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22 minutes ago, ScottyIce said:

I think some of you are severely underrating a few things when comparing old staff vs new staff.

Just messing with you earlier. A little “out of context “ humor.  I agree that we will improve vastly in a lot of not-so-obvious areas.  We finally will know what we want to do and then we’ll do it.  A big change from the past 10 years IMO. 

22 hours ago, ScottyIce said:

. We aren’t going to be complete morons anymore, which will help us win 1-2 games per year.

  If we don’t win at least 3-4 games per year going forward, then firing Riley was a huge mistake. 

55 minutes ago, Redux said:

It still doesn't feel real to me.  My fandom has basically been on idle since we fired Bo, I went All In on him, and slowly that devotion turned out to be magic beans.  When we hired Riley I, like mentioned, put on a happy face and tried convincing myself all was well and tried spinning positives on it.

Pretty much sums it up for me too. Bo’s program highs and lows and everything in between pretty much ran me out of gas. I just went through the motions with Riley.  Heck, I didn’t even get mad when we lost. A couple impressive wins this season and I’ll be stoked like crazy for 2019. 

23 minutes ago, Ulty said:

Hey, I otherwise agreed with you 

I know.  I gotcha.  This board is my only avenue for being a little childish sometimes.  Maybe it distracts me from how old I am getting.  Anyways, I have friends who are fans of both MSU and UW.  We enjoy ribbing each other about our teams.  I do, however try to limit my inappropriateness to the keyboard and not take it to the stadium.  Treat all visiting fans and people with respect and everybody wins.

32 minutes ago, Ulty said:

 

This childish nonsense overshadows any otherwise intelligent point you were trying to make.

Childish nonsense?  Have you gone to B1G away game?  Fans in the B1G certainly aren't choir boys.  I'm not one either.  Seriously, can't we have a little fun with our fellow B!G brethren.  Geez.  On the other hand, thanks for sort-of complimenting my point. 

2 hours ago, Oade said:

Maybe Frost's system can help cover-up some of the gap, and there is no question we've already stated to address the issues, but we probably aren't going to have the most talent on the field for more than 3 or 4 games this season, and "on par" talent another 3 or 4 games imo.

You make good points about IA and UW, but I'm curious.  Which teams on the 2018 schedule, other than OSU and UM, do you think have more pure "talent" than us?  Not saying your wrong or anything, I just personally feel that outside of these two (ohio & the team up north), we are at worst EQUAL talent wise with every other team on the schedule.  In fact I consider MSUcks and Wiskyd#ck far better in the player development and coaching categories over the last several years than NU, but not more talented.  Iowa, NW, Minny, Purdue, IL, non-con ALL less talent.  Of those, Iowa and NW until now, have had better coaching and development/culture, but certainly not better talent.  Just my opinion.  

Lee doesn’t ever seem to want to give a thoughtful answer to a simple question. Instead, you get a terse response that reeks of annoyance, sarcasm or is otherwise somewhat condescending to the person asking the question.  I don’t know why he even does these things.  

We’ll be fine if we get him and we’ll be fine if we don’t. He’s a really good player, but I think his teammate Hickman has the biggest upside.  That being said, I do hope Mr Henrich chooses NU because he seems like an all around great kid.  Just don’t freak out if he goes somewhere else. It won’t be due to a lack of effort from Ruud and Frost. 

One of the many reasons I’m glad Frost is our coach is how he presents himself when doing national interviews, etc. I’m thinking a lot of fans of other programs may be a bit envious.   And that makes me smile. 

I don't see Houston winning without Paul.  That dude makes some crazy shots.  

6 minutes ago, NM11046 said:

Let me poke the bear here ....

 

How many of you called your congresspeople today or have reached out to them in the last 3-4 months to ask what they're doing about gun violence?

What exactly are you getting at?  Why should we need to do this?  Is the gun violence problem not obvious enough for congress to realize they need to do something?  How many more dead school children is it going to take for something to happen?  I guess you're asking a fair question, but I seriously doubt my GOP congressman is going to stand up against the NRA.  Especially when our own governor wants the NRA to re-locate to Nebraska (are you freaking kidding me, Pete?).  I reached out to Deb Fischer expressing my frustration after Sandy Hook when she voted against some sort of reasonable gun control measure and all I got was some sort of BS generic "thanks for caring" reply.  Congress has failed miserably on gun control ever since they let the Crime Bill expire during the GW Bush era.

One of the biggest mental health issues related to guns in this country is the fear and paranoia instilled by the NRA into its members and other gullible folks.  

Way to go NRA!  Another school shooting Now are your brainwashed supporters will go out at stock up on even more ARs and that means more $$ for the good olé NRA. The answer to all this is clearly more guns.  When are people going to finally wake up and realize that the NRA cares only about the NRA and nothing else.  I find it hard to believe that there are really so many stupid people in this country. 

This ranking is meaningless for Husker fans now IMO. Let’s check it in 2 yrs.  That being said, I think you could argue some coaches are ranked way too high for mediocre or minimal accomplishments (eg Mullen, L Riley)

Thanks for the info Coach!  Between this and reading Feldman's SI article today, I'm way more optimistic about Husker Football than I have been at any point in the past 20 years.  I wouldn't trade this coaching staff for any other in the country.  

Riley is definitely the better one. He got paved the way for getting Coach Frost!

Rhabdo, concussions, CTE, C-spine injuries, compound fractures other freak serious injuries (e.g Teddy Bridgewater’s) are ALL unacceptable, however we (football fans) seem to “accept” some more than others. 

If rhabdomyolysis was not a risk of high level training, then it would never occur. Ever. 

This is complete BS.  In the absence of some already settled upon buyout reduction, NU better have their lawyers on top of this.  If they don't, it means one of two things:  NU screwed up big time with MR's contract OR NU has so much money that they will just let this slide because they may not want to risk any bad pub.  If it's the latter, I'm going to be very disappointed and will think real hard about future donations, because they obviously don't need them.

8 team playoff with a maximum of two teams from any given conference. The eyeball test assessment and Strength of schedule are way too subjective to carry as much weight as I think they do with the current playoff committee. Make it the power 5 champions, plus 3 at large. Winning any P5 conference is difficult no matter what your final record is and should be rewarded with a playoff spot. You’re fellow conference foes usually know you well and can beat you any given Saturday (e.g. Iowa pounding Ohio State).  18-22 year olds sometimes have off days and sometimes good coaches get out coached. When this happens it doesn’t mean you either are or aren’t playoff worthy.  Win the conference and you’re in. We can all argue about the final three teams then. My 2 cents. 

A recruit with 4.4 speed and a staff that can coach players up?  Yes, please. 

9 hours ago, commando said:

alabama didn't even reach the SEC championship game...how did they earn the right to be playing for the national championship if they couldn't even reach the sec championship game?   if they win this game it is because they were GIVEN the chance....not because they  EARNED the chance.

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Cool video!  Very well done. Thanks for sharing.