Hans Gruber

I liked it. It was really good. Not exactly pleasant, which makes sense given the subject matter, but really interesting.

6 hours ago, mnhusker said:

I'm excited to see the pipeline camp start up this weekend and I would like to know what others think? 

 

I'm a Midwest Husker who transplanted to Oregon about 10 years ago.  During my sons senior year of High School I was at a fund raising event for the HS Team the night of a grueling Oregon -vs- Stanford game and most of the folks at the Table were Oregon grads and the Dads were watching the score and heading for the hotel bar as the game scores came in; and the Ducks lost.   I suspect that during his years with Chip Kelley and being beat by a Harbaugh led Stanford team that Frost was thinking love-ya chip but until you figure out how to beef up the boys up front we can't win it all.  This makes sense since Frost got  to play behind great O-lines who could basically call the shots.  Fast forward to now:  Frost has his own team and the camp is all about the Pipeline "AKA" bad a$$ lineman.  Obviously Frost, as a player learned from TO how a championship team prepares and is built.  He learned from Chip K. how to run an almost championship team. 

Here's something similar about Frost basically addressing that from back in 2011.

http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/combining-tom-osbornes-nebraska-offense-with-chip-kellys-oregon-offense-the-stuff-dreams-are-made-of#sthash.oz5sTy4S.TN96XuJ3.dpbs

Edit: It's from a website that has dramatically changed the format of its page. So some of the formatting is a little wonky. 

4 hours ago, Nebfanatic said:

I like the 2010 db selection. Prince! Dennard, Hagg, Gomes. That squad was stacked at DB

All four drafted and played at least two or three seasons in the NFL. Prince is still playing. 

QB: 1989 (Gerry Gdowski isn't a bad consolation prize after other unit selections eliminate Gill, Frazier, Frost and Crouch.)

RB: 1982

WR/TE: 2013 (Not many Nebraska teams started two receivers that would later be selected in the NFL Draft.)

OL: 1994

DL: 1997

LB: 2003 (Barrett Ruud and Demorrio Williams)

DB: 2010

ST: 2014 (I'll take a young Pierson-El returning punts before he was injured.)

I'm a pretty stoic guy when I watch movies. It isn't hard to get me to laugh, but I've never cried in a movie theater. I'm not trying to sound like a tough guy or anything. I just rarely cry in any situation.

I cried twice watching this movie. Then a had a weird existential conversation with myself about if something is wrong with me for crying during a fictional movie.

Then I quit caring and kept watching the movie because it was really good. 

Avengers Endgame comes out on Friday. That combined with the next episode of Game of Thrones on Sunday will probably be the deadliest three-day period in the history of fiction, at least in terms of named characters dying.

On 4/18/2019 at 1:05 PM, Huskr25 said:

I'll bite and try the Athletic. I'm getting annoyed with 247. Just like you said, regurgitated info. Nothing really original, typos and errors galore, rehashed pieces from the week before - definitely been slipping lately. I do enjoy Christopherson's pieces, but not a fan of everything else. Hopefully the Athletic is better. 

I like The Athletic. The best part is if you're interested in other sports besides just college football. There's just as much coverage of college basketball, NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL.

Taking him fishing on an official visit is a gangster move.

I think our Cornhuskers are in good hands.*

* I already knew Nebraska was in good hands now. This just reinforces it even more.

I'm not a Nebraska basketball fan. I've never lived in Nebraska and didn't go to college at Nebraska. (Although my father did, hence why I like Nebraska football.)

However, if Nebraska gets good at basketball (and the forecast looks quite positive) I may start to root for Nebrasketball. Well, as long as they aren't playing my Jackrabbits.

I don't think Hoiberg will be at Nebraska nearly as long as Frost. I'd say set the expectation at six or seven years of Hoiberg before he tries the NBA again or another mega college job like Kansas or UNC. In that time though, I think a few NCAA tournament wins and maybe a Sweet 16 or two is reasonable.

