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Nobody is pointing to Stanford this year. They are averaging 141.8 ypg rushing and rank 89th. Them being held less than a hundred yards below their average is not at all like Nebraska being held 300 yards below ours.

Titles, so they can get him out of the main part of the offense. Regardless, they aren't going to get rid of Cotton and bring in a dedicated QB coach.

Everyone keeps talking about getting a QB coach. Tim Beck is the QB coach and Offensive Coordinator. I think that's the way it's done everywhere. I can't think of any other program that has a dedicated QB coach that is not also coaching something else, and most often it's the OC. Is Beck a good QB coach I think is the question. For those who don't know, coaching positions are limited by the NCAA. NU can't just go hire another coach without getting rid of an existing coach. TE coach Cotton seems to be everybody's nominee for replacement, but he's more than TE coach: Associate Head Coach/Run Game Coordinator/Tight Ends/Offensive Line.

I agree. We need a QB who can throw first. If we don't have one, we'll end up losing to any team who can stack the box like MSU did. Now, there's not a ton of those teams on our schedule this year, but the big games against good teams will be problems. What we need our QB to be able to do in the run game is simply to force teams to leave one defender to account for his run. The QB doesn't need to be able to run 80 yards; 5 or 10 yards and a slide will be enough.

Michigan State is complaining about all the bad calls in the game too. If you don't want the officials to influence the final outcome of the game then don't leave it up to them. Take care of business the other 99% of the game so a call here or there doesn't matter. I thought Pelini was fine in this game, as he has been all year.

Link or reference please? It was in fall camp I think. Look it up. I believe it was Pelini himself. Honestly though, I read and hear so much stuff I couldn't begin to track it down any easier than you. I recall hearing/reading the same thing. Bo was pretty blunt about the QB competition and dropped that line. Some plays he'll look like a first string QB, others he'll look like a 3rd string. Exactly.

I'm not sure trying to land a heisman candidate-type QB (a Manziel, Young, Wilson, Newton, etc.,.) is a very practical strategy around which to base an offense. If the Nebraska offense is going to require that caliber of player at QB then we need to recalibrate our expectations, because getting one is going to be very unlikely. There's a reason all teams aren't trying to be "multiple." It's not because the coaches aren't smart enough to draw up plays and schemes; it's because you need players to execute those plays. I'm all for rushing and passing for 300 each per game. It's just not ever going to happen consistently. Nebraska needs to pick an offense that they can recruit players to execute, and then perfect it. I don't put any stock in producing NFL qbs. That has never been NU's offense, and it's still not NU's offense.

Link or reference please? It was in fall camp I think. Look it up. I believe it was Pelini himself. Honestly though, I read and hear so much stuff I couldn't begin to track it down any easier than you.

The coaches have said at his best Stanton is as good a QB as Nebraska has. The problem is his inconsistency. Without watching practice, it's hard to argue, and I see no reason why they would say this if it weren't true.

Yeah, a rematch where MSU doesn't take its foot off the gas pedal- out of pity- seems to be what a lot of people need to put last night's final score in its proper perspective.

I never thought Nebraska was a playoff team, so that's not what dropped off the table for me. What I thought was that we had turned the corner from not showing up in games. I thought everybody "learned their lesson" against McNeese. I thought Beck figured out how to effectively move the chains whether the defense took away the pass or took away the run. I was wrong. What I saw was an offense that didn't show up to play, particularly the offensive line, and an OC who hadn't effectively developed a counter attack to take advantage of a team stacking the box. I have serious doubts about this team's ability to consistently show up ready to play.

