kansas husker

Merry Christmas, hope all have a blessed holiday.

I don't mind Iowa as a rival, if they stay as good as they are right now it will turn into a very fun game. My only bugaboo about the game is that it needs to be on the friday after thanksgiving.

The actual scheme matters very little. What we need is a scheme that we can stik to. With T mart and the quarterbacks we have comming in I think we have it in the zone option.

There is a difference between running the zone read, and handing off the ball out of the shotgun. The past couple of years most of our plays that looked like a zone read, were actually a designed QB or RB run. The same thing is true with Cody or Zac in the game, and the same thing was true for the most part after Taylor got injured. So a lot of times when fans are saying things like he should have kept or given the ball, it actually was called that way, it wasn't the wrong read. I understand the difference between the zone read and a designed handoff. I just don't follow where people (mainly zoogies, I think) are saying that our offense was overhauled in the middle of fall camp. Don't know if overhaul is the best word for it, but a lot of changes were made to better fit T-Mart's skill set.

Its a bunch of crap about his mom getting a job there, but it happens in, all sports LJ at penn st chalmers at kansas in basketball. It will continue to happen untill the Ncaa makes a rule sbout it

Lol, "army truck ice cream POOP"

That would be awesome

This ranks up there with the E-Mart for QB. Good stuff thanks for posting 'sota

Good point Zoogies, if not this year he will be gone after next year, the way the fan base acts over the coordinators is insane, wanting to fire mcbride, now watson. Watson simply can't win no matter what he calls even when he puts up 20 aginst a good defense in OU he gets blamed. If I were him I would want out too.

He calls it the showtime kick and he practices it a lot. He also said he has ten more comming once tge merger goes through with the ufc

Nice wone MH after all the rumors I needed to feel the sigh of relief that I did upon opening this thread.

Dont remember the Garth rumor, but Im interested to see if this Cuban things pan out

So every other major and minor sport IN THE WORLD uses a farcical format to determine a champion, yet a popularity contest judged by some crunched numbers and a popularity contest is legitimate? Clearly we have different definitions of the words "farcical" and "legitimate." Ira, don't you get tired of seeing an undefeted team not playing for a national title? I hate the arguement that a playoff diminishes the regular season, teams would still play for higher seeds, to get into the playoffs. I don't see the nfl regular season as being deminished. As knapplc ssid every other sport inthe world useses a playoff system. I would love to see a +1 system started and eventualy eveolve into a full playoff.

Don't we have a member that works for Nike? I wouldn't minda switch, however the unis need to stay the same/similar. I believe the pro combat uniforms do have an actual advantage over the regular ones it has nothing to do with the color of or how they look the actual material has some advantages.

looks good cacti . I did register over there the one bit a feedback I coudl give is maybe a pinned intorduce yourself forum, like we have here.

So I'm not sure if it really applies to this thread or not, but I had a procedure today on my stomach. I have what is called gastidus(sp?) from gutting my chew. I am now on strict dr's orders not to gut my chew anymore. Also to anyone else who guts it I no longer reccomend it, that includes Bo. I've now been banned from spicy or greasy foods for two weeks. The only foods I eat are spicy greasy foods so it kind of sucks.

That band does know we no longer run the west coast right?

Yes! Another season of big game losses. I'm so geeked! Atleast it wont be with the same teams this year. Yes and that will be the excuse this next year if we fall to score a TD against Wisc, Ohio State, Michigan State, Penn State, and Iowa. "we havent played them before." Question, in the scenario that you give are we playing our 3rd string QB, who just came off a concusion? Then again bringing up the injuries is also an excuse. In fact if you mention any legit reason for the offensive struggles it is an excuse. The fact of the matter is last year Watson needed to be fired for being too conserivitve just playing field position and kicking field goals, this year he needs to be fired for taking risks when we are in field goal range.

