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Both, perhaps. Darlington's been seemingly getting a lot of love recently. A top three of Armstrong - Bush - Darlington wouldn't surprise me. I've kind of been ruling Darlington out because of all the concussion issues. Kinda thought he was just along for the free ride. Whatever happened to 'Johnny Tebow'? It actually concerns me that Stanton hasn't beaten out TA by this time, but oh wellzzz...... Bush, more power to him.

They were 2nd last year and I predict will be top 5 recruiting for the foreseeable future. Sark will grow into the job, but with that much talent, I could probably coach them to a championship. ESPN has them @ #4 going into next year: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/12138345/tcu-leads-2015-way-too-early-top-25-rankings Athlon haas them 10th

AJ Bush is apparently beating out Stanton and darlington. That concerns me. Bush was a 2* recruit and the other 2 were 4*s. Are they that bad or is he that good?

Youth, they let up. Well, we played a good game. And if we hadn't gotten 'Becked' on that 3rd and 4th down deal, maybe we would've stolen that game. Huskers had a huge incentive in that game: "Win one for the Bopper!" I'm saying, as per huge recruiting gains, USC will become the top dog in the PAC maybe as soon as this year, and will be the top dog, over OR. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. (USC #2 recruiting class 2015)

Hope we win. And, BTW, TA, ZD, and JS are all on the same side, whereas Bush is starting for the other guys. WHAT THE...! It concerns me that Bush is apparently beating out ZD and especially JS: the latter 2 were supposed to be better than that.

Speaking usually reflects what's going on in someone's(the coach's) head and, therefore, usually what gets translated onto the field. That's my point. Bo was a pretty good example of that, not a great communicator, hence, relatively sloppy team at times, IMO. You actually are basing these mistakes by the team on Bo not being able to talk well in a press conference?Really???? Uh, no, I'm basing Bo's mistake prone NE teams on his relative inability to communicate well to the team. It is teaching, after all. I'm making this assumption the only way a fan can, by the way he communicated at press conferences. So, I'm saying, again, that Riley doesn't impress me as a great communicator, hence, I'm uneasy about him, his ability to convey concepts to his team. Yeah, I'm saying that.Bo's own lack of self discipline, anger issues, inability to hire experts as assistant coaches, unwillingness to make changes to his defensive scheme when the world could see it wasn't working and his inability to get along with his superiors (anger issues) had WAY more to do with his team's lack of success than him not being able to communicate in a press conference.I think it had more to do with crootin' than any of that other stuff. Granted, some of that baggage probably didn't help his crootin' efforts.I think you're wrong. I think it had way more to do with a lot of that other stuff. There's plenty of talent on this team. Matter of fact, it's amazing some of these highly talented guys we have on this team wanted to play in either offensive or defensive scheme. The unwillingness (not inability, he was plenty able) to hire more experienced coaches effected every aspect of this team and recruiting. Of course, when you think you know it all and are a control freak, why would you hire people who possibly outrank you in wisdom and knowledge of the game. They may challenge you to be better....and guys like Bo don't like to be challenged. I don't think I am. I hope I am, but I don't think I am. Look at the recruiting classes the last 4 years. We're talented enough to be a fringe top 25 team. Not to say we're completely without talent, but if we want to compete with the Ohio States of the world, we got to recruit better. Agree. We have talent, but it is top heavy w 3* talent, whereas the big dogs are top heavy with 4*s and some 5*s here and there. We end up being ranked on about the average level of our crootin': 20th-30th. Bama, FSU, tOSU croot the highest, and, oddly enough, end up ranked the highest: funny how that works. Nothing's going to much change until we get a surplus of 4* talent on the team, though Riley, with 'better experience and resources(!)' might, in time, get us 1 more W/year on average. Still, 2nd tier, though. P.S, we'll be seeing a big surge from USC from here on out, they are getting crazy talent coming in there, like the 'good old days' of Petey Carroll. They are back. Sark will make sure they drop a few each season. He is the Pacs Bo Pelini IMO Sark is a young HC, has a young crew, I guess. But I think he has his sh#t together pretty well. SC will be crankin' in the top 5 or 10 in no time. Too much talent. Talent/speed is what won their game against us. They duked it out with a completely dysfunctional NU football team led by Barney Cotton....he didn't out coach Barney Cotton. Again I repeat, he didn't out coach BARNEY COTTON I think SC was up by nearly 2 tds at one point, or a few times, right? SC had a ton of youth last year. Barney and crew deserve credit, though, they had a well coached and insired gameplan, but still, it was close to being a small blowout here and there. I think Sark will be ok.

