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No matter what everyone thinks of Armstrong (i agree he didn't have a great season), he is soooooo much better of a passer and runner than Stanton. I honestly think Stanton might be the worst passer in the 5 deep on the current roster. Can't wait to see that hype train, though!!

Would love to be wrong on this, but I just sense that he's back. Look at these "facts" (which I don't like): 1. Bo had his first two-game losing streak this year in 2 years; 2. Bo had one bad game this year; 3. Yesterday's come-from-behind-victory shows that Bo won't quit; 4. Bo beat Georgia in last year's bowl game; 5. Bo didn't go ballistic at all this week, showing that he has some composure Bo didn't have one bad game this year. That is where people need to use their eyes and intelligence and stop looking at results. WATCH AND ANALYZE the games. Being generous, we had bad games against McNeese St, MSU, Minnesota, Iowa and one of the worst games in the history of the program. A bad game shouldn't be defined as losing by 30+ points. A bad game should be: did a specific's game performance translate to playing well against another team of equal talent. Just watch all the games on right now and think to yourself: If we played like we did yesterday, how would we stack up against Bama, Auburn, Georgia Tech, Georgia, FSU, Florida, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Miss St. If we play yesterday's game against any of those teams, the average margin of victory is greater than 3 TD's. For me, that doesn't equate to a "good" game. The win doesn't matter, the quality of the product, coaching, preparation, and execution matters.

Why JP over Beck? What is JP responsible for? He literally has as much say in the defense as you and I. Beck runs most of the offense, so if you choose one, you want Beck gone. Bo is the DC and who ever is the DC in title, Bo will continue to be the actual DC.

So maybe our best was better than their best. Does one game determine the strength of one conference over the other? What about the fact RichRod struggled in the weak B1G but is now doing well in the Pac...i explained that already. I disagree with your assertion. And their eventual conference champion beat what most would consider our best team in the conference. Go team by team and line up the top of the conference down to the bottom. the Pac 12 would probably go 11-1 in those games. You can disagree all you want, but that doesn't make you right. It makes you dumb. Do you watch football, do you know how the game works? Or do you just turn on the tv, watch 22 guys on the field run around with shiny objects on their head until the scoreboard lights up with numbers every so often.

Absolutely BS here. The Bussey family is very, very, very well off. His dad would giggle at a $10k bag man and tell him to go wash the car with it. This is a product of a lot of things but this isn't $EC shade. This is a kid liking another school better than us.

RSS confirmed he will be visiting Tennessee this weekend and not Nebraska. It's an unofficial visit but apparently he grew up a fan of UT since visiting campus when he was in middle school. His dad also said that if things go well this weekend, he will take an OV this winter after his season is over.

I don't think it's coincidence the offensive line has always looked better with Tommy in the pocket. Yes,Tommy has better footwork, I just wish that it would equal better results. But, haven't we been hearing that this is the deepest, most athletic OL in the Pelini era? I know I have. Serious question and I'm not coming at your from a confrontational tone, what didn't you like about Tommy's performance on Saturday? He a few bad passes, absolutely. The overthrow to Ameer was bad, the near interception on the pass to Alonzo was a bad decision. The crazy catch with Westerkamp I would call an below average decision (not bad) but the CB made a really good play on the ball. It happens. I think the 52% (15/29) completion percentage is what sticks out. But if you break that down a little more, you realize it's not terrible. To start, one of those incompletions was the spike at the end of the first half, so can we agree that shouldn't count in his evaluation? Brings it to 54%. Next, he very decisively threw 5 passes out of bounds. One can argue that this is actually a positive play. Things that can NOT happen when you throw the ball away include: interception, sack for big loss, fumble and turnover. Effectively brings it to 65%. Two other incompletions were bombs that missed Kenny Bell grasp by literally inches. Both flew over 60 yards in air and both hit both of Kenny's hands. These aren't completions, but the effect of the throw helps alleviate the box and allows Ameer to operate. If we complete the pass, it's great, but the effect on the defense is greater just by having that as an option. Overall, Tommy's job isn't to complete 70% of passes, he isn't supposed to Christian Hackenburg. His job is to not turn the ball over and put the defense in bad spots and to keep the down and distance manageable. He had 0 turnovers and I think we had 1 occasions where we were 2nd and greater than 10 and that was due to a penalty. He did his job Saturday.

No it is not. We play a strong out of conference game each year for the next like 8 years. And the chances of making the playoffs by going undefeated in an average division are greater than making the playoffs in a slightly above average division (B1G East). The weak divisions helps us make the playoffs, it won't help us win the playoff because we might not be tested as some other teams playing against the same competition. Plus our final game before playoff selection will almost always be against a top 5-10 team vs. OSU, PSU, or MSU.

