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I for one am not taking Arizona lightly. Much like the Huskers they were a team that was thisclose to getting over the hump this season. As for how the teams match up, I don't think it favors you as much as you think. It's nice that you have a great pass defense, but it won't do you much good when your opponent passes on a third of their snaps or less. To stop Nebraska, you're going to be stopping the run. Nebraska's D has been excellent at taking away the short passing game this season. If you want to have real success passing against Nebraska, you're going to have to send guys across the middle and take shots down field. I do think this game is going to be a good one. Arizona is a really good team. Can't wait!

Haha. That's great, but it'd be perfect if you changed it to 'good source of vitamin D'.

Anyone else read TMQ? There are some pretty compelling arguments for punting less. Considering how great Lucky is catching out of the backfield, I would LOVE to see a lot of two-back formations, especially with Castille who is almost a FB/HB hybrid. There is so much you could do with those two on the field at the same time. Add Ganz in and think about it, you can basically run option, max protect, designed rb throws (screen, circle, wheel, etc.), make Lucky the default hot route, power runs, sweeps, traps, misdirections.... there is nothing you couldn't do out of a Lucky/Castille two-back formation except spread the defense, and even that you could do a little bit by putting Lucky in motion.

Damn, I need to get one of those jackets like yesterday.

I believe -- someone please correct me if this wrong -- that TO is allowed to keep recruiting up until the time that Bo's assistant coaching staff is completely assembled.

OK, if you were an LSU fan, how would you feel? if he was our DC and we were going to the NC game, how would you feel? try that shoe on for size.....then complain about it some more.....not me.....he has earned his chance to help his guys win it all! Yeah, well put. If we had a great season that put us in the National Championship due in large part to our Defense, and our DC was leaving, wouldn't we want the ENTIRE Nebraska Football squad to be apart of it. No chinks in the chain, we started this, we're finishing it. In the end, this isn't a big deal and could possibly lead to better things for us. This is the confidence booster that Pelini needs to show that it's on. The Huskers are coming! I would personally be disappointed in Bo if he DIDN'T go coach those kids in the NC game. He's been their DC for the past 3 years, and regardless of what apparently deranged LSU fans think, the D is the strength of that team. Bo hasn't even signed a contract with NU yet... most schools don't have their new coach yet, and many of them won't for weeks. Have some perspective, guys... Bo has actually come up here to get a jump on setting up a staff and recruiting before the dead period begins on the 17th. Why shouldn't he then go do the right thing and help those young men he has taught and worked with and cared for over the past 3 seasons take the final step towards the goal they've worked so hard to achieve? This is the National Championship we're talking about. Going back for that game shows loyalty and character and heart. I don't mind seeing those things in our new HC.

Gray is quoted on Rivals as saying ND was really always his #1 choice. If that's the case He probably would have decomitted anyway. looks like Cally never really had him. I think he's spinning it... word was awhile ago that he was so high on coming to NU that he was lobbying hard to get one of his HS teammates to commit here, too. Regardless... Rivals #4 RB in the country. As if Notre Dame's draft class wasn't stacked enough already. Btw, Rivals had Lucky as the #2 RB in his class, in case anyone's interested.

I remember hearing back before the start of the season that Witt looked better during his reps than both Keller and Ganz, so who knows...

No Way he would come to NU..at least i dont think so but who am i to say Yeah, he is probably the least likely current D-1 head coach to leave for Nebraska, short of maybe Joe Pa and Bob Stoops... As I said before, though, I wouldn't mind if they'd take a look at Meyer's long-time QBs coach and O-coordinator Dan Mullen.

Don't be so sure... Adi kicks a high perecentage of touchbacks, but to really have alot of touchbacks you have to have alot of kickoffs.

Far as I know, he's gonna be playing in the AAFL next spring.

