HuskerExpat

Uh yeah, but they have not exactly looked dominating. Their home field advantage is almost non existent. The game we lost was on a miracle play with perhaps our best defender sitting on the bench with a suspension, to a team that is now ranked 18. I don't often bet on us, but will be happy to as a 5 point (or greater) dog.

4.5 points is way too much. 1.5 or 2 I can see, but 4.5 (or more, I'm seeing some places at 5) is insane.

I don't know, maybe it would be nice to have a back-up QB that has actual game experience wherein he has thrown a pass or two in the event the starter gets injured. Crazy, I know.

I would say this is wrong. The average Nebraska fan might have that impression because many of us had no idea who he was. Not that name stature is very important. As the HC of Nebraska now, everyone will know who he is. This would be true even had the hire been, say, our version of Derek "Who???" Dooley. I live in Louisiana. Just for kicks, today I asked 10 of my coworkers, all of whom are avid football fans, if they knew who Mike Riley is. The number who knew? Zero. I'll stick with my opinion. Yeah, well, Louisiana....

The offensive line, for whatever reason, can't get the job done. Everything else is going to be tough if we can't win the line of scrimmage.

I never wear the same Nebraska shirt on game day in the same season that said shirt resulted in a loss because it obviously has bad mojo.

The other sports channels are starting to produce some decent pregame shows. Fox Sports 1 in particular. The Big Ten Network has a good pregame show as well, but it is obviously Big Ten focused.

Not sure why anyone watches Gameday anymore. Almost the entire show is a clown show. With that said, it is not surprising that any talking head picks BYU when they're asked to pick an upset for Saturday. Our last few years of history have not not set a great record for winning games like this. That was the "record" of the previous staff, however, so it is a little unreasonable to apply that record to this staff.

Can't blame him if he wants to go to Oregon. Can say he's not really thinking it through very well if his reasoning is he thinks he's going to start as a true freshman at Oregon next year. He has a reasonable shot at starting as a redshirt freshman at Nebraska if he is as good as advertised, and I'm sure that's at least a year earlier than his best shot at playing time at Oregon. Oh well, I'm assuming he's gone. Next man up....

Glad to see Knevel getting some work, but hopefully Lewis is 100% by this weekend. I'd hate for him to have a nagging injury all season that limits him to 85% effectiveness.

Don't get me wrong, BYU is a good football team. However, their schedule is worse than Baylor's and every other P5 team, and Notre Dame. If you want to be called something other than a mid-major, fix your schedule or join a P5 conference. Also, don't lose to FIVE other mid-major teams and then claim not to be. I expect a good game. Hopefully Nebraska wins. But if it looks like a duck . . . ^^^^^^Awesome post.

With the injuries at WR and lack of depth at LB, I don't think it would have been too much different. The only difference, I would guess he wouldn't pull Ozigbo's unless there was an injury with Newby, Cross, or Taylor. My guess in the biggest difference is that Pelini would have filled out the class with JC transfers who likely would have got significant playing time this year. Seems like JC transfers were the answer to Pelini's mistakes at roster management.

I wonder what the difference, if any, in the number of true freshman playing would have been if Pelini were still here; especially considering the 15 recruiting class would have been largely the same.

Think Christian Hackenberg at Penn St last year...

That's an opinion I can respect. He obviously has extreme hate for BYU, but he does make some valid points.

We won't let very many BYU fans into our stadium, they'll be too far away to throw anything at refs with any success, they'll mostly be in their own section not bothering the rest of us, and when we see them around town we'll be nice and cordial and thank them for coming, treating them well. We don't care about your beta complex. No reason to not be cordial, but that video does show some pretty douchie behavior. Makes me think of Colorado, Missouri or Wisconsin fans.

Jesus....... His reputation as a spiritual leader is solid but I don't have the scouting report on his prowess fielding punts. I would just think it would be worth the effort to try and work up a walk-on DB or RB when you consider the depth issues at WR. I agree. I'd much rather one of the younger RB get a shot if they are all competent. Too big of an injury threat to risk another WR going down, I'd say.