I'll take wins over percentages every time and Ron couldn't beat Iowa. Say what you will about Martinez and Armstrong, but they were fearless in a way that Ron Kellogg, Cody Green, Brion Carnes and other forgotten would-be phenoms weren't. Technique sure would have helped, but competitive instinct can't be taught. TMart and TArm flat out better athletes than those others.

Speaking usually reflects what's going on in someone's(the coach's) head and, therefore, usually what gets translated onto the field. That's my point. Bo was a pretty good example of that, not a great communicator, hence, relatively sloppy team at times, IMO. You actually are basing these mistakes by the team on Bo not being able to talk well in a press conference?Really???? Uh, no, I'm basing Bo's mistake prone NE teams on his relative inability to communicate well to the team. It is teaching, after all. I'm making this assumption the only way a fan can, by the way he communicated at press conferences. So, I'm saying, again, that Riley doesn't impress me as a great communicator, hence, I'm uneasy about him, his ability to convey concepts to his team. Yeah, I'm saying that.Bo's own lack of self discipline, anger issues, inability to hire experts as assistant coaches, unwillingness to make changes to his defensive scheme when the world could see it wasn't working and his inability to get along with his superiors (anger issues) had WAY more to do with his team's lack of success than him not being able to communicate in a press conference.I think it had more to do with crootin' than any of that other stuff. Granted, some of that baggage probably didn't help his crootin' efforts.I think you're wrong. I think it had way more to do with a lot of that other stuff. There's plenty of talent on this team. Matter of fact, it's amazing some of these highly talented guys we have on this team wanted to play in either offensive or defensive scheme. The unwillingness (not inability, he was plenty able) to hire more experienced coaches effected every aspect of this team and recruiting. Of course, when you think you know it all and are a control freak, why would you hire people who possibly outrank you in wisdom and knowledge of the game. They may challenge you to be better....and guys like Bo don't like to be challenged. I don't think I am. I hope I am, but I don't think I am. Look at the recruiting classes the last 4 years. We're talented enough to be a fringe top 25 team. Not to say we're completely without talent, but if we want to compete with the Ohio States of the world, we got to recruit better. Agree. We have talent, but it is top heavy w 3* talent, whereas the big dogs are top heavy with 4*s and some 5*s here and there. We end up being ranked on about the average level of our crootin': 20th-30th. Bama, FSU, tOSU croot the highest, and, oddly enough, end up ranked the highest: funny how that works. Nothing's going to much change until we get a surplus of 4* talent on the team, though Riley, with 'better experience and resources(!)' might, in time, get us 1 more W/year on average. Still, 2nd tier, though. P.S, we'll be seeing a big surge from USC from here on out, they are getting crazy talent coming in there, like the 'good old days' of Petey Carroll. They are back. Sark will make sure they drop a few each season. He is the Pacs Bo Pelini IMO Sark is a young HC, has a young crew, I guess. But I think he has his sh#t together pretty well. SC will be crankin' in the top 5 or 10 in no time. Too much talent. Talent/speed is what won their game against us.

Speaking usually reflects what's going on in someone's(the coach's) head and, therefore, usually what gets translated onto the field. That's my point. Bo was a pretty good example of that, not a great communicator, hence, relatively sloppy team at times, IMO. You actually are basing these mistakes by the team on Bo not being able to talk well in a press conference?Really???? Uh, no, I'm basing Bo's mistake prone NE teams on his relative inability to communicate well to the team. It is teaching, after all. I'm making this assumption the only way a fan can, by the way he communicated at press conferences. So, I'm saying, again, that Riley doesn't impress me as a great communicator, hence, I'm uneasy about him, his ability to convey concepts to his team. Yeah, I'm saying that.Bo's own lack of self discipline, anger issues, inability to hire experts as assistant coaches, unwillingness to make changes to his defensive scheme when the world could see it wasn't working and his inability to get along with his superiors (anger issues) had WAY more to do with his team's lack of success than him not being able to communicate in a press conference.I think it had more to do with crootin' than any of that other stuff. Granted, some of that baggage probably didn't help his crootin' efforts.I think you're wrong. I think it had way more to do with a lot of that other stuff. There's plenty of talent on this team. Matter of fact, it's amazing some of these highly talented guys we have on this team wanted to play in either offensive or defensive scheme. The unwillingness (not inability, he was plenty able) to hire more experienced coaches effected every aspect of this team and recruiting. Of course, when you think you know it all and are a control freak, why would you hire people who possibly outrank you in wisdom and knowledge of the game. They may challenge you to be better....and guys like Bo don't like to be challenged. I don't think I am. I hope I am, but I don't think I am. Look at the recruiting classes the last 4 years. We're talented enough to be a fringe top 25 team. Not to say we're completely without talent, but if we want to compete with the Ohio States of the world, we got to recruit better. Agree. We have talent, but it is top heavy w 3* talent, whereas the big dogs are top heavy with 4*s and some 5*s here and there. We end up being ranked on about the average level of our crootin': 20th-30th. Bama, FSU, tOSU croot the highest, and, oddly enough, end up ranked the highest: funny how that works. Nothing's going to much change until we get a surplus of 4* talent on the team, though Riley, with 'better experience and resources(!)' might, in time, get us 1 more W/year on average. Still, 2nd tier, though. P.S, we'll be seeing a big surge from USC from here on out, they are getting crazy talent coming in there, like the 'good old days' of Petey Carroll. They are back.

