The Big Nebrowski

I think you're tragically negative. You should look for the good in the team instead of dwelling on the bad things.Might make your fan experience less stressful. Just by the language you use in your posts, it seems like you really have little hope for the Huskers. Have you ever been exposed to HRO? High Reliability Organization. It is the system that allows the most dangerous and risky operations to go long stretches without failure. And one of the basic tenets of HRO goes completely against what you have just advocated. Basically you have to be constantly aware that failure is an option and will occur if you fail to do "x". Being constantly aware of failure, and nagging about doing what it takes to prevent failure is the surest way to prevent it. So you don't overlook shortcomings or be hopeful or wistful. Hope is not a game plan. NU has many hurdles for next year, and any wise person would not overlook, underestimate or belittle a single one if you want success. Well there is another side to that.If a person wants to remain a fan, maybe it is necessary from time to time to rely on hope and ignore some of the failures or problems. If I constantly remained at the lowest level of my outlook for Husker football, I'm not sure I could force myself to be interested any longer. Hope is really the only thing we've had to hold onto for 15+ years. My outlook was at an extremely low point after the tOSU and Iowa games this past season and the bowl game only helped confirm that negative outlook. But we fired our underperforming DC, recruited some pretty talented kids and finally will get to see this offense without allowances being made for a QB that honestly was not good at throwing the ball or going through passing progressions. So, there's a choice there, remain negative until on the field results prove otherwise or get your hopes up and start seeing the sunshine. I chose the later. It may not be well founded or even wise but it is necessary for me to avoid being a real jerk or completely losing interest. Plus, I might add, a fan overlooking, underestimating or belittling anything has absolutely zero effect on the success of the team. We're not coaches or players or directly involved with decisions or preparation. I could say we're going to win all 12, win the CCG and win the playoff and not allow a single point along the way and it wouldn't have any effect at all on what is really going to happen. It might get me committed but it wouldn't make a difference to the teams success. Hmmmm, well, as to that "HRO" thing ^, that sounds way too neurotic for me and I'm certainly not going to allow that sort of approach into, say, my sex life. Next, "hope", yeah, it's a good emotion when things are bleak, it can keep ya going, but we live in a material world and I am a material girl...er, scratch that, what I mean is at some point, say in football, material things need to be addressed so as to improve material circumstances, like say, "horses". Football is really simple, you either have the "horses" or you don't have the "horses", as my dear ol' dad used to say. It's a simple eyeball test, like when we line up vs tOSU or USC, one can immediately observe, "egad", we don't have the 'horses' for this... So, that is the thrust of my argument, it is neither optimistic or pessimistic, it is purely materialistic: we need "more horses"n better "horses". That is, our recruiting has to improve in a big way and that's the bottom line. No use cryin' over this and that when you just need "more horses". Also, this is a msg board, so the point is to engage in thoughtful and stimulating discussion, analysis, and debate. All the koolaid colored, delusional Big Red mind voodoo, that is a holdover mental illness from the glory years of Devaney and Oz, really doesn't add anything to the discussion. Exhortations like, "12 and 0" or "national champs" and the like, don't stimulate thought, especially when they have little to do with the current reality of the team. So, I'd appreciate not being bludgeoned over the head with that stuff. We need more "horses", better "horses", so how do we make that happen? Dadgummit! And "AW SHUCKS!". If the Creighton BJs from lil ol Bugaha can be a top 10 team w the likes of Duke, UNC, and KU, and the NU WVB team can bring home a natty every other year, then how in the HELL does NEBRASKA FOOTBALL spend a Trumpian fortune on it's project and end up rated 30th every every year?! It's not right! And it's not fair! And I dare say it's un-American! GET THOSE HORSES!!! Simple response, we are working on just that. Secondly, you're new here, but if you don't want to read Kool-Aid perspective you won't like it here. Likewise if you also don't like the uber pessimistic approach that constantly predicts 5-7 or 4-8 etc. There are multiple personalities here and it's nice that way. If we all had the same train of thought this place would suck, I just hope you don't expect everyone to concede because of your arrival. Yeah, we got a few horses in this class and maybe some already in the stable, maybe a true difference maker in the likes of Tyjon and Gebbia, or POB. We'll have to see. Just need more of 'em is all and if you look at at @ the way Bama and tOSU and FSU, etc, have been hoarding up horses, well we need A LOT more just to get back in the conversation. As to the Uber Koolaiders, as long as they don't bludgeon and gang up and attack me with, er, koolaid and blinding wacked out sunshine bolts, I think I can deal w it. Hey, I give us 7 Ws next yr which I think is realistic. Now, if the rookie QB, whichever one, comes in and lights it up, maybe we get 9 wins and everybody's more or less "happy".