Watch Florida play this year. I think you'll like what you see. Still Florida doesnt line up in power formations and run the triple option of old. Im saying we should run both the modern spread option as well as the old triple option out of power formation. But they will run plays with a QB, RB, and a 3rd back in motion to get a triple option look.

Option is a play name, and also more generally a term for an offensive system. Shotgun spread is a formation name and also used as term describing a larger offensive system. To talk about an option offense is just as legimate as talking about a shotgun spread offense, or a spread option offense, or a shotgun spread option offense, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

Watch Florida play this year. I think you'll like what you see.

Great post! I'll second that.

Yeah, everywhere you turn nowadays successful D-1 programs are running lots of option variations. Look at what Rodriguez and Meyer have accomplished over the past 6 or 7 years.

dear god man... TMI!!!!! What can I say? The heart wants what the heart wants. And mine wants Tim Tebow in a Nebraska uniform. Eric Crouch v2.0, with upgraded passing ability.

If it's the spread offense he's running, no thank you... What they run is the option. Predominantly out of the shotgun spread. Meyer's been running it for awhile and having amazing success with it.

Anyone know anything about Dan Mullen? He's young, was Urban Meyer's QBs coach in Bowling Green and Utah, and has been pulling double duty as QBs coach and offensive coordinator in Florida for the past 3 seasons. He's worked up some GREAT QBs in the past 5 years (Alex Smith, Chris Leak, my man-crush Tim Tebow). He obviously knows the shotgun spread option extremely well at this point, and can put some serious points on the board. I just don't know much else about him or if he's ready to take on his own program...

I think the Big 12 North is improving. You're right, that's probably part of it, but I guess we'll have to wait and see how NU fares against the rest of it's Big 12 schedule. All of those teams are looking pretty tough at the moment, aren't they?

You guys just got me thinking... Year 1: No Zac. BC's Husker's go 5-6 Year 2: Zac arrives, Skers go 8-4 Year 3: Zac = B12 off. player of the year, NU 9-3 Year 4: Zac is a grad assistant, NU goes 3-1, offense looks great vs. Nev, SC, and Ball St. Zac gets signed by Winnipeg, and BC's Huskers promptly go 1-2 and the wheels come off the offense vs. Mizzou and OSU.... Coincidence?!?!?!? NU w/ Zac: 20-8. NU w/o Zac: 6-8. EDIT: I guess technically it'd be NU w/ Zac: 20-10 once you include the B12 championship and Auburn games, but still...

Same coaches. For the most part, same players. A nearly identical schedule. Under those conditions, how do you go from being a competitive 9-3 team to a nearly unwatchable potential 6-6 or 5-7 (or maybe even 4-8...) team? This is not a rhetorical question... I'm actually wondering what is so different about this team less than a year after finishing 9-3 in the regular season. Are guys like Moore, Carriker, Bradley, Jackson, and Taylor really that hard to replace? I mean, not to take anything away from any of them, but I wouldn't have thought so, except for Carriker and maybe Taylor... Anyone want to jump in on this one? Please, just spare me the stuff about guts and a desire to win. I have no doubt that, at least before the train derailed, this team had plenty of both. They displayed it last year, and there wasn't too much turnover this offseason. So step back for a minute from the wild emotional rollercoaster ride that is the 2007 season so far, and tell me: what is so different this year?

I can't give you a verbatim quote, but in the post-game show Callahan came right out and said he was running it in order to keep the defense from being out on the field all day, since the D was getting killed on 3rd down and couldn't get off the field. Not his exact words, but close enough.

Well, it sounds pretty hopeless, there is nothing anybody can do to slow down the juggernaut that is the Missouri offense. It's like facing 300 Spartans, the 187 soldiers at the Alamo, and the Indianapolis Colts, all rolled into one team of 11 godlike beasts donning black and gold uniforms. You expect DCKC to come up with a plan to stop That Which Cannot Be Stopped? That would require 1,000,000 men, and half of them would die during the battle. Well, either 1,000,000 men, or a defensive game plan worth a crap.