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Thank God Riley didn't listen to all those advisors who said he should bench Tommy A because our line and RBs could dominate and run right over Purdue. Hell, without a half dozen long passes, we were basically impotent on offense vs. Purdue. As I said, we can't afford to simply dump our best vs anybody anymore. We'd better save Tommy and some of our injured guys against Ohio State. In fact, we might want to forfeit that one cause we don't need that game to get to the championship game.

Based on the o line play and apparent 'injuries' to a number of those guys on the field, we obviously have NO backups left because this was a awful game played by several of the linemen and if they are playing injured, the obviously are playing VERY poorly while injured. They should be on the bench healing up so they can hopefully play much better in the future. In the mean time, our second string and or thirds or even fourths should NOW be more ready to play better that what we saw today. They are now 12 weeks into the fall season after the entire spring and whatever additional time in pass years. Where are the backups?

Thank goodness. We run the ball with Tommy and get a first on second down and run out the clock once again, winning ugly! LOL The ugliest 7-0 in the country.

And yet another punt allowed to fall untouched. Fortunately it went out of bounds before rolling inside our 5. We got somebody as good as DPE and he is apparently told to just try to keep people away from the ball about 90 percent of the time. I guess the theory is that we will not make a fumble or other bad mistake but in the process we are basically dumping a major part of the special teams role in the games and DPE is an exceptional returner when and if he ever catches a kick. No blocking.

Defense needs a pick 6. you can bet they will continue to throw as we are not pressuring the QB and can't really stop their simply runs.

Good teams imrpove as the season goes along - we are not improving really. We did in first three games but have regressed in many ways. As I said this game reminds me of last year's Purdue game. Poorly played and presumably poorly gameplanned. team is not ready to play. How can they be playing this poorly. Once again, we are making other team's quarterback look like a heisman candidate. Just plain a head scratching.

Defense is simply not playing hard. This is just plain awful!

Apparently Ozigbo is a decoy and can't actually play. Obviously we cant block their defensive line. Our O line is so badly hurt (apparently) that we are merely pretending to have a starting unit out there. If we can't average 3.3 yards per play running the ball vs. Purdue, we are still in DEEP trouble against a good opponent. Gonna get ugly if we don't take over now. Sadly, it doesn't look like we are going to be able to move the ball. Armstrong is going to have to run the dam ball instead of throw it away. Can't afford incompletes.

This is way too much like last year during the bad times. We are not even trying to run power and playing right into the opponent's hands. They ought not be able to stop our running game if we were truly running it. Our power run died when Ozigbo disappeared the past two weeks. Scary. Newby has done better late in the games but we are now back to three and outs with incomplete passes and no clock use to aid the opponent and punish our defense. You don't wear opponents out exchanging incomplete passes and punts. Dangerous game folks!

Better luck on our punt but we should not be needing to punt at this point. For pete sakes, we are keeping Purdue who just fired their coach in the game. No excxuse - just poor effort, lack of focus etc. They have done nothing special and are running basic plays we should see all the time in practice. Yet, they are on their way to a 450 yards of offense game. Not good folks. Of course, I have to listen to Gary Sharp give a description of the game that lacks basic info or wrong.

Yet another punt goes unfielded and rolls back to our deep end of the field. We need to catch and return punts. If we catch that and return for even 6 yards, we are starting near the 24 instead of the 10. Those add up to a bunch of yards of field position over a season of them. We've priobably wasted about 250 yards of field position conservatively already in just 6.25 games.

Time to play real defense. Last year's game kind of de ja vu so far?

Anyone have any explanation for why we never use a fullback this year? I realize maybe we don't have Jano but we surely have some better than nobody FBs to block and force the defense to stop some actual power running plays. It is very frustrating that we never use a power I or even some other power run formation.

I am wishing for a great game by the Husker football team as a whole. We need 4 quarters of strong, fierce, tough, smashmouth, dominating, hard nosed, Nebraska football where the Blackshirts play like Suh on steroids every play, the special teams play like 'special' teams and the second coming of the scoring explosion happens every time we get the ball. We need to be ahead 49-0 at the half and cruise to a 98-0 win on a beautiful Nebraska fall afternoon in Memorial Stadium We want to be the talk of all of football and will be when we put 859 yards to total offense with 10 consecutive scoring drives for TDs on offense and two PICK 6s on defense, a punt return TD and a kick off run back for another. Poor ol' Drew Brown doesn't get to try a field goal but still scores 14 points on PATs to set a new single game PAT kicking record. Purdue's new coach resigns at the end of the third quarter and walks across the field to stand on the Nebraska sideline for the remainder of the game and puts in a job application in the groundskeeping department to wait for the next opening in the department. TV coverage sets record audience. Beer sales skyrocket across the Nation as Bo Pelini proudly declares in a post game interview this evening that "Nebraska's back and here to stay!" Sorry about that last one - just too tempting to resist. And I was a Bo guy at the time he said that!

