Cy the Cyclone

I saw this thread and I started thinking about the first and only time I talked to Tom Osborne. When I was a freshman at UNL (Fall 1997) I went to pick up my student tickets. Considering before I was a student I saw only four games at Memorial Stadium.

 

Anyway after recieving my tickets I was in awe. I remember just staring at all my tickets and I was so excited I turned around really fast and there was Tom Osborne. I turned so fast I about knocked him over and I our faces were less than an inch apart. I felt like such an idiot. But, at least I stopped him from falling down. I appologized and he just looked down and saw my tickets. He must have known that I was so excited because he chuckled and said don't worry about it and enjoy the tickets.

 

Any way it was funny.

 

Later on in life when I first moved to California and I bought my first surf board I forgot surf wax at this place in Malibu, CA and I pulled the same move and did the same exact thing to Gabrielle Reese the professional sand volley ball player. I about face planted her too, she just laughed at me also.

So the point is...people associated with great athleticism laugh at you?

Scott Frost is my favorite. I loved the way he played with such passion and I'll always remember the speech he gave that helped get us the National Championship.

 

I hope one day he is once again at NU as a coach.

Scott's doing a nice job over at UNI right now. Farley won't be letting him go any time soon. Funny though, you could probably get the entire UNI coaching staff including Frost for what you're paying BC a year and have a better season to boot!

Oh..and I also was a fan of Jeff Kinney. Another back with a lot of heart and determination.

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LeRoy Semon!

...just kiddin...

Greg Pruitt!

Okay...John Dutton then.

 

Well here we go, a topic on JRIB is who has sunk lower Nebraska or Notre Dame? Romie and T. Moore are pitching ND and Tom Friend thinks its Nebraska. Loosing 10 of 11 obviously says its ND and especially since their last loss was to the Naval Academy. Nothing against the Navy. One point Friend made was that Calli's Raiders gave up on him his last year in Oakland and now there is a repeat performance in Lincoln. The house cleaning begins the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I for one will be washing down the loeftovers with Red Beer as soon as I hear the news.

 

...T_O_B

 

 

 

You must be a winner, you can't even spell loser!!

 

 

 

Yeah, I graduated from Iowa State.

 

Get a life, you know what I ment.

 

...T_O_B

 

Quit trying to be clever...it's not your strong suit.

After careful consideration, I would like to change my vote...to Minnesota.

I'll wait till I see how they do against each other in the bowl game to decide for sure...probably Notre Dame though...damn Catholics

Iowa State...

On behalf of Cyclone Nation may I say....We are NOT amused

Offense - Misdirection and traps. KSU is fast and overcommits. The rollout screen to the opposite side ate them up last week. The middle of their D-line is gone now so pounding the ball up the middle should also be effective. Hitch and go routes to the outside receivers in the passing game. KSU corners bite on the hitch every time and can get beat deep. I wouldn't even mess with the quick hitters in the passing game...the linebackers cover pretty well. Go deep with it. Sweeps, pitches and anything outside tends to not work. KSU is fast enough to spread that out for little or no gain though an ocassional play-action bootleg seems to catch them off guard.

Defense - Set up a backer as a spy on Nelson. Freeman doesn't yet seem to have the ability to look over more than one or two passing options, especially if there is some pressure on him and usually targets Nelson from the beginning. Occasionally he will check back to Gonzolas but he's not really a game breaker so no big threat. Use four down linemen for pressure with a minimum of blitzing, some stunts with the d-line might be effective. The running game looks to be average. If you can control the interior line you should be able to shut that down easily enough. The big thing is pressure and containment on Freeman from the start. He'll wilt if he's hit enough times

Special Teams - KSU has a reputation this year for taking it to the house. If the special teams falter and they rip off some good returns, it's going to be a long day. These guys need to go down field and hit people...hard!

First of all...quit dissing my Clones. We did you a favor knocking two of their starting defensive linemen out for the game this week for you. Now you're free to pound the run up the middle all day long. Also showed your coaches the most effective way of stopping the Jordy Nelson Offen..uh...I mean the KSU offense. Other than sending you Chizek's game plan (and possibily loaning you Bolt and Koonz to implement it) I don't know what more we can do for you.

