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100% agree. Well, accept that imo Barfey is the truly ultimate bottom of the barrel. That dude is the absolute last nimrod I would ever read. Even Dirk is a notch above him.

SRex is just magic for getting positive yardage despite having to break one or two tackles behind the LOS several times every game. Nobody else we've seen so far could have even remotely hacked that. No, the guy isn't an LP, Rozier, DuBose, etc but he brings his own special asset to the table every game.

My first thought, without know how Cross runs, is that he's shorter and stockier than LP. But when I looked it up Cross is 6'1" and LP only 6'0". And Cross packs on a bit more muscle than Lawrence ever did. If Cross turns out to be the runner that LP was it'd be a dream come true. Lawrence Phillips was the best I-back I've seen. At NU anyway. Me too. LP was easily the best rb I've ever seen at NU.

I'm with you. This Arkansas State team is much better than the last one that came to Lincoln. Nebraska will still win it, but it'll be close enough that Huskerboard will be temporarily infested with debbie downers. Temporarily? You know the season will NEVER live up to the hype. Besides...I kinda like the debbie downer meltdowns. Makes Huskerboard more diverse. Sometimes even join in myself. You beat me to it. "Temporarily"? Lol! Oh yeah, the meltdowns are truly epic as everybody (including yours truly) have 30 or so beers in them and there's little to no restraint in comments whatsoever. Huskerboard is never boring!

I think you're right, that's how it will play out. But I'd rather see our younger guys get more reps in the non-conf games. Keep Rex from getting too beat up before we head into the conf sched. But I doubt this happens. I actually think we are gonna try and keep Rex on a carry count. Maybe around 20-25 a game. An if TM is a vastly improved passer, that should cut his carries down to around 10. And there could be another 20- 25 carries left to spread out based on 80 offensive plays that our staff would like to reach per game. Hopefully we build nice leads and can use all our backups in the fourth quarters! won't even be close. Oregon was at 72 last year. I think Oklahoma was highest with maybe 76. I'd say 70 would be a high target. 25 pass attempts 13 martinez carries (including sacks). 22 burkhead carries. realistically leaves about 15-20 for Kenney Bell/Turner around the end, another back, or our 3-4 center-qb exchange fumbles per game. Geeesh Chris......3 or 4 center-qb fumbles a game?

Best scenario 9 - 4?

I'm assuming you meant unless it does occur. Speak for yourself, please. "We all" do not agree that Nebraska needs "massive" improvement this year. We need minor improvement to be a 10 or 11 win team. In fact, even if our record doesn't improve one bit, I still don't agree on this "rocky period" of yours. (We have way too many doom and gloom fans). Exactly. Whining & bitching that we're "only" winning 9 or 10 games a year immediately after the Callahan nightmare is laughable. Also, it's not Pedeyshine running the show now. Zero chance TO will do something as crazy as firing Bo for "only" winning 9 or 10 games. The internet genius crowd demands it (just like 2003), but unlike them TO isn't stupid. Lol! Demanding "massive improvement" from 9 or 10 wins. Haha.....

I would have argued we were the fastest team in the B1G last year, and it didn't do a whole lot for us. If a more attacking defensive produces better results for us overall, I'm fine with getting burnt by the occasional screen play. Absolutely. I'm fine with occasionally giving up a big play for getting more big plays defensively, more 3 & outs & having a chance of stopping running qbs.

Pre-Snap kicks ass & takes names.

Tom kept the train rolling. Bo is trying to rebuild the entire rail line from scratch. Have people forgotten? The four years prior to Dr. Tom taking the helm Nebraska went: 1968-1971: 39-6-1 with back-to-back national championships in the final two years The four years prior to Bo taking the helm Nebraska went: 2004-2007: 27-22, not even going to a bowl game two of the last three years Nobody disputes that Dr. Tom is a genius, and nobody disputes that Bo's rebuilding project is taking longer than anticipated. But let's not pretend that they inherited similar programs. Tom got a Ferrari. Bo got a parts car on blocks. Really? I didn't know one of the most dominant Blackshirt defenses ever assembled is considered "parts car on blocks". Pelini inherited plenty of underachieving talent that he got to work on, and yes, he got them playing great. But what now? We have regressed since '09. At 5 years, I think we can stop talking about what Pelini inherited as a valid excuse. Time to be a realist. Lol!