Well, me thinks the CU BJs got "jobbed" a bit by the pollsters as w 2 losses, one to #1 Villanova(at the time #1), they climbed to #7, THEN they lose to Geotown, I think, and ok they lose by 20, and blamo, they get dropped FIFTEEN spots in the polls and they still had a better record than some of the teams that jumped 'em. So, maybe they aren't, like the Husker's weren't, a top 10 team to start with OR the pollsters were/are WHACK. Take yer pick. Big Red, barely getting by mediocre competition, went from 22 to 15 in 1 week which was a ridiculous jump, then 12, then 9 the 8--and everybody outside the NE bubble and some within knew it was a fraud ranking, then blamo they lose a respectable match @ Wiscy, drop 1 spot then, blamo, they get decimated by a YOUNG tOSU team and realitay asserts itself and it was over from there. Even if TA hadn't gotten injured, it's not so clear if GBR wouldn't have lost the last 2 games they lost. Now, I for one, didn't think tOSU was an athletically 59 pt better team than us and I kind of hang that one on the coaches, Banker, as the D was completely lost the whole game and stopped NOTHING. But I don't think we were ever a top 10 team either way, best case scenario maybe 15 or so. At this point, it's rather moot. My contrasting CU and WVB and GBR FB is fairly clear as to the point I'm making.

He must have been the best "garbage OC" available for NE to pay him 3/4 mil, OSU pay him 2/3 mil, and TX to pay him 1+ mil per year to call "garbage" plays. I want that job.

I think you're tragically negative. You should look for the good in the team instead of dwelling on the bad things.Might make your fan experience less stressful. Just by the language you use in your posts, it seems like you really have little hope for the Huskers. Have you ever been exposed to HRO? High Reliability Organization. It is the system that allows the most dangerous and risky operations to go long stretches without failure. And one of the basic tenets of HRO goes completely against what you have just advocated. Basically you have to be constantly aware that failure is an option and will occur if you fail to do "x". Being constantly aware of failure, and nagging about doing what it takes to prevent failure is the surest way to prevent it. So you don't overlook shortcomings or be hopeful or wistful. Hope is not a game plan. NU has many hurdles for next year, and any wise person would not overlook, underestimate or belittle a single one if you want success. Well there is another side to that.If a person wants to remain a fan, maybe it is necessary from time to time to rely on hope and ignore some of the failures or problems. If I constantly remained at the lowest level of my outlook for Husker football, I'm not sure I could force myself to be interested any longer. Hope is really the only thing we've had to hold onto for 15+ years. My outlook was at an extremely low point after the tOSU and Iowa games this past season and the bowl game only helped confirm that negative outlook. But we fired our underperforming DC, recruited some pretty talented kids and finally will get to see this offense without allowances being made for a QB that honestly was not good at throwing the ball or going through passing progressions. So, there's a choice there, remain negative until on the field results prove otherwise or get your hopes up and start seeing the sunshine. I chose the later. It may not be well founded or even wise but it is necessary for me to avoid being a real jerk or completely losing interest. Plus, I might add, a fan overlooking, underestimating or belittling anything has absolutely zero effect on the success of the team. We're not coaches or players or directly involved with decisions or preparation. I could say we're going to win all 12, win the CCG and win the playoff and not allow a single point along the way and it wouldn't have any effect at all on what is really going to happen. It might get me committed but it wouldn't make a difference to the teams success. Hmmmm, well, as to that "HRO" thing ^, that sounds way too neurotic for me and I'm certainly not going to allow that sort of approach into, say, my sex life. Next, "hope", yeah, it's a good emotion when things are bleak, it can keep ya going, but we live in a material world and I am a material girl...er, scratch that, what I mean is at some point, say in football, material things need to be addressed so as to improve material circumstances, like say, "horses". Football is really simple, you either have the "horses" or you don't have the "horses", as my dear ol' dad used to say. It's a simple eyeball test, like when we line up vs tOSU or USC, one can immediately observe, "egad", we don't have the 'horses' for this... So, that is the thrust of my argument, it is neither optimistic or pessimistic, it is purely materialistic: we need "more horses"n better "horses". That is, our recruiting has to improve in a big way and that's the bottom line. No use cryin' over this and that when you just need "more horses". Also, this is a msg board, so the point is to engage in thoughtful and stimulating discussion, analysis, and debate. All the koolaid colored, delusional Big Red mind voodoo, that is a holdover mental illness from the glory years of Devaney and Oz, really doesn't add anything to the discussion. Exhortations like, "12 and 0" or "national champs" and the like, don't stimulate thought, especially when they have little to do with the current reality of the team. So, I'd appreciate not being bludgeoned over the head with that stuff. We need more "horses", better "horses", so how do we make that happen? Dadgummit! And "AW SHUCKS!". If the Creighton BJs from lil ol Bugaha can be a top 10 team w the likes of Duke, UNC, and KU, and the NU WVB team can bring home a natty every other year, then how in the HELL does NEBRASKA FOOTBALL spend a Trumpian fortune on it's project and end up rated 30th every every year?! It's not right! And it's not fair! And I dare say it's un-American! GET THOSE HORSES!!!