A shutout is great but we need to score about 50 or more to even do as well as last year really. Even though our offense seems to be better than last year, we are NOT actually scoring enough. We should be about 10 points a game better than we are - indicating our scoring efficiency is rather low. Not sure why. We have done fairly well on third downs conversions and I think red zone numbers are pretty decent. I believe we are actually giving up too many first downs and yards on defense, thereby depriving the offense of additional possessions. But just a hunch as I have not checked the statistics personally.

I would suggest that if we get by Purdue, then Wisconsin becomes the 'biggest' game in several years. We really needed to win the UCLA bowl game and it was a big win as it got the bad taste out of the mouth and spurred the players on into the winter conditioning etc. Now I am not yet completely sure about our overall team conditioning as we've really not played in really hot weather yet we've seen quite a few cramps, etc. But we have been a fairly strong team in the fourth quarter but I tend to want to credit some of that to the rather sloppy (lazy, take it easy) play of the second and third quarters. We seem to play hard the first 12 minutes and the last 15 minutes but in the middle 'rounds' we play rope a dope or something. We need to find the gumption and drive to play hard for every snap by everybody. This is how the somewhat less talented team can overcome and pull out the win over the better teams.

I suspect that we will have to wait for most of the remaining recruits to make up their minds as the top players tend to take the approach of wait and see how the various schools' season finish out. We need to win 10 or more to land more top guys to finish out this class as we all would like. So, maybe those % figures are a reflection of the odds of winning games down the stretch. I think we have a hell of good chance IF we lose no more than 2 this year. That is a long shot indeed (maybe a 20% chance of that in my view). We need a bunch more luck and I think we've had more than the usual level of positive bounces and just in the nick of time calls and plays - of course we have a bumch of that coming after the last several years of more bad luck than good. I am continuing to remain positive and hoping that our players can keep their minds and attitudes right if and or when that first loss happens. The season has lots to play for even if we should fall short a couple times. They need to keep their eye on the prize which as a fine season with a quality bowl win and double digit win total! If they stay focused and play their tails off, it just might be a tad better than that! Net chance of signing two or more of the named 5 = 30%.

There are far too many non Husker sports discussions on the board (far too many in politics certainly). This is a "Husker" board but I suspect a third to half the stuff is non Husker sports related. Although everyone has an opinion, far too many are founded on fiction and not fact based reality. In football, there is always room for divergence of opinion as to the best strategy and so on - this is the key aspect of the game that makes it the best sports game ever invented. Without all the variability, football might be as 'ho hum' as baseball or something, God forbid! Imagine how few posts would come forth if we were debating baseball. LOL We are in the heart of a football season and the team is undefeated, yet the level of interest seems quite low. Yes, the team is not exactly 'lighting it up' with exciting big plays and dominating offense or even some great special teams. We are just winning in rather bland style and thank goodness we've not had to suffer those heart pounding last second hail marys and off the goal post field goals or double overtime gut wrenchers. But there is every reason to believe those may be just around the bend as the Husker football roller coaster ride is far from over. Perhaps, there is a degree of tension building (like the lull before the storm) as Wisconsin and Ohio State loom as dark clouds in the southwest and the storm warnings are being issued.

That is roughly what the author of the article is trying to say but I don't see a real comparison between the college players and the pros. The pro teams have a small number of players as compared to college players and of course the obvious comparison is to suggest that somehow literally tens of thousands of college players are somehow comparable in value to the small 1500 or so professional caliber players. The suggestion is that somehow all of the amateur players of college are equal in value to the top few percent of the players. The very best at anything are typically worth multiples of the rest, residue and remainder. I would think you may want to be thinking college players would be worth about 10% of the revenues if you are saying pros are worth 47%. But the 'fair market value' is not what the 47% revenue sharing - collective bargaining agreement says really. That is a way for the handful of players are to share in the gross revenues. It is not a fair market value concept in my view.

Latest poll from the most reliable and accurate polling organization from the past 3 presidential elections has the following numbers as of yesterday: Trump 41%; Clinton 40%, others 19%. The debate last night did nothing to hurt Trump and he continues to get the lion's share of the discussion and publicity certainly. Clinton people seem to say - well she didn't lose or want to point to several short statements Trump makes that they finding 'shocking' or so politically incorrect as to be just 'terrible' and say that these simple things are somehow destroying Trump and he can't possibly win. But they been saying that since Trump first announced he was running a year ago. He just keeps on gong and he doesn't listen to the 'political wonks' whose advice and ideas have got the country in the mess its already in. I am happy he refuses to be a part of the political class of 'insiders' who seem to think they know better than everyday people. There remains to be seen what the mass media's attempts to attack and smear him (they have been attacking him daily for a year and it has not worked so far) will ultimately do. It all comes down to the RINO republicans and how they vote. I find it hard to imagine that any sincerely 'republican' middle of the road American can possibly vote for Hillary. The worst, most corrupt candidate in modern political history by far.

