RedDenver

As I mentioned in another thread, I thought Spano made better decisions, looked more comfortable, and was a better passer than Green or Martinez. Lee is clearly the starter (having only seen the others in a single practice, mind you) unless an injury occurs. If Spano is fully recovered by fall, I look for him to be the backup.

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about Spano. He looked far better as a passer than any of the other QB's, but he was in a green jersey and run or be tackled. Green and Martinez looked hesitant making decisions in the passing game and often threw late instead of in rhythm. None of the QB's looked like a starter to me, but I'm optimistic about then for next year. It would take a monumental improvement over what I saw at the spring game to overtake Lee. But, as always, IJMHO and it was only a single practice. Anything can happen.

Great post. In short, the team needs to clean up subjective penalties and not worry about the objective ones. If you jump offsides or false start, that's something you can fix because it's objective; either you jump offsides/false started or you didn't. Now holding and pass interference will most often be a very subjective call. You can't really do a whole lot about those. I think you've got your subjective and objective reversed, since we can only clean up what we can control (objective). But I agree with what you mean. Pre-snap penalties killed many scoring opportunities last year contributing to our poor offensive performance.

Let it go, man! Deep breaths, deep breaths. Hopefully the competition will be sufficient for us to make some judgments about the players and execution.

That could change quickly after the spring game. But those guys have another year to get better with quality players already in front of them.

A quote from Carl Pelini Husker fans should keep in mind: "People always say, ‘Take safeties and make them linebackers.’ But it’s easier said than done.”

Well, the list is on best receivers, not best passing offense.

I'm guessing you work for the Dailyer Nebraskan? FYI: These are tongue-in-cheek articles.

We do get to enjoy a football game against a B10+1 school. I'd like us to play a harder schedule honestly.

This thread is a classic example of why Bo doesn't want to release a depth chart. Fans will take the tiniest amount of information and draw wide-sweeping conclusions based largely on supposition. Even after the spring game we won't really have that good of an idea which QB will emerge come fall.

I voted 5 because I'm just as excited for every season.

The NCAA isn't going to like that.

You mean like early in 2009 and all of the 2008 season? I think people are overreacting to our offensive struggles. But recruits are highschool kids and their memories are typically short, so the rest of your point I can agree with.

Sorry, i saw Mendoza under IB on Huskers.com, so I thought they moved him back there. It would be interesting to see how he performs at CB. No worries. Just trying to get the info correct. Who is Brandon Chapek? I agree with most of your assessment. I'll be keeping my eyes on three areas: OL, LB, and S, in that order.

Should be interesting. I believe they had a school-yard type "draft" for each team last year, so it wasn't even by depth chart. Not sure what they'll do this year. We've heard rumors of 1's vs 1's but have to wait and see. Mendoza is now at CB. And Ryan Hill is at H-back, which is a hybrid TE/FB.

What happened to Nexus? Is he alright? I hope Gilleylen comes into his own this year, much like Paul did last year. We need a few good WR's to emerge and having one with speed certainly helps.

Good points. Especially the USF DC offer. I'm just not sold on Ekeler as a coach, and he has faded after a fast start on recruiting. Nothing against him or anything, he just needs to prove himself, IMO.

I'm no expert, but why does anybody think Ekeler is a good coach? I haven't seen much development from the LB's other than Dillard, and he had looked almost as good early in his career. Not that I think Ekeler is bad either just don't see anything either way. What are you seeing?

Summary?

I noticed the same thing. And before Ron Prince got to KSU, Bill Snyder built that program into a national power using a lot of JUCO's. I don't think you can blame last year's offense on JUCO's. Lack of developing the younger players has some merit but not number of JUCO's.

Too bad we don't play in the 12-South aren't Texas or TTech. Wouldn't have to worry about holding-penalties then. Fixed it for ya. Thanks for the insight, coach. The o-line certainly needs the most improvement from last season. I've been thinking we're still a year or two away from a really good o-line.

and thats just gate reciepts...$3 20oz Pepsis, $4 Valentinos, $5 burgers, $6 nachos, $7 BBQ Briskets... (is it bad that I know all those by heart?) I haven't seen the brisket. Where do they sell that?

Dillard's play was exceeded only by Suh's, IMO. The VT and OU games along with the Holiday Bowl were really great performances by Dillard. Don't forget that he was making most of the defensive adjustments and calls - that's not always easy to replace.

I'd add one of the most important aspects often overlooked is patience and experience.

No, only Suh's jersey has been retired not his number. It's just an acknowledgement of his outstanding career at NU. Tommie Frazier had his jersey retired, but players can still wear #15. Only #60 (Tom Novak) and #64 (Bob Brown) are retired numbers. Can a player named Frazier still wear #15, though? Just curious. I would assume so since the jersey retirement is a symbolic gesture. Somebody named Frazier might not want to wear it though.