14 hours ago, Jeepy said:

Ugh.  What a road to go down;  that of bringing in a high profile (as in "good") basketball coach.. to Nebraska.  Big bux.

 

Could such a guy in this day and age bring great players to our program?  Could he make Nebraska something that it is not and will never be?  A basketball school?

 

Jeesh.. give Miles his deserved three year contract and let him do his work.  He'll likely grow into the Big Ten to 22 or more wins per season once he gets his assistants honed and on board.  He'll make the NCAA dance regularly down the road. 

 

Tim Miles is improving the program.  Hiring someone like Hoiberg would be spinning our wheels. 

 

Imo. 

Tim? Is that you? Shouldn't you be preparing for the NIT?

If the NCAA had these punitive rules in 2015 and 16, then Nate Gerry would have been executed by firing squad before his collegiate career was over.

On 3/1/2019 at 8:43 AM, JJ Husker said:

Dang it! I thought I counted it correctly but Pelini is 3 not 2 and line 2 was just bad math. I counted six but thought it was 7.....  Should've said "worser".

 

I'll practice more.  Oops, sorry for the capitalization and punctuation.....

 

edit-

I suck at haiku

I am a lazy dumb a$$

I will try harder

Haikus can be fun

But sometimes they don't make sense

Refrigerator

Mine was also the 2008 Colorado game. I cackled like a madman after Suh ragdolled Hawkins' kid on that pick six. 

I will hate Sam Keller forever for taking away my yearly NCAA football video game. 

19 hours ago, Atbone95 said:

Do you remember when Bo used to say the same thing about defense, because "the defense is just so hard to learn"? 

 

At first we lauded it because Bo really understood defense. Then we reamed him because "you have to adapt to the athletes you have". 

 

Ahhh, the good ol days. I'm feeling very nostalgic lately. 

And both Lavonte David and Randy Gregory showed up a couple days before practice started and seemed to work out ok.

Anybody that year would have been throttled by Miami in the Rose Bowl.

I think Florida and Oklahoma we're the only two teams in the country that may have kept things close.

Florida because Spurrier was still there and the Gators we're also pretty loaded. They still would have lost by two or more touchdowns.

Oklahoma because the Sooners had such a good defense, conceivably, they could have held Miami to 17 or 20 points. But the  Oklahoma offense would have struggled to get to six points against that Canes team. 

I don't like the pods idea. However, if we were going to do it, I'd be ok if the Big 10 kicked out Rutgers, and somehow added Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri.

I hate Texas and don't trust them, but I'd be ok with it if the other two came also. And I have no interest in the Big 10 adding Kansas. They already have Rutgers, what do they need another one for?

48 minutes ago, r06ue1 said:

It is very childish to attack a teenager who is under a ton of pressure from all sides to make a decision and sometimes that pressure gets to them.

I agreed with your post as a whole, but this is easily the most important part. Unfortunately, too many people forget this. I can't speak for all of us, but I think it's safe to assume that most of us were at least a little dumb (whether occasionally or constantly) when we were 16, 17 or 18.

IT's even worse when adult do it.

9 minutes ago, cheekygeek said:

 

This.
Nebraska fans have PTSD from the previous administration/coaching staffs. That doesn't go away overnight.

Agreed. It's a bigger problem for me when I'm watching games. I always assume ever flag is on Nebraska, every opponent's deep pass will go to a wide open receiver, every Nebraska deep pass will be intercepted and that every time an opponent has 3rd and long it will be converted for a 1st down.

Maybe I'm just pessimistic while I watch games, but the last 15-20 years has colored my negative thoughts. Weirdly though, I'm usually pretty positive during the week.

Conspiracy theory: Meyer does not and has never had a cyst in his brain. He and Ohio State are using that as an out.

He's obviously one of the best football coaches ever, but I'll never believe a word that comes out of his mouth.

53 minutes ago, Minnesota_husker said:

LETS MAKE IT A WATER SLIDE!

Oh man, my inner eight-year old has come screaming to the surface.