A couple of things you need to know about Bronco and the BYU program. The only time they ever announce a suspension is when they absolutely have to. The Takitaki suspension was announced because he was charged with a civil crime which is made public so there was no reason to withhold word of the suspension. Normally at BYU suspensions will be announced at or shortly before game time and the reason for the suspension isn't made known unless it is addressed by the player suspended. BYU, being a church owned university treats these things like many churches do, as a confidentiality. The players are free to reveal the reason but BYU won't. About the most you'll ever hear from the school is that a player was suspended for breaking team rules or for and Honor Code violation. Not having Bronco announce any suspensions for the BYU/NU game isn't any ploy on his part it's just the nature of the beast. Its been disgraceful how BYU has handled itself after the football team started the brawl because the Kewger players were mad because they just got beat by a Sun Belt team. Memphis announced many suspensions immediately and BYU didn't do a thing. There was even the video of a BYU player punching a Memphis player in the back of the head while defenseless while his Tigers coach held him back. Disgraceful doesn't even describe it. Im getting to the point where I don't even want my school to play against BYU anymore. They always try to demand that 2 games get played in their crappy dump of a stadium in Provo. It smells funny down there. And only one game at our home. I'm sick of it and fed up. Don't ever agree to play a game in Provo. Let BYU's home schedule be Wagner and Savannah State and stuff. Its the worst home schedule in all of college football by far. I know it is peculiar for rivals of opposing teams to have arguments on another team's board, but honestly, I can't say I disagree with the notion that certain BYU players acted disgracefully in the brawl against Memphis. Generally the "private" suspensions are reserved for behavior/actions that occurred (or didn't occur) in private. Not for on field behavior. That is, at best, unusual. Well I'm an old fart so my memory leaves me at times. Remind me of the last on field issue a player had where Bronco immediately announced the suspension to the public. For the life of me I can't recall it. That's kind of my point. Pretty much every other coach publicly announces discipline for on field issues. That's because an on field issue is not private. It is not as though the player flunked algebra so you don't announce the suspension to keep the fact of the bad grade private. Engage in a brawl on the field and everybody knows about it so it is reasonable to expect that the discipline is public as well.

Yes. I agree, this hurts but, I also don't think it amounts to7 or 10 points per game as some have made a case for. Our whole return game may be worth those type of points but we will still have a return game. Somebody is going to have to step up and pick up the slack. The replacement likely won't be as dynamic or productive as DPE has shown he can be but we've got other athletes, some of whom I'm sure have some speed and wiggle. Yes, probably a lower probability of taking it to the house or flipping the field the field as much but hopefully still a respectable return game. And he may be back before the majority of our conference games. We'll survive me thinks....just may not be as fun to watch those first 5 or so games. You're absolutely right. This totally sucks, but claiming it is a 7 to 10 point difference is borderline absurd. From a gambling/vegas perspective it hardly made a dent. Yesterday the line for the BYU game was -6.5. Today it is still -6.5 some places and -6 other places. This is a bad loss, and I feel horrible for DPE, but generally speaking it is not the difference between winning and losing a close game. It's not a vegas 7 points, but a real world 7. Vegas rarely adjusts point spreads on an injury unless it's the starting QB. Without DPE, ee don't make the almost comeback against Sparty. We don't beat Iowa. We don't hang with USC. Just from a scoring perspective on PR's. Then you factor in the field position flip where we went from 100+ in 2013, to number 1 in 2014. You'll have a hard time convincing me that the field position upgrade isn't worth the points. Maybe not 10, but 5-7 would be about right. You know, there is a direct connection between the Vegas line and the "real world" points. And at this point, the Vegas line is market driven, not set by an oddsmaker. If the betting public, including the market driving professional betters thought it was worth 7 points, they would have quickly bet huge amounts on BYU driving the line from -6.5 to pick 'em or even making us a dog. That didn't happen. Why? No enough people actually believe it is worth more than just a point, at most.

I'd that even 3.5 points is overstating it. Yes he scored 2.7 points per game, but would a replacement receiver not scored any of those touchdown? Probably a replacement would have scored at least 2 of those 5 touchdown. And I don't know how many average yards per punt return he is above the average replacement player, but let's assume it's 15 yards more (which I'm guessing is overstating it). Improving your field position by 15 yards to start a drive is definitely valuable, but go look at the Football Outsider stats in the value of field position. An extra 15 yards of field position translates to not that many points. A terrible loss, but probably more like being worth 1 or 1.5 points, at most. The biggest loss may be in what he hadn't yet proven as a receiver and that is obviously an unknown.

