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Thought about this a while back. Manziel is listed on rivals as being recruited by a different TAMU coach, but I would have to think that Zac, as team QB's coach, still recruited him a little bit. Sherman's and ZT's last year on the staff was Johnny's first year in college and Johnny redshirted that year. Even though he was on scout team, ZT probably interacted and coached him up a tiny bit. Two completely different QB's, but it's still cool to think about nonetheless. Semi-related note: I think Martinez should try the same QB guru that Manziel went to, George Whitfield. No knock on Steve Calhoun, but Johnny in his spring ball before he was a starter was as interception-prone and as bad of a passer as freshman & sophomore Martinez. Manziel went to Whitfield in the summer after that, and I watched Johnny from his first game and all of his subsequent nationally televised games and his improvement throughout the season was unbelievably fast. He was making throws against Alabama he wasn't making against Florida in their season opener. I have no qualms with Martinez as a passer this year, but his improvement seemed lesser than Johnny's, who is now a better passer than Taylor. If TM gave Whitfield a try he might be able to experience the same returns, but it's not absolutely necessary. Taylor can hang his hat on a job well-done this season. sorry for the man-crush on Manziel. He is already my favorite non-Husker player in college football history. You must be a young kid to have Manziel as your favorite player after just one yr. To compare him to some of the super stars that have come before him and played great for 3 to 4 yrs. this kid hasn't really done anything yet. No conference titles, NC or any type of hardware and you have him as the greatest in college football history. You sir have a very limited exposure to the real football. The kid had an amazing freshmen yr, won the heisman due to the fact wasn't any competition for the award this yr. You could say he won by default.We'll see what his encore is like in 13. My guess is he'll have his head handed to him. He won't sneak up on anyone next yr. TAMU gets lit up next yr, I see at least 4 losses, and a couple of close wins that could be losses. .... HAHA is anyone taking this guy seriously?

And you're basing this statement on what exactly? Tommy will start more than one game next yr because he'll earn it. The kid is a stud, can already pass better than Taylor, he's not as fast a runner, but he does have moves which taylor does not. Taylor runs like a track star, no forward lean and no lateral movement, and couldn't juke my sister. Taylor is a great athlete playing qb, while Tommy is going to be a great qb for us. I'm basing my opinion on players comments that are on the team and play with these guys everyday. Only time will tell of course, but let's face facts, Taylor is not a great qb and never will be. Eric took a team upon his back and got to the NC game before a defense could shut him down. Taylor gets shut down by every good team we play. I think back to all the great texass players that had great speed but really never amounted to anything. Taylor will be one of these types of players. I give credit where credit is due, and Taylor hasn't done anything to deserve to be mentioned in the same category as some of the Husker greats. I'm not referring to titles or conference championships. Taylor cannot take the team on his back and win a game. GBR 1HuskrFan... Did you watch any games this year? Because there's no possible way you could have with that comment you just made right there.

I completely agree. Martinez is faster than Tommie Frazier ever was and, if my memory serves me correct, is a statistically better thrower. Frazier had a 48% completion percentage in 1995. Can you imagine the uproar if Taylor threw for that low of a percentage? Biggest difference I see is that Tommie was a winner period. Yeah, he had some tools, but so did Turner. As did Vince Ferragamo and David Humm. We've had some studs at the QB position, and Taylor is nothing other than a great athlete playing qb. It's the age old question. Would you rather have Peyton, Marino, or Farve? Answer is easy, take the winner, Farve. Doesn't mean he's the best, just means he's is a winner. I've got great news for you boys, Tommy Armstrong is a winner, and he'll start more than one game in 13. You heard it here first. This kid is a winner and he'll take NU to the next level. Book it. GBR I think you'd be surprised that the answer would vary quite a bit based on individual opinion.

Walk-on O-linemen are great. We need the bodies and this kid looks like he's got great size.

We stopped recruiting Willis?

Please let us all know this "hell" you suffer because your wife is saving animal lives daily? Hey Hedley look how many poor defense less animals i killed, all shot well within the laws BTW. Yummy yummy How does if feel to have a thread hijaked. I've never snow goose hunted. But it sure looks like fun. Plus the damage these birds do up north during the summer because of exploded numbers makes hunting all the more beneficial.

Oh... So how do you change it? How do you persuade millions of Americans not to eat that way?

Why would we want to? We've bred and domesticated species into livestock for our benefit of consuming their products. To sustain life on this planet for a longer period of time. :-) I'll partly agree with you. Not that eating meat is wrong, but in the ways that it could be done could be more environmentally efficient.

I would agree that I would choose range fed over confined meat any day. But I'm not giving up meat, because someone thinks eating meat is wrong.

Why would we want to? We've bred and domesticated species into livestock for our benefit of consuming their products.

A great way to show you why exactly a person would be Vegan or vegetarian is to watch the documentary Vegucated. You can watch it on Netflix even. Best way to explain it to someone is that documentary I have found. Me personally, I absolutely love steak, chicken etc you name it. However the way in which the livestock we eat is punished and treated isn't humane and honestly makes me cringe. I have also found that when filling myself with plant based and whole grain meals I don't have the same crappy feeling I used to with a big steak. Other things such as the correlation between red meat consumption and cardiovascular disease and cancer were things I would prefer to try to avoid. That is just the tip of the iceberg but a little blip of vegan life :-D You know nothing about the livestock industry. I know animals are tortured and killed at slaughterhouses. I know industry standards are not where they need to be What kind of torture?... and killed? At a slaughterhouse? Noooooooo, couldn't be.

