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Pelini noted Henery's Blackshirt was a little big for the 175-pound kicker. "Yeah, we had to tie it up. We went with the triple-extra small. It was still a little big on him," Pelini joked.

LOL....

http://my.journalstar.com/post/Husker_Extr...blackshirt.html

Personally, I'm kinda proud of Sam. You know the NCAA is gettin some money for the realistic looks in these video games, how is it they can copy every single detail of a player, sell it for millions upon 10's of millions upon 100's of millions of $ each year, but yet the player or university doesnt collect a cent (someone correct me if i'm incorrect on this). I THINK IT'S bullsh#t, and yet a player gets suspended and the school get tv appearences and scholarships taken away if he wipes his ass in the wrong direction. THE NCAA IS A CROOK FACTION AND NEEDS SOMEONE TO SUE THEM A TIME OR TWO.

Sam's just the retarded face of a stupid lawsuit. The lawyer had this thing already written up and approached him about it.

That said, if this somehow affects EA (which I doubt it will) you can kiss watching games on TV goodbye. If they're gonna go after a video game company regarding an alleged digital likeness, why not go after ESPN, CBS, ABC, FSN for raking in billions on broadcasting real images of these kids? If they win that, we will no longer watch games on TV without paying enormous amounts of money.

Didn't think about that, did you?

Something doesn't make sense here. They could have safely left last night, let alone this morning.

 

The game isn't until Wednesday night. This doesn't jive at all.

Not if a large part of the band isn't even in Lincoln.......

It's on ESPN nationally.

You missed my point. I was referring to you saying the D wasn't elite because of turnovers. I simply pointed out a possibility.

 

As for the defense looking good, it's quite obvious that it is. Teams aren't getting long sustained drives, and like my evidence showed, they aren't scoring a bunch on us either.

 

I got your point, and I do agree the defense looks good. Unfortunately Bo paid too much attention to the D and not enough to the offense.

That we can both agree on. However, we do have a lot of youth, and inexperience right now. We'll see what happens!

That's true, but you also have to figure, teams aren't really taking chances against us. They know our O is weak, and by hanging around, they have a good chance to get a TO from our offensive ineptitude. If our O was better, teams would have to take more chances and shots downfield to keep close, thus enabling our guys a better chance at turnovers. Plus, we've dropped a retarded amount of interceptions.

 

Yeah, but you could also say our defense looks really good because teams don't need to take chances down the field and therefore, aren't getting the big time plays.

 

That argument works both ways.

You missed my point. I was referring to you saying the D wasn't elite because of turnovers. I simply pointed out a possibility.

As for the defense looking good, it's quite obvious that it is. Teams aren't getting long sustained drives, and like my evidence showed, they aren't scoring a bunch on us either.

Wow, both of you really don't have a clue about the game of football do you?

Please enlighten us poor serfs then...

There's no reason to try risky things when you can be pretty sure the other guy isn't going to do anything. Perfect example, ISU. They didn't take any chances after they get the lead, because it was quite obvious we were stepping all over ourselves. No reason the throw a risky pass when you can play conservative and let the other guy strangle himself.

You cant expect the defense to score all the points. They are there to get the ball back and keep the other team from scoring. Our defense has done more than their share at preventing teams from getting into the endzone (i.e ISU had 8 takeaways yet only crossed the 50 twice, never got in the redzone and scored 9 pts, ISU had one more point than takeaways, that there is great defense). The offense needs to contribute to this team as well.

 

I never said they had to score all the points. All I was getting at was that game changing plays/turnovers is what is keeping this defense from being of the elite status. Any elite defense gets turnovers and makes plays when they need to be made.

That's true, but you also have to figure, teams aren't really taking chances against us. They know our O is weak, and by hanging around, they have a good chance to get a TO from our offensive ineptitude. If our O was better, teams would have to take more chances and shots downfield to keep close, thus enabling our guys a better chance at turnovers. Plus, we've dropped a retarded amount of interceptions.

We've held our last 7 opponents to 280 yds of offense or less....

That's pretty damn good. The only team to get over 300 was FAU in game 1.

Looking back at some of the stats, our defense has held every offense to their lowest (or tied) points scored this season except ISU (3 vs IA) and Mizzou (7 vs Texas). Obviously, Texas' defense is legit good, and ISU we can chalk up to an absurd amount of turnovers. Still, the marked improvement is amazing.

Last year, we didn't do this to a single team.

Allen, Suh, Crick, Turner, Dillard, Compton, Fisher?, Dennard, Amukamara, Gomes, Hagg, Asante, O'hanlon.

All base starters, plus the dimebacks, Hagg and Gomes. 13 in all.

All rumored players were at practice today. However, the unity council meets on fridays, so we'll see what happens.

The site's getting raped, so I put them up on flickr.

Kiper is really high on Suh. He has him as his top DL, and top 3 pick in the draft.

OMFG, stop with the stupid swine flu stuff. It's no worse than the regular flu, it's just a media driven scare....