Certainly Riley is more deserving that the runner up from Purdue! Agree it is nonsense and purely a promotional stunt by BTN/Big Ten as they have to promote the conference and their teams whenever they can without offending Ohio State and Michigan and the other 'insiders' who run the show.

No, until the past 30 years or so, most Americans did have a decent grasp of history and the evils of socialism and communism (basically two sides of the same story). Anytime the government takes control of the economy and starts preventing the natural forces of free markets (such as free movement of money and the supplies of goods and services), the very virtues and benefits of freedom generally and individual liberty are limited. Discouraging the productivity and rewards for the work and ingenuity of the individuals in society reduce the supply thereof - destroying wealth and the capacity to generate more of it - making everyone poorer. Poverty is the natural and inevitable result of socialism and communism as you deprive people of the own self-worth and the motivation to be efficient, thoughtful and generous with their minds and bodies. Enslavement to the state is the true effect of socialism. While many societies in world history have accomplished remarkable things (the Greeks, Romans, Incas, Egyptians, etc etc), slavery of the masses was a fundamental underpinning of those societies although not often discussed by the historians that portray such civilizations as 'great' or magnificent.

No way Purdue or any other legitimate power school wants or takes Bo Pelini. Maybe in a decade or so if he has demonstrated over half a decade or more he has finally grown up and taken some control of his temper and there is a long absence of erratic uncontrolled behavior and comments are free from the vulgarity he is so famous for - in other words, NOT!

I said going into the Nebraska game, so we are excluded. Yes, I think they are beating Wiscy in Iowa and Penn State, and losing to Michigan. Iowa is going to beat Wiscy? Have you SEEN any Hawkeye games this year? I..I can't stop laughing. Iowa will be lucky to get to 7 wins this year. As far as honesty, NU should be favored in every game left on the schedule except UW/OSU. There's no way Iowa is favored, even with it being at home. Yes. Yes Hope you're right. Okay. We'll know in 6 days...I think Iowa wins on Saturday. If I'm reading between the lines in your very subtle post, you think Wisconsin draws and quarters them. One of us will be wrong. Certainly might be me. I'm curious. What have you seen from iowa this year to think they will be capable of beating Wiscy? Or Penn State, or Illinois for that matter? That offense is a dumpster fire that has only been able to produce against PURDUE? I don't understand it. Ive watched most of thier games this year and that team is playing like a high school team from Alaska. As in the words of Charles Barkley - Turrible. Iowa has been laughable in moments this year, but I think Wisconsin is due for a letdown game, and Iowa could easily beat them. I would put it as a 50-50 game right now. The table is clearly set for Wisconsin. Win the next two games, Iowa and Nebraska, and they control their destiny going forward and will probably get another shot at Michigan or OSU in the CCG. They're legitimately strong. It took an act of will by JT Barrett to pull that game close enough to outlast them in OT. As has been mentioned, the Iowa offense is a pile of dog crap. Both Minnesota and Purdue played possibly the two worst games I've seen in College Football in the last several years to hand them their last two victories. Leidner was a zombie and they still almost won. Purdue couldn't stop slow, hobbled CJ Beathard from long repeated desperation runs of 10 yards+. I am confident this will not happen to Wisconsin. That Wisconsin -3 line that was out this week is for the gamblers, IMO. Wisconsin will beat Iowa by a comfortable 12 points or so and it won't, in reality, be that close. Michigan will beat them by more. Wisconsin, if they were to beat Nebraska, would still need another team to beat Nebraska as UW has two conference losses. So they don't control their own destiny, they still need help. I think it more aptly stated that we need somebody else to beat Wisconsin as two losses will assure the Badgers are in the CCG assuming of course that we lose to Wiscy and Ohio State (more than likely). We need to win all but those two and have wiscy fall to Penn State or somebody else which is entirely possible. Fatigue and injuries take a toll on all but the elites who are three deep all over.

I understand that they are talking to Les Miles (Ben's father btw) about coming in to Lincoln to coach the special teams and assist with the run game diversification but that's just my understanding! This could be only a completely unsupported rumor started on a silly chatboard but ??? He obviously would be well advised to take this position as then he would be able to attend his son's college games, both home and away, for all of his career, for free!!!! Les also has a way of doing the most unpredictable things and having him in the coaching mix during games would force our opponents to wonder when we might just quick kick / punt say, on second down, or might fake a chip shot field goal when we are trailing by 2 points with less than a minute left! LOL Les also is reported to be a close friend of Mike Riley, although this too is just wild speculative rumor! Ben Miles is a natural born Husker on film and will be a fine fullback and can probably play about a dozen other positions just because he's a coach's son and so knows all there is to know about football as a 'player-coach' and can be our wildcat QB, backup punter, backup nose tackle and probably guards the water bucket better than about any other player on the team. Now this should get this discussion back on track, hopefully! Go Huskers and Welcome Coach Miles!