Speaking usually reflects what's going on in someone's(the coach's) head and, therefore, usually what gets translated onto the field. That's my point. Bo was a pretty good example of that, not a great communicator, hence, relatively sloppy team at times, IMO. You actually are basing these mistakes by the team on Bo not being able to talk well in a press conference? Really???? Uh, no, I'm basing Bo's mistake prone NE teams on his relative inability to communicate well to the team. It is teaching, after all. I'm making this assumption the only way a fan can, by the way he communicated at press conferences. So, I'm saying, again, that Riley doesn't impress me as a great communicator, hence, I'm uneasy about him, his ability to convey concepts to his team. Yeah, I'm saying that. Bo's own lack of self discipline, anger issues, inability to hire experts as assistant coaches, unwillingness to make changes to his defensive scheme when the world could see it wasn't working and his inability to get along with his superiors (anger issues) had WAY more to do with his team's lack of success than him not being able to communicate in a press conference. This is why I think Riley wins 11 this year! Installing a new offense with TA at the helm, I highly doubt we get 11 Ws. 9-3 tops. The U = L, Sparty = L, and we'll drop at least one out the jNU, MN, WI mix. BYU is iffy, Taysom Hill is back, probably gives them the edge. And BTW, why do they put our open date at the end of the year just before IA?! That's just wrong! And one hopes that we don't drop that game, that would also be wrong!

Speaking usually reflects what's going on in someone's(the coach's) head and, therefore, usually what gets translated onto the field. That's my point. Bo was a pretty good example of that, not a great communicator, hence, relatively sloppy team at times, IMO. You actually are basing these mistakes by the team on Bo not being able to talk well in a press conference? Really???? Uh, no, I'm basing Bo's mistake prone NE teams on his relative inability to communicate well to the team. It is teaching, after all. I'm making this assumption the only way a fan can, by the way he communicated at press conferences. So, I'm saying, again, that Riley doesn't impress me as a great communicator, hence, I'm uneasy about him, his ability to convey concepts to his team. Yeah, I'm saying that. Bo's own lack of self discipline, anger issues, inability to hire experts as assistant coaches, unwillingness to make changes to his defensive scheme when the world could see it wasn't working and his inability to get along with his superiors (anger issues) had WAY more to do with his team's lack of success than him not being able to communicate in a press conference. This is why I think Riley wins 11 this year! Installing Riley's new offense, especially with TA at the helm, I highly doubt we get 11 Ws. 9-3 tops. The U = L, Sparty = L, and we'll drop at least one out the jNU, MN, WI mix. And BTW, why do they put our open date at the end of the year just before IA?! That's just wrong!

Pure genius, right there. As opposed to what other kind fo plays...? Well, not to jump on the guy too much already, but Riley, the times I've heard him speak, seems a bit mumbly jumbly.Sorta scatter brained. Anybody else get that? I mean, Urban Meyer, for e.g., speaks incredibly clear and focused. The more clearly a person speaks, the more hated they become. See Jeff Gordon. Well, Urbs in particular, when he speaks, you can tell he's playing chess while about everybody else is playing checkers. He knows exactly what he wants and what he's doing. Saban is a close second in that regard. Urbs, in a class all his own, IMO. Riley makes me nervous when he speaks . WTF? How can you even be serious? Ya know, I should never forget. You can show a group of 1000 people a grape, and somehow one guy will see a banana. It's amazing to me but it always happens. Apparently Urban Meyers ability to slither through conversations like a snake with a bit of arrogance doesn't bother you, but even more unbelievable is that an honest, down to earth man, who talks to you like he may as well be in your living room is the guy that makes you nervous. Wow. Haha, I guess you don't like Urbs and I think you are misconstruing what I'm saying. The guy knows exactly what he wants, what he has, where he's going and how to get there and communicates all that with exquisite clarity, and his record absolutely bears that out. Riley, yeah, unassuming, 'aw shucks' and all that, but when he actually speaks on specifics he leaves me scratching my head most of the time as to what he's talking about. A "football play". What the F is that supposed to mean? And so much more. Maybe he's better in the 'classroom', who knows. I like the guy, am not down on him, wish him to succeed. In fact, I rather hang out with Riley over Urbs by a long shot, like a 'good buddy'. Just can't decifer half of what he says. I don't think he's near the coach Urbs is, that's all I'm saying.

