JJ Husker

I don't want to shake up a good thing but what do you think about expanding this list backwards by including QB graveyard pre-Pelini?

The blackshirts had much success at demolishing much hyped QB's even before Pelini.

1997 season-1998 Orange Bowl Peyton Manning comes to mind.

 

Bo Pelini is the head coach, not Tom Osborne. That's why.

Pretty rude answer IMO.

If you want to limit it to Pelini's QB Graveyard, I'm fine with that.

But, since such a Graveyard is the result of "Blackshirts" effort and not just a coach, I thought it MIGHT be appropriate to expand backwards.

You sir, can do whatever the F you want.

I don't want to shake up a good thing but what do you think about expanding this list backwards by including QB graveyard pre-Pelini?

The blackshirts had much success at demolishing much hyped QB's even before Pelini.

1997 season-1998 Orange Bowl Peyton Manning comes to mind.

I have to agree with Badgerfan that the Rose Bowl traditionally, historically has been a Big 10-Pac 10 matchup. But, since the inception of the BCS, it has given way on occasion to non-traditional matchups.

2011 Wiscy-TCU

2006 Texas-USC (NCG)

2005 Texas-Michigan

2003 Oklahoma-WSU

2002 Miami-Nebraska (NCG)

Prior to that you have to go back to 1946 to find anything other than a Big 10-Pac 10 matchup.

I think all the Husker fans on here, that would like to see NU-OU in the Rose Bowl, are saying is; if the chips fall a certain way, then yes we would like a Nebraska-Oklahoma matchup in the Rose Bowl. No one is proposing shattering an untouchable 100 year tradition and no one is saying that it shouldn't primarily be a Big 10-Pac 10 matchup. And any Husker fan who fails to recognize the rivalry we did have with OU (simply saying it doesn't exist anymore) is either too young or is failing to recognize the storied history of Nebraska football. We would no more give up on NU-OU than those in the Pac 10-Big 10 would give up on the Rose Bowl. Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. It is what it is.

For most people Nebraska-Oklahoma doesn't even register as a rivalry.

 

It stopped being a rivalry when Oklahoma decided that it wasn't in 1998.

 

The Sooners are now married to Texas, and we're now married to Iowa after a brief stint with Colorado.

If we were married to Colorado, why were we never charged with domestic violence? Just wonderin.

We learned that even after beating a team in the top ten by three touchdowns Nebraska fans can still find plenty of things to be unhappy about.

Sorry, I learned from Tom Osborne and continue to learn from Bo that the end result is not the most important thing. If you want to strive for excellence then you realize there are always things that can be improved upon. I'm happy with the win but only people that only care about winning or losing would gloss over where we could've been better.

 

A wise man once told me that only the Sith deal in absolutes.

 

Yes there were things that we need to fix and we did not play a perfect game but we did just beat a top ten team and there are more posts complaining about things than celebrating the win. It's like we can't just be happy we won we have to seek out every little thing and pick it apart with tweezers and a microscope. If we listed everything we did wrong in that game we would be here until December but we won. Let's celebrate that.

If you'll look back over my previous posts you will see that I was pointing out a lot more positives than negatives. The reason I delved deeper into the negatives was in response to a specific question by another poster. I'm all for celebrating this victory but I am also of the opinion that we can and should be playing much better and more complete games. Tweezers and a microscope are not all that is separating us from being a top 5 team. Forgive me if I want the Huskers to be the best they can possibly be. I'll leave this discussion at; we are definitely headed in the right direction but we haven't arrived at our destination. This MSU victory was a significant milepost on the trip. And sorry about the "onlys". I do not believe in absolutes but tend to get sucked into them from time to time.

We learned that even after beating a team in the top ten by three touchdowns Nebraska fans can still find plenty of things to be unhappy about.

Sorry, I learned from Tom Osborne and continue to learn from Bo that the end result is not the most important thing. If you want to strive for excellence then you realize there are always things that can be improved upon. I'm happy with the win but only people that only care about winning or losing would gloss over where we could've been better.

There is no path that has any chance greater than me hitting the next 3 powerball jackpots in a row. We play our first decent game of the year against an obviously poor outing by MSU in week 8 and this is what it leads to? Beam me up Scotty.

Northwestern, Penn State, Michigan, & Iowa. CCG in Indy is "possible".

Rose Bowl after Indy, possible but getting more unlikely.

Another BCS bowl highly doubtful.

The NCG- no f'n way.

I don't want to be Debbie Downer but I do not even want to see us in the NCG this season. The last thing we need is nationwide embarrassment that could set us back years on our rise from the ashes. Rose Bowl is the only pinnacle we have any business dreaming about this year.

Getting our scoring D under 20ppg would be quite a feat. A shutout next game would get us to 20 or we would have to average under 14ppg for our remaining 4 games. I'd love to see it but I don't think it makes us primed for a special season unless you're referring to next season.

^^^^^ on the other hand, there is a chance that if all these potential Stafford holds onto that one INTs were caught... the Blackshirts would have pitched a shut out lol

Fixed it for ya.

D backs played an excellent game

O Line played very well and wore down a good defensive unit

Rex is totally unbelievable and most certainly not human

Carl/Bo put together a very good D gameplan

Beck called a very good game and continuosly impresses me with his in game adjustments

Taylor can throw certain passes in the right situations.

Taylor cannot throw certain passes in the wrong situation.

The equipment managers need to check on that back-ordered Stickum because apparently they were out of stock today.

