soon as USC was getting hammered.

 

If you don't kill animals with guns, you will kill them with your car.

Or disease and starvation due to overpopulation. Much more humane!

In college, I managed to score the digits and get a date with a smokin' hot bartender, which was noteworthy because she was always getting hit on by college dudes every night and was used to ignoring such flirtations, and my friends said there was no way she would even give me the time of day.

 

When I took her out, it came out during the conversation that she was a vegetarian, and when I asked why, she said that she couldn't eat anything with a face.

 

I was at a loss for words. I looked down at the burger I had ordered, and seeing no face on it, enjoyed eating it and never called her again.

 

The point is: beauty is only skin deep, but meat is always delicious.

 

So your thesis of this post is that you gave up possibly getting laid by a "smoking hot" bartender, just so you could enjoy your burger at that particular moment?....Might not be the best decision of your life....But good work nonetheless..

Nah, I didn't have a shot at getting laid on that date. Had that possibility been there, I would have played it a little differently. She was out of my league in terms of hotness, but not worth pursuing a relationship for just for the chance of getting laid down the road. I mean, she was a vegetarian.