RedDenver

That's certainly been the mantra from the message boards over the last few years. Barney still works with the OL, so it's hard to say who's doing what. The OL is getting better and that's all I really care about from the OL coaches. Yes, but Barney is likely our weakest recruiter. I'd assume the person that takes over his role (or whatever role is created at the time of the hire) will be a major improvement over Barney in that area...and that's enough for me. Is there anything to back up Barney being a weak recruiter? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've seen quite a few quotes from recruits saying they liked Barney.

That's certainly been the mantra from the message boards over the last few years. Barney still works with the OL, so it's hard to say who's doing what. The OL is getting better and that's all I really care about from the OL coaches.

I still think the coach is putting his players at a disadvantage without a good reason. I'm not at all convinced by your argument as you are apparently unconvinced by mine. I'll leave it at that.

Thanks for the laugh.

set the date schools can offer after they begin their senior year. that was easy. but that truly doesn't begin to solve anything. You're right, that solves nothing. NCAA can only set what the date is for "official" offers - which is currently the beginning of the player's junior year. Coaches can extended "unofficial" offers at any time. There's no way to regulate that. So your argument against my saying the HS coach is overly restrictive to his players is to give that coach even more power? And what about players who want to go to schools that their coach doesn't have a relationship with? And you expect schools to hold offers for guys just because? What if Stoltenberg's coach wouldn't let him visit NU until after the season? Could NU really hold a spot for him until Dec or Jan? That's a case where a player could miss out on a dream school because of that situation. It isn't all about the NFL or the education. It's about limiting a kid's opportunities. Would you be okay with my example of the math teacher that wouldn't let students take college visits?

Maybe Pelini should ask Callahan for some advice on how to get rid of dead weight! Firing your friends is tough. Not firing them can cost you your job! Just who would you say the "dead weight" on the staff is? Papuchis and Cotton! Next question? Why would you fire Cotton? Just because that fits the easy fan narrative over the last 5 years? The OL has gotten better every year under Cotton. And, as far as I can remember, most of the OL recruits mention Barney as a good guy and one of the reasons they came to NU. Papuchis is certainly up there as somebody who could get the ax based on the D's performance. But according to many on this message board, Pelini is the real DC of this team. Why then would you fire Pap?

if (1) is true then for the benefit of the student athlete shouldn't the process be slowed down so they can make well informed judgements? (2) pretty sure the vast majority of college coaches hold spots back for circumstances like this and for the can't miss prospects. still dont see how it is bad for the student. given the number of scholarships available at every level of competition, they are still receiving the opportunity to play football and have their education paid for. How do you propose doing (1)? The NCAA has no control over when players "commit" since it's an unofficial designation. (2) only applies to the best of the best players. Coaches don't hold spots for the rest. Not letting a player take visits could be the difference between a 1A offer and a 1AA offer. Not letting players take visits is ridiculous since the high school coach is dictating what the players can do on their own time. Imagine the outcry if a math teacher declared his students couldn't go on college visits during the semester.

I would be, I love how everyone pumps up the true freshmen I doubt any true frosh starts. I'm pretty high on Gerry, but he'll most likely only get a little playing time.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a dozen times, shame on me. I'm fooling myself.

Message boards will blow up after every loss and most of the wins (since the schedule is supposed to be easy) Martinez makes a big mistake but overcomes it to win, but the message boards will blow up about <insert another QB name> would be better Huskers win the conference

That gif is perfect!! It looks like he's reading the previous post.

I wouldn't even go that far. It was solid in the 2nd half of the UCLA game, and held up well through 3 quarters of the Georgia game. There were a total of about 6-8 quarters of probably the worst rush defense I've seen in years. Unfortunately that was enough. We talk about the talent level, but w/ the exception of the UCLA game...the defense could never get mentally back into a game after it got out of control. Didn't the defense "get mentally back into a game" in the comebacks against Wisky, NW, MSU, and PSU? We fell behind by double digits in all those games and the defense must have gotten some late stops for us to win.

I agree completely. Plus our team played some tight games since then and battled back to win several. I think NU puts it away in the 4th quarter.

Very close to mine: 1. Cethan Carter 2. Nate Gerry 3. Maliek Collins 4. Adam Taylor 5. Courtney Love 6. AJ Natter 7. Josh Banderas 8. Terrell Newby But I think only 3-5 of them end up playing.

For all the crap fans gave Cassidy and O'Hanlon before him, either of those guys would have made the defense much better.

