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Two points: 1. Zac Taylor did the same thing in his first year with the Huskers - by the second year, Zac was taking the signals without having to run to the sidelines. I suspect it has to do with the terminology being so complex - it's a way to be sure that the play call is communicated correctly. In addition, it has been noted that the actual call is simply a number - Keller then refers to that number on list he has on his wristband to make the actual call. For those reasons, I doubt that it has anything to do with concern over someone stealing the calls. 2. It happened in both the Wake and Nevada games as well. I was at the Nevada game and unless Keller was near the sideline they signaled in the plays. Last night he was running to the sidline nearly every play.

Speaking of tweaks... I know we have certain sets, but don't you think sometimes we should "tweak" our sets so that Purify is in the formation on a passing situation instead of Peterson, Erickson, and Nunn

Remember Wake Forest only had 2 rushing yards against Boston College... and over 200 against us

For anyone who was at the game did you notice Keller was running to the sideline to get the plays... something Joe Dailey had to do. What do you think was up with this. I was at the Nevada game and I don't think this went on, and I don't think I saw it against Wake Forest. Only thing I can think of is Callahan was worried USC would be stealing our play calls???

No offense, but USC didn't need to throw, when you average close to nine yards a carry... no real reason to pass.

I'm not trying to be negative or anything, but we scored 21 points in the 4th quarter when their backups were in there. I said in another thread that if Carroll wanted to he could have really blown the score up. We just didn't have the defense to stop them. I think offensively we did an okay job.............oh except for the whole rushing part!!!!" are you sure those were that back ups? I'm not saying they weren't, but it would surprise me. after all he had his starters in on O and were going for it on 4th and 4 late in the 4th. 12 mins left is not late in the 4th. bradford and chauncey washington were the running backs. those are Scs 3rd and 4th teamers. Chauncey Washington is not a 3rd or 4th string runningback....

I wonder if their athletes have a better head start. IN other words, there high schools are better off. Most of there players are from So. cal, thus there is great competition they have gotten accustomed to. Just a thought. Only a true insider would know I think. I also think we still don't have enough quality players in our program. I think it goes back to that they are building depth with freshman and sophmores, so when those kids become starters they have had significant playing experience. Look at our backups... Ricky Thenarse will most likely start next year and has gotten hardly any real time on defense in meaningful situations. Anthony Blue has been praised by coaches as someone how has picked things up quick and is ahead of any freshman they've seen, but yet I would bet he will be a special teams guy and only get time in mop up duty. Offensivly I find it hard to believe that guys like Holt, Will Henry, Chris Brooks, and even Niles Paul can't compete on the same level as Dan Erickson??? It's like what Eric said their kids have a "head start"

If memory service me correct.... 8 or 9 of the players Pelini had made NFL squads.... Remember names like - Demorrio Williams, Barrett Ruud, both Bullocks, Fabian Washington I agree that Pelini is a better coach, brought more energy, and got more out of the players... but at the same time the guy has had talent everywhere he's gone, ie - Oklahoma and LSU

Agree with you 100%... but I still don't think the play was irrelevant just because we stil scored. A score right after a fumble recovery would have been very big

C'mon man... they obviously had one starter, but it's just like our team last year, they have multiple backs listed as the starter... my point was that multiple freshman and sophmores started and played last night.

Maybe you should check out the USC depth chart before you reference just two players.... FRESHMAN STARTERS WR - David Ausberry C - Kristofer O'Dowd FB - Stanley Havili RB - Joe McKnight DE - Everson Griffen Sophomore Starters RT - Charles Brown RB - C.J. Gable RB - Stafon Johnson RB - Allen Bradford FS - Taylor Mays Others who played early in the game WR - Vidal Hazelton - Sophomore CBs - Vincent Joseph and Shareece Wright - Both Sophomores Oh and by the way Patrick Turner as a freshman played in 12 games catching 12 balls for 170 yards and as a sophomore had 29 grabs for 272..... so this isn't his first field experience. USC and other high profile school's are gaining success with freshman and sophmores, so either our juniors and seniors are unreal (which by yesterday can't be true) or these guys we're recuiting aren't as great as everyone says they are...... or maybe C the coaching staff just needs to get these guys on the field, seriously could have they done any worse yesterday?

It is relevent because it would have been a huge momentum swing. Your logic is like saying "we intercepted the ball but couldn't score, so we punted, then we punted back, and then we scored... so it all worked out."

Dillard and Lance were getting more playing time at the end... but who wants to bet that it's Ruud and McKeon starting next week

I never said I wanted him as the primary back... I just said how does he go from getting quite a few carries... to zero. And even when we are dominating teams... we had freshman starting on both sides, to truely build depth you have to get these kids on the field on offense and defense, not just special teams

He did have the wonderful pootch punt that we some how couldn't recover

That means nothing to me... I have never been able to understand how we have guys that go from lots of playing time to none. I am shocked with how we get some of these big time recruits, name the last freshmen in the Callahan era who actaully got a shot as a true freshman. And I am not talking about special teams, I mean a significant role on the offense or defense. Guys like Thenarse and Holt won't see significant time until next year, who wants to go somewhere when they won't get a shot to play until they're a junior.

Exactly... USC was a better team and if we lost, but played well and just simply lost to a better team I could live with it. But it's how we played that killed me

He had two td's from within 3 yards... I would hope he scored twice.

I know Glenn was back, but Castille goes from getting close to 30-40% of the carries against Nevada and getting decent time against Wake Forest to no carries? Doesn't it seem like every year we see a player who gets to play and play well in a few games and then all of a sudden no time? Don't you think that messes with an 18 year olds head???

I was at the game and for some odd reason I actually went back and tortured myself by watching it on my Tivo as well... did anyone else notice that it seemed like at the snap our LB's weren't reading holes, but instead it almost looked like they were automaticaly going to a predetermined spot?

When I travled out to LA last year for the game I ran into quite a few Husker fans of coarse... but like you mentioned I also met many UCLA fans who hated USC. One of them actually bought me breakfast one morning at a McDonald's near Disneyland, too bad we'll have to take them down in the 2012 season!

Is the t-shirt the "Gameday Codes" t-shirt???

Is it just me or is anyone else just a bit more excited this year?!?!?!?!?!?! NU 45 - Nevada 17

defiantly 'N'

Are you from Pierce?