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We're watching the football game.

Our HC has apparently been into the "espresso."

Punt. Still gave them the ball, we always find a way.

O-Line getting beaten man for man.

A chance to show our strengths

Small time crook is still a crook. This guy doesn't seem to understand what he's doing to the team. To us.

From 2011! That post has been repeated almost word for word over a long time here at Husker Forums. My bringing it up now is only for the purpose of reminding us just how long we've been saying these things (and how long the hope has been going on). 12 years of this or versions of this (probably more like 15 years, but our record was better slightly earlier on.. and gradually fading). Ever do this? Go down memory lane and see how long we've been saying the same things? Coach after coach. Good recruit after good recruit. And a few AD changes as well. It's been suggested that there's a "curse," having to do with removing Coach Solich after he faltered a bit then righted the ship and deserved to remain. I don't believe in such things, but I do think there's something in the air so to speak in the Husker football program. We're now a perennially losing school. We're now not expected to become much better at all, for the near or far future (a review of the Minnesota game contained the phrase, "Nebraska was.. well, Nebraska"). It's being pointed out that all the money in the world can't fix it because there's an inertia "that we often see as natural part of things in the sports world." We only hope now for an expected win here and there, and maybe 4,5, or 6 in a season (not this one of course). Husker fans are Husker fans, so we'll always hope for the very best. But we keep looking for solutions "out there" in Coach & Great Player Land. That can be helpful at some schools, but it has NOT worked here to go out and hire coaches and bring in recruits with proven abilities. Gradually over time they have come here and stumbled then fallen.. and here we are.

Absolutely. And "political inbreeding" strips the thing bare for what it is. Quality phrase for this discussion. Caveat for me though is that I'm not so sure the AD could get away with "choosing the wrong coaches" on his own. I admit to being unenlightened with regard to the true "behind the scenes" processes as a coach is sought and vetted and then approved by all who need to do that, but if Riley, for instance, was a survivor of all that, strangely anemic coach that he was, then perhaps the hiring system needs a committee of players, current and past (from successful Husker teams) to give input. Looking back over the past coaching regimes here I'd say that committee would have not allowed Pelini or Solich to be removed but would have advised to learn to get along with them as coaches can be weird and high strung etc as they produce 9 win seasons (Dr. Tom aside).

Uh huh.

That was a world away in football as compared to today's schemes, athletic abilities, and coaching savvy. Not to mention many other things. The QB with a good backfield would look just fine then. But now days he's got to have top notch abilities and coaches recognize that. Do a championship teams record from 2010 on. It might look quite different as to who was taking the snaps on those teams.

I just want to thank you. It is great to see thoughtless jive a$$ bull $hit threads started that are worse than mine. Keep up the good work.

Northern Illinois won on the road then lost at home. Can we hand them a road loss? Can we win at home? Can we score instead of fumble? Them: 20 Us: 24 Our passing: 179 Our rushing: 168

You didn't take the trouble to type that out did you. There's a copy/paste template somewhere around here for that that's been here for oh 15 or more years I think. "Looks like we're about to turn the corner," as well.

Except for that Buffett bit, This'll look good in the Northern Illinois thread. I think.

Good point I guess. Analogies can be distracting, but that one seems pretty close: That ship is at the bottom of the ocean and we are at the bottom of our schnapps bottles.

I don't know how to answer that, because I'm not a college football coach. And neither are you. Well, maybe you are; please post your college football coaching national championships and stuff because I could be wrong about you.

Sheezus.. you're really blaming the AD for our football woes? Long or short term that's nonsense. Good coaches come in and are generally autonomous; they put their staff and recruits in place and get to work. If an AD is ever responsible for the W/L column, then it's because he or she is interfering with that process, and as far as we know Trev stays out of it altogether (caveat that we do not know what goes on in his personal life wrt that) or because he or she has some personal issue with the coach. Yes we endured Peterson wrecking things for a while (I won't bring up him firing Solich even though Solich's 58 wins during his first six seasons as Nebraska's head coach exceeded that of his two predecessors.. oops, I did bring it up). Believe me, Steve Peterson was no Trev Alberts as to character. He did not even hire a search team as he planned to get rid of one of Nebraska's best coaches, just daydreamed about getting Spurier etc.

I think you're right about that "one player.." thing. So... the next questions would have to be about who is next, and when, and all that. Plus the biggie: Is Sims here to stay because the coaches believe in him, even though we don't ("we" not necessarily even meaning a majority of Husker fans, not sure about that). And, yes, lame thread name and subject.

Eh, my desire to throw a pie in Coach Rhule's face is tempered a bit, at this point anyway, by seeing his 1 win and 2 win records in his first years at Temple and Baylor. He did fine after that, as we know. This time, though, he's trying to fire up an old rusted out locomotive that has tons of dead weight behind it. So, even if he's successful at getting it moving it's going to be very very slow going. I guess it's a a five year plan.

The 4th and 5th words in the post cleverly reveal that very thing. Helpful Hint: NOT the 4th and 5th words in the quote itself.

Over reaction prize: Jason Whitlock: "A 56-year-old man is insisting on other adults calling him ‘Prime', some materialistic nickname. A 56-year-old man is running around with gold chains on like a 19-year-old rapper. This is a level of insecurity and false bravado that’s frightening. Deion wrote an auto-biography, a memoir, and confessed in there that he contemplated suicide. And I've watched his behavior and I go 'yeah, I can see that.' This man is incredibly insecure."

$90,000 ticket listed on StubHub for the game. Huh? They're reading in here about the fights and getting fired up (as in crazy). My two only cost 285 each. Headin' west in the mornin'. See ya there.