BigRedBuster

Accountability, I tend to agree with you. If I were a top recruit in the next few years, I would start getting worried. The part that I believe will help Nebraska the most is the elimination of limitations on the staff. Nebraska's staff has to work harder than many places and travel a lot farther to get to many recruits. This will allow our program to be more active in more areas of the country all at the same time.

Where is that legal in baseball?? That's spiking and not legal in baseball. You don't see guys feel flying up in the air hitting guys in the thighs. You can slide in hard but if your spikes are up there is gonna be a brawl. It happens all the time in baseball. Short stops expect it and know how to move to avoid it. This player wasn't expecting it so he came real close to getting kicked in the junk.

This may have more to do with Lindsey not working out more than Bondi. If Bondi were to go down with injury next year, we only have one kicker on the team and that's Lindsey. I have absolutely no clue how good he is or if he is even an option.

Completely agree with this. Jackson was a great surprise this year and a big part of the reason why we had a top 10 rushing attack. BTW....you don't have a top 10 rushing attack going against the defenses we did without having a good O line that has been developed.

At the beginning of the year, I would hear or read a number of Husker fans that were claiming we must just be pathetic if we have walkons starting on the O line. It might have been on the old board I was at instead of here. As for the "working hard". Almost all players in the program work their azzes off. I honestly don't have an answer to why someone like Reeves doesn't blossom into a dominating player and a walkon takes their spot. BUT, the way I look at it is this. Looking at Reeves, and A Rod, it is always possible that those guys maxed out their potential. Who knows? Many things can happen. If Reeves, ARod, Pelini and Jackson hit the program and two are highly rated and two aren't, maybe the two that were highly rated simply were maxed out and didn't have the upside potential that the other two had. If you are going to develop the local talent through the Walkon program instead of in HS, then it is safe to say that most walkons are still not going to contribute much but the cream will rise to the top. And...yes....sometimes a walk on simply works his azz off and desevers to be on the field while someone who is highly rated comes in and thinks he deserves the spot no matter what. Listen to older players talk about the walkon program and how it pushed them. They will tell you that many of those guys are what made them work their azzes off to keep their spots and made them better. Because if they didn't, the walkon was going to be playing instead of them.

I did a fairly in depth look at this a year to two ago because I was frustrated about the same thing. The phrase "there just isn't any talent here" sort of rubs me the wrong way. There isn't a genetic border around the state of Nebraska that says all the God given talent is far, far away. The issue that I came up with is that it's not being developed at the HS level. We don't have anything outside of the regular season in this state that develops kids into football players. Absolutely every other sport they play, they can literally play year round. The kids can play BB year round. Girls can play VB year round. Hmmm......wonder why Nebraska produces more D1 VB talent than anywhere else per capita. Then you look at football and there is absolutely nothing other than maybe a kid goes to a camp at a college in the summer. This is only going to change one of two ways: 1) Spring ball and summer leagues of some kind (7 on 7) that allows these kids to work on their skills and allows the coaches to spend more time with them coaching them up. 2) Bring them into the program and allow them to sit for a couple years developing. This will bring them up to the level of development that FRESHMEN are coming in from other parts of the country. The problem with #2 is that with scholarship limits at 85, this drastically limits your program when a player sits for a couple years without contributing while he develops. So...we have a walk on program. This allows these kids to come into the program, they don't take up room on the scholarship list and they can develop into players. People have been all upset that walkons have been starting on our O line. I think that is a completely BS way of looking at it. Those kids worked their azzes off to develop in the program and deserve the start over scholarship players that aren't working as hard. Once a walkon from Nebraska is in the program for a while, there is no reason why there isn't a possibility they are better. Some of these kids would be 3-4 star kids if they were simply in places like California, Texas and Florida where they are developed in HS. Then, on top of that, coaches outside of maybe Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, CSU and Ohio simply aren't going to spend any time evaluating talent of kids in Nebraska. So, if the Huskers don't do it, many times these kids that have potential, just aren't going to get that shot.

Fantastic.

Right now we have 4 linemenn counting LS. I still would like to get that up to 5-6. Preferably one being cochran. I game wanted him all along.

Well....assuming we keep everyone we have now (big if), some have said we could take another 3-4. Who are they? Sitting at 23.

It is kind of ironic that one side is just absolutely appalled that criminals can get guns easily and they are the same ones that just handed over thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels so they can kill Americans. I wonder if they did back ground checks on them.

These actually might help us.

Thanks for proving the point Hedley.

double post

Hey...I've lost that 5 lbs i wanted to after the holidays.

I wonder what he would have been like if they would have had him lose 50-75 lbs.......or more.

I know we don't have the bench to do it, but they scored better when they pressed it down th court to get quick baskets and keep it up tempo. Maybe a sign of whats to come next year.

LOL...yeah...but games there were still fun.

Finally didn't have a temp. But, my whole body aches. my skin even hurts when my clothes rub up against it. This sucks.

That doesn't mean that you have to pick one extremist side or the other. Without you and your dollars . . . how much influence do you think that they would have? I said that I have never supported them and have never been a member. I have never sent them any money.

But it doesn't have to be this way . . . you can be in favor of reasonable regulations without being a Constitution trampling gun grabber. Conversely, you can be in favor of the individual right to keep and bear arms without opposing every single regulation. Tell that to any special interest groups on either side. I agree to your point but that isn't how it works in Washington.

And, we have had freshman QBs, RBs, WRs, OL, DBs play also.

My wife told me at noon that my teen age kids are worried about me. On the way to school this morning they were all concerned and wondering how serious my sickness was. So, I guess I need to start sucking it up and looking a little more alive.

No, I have never had one and hardly ever get sick. I was actually just thinking about getting one then was in a conversation with some coworkers who claimed they knew people who were sick after getting the shot. It was too late anyway. The next morning I was sick.

Ok, I've been sick for three day on the couch. If I have to hear one more story on TV about Teo, Armstrong or gun control I am going to throw something through the wall. Is anyone else hit with the flu this year? I usually don't get sick. This time it hit me hard and I'm am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Interesting. And, we probably have the best QB and RB out of California. Now, we just need more linemen.