Forgive me as this is partially my fault - if you read that article, it was opining for both Beck AND the other OC to be removed. I only talked about Beck because that was the point of discussion in this thread. As for tOSU's offense, in Herman's last year, they were top 10 in total offense and top five in passing efficiency and scoring offense. Last year? They were ranked 31, 44 and 5 in those categories. And Barrett regressed from his 2014 numbers to 2016. Ok, well, that's how the cookie crumbles I guess. Depending on whom you read, Beck was supposedly doing most the play calling as a "CO-OC" in '15 up until the loss to Sparty, but they still went 12-1 and were co-champs of B1G that year. So Ed Warinner, the other "CO-OC" was doing the play calling in '16-allegedly-and they go 11-2 and playoff berth. 23-3 while Beck was "CO-OC" @ tOSU. Is there any shame in a young team getting hammered in a playoff game vs the best team in the country w the best player in the country @ QB. I say, "no, there is no shame in that", but what I'm getting out of tOSU is that whiney prick Urbs no likey to lose--AT ALL! Heads will roll! Well, guess what, Beck gets the "tit" job @ Tejas, a promotion in position and pay to full OC @ a premier program in the land with prlly the hottest HC and Ed Warinner, who OBTW was OC @ KU in their '07 scoring explosion and #7 ranking, 12-1 with, guess who, lil Mr. Tim Beck as "pass game coord"--anyway, Ed Warinner is now demoted to OL coach in Gopherville. Also, it is in the public record that Tom Herman has explicitly said that Tim Beck will be doing the play calling @ Tejas--just Google it. Who got the last laugh here, Husker Fan?(Well, he must be sh#t cuz we fired him...)

