cheekygeek

I look forward to the first opportunity to rub this post in your ugly face.

Including 2 Yant runs for -2 yds.

Run the damn ball Whip. Run the damn ball Whip. Volacek TD! 93 yds in 5 plays agains #3 D in the country. Way to go Whip! <sheesh>

T.I.L. that Huskerboard game threads are FULL of posters that you could not PAY me to watch a game with.

Alante Brown is going to have a HUGE day..

Yes, his wife said in an interview that they have a 3 year contract- so if the new coach wants him - he stays.

I’ll be the first to say that I really didn’t know a lot about Bill O’Brien’s career before I read this. But I now think he would be a hell of a “get”. If he keeps MJ (and Applewhite, & possibly O’Brien in some position) he would be my new #1. It’s only a BONUS that he looks like he could be Bob Devaney’s grandson.

Don't know why but I seem to always be a full 180 degrees from your takes. You really don't think Deion is smart enough to make the message be that he's turned the (much-needed) spotlight on HBCUs and why they deserve funds and attention and now he's going to turn the spotlight on the woeful lack of black P5 Head Coaches running successful programs? I don't think the guy is coming and I don't think he's even on the short list, but you thinking it is because he can't get himself out from under the HBCU banner now is laughable for somebody as quick of lip as Deion.

Won't be long until somebody figures out how to create a similar scheme to incentivize/reward all the players via the N.I.L. piles of money.

We’ve been in the desert tray for years now. I think you mean dessert tray.

Memories Light the corners of my mind Misty watercolor memories Of the way we were Scattered pictures Of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another For the way we were Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? If we had the chance to do it all again Tell me, would we? Could we? Memories May be beautiful and yet What's too painful to remember We simply to choose to forget So it's the laughter We will remember Whenever we remember The way we were The way we were

This whole thread is worth reading. Sounds a lot like MJ, to me.

(AND the big things) but I’d like this thread to be lessons in Leadership that we believe should be a given - the attitude of people who are going to be WINNERS. Please contribute your favorites. Here’s one:

This take has multiple problems: 1) It only looks at the final score (OU won by 7 - it was 21-21 at Halftime). Army was held scoreless in the final half. 2) It only looks at the offensive side of the ball: In that game Army had a TOP of 44:41 to Oklahoma's 15:19. Oklahoma only had 3 Third Downs the entire game. A HC has to play/recruit/coach Defense also. 3) It only looks at Won/Loss records and ignores that Army's Strength of Schedule in 2018 was ranked #73 (at the end of the year). Is their 11-2 the same quality as that year's Georgia team (who went 11-3 against the 3rd most difficult Strength of Schedule???) That poster also got it right that Army played Ohio State (2017) and Oklahoma (2018) in back-to-back seasons. "Almost knocked off" Ohio State??? Ohio St. won 38-7. People have selective memories (to be charitable). Regarding the Wing-T offense, the poster seems to have forgotton that: a) It's not just the system - it's recruiting players to effectively run that system b) Osborne mostly abandoned it and began recruiting differently when he realized that SPEED KILLS the Wing-T Option. TO went on to win back-to-back National Championships taking a more modern approach. Time marches on, people. Innovation continues. Going back to leather helmets is not the answer.

Benito Mussolini made the trains run on time. So nothing else matters, right?

Screenshotting this!

Learning that Lane Kiffin's salary is going to be capped by State law, pretty much clinches it for me. He can't play this for a salary raise. It's gonna be Lane (and Monte) Kiffin. You don't think that T.O. can speak to Monte on the phone? Easiest back door negotiations in the world! Wonder if Lane could get his brother to come be the DC? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kiffin NU's coaching staff would sound like a Law Firm: Kiffin, Kiffin, and Kiffin.

One of the media guys said he's floated "the name" out there and is pretty sure that 80% of the fan base would be excited about it. I don't follow him that closely, but I'm guessing he has floated A LOT of names. But I do think that Lane Kiffin makes sense (and I'm guessing 80% of the fan base would be excited about him coming to Nebraska). It also almost becomes a 2fer because his pop - Monte Kiffin - would likely come with -- -- currently his "player personnel analyst" at Old Miss and most will remember him as Nebraska's DC from (what?) '74-77 under Osborne. All Monte did was: "mastermind the Tampa 2 scheme" in the NFL. His defensive philosophy has several hallmarks. Speed over size and strength. Coordinators that employ Kiffin-style defenses will often replace linebackers with safeties in order to put more speed on the field. In particular, linebackers must be able to cover receivers; in the Tampa 2 scheme, one linebacker frequently drops back deep into coverage, turning what looks like a Cover 2 defense into a Cover 3. Kiffin's defenses also employ quick, penetrating defensive tackles. Preventing scores over preventing yardage. A Kiffin coordinator doesn't care how many yards an offense gains, as long as the team doesn't score, an approach known as bend-but-don't-break. Multiple defenses from one look. Kiffin-style defenses try to use the same personnel (or the same kind of personnel) at all times, so that the offense cannot adjust its play call based on the alignment of the defensive personnel. Attacking and causing turnovers. Kiffin-style defenses focus on getting the ball away from the offense by stripping the ball away from the ball carrier or reading the quarterback to make an interception. The risk is that if the ball is not stripped or intercepted, then the ball carrier on offense has a better chance of gaining more yards or scoring; the reward is that the offensive drive is stopped without a score more often, frequently giving good field position." - source Wikipedia See also:

I hate to break it to you, but he was wearing Jackson St. colors. The red isn't the same as Nebraska. Also, his son is the QB at Jackson St. - another son is a DB there. Are they good enough to follow him to NU? On the "pro" side of things: He could easily say that he wants to be part of correcting the lack of black HCs in Power 5 football (to those who think he is abandoning HCBUs.)

Not saying he's the guy, but it makes a WHOLE LOT of sense. Coaches are in it for the money, at the end of the day. They make moves when their "stock" is highest. Right now he has Ole Miss undefeated, at the top of SEC West, with the #3 (Tied with Tennessee) "Points For" in the SEC (6 points behind Georgia) combined with a "Points Against" that is #4 in the SEC (6 better than Alabama). His stock may never be higher in a tough conference. He also would likely LOVE being "the guy" for a team that has a whole State to itself. You know he'd love to play before a home crowd in a sellout Memorial Stadium.

With UCLA, USC, Texas, and Oklahoma bolting their conferences, there have to be a LOT of talented HCs looking to jump from the (sinking) Pac 12 and Big 12 to one of the Big Money conferences.

I learned that no quarterback in his right mind will want to come to Nebraska until we get a functional offensive line. The fact that Thompson is still standing and able to have the passing success that he HAS had really makes one wonder about the "might have been" if Nouili had not gotten himself suspended for the year and Frost would have made an O-Line coach one of his priorities, rather than an afterthought. I learned that if MJ had not been hired and brought Trey Palmer and (now interim DC) Bill Busch with him... well I don't want to even imagine what this season would look like.