Make it a slide!

No, a water slide!

No, a water slide with tunnels and stuff!

NO, A WATER SLIDE THAT USES SWEAT FROM PLAYERS THAT JUST GOT DONE WORKING OUT IN THE WEIGHT ROOM!

IN THE BRAND NEW WEIGHT ROOM THEY BUILD!!!!!

WHERE THEY WORK OUT BY BUILDING MORE WATER SLIDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/giggles uncontrollably

Oh man, we're going to win so many national titles now 

No one asked me (and I'm a bit late to the party) but here are my thoughts/opinions on the tunnel walk for recruits.

1) Like most Nebraska fans, I love the tunnel walk.

2) I'm not sure it's all that important to most recruits.

3) I don't think the tunnel walk matters at all in big/close games with a good atmosphere. Like 2018 Michigan State, 2016 Oregon, 2015 Michigan State, 2014 Miami etc. The atmosphere for the entire game matters, not the bit before the game starts.

4) However, I do think the tunnel walk helps in bad games against vastly inferior teams like 2018 Bethune-Cookman, 2016 Fresno State, 2015 South Alabama, Illinois most years. In games like that when most fans in attendance expect it to be 45-6 at halftime, the tunnel walk is one of the few times everyone in the stadium is excited and into it.

5) Sure, ideally you'd want them to be there for the start of the game and the tunnel walk. I think that the one-on-one time that a player and his family get with coaches after a game is far more valuable though.

Is that the Independence JUCO in Kansas? If it is, then that means he'll be on Last Chance U next season.

... And if it's a different Independence, then he probably won't be on it.

Is Iowa a rival to Nebraska? Kind of. It's getting there. Look, it's never going to perfect like Oklahoma was. We just need to accept that Nebraska will never have another Oklahoma again.

I can come up with a scenario that essentially would make the two full-blooded rivals for the next decade. It will only to take two games over the next year and one week.

2018 game next week: Nebraska comes out and pummels Iowa like they did to Colorado in 2005. Nebraska scores late, goes for two and gets it. Nebraska beats Iowa in Iowa City 46-14. Most Nebraska fans mock Iowa after the thrashing and say Iowa may never beat Nebraska again.

2019 game in a year and one week: Nebraska enters at 9-2 and ranked around the top 10. Iowa enters at 7-4 enduring a standard Kirk Ferentz ho-hum year. Nebraska would clinch the west division with a win. They don't win though. Iowa rolls into Lincoln and stuns Nebraska 24-20 after the Hawkeye D has a goal line stand in the final minutes to preserve the win. Iowa fans mock Nebraska about how they failed to win the division again and that they never will again.

This scenario makes Iowa the biggest rival for most Nebraska fans for the immediate future. Not forever. but for at least a while. And the more games like the two above and the further entrenched they become as rivals.

1 hour ago, Redux said:

/channeling my inner J.R. voice

"Oh my God! Harbaugh is turning on Frost! He just nailed him with a steel chair! Frost is done for. He just got his head split in half!"

/Harbaugh attempts to pin Frost, but Frost kicks out at 2

"By God! Frost kicked out! He kicked out! That's instinct! He's just going on instinct right now!"

/the Michigan State fight song plays

"Wait a minute. No, it can't be! That's Mark Dantonio's music! The only man that hates Harbaugh more than Frost right now!"

/Dantonio nails Harbaugh with a chair shot as Frost stumbles to his feet

"Oh God! That sickening thud of a steel chair shot to the head! And Frost has Harbaugh in his cross hairs now!"

/Frost sizes up Harbaugh as Jim slowly rises to his feet, then Frost hits the spear

"By God! Frost just split him in half! It's elementary now!"

/Frost pins Harbaugh for the three count

"Frost wins! Frost wins! Harbaugh's plan backfired horrendously! Now he's made an enemy for life. We'll see if he continues to attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind now. And I don't know if this unholy alliance between Dantonio and Frost will last, but for at least one night, they gave Harbaugh what he deserved."