Now...if you don't knock it off and start giving some respect to the Clones, we won't humiliate the Buffalos this weekend and you'll have to play them at full strength in two weeks instead of facing a bunch of demoralized cripples like we're handing to you for this Saturday's game.

That being said, I hate for all of our effort against KSU to go to waste so I'm thinking Nebraska should be able to take out KSU by at least 10 points and then clean up on the Buffalos by about the same margin (depending on the state of collapse ISU leaves them in on this Saturday) and finish up with a mediocre 6-6 record and an invitation to the Humanitarian Bowl or IHOP Bowl or some other rinky dink bowl which you should, in graditude, accept only with the stipulation that ISU can go and play in your place while you take advantage of those extra weeks of practice bowl teams get after the regular season so your players will have time to adjust to your new coaching staff

He said NO! KSU has mailed it in this year and he wouldn't drive across the street to see them play again this year. He said they QUIT at ISU.

 

So, I am hopeful as he is right a lot more times than he's shared bad predictions with me.

That's total crap. KSU got their butts beat by ISU fair and square and now they're whining like the big pussies that they are. They were out coached, out played and out scored. Come on...does a team really QUIT when they're facing a 1-7 team? Bunch of pussies....

If NU can't beat this bunch of whiners then I'll...I'll...uh...well, I guess I'll take a lot of crap for wearing my Nebraska gear around Ames just like I have since the Big 12 opener *sigh*

On a happier note: I am meeting lots of new people since it seems folks go out of their way to tell me what a crappy season I'm having.

Went to the ISU game in Ames in '03 I think, they beat us, my 8 yr old son and I who are Huskers along with my Hubby who is a Clone were walking out. Some drunk sob got in my 8 yr olds face and called him a loser. Needless to say my hubby had a chat with the gentlemen while he was holding him off the ground, while other ISU fans, that were very nice helped my son and myself out the gates to wait by security.

Your "hubby" still owes me for the buttons he ripped off my shirt

And I didn't say your kid was a "loser"...I actually said "Good game to you sir"...it just came out kind of...uh...slurry.

We have 2 games left. Considering KState just lost to Iowa State, I think our odds are good especially since the game is at home.

If you're basing your thinking on ISU playing like some bad high school team you better take another look. The Cyclones are playing some good defense and, aside from a couple of blown coverages on Jordy Nelson, looked a lot like a real college football team against KSU on Saturday. They stuffed the run, forced some turnovers and put good pressure on Freeman, getting a couple of sacks and keeping him from checking off from Nelson to any of his other receivers. The offense ran a lot of trap and misdirection at the KSU defense, using their quickness against them. They also grabbed a couple of long gains off of Blythe hitch and go routes up the sideline. The ISU line dominated the KSU defense in the first half and kept Myer and Arnoud from getting pressured.

ISU actually seems to be improving over the season. I wouldn't base my chance of winning against KSU on their showing against the Cyclones. They were definately outcoached and outhustled by a better prepared team.

tearing down goal posts is what other schools do. your goal posts are safe.

 

In order to tear down the goal posts, you have to be able to get into the end zone...so yeah, your goal posts are safe...at least until the fourth quarter when the game has usually been out of reach.

 

Get your jabs in while you can, wee man. But just beware of what you say because Nebraska is still Nebraska, which means we know we'll get a great coach to come in here and turn things around. The only question is how long it will take. So don't think that Husker Nation isn't taking every comment into its elephantine memory, which we will use as feul, ala the Patriots, when we embarrass all of you by stuffing that extra "eff you" TD down your throat with our fullback with :15 seconds left in the game when we're already up 52-6. So please, keep it coming.