A couple of things you need to know about Bronco and the BYU program. The only time they ever announce a suspension is when they absolutely have to. The Takitaki suspension was announced because he was charged with a civil crime which is made public so there was no reason to withhold word of the suspension. Normally at BYU suspensions will be announced at or shortly before game time and the reason for the suspension isn't made known unless it is addressed by the player suspended. BYU, being a church owned university treats these things like many churches do, as a confidentiality. The players are free to reveal the reason but BYU won't. About the most you'll ever hear from the school is that a player was suspended for breaking team rules or for and Honor Code violation. Not having Bronco announce any suspensions for the BYU/NU game isn't any ploy on his part it's just the nature of the beast. Its been disgraceful how BYU has handled itself after the football team started the brawl because the Kewger players were mad because they just got beat by a Sun Belt team. Memphis announced many suspensions immediately and BYU didn't do a thing. There was even the video of a BYU player punching a Memphis player in the back of the head while defenseless while his Tigers coach held him back. Disgraceful doesn't even describe it. Im getting to the point where I don't even want my school to play against BYU anymore. They always try to demand that 2 games get played in their crappy dump of a stadium in Provo. It smells funny down there. And only one game at our home. I'm sick of it and fed up. Don't ever agree to play a game in Provo. Let BYU's home schedule be Wagner and Savannah State and stuff. Its the worst home schedule in all of college football by far. I know it is peculiar for rivals of opposing teams to have arguments on another team's board, but honestly, I can't say I disagree with the notion that certain BYU players acted disgracefully in the brawl against Memphis. Generally the "private" suspensions are reserved for behavior/actions that occurred (or didn't occur) in private. Not for on field behavior. That is, at best, unusual.

Yes. I agree, this hurts but, I also don't think it amounts to7 or 10 points per game as some have made a case for. Our whole return game may be worth those type of points but we will still have a return game. Somebody is going to have to step up and pick up the slack. The replacement likely won't be as dynamic or productive as DPE has shown he can be but we've got other athletes, some of whom I'm sure have some speed and wiggle. Yes, probably a lower probability of taking it to the house or flipping the field the field as much but hopefully still a respectable return game. And he may be back before the majority of our conference games. We'll survive me thinks....just may not be as fun to watch those first 5 or so games. You're absolutely right. This totally sucks, but claiming it is a 7 to 10 point difference is borderline absurd. From a gambling/vegas perspective it hardly made a dent. Yesterday the line for the BYU game was -6.5. Today it is still -6.5 some places and -6 other places. This is a bad loss, and I feel horrible for DPE, but generally speaking it is not the difference between winning and losing a close game.

I love the irony of your username being onlyHskrfaninIL and the last two posts before yours were both from guys living in Chicago. Yeah, not sure where in IL he lives, but there are a lot of Husker fans in Chicago. There are some Nebraska bars within a few miles of each other that both pack in hundreds of people for each game. Yeah not anywhere near chicago. Chiraq and the rest of the state are two different places. True that, but not because most of Chicago is "Chiraq". I only recently learned how so many people from "greater Illinois" are irrationally afraid of all of Chicago. Yeah, I would never spend time in huge swaths of the south side. But there is a huge difference between those neighborhoods and most of Chicago.

I love the irony of your username being onlyHskrfaninIL and the last two posts before yours were both from guys living in Chicago. Yeah, not sure where in IL he lives, but there are a lot of Husker fans in Chicago. There are some Nebraska bars within a few miles of each other that both pack in hundreds of people for each game.

This is a great development! Who would've thought it a couple months back? I am getting all sorts of grief from Wisconsin fan I work with about Nebraska athletic standards. Living in Chicago I get that sort of thing all the time. It is easy to make it stop. I just said something like "I don't really care about academics. I just want my team to win. Do the high academic standards make you feel better when your team loses?" That shuts up most people right away. It is a huge oversimplification of my true feelings, but I think most of us care mostly about winning. With that said, I think it is a very good idea for our guys to take advantage of their opportunity to get a good education.