Diaco has already dabbled some as a HC, unsuccessfully, so maybe he has come to the realization that DCing is his true life's work and will stick around w us for a piece. Assuming he does well, of course. As to Urban, I'm a bit surprised that he didn't offer Tim Beck the full OC position, because that's why Beck left, to become HERMAN's OC @ Texas. Beck wasn't good enough for NE Fan, of course. Did Meyer even trust Beck enough at OSU to allow him to call plays? I'm sure if Urban wanted Beck to stay he could have made it happen.Not sure what exactly Beck did @ OSU, he was there, gettin paid, they won a lot of games. If he didn't have to call plays I'd say he was livin' pretty large, lol! This summarizes some of what went down and how the fan base viewed Beck. One of the more troubling lines of the article relates back to their shutout loss to Clemson in the CFP: You can't be struggling to find offensive identity at that point in the season - the playoffs. But, as we all know, identity has been a concern around here for sometime and was under Beck, as well. As to Beck and "identity", when, I ask, has Beck had a competant passing QB to work with over the past 10 yrs of his career? Martinez, Armstrong, Barrett, all more or less crappy passers, but all forte as rushers, but you can't run them to death cuz injuries, so yeah, "identity" issues. I mean, ya gotta have a QB that can throw the damn ball. Shawn Watson, we fired him so he must be sh#t. Oh wait, has great O @ Louisville because of one Terry Bridgewater, remember that guy. Watson is great but he's not great because we fired him. Goes to Tejas and they hand him that Swoopes kid who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn w a sledge hammer if he was standin' right next to it. Watson has to take the fall. Oh wait, few yrs later they clear out the whole C. Strong Brigade because, for oneN they couldn't find a QB that could pass worth a bleep. QBs are very powerful people. But you can't have this thing both ways. You can't say that Beck had zero input to the OC @ OSU and then try to hang the a loss around his neck. And while I'm on my soapbox here, this thing with Banker, well it wasn't all on him. Our LBs and safeties, it was pretty obvious all along, weren't the greatest open field tacklers, not anything more than just servicable athletes. Bando was pretty bad his 1st 2 seasons, finally became respectable, Newby meh, Rose Ivey meh, etc. In that IA, if you watch the film on a few of those long runs, our guy was there, in the hole or taking the angle and basically got either bowled over on his ass or blown by. So you can't hang all the D woes on Banker. At some point you have to have some athletes. Last good LB we had was LaVonte David, since then its been meh. Barrett is/was not a competent passing qb? LOL - Barrett might be the best QB he ever coaches. He severely regressed under Beck and if Beck couldn't get it done with him, I don't think he can get it done with anyone who's "better". YEAR CMP ATT PCT YDS AVG TD LNG INT RAT 2016 233 379 61.5 2555 6.7 24 79 7 135.3 2015 93 147 63.3 992 6.7 11 50 4 139.2 2014 203 314 64.7 2834 9.0 34 80 10 169.8 I'm excited to see what Langs can do with a qb that's a true passer. I think Riley has made a lot of the necessary changes to get us back on track and definitely think we're on the upswing. The %s look good, but your more pure pocket, pro style guys, a good one, will fling it for 3000+ on ave. Barrett is no pure pocket passer.

Whoa, brutal! BTW, why do we play some of those East teams twice or more consecutively--e.g. tOSU--and others once--e.g. IN? We get OSU and Wisc at home this next year since we were there last year. The 2018 schedule has us visiting again. I don't remember how the Michigan games worked since it's been a few years. The BIG 10 hasn't done us any favors in 18. But we only played IN and MD once so far. Man, they're f'ing us hard on the schedule, we have to win the West AND the East, it appears.

Diaco has already dabbled some as a HC, unsuccessfully, so maybe he has come to the realization that DCing is his true life's work and will stick around w us for a piece. Assuming he does well, of course. As to Urban, I'm a bit surprised that he didn't offer Tim Beck the full OC position, because that's why Beck left, to become HERMAN's OC @ Texas. Beck wasn't good enough for NE Fan, of course. Is there any chance that Diaco is considering hanging around at NU for awhile, and then trying to take over for Riley once he steps downEr, ummm, I think you're getting WAY ahead of the game there, my friend. Not even God could answer that question.

