Red Five

https://twitter.com/paulhammelowh/status/667007175273807872

Ummm... Did you read the thread? Is there anyone in here who is calling anyone guilty of rape?

Do you know how many rapes are reported to UNL? Several a week. They investigate every single one, but most turn into nothing or there's little to prove anything happened. They probably "cover up", as you put it, several rapes simply because they never amount to a charge/arrest. Now, I won't deny that being a "celebrity" or a public figure of sorts is often reason to report news you wouldn't normally report. But, are you saying because TA and JW are celebrities they deserve to have their names forever tied to a heinous crime that there's currently no factual proof they had anything to do with? Do they deserve to have their names dragged through the mud if they didn't do anything? No. But as others have said, the OWH just reported the facts of the case. Something happened at the player's house. The OWH never targeted them at suspects. If they are not suspects and did not do anything wrong, it will come out in time. It would suck for them that they were associated with the crime, but sh#t happens in life. If Perlman/Ricketts were having a cocktail party at his house and someone was allegedly raped in a bathroom, do you not think that it would have been reported the same way? They reported one solitary fact with no context. As such, you now have several groups of formed opinions: either the girl is a (insert unsavory name here), the football players are suspects or the 'let's wait for more information' crowd. There's more to journalism than just reporting facts. Simply by including their names in the article, and in some cases even the headline, an association has been drawn. And now even rumors one of the players is the suspect. Do you see how this is a huge ethical problem? And put yourself in TA's shoes, or JW's shoes. Would your mindset really be "oh well, sh#t happens" if your name was forever tied to a rape accusation? I doubt it. But even if you don't care, that's another huge ethical problem. In terms of Ricketts/Perlman, I would still hope more facts would be presented before we just said "alleged rape in their bathroom!" and provided nothing else. I think that we are going to have to agree to disagree. I don't see anything wrong with what the OWH did. They reported facts that we know now on an alleged crime. And you mention the rumors going around now because they reported it. Well, if the OWH/LJS just reported "an alleged rape at a north Lincoln home", there would still be plenty or rumors floating around. Probably the same rumors would have come to the surface in that instance as they are now. Not reporting it in the news doesn't mean that people would have not known about it. Kids talk and it would have hit the message boards sooner or later. This is an example of being over the top. I do not condone it one bit.

Do you know how many rapes are reported to UNL? Several a week. They investigate every single one, but most turn into nothing or there's little to prove anything happened. They probably "cover up", as you put it, several rapes simply because they never amount to a charge/arrest. Now, I won't deny that being a "celebrity" or a public figure of sorts is often reason to report news you wouldn't normally report. But, are you saying because TA and JW are celebrities they deserve to have their names forever tied to a heinous crime that there's currently no factual proof they had anything to do with? Do they deserve to have their names dragged through the mud if they didn't do anything? No. But as others have said, the OWH just reported the facts of the case. Something happened at the player's house. The OWH never targeted them at suspects. If they are not suspects and did not do anything wrong, it will come out in time. It would suck for them that they were associated with the crime, but sh#t happens in life. If Perlman/Ricketts were having a cocktail party at his house and someone was allegedly raped in a bathroom, do you not think that it would have been reported the same way?

I'm not blaming the OWH at all for what they did. A potential rape happened at the house of the 2 most noticeable/popular football players on this year's team. TA and JW are celebrities. Like it or not, celebrity news gets reported more that "normal" news, its just what happens now. If this happened at Iowa or Oklahoma or Alabama do you think that their local newspapers would not have reported it? And the article/headline does not state that TA, JW, or TF are suspects, just that the incident happened at their house. IMO its probably better this came out now. This was going to come out at some point. Be it now or one week or one month down the road. Imagine the s***storm that would have happened if this came out in a month and now people are asking UNL questions about how they "covered up" a potential rape at the house of the starting QB and WR.

With the way he so nonchalantly talked to the press about it, I have a hard time believing that he would be accused of it. If he was the one accused, you would think that he would be lawyering up to talk to the police and offer "no comment" to the press.

sock puppet confirmed? Maybe sock puppet is the accused Shoulda just used the sock puppet to get his rocks off...

Of course not. The Omaha World Herald is #1 on the list. Wait a minute, the OWH did nothing wrong. Armstrong did not have Riley's back on this, the blame is squarely on his shouldersI didn't say they did anything wrong. I said they were #1 on Armstrong's list of who to tell. Ahead of Riley. Seems he's a bad decision maker in life, too.Weren't all the coaches out recruiting on Sunday and Monday? Maybe Armstrong didn't think about telling the coaches because they weren't around. Plus, if Armstrong wasn't involved in the alleged sexual assault, maybe he didn't see the incident being a "big deal". It's just a house he is renting while he is at NU. The police come to your house to question you about an alleged rape that happened at your house. That's a "big deal". You have to know that it is going to get out at some point, especially if you are the 2 most recognizable Husker players. If Riley is out of town, talk to Langsdorf. Hell, talk to Bruce Read or someone on the administration side. But the last place that Riley should be finding out about this is from a newspaper the same time that everyone else sees it.

