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just last season. http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/7/15/8945393/oregon-state-football-2015-preview-schedule-roster Edit: here's 2013

Here, chew on this:

what if I told you it was possible that every coaching staff has things that it does well and things that it doesn't do well

He kind of already broke out but I'll say DPE, but as an offensive weapon. I bet he'll get a TON of touches in Riley's system as he's had WRs and RBs built like DPE who did some insane things in the past.

For the most part Bo's teams were pretty solid on special teams. I think our atrocious 2012 unit overshadows six other pretty solid groups. According to Football Outsiders' Special Teams Efficiency: 2008: 19th 2009: 6th 2010: 8th 2011: 14th 2012: 103rd (aaaand there's the outlier) 2013: 38th 2014: 6th

If anything, I think a system with fewer reads will be easier for TA. Also I think he just got conditioned to look for the deep route so often that checkdowns were the furthest thing from his mind.

Beck rarely gave Armstrong to show he can routinely make the kinds of throws he'll have to make regularly under Riley. So many of his called passes were just home run balls lobbed in the general direction of Westerkamp or Bell. While Armstrong wasn't exactly Tom Brady in the Holiday Bowl (was it FIVE dropped picks by USC defenders?) he had one of his best games as a QB, and with an offseason of coaching I think he become the type of quarterback we need him to be this fall. Not necessarily the type of quarterback we want in year four, but for now, for this transition period, I think he has to be the guy. And strictly from an experience/leadership standpoint, I don't think a coach in his right mind would sit a third-year starter in favor of a Bush or a Darlington.

Who frickin' cares???? Recruits, players, fans, media. I wonder if any recruit crossed off "X University" because they had the "wrong" uniform manufacturer? Ask any Oregon recruit.

Can't wait for the #FireZeleny mob after the first loss.

It actually shocks me how Adidas gets worse and worse with these things. We will likely have this tire-tread garbage on ours this year. This isn't even an alternate. that "tire tread garbage" was on our uniforms last year.

bob devaney's reanimated hands could weave the alts and i swear some of you would hate them.

Alternative: if Miami beats Nebraska in that Orange Bowl do they get a share of the NC or does Penn State get it all? If Miami beats Nebraska in that Orange Bowl does Nebraska beat everybody by 300 points in 1995?

I remember very little about the Florida State team in 1996 that Nebraska would have played if not for the Texas loss. Looks like they played some crazy good defense until Florida ripped them to shreds in the Sugar Bowl. Would we have moved the ball on them? Tough to say. That NU offense put up some crazy high point totals (55, 65, 63, 73) but also had some bad games (Arizona State obviously, wasn't too sharp against Texas Tech or Colorado either). Obviously TO would have had them ready and they would've beaten Florida State 41-3. But I'm glad as heck we didn't have to play Florida and Run-It-Up Spurrier the year after 62-24. https://vine.co/v/M3JEUBLFLgd Also, I maintain that the 1999 team would have beaten Florida State OR Virginia Tech by 10 points minimum. Stinking Dan Alexander fumble/Texas mental block.

trying to deal with the mental image of y'all sitting with your protractors held to the screen to measure whether the shoulder stripes are too vertical.

but now we don't have anyone to post in verse

I like Spielman's color a lot, except I lost some respect for him and Sean Mcdonough during the PSU game when they fumbled at the goal line and it went against PSU. They couldn't leave it alone and kept whining about it being a terrible call. Spielman whined a lot about it. At best the call was a toss up and there wasn't enough evidence to overturn it. It WAS a terrible call, we got a gift.

Good thread.

That's what I always wondered . . . how are all these teams having a breakthrough year, even if it's just for a short while, and Nebraska is stuck in four-loss purgatory? If Nebraska can finish in the top ten in the first four years of the Riley tenure I'll be ecstatic. A successful season is so hard to define for a variety of reasons, but at least teams that finish in the top ten can say they played at an elite level that season, and the closest NU has been was in 09. (And no one who watched that offense would have called that team elite.)

Okay, let's say in the last twenty years or so. Off the top of my head: TO > Solich (you could argue whether it was a good transition or not) Muschamp as the HC-in-waiting at Texas didn't turn out so great. James Franklin bailed on Ralph Friedgen at Maryland. WVU trying to have their lame-duck coach teach his successor was downright ugly. Jimbo Fisher basically got the school to force Bowden out at FSU. On the other hand, I'll grant Bielema to Alvarez at Wisconsin went pretty well. Edit: Chip Kelly taking over for Mike Bellotti worked out. Edit again: research. Danny Hope went 22-27 and was fired at Purdue after Joe Tiller retired, though Purdue was not smart to fire him. Joker Phillips went 13-24 and was fired at Kentucky after Rich Brooks retired.

i see this all the time. when has it ever worked?

I'm always nervous getting too excited about recruiting until the ink is dry on the letter of intent . . . but Riley's got even me feeling a bit optimistic.

Voted Tommie because national championship but Taylor's Okie State game is right there (or his K-State or Washington games, heck).

you mean a RILEYING call i'll show myself out

This is correct, however Damon Benning is speculating there could be 3 more departures. And there's been whispers of a LB and OT coming in from JUCO and playing this Fall. Sounds like there is still some things in flux in terms of the final Fall roster. i know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a girl who says one will be toldja

^ Exactly. Why people get excited about QBs 2 and 3 handing the ball off seven times against a gassed defense is beyond me.