Lonestar_Husker

Burkhead!!!!

3 and OUT!!!!! Bo is looking good in the gray hoodie. All the coach....none of the BS.

Sweet! We're on D first! Brent already is setting the stage for referee screwage. "This is a fine referee crew we have here tonight, folks." We shall see.

Allright my brothas and sistas, LET'S DO THIS! Tailgating scene was epic. I went down to the Deathstar and it really got me fired up. POP goes the Sam Adams. Bo just said Taylor is starting!

POWER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gs2o5T7oN8

A little PMA. Positive Mental Attitude is in order.

Sorry for the ramble. I am sincere in my hopes for your dad's employment. I know you've been getting the business, so hang tough.

So...did pops pass the test? I hope he got the job. I worked part time at Dominoes for about 2 months when I lived in Omaha. 680 and Harney St...??maybe? 680 and some street by downtown. Looong tima go. I didn't really care for the death disks(discs?) so had to find another part time gig that involved free food, so I worked at Little King's sandwichs. Are they still around? I worked at the one in the Old Market and the one off of Dodge. 40th or so...I think. There was a really old, or so I thought at the time, delivery driver, Gus, that insisted that I use Valvoline oil in my car. I usually rode a skateboard to work, so I just agreed, Valvoline is a helluva an oil. Have you found any good shoes, yet, 402? I would reccomend Academy sports and outdoors, but I don't think there is one in Omaha.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/shortgamer/1196148194136zl8.gif This kind of puts things in perspective. It takes about 30 seconds to run. I think this is huge. If even to only open some minds. We have little idea what possibilities are out there. This would seem to go against what is assumed to be necessary for life to exist. It's a substitution of similar elements, yet it wasn't thought to be possible. Sometimes it's hard to find something specific, but if your just looking for something, without expectations, you can find anything. It would be great if some form of life that we recognize were to be found on Europa or Gannymeade, somewhere relatively close. That would open the door to more exploration and global cooperation. I don't think humans will ever be ready for an Independence Day-like visitation. Sometimes I think we are going the Idiocracy route. Great premise for a movie, and some really funny parts, I just can't go 2 thumbs up.

OK, now. This is a thread with some potential. Do we need separate threads for other ..uuuhhh..intoxications?

To me, it's a chicken or the egg theory. Which came first, the refs started punishing the team for Pelini going ape poo on them, or did Pelini start going ape poo on them because they were punishing his team? That's what bothers me most about this. Everyone who isn't a Husker fan who watched, thinks it was a complete over reaction to a single game. While Pelini was reacting to an entire season of bad calls and a suspicious lack of calls against the other team.. F it. I'm not one of the guys who cares what the country thinks about us. This who;e referring to ourselves and our program as "classy" is so self stimulating and lame. Bo acted the way many of us wanted him to act and I don't think he should be apologizing to Taylor, the league, officials or us "fans" who seem embarrassed that our good names got soiled. All I'm saying is there is a time and a place for everything. I remember my old man glaring at me, teeth clenched, eyes sort of going manson. I knew I was toast. I effed up, knew I effed up, and knew I was gonna an well deserved a$$chewing. I am not against attitude adjustments. I just think there are more productive ways of getting the most out of an a$$chewing. Let the offender think about their actions. I just prefer a Tony Dungy type to a Bobby Knight type. Tom Osborne over Woody Hayes. All of these men did their share of a$$chewing, it's just that you knew if Coach Osborne was in your a$$, you really effed up. I don't think he made a scene of enforcing discipline on the sidelines. I'm pretty sure most, not all, of their uuhh..conferences were in the locker room. I don't thinks it a big deal. Sometimmes you gotta go over a certain line to know where it is. I see nothing wrong with Perlman having a little pow wow with Bo to illustrate the possible negative effects of certain negative perceptions. What's unfortunate is most of the penalties were of a judgement nature. There were obvious biases in the enforcement of the rules. The gray area for NU is very dark. We can't give a referee an opportunity to even try and consider judgement because we will not get the benefit of any doubt, let alone some blatant phantom calls. This was to be expected ever since we joined the Big 10. It's happened before to teams leaving one conference for another. Decks already stacked, we know this, we can't can't control the enforcement of judgement calls. There is also a bias in the number of penalties against our opponents. Most teams have committed fewer penalties against NU than their season average. Officials are human, we don't need to make easier for them to rationalize their judgements. By constantly berating them, it makes it easier to call personal fouls, roughing the passer, unsportsman like conduct and the other myriad penalties that we have managed to discover. We stopped Gabberts forward progress in record time. Look at that way. Life is what you make of it, not what it makes of you.