We dropped four spots to #21 in the Coaches Poll. http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/

We lucked into this. Yeah, we "fought" our way back into this. However, if you take DeMornay's returns out, we lose 27-3, possible 34-3 but for MSU blowing that pick-six INT at the end. Playing the "ifs" game is useless. Your "ifs" are valid, but you only include them to make your preconceived notion. What "if" we make better plays, avoid penalties and score on some of those 1st half possessions? What "if" Moore holds on to the ball? What "if" Bell doesn't go out of the game...or Davies (who's replacement got burned on the next play for a TD). Fact is, DeMornay's return did happen. Fact is they did drop the pic (as happens dozens of times every Saturday across the country). Fact is, in the on field, post-game interview, you could tell D-Antonio knew he was the lucky one. But those things don't play into the gloom and doom and we suck and our coaches suck scenario do they. I agree with this except the part about Dantonio "knowing he was the lucky one." I didn't see that at all. I thought he was a guy who, along with his team, let off the gas and it almost cost them. I don't think he was relieved, I don't think anyone on MSU's sideline ever thought they were in any danger. And that's why NU was able to put up 19 points. Edited to add: It reminded me of our game against Wyoming last year where we let them come back with a chance to win at the end, except we were Wyoming to MSU.

Why does it take three or four years for our offensive line recruits to get to where they can play, and then we get a performance like tonight? What are they doing for those three or four years? I mean, if we wanted performances like tonight why not just play them as freshmen or sophomores and use the freed up scholarships for contributors?

The near-comeback was amazing, and I stayed with it until the end. Very proud of the effort by most of the team. The problem was getting in a 20-point hole in the first place. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you're losing when down by 20, and tonight was no exception- despite the Herculean effort at the end.

Roach should definitely start over Banderas. This is the third game where I was disgusted by Banderas play then Roach comes in and makes remarkable plays. Coaches gotta be careful playing Roach too much though, I guess. Lot's of armchair coaches will criticize not playing the guys with more recruiting stars.

The O-line played terribly. Terribly. I don't know if they let the last few games go to their heads, or MSU was doing some things we didn't expect, but it was ugly. Equally terrible, is that we didn't do anything to spread MSU wide or vertical to get them out of the box. Just kept running right into a pile. Ugly. P.S. that play where Cotton fell over he was falling back but couldn't move his foot or he'd get a false start penalty- he was hoping the ball would be snapped before he fell, which it didn't. P.P.S. Trevor Roach should start every game over Banderas. Banderas was missing plays again in his limited time this game. Roach ended up with something like 19 tackles and a few for loss.

LOL that is an absolute joke. I've viewed film of both. It's not even close, and exactly why I said if I were Stanton I'd transfer. Ask any other college coach in the country who he'd choose, and see what answer you get. Stanton was a 4-star blue chipper playing against some of the nation's top teams in CA, and competing at Top 100 camps (and winning accolades) while Fyfe was playing against talentless slow Nebraska HS teams. Yeah, I get it. You think recruiting rankings mean something come gametime. Are you Brady Hoke?

Fyfe is better than Stanton. Get. over. it. already.

Bring in the back-up offensive line too.

Our O-line is TERRIBLE. Hard to rush or pass when MSU is running around the backfield.

Holy Geezus. What is wi all the disrespect? Not just from outsiders, but our own damn fan base? f'ing ridiculous. That wasn't from our fan base. That was the guys on BTN this morning. It looks like both those posts were before the BTN pregame started this morning at 10am, so my guess is they were both referring to a replay of last night's BTN Live.

Over. Ameer goes for 150+. O/U: Connor Cook with 300 passing yards?

Are you talking about the two dudes on BTN Live Friday? One of those dudes is a former MSU player and inexperienced on-air, in other words he doesn't know how to keep his homer-ism in check. I don't know their names, but both are guest commentators, not regular hosts. I've thought the commentary from the regular hosts has been fair, almost to a fault. Not only to Nebraska, but to even the weaker teams like Indiana, Minnesota, Purdue and Illinois. They're always talking up even the lowest of teams. Now, the programming on the network is a different story; it seems to favor Michigan and Ohio State.

I'm rooting for the O-line to have a big day. Lewis, Cotton, Pelini, Moudy, Sterup, Price, Kondolo, Reeves, Utter, Knevel, Finnin. If they do, we win.