Diaco has already dabbled some as a HC, unsuccessfully, so maybe he has come to the realization that DCing is his true life's work and will stick around w us for a piece. Assuming he does well, of course. As to Urban, I'm a bit surprised that he didn't offer Tim Beck the full OC position, because that's why Beck left, to become HERMAN's OC @ Texas. Beck wasn't good enough for NE Fan, of course. Did Meyer even trust Beck enough at OSU to allow him to call plays? I'm sure if Urban wanted Beck to stay he could have made it happen.Not sure what exactly Beck did @ OSU, he was there, gettin paid, they won a lot of games. If he didn't have to call plays I'd say he was livin' pretty large, lol! This summarizes some of what went down and how the fan base viewed Beck. One of the more troubling lines of the article relates back to their shutout loss to Clemson in the CFP: You can't be struggling to find offensive identity at that point in the season - the playoffs. But, as we all know, identity has been a concern around here for sometime and was under Beck, as well. As to Beck and "identity", when, I ask, has Beck had a competant passing QB to work with over the past 10 yrs of his career? Martinez, Armstrong, Barrett, all more or less crappy passers, but all forte as rushers, but you can't run them to death cuz injuries, so yeah, "identity" issues. I mean, ya gotta have a QB that can throw the damn ball. Shawn Watson, we fired him so he must be sh#t. Oh wait, has great O @ Louisville because of one Terry Bridgewater, remember that guy. Watson is great but he's not great because we fired him. Goes to Tejas and they hand him that Swoopes kid who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn w a sledge hammer if he was standin' right next to it. Watson has to take the fall. Oh wait, few yrs later they clear out the whole C. Strong Brigade because, for oneN they couldn't find a QB that could pass worth a bleep. QBs are very powerful people. But you can't have this thing both ways. You can't say that Beck had zero input to the OC @ OSU and then try to hang the a loss around his neck. And while I'm on my soapbox here, this thing with Banker, well it wasn't all on him. Our LBs and safeties, it was pretty obvious all along, weren't the greatest open field tacklers, not anything more than just servicable athletes. Bando was pretty bad his 1st 2 seasons, finally became respectable, Newby meh, Rose Ivey meh, etc. In that IA, if you watch the film on a few of those long runs, our guy was there, in the hole or taking the angle and basically got either bowled over on his ass or blown by. So you can't hang all the D woes on Banker. At some point you have to have some athletes. Last good LB we had was LaVonte David, since then its been meh.

Yeah, our TE's are all like 6'6" + and the WRs he's bringing in are short(under 6'0") speedy guys. Personally, I prefer TALL speedy WRs, but I'm not complaining.

Diaco has already dabbled some as a HC, unsuccessfully, so maybe he has come to the realization that DCing is his true life's work and will stick around w us for a piece. Assuming he does well, of course.As to Urban, I'm a bit surprised that he didn't offer Tim Beck the full OC position, because that's why Beck left, to become HERMAN's OC @ Texas. Beck wasn't good enough for NE Fan, of course. Yeah, I'm sure Beck wasn't offered the OC job at tOSU because he was so good. Simpler explanation is that Urbs wasn't impressed with him either.Well, Urbs loved Herman--the "genius"--and Herman loves Beck, so that's all I know. I'm sure Beck is quite alright makin' the big $ @ Texas.Yeah, he's doing okay in the pay department. I wasn't impressed with him while he was here but admittedly much of that may not have been of his own doing.I think his NE Os average 40+/game and 9.5 Ws/year, by almost anybody's standards, that's good. Herman is the hot offensive guru, Beck is his man...@ Texas. Can't do much better than that. The bolded is important. Beck will not be calling the plays at Texas. Let's be honest here for a minute. Ohio State fans, players, and Meyer wanted Beck gone because of the regression of JT Barrett. Beck didn't even call the plays at Ohio State. Meyer dumped him off on Herman. Herman took Beck because he is very good at recruiting. Herman doesn't need anybody on staff to call plays because he's going to be doing that himself. Herman needs someone to restore relationships with Texas high school programs. This is where Beck comes into the picture. I have no doubt Beck will be successful at Texas, but make no mistake about it it's still Herman's offense and Herman's show. OMG, do you or anybody here have any hard documented facts to support this or is it just your opinion as to Beck's role @ OSU and TX. Sorry, I don't think you pay a guy 1/2 mil or 3/4 mil or 1 mil $ just to sit quietly in the booth and take notes or just recruit--we all know how "difficult" it is to recruit @ either school, right, thank god they have Tim f'ing Beck to shore up recruiting! @ OSU his title was "OC Ass't", he was in the booth, which means the OC was prlly consulting him re playcalling in real time, live games. This wasn't a "school" for Tim Beck. @ TX his title is "OC". Like, the guy. Again, Texas isn't going pay him a million smackers per just to sit on his ass in the booth or take notes in practice or fiddle around w, give pointers to QBs, or be a full time recruiter(otherwise they would call him a "recruiter"). My guess is he his The Guy primarily involved w COORDINATING the OFFENSE and calling plays, as per his title, in conjunction w consultation from Herman, who has plenty of other jobs on his plate. That's the way it usually goes. Deal is w many Husker Fans is this sour grapes syndrome where "if we fire him he must be crap", but oh wait, a better program(s) hired him so sh#t that doesn't fit our narrative that he's crap. Bo Pelini, BTW, took his YSU Fighting Penguins to the champ game, lost, but ended up 14-2 or so in year 2. Well, that didn't happen because we fired him so therefore he is crap. Anyway, I'll look up, on the TX site, what is actually written re Beck's full responsibilites @ TX.