Just having some fun with you all. I've been a fan of the Huskers since the 70's and I'm taking as much crap about them up here this year as everybody else is. Can't help but like the Cyclones though...no matter how long the odds are, the fans still show up in droves and are either delusional or drunk enough to think they stand a chance of winning. Gotta love a team and fans that know they suck but are going to have a great time upholding their "suckiest" reputation.

tearing down goal posts is what other schools do. your goal posts are safe.

 

In order to tear down the goal posts, you have to be able to get into the end zone...so yeah, your goal posts are safe...at least until the fourth quarter when the game has usually been out of reach.

 

You certainly would be the expert on offenses not reaching the endzone

We can reach it easy enough...we just have trouble getting into it once we have reached it.

tearing down goal posts is what other schools do. your goal posts are safe.

In order to tear down the goal posts, you have to be able to get into the end zone...so yeah, your goal posts are safe...at least until the fourth quarter when the game has usually been out of reach.

Considering my team...who cares?

Wow...it took these statistics to realize how really bad the defense is:

Rushing Defense

Nebraska - 119th

Iowa State - 42nd

Passing Defense

Nebraska - 63rd

Iowa State - 74th

Total Defense

Nebraska - 107th

Iowa State - 49th

Sacks

Nebraska - 112th

Iowa State - 75th

Tackles for Lose

Nebraska - 93rd

Iowa State - 86th

It gets even worse when you realize those numbers even relect the totals from ISU's 5 game death march through Nebraska, Texas Tech, Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri.

And you guys complain about becoming "Iowa State West"??? Looks like it's something you should aspire to...not complain about. And if an ISU guy can comment on how bad your defense is...you know it blows.

UNO? West Texas? Man...what have you guys been drinking cuz I want some! If you're going to dip down into the DII schools you go for Mark Farley

51-24 since 2003

2005 Guided UNI to First-Ever National Title Game

2005 Northwest Region Coach of the Year (Football Gazette)

2001 AFCA NCAA I-AA Region 4 Coach of Year *

001 Gateway Bruce Craddock Coach of the Year

Placed 3rd in 2001 Eddie Robinson Award balloting

Placed 10th in 2003 Eddie Robinson Award balloting

Placed 15th in 2005 Eddie Robinson Award balloting

Best record (11-3) of all Gateway Conference rookie coaches

Three Gateway conference titles (outright or shared) in 4 years

#1 D-II team in the nation right now.

UNO? That's a card game for kids.

"A friend of mine said it well, at this point we are really just "Iowa State West."

We are not amused....

I wear my Husker gear to all the ISU football games. I take a little crap, but not much since the average ISU fan hasn't reached N in the alphabet yet.

Hawkeye fans used to give me more trouble but considering that they suck in one of the pussiest conferences in college football (Big 10...give me a break...) and that even ISU beat them, I don't have to take them too seriously.

Anyway, my Nebraska jacket is the only one I have (except for the ugly UAB jacket my sister sent me) so to put away my Husker pride is not an option. For me, it actually IS a matter of life and death (freezing to death that is...)

Come basketball season though...I'll be wearing my ISU sweatshirt because, frankly, Cornhusker basketball has always sucked.

I heard John Dutton was going to come back and kick everyone's ass...and he's bringing Willie Harper and Monte Johnson with him!

Actually, they've been laughing pretty hard about the Huskers here in Ames. We may be bad but...we already knew that.

Plus our coach has potential

Keep those transfers coming!!!

Dan McCarney with Steve Loney as his OC.

And for the guy who says Husker fans are being too hard on BC. Try being a Husker fan in Ames...The Cyclowns may suck but all they have to do is look up and guess who they see heading down to join them in the mythical land of the Big 12 Cellar Dwellers?

You should have taken McCarney when he was available. He had a good run as HC with ISU with a miserable lack of talented personnel. Think what he could do if he actually had real football players to work with...as he seems to have in Florida. Still, he would probably be better suited as a DC.

Mark Farley? Good succesful coach who has proven himself in I-AA. Beats Big 10 and Big 12 schools pretty consistently. Seems to recruit well and has Big 12 experience under Terry Allen when he was at Kansas. Maybe a good darkhorse candidate?