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One of the Lincoln writers was saying Lavonte bulked up to 233 for the Combine, which may have cost him some speed. He played at 225 here at Nebraska.

Here's hoping your good friend is correct.

People support a winner, pretty simple. If the men's team starts winning, they'll get more support. But when the university itself doesn't care, there's no way the fans will. Nebraska is also a Volleyball school, and fan support here is among the best in the nation, with only Hawaii putting more butts in seats over the past decade than us (although look for that to change when the team moves to the Bob). We've had some awesome fan support for baseball when they were playing well, but the last few years have been pretty dismal, and support once again fell off. Football does reign supreme in Nebraska, and that's not likely to ever change. But other sports could make their own noise. As far as the site goes, we've had subforums for other sports (most notably Volleyball), but traffic to those other forum isn't always high, so when we redesigned the board a couple of years ago we axed the individual sports forums. Maybe if/when interest builds we'll bring them back.

Those freshmen are going to be pretty darned good in the next few years. Yori should be able to keep recruiting momentum going with the facilities she's recruiting to, with her resume, and with her track record of winning. The women's team is in pretty good shape right now.

I'm about 96.779% sure tschu was just kidding around, matthew. And whatever the motive for this thread, I'm not worried about playing any Big XII team. Bring 'em all on. We've beaten every one of them before and we'll do it again.

Out jumped is the wrong terms for his play, but his height does hurt him as we've seen a few times. The kid is an athletic beast, and he will show that at the combine lo was being facetious. Fonzie didn't get out-jumped by anyone.... well, except Alshon at the bowl game on that stupid Hail Mary. But pretty much every other time he beat his man.

Dude, you made the Scout Team. PM me with a number and I'll get you a jersey.

That was a heck of a game. After a late-season slide saw us lose four out of five, falling from #13 to #23, hosting #8 Ohio State wasn't going to be easy. Nobody told the Fightin' Yoris, though. Nebraska built a 15-point lead early in the second half behind Emily Cady's 24 (tied for career high), and finished with a 14-point win, 71-57. LINK

Mr. Hawks should have just joined HuskerBoard and posted that. Wouldn't have cost him a dime, and it would have the same impact on the Athletic Department. If, instead of writing checks to the Weird Harold he stopped writing checks to the Athletic Department Fund, that would have an impact. But this... not so much. I think he feels quite passionately about the University, and that's great. But when that passion leads you to say/do something like this, it's not so great. It's too much. Seems like:

Remember that big lead Santorum had about ten days ago? Gone. Santorum's lead disappears in national poll Seems like the easiest way to defeat Santorum is to give him a microphone.

Is Santorum trying to throw this thing? How do you say something like this and expect to be your party's nominee, let alone win the general election? LINK

Iowa Schmiowa. Just because we happen to share a border doesn't mean anything. We'll see who develops as a rival. The best rivalries evolve, they aren't fabricated. Anyone is fair game.

You mean at other Husker forums? Bo isn't an easy guy to get "in" with. But once you're in his trusted circle, he's staunchly loyal to you. Guys appreciate that.

DON'T. LIKE.

i say this without knowing anything about the financials behind scheduling teams like this (and this is clearly a hypothetical)...but my guess is these games cost us millions each season. Not only are we having to pay a team like this to come to Lincoln, but we are losing TV revenue when the game isn't on ABC/ESPN, stadium revenue, etc. Lets say, between everything this game...from a financial revenue standpoint yields $1 million less revenue than a game against a top 50ish team, and $1.5-2 million less than a top 25ish team. I don't think those numbers would be much of a stretch. Now lets say we go the route of the top 50ish team, and schedule Kansas or Cincinnati. We take the extra $1 million...divide it in half, add it to our current OC/DC salaries and pay $850,000 to each rock-star coordinator, two of the best in college football. I'm talking like Mattison/Malzahn type of guys...but to gain that we have to play a slightly tougher schedule against an opponent we might lose to 10% of the time versus 1% of the time. Would that be worth it? To me that extra million gets us more wins in conference play than it gets us by playing a cupcake. Nebraska makes money on these games. If they didn't, they wouldn't schedule them. Again, if every team that scheduled games like this lost money, nobody would do it. But everyone does it, all the time. That alone should tell you that the above explanation is incorrect. We didn't even do this when we were world-beaters back in the 90s, when nearly every game, unless it was a top-five opponent, was a guaranteed win. In 93 we played North Texas, Texas Tech, UCLA and Northern Colorado. In 94 we played West Virginia, Texas Tech, UCLA and Pacific In 95 we played Michigan State, Arizona State, Pacific and Washington State In 96 we played Michigan State, Arizona State and Colorado State In 97 we played Akron, Central Florida and Washington In 98 we played Louisiana Tech, Alabama-Birmingham, Cal and Washington In 99 we played Iowa, Cal and Southern Mississippi Through the heart of our best run ever, we played a patsy or two, a mediocre team and a decent team. We played four ranked teams in that span, Washington twice, West Virginia and Arizona State in 1996.

+1 to ZRod. The problem with people who dislike our scheduling is their threads almost always lack context. Every single D1 team schedules games like this. Nebraska is never going to stop scheduling Sun Belt teams or any other "weak" teams. Why should they? It's like taking a knife to a gunfight.

I believe they do, but I can't track it down in 30 seconds or less. Belichick was an assistant at New England from like 96-97, and Bo was an assistant there from 97-99, and then Bo left when Belichick took over for good in 1999. Someone with more knowledge or time will have to figure out if they coached together somewhere. I want to say they did, but I can't recall.

Mythological creature with the claws of a bear, body of a reptile, beak of a hawk and shell of a conch. You can always tell when an animal is made up because they borrow parts from other animals to create a new one. Except that already happens in real life. Whoever you got to photoshop this thing together made a mistake - that's clearly a duck's bill. Next you'll probably insist it's venomous and lays eggs (like a snake and a chicken). I am so on to you, X.

Mythological creature with the claws of a bear, body of a reptile, beak of a hawk and shell of a conch. You can always tell when an animal is made up because they borrow parts from other animals to create a new one.

I typically think of Spring Break when I think of Daytona. Not much of a racing fan.

Ah. Racing. Gotcha.

What's the Daytona Duel?

I think Bo knows best when it comes to scheme. Also the way our DL plays is what lets our coverage scheme be what it is, and Bo's coverage schemes are pretty much the best in the business. I think it is more of a matter of getting the right players in. And maybe lacking the right players, you should scrap everything and do something totally different, but generally, I think when you have a sound system, you develop for that system and make adjustments, minor, only when you have to. I agree that the DL had issues and that it all starts up front...although I also have to say, our secondary was really green last year, and they weren't very good. Big difference without guys like Haggs, Gomes. I would generally agree with you that Bo knows best, but the evidence over the last couple of years is all to the contrary. The myth of Bo's "Defensive Genius" status took a severe hit in my eyes over the last two years. Geniuses don't let their self-built defenses collapse like that.