HoogiePringle

Naps do me well when I get off my rocker.

Which one of you young fellers are joining me in doing this at Wrigley?

I like Kool-Aid too but some days it is just too sweet to swallow.

The Athletic Department as a whole wasn't foundering under Pederson. Several coaches very much liked and supported Pederson. Steve's big problem was... well, we all know what it was, so there's no need to rehash. It was a disaster, and we can all agree on that. Tom's input was garnered in this search. It's not like Perlman shut his door on Tom Osborne and pulled some stunt all on his own. Funny thing is, Perlman and Osborne have both supported the wrong guy at some point - Osborne with Solich and Perlman with Pederson. With 20/20 hindsight we can see that the Pederson hiring was a bit of a disaster. I thought Frank deserved another year, but Pederson had his own ideas. So it goes. Tom's input was ignored. I have heard grumblings about the process with Eichorts hire. No internal candidates were even talked to, I mean at least act like you care Harv. So in comes a guy who has very little clue about the Nebraska program, a virtual outsider, I am not faulting the guy one bit for jumping here from Criminal U. I just hope this isn't the final nail to our ready made pine box. Football needs a turnaround fast. I hope Bo pulls it off but where the chips fall should a decision need to bed made makes me anxious.

Anyone hear if any breakthroughs were coming down the pipeline via the Sports Science lab dedicated to East stadium?

Northwestern beat us at every sport last year, they are the real NU.

Face it the guy is passionate. It is a major improvement over our last coach who shall not be named. But questioning his emotional stability??? Unfair barbs dude, bush league, football is an emotional game. If you want to criticize at least question his coaching. His good ol' boy philosophy of promoting unqualified best buddies has doomed him. I don't see any way he is around another two years barring a B1G title.

LEAVE BO ALONE!

More like Meldown Martinez.

That he is. He's so good that that those powerhouses Central Florida and UAB could only limit him to 31 and 29 points, respectively! Someday NU will have a defense of that caliber. Let's not forget the stout defense that is Cal, they held tOSU to 170yds rushing.

Bingo. I have supported Bo, but the time comes when you have to wonder if the excuses have merit, or are genuinely indicative of a greater, holistic problem. After tonight, I think it's safe to attribute to the latter. This is year 5, YEAR 5, yet we continue to make the same errors in fundamentals, and problems even a football novice could spot on TV are seemingly not addressed. We have players starting on our defense right now who just aren't hacking it, and honestly would be lucky to start for Peru State. So the answer is just keeping these guys in and sticking with the same scheme? Is there really no one else that can have a shot or could do better? If something isn't working, what makes anyone think it's somehow going to work eventually? Do you wait until you're down by 4 scores to switch a scheme up? Is it really going to hurt to try someone or something different ? Football, especially in this day and age, requires the ability to react and adjust quickly. If you or unable or are too stubborn to do this, then you need to find another avenue for your energies. Think about this: We have gone from year 2 of Pelini, having the best defense in the land, to having one of the worst defenses in school history in year 5. Wasn't this what he was brought in to primarily address? How does this happen with a professed "defense genius?" Apologists will say the talent level is to blame, which I will agree with to an extent, but if that's a problem in year 5 of a coaching regime, it's hard for me to have much sympathy. Especially when you see teams with coaches who have been at their respective schools for a much shorter time, doing much better, and playing sound, fundamental football at places with much humbler tradition and some with geographic limitations just like we have (West Virginia, K-State, Baylor, Iowa State). What you're actually saying, if talent is a problem in year 5, that 1) recruiting is the problem, by proxy and/or 2) poor roster management is the problem. To me it seems more like poor fundamentals, stubbornness and unwillingness to change scheme, loyalty to friends and certain players, roster mismanagement, and bottom line, not having your players ready to play in big games. These should not be problems in year 5. No excuses. And we should not tolerate these problems, make excuses, or accept it. Feels like we've been here before, doesn't it? +1 statement of the year!!! How do guys like Bill Snyder, Bobby P (last year), Mangino 04 - 08 ect do it? Proof is in the puddin' and right now we have sh**ty tapioka.

Took him 20 years to build a championship program and Pelini was given a 5-7 team not a BMW. In terms of fan support, boosters, history, tradition I consider Nebraska Football a BMW. So are you saying Nebraska Football is a Yugo? If that holds true then you have the right coach at the right time for your expectations.

Took him 20 years to build a championship program and Pelini was given a 5-7 team not a BMW. Exactly. We were expecting Bo to win the Indy 500 in a fricking yugo. I hate people saying "well these are Bo's recruits" Well how good can your classes be those first couple seasons? We aren't elite but, if we can stay solid winning 8,9, 10 games a year we will get better. Our records don't show it but we are getting more talent in Lincoln. I won't we don't make the same mistake we made with Solich.... Ohio gave him time and look what he did. Show me the talent. We gave up 650+ yards to UCLA and close to 500 yards to Ohio St. Put down the Kool-Aid. These blowout/meltdown games have Feaux Pelini's prints all over them; turnovers, penalties, yards allowed, sideline screams.

His hire looked great in 2007, am I right? But how many times do you give the keys to the BMW to a first time driver? Tom has taken chances on first time/on-the-fly coaches ala Solich/Pelini/Erstad but those gambles have rarely paid off. Tom is a legend but maybe it is for the best Eichorst has stepped in. Bo's program is truely on display this year. How do my sour grapes taste?

Back in my day we didn't have any of those dag flabbid uniforms, you took what you got and were happy about it. Why old Vic Halligan had to share his leather helmet and was proud to do so. If they don't get our tradition then maybe they shouldn't play here. I am off to chug some Metamucil...

loselose situation. when mark may picks us we lose, if we win mark may looks smart.

Did someone call?