Speaking usually reflects what's going on in someone's(the coach's) head and, therefore, usually what gets translated onto the field. That's my point. Bo was a pretty good example of that, not a great communicator, hence, relatively sloppy team at times, IMO. You actually are basing these mistakes by the team on Bo not being able to talk well in a press conference? Really???? Uh, no, I'm basing Bo's mistake prone NE teams on his relative inability to communicate well to the team. It is teaching, after all. I'm making this assumption the only way a fan can, by the way he communicated at press conferences. So, I'm saying, again, that Riley doesn't impress me as a great communicator, hence, I'm uneasy about him, his ability to convey concepts to his team. Yeah, I'm saying that. Bo's own lack of self discipline, anger issues, inability to hire experts as assistant coaches, unwillingness to make changes to his defensive scheme when the world could see it wasn't working and his inability to get along with his superiors (anger issues) had WAY more to do with his team's lack of success than him not being able to communicate in a press conference. To me his in game self discipline is why many games were lost. He would lose composure and then his players would lose composure. This is what I hope to see from Mike Riley's team. some composer in the face of adversity. True about Bo, and I don't think there will be an issue re: composure and Riley. They say he never arugues with refs, for one thing. We might hope he gets more rile'd up during games.

Speaking usually reflects what's going on in someone's(the coach's) head and, therefore, usually what gets translated onto the field. That's my point. Bo was a pretty good example of that, not a great communicator, hence, relatively sloppy team at times, IMO. You actually are basing these mistakes by the team on Bo not being able to talk well in a press conference? Really???? Uh, no, I'm basing Bo's mistake prone NE teams on his relative inability to communicate well to the team. It is teaching, after all. I'm making this assumption the only way a fan can, by the way he communicated at press conferences. So, I'm saying, again, that Riley doesn't impress me as a great communicator, hence, I'm uneasy about him, his ability to convey concepts to his team. Yeah, I'm saying that.

Speaking usually reflects what's going on in someone's(the coach's) head and, therefore, usually what gets translated onto the field. That's my point. Bo was a pretty good example of that, not a great communicator, hence, relatively sloppy team at times, IMO.

Well, there's a reason why Urbs has only 1 loss among B1G teams in 3 years and won the NC his 3rd yr with a 3rd string qb. He knows what he's doing and he can clearly communicate it and translate it onto the field. Riley makes me uneasy, that's all I'm saying. I'll have to listen to him on a 'good' day, I guess.

Pure genius, right there. As opposed to what other kind fo plays...? Well, not to jump on the guy too much already, but Riley, the times I've heard him speak, seems a bit mumbly jumbly.Sorta scatter brained. Anybody else get that? I mean, Urban Meyer, for e.g., speaks incredibly clear and focused. And you've never been asked a question where you can't think of the right words to say? I'm pretty sure Urbs has had his fair share of jumbled words, we just don't really noticed it because he has never been our coach and hang on every single thing he says. Besides would rather have the occasional misspeaks or the "he's done some good things, some things he can improve on. But he's a pretty good football player"? When Riley speaks, he's kind of all over the place, vague, imprecise, and makes me feel uneasy. Urbs is the opposite of that. I think if you took 10 pressors of each side by side, you'd see the difference, night and day.

I think we'll be alright with the 4 Horsemen, once they get rolling. I'm mainly concerned about the QB situation and offense Riley is going to run.

Too bad about Peters.

Pure genius, right there. As opposed to what other kind fo plays...? Well, not to jump on the guy too much already, but Riley, the times I've heard him speak, seems a bit mumbly jumbly.Sorta scatter brained. Anybody else get that? I mean, Urban Meyer, for e.g., speaks incredibly clear and focused. The more clearly a person speaks, the more hated they become. See Jeff Gordon. Well, Urbs in particular, when he speaks, you can tell he's playing chess while about everybody else is playing checkers. He knows exactly what he wants and what he's doing. Saban is a close second in that regard. Urbs, in a class all his own, IMO. Riley makes me nervous when he speaks .

Yeah, IN had what's his name, Tevin Coleman and Elliot got it going for tOSU.

Yeah, Wiscy comes off like the 'good guys', I guess.

Pure genius, right there. As opposed to what other kind fo plays...? Well, not to jump on the guy too much already, but Riley, the times I've heard him speak, seems a bit mumbly jumbly.Sorta scatter brained. Anybody else get that? I mean, Urban Meyer, for e.g., speaks incredibly clear and focused.

Guess I'm pulling for Wiscy for the Natty. Hope they can recover from the big win and get it done.