Whoa, brutal! BTW, why do we play some of those East teams twice or more consecutively--e.g. tOSU--and others once--e.g. IN?

Those stats DON'T make me feel good about TL. Low comp. %, low yds per, but the real kicker is nearly a 1/1 TD/INT ratio. Plus, lest we forget, Tulane went 3-9 in each of the 2 yrs in which he started a ttl of 19 games. I repeat, this is Tulane.One would hope the alleged phenom POB could beat this guy out no prob it that also concerns me if he can't. Dude . . . abides...

Those stats DON'T make me feel good about TL. Low comp. %, low yds per, but the real kicker is nearly a 1/1 TD/INT ratio. Plus, lest we forget, Tulane went 3-9 in each of the 2 yrs in which he started a ttl of 19 games. I repeat, this is Tulane. One would hope the alleged phenom POB could beat this guy out no prob it that also concerns me if he can't.

Bad hands?

So, did Briles finally get fired from Baylor or is he still there?

Hmmm, that sounds exciting so I will def check out his "film"--and I apologize for perhaps being prematurely dismissive. It's just, like I said, NE hasn't fielded an IB from NE in this century and I sometimes wonder why that is. Well, most the middle class white kids are playing soccer over football, we know that much, and I can't say as I blame 'em. Still, he is 3*s(or 2) and this is in NE competition, not TX, not FL, not Cali, not OH, or ATL. So there's that. One other offer from S Dak St, so there's that. Academic issues, there's that. But my main point here is w Riley and Crew's--and the program in general-- rather underperforming in attracting top IBs when, maybe more than any other position, it should be easy for us/them to do so. Like they(IBs) should be beating down the doors to play here, like in the days of yore. But really, post Oz, our IB recruiting has fallen way off so it's not all on Riley. Ziggy and Tre are solid, servicable, I like 'em, but they don't scare anybody. Well, if and when we get the next Fournette or whoever, Husker Fans will wake up, hopefully, to the fact that we've been settling--with the exception of Ameer, and Rex, and Roy-- for a merely servicable running attack for a very long time. Which reminds me, one Adam Taylor is still on the roster as a Sr. this year--nvr played a down. Guess he nvr really got over the knee injuries.

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I respectfully disagree with your last point, we are closing no gaps with the likes of USC and the other top 5-7 teams--usual suspects--that are amassing/hoarding the best talent like it's 2 Americas--which it is, in real life and CFB. NU is at about a 10+ year holding pattern in recruiting, ave ranking being ~25th, and low and behold, that's usually where we start and finish each season, on average. USC. for e.g., '17 class as per 247 sports gathered 2 five stars, 12 four stars, and 10 3 stars to finish 4th and they are back finishing top 5 or 10 consistently, in recruiting. Well, if you check out the top 6 teams on 247, for e.g., the wealth of talent is off the charts. Bama and tOSU each quite possibly have more 5 star guys than we have 4 star guys. I don't see NU closing many gaps. Our '17 RB is a 3 star kid from Bellevue, NE, for god's sake!!! 2 Americas. Wow, he is one of the most productive running back in Nebraska history. He had 496 yards in a single game. Ran for 2511 yards and 50 TDs this season. FIFTY f'ing TDS and you crush him because he is from Nebraska? Go away. We have done pretty well with those Nebraska guys and another one comes to mind that went to Kansas and another who is still in the league from North Platte Ahman Green Damon Benning Clinton Childs Gale Sayers Calvin Jones Jeff Kinney Danny Woodhead (There are more, but I am not going to look all of them up) Bradley scored more TD this season than any of those All-Americans and NFL RB ever did in High School. Admittedly, I haven't seen him play. If he's so great, why only 3*s and are you implying we turned other guys away to take the kid from Bellevue? Actually, the last IB from NE to start for NE was Ahman Green, if I recall.

