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11 hours ago, suh_fan93 said:

Just got tix for the wife and I about 20 rows up on the 40 yard line behind the Michigan bench.  Looking forward to when they finally announce kick off time.  

Hearing night game from my buddy who's a big michigan fan

Toure with a nice finish to the East-West shrine bowl. 5 catches for 32 yards and 2 tds.

2 hours ago, whateveritis1224 said:

Bringing it back up because it was mentioned briefly, but Sam mentioned a QB that the staff would love to have but who isn't in the transfer portal now. The way the conversation was going, though, sounded like it might have been an FCS guy looking at moving up as he also mentioned Vernon Adams around the same conversation. He mentioned that if this QB entered the portal, we would have a very good chance at getting him and that he was not in the portal right now because he's still playing. Who's the SDSU, NDSU, or other FCS QB that might be interesting?

If we wanna go the FCS route, folks may wanna look at the dude from James Madison. Holy smokes...almost 3,300 yards, 37 TDs, 2 INTs, 67.3% Completion percentage

Sycamore as in Bishop Sycamore? Is he even real? I mean his rivals page lists him as "test test"

Robert Anae/Brennan Armstrong/Dontavyion Wicks combo anyone? Anae has had success and would definitely be one of our oldest staffers per the report from yesterday. If martinez was told not to come back one would think more of a shift to pass first qb. Wicks would just be cherry on top. Id be very excited with our pass game potential

So how does Korn differ schematically from a Frost/Lubick/Helfrich?

I would imagine we will see a lot of max protect, play action, and rollouts to keep him upright and to limit decision making. 

Wonder if Master Teague ends up in the portal. Doubt playing time increases much next year

While i wouldn't mind helfrich, it just doesn't seem to a ton of sense. I mean Frost knows its a do or die situation next year and if Martinez leaves (I think he will), does anyone have faith in our current backups leading us to 8+ wins? The OC most likely needs to bring a qb and i doubt Helfrich can do that. 

5 minutes ago, Decked said:

CTB not consistent enough this year to get drafted. He was much better last year. 

Kiper has CTB as one of his top 10 corners in the draft

56 minutes ago, Cy the Cyclone said:

Frost needs this guy as the new Nutrition coach...

I will always argue that he was one of the best coaches around. I mean who else could take Kansas to a BCS bowl game?

Mark Helfrich as OC? Average head coach but him and Frost seemed to work well together at Oregon

50 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

Incredibly successful at BYU and took Virginia to the Orange bowl in like his 3rd season there. Only 1 losing season in his entire career and tbay was his first at UVA. At minimum a different name then throwing out Bob Stoops, Urban Meyer, etc

Bronco Mendenhall

Will be nice to get some starters out of here before a big, physical game next week

Mel Kiper's most recent position rankings has Cam Taylor-Britt as tied for the 10th best corner. Tops in the big 10

Reason for optimism is that this is a MSU team with some holes. They are not very far removed from having serious talent and depth issues and we really have no idea how good their wins are yet this year. We can get 7 in the red zone rather than trying for 3 and i think we are in good shape. 

1 hour ago, Nebraska55fan said:

The game most likely will be a sellout. They had 70,000 in their 75,000 seat stadium for Youngstown State. This is a night game and they think they have something special cooking with Tucker. 

 

Tickets available on Stub Hub- not a ton and not many very good seats. If you just want in- some reasonably prices tickets- $65-70 If you're going, you might want to get yours now. 

 

I usually wait until day before- prices often times drop- sometimes quite a bit. Same for hotels at Illinois- we stayed at the Embassy Suites in Peoria- booked same day for only $119. Several weeks before that I think it was $250. Gonna bite the bullet and fire off now. 

 

https://www.stubhub.com/nebraska-cornhuskers-football-lincoln-tickets-10-9-2021/event/104779025/?sid=86574

I usually find going through the teams ticket office better. Spent 50 a piece on tickets this upcoming weekend where websites like stubhub wanted to surcharge each ticket like 20 bucks

I think most here would take 7-3 near the end of the quarter but man those penalties suck

Just now, lo country said:

Great pass!!!  Now if we can just find someone to help Toure. So in B1G play he (and our offense) doesn't get taken away.

Martin went for 100+ the one game he played. Him, Toure, and Manning should be a good trio

Maybe next week we can play with our full compliment of offensive threats. Have yet to do that

31 minutes ago, BoSolich said:

idk about that. our running backs all look pretty average right now. manning is physically big but was struggling to outrun players on fordham. allen is a big target, but a little slow. toure has looked good, but i am curious to see how good he is against better competition.

Agreed on Stepp in that he has to show more, but i cant think of too many teams in the BIG not named OSU that have the potential quality skills guys we could have. Obviously short on data points with only two games, but i like oir ability to move the ball IF Adrian is given time

Stepp, Toure, Martin, Manning, and Allen should be one of the better groups of skill position players in the conference

Pass rush was good. Seemed like offensive playcalling was good (could have essily had 10-14 more points with accurate passes). Last positive is that our goal of winning the west is still in our control, although i only tell myself this to reduce my stress level

My buddy gets the Phil Steele magazine every year and while I don't remember everything he said, i believe Phil said all nine of his models have Nebraska in a bowl (or maybe winning record) and that this was Nebraska's most talented team under Frost