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The fact they even did this piece should answer everyones question, Come on Lou, take a look at Pelinis schedules, he's beat no one, and lost to no one. Sure he had Callahan recruits to mask his inability to coach basic fundamentals but his losses are just about as ugly as it gets

I'm a Pelini backer, but your post is way too simplistic. I don't want change because Pelini is performing in the W/L column and is doing the things personnel wise to take us to the next level. There are some posts about us being a laughing stock in the national media because of the blowouts on the scoreboard. We were a laughing stock ten years ago because of the coaching change with where our program was. Those with decision making ability are well aware of that. Performing in the W/L column? When you list the teams directly under the W's and L's, it becomes scary at just how bad this staff is. Antone that listened to Pelini @ half and his Presser and still want him as a coach................. wow

We've been doing that every 6 years since Osborne's retirement. How's that working for us? Quit letting Osborne pick bad coaches?

They also don't call holding. The Huskers are getting manhandled on both sides of the ball, when are you guys going to pay attention instead of all these tired excuses year after year after.....

My question is why haven't we run any zone read? I think this is best answered by saying Martinez is not healthy. I don't care what the coaches say he does not look healthy at all Yeah right, he looks exactly like he has for years now. In all fairness our coaching staff looks like they have for years now as well. Minnesota looks impressive on both sides of the ball and they're not

I do not want to make this thread an anti-Pelini thing... but I must correct one of your points.. you put excellent GPA and graduation rate... not so. Under Pelini the graduation rates have plummeted. NU is 9th in the conference in graduation rate and have fallen precipitously with time. NU is nowhere near as good academically for football players as was the case when Bo arrived. Don't bother these guys with facts, the fact is we have played a gawd awful schedule under Pelini so the positives are few and far between

This. Armstrong is capable of being a good passer. His HS tape shows that he has the skills. Today was a bad game throwing the ball, but most people agree that he'll get there as a passer. Now, until he does, why are we going all pass happy when TA runs the crap out of the option and when we're pounding the ball when (there were only glimpses of this unfortunately) we weren't stuck in predictable play calling? When Purdue didn't know what was coming, they were getting mauled and run over. When they knew we were going to do a toss off tackle, they shut it down. The play calling really contributed to much of the struggles on offense today. That said, we scored 40+. Not a bad day, but it really should've been a lot smoother than it was. Put Armstrong in too many spots to throw deep when high percentage passes would've been the way to go. I know he missed on a few short passes too, but they're called "high percentage" for a reason. He'll hit them more often than not. Then that can open up the field. Not making excuses for poor throws, as Beck isn't out there throwing the football, but the playcalling was suspect at times. Perhaps had this game been called differently, Armstrong would've had a better day and nobody (a bit much to hope for but at least not many) would be losing their sh#t on the board. What other game should he be working on his passing, a close nail biter? You learn from your mistakes and it's obvious Purdue is terrible and barely better than a HS team. This is exactly the game we want TA working on his Joe Montana

Same thing everyone said about Georgia last year. I'm not saying we would win, but I garuantee it would be a good game. Georgia wanted no part of that matchup, they were sleep walking the first 3 quarters. The matchup I want to see is Nebraska vs. A&M ..........lets see what a defensive guru has for Johnny Football I don't understand the sleep walking argument. This is D1 football, not hs. Yep you would think it was more on a HS level but I remember Nebraska beating Washington then turning around and losing to Washington in a bowl and was told by the tradition coalition it was because Nebraska didn't want that matchup. Sort of like Wisconsin last year, beat them early and then came CCG which appeared one of the teams didn't want to be there. It's funny but in most sports, you play up to, or down to your competition. Georgia probably wasn't real happy being 1 play from a title game to playing in a Capital One Bowl in front of 59k

Same thing everyone said about Georgia last year. I'm not saying we would win, but I garuantee it would be a good game. Georgia wanted no part of that matchup, they were sleep walking the first 3 quarters. The matchup I want to see is Nebraska vs. A&M ..........lets see what a defensive guru has for Johnny Football

I think what he means is no Prime time exposure so the kids ( recruits ) on the west coast are watching and I think his half filled comment comes from probably from attending games back when 60K where stuffed in there like sardines and there was no wiggle room what so ever. Now the sweeping shots of the stadium most certainly empty out the higher you get and it appears people are very comfortable with lots of arm room. Watching in HD on a 12' screen it looked to me like there was all sort of empty seats

If Tatgate hurt tOSU you really think Urban Meyer would be there and miles ahead of every other B1G program, so they don't get to play in the title game a couple years but they haven't skipped a beat and will remain an annual top 5 team. I'm pretty sure tOSU fans/administration are licking their chops at where they stand in the future big picture

Exactly! Thats exactly how I feel every time I watch a Pelini coached product and then watch Texas A&M and Missou sitting down in a real conference while we're stuck in the lowly B1G

Since when is NU fourth in the B1G pecking order and UW on the outside? History doesn't mean a dang thing in this conference as Illinois and Minnesota prove. Recently it's been OSU and UW at the top. Need I bring up who won the conference last year? Or the year before that? Or the year before that? Wisconsin did. The average recruit is what? 16/17 years old? He doesn't remember NU being a power and he'll see plenty of schools with dusty trophies in the case. If anything NU is trying to take UW's position. Agree and throw Whisky in the SEC and let them fight amongst the bottom dwellers there or maybe the PAC 12 and let them scurry around with the Beavers & Cougars for lower mid level of conference and they put a whooping on us in the CCG at barely .500 Love the B1G whoopee!

. Desperately. I thought HJ was really gonna be that guy. Not that he is isn't. He still has a shot, but so far not a lot of production. I've liked CJ ever since we recruited him. He just seems like a well rounded football player. He's skilled in almost all aspects. Especially the tackling aspect, which........ya you know. Bo was quoted as saying CJ just isn't getting it all mentally yet.....then if course I caught sh#t for repeating what the coach said. Regardless, it looks to me like we have plenty of guys playing who aren't getting it all mentally, so damnit get this kid in there for a bit. Maybe this is a good thing given how bad this scheme is I'm trying not to go there, considering I'm such a "horrible person" for not liking Bo's approach to defense, or his scheme. But yea, everybody knows how I feel about that. Why would you be a horrible person for seeing how terrible a Pelini defense is when it doesn't have players named Dorsey and Suh involved. Blow out after blowout and crapping the bed on your home field annually would have me believe anyone that thinks Pelini knows defense/talent might be on mind altering drugs

Hilarious, where have you been the last decade, I've seen dozens of crapfest losses as well as dozens of beyond sh**ty defensive/offensive performances and now we are in a conference thats always exposed come bowl time. Life is good! Everybody cheer up!