I don't find the notion that persons should not eat meat to be ridiculous at all. You don't need to kill and eat animals to survive or live a long and healthy life. You eat them because society finds it acceptable as a whole and you were raised eating it. This is more of a morality issue for you then.

Well I grew up on a farm and I can assure you not all animals slaughtered in this world are killed inhumanely. Unless you think killing animals is inhumane and wrong in itself, but I don't. Secondly, I try and have vegetables and/or fruit with every meal or at least everyday. The notion that people should never eat meat is ridiculous.

A great way to show you why exactly a person would be Vegan or vegetarian is to watch the documentary Vegucated. You can watch it on Netflix even. Best way to explain it to someone is that documentary I have found. Me personally, I absolutely love steak, chicken etc you name it. However the way in which the livestock we eat is punished and treated isn't humane and honestly makes me cringe. I have also found that when filling myself with plant based and whole grain meals I don't have the same crappy feeling I used to with a big steak. Other things such as the correlation between red meat consumption and cardiovascular disease and cancer were things I would prefer to try to avoid. That is just the tip of the iceberg but a little blip of vegan life :-D Nothing moderation and exercise can't fix.

Braden Smith... That kid is going to be a big time football player.

Why anyone would be a vegetarian or vegan is beyond me. Beef, pork, chicken, mmmmmmmmm.

I just believe there are a lot of people out there who think Saban is some sort of coaching genius. I don't think he is. His defenses and offenses aren't anything unique and they don't need to be. He's got a team full of NFL caliber players so he can play simple, fundamental, line up, punch football. Now with that said, Saban can recruit. He's good at it, he's got an eye for it and for in order him to be as successful as he's been he's needed those players. With Alabama being smack dab in the middle of prime recruiting country, Saban can pick apart all the states around him. Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, jump a couple states over into Texas, his own state, ect. ect... Life is good for Saban. The only reason Saban would be any better than Bo at Nebraska (now) is because of his resume. Prior to his championships and success I don't think Saban would be anything over the top, best coach in the land material at Nebraska. He would hate it at Nebraska.

Let's go steal one of Michigan's lineman!

People want too believe that he isn't an excellent college coach, but that just isn't true.... He is as good as there is......... I highly doubt he would be having the success he has at Alabama as he would if he went back to MSU. Its the kids he can recruit at Alabama, and kids wanting to go to Alabama. Kids don't just want to go to MSU like they do the SEC. All the success can't go to just Sabin though. He isn't coaching all those kids alone. A decent amount of his success is due to his assistants. Something a lot of people tend to forget about. I think much of Alabama's defense has its success because of Kirby Smart than it does Nick Saban. So you can just plug anyone in at Alabama and win? I don't think so, and the late 90's and earl 2000's proved that much. Every coach has too have great recruits too win championships, but you can't hold it against a guy that he was able too bring in top-shelf talent. Saban is the brains behind that Alabama defense, similar to the way Bo is here at Nebraska. Harry---- Saban would win at Nebraska, and it wouldn't take him long too do it, IMO..... Well to each their own.

Saban is the head coach on the best team in college football. I guess if by default that makes him the best coach, then I suppose you can call him that. But IMO you can easily make a case for Chip Kelly or Urban Meyer for that matter as well. Chip Kelly was handed Oregon as an up and coming program to begin with. Oregon people weren't overly torn by him leaving, seeing as Helfrich is Chip Jr., supposedly. Chip is a good head coach, but he was handed that program in pristine condition. Have a better case with Urban, but would still like to see what he does at OSU. Saban demands perfection, achieves it, and demands more. No one prepares like Saban. No one motivates like Saban. He also dominates the SEC, for the most part. Urban is close, we'll see. No one prepares like Saban? No one?

People want too believe that he isn't an excellent college coach, but that just isn't true.... He is as good as there is......... Saban has been an excellent coach at places like LSU and Alabama. He'd be an excellent coach at places like Florida, Auburn, Georgia, Texas, USC without a doubt in my mind... But put him at Nebraska.. I just don't know. 2000- 8/4 2001- 10/3 2002- 8/5 2003- 13/1 2004- 9/3 48/16 @ 75% win ratio. He would have been reamed and fired if he was here at Nebraska during that time period. I wouldn't say he was a great coach at LSU, but I would say he was a decent one. One season he had a 1 loss. Look at the recruiting classes. The first couple years tend to not factor in as much, as he doesn't have "his" kind of players yet. Oh, and how many national titles does he have, regardless of talent? ----> See ND, USC, LSU, Texas. Places like USC and Texas are kicking themselves every year because they know they should be in the national title conversation every single year. Some people at Nebraska are upset with Bo. But If Nebraska had that same kind of talent in our backyard as Texas and USC does and weren't winning 12 games a year, we'd be canning coaches every 2 or 3 years.

Saban is the head coach on the best team in college football. I guess if by default that makes him the best coach, then I suppose you can call him that. But IMO you can easily make a case for Chip Kelly or Urban Meyer for that matter as well.

People want too believe that he isn't an excellent college coach, but that just isn't true.... He is as good as there is......... Saban has been an excellent coach at places like LSU and Alabama. He'd be an excellent coach at places like Florida, Auburn, Georgia, Texas, USC without a doubt in my mind... But put him at Nebraska.. I just don't know.

I'd like to see Saban at Michigan State again... I'm sure he'd average around 8 wins a season.

Yeah we should be hiring coaches who take teams to Super Bowls dog gonnit.