Per LJS, the QB is Zach Martin. From Iowa Western and Omaha North. December grad.

Tommy gave the quote to the OWH before Riley knew? Tommy, Jordan, and/or Trey really needed to step up and gives the coaches a heads up this was coming.

Not good...

Laughable. He was rated the #6 dual threat QB in the county and Nebraska was the only school that wanted him at QB?

This is incorrect. Some one had posted the actual numbers (forgive me for not having them) and to the best of my recollection, since 2011 or 12 the team had been averaging around 6 penalties per game. https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/penalty-yards-per-game?date=2012-01-09 Year - PPG - YPG 2015 - 7.2 - 63.3 2014 - 5.9 - 52.5 2013 - 6.1 - 53.6 2012 - 6.9 - 57.2 2011 - 7.9 - 54.6 2010 - 7.1 - 72.8 NU has mostly sat in the 90's and 100's for ranking over this time frame. So in total we are up about 1 penalty/game compared to the Pelini era. If we only look at the last 7 games, we're averaging about 5.3 penalties/game, which is down a penalty/game from the Pelini era.

I think we win. But I also thought we'd win against BYU, Miami, Illinois, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and Purdue.

Saw a similar breakdown on another board and thought I would dig in a little deeper. There has been a big reduction in penalties called on Nebraska as the season has progressed. BYU - 12 penalties for 90 yards So Alabama - 7/80 Miami - 12/98 So Miss - 12/98 Illinois - 6/42 Wisconsin - 9/89 Minnesota - 2/25 Northwestern - 6/64 Purdue - 7/40 Michigan St - 5/55 Rutgers - 2/15 Looking at monthly averages: September - 10.8 penalties/game for 91.5 yards/game October - 6.0 penalties/game for 52.0 yards/game November - 3.5 penalties/game for 35.0 yards/game

Dirk: http://www.omaha.com/huskers/blogs/mad-chatter-nu-iowa-and-how-neighbors-become-bitter-enemies/article_bcd42778-8c8d-11e5-9916-bbad54c028db.html?mode=jqm

On the McKewon/Nyatawa podcast this past week, either Sam or Jon mentioned a conversation with Bando after the MSU game. Bando basically said "Maleik told me I was playing like a <pansy>. So I stepped up and started playing like a man."

38 rushes vs. 21 passes = incessant passing? Yes, at times. Or just passing when we shouldn't have. When you're up 21-0 with 4 minutes left in the half and your run game is doing decently, run it on first down. We passed it on 1st down two series in a row IIRC and threw 2 interceptions. If both those passes were completions rather than interceptions, nobody is complaining about them being "bad calls." It's absurd. These kind of argmuments were the reason the term "Monday morning quarterback" was coined. Call plays that work!!!!11!!!1!!

Sucks he has to retire this way. He has been the best coach at Mizzou by a mile. Pelini to Mizzou?

That would have been an excellent pick; just pulling out of coverage and getting in position for that play was impressive. What surprised me was their secondary giving up two huge chunk plays to westerkamp. Three freshman starters in the secondary will do that, I guess. Or Langsdorf did an excellent job of scouting the Sparty D and coached up Tommy on what to expect. http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/2015/red-report-armstrong-was-confident-how-nu-could-attack-msu/article_548c5c1c-27f9-5352-859a-136f455b6375.html

Need to reinstitute county scholarships IMO

The article oversimplifies recruiting Nebraska kids. Its easy to see who we should have recruited looking back with 5-10 years of hindsight. We recruited Robinson, but he chose ND. Similar to Harland Gunn was going to Miami not matter what. For every Ott there is a Tyrone Sellers. And what about Collins Okafor or Micah Kriekemeier type guys? Kids we brought in from Nebraska but never came close to seeing the field. edit: Mav lays it out pretty well above.

Its easy to look back in hindsight and pick and choose kids that we missed on. Its a catch 22. Sure it's great to tout guys like Ott or Emanuel. But there are many other kids that go to other schools (D1 and D2) that never really pan out into Nebraska level players. Basically it boils down to "recruit the right kids" (which is a cousin of "call plays that work").

2017 commit http://247sports.com/Player/Ryan-Kelley-59384