They did better with blocking on the punt returns and I could've swore I saw them line everyone up to go after the punter and try to block it. They almost did get the block, too. Even though we only got one decent punt return, I like what I saw from the punt return unit. Kick coverage needs work, though. Ameer was in the game for two punt blocks. He actually almost got one. Kenny Bell should not be returning punts for us the rest of the year, and I suspect (and hope) the coaches are smart enough to recognize how completely lost he is. I respect him for being a senior and wanting to help the team and volunteering for the role, but his results were quite terrible. He obviously fumbled, which is less concerning than him completely misjudging the flight of two punts. That is the stuff that left us with terrible field position last year, luckily it didn't specifically hurt us yesterday. But overall, you need a PR that has that ability to read the ball in the air and KB does a lot of things well, but this is something he clearly struggles with.

Sounds like the kid can't perform in crunch time and when it matters most late in the game. Based on this I think we need to look elsewhere for our QB.

A lot of things. In 2010.... We were coming off a near win against Texas for the league championship We were coming off a 33-0 curbstomping of a good Arizona team in our bowl game We were ranked #8 to start the season and climbed as high as #5 We had games against Texas and Missouri at home Bo Pelini's perceived ability and also tangible results were still trending upwards Yes, this is precisely my point that I have been arguing for over a year now but often get argued to no avail. These are all on the field issues caused by the product on the field. So many people argue all these factors of why demand for tickets is so low, which all may have some impact. But the largest reason why demand is so low is because the on-field performance is lacking.

What is the difference between this year and 2010? When I was a sophomore, you had about a 6 hour window the first day tickets came out to get student tickets. Thousands of students got turned away. I'm not positive about this, but I think at one point an entire freshman class didn't get tickets because the upperclassman bought all of them before the freshman window. They eventually changed the process to allow freshman get a certain allotment. But back to my original question, what changed in 4 years? The seats are in the same location, so I don't think that is a big of an issue as people are making it out to be. Others have noted the crappy schedule, which is possible. It's the same question I have about regular season ticket holders and how tickets are less than half the value and they were available until early August when they previously were gone by February. Half the price, but took 6 additional months to sell them...

Ok, So doing it that way is probably not the best way to create depth at the level needed to win championships. You're right. I'm sorry. They're kids who started last year and played SIGNIFICANT minutes, but, hey, they chose to come here without a scholarship. Let's just see if they keep playing if we don't give them a scholarship - then they leave and we have an even bigger depth problem. Or you could recruit smarter, harder, and with bigger classes. To be fair, I have heard we have made a much improved commitment to this area. Also, to be fair, I have heard a lot of things, many of which haven't exactly been true. these coaches are kind of a mind--- at times. Still, hard to argues with the 1.2 million spent on recruiting, versus the 375,000 (if I heard correctly) in the past. Where is that $375,000? I can't imagine that is the case in 20 years.

Williams wasn't even a starter, so why would we start moving people? If Collins or VV goes down, then we can start moving people. So under your methodology, we should only have 24 players on scholarship. 11 on D. 11 on O. A kicker. A punter. If someone gets hurt, we can offer schollies to other kids, but lets not worry about that until one of the 24 players on the team gets injured.

Logan Rath, Noah Arenson, or Garret Johns are now fighting for a 2 deep spot at DT. Or of course we could move a severely undersized DE inside and have Jack Gangwish start at DE. Take your pick!

I just went through Kenny's twitter, call me a stalker, whatever, it's public and he wanted to show it to the public, so I just used my resources. In this article, Kenny said that his water and electricity was turned off in Summer of 2013 because he couldn't afford the bills. Here are some of the expenses I could find with 3 minutes of research from the summer of 2013 that could help alleviate his poverty-ridden life: Feb/Mar 2013: got a full rib cage tattoo. Not sure how expense these are, but guesses in the $600-$1200 range Jun 2013: trip to the Bahamas with his friends. Estimated $2000 July 2013: trip to some other tropical location, I think maybe Florida. Estimated $1000 Feb 2014: got a FULL back tattoo. Again, don't know a great estimate, but guess in the range for this one of $1200-$1500 This doesn't even include the pictures of premium 20 oz. steaks, pork chops, and chicken worth well over $100 he often posts for dinner. I'm all for Kenny doing what ever the hell he wants to do. I support every decision he made above AS LONG AS YOU'RE NOT DOING NATIONAL MEDIA INTERVIEWS SAYING YOU CAN'T AFFORD A $50 ELECTRIC BILL. So either Kenny is completely over exaggerating his struggles or he is racking up one mountain of credit card debt and our life skills courses athletes are required to take are completely failing these student athletes.

I wasn't at practice, so I can't say exactly how this happened, but when we are giving our own starting QB concussion-like symptoms......maybe we need to ease up a bit. There's a reason we play cupcake teams to start the season. Beat the hell out of them for Christs sake. Heard Cooper lowered the boom on Tommy and stood over him throwing the bones while Tommy laid there completely unconscious.

You realize that "Chris Pankonin" on the twitter account who said "it's true" is literally the guy who is playing the music at the football games this year. Like, he is the one who has a bunch of songs on a CD/playlist and plays them over the speakers. So, if the guy who actually presses the play button to put music on the speakers in the stadium is saying "it's true", I would call that more than a few 2nd and 3rd hand accounts. It's quite literally a firsthand account.