Here's one scheme I saw for a 16 seed playoff. All 11 FBS conference get 1 automatic bid with the remaining 5 at large. Doesn't look like much of an improvement to me and so much of the excitement and drama of the regular season is robbed. You probably have to give up a CCG and 1 regular season game for this system. The top teams still cruise through Sun Belt, MAC, or C-USA teams first round and then play a few games that are CCG caliber anyway to get to the NCG. That playoff format is a farce. There is no way you're going to take ONLY the top teams from each conference. A 16-team format is the only way to go, with some poll mechanism being used to determine the teams. Yes, there will be griping from team #17, but the case for the 17th team is FAR worse than the case for the #3 team in the current format. Even in a plus-one format, the #5 team often has an argument as legitimate as team #4. As you go further down the polls those arguments lose legitimacy, making a 16-team format the ideal solution. A four-round playoff would not ruin the current format of games. You could start the last week of August, play your 12-week schedule, then have your playoffs. There is no reason to eliminate games, and the regular season's games do not become watered down because only slightly greater than 10% of your teams can actually make the playoffs. Yes, two teams will play a 16-game season, but that's only one game more than Villanova and Montana, the two teams in the D2 Finals last year, played. If we could break these ridiculous bowl game ties from these conferences we could have a playoff. It's simple, it's been done for years by D2, and it makes sense. Enough with the BCS. Enough. I'll disagree with knapp a little this format is ok, however it needs a lot of tweaking. Conf. usa, the MAC, and Sun Belt should not have automatic spots in the tourny. Alos I would say you add a minum reocrd lets just say 9-3 to get in. The more qualifcations, the more clear cut, the less contoversy. I'm afraid the point is moot, no matter what solution there will always be a new problem. This is the only level of footabll that does not have a playoff and no matter how good of systems that gets sugested it's probably going to stay that way for a long time to come.

So what your saying is that with Boise's schedule this year (which had maybe 1 hard game) should be ranked with the conferences that plays atleast 3 to 4 hard teams within their own conference let alone outside of theirs? Lets look at Boise, yes they beat VT, but that was it and then when they get to Nevada, they blow it (which Nevada isn't all that great, but there really the best they had in the match-up this year). No way should they be looked at IMO. Not only this, but when big names do try to play them, they coward out or ask for a ton of money that they don't deserve. Nebraska tried to play them and they said only if NU gives them $1 million and I believe if they play in Boise. They should be begging for the heavy hitters if they want to be considered instead of being comfortable at playing the nobodies. I can see why they aren't doing a play off system. IMO conferences would lose a ton of money. If they only went with an 8 team play-off, which 8 teams would you pick out of all the conferences? Hell you would have more arguments then you have now. The NFL does 10 and that is with just to conferences. As of now, you have a ton of teams playing in bowls and they all receive money. How would they distribute the money if say just the SEC and Big 10 (or however they would separate it) teams made it to the semis and bowl? Edit: didn't think I took 30 mins to type this and krill beat me to the money part. There are several ways to offest the money, you can stil have the lesser bowls in conjunction with the playoffs. I think the nfl style playoff with 12 teams would be a bit much. I like 8 to 10 with the number one and two seed gettig a first round bye. I think it would remove all doubt about a true champion. Bowls could play in the later rounds and select teams that have been eliminated, that way the schools that bring the most fans still mkae the most money. If you do the first two rounds at a home stadium it elimnates the problem of trvel for several weeks. ESpically if it is an 8 team playoff with a three round playoff.

at this point in the season I'm pretty happy with 8. It will be great to go into confrence play with only 2 losses.

Keeping in mind that no there sos is not as tough as a aq school. Boise and TCU both scheduled 2 aq teams on their schedule andin the case of Boise both of them were ranked. They did have a very tough non conferecne schedule. AS knap said if the choice comes down to only two temas than no they shouldn't get the shot over other undefeateds from major conferences, but the whole debate is why only limit it to two teams. An eight or even a six team playoff would put the debate to rest, make the arugement that one team will aloways be left out if you want but you just defending a crappy system.

funny you should mention that I thought exactly the same thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o02835c-_vI&feature=related

I want to go on record as vomiting at the sound of the division names. The logo will grow on me. I actually like the trophy names, I think its pretty cool that they pay omage to past big 10 legends.