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Apparently I haven't read enough of his stuff to pick up on any trends... I thought the article was humorous. IMO he sounds like a lot of Husker fans I know that before the game were saying these same things "Don't worry, it's Missouri and Gary Pinkel, he/they always find a way to p*ss it down their leg. It's MISSOURI!"

Never once did he take a shot at Nebraska, I read it as "all Bo needed to do was throw in a small wrinkle to bring out the Pinkel factor, and that's what he did."

I don't know of anyone that would confuse Lee for a Husker fan...

I thought Chris Fowler established that it was pronounced "BIG Mis-Ter" about 57 times during the Mizzou game...right?

FFA.

i'll admit that it worked for us, and has worked wonders for other teams, but i have an honest question. whats the difference between running the wildcat and any other offense if your QB can run?

There's a huge difference if your entire offense isn't predicated on using a running QB often. The distinction is in that, in a wildcat, you are using 2 very competent runners, as opposed to one very competent (RB) and one marginally competent (QB) runner. There aren't enough legitimate running threat QBs to go around and, even if there were, it wouldn't behoove every offense to turn to using them.

 

In my opinion it is still substandard to a triple-option package, though.

this. this is why i dislike the wildcrap.

 

teams that revert to this are cheaply covering for a marginal qb, by installing another marginal qb.

Agreed. It's funny because I tend to think of offensive styles are cyclically en vogue. It seems this is a variation and one that wants to say "wow a running quarterback really is a good idea" yet saying "we don't value that enough to make it a full-time position." It just goes to show you having a higher quantity of competent ball carriers is harder to defend, just like it always has been.

Just wanted to get your thoughts on Allen's little "dance/celebration" did u like it? hate it? I thought it was a little much....but i do like players playing with emotion and confidence..

Just play. The entertainment is the game; not the post play actions. This goes for all sports at all levels.

Wrong. Spikes' TD celebration/punt might be the greatest football moment ever.

Wow, after your buildup I was thinking that was going to be something special. It was very uneventful and certainly not anything close to the greatest football moment ever.

i'll admit that it worked for us, and has worked wonders for other teams, but i have an honest question. whats the difference between running the wildcat and any other offense if your QB can run?

There's a huge difference if your entire offense isn't predicated on using a running QB often. The distinction is in that, in a wildcat, you are using 2 very competent runners, as opposed to one very competent (RB) and one marginally competent (QB) runner. There aren't enough legitimate running threat QBs to go around and, even if there were, it wouldn't behoove every offense to turn to using them.

In my opinion it is still substandard to a triple-option package, though.

Texas doesn't deserve 5 National Titles, much less 4. Did all of you know that they claim to have a national championship in '70, splitting with us although they LOST to Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl, 24-11, while we defeated LSU in the Sugar?

 

Whether Texas wins or loses, Nebraska's image is still solid, and final rankings don't mean that much to me, first of all because we lost 4 games - how high should we be ranked? 2nd of all - we're definitely not finishing number 1.

 

I lived in Texas for 6 years - a majority of the horn fans I met had no clue who the coach was prior to Brown, nor the QB prior to Vince Young. Never did I meet a single person that had any respect for Nebraska football, or the state of Nebraska in general.

 

Roll Tide.

It says on their site they were "UPI" National Champions. If I recall that poll came out before the bowl game. Certainly doesn't justify them claiming it but, when you have 350,000 different polls, a lot of different teams claim they are the National Champions. That's also where Michigan claims they have 79 or whatever ridiculous number they try to claim.

I forget the passes that were thrown in his other games this year but it seems to me during the Arizona game those were timing routes that he was asked to throw. I can see how he wouldn't be as good as Lee if Lee is spending more game time and probably practice time with those receivers to have the timing down.

Also Niles Paul he really has picked up his game through the year, he has become more reliable, and he reminds me of Percy Harvin. Basically a RB that play WR, you cant tackle that guy.

I think it's a little much to compare Paul to Percy Harvin.

Count me as one of those who think those "cheers" are lame.

It would be perfectly fine with me if the entire college football watching world just called it "The Wildcat" no matter who runs it or where. As others far more astute than I have pointed out, every f'ing school doesn't get a special name for when they line up in the shotgun, under center or virtually any other formation. This obsession with having a unique cutesy name for every team in the country that runs this old gimmick play is getting old. "Trickeration" old.

Booyah.

I don't know, I'm not thinking the Gay-S-U game is going to be too easy, especially since it's away and they have Snyder. Like it or not, they will be ready to play and having another year in that system could pay them dividends.