His mom was on the visit with him.

Bussey has dropped 25 spots in RB rankings, including sliding 3 spots in the last two weeks. I guess it's hard to compare apples to apples when there are 4 different services ranking. But in Rivals he went from unrated to a very high 4 star and is the #2 back in the country, top 80 overall. I see on 247 he is listed as an athlete (which makes 0 sense because he is, has been, projects as a RB by every college coach and team) and may have dropped. When is the last time 247 has completely re-rated their guys because I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't re-rated everyone in the last few months and he just hasn't made the eventual jump he will eventually get. Very rarely do you see a guy #2 at a position in one service and #61 in another service.

Please name one or "a lot" of our recruits ranking that has dropped. Eric Lee and Avery Anderson have jumped up in the rankings quite a bit after camping much of the summer. Bussey has sky-rocketed up the rankings from his camp performances. The Davis twins and Gaylord have been consistently rated very high 3 stars/low 4 stars by all services the entire time and still remain that way. Decker and Neal were both unrated initially and are now solid 3 stars. Decker has a decent chance at getting a 4th star eventually. Dillman has dropped but that is due to a pretty severe injury and eligibility issues. It's not guaranteed, but there is a chance he might not even play football his senior year. So again, please list these commits that are dropping. Not only do almost all of our current commits attend a bunch of camps (camps you said they don't attend), they have done nothing except improve their ranking (the opposite of what you said). And if you read the reports, it's because they are the best players there. Bussey did go from unrated to borderline 5th star because he attended a Rivals camp and they made a business decision, it's because by ALL accounts he was the best RB there and dominated all the current 5 stars.

I completely agree that every game will be "sold out" next year, I'm not trying to argue that. But I really do want your opinion and answers to what you define as "specials and promotions." My assumption is that you're talking about specials like: "Buy tickets to the Florida Atlantic game, get free season baseball tickets" and things of that nature. But... Do you consider any of the following specials or promotions: - Any UNL graduate in the last 3 years was offered tickets in a $150 donation seating area without paying any donation. - Two specific seats my friend has in South Stadium total donation was $1300 in 2011 and now that donation price is $300 total. That is offering the same product for a 300% discount. - I became a season ticket holder in 2013 and my donation level for 2014 is almost $100 cheaper, after just 1 year. -They are offering tickets without a donation to everyone in 2014 when 3 years ago those same seats came with a $200 donation. How are these different from a cable company offering: -Buy cable and get free installation, setup and HBO -Sign a 2 year contract and get your third year 300% off -Get HBO for one year and get $100 off your bill Again, the sellout streak isn't in danger for the obvious reasons of large donors and the like, but do you not see the above examples as a red flag that things are at minimum trending in the wrong direction?

Because when I see a partially filled stadium,my first thought is, "damn, that's a rowdy fanbase!" as much as i love the sellout streak, i would rather see memorial stadium with 70k people like me in it a lot more than 92k of the people who are there now telling me to sit down. if i can drive 16 hours to see the huskers play, while usually having to ridiculously overpay to buy tickets secondhand (see the cost on your ticket? i've had to pay up to 1000% of that, and i consider it worth every penny), then you can damn well stand up for 3 hours and make some noise. If that is what you're paying for a ticket, then the joke is on you. You can buy entire season tickets for $392 or you can get them outside the stadium for like $25 per game. Don't act like you're a super fan because you decide to pay $90,000 for a Honda Civic when every other dealer is selling the same car for $15,000.

And the goalpost is moving even further. Why don't you tell me one thing in this entire thread that I have said incorrectly. I have said a lot, don't sit and argue semantics with me when the substance is accurate. Cool, they call it a "waitlist". I'm talking about the "years" of waitlist and paying that Po's sister has been done. Post 123, why don't you address that and try to prove me wrong. Post 128, take a look at that. You, UNL, anyone can call it what they want. I will call it a friggin wait list as long as you realize that there are no years of waiting on it if you are willing to pay the market price. Go back to my car example, if you want to call person X being on a wait list because they offer to pay $5000 less than market value for a car, then call it a wait list or what ever you want, but that doesn't change the fact that there is NO WAITING if you simply pay market value. I really don't care what you call it. Me, UNL and Po's sister call it a waitlist. Mostly because it's a waitlist but also a little bit because it's a waitlist. Waitlist. You can keep calling it a waitlist, but the athletic office has now burned through all interested buyers on this mythical waitlist and is now trying to sell remaining tickets to anyone who will possibly take them. This is after all current renewals, all new season ticket purchasers, months of ads on local media websites, giving away season tickets to anyone who has graduated in the last 3 years without a donation (total cost is $392), and offering no donation seats for the first time in memory. All of this being with most tickets being offered at more than 50% discount from just a few years ago. http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=209523845

Bummer is pitching today and then Kubat would start the next game. There is about a 10% chance we see Deleon this tournament and maybe a 25% chance we see him ever pitch again.