Seriously?

And....? What does this mean? Was just showing who I am. Jeez. We know who you are. You're a Husker fan. You wear red, you bleed red, you root for the same team we root for. We don't need bona fides from you (or anyone) for your opinion to be valid. Don't think you have to prove yourself. Just state your case and make your point. If someone doesn't agree.... eh. No worries. It just seemed to me like you were trying to show that you really are a genuine Husker fan, that you do care. I think that's a given already, and I don't want you or anyone to feel like you have to prove your fandom. It's pretty clear you care. (cute kid, BTW. Takes after her mom?) The ones who truly care are the ones that are tired of the crap we saw last Saturday as well as the last 14 years. It's beyond old and the excuse train just keeps rolling along

1. Barney Cotton 2. Not having anyone on the staff knowing how to recruit Div1 top 25 type athletes

We should absolutely continue to talk about the problems that we have here. Yes, such problems were discussed at length last year and the year before that and even some the year before that. The reason? We keep seeing the exact same product on the field. The same mental lapses, the same breakdowns in technique, the same undisciplined and lackluster football. While I don't think we should dwell on the problems all week, I think it's silly to expect them not to be discussed. Anyhow, I don't really know a whole lot about Arkansas State other than the fact that we opened up a 24.5 favorite, Gus Malzahn is the coach and that Michael Dwyer like the drugs a little too much and consequently got booted from Arky State. Good point. I should've said 'dwell' vs discuss. Of course we should discuss the issues, that's what this board is about (and what a looonnnggg off season we would have if we couldn't discuss our problems ) Do you think it helps our team perform better when we discuss these problems or does it just help us? Hey, I post as much to the discussion of our problems as anyone else, I'm just not sure it helps or hinders us? When our guys read the board, and I'm sure they do, does it inspire them or frustrate them? I'm hoping that it does inspire them to play better but sometimes I'm not sure. As for Arky St. I went on their message board today to see what their fans think of their team. See my post below. Their posts sound just like ours after the loss to UCLA. Was it somehow different when Callahan was here and everyone was encouraged to run him out of town? As bad as Cosgroves defense was, Callahan brought talent to the team and produced a pretty fun offense, it appeared to me anyway that he at least tried to produce an overall decent result but was hand tied by his 1 bad buddy hire. Fast Forward to the mess we are in now with 100% buddy hires that don't deserve to be within a mile of a program and you see the results, when we lose half our games this year are we going to sugar coat things into next year aboard the " excuse train " just because Tom chose another dud whose defense minus Suh has been laughable at best Will you be back with your own excuse train when we DON'T lose half our games? See you in November. Absolutely, will you? I don't have excuses, just complete and utter confusion on why Osborne is still AD hiring the likes of Barney Cotton, we were told by the anointed himself this was a short stint but like any politician it's their job to bend us to preserve their Legacy

TM is fine, he's asked to cover for the joke that is the entire staff. I personally think TM deserves some sort of college football Silver Star for trying as hard as he does for this inept staff. He's a good kid, hopefully he gets a shot at safety/ special teams or something at the next level

We should absolutely continue to talk about the problems that we have here. Yes, such problems were discussed at length last year and the year before that and even some the year before that. The reason? We keep seeing the exact same product on the field. The same mental lapses, the same breakdowns in technique, the same undisciplined and lackluster football. While I don't think we should dwell on the problems all week, I think it's silly to expect them not to be discussed. Anyhow, I don't really know a whole lot about Arkansas State other than the fact that we opened up a 24.5 favorite, Gus Malzahn is the coach and that Michael Dwyer like the drugs a little too much and consequently got booted from Arky State. Good point. I should've said 'dwell' vs discuss. Of course we should discuss the issues, that's what this board is about (and what a looonnnggg off season we would have if we couldn't discuss our problems ) Do you think it helps our team perform better when we discuss these problems or does it just help us? Hey, I post as much to the discussion of our problems as anyone else, I'm just not sure it helps or hinders us? When our guys read the board, and I'm sure they do, does it inspire them or frustrate them? I'm hoping that it does inspire them to play better but sometimes I'm not sure. As for Arky St. I went on their message board today to see what their fans think of their team. See my post below. Their posts sound just like ours after the loss to UCLA. Was it somehow different when Callahan was here and everyone was encouraged to run him out of town? As bad as Cosgroves defense was, Callahan brought talent to the team and produced a pretty fun offense, it appeared to me anyway that he at least tried to produce an overall decent result but was hand tied by his 1 bad buddy hire. Fast Forward to the mess we are in now with 100% buddy hires that don't deserve to be within a mile of a program and you see the results, when we lose half our games this year are we going to sugar coat things into next year aboard the " excuse train " just because Tom chose another dud whose defense minus Suh has been laughable at best

SERIOUSLY ... are you serious? What a crappy first post. Be a man and come out of the closet. 10 years of problems and you choose today and this post as your first time to speak up. Don't sound like a fan to me ... just a coward. My first game in Memorial Stadium was 1970, From Tagge through Ferrigamo, Humm all the way through to Frost I was a season ticket holder then Moved away from Lincoln. I didn't choose today to speak up about how mediocre Nebraska had become, I started the day Osborne hired Frank ( not his job then, clearly not his job now being the MAIN PROBLEM) as his successor, proceeded by Frank hiring Gillispie. This was the beginning of the end. It's funny how people that whined and railed against Callahan now seem to go in to protective overdrive on Osbornes newest failure ( the Return of Frank tour with even crappier assistants and recruiting) so you just keep admiring the product we saw last week and I will sit by in shock at how far Nebraska has fell into a middle of the pack of a weak conference. Cowards don't sit by idle and let some cronie continue to destroy a once proud program because he finally figured out athletic players win after 22 years

Clarify please. Are we to ignore the overwhelming problems much like this staff has done for a half a decade now. Even as terribly weak and out manned as the B1G is, we drop 5 games this season. We should be watching out for speed in Arky St. UCLA came off losing season after losing season, slow players, new coach, 8 starting frosh and look how that ended up. Why is it we always have to look forward as fans, there is a telephone book sized problem with the program going on over a dozen years and we are all supposed to lock step away from anything bad because it took Tom 22 years to figure out speed and athleticism wins