Somebody posted this question on the Scout big 12 board.

"How in the world does NU beat VT up and down the field for 58 minutes, lose, and then drop to 5 spots to 24/25 in the polls. But other teams lose to unranked oppenents, at home, and barely move?

Next week, the same VT team destroys world-beaters Miami and rightfully move into the Top 10, but again NU just remains there at 25? More teams lose to unranked oppenents and not much happens to them. These things are getting past annoying.

When Nebraska played VT, everyone said VT wasn't very good. When VT beat Miami, VT is awesome. Same team, same location. Anyone who watched the game knows that NU won 75 of 78 plays. So why no recognition of that? They lost, no doubt. Give VT props. But man these polls are terrible. The only chance to move up will be beating OU and Texas. Mizzou, KU, Baylor, TT will all be downplayed as inferior teams."

The answer:

"It's because bitter, drunken sportswriters vote in the AP poll.

A lot of them use last year's poll as a starting point and tweak it a little by moving teams up or down depending on which stars return. Star players are about all bitter drunken sportswriters can wrap their bitter drunken minds around.

Tebow, McCoy and Bradford are returning? Good enough for them. They'll rank Florida, Texas and Oklahoma 1,2,3.

Never mind whether one of those teams might be thin at DT or TE or FS. That's too complicated.

Or they might just go with word association. If a team sounds like a winner they'll be ranked higher than a team that doesn't. That's how bitter drunken sportswriters operate.

So Virginia Tech starts off in the preseason poll at 7 and Nebraska starts the poll at 24.

Why? Because Virginia Tech finished last year at 15 and Nebraska was among others receiving votes.

So how'd they start off this season ranked so much higher than they ended up last year?

Because Virginia Tech and Nebraska sound more like a winners than all those mid major interlopers who climb the polls. Take out the Utahs, TCUs and Boise States. Squeeze in the perennial who was missing last year (LSU) and that's how it shakes out.

And its that arbitrary poll position that dictates everything from that point on.

VT loses (at home) to the team that was arbitrarily selected to be #5 so to the bitter drunken sportswriters it's not that bad and the Hokies only fall to 14 which is still ahead of the Huskers who rise to 22 on the strength of a win.

Meanwhile, Miami has jumped from "others receiving votes" to #20 by beating Florida State (the team who finished last year ranked 21st and was therefore arbitrarily selected to start this season as #18).

The next week, with wins all around, VT rises to 13 and Nebraska rises to 19 and the stage is set for their battle. But before their battle Miami beat Georgia Tech who had finished last year at 22 and been arbitrarily selected to start the season at #15 and who had risen to #14 before their loss to Miami.

Bitter drunken sportswriters are agog with Miami.

Meanwhile, Nebraska travels 1100 miles, manhandles the Hokies and loses on a lucky throw.

Do the bitter drunken sportswriters care? Hell no. To most of them, it's just a box score. Virginia Tech 16, Nebraska 15.

The outcome - Virginia Tech rises to 11 and Nebraska drops to 25.

But the big story of the weekend is that Florida State who Miami beat beat the hell out of 7th ranked Brigham Young (in Provo) who beat Oklahoma who the bitter drunken sports writers had arbitrarily selected to be the #3 team in America.

Then last week, the unthinkable happened. Virginia Tech thoroughly whipped Miami who had risen to #9 with a bullet.

What to make of that?

Either Virginia Tech is a helluva team (and by extension, Alabama is a phenomenal team for beating them) or a big house of cards built on preconceived notions comes tumbling down.

After all, if Virginia Tech isn't that good then Miami wasn't that good. And if Miami wasn't that good, then Florida State wasn't that good. And if Florida State isn't that good, then Brigham Young wasn't that good. And if Brigham Young wasn't that good then OU wasn' that good. And that just can't be because the bitter drunken sportswriters arbitrarily decided at the first of the year that OU was one of the three best teams in America.

So rather than rethink everything, the bitter drunken sportswriters just apply another layer of wow.

Wow! We can't believe Virginia Tech beat Miami. Wow! Virginia Tech must be great.

Virginia Tech becomes #6. Alabama gains another first place vote. And Nebraska... eh, screw Nebraska. They've done nothing to make the bitter drunken sportswriters question their own logic. So screw the Huskers. They can stay #23.

And that's how it works. Every single year.

Fortunately by season's end, all of these little compensations and over reactions wash out."

Best explanation I've heard.

Fantastic picture dude. As a fellow (amateur) photographer, I salute you!

How can I watch the game?

Got a watch site near you?

http://www.huskerboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=35678

I don't read that forum.

I mentioned this last week, but if you sign up for Huskers.com HuskersNside service, you can download (or watch online) replays of Nebraska Football games starting this year. In addition, they will also be offering a weekly "classic game" for viewing. It's 9.95 a month, but so far, it definitely appears worth it to me.

http://www.nmnathletics.com/newMediaPlayer...0&oemid=100

9.95 a month.