WooHOO!! Sounds good to me!

Everybody beat Clownahan.

I'm curious if you can find 61 passes that receives didn't catch which hit them in the hands. And I mean hit them in the hands, not they had to fall over backwards or lay out into the field just to get a swipe at it. I'm also curious if you apply this standard to every passer in the NCAA, what a "good completion %" would then be. I'm curious what excuses you have for our wrs dropping Tmart/Lee passes all over the field the last three years? I would think even the most casual NU cfb fan could see the night & day difference between 2008's Swift/Peterson and what we've had on the field since.

Yep.

There's no denying Fisher's run defense was horrid last year. However, his pass coverage seemed pretty good to me the best I could tell. If he can continue to rebound from that brutal injury I would think his run support might come along just fine. Here's hoping anyways.....

The conjecture that he has no idea what he is doing is just that...pure conjecture and misinformation. He's a solid coach, a standup guy, and I think we'll be just fine with him where he is. Bill Callahan took the raiders to the super bowl, the SUPER BOWL!! He must be a solid coach. The NFL and cfb are two totally different animals. You'll figure that out someday.

I don't get it. Why is this hard to believe? Did Martin get more than a few special packages last year? Has he ever shown anything more than some nice energy on the field, particularly in ST? I know he is a fan favorite and for a good reason, but I did not think he was an expected starter. At the very least the competition for that other DE spots should be plentiful. I can't believe you're asking this. Well, anyways.....Caveman hasn't played much but when he has the attempt to attack is fully there. I can't say that about "any" other DE we have.

He didn't 'quit'. His girlfriend made him redefine his geographical life position. Big difference. Good point and I stand most humbly corrected.

I just can't believe so many are so excited about returning to fluffball the way our wrs have dropped passes everywhere the last three years. Oh well.....we'll see.

I just can't believe Caveman won't be the starter. We want Pressure? Get him on the field.

That's a hell of a thing to say but you just might be right.

That's right SkersRule. Most posters here think all an OLine coach has to do @ NU is wave the magic wand and....."presto".....we're hardcore road-graders. They simply can't grasp that it's not that easy under the circumstances. 1. 2008....after 4 years of Callahan fluffball, any remote resemblance to Uncle Milt's Olines was pure imaginary, dream-bubble fantasy world. Oh, we could rack up big numbers at garbage time to pump up the stats but vs any decent defense that still had their starters on the field it was stuffed sardines time. Barney inherited a used Pinto with no transmission, a bad front end & four flat tires. 2. I'm not going to bother with looking up the numbers again as haters gotta hate and it will just be ignored but Bo's recruiting at the Oline position was horrible his first two years. Yes, that's right...."horrible". I think the first year was a mulligan due to the chaos of the Clownahan firing but year two was on Bo. It takes time to build talent and depth on an OLine and those two years didn't help one iota. 3. Barney for three years took his marching orders from Callawatts, who changed our offense endlessly every five minutes and to say the least was no advocate of smashmouth whatsoever. He was a fluffball guy which is just fine but NU wasn't going to maul defenses with savage pounding and didn't. To assume Uncle Milt or anybody could have built a pancaking Oline under a wildly changing offense, with little recruiting talent, no identity or the absolutely needed reps is just whistling in the dark. Starting this year, Barney/Stai/Garrison should finally have some depth & talent on the Oline "and" hopefully a coherent offensive scheme from year two of Beck as OC. It's easy as pie to look at our marginal Oline performances the last eight years and simply blame it all on Barney. Simple. Easy. So that's how it goes.

Not me. That sorry POS needs to be canned yesterday and Moore needs to grow a set And yet another reasonable, rational, and compelling diatribe from the herp derp fire Barney crowd. I'm probably going to regret this, but why exactly should Barney be fired? Because the same internet genius crowd that demanded we fire Frank/Bo for "only" going 10 - 3 (bringing in the glorious Callahan era) now demands a new sacrifice as a token to their overwhelming, infallible judgement.

C'mon Moiraine......not funny!

So, you "know" Barney Cotton is a contributing factor due to internet rumors. Riiiiiiight. Oh yeah, I'm convinced now too.