Saunders

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!

Got a watch site near you?

I don't read that forum.

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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.

They are in Windows media format. When you click to play it, it buffers the whole video, and when it's finished, you should have be able to save it. I'll have to test it on a PC (I'm using a Mac, so it's much easier) to give exact instructions. I will post them tonight.

Oh, and FYI, you can save these to your computer.

Okay, you can't wait any longer for that first kickoff to sail through the air Saturday night when Nebraska hosts Florida Atlantic. You need a football fix, and you need it now. How would you like to see complete-game coverage of Nebraska's 1994 home opener when the Huskers crushed UCLA, 49-21, en route to their first national championship under Tom Osborne? Well, you can, if you become a HuskersNside member. And that's not all. With this week's launch of our new DVD Store on Huskers.com, you can also buy your own copy of this DVD that shows Tommie Frazier passing for two touchdowns and running for another in Nebraska's four-touchdown romp over the 13th-ranked Bruins. A membership with HuskersNside gives you exclusive inside access to a Classic Husker Game each week of the season. In addition, you will see a complete-game rebroadcast of select 2009 Nebraska regular-season games, including the first three on Pay-Per-View. HuskersNside also takes you inside Nebraska's football, basketball, volleyball and other athletic programs with video seen only on Huskers.com. http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SP...tclid=204786248 SOLD!!!!!

Unless you are Notre Dame. In which case if you think ESPN hates your team, you're retarded.

So Ken Dorsey won two national titles, was screwed out of the Heisman and is regularly referenced as "one of the greatest QB's to ever play college football?" Don't forget MVP of 3 National Title games (The only player to do so). Even the Tebow child can't say that...

They weren't screwed. They lost a game, just like FSU. Edit: Oh, and Larry Coker was a terrible coach. The 1995 nebraska coaching staff was light years ahead of 2001 Miami.

Agreed. How many big time CFB players fizzle in the NFL, and how many NFL stars come from small/crappy teams? ALOT.

Only NFL fanboys think 01 Miami is better. These are generally the same people that believe that professional sports are never "guided" in who wins or loses...

And yet you listed a bunch of guys the have done well in the NFL as individuals, but as a collegiate team, struggled to beat BC and VT...

We see your list... what's the point? So there are some NFL guys on there. Big freaking deal. Kurt Warner played at Northern Iowa, and Ben Rothlisberger played at freaking Miami University. They are good players, but they weren't on great TEAMS....

Our entire 1995 offensive line gave up 0. Oh, and 0 penalties too....

Yeah, and that's what they said when Nebraska went down to face Florida. Everybody was saying things like: 1) Nebraska's offense will sputter and won't score points against the talented Florida defense, saying Florida had "too much speed". 2) Nebraska's defense would be ripped apart by the "fun n' gun" offense of Steve Spurrier. 3) They even went as far to say that we wouldn't be able to compete on a grass field because we played on field turf. And what happened? Nebraska hangs up 62 points, only gives up 24, and led 35-10 going into half. I'm baffled out how you can be a Husker fan and realistically think that Miami of '01 was a better team. Nebraska didn't win a game by fewer than 2 touchdowns the whole season. You make no sense. There is simply too much talent on the 01 Miami team to ignore. Clinton Portis, Willis Mcgahee, Frank Gore, Bryant Mckinnie(who never gave up a sack in 4 years at miami), Jeremy Shockey, Kellen Winslow, Andre Johnson, Vince Wilfork, Johnathon Vilma, DJ Williams, Ed Reed, Sean Taylor, Mike Rumph, Phillip Buchannon. That's just off the top of my head. The 95 Florida team was no where near the same galaxy as the talent level that the 01 Miami team had. You make no sense. If they were sooooooo talented, then why did they squeak by VT and BC?

Yeah, and Peyton Manning looked average against our '97 team. You listed good individuals. 01 Miami had good players, but they were not a great TEAM. They only won by 11 @ BC (scoring 18) and barely escaped Blacksburg with a win (26-24). 2001 Miami is overrated.

I'm pretty sure we won't combine for over 200 plays and 1100 yds of offense...

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