Diaco has already dabbled some as a HC, unsuccessfully, so maybe he has come to the realization that DCing is his true life's work and will stick around w us for a piece. Assuming he does well, of course. As to Urban, I'm a bit surprised that he didn't offer Tim Beck the full OC position, because that's why Beck left, to become HERMAN's OC @ Texas. Beck wasn't good enough for NE Fan, of course. Did Meyer even trust Beck enough at OSU to allow him to call plays? I'm sure if Urban wanted Beck to stay he could have made it happen.Not sure what exactly Beck did @ OSU, he was there, gettin paid, they won a lot of games. If he didn't have to call plays I'd say he was livin' pretty large, lol!

Oh I think Roy Helu, Rex Burkhead and Ameer Abdullah would have been big time on any Osborne team, especially considering they played pretty damn big with less-stellar offensive lines. Brandon Jackson and Corell Buckhalter had NFL chops, too. And I'm not convinced Devine Ozigbo, Trey Bryant and Mikel Wilbon represent a dearth. Any or all look capable of a breakout year. Or maybe just a solid platoon. Hmmmm, you could be right. I dunno, I think if you compared film, Ameer just really jumps off the page as being the best Husker back this century and in the same league as Green or LP etc.Zig, Bryant, Wilbon are not, maybe Bryant has some upside though. Ameer was putting up crazy #s and could carry the team on his back, gave us a lot more offense. I was thinking earlier of the great backfields of Barry Switzer's wishbone O, probably the best ever assembled, the list of names-Pruitt, Washingtonz, Simms, Dupree, Watts--were scary scary good in that bone. Me thinks Marcus Dupree was probably the best raw talent) that ever lived, albeit short, crazy career, the guy was unbelievable, nvr really had to practice.

Diaco has already dabbled some as a HC, unsuccessfully, so maybe he has come to the realization that DCing is his true life's work and will stick around w us for a piece. Assuming he does well, of course.As to Urban, I'm a bit surprised that he didn't offer Tim Beck the full OC position, because that's why Beck left, to become HERMAN's OC @ Texas. Beck wasn't good enough for NE Fan, of course. Yeah, I'm sure Beck wasn't offered the OC job at tOSU because he was so good. Simpler explanation is that Urbs wasn't impressed with him either.Well, Urbs loved Herman--the "genius"--and Herman loves Beck, so that's all I know. I'm sure Beck is quite alright makin' the big $ @ Texas.Yeah, he's doing okay in the pay department. I wasn't impressed with him while he was here but admittedly much of that may not have been of his own doing. I think his NE Os average 40+/game and 9.5 Ws/year, by almost anybody's standards, that's good. Herman is the hot offensive guru, Beck is his man...@ Texas. Can't do much better than that.

I think you're tragically negative. You should look for the good in the team instead of dwelling on the bad things.Might make your fan experience less stressful. Just by the language you use in your posts, it seems like you really have little hope for the Huskers. You have every right to your interpretation of my posts, thanks for reading them.

I don't have much to the already well thought out comments on this thread other than to enforce the notion that 1 of the QBs has to pan out big time to make this thing go and take this whole thing to the next level. I would also point out that this year's WR crew appears to be, on paper at least, prlly the best group of WRs ever assembled @ NU at one time. We land a blue chip RB or 2 in the near future and we're trending upward pretty good. Oh, I'm also bullish on Langsdorf, he just needs to commit to the ground and pound more.

Diaco has already dabbled some as a HC, unsuccessfully, so maybe he has come to the realization that DCing is his true life's work and will stick around w us for a piece. Assuming he does well, of course.As to Urban, I'm a bit surprised that he didn't offer Tim Beck the full OC position, because that's why Beck left, to become HERMAN's OC @ Texas. Beck wasn't good enough for NE Fan, of course. Yeah, I'm sure Beck wasn't offered the OC job at tOSU because he was so good. Simpler explanation is that Urbs wasn't impressed with him either.Well, Urbs loved Herman--the "genius"--and Herman loves Beck, so that's all I know. I'm sure Beck is quite alright makin' the big $ @ Texas.