Born N Bled Red

Love run, rooting for the Huskers, but this run of wins really underscores how badly the team under-performed in the back half of the season. Looks to me like Miles underutilized his bench players since the non-conference. Might still have a few more wins and available players if Miles had rested the top dawgs and gotten the bench more playing time and confidence.

Refs got the memo that Maryland is supposed win this game.... look a that second half foul discrepancy.

This would be an out of this world addition to the team. Man alive Okie St.'s starting nose tackle, Oklahoma's starting LB- Big 12 is turning into the Nebraska farm league haha. http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=211063722

I don't know that Pelini did the same thing. He seemed to go after quite a few Nebraska guys. Pelini screwed up by only offering preferred walk-ons to class c and d Nebraska kids. Iowa benefited from this by getting Nathan Bazata and Drew Ott- I'm sure there are others. But I don't think he neglected Nebraska to near the extent Callahan and Riley did.

Never noticed before, but if you watch closely, he's running with a limp. That makes the run even more impressive.

Martinez was still named Big 10 Offensive Player of the year as a RS Junior, and had climbed into the Heisman convo before he "kicked the locker," as the rumor is and lost the rest of his senior year.

For some reason, I thought it was worse than this for Abdullah. He only missed the rest of this game, Abdullah ran for only one yard on six carries before he was injured in the first quarter in a 35–14 win over the Purdue Boilermakers.[64] Pelini told reporters after the game that Abdullah had suffered a "mild" MCL sprain and bruise when he tried to recover a fumbled snap by the quarter back on a fourth down at the Purdue one-yard line. When asked, Pelini said that he was optimistic that Abdullah would be ready to play the Wisconsin Badgers on November 15, but he added he couldn't say for sure whether he would be able to play.[65] Maybe it was my fear that he'd go back down, or the fact that I don't think he was quite the same in the following games that made me think it was worse.

Alright, I love all of the preseason love Nebraska is getting, seeing national articles, a preseason top 25 ranking, all of it. But, and I may be alone here, with each article I read, I keep getting more and more nervous about our team next year. It seems that every year we get hype, or in particular one of our players get hyped, it ends bad for that player, and ultimately the team. Let's analyze. Tommy Armstrong - senior season injury Jordan Westerkamp - senior season injury Randy Gregory- tons of hype, senior season injury Ameer Abullah - senior season injury Rex Burkhead - senior season injury Taylor Martinez - senior season injury the list goes on - each of these guys received a good amount of hype in the preseason before their injury, just to have their season cut short. Now Martinez is getting all this hype... whats with this jinx. Will we break it.

Until you are on the 10 yard line and need a td to win... short field, speed is negated.

There was this one, and then I believe a similar situation against Michigan St. a few years ago as well.

We're getting used to seeing Nebraska running backs getting drafted only to be misused, unused, or put behind terrible lines by the teams that draft them. Roy Helu - Although he spent time injured at Washington, it seemed like he was penalized and lost his position every time he came back. Rex Burkhead - Bengals barely used him - All the better for the Pats. I had hoped he'd get drafted there in the first place - great fit. Abudllah - Lions- do they even have an o-line? - Hoping he catches on somewhere quick - he's too good to not be on the field. Don't think Vikings is the best fit though. I'm eager to see a Husker RB drafted and put to work. I'm going to caveat this by saying, I'm not a fan of their's but I'd love to see Ziggy playing for the Chiefs. I think it'd be a great fit and he'd tear it up for them. What say you Huskerboard?

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I guarantee this streak changes when the 8 team CFP allows the higher rated teams host the first round. First time northern teams sweep the highest seeds, the south gets completely shut out. They are scared to play in the cold.

Type of back Iowa would base their offense around.

I've always liked the idea of developing conferences with two 16 team tiers, split into divisions. I think European Soccer does something like this. For instance: The Big 10 and the Mac merge into 1 conference and steal Oklahoma, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, and Kansas from the Big 12 and: Tulsa (just for geography's sake) from the American West. (Only the top two performing Big 12 teams get added to tier 1 from the get go, only to fill out the 8 team west division because 11-1 votes deserve some payback.) At the conclusion of each year, the lowest performing team from each division in the Tier 1 schools drops to Tier 2, and the Highest performing schools from each tier two division jump to tier 1. This would add so much more meaning to games that are played after a school is eliminated from the conference championship hunt. Each tier can have its own championship game. Each team only plays the 8 other teams in it's division to qualify for the championship game (schools can fill out their remaining schedule however they want). Tier 1 conference champions are guaranteed a spot in an 8 team playoff for national champion. Tier 2 can even have its own tier two championship. What I love about this is that is provides access for high performing small schools (UCF, TCU before the Bix 12, Boise State, for example) to the big boy table, and penalizes low performing power 5 schools for being terrible (Rutgers and Illinois). Based on Win/Loss records from this year, the conference might look like this in 2019. The Big 10 tier 1 East: Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Michigan State, Maryland, Indiana, Purdue, Buffalo West: Northwestern, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Illinois, Oklahoma, Iowa State, Northern Illinois, The Big 10 Tier 2 East: Kent State, Akron, Ohio, Miami, Bowling Green, Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Rutgers, West: Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Ball State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Tulsa, Kansas, Illinois

So, not to call either of you out, but neither of you have a clue about what you are talking about in regards to Buffet money. There are very few projects at the 501c3 or collegiate level that does not receive some kind of Buffet money.

I think Michigan State showed Iowa last week that Martinez is not comfortable, and does not make the best decision in the pocket. At this point in his development the best way to limit A-Mart is to maintain contain and keep him there. He is deadly on RPO's. So force him to be a pocket passer and limit his game. Also why so many passes batted down at the line of scrimmage last few games.

Na, its only a conspiracy when it is affecting us. There are probably some simple commonsense explanations for OSU and MSU.

Ha, people started realizing how the BIG was trying to keep us down with penalties, so they shifted to trying to nagatively impact our recruiting by giving us all 11 A.M. games instead. That's shady stuff...

I was watching the game with a buddy, and after the first 66 yard td, I commented that somewhere Riley is watching, thinking "holy moly, I didn't know he could run like that, gee wiz." Thinking about next year, we lose both Morgan and Zig. Although, I love having Morgan on the team, I'm ok with him moving on, because he's had a great career here. I feel for Zig though. He's showing what he's made of and looks like he's having a blast. His talents were so mismanaged by the last staff, he has to be wishing he had more time in the program. I really hope ge gets his due in the NFL next year. The kid deserves it.

Illegal hands to face missed on Barry on their 3rd td run.

Ohio St. So far been a pretty even ref job, blown calls both way. However. Our dline man was blantantly held on their second td. Hugged bad in fact!

This is some great research. Clearly shows what I've been seeing over the last few years, and trying to point out this year. One part of the analysis I feel is still missing is the timing of the calls. How many games have we watched where Nebraska is penalized heavily in the first half while the game is close, while our opponents seemingly play their cleanest half of the year. Then in the second half, when the game is all but decided suddenly the other team gets 3 or 4 penalties to "balance out" the calls. The timing of the penalties can have even more of an effect on the outcome of a game than the total number or total yards in penalties. I'd love to see these comparisons again, but in first half play or in games that continue to be close throughout.

So basically, if we created a franken team of Nebraska's skill players and Wisconsin's o-line, we'd be unstoppable. Hey- we all wear red right???