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Some folks are never happy. Yea, the guy is a little over the top sometimes. Who cares??? TO never got emotional. He left that to the assistants. Keep it up BO! What is he supposed to do whisper for fear of hurting someone's feelings. Give me a break...fight for your team....strap it up.....and get them right. If you want him to keep his composure, maybe he should coach golf.

I agree 100%. It's all about fundamentals. Blocking and tackling. We see all these glorified offenses, and think this is the next "big thing". Spread reminds me of how people reacted to the run and shoot. We saw what happened. Defenses adapted, and well.....you don't hear about it anymore. All you need to be is fundamentally sound. I remember how people were complaining about Frazier not being able to pass. Remember, Florida was supposed to score all over us with the Fun n Gun bs!!! We lined up, blitzed when we needed and the rest is history. Just because you have the best athletes doesn't necessarily mean championships. Hell, look at Miami, they have by far the best athletes out and they are struggling. It takes coaching and fundamentals. Now, are we going to get back to the team of the 90's. I don't see why not. How many times did you hear about the demise of OU before stoops?? I remember how bad SC was before Caroll. Doormats!!!! It doesn't take much to get back on track. It just shows how much we slipped under last staff. We show glimpses of being a good, solid team. But, look at our loses. VTech, 3rd and long...oopps penalty. Maybe we win. Tech, ganz throws a pick, instead of throwing out of bonds.....fundamentals. Throw it away. Heck look at Baylor. If glenn doesn't make those penalties, you can take away 100 yds of offense for Baylor. But that's part of the game. There isn't a magic bullet. It comes down to fundamentals. Trust me, the less mistakes we make, the more we win. This team could win out. I am not sipping kool-aid. If we can go into lubbock and damn near shock the world, we are capable of winning out. This team can succeed. Just make sure our secondary doesn't get caught on double moves...then we will be in trouble!! One final question.......Does any think Asante should move to LB?? I mean a hybrid linebacker/db. This guy plays better closer to the line. Since dillard is out, it might make sense. I don't know..just a thought.

Ok....now that we are midway through the season I thought I would take this time to apologize to my beloved Huskers. I, for many years have been spoiled with power football and dominating defenses. After so long, you come to expect it. However, in light of recent events (i.e. callahan era), I have to take a step back and grasp reality. In other words, we aren't there yet. No matter how badly I want this team to dominate, we simply aren't there. I was hoping with all the hype of these so called "5-star" athletes, if we could get the right coach in place, we could be a force to be reckoned with. I was wrong. Something that is painfully obvious is the fact that we turned into a finesse team offensively, and a read and react team defensively. Agree or not, that is what happened under the last staff. Now, we are an attacking defense, or at least we try to be, but we don't have that type of athlete. So it will take us a little bit of time to change that. On offense, I have gotten really tired of all this damn passing. These quick passes to the sideline and hoping are receivers can create space scares the crap out of me. I am just waiting for some corner to jump the route and take it the other way. Watson is a good coordinator, but we need more smash mouth. I am sorry, that is what we need to do. Get back to basics. Lucky is a good back. Not a power back, but a good back. We have guys who can catch the ball out of the backfield. Looks good on paper, but what ever happened to backs who could run downhill??? Do we have fullbacks??? I swear, give me a decent qb who can pass occassionally, and a solid o-line, I'll get you 8-9 wins. Period. You don't need to have all-americans across the o-line, just some guys who can lean on you and have good feet. Defensively, we busts assignments all day long. That's ok, I can deal with that. If the effort is there, I can handle busts. Glenn struggled yesterday. We all know that. Pelini will correct his mistakes. I just can't help but think how much better we look on defense in comparison to last year. Yes, I am willing to admit that I have been very hard on this team. I have piled on just like everyone else. I have played and watched football for many years, and what I see is a stark comparison to last year. Remember running the 3-3-5 against tech?? Now the guys are flying around, albeit, out of position sometimes, but flying around. So with that being said, I would rather have folks flying to the ball as opposed to reading and then reacting. Again, just my thoughts. I have seen posts where people are "ashamed" to be husker fans. Or, "this team is undisciplined", and a lot of other bs. You all are entitled to your opinion. But I would challenge you all with this.......with the ENTIRE nation bashing us week end and week out and the tremendous challenges the program has faced over the past 5 years (i.e. streaks ending, defense crumbling), can't we just take the positive, move on???? Trust me, some of those players read this board. Haven't they been beaten up enough?? If I could, I would strap it up one more time for the big red machine. But, the only way I can show my support is through donations, flying the colors and standing up for the team even in the face of adversity. Just be patient with the staff and the players. Trust me, we will get this train back on track. In the meantime, do your best to show our team support. As of today, I will no longer bash the team via posts. I will get frustrated, but no more bashing from me. I am done. I will constructively criticize. But to say someone is an idiot, or personally attack them I think is counterproductive. Too many armchair qb's who have never played football at this level. Take a look around the nation. There are busts, missed tackles and penalties everywhere. Why are we so different? Again, my thoughts.

Well, it wasn't pretty

Paul Johnson 6-1 Pelini 4-3

Jesus...we weren't even ready for that play. we had folks turned around looking for the call.Dammit!!!!

What was that......we didn't make that

I hate that play. I really do

Middle screen....beautiful cut to the outside to avoid tackler......race to the endzone.....corner had angle on him.

Safewty

wow!!!!!!!

Easy Ganz

woohooo!!!!

HOLDING DAMMITTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These damn refs

Boom....big hit on texas!!! wow

okie state's defense is fast.

Ouch!

I'M A MAN......I'M 40!!!

What did I just say???? He sets his feet, he is money. Perfect pass.

He isn't setting his feet.

Geez, going from versus to HD. I almost fainted. Eyes wouldn't focus. GBR!!!!!!

Okie State and Texas bout to lock up

I concur

Now dats what I'm talking about!!!!!! Dialing up the pepper!!!

Calm down coach...jesus!