I'm going to have to go with Arizona. So satisfying to see, as others have stated, complete domination on both sides of the ball.

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I remember the announcers saying something about how our defensive coverage works in the holiday bowl that just went completely over my head.

Jesse Palmer. He said it was a "match-read" (I think) and explained it that the defensive backs read the routes and matchup based on that. Hence receivers will be open one second and not the next.

Is your post dripping with as much sarcasm as the original post?

I think you would be really shocked by (and have missed) what was and was not sarcastic in the OP.

Fair enough. I skimmed it.

Funny enough, when you google "best college football team of all time" and get to pages 5-10, you come across this thread as well as others on SECforum and Gamecock forums, all started at the earliest in December of 2009.

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Is your post dripping with as much sarcasm as the original post?

Wow. None of you guys (with the exception of irafreak, sort-of) even come close to seeing one of the most important factors in this: family history. Meyer has a family history of cardiac disease and the real problems he has stem from chest pain. This can directly be related to stress, yes, but is also significantly linked to genetics. That's why this is all such a huge deal, not because of how stressful college football coaching is for everyone.

Think about it, if it were really so incredibly stressful that it caused health problems more coaches would retire earlier and there would be more stories of health-problems.

Eric Martin. Hands down. When Carl Pelini responds to a question about whether he will start one day with "he will BE the defense..." its hard to ignore.

Quoted for truth, agreement, etc.

Herby was really only upset about 71 team beating the 04 USC team, after that, he was already just pissed so he decided to bash the others...and in the heat of the moment he said "01 miami and the 04 usc team were best in this"

 

if you rewind a bit he does say that he'd "take it" if it was 04 usc and 95 nebraska. Thats when blackledge is breakin it down.

 

either way it was a sour moment for herby, but I still think he's is top 3 if not the best guy at ESPN by some peoples standards.

I think the 83 team was the best but they never get the props. Fryar, Rozier and Gill, the triplets were pretty amazing. Steinkuhler was a top 3 pick too. If the USFL isn't around, Rozier, Fryar and Steinkuhler go 1, 2, 3. I don't think that has ever happened. Gill, according to Charlie McBride was the all time best at running the Husker offense.

 

They lost to Miami with Rozier getting hurt after the first half (165 yards) and Fryar dropping a sure TD!!!

 

They still should of won that game. Look at the highlights. 40 second mark, Rozier has a Bo moment and pill drives a defender 5 yards into the end zone.

 

I don't think this team is even mentioned in the top 50 all time.

 

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/83-huske...cid=VIDURVSPR06

 

I don't remember enough about the 70, 71 teams to know if they were better or not.

They're not mentioned because they barely had a defensive unit fielded. With an above-mediocre defense they never would have lost to Miami. They were also dubbed "The Scoring Explosion" because that's how they beat teams.

Does anyone have a link to the entire series of ESPN's Greatest Team of All Time? I've been looking for a while and can't seem to find anything other than the Herbstreit clip. I'd love to see the whole thing.

I thought Herbstreets biggest gripe wasn't the fact that the 95 team was in the final, it was because the 71 team had beaten teams he thinks they had no reason to beat. After that I think he was mostly anti-Nebraska no matter what.

He said the two best teams in there were the 2001 Hurricanes and the 2004 Trojans which, IIRC, came from different brackets. Nebraska 95 and 71 took them out, respectively, in those brackets.

Clearly it's cheerleading. They just need to step it up and give a greater all-around effort.

Les Miles in the background and the N on Bo's hat is backwards!! LSUFreek's got skillzz!

That's because he mirror-imaged the hat for the head move.

But shiv that thing never gets old! It just reeks of 'awesome.'

Herbstreit looks pretty bad when he questions whether the 95 Huskers played any tough competition.

 

That team was the best EVER, no doubt.

He looked like an idiot when he said that. If you're going to be the one questioning all the results, at least get your facts straight. Four top-ten teams in your schedule isn't exactly what constitutes a "lack of competition."

He also asks whether Nebraska threw the football in the 70s, yet was ok with dogging '71, too. I can see he's consciously giving more love to Nebraska because he has a full-on for Bo but he has historically hated Nebraska, much like Keith "Whoa Nelly!" Jackson and Brent My-Brain-is-Mush-berger.

Of course you root for your own conference. All that can do is help Neb. If Texas wins it all this year and then NU wins the big 12 next year, who do you think will get a ton of respect? On the other hand, if Texas gets spanked, NU will get much less respect even if they win the conference. Even if you hate Texas it would be wise to root for them...

you have to root for the big 12 in the NC game...even if it is texas.

No. No you don't.