I can't believe the MSU team we faced today beat the Wisconsin team we faced a few weeks ago.

Momentum and mojo are real factors, not to be over looked, in college football.

As well as we played most of today, we still haven't played a full 4 quarters on both sides of the ball. When we do, look out.

The CCG will be much different than our first meeting with the Badgers.

 

Not an attack at all, but just curiosity, I thought the game was a complete game--what do you think made it almost a full game?

I didn't want to concentrate on the negatives but since you asked;

We were fairly ineffective offensively the first half (big surprise). The short TD drive (setup by the pick) was about the only exception. Beck still has TM attempt throws he is not cutout for and it boggles my mind. We saw in the 2nd half the types of passes he can make so why the ill advised attempts in the 1st half? Our run defense was questionable the first quarter. We gave up big chunks of ground leading up to that interception. We also failed to make about 2-3 other picks that were gimmes. Stafford hangs onto that one and it is a shutout-dropping it directly lead to MSU's FG. And this is really nitpicking but I still felt our front 4 provided little quick pressure. Most of our QB pressure was coverage induced.

I don't want to get attacked for this as I am very happy with the overall effort and result. I thought we showed mountains of improvement in many areas; pass coverage, O line, the "ameoba" defense as some are calling it, and the offensive adjustments we made. My point was, if we play error free and up to our capabilities 4 full quarters both sides then anyone we face is in real trouble.

The offensive "style" of play has a lot less to do with it than the effectiveness of the team running it or defending against it. It still comes down to who plans the best and then goes out and executes the plan, making adjustments as required. Style means squat.

We might need to start embracing those 11cst start times. If it had anything to do with how my Huskers performed and how the visitors played, I'm all for many more early games.

Personally I never felt we were in proper position to take Taylor out. Last few snaps possibly but at that point it is too late to put in a cold guy. I'm not buying the what if he gets hurt deal either. What if Carnes goes in and gets hurt? Then we don't have a backup for Taylor. Injury is not very likely on those types of snaps. If this is all people can come up with to complain about then it was indeed a good day.

And if I remember correctly Osborne hardly ever and maybe never pulled the starting qb at 21 pt differential.

D backs played an excellent game

O Line played very well and wore down a good defensive unit

Rex is totally unbelievable and most certainly not human

Carl/Bo put together a very good D gameplan

Beck called a very good game and continuosly impresses me with his in game adjustments

Taylor can throw certain passes in the right situations.

Taylor cannot throw certain passes in the wrong situation.

The equipment managers need to check on that back-ordered Stickum because apparently they were out of stock today.

I can't believe the MSU team we faced today beat the Wisconsin team we faced a few weeks ago.

Momentum and mojo are real factors, not to be over looked, in college football.

As well as we played most of today, we still haven't played a full 4 quarters on both sides of the ball. When we do, look out.

The CCG will be much different than our first meeting with the Badgers.

Meyer provided some good insight and helped the broadcast even if his speech style is somewhat boring. Spielman wasn't the worst I've heard but it sure did seem he was hesitant to give the Huskers any credit. It appeared he would have been much happier if MSU had been dominating us. Still better than Mushburger or MIllen though. I can't talk about the 3rd d&^khead d-bag without being in the woodshed so I'll just say I didn't/don't like him very much.

BLACKSHIRTS!!!!!!!

Chuck Norris wishes he was as tough as Burkhead

TD

STICKUM STICKUM STICKUM STICKUM

has anybody noticed that every fanbase that has come on here has demonstrated a pretty damn polite attitude? That is a far cry from when we had all those missouri,kansas,kstate trolls come on here to rile everybody up. kinda nice.

 

 

Relax, right now your the new transfer pretty girl where all the guys fake an accent to make a good impression, give it a few years, you will pick your enemies within the Big Ten and the Trash Talk will commence. However all Big Ten teams except the scum in Ann Arbor respect the others program......They all have positives in some way.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other team's football fans and Michigan fans.

Since I've been away from Huskerboard for a little while this week, I feel like I'm out of the loop as to what these Twitter posts said.

 

Alfonzo Dennard and his cousin were tweeting back and fourth and somehow and turned into a debate about racism.

Good Cliff's Notes (do the kids say Spark Notes now?) rundown. Let's not get any further into that topic, though, or I'm going to be posting a new thread called, "A topic about a topic getting moved got moved." And then someone will ask for another explanation, and the whole thing will start up again and I'll have to move that thread, and eventually it'll turn into some recursive feedback loop where the threads just become what they were before they were the thing they used to be, and a black hole will open up right on your screen.

 

Nobody wants that to happen. Right?

 

In the meantime.... Bluto:

 

By golly I think you're onto something here. This topic is quite possibly the seemingly harmless butterfly flapping it's wings that starts us on the course to the impending 12-21-2012 apocolypse. Dang Twitter. I knew that new fangled social media stuff was going to be our demise.

Steve Gardiner & Audrey 2 (feed me seymore)

Over 1.5 takeaways- just cuz we'll need em

O/U 2 good quarters played by the Huskers

Nebraska 30

Sparty 23

Pass 215

Rush 262

I've never understood the appeal of "all-teams". Seem kind of like a pointless exercise to me and that's coming from a guy who does a lot of really pointless things...

It basically is pointless but we've got to talk about something between actual, real life football games. If any of us had anything better to do, I doubt we'd be jabbering about anything on comment boards with people we really don't know. Now just imagine if you could actually field that all everything team- I know you've got the time...