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2 minutes ago, Nebraska55fan said:

 

That was tiny Dana College- Bill Danenhouers team- set a college record by attempting 101 passes in a game. Several of my former players were on that team.   

 https://www.yankton.net/sports/article_75e2329c-8fd8-5cb1-8901-a6dfe62c0a8c.html

That's right, good catch and memory.

Overall this series was fantastic and by far my favorite of the original series' thus far. That being said, the finale was a huge letdown. Didn't seem to matter for its own sake of this story, but only as a setup for the new big bad of the MCU. I swear the entire episode was just one big exposition dump, and Johnathan Majors performance was not believable to me at all. Maybe on purpose? 

17 minutes ago, J-MAGIC said:

It would be nice if national media people had enough context to not write short-sighted stuff about how NU and Purdue are the same now but I guess it comes with having our recent record.

Their job isn't to give a historical prognostication, it's to report about the state of things right now. 

We will probably get better, but right now we're dog crap and dog crap we will remain until we prove that we're something else.

The one good point I saw made in the article is that the rest of the conference has gotten a lot more competitive since it did when we joined. The floor has risen considerably for a number of programs while ours has dropped out.

We're also trying to find firm footing in a division marked by stability, and consistency and momentum. Iowa/Wisconsin have decades long identities and approach and personnel while we seem to hit the reset button every few years.

I think there was a UNO quarterback that set an NCAA record for passing attempts in a game at like 79 or something crazy like that back in the early 2000s. Was dating a girl I had a crush on in high school.

7 hours ago, skers83 said:

No runners, thats for sure. Also Callahan never played his best QB. Ganz.  Fu%$in Dumba$$

No way to know for sure but Joe didn't make it beyond obvious he should have been playing when Callahan was still the coach, in my opinion. Keller's career has (maybe rightfully) been retconned a bit, and is overshadowed by the team imploding, but he was on pace to set records here. Sure Joe came in and had massive numbers but that seemed more to do with Callahan going full YOLO in the final few games (going for it on 4th and 20 up 30 points against Kansas State type of "I've got nothing left to lose" decision-making).

Would have been a much better or more valuable movie if it was made before Infinity War/Endgame, kind of "meh" knowing the fate of the character.

Interesting to see the tease of the Thunderbolts or Dark Avengers or whatever though.

Brandon Jackson to Marlon Lucky to Roy Helu to Burkhead to Abdullah was a hell of a 9 year stretch of productivity.

Frost is ranked 6th, ahead of him are Sarkesian, Gundy, Heupel, Fitzgerald and Harbaugh.

I keep reading that not a single one or almost zero people getting covid now are people with vaccines.

So why would we need to shut down if the vaccines are that effectve? Let the unvaccinated people reap what they sow :¯\_(ツ)_/¯: 

I'll join you and get the same tat on my a$$ if we make the playoffs in year 5 or sooner, or a national championship in 10 years. This post as my solemn promise.

11 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

We have to get over the idea that a proven coach at a comparable P5 school will make a lateral or downward move to UNL, and that the university can or should throw more money at him than other schools because we're smelling of desperation. We might not want that guy who has us penciled in for a three year stint and s#!tloads of money. 

 

Every coach we want now was a great coach a few years ago, when he was making his bones at a lesser school or maybe as a position coach or coordinator. The younger version of that coach is going to be wide open to the challenge and expectations at Nebraska. He will be hungrier and more affordable, and surrounded by a staff that fills in his weak spots. You just have to identify and grab him before he blows up into the hot hire. 

I agree with you on this point, and would add that we also have to get over the idea that only proven p5 head coaches are good hires.

Hiring D1 coaches seems like it's mostly a crapshoot luck guessing game, and it seems that the guesses on up and coming coordinators or g5 coaches hit the jackpot just as often as guesses on proven p5 coaches. Les Miles and Charlie Weis were "proven p5 successful head coach" candidates and sucked at Kansas, whereas Bob Stoops and Pete Carroll and Mike Dantonio and David Shaw were not and they've done great. 

9 minutes ago, skers83 said:

The question was Adrian Martinez is the best Husker QB since ( fill in the blank) not who is better Tommy or Adrian. Cobra said he thinks Adrian is the best since Tommy.

He's interpreting the question strangely and in a way that doesn't make sense.

"The best quarterback since..." is asking the question, "who is the last quarterback that was better?". Otherwise, if you interpret it the way he is, Tanner Lee is equally as legitimate an answer as Tommy Armstrong.

17 minutes ago, Nebraska55fan said:

Not sure how stating  that observation is somehow racist. 

You didn't just state an observation, you implied an intent and correlation/causation.

7 minutes ago, Mavric said:

He's been the AD at a smaller Division I school for over a decade and handled multiple significant changes to their programs and built new facilities. 

A smaller division 1 school that doesn't have a football program and hasn't had one for over a decade.

It'd be similar to hiring the athletic director of Binghamton University or the University of Arkansas Little Rock Trojans.

