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I'm excited to see TD Ameritrade Park this spring, CWS will begin before we know it. GBR.

If anybody here actually listened to the post-game press conference, you'll know that was about as polite as Bo has ever been after such a disgusting performance by his team. He was laughing a little bit when he said "That was a joke, ma'am", and added the kid could have done a better job coaching the team than he did that night. If Bo's answer in that press conference hurt her feelings, she needs to switch careers.

Scout says there is two big candidates. I assume Colman is one, who is the other?

TJ Hollowell is the only other name I've seen brought up, don't know if that's accurate

Bo wouldn't let his team mope about a bowl game, this ain't K-State or Missouri.

UW also lost a starting d-lineman to injury so their already suspect defense got a little worse.

They are just different situations, Martinez/Lee this year and Carnes/Martinez now. Can't really draw that analogy, each is its own individual situation. Carnes has a real battle on his hands in a lot of ways if he wants to overtake Taylor (a largely successful incumbent), but his skillset is such that he does also have the advantage in parts of his game (parts I would consider important). So it should be an exciting fight to watch.

True, it was not the best analogy. I'll just say that from what I've heard, which agrees with what you're saying, Carnes is not to be taken lightly.

As to drama being from message boards, true a lot of BS has been floated, but if the kid would put his cell phone down for a few minutes, none of it would be an issue.

The same exact things said about Carnes were said about Martinez last year, and I'm sure most(absolutely myself included) said "Doesn't matter, Lee will start." Oops. We shall wait and see...

 

Lee didn't break virtually every record this school had for freshman QBs.

No, and Carnes doesn't have some of the immaturity issues that have popped up with Martinez. If reports are accurate it sounds like Carnes could step in and do just as much damage with less drama.

The same exact things said about Carnes were said about Martinez last year, and I'm sure most(absolutely myself included) said "Doesn't matter, Lee will start." Oops. We shall wait and see...

"Boy Trapped in Refrigerator Eats Own Foot"

I may be in before the lock. This remains to be seen.

Nebraska scored 6 points, A&M scored 3. Bottom line, as lame as the offense was, they did everything they were supposed to do to win the game and the officials TOOK IT AWAY.

They did what they were supposed to do, to near perfection

Unrelated thought: overconfidence was not a problem against Texas, it was playing tight, in fear of screwing up (predictably becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy).

Helu and the o-line.

My only problem with what they wrote is that the only reason Nebraska failed against the best defense they faced was because receivers dropped open passes. It's not like Nebraska's offense got completely stymied by UT, they had opportunities to put up no less than 24 points, and if the receivers actually catch those passes, perhaps UT backs off, opening up the run. . .would've, could've, should've, I know, but let's give credit where it is due: the NU backs and receivers who dropped 8 passes for little to no reason (other than playing uptight.)

I'm not saying Watson called a perfect game, far from it, and I pretty much wanted him out last year when it sounded like he and Pelini couldn't agree on a philosophy. But today, the play calls as they were should have been good for somewhere between 28-35 points, more than enough to win. The coaches do take some blame for lack of execution, of course.

Clester Johnson. I've been there once, about a year and a half ago, I think. It's nice, you should definitely check it out.

So, who was the lucky KSU fan who got to sit in his fart dust?

Bill Snyder's assistant coaches hate the man's micromanaging, he frequently left his starters in for entire games against hapless, 1-AA opponents, and I recall hearing something about him using rental cars issued to coaches for bowl games to make recruiting trips which is not legal. So yeah, screw Bill Snyder.

I say it was a real nice team win. Or I'm just too lazy to come up with any real answer.

EDIT: just saw somebody else gave the whole team a game ball well there you go, I should read the whole thread next time.

He strikes me as a little flakey like that now and then, but laid back enough to not have any "pet" teams like some guys in the business and always give teams their due.

Glad my 1-3 expectation was avoided. Of course Nebraska has still lost something like 45 of their last 60 conference games, which is totally unacceptable and gets just about any coach anywhere else fired. . .

 

 

It got doc fired, right?

Not yet, but he's not in his 8th year as a head coach, either, nor was he handed a top 10 quality team. If Doc fails again this year, I won't be broken up if he gets canned.

 

 

Nor did he make the Elite 8 in 2005, or win the programs 1st game ever there.