It seems like Taylor effed up somehow and Bo was unhappy. He over reacted in his response to Taylor. I think he knows exressing his displeasure with Taylor's actions in such a harsh fasion in public was not his best option on how to handle the situation. He was counciled on the repucussions of such behavior and hopefully understands that the world is not fair and you have to focus on the team and not berate officials. I fully understand that there was something nefarious with the officiating. That is my honest belief. Let the officials know what you think. Don't just wail on them incessantly. At least get a couple players to block the cameras while you wail. I understand the frustration, but I prefer a focus on the team. Figure out a way to deal with it. Focus the team.

I don't know if i'd call the difference massive, a decent difference, sure, massive? No Scoring Offense- 40th average 2010- 28th 2009- 75th 2008- 17th Scoring Defense- 28th average 2010- 3rd 2009- 1st 2008- 80th I was referring to this and last year. Total offense 2010 - 32 2009 - 99 Total defense 2010 - 9 2009 - 7 Given the utter free fall our offense is in currently and has been steadily getting worse since the injury to Tmart (Iowa St, Kansas & TAM) it would not be surprising in the least to see the current "respectable" 32nd in Total Offense fall a long ways by season end. Tmart is 99% of the offensive improvement from last year and with him hurt.....it's 2009 once again. Exactly that, the injury to Martinez. Before Martinez was injured we averaged 38 points and 459 yards of offense. The 3 halfs of football we'd played prior to Martinez saw us score 31, 20 and 24 points, we had Martinez throw for 323 yards and 5 TD's and run for 112 against OSU, Helu ripped off 307 yards against Mizzou. Shawn Watson and this team were setting records for offensive output by individuals at a school with a great history on the offensive side of the ball. Then Martinez got hurt, Bo told Watson to strip down the offense again and here we are. Watson is doing what Bo tells him to do, Bo doesn't have much faith in Cody, despite Watson having plenty. If you don't think we're in vanilla mode again, I don't know what to tell you. This represents my thinking. I think with better options at QB next year, we should give Watson another year. With the type of QB he wants, he is effective, without the type of QB he wants, he struggles. Cody just doesn't seem to be panning out. Zac is apparantly out, so there is no other option. Next year there will most likely be other players capable of executing the plays at a cosistently high level. The gap between the starter and the backups next year will be less. It's possible that Carnes or even Jamal Turner or Bubba Starling will be competing to start with Taylor Martinez next year. If Bo's mantra is true, then every position is an open competition. Also, in the game vs aTm, there were plays to be made. Cody overthrows Niles in the 1st quarter. Niles was streaking by the safety and Cody didn't put enough air on the ball. He needed to lay it up there and let Niles go get it. Taylors throw to Reed on the second interception was poor. It wasn't a hard throw, I would think his ankle might compromise accuracy. No defensive help inside, easy 6 points, erased. 3 points erased by the pick. It's hard to calculate the domino effect of these passes. How much would proper execution have benifitted the run? There were plays to made against Texas, too. I needn't go into that. We need to deep at the QB position due to the type of offense we seem to be heading to. Who ever is playing that position will be taking hits. Especially in the Big 10. He will either have to be durable or we will need to have depth at that position. I think we lack quality depth at the QB position, this year. Zac is apparantly hurt and Cody seems to have a deer in the headlights thing going on. Next year and for the next few years we could have the depth we need. We will have 4 players that potentially could be as effective as Taylor at running this offense. We will see with Starling. I hope Cody stays and takes advantage of his education. I like him as a person. I think he works better as 3rd or 4th string QB than he does at 2nd string QB. Or even TE if he can catch.

NU-34 aTm-17 Rush-187 Pass-290

But what if the Hurricane's name was Ditka? Ditka by a late field goal. I'll take the word of a man who would win the Indy 500...driving a bus. It's a lock, now.

Get ready for good ole boy Mushberger. He will be bringing the twang! Over/Under for Colt McCoy references is 3. I'm taking the over BTW.

Okey Dokey. I win. I will forgo this rather hollow victory for a real one this Saturday night vs. aTm. There. That should do it. Watch your beer at those Aggie tailgates!

Uuuummmmm...................yeah. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....(heavy sigh). Well,....uuhh...hmmmmm.

Well...we can sing about practice.

I can't believe that I will need to do this for Kansas, yet after Iowa State, I am taking no chances. I win. I will forgo this hollow victory for a real one this saturday vs. Kansas. Did you hear that they are raising the drinking age in Oklahoma to 31? Yup, they are trying to keep alcohol out of the high schools.