That's a good point. I thought Kolter mostly ran zone read against us which is his specialty. Fitzgerald is a great coach IMO, so I've got to think he knew what he was doing. Trevor was considered the better passer, maybe that's why they played it that way.

erm, he lives in papillion and is a legacy. See bold. Reading the entire post is an important part of a message board. My point was a generalization as indicated by the quote but used Kenzo as an example in the generalized situation since this is his thread. Anyways, just keep trying to read every word in the post, and you will get there! I took it the same way as desertshox. Since Kenzo doesn't fit the generalization as an example, either your generalization or example make no sense. Before telling us to read every word, maybe you should consider what you're typing. Considering how all the words fit together to convey meaning is an important part of writing. Ok, well then I question your reading comprehension. I said "if KC was not from nebraska." then "out of state kids." then "kids" (twice; as in more than one, referring to a general example). then "they" twice. All of which refer to a generalized example that was opened up with a hypothetical situation involving kenzo cotton's name. you can take it however you want, but according to the diction, if you interpret it the incorrect way, that is your problem, not my word choice. If I kept saying "him," "kid," "he," that would be my bad, but this case is not. Anyways, I don't really care. It's fine if you misinterpreted what I wrote to all. What do you think about the comment "Oregon is currently a stronger program than NU". agree, disagree, why? Think whatever you want about what you wrote. Oregon has been stronger than NU on the field the last few years, not much question there. But on the recruiting front, they have a new HC. IMO that hurts them a bit since it makes their strong performance the last few years less meaningful for the new regime. Regardless, I don't think Cotton is coming to NU.

It makes sense if you think (as I do) that the combination of Trevor Siemian and Venric Mark is the better backfield for NW. And was Kolter under center for the 80 yard run? (I honestly don't know.) That's 50% more touches than last year. I'd say that's significant. And it's not so much what Colter was doing running the ball. He was on fire throwing in the games surrounding ours and they torched us with the pass the year before. But they stuck with the guy completing 43%. Not sure where you're getting 50%: 26/19 = 0.36 or 36%. But no matter the percentage that's only 7 more touches. Our pass defense was the strongest part of our D and was better than our pass D from the year before. They might have gotten as close as they did because they did NOT pass as much. That might have been great coaching, or it might have been a mistake. There's just no way to know.

erm, he lives in papillion and is a legacy. See bold. Reading the entire post is an important part of a message board. My point was a generalization as indicated by the quote but used Kenzo as an example in the generalized situation since this is his thread. Anyways, just keep trying to read every word in the post, and you will get there! I took it the same way as desertshox. Since Kenzo doesn't fit the generalization as an example, either your generalization or example make no sense. Before telling us to read every word, maybe you should consider what you're typing. Considering how all the words fit together to convey meaning is an important part of writing.

Sure, it's entirely possible, but not plausible. Colter went nowhere running the zone read, and he's not enough of a threat to throw. He was a non factor and nothing he did helped them score. In fact, it's just as possible (and more likely based on the what he actually did) that NW wouldn't have even been in the game with Colter playing QB, because' Siemian's few passes kept them in it and led to points. The year before he threw for 115 yards and a TD, ran for 57 yards and 2 TDs and had 57 yards receiving. That's 26 touches (plus however many handoffs) on their 78 plays. Last year he only got 19 touches on 75 plays. Perhaps we were doing a better job against him running the ball but Siemian was 15/35 passing the ball instead of the 16/24 they were throwing against us the previous year and Colter was 10/10 the week before (Minnesota, granted), 6/9 the following week (still only Iowa but better), 8/14 the week after that @ Michigan and 13/20 the week after that @ Michigan St. It just didn't make any sense why he didn't get more chances at QB throwing the ball when that's how they torched us the year before. That is plenty plausible to me. So he got 26 touches in 2011 and 19 in 2012. Not much difference there. While it's possible and maybe even plausible, it seems very unlikely to me. I agree with saunders that it's more likely they would have done even worse. Remember that they were trying to get Mark the ball in space, which could be why Colter got a few less touches. I'd MUCH rather Colter had the ball than Mark.

The only way we lose the championship game and still go to the Rose Bowl is if the team we're playing ends up playing for the title. What if OSU or whoever we're matching up against is only ranked 15th or so? We'll likely be an at-large bid for another bowl but it won't be the Rose. Even if we lose to a MNC game participant, we're still unlikely to get into a BCS bowl. Georgia from last year is one example among many.

This. UCLA pulled out some stuff we'd never seen them run before. Pretty easy to do in the first few games as a HC. Let's see what they're capable of this season. Also, I think home field was the deciding factor last season for them and will be this season for us. I see your point to an extent reddenver, but let's not pretend UCLA did anything we haven't seen before. That was basic football. They did nothing fancy what so ever and that tends to be Mora's style. I expect much the same. We failed to adjust to a very basic offensive game plan last year. Yes, we didn't know what to expect but it doesn't take a guru to make the changes to stop the three play play book they were using. Take another look. They ran more than 3 plays that they hadn't run before. And I didn't mean to imply they did anything fancy, just unexpected. But I agree that we should have been able to adjust. Just good game planning and play calling by UCLA to take advantage of us. Even with all of that, UCLA barely eked that one out in Pasadena. I think we'll eke by them this year in Lincoln.

This. UCLA pulled out some stuff we'd never seen them run before. Pretty easy to do in the first few games as a HC. Let's see what they're capable of this season. Also, I think home field was the deciding factor last season for them and will be this season for us.

PSU has all season to get their guys experience before playing NU and the game is at their stadium which is always a tough place to play. Depth might get them over the course of the season, but it could also get us since we've got so little experience on the D. It's hard to predict any games before the season starts, and especially hard for the games towards the end of the season.

I think the Huskers go 11-1 regular season with the loss at PSU. Not going to predict the B1G CCG or bowl game until we know the opponent.