Larry Coker won a national title in 2001. Where is he now? Things sure went south once he could no longer ride the coattails of Butch Davis. We are almost 6 years removed from the College World Series, no more Van Horn recruits, no more pitchers taught by Rob Childress (no, not asking for Rob to come back as head coach, he's more valuable as an assistant IMO, just like Anderson). Nebraska will never reach the CWS again, and will be lucky to host a regional, but even if they did all we would have to look forward to are further losses to teams like San Francisco, Oral Roberts and Manhattan (combined score of those three regional losses: 17-2, not even competitive against the dregs of our own regional). 2006 and 2008 both lost their mental edge completely in the months of May and June. The combined efforts of 2007, '09 and '10 manages to come out to 2 games above .500. Thank god we scheduled Southeast Missouri State this year, although if we faced them in a regional at home, I shudder to think of what the outcome would be. Bottom line: Mike Anderson sucks as a head coach, without Rob Childress to hold his hand, he has dropped off the map entirely in 5 seasons. He has not proven that he has the ability to instill any mental toughness in his own recruits, nor has he ever shown he can build/rebuild a program. The problems that plagued his teams at the end of '06 and '08 have begun to show up in February and stick around the entire season the last two years, not surprising considering they did not have players like Johnny Dorn who experienced superior coaching under Rob Childress. I am reminded of what Lyons said over in another thread. His own players on this year's team call Anderson a "complete jackass." Anderson proved them right when he kept Farst on the bench for his last game at Haymarket park until the final half-inning. A guy who worked his ass off, team (and possibly conference?) leader in batting average a year ago and had been playing well through the last 10 or so games of this season. Gets benched in his last game in Lincoln. Whatever MA's motives were, it was a classless move, but not the first one he's made (talk to Jake Mort when his family came for "Jake Mort Day" to see their guy. . .ride the pine the whole game.)

Ah well, baseball season's over so I'm going to go drink a lot and watch tapes of old football games for 3 months Take 'er easy.

I don't pay nearly enough attention to basketball anymore Hope this guy does well.

Glad my 1-3 expectation was avoided. Of course Nebraska has still lost something like 45 of their last 60 conference games, which is totally unacceptable and gets just about any coach anywhere else fired. . .

 

 

It got doc fired, right?

Not yet, but he's not in his 8th year as a head coach, either, nor was he handed a top 10 quality team. If Doc fails again this year, I won't be broken up if he gets canned.

Depends on how far we want to lower our expectations. I can see the team finishing above .500 next year, but they had more than enough talent to do that this year, so I'm not putting money on it.

I've noticed maybe 2 games televised on FSN this year. The Big 12 tv deal across all sports sucks.

 

Did you ever stop and wonder why, say, Zach Herr would want to sign a contract despite being a really late pick? Answer: to flee Anderson's iron fist. It's not enough to just say the draft destroyed us, how about looking at why everybody wanted to leave? Why is it that David Stewart and Jed Hanson transferred despite showing great potential in the few opportunities that Anderson gave them? Oh I suppose after yesterday's wild pitch-fest, I'm dreaming if I think having another catcher around might have helped. And of course we won't need a new right fielder in 2011, so Stewart's no great loss, right? What happens when Mariot, Yost, Ryan Hughes and a number of other players sign contracts this year? Do we reboot the draft excuse? This isn't football where freshmen and sophomores have to hit the weight room and gain 50 pounds. Many teams are playing with just as much, or more, younger players, and that's just in the top 25. Nebraska had as much senior experience in Bailey, Belfonte, Farst and Bubak to go with pretty good juniors on the pitching staff. I imagine we're looking at moderate improvement next season at best, and the best we can do is claim that we're a northern school and thus can't compete

 

 

 

What part of regional don't you understand? As in, when it's not nebraska, it's not going to be on here. If you look at any of the non-FSNMidwest FSN channels, you will see a decent amount of college baseball, i watched it. Herr wasn't good. And wild pitch-fest? You realize that a wild PITCH is just that, NOT THE CATCHERS FAULT. That, sir, would be what the scoring "passed ball" is for. And Hanson was 4 for 9, but he was NOT a good defensive catcher, so I don't know how him behind the plate would help wild pitches.... Mariot could potentially go and sign a contract, it happens. I don't see Yost going anywhere. Our pitching staff is still young and improving. And freshman are playing in baseball just as much as they are in football. Stewart hit .286, that's good?

I know what regional means, and that's part of the horrible Big 12 TV deal, if your provider only gives you one FSN channel, you're hosed. I could have watched several games on the Big 10 network, but since Nebraska has not yet joined that conference, I didn't bother. I don't recall the last time ESPN carried a regular season Big 12 game, but I saw a lot of SEC games on.

Sure, Zach Herr wasn't any good. Neither are many of the other younger pitchers brought in since Childress left. All have been prone to give up walks, hit batters, and just generally have ERAs so high they'd make your nose bleed. Because they're not being coached very well at any point. Part of that's Newman's responsibility, then again he's the 2nd pitching coach hired by Anderson, and the staff ERA has sucked harder with every new hire (save for being carried by Johnny Dorn and, for a while anyway, Thad Weber in '08). So either Anderson can't hire decent assistants, or it's true what they say about him being a micromanaging freak. Or a little bit of both.

Did you see the wild pitches? These one's ricocheted not all that far from whoever was catching, it's not impossible for a catcher to smother a bad pitch, so yes, senor caps lock, SOMETIMES THE CATCHER CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. But you may be right, Hanson might not have been any better at defense, however he had a pretty good year going here at UNO (ended with an injury), so I'm still not entirely convinced. Same thing goes for Stewart, scouts were bullish on his upside potential, he hit 3 home runs in two games to start his season at Grayson County college down in TX after leaving here, then got hit by a pitch and broke his hand or something, ended his season. I suppose Anderson knew that was going to happen so he sent him off. Of course, those two guys are the least of Anderson's problems, the dude is sabotaging the program.