If he didn't play at Nebraska and I didn't know his name, his resume would be glaringly unsatisfactory. I can't tell if "understanding Nebraska" is a valuable pre-requisite for the job or not, but if he's forward thinking and has some good insight in to how to manage an organize an administration he should do alright. 

4 hours ago, Cobra Kai said:

I was just answering the actual question...best QB since?  It's Tommy Armstrong.  Regardless of personal feelings.

I gave you a bunch of metrics that he outperforms Tommy in. The entire question is based on personal feelings, ie, who do you personally feel (ie what is your opinion) on who the last quarterback better than Adrian was.

You think it's Tommy but that's not a fact, regardless of your personal feelings

13 hours ago, hagg said:

To answer your question, no.  To respond to your reasoning,  to insert Nebraska's horrid new HC's record as a likely reason to have him removed very likely is not to garner clicks from our great but tiny state (population-wise).  He's included in the hot seat for real reasons.  Unfortunately.  The sports writers are not wrong this time.  The article is speculation by definition.. but SF being there seems real enough.

There are hundreds of thousands of Nebraska fans that don't live in Nebraska, by the way 

3 hours ago, Cobra Kai said:

Regardless of the metric, best QB since Armstrong.  Tommys offenses scored...and scored in bunches.  It was a team effort for sure...but we'd all give our left nut for Tommy's era offensive stats this year.

There's no doubt that Tommy's offense scored more overall, but there's no conclusive or even compelling evidence for me that it was because of him. He was surrounded by some amazing weapons and talent for a lot of that that Adrian has not had. 

24 minutes ago, Cobra Kai said:

Tommy Armstrong.  Guy wasn't a world beater...threw too many picks, but he also took chances and had a cannon to back it up.  Over 90 TDs accounted for and over 10000 yards from scrimmage in his career.  And he was our last "winning" quarterback.  

 

AD needs over 2700 total yards this year and 37 total TDs to match Armstrong's 4 years.

 

Quantity isn't a great metric for a quarterback. First, Tommy only had one season with a higher qbr than Adrian's lowest so far. Second, Adrian's worst years are better than Tommy's in completion percentage, rushing (edit: barely off on this one, Tommy had 721 one year), and they're pretty much identical in Y/A and AY/A.

If you average their career totals over the number of games played thus far, it breaks down like so:

Tommy per game (45 games) - 197.13 passing yards, 1.48 passing touchdowns, .97 interceptions, 40.4 rushing yards, .51 rushing touchdowns 

Adrian per game (28 games) - 201 passing yards, 1.107 passing touchdowns, .71 interceptions, 63.42 rushing yards, .785 rushing touchdowns

Joe Ganz

If the players read message board fans' opinions on the dour expectations after 4, 5, and 3 win seasons (with losses to Troy, Colorado x2, Wisconsin x3, Iowa x3, Minnesota x2, getting blown out by Illinois, etc.) and that bothers them, then, well, good. It's their responsibility to be able to handle the criticism and/or use the criticism as fuel to get better. 

I don't have any personal relationship with these players and while it's mostly inappropriate to attack them as human beings, conversation assessing their performance is completely fair game, especially when the trade-off is being a celebrity in a state full of die hards. It comes with the territory.

5 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

2010 OU game.  TMart was playing hurt but was good enough to get us out to an early lead.  OU scratched back so that they lead 23-20 in the 4th quarter.  Huskers get the ball at the Nebraska 44 YL.  He puts Burkhead in the wild cat.  Burkhead pounds it down the field so we get to the OU 39 yard line. We have the nation's best kicker, Henery, on the side lines warming up to tie the game.  Beck, decides to put TMart (hobbling and hurt) back in the game.  First play sack for 8 yards.  Second play fumbled and TMart recovers at the 50 but out of FG range.  

 

OU goes on to win 23-20.

 

I will always remember that as one of the most pathetic decisions in recent Husker memory.

 

I have a friend who was a player on the field during this.  They all were shocked they put TMart back in.  The team looked at him in the huddle and said, "DO NOT GET SACKED".

 

Well...........

 

 

4 hours ago, Nebraska55fan said:

 I remember that game well. 20 points in the first half- nothing in the second. Burkhead in Wildcat had MOFOpen with Martinez wideout. WIDE open on the post for a TD if thrown on rythem- no help over the top. Had our RT blocked the correct defender, we win the game, Burkhead has to sidestep tackler - throws late - defender is able to close- barely tips sure TD away.  

 

NU was sacked 7 times that night with LOTS of pressure yet Beck failed to call any screens to slow down the OU rush. They kept trying to negate the rush by throwing quick slants- which WASNT working. 

 

Loved Becks plays but he would sometimes get away from stuff that was working and get cute like I mentioned before. Did it a number of times when it mattered most. Would take that offense over Callahan, Rileys or even Frosts right now. 

Shawn Watson was the offensive coordinator in 2010.

Anyone watching these games and know what the deal is? Everyone playing hero ball? Sub par coaching? 

37 minutes ago, Nebraska55fan said:

I carried 31 times in Class A and hated it

You must have been a star.