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How about YOU knock it off!!!!! How about we don't make it personal.

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The press are big boys. They know what's going on, and they know what Bo is all about. If he's snippy with them, all the better - they just sell the "Bo is angry" line. If he gives them good info, fine, they run with that story. Any reporter worth his salt can make a story out of anything Bo gives them, whether that is full access or zero access. When Bo put the clamps on the press, did they stop writing Husker articles? No, they just wrote about the press ban. I get the whole gist of this thread, and kudos to you for getting two pages out of nothing, but the grown-ups know what's going on. Don't sweat it.

Wow, where were you during the 80s and 90s? Pretty much everyone on our coaching staff was dropping F Bombs on the sidelines - except TO, of course.

Sorry, but we have guys posting here who know more than some Rivals guy who watched Bo's presser from hundreds/thousands of miles away.

I don't know, i still say Kinnie did more of the work on that TD pass that Taylor did. I give Taylor the praise of completing a 20 something yard pass to the 2nd best reciever on the team against the 1st team defense, but i praise Kinnie more for staying on his feet and pushing his way into the endzone for the TD. Joking, sir. I was joking.

With our preseason ranking putting us into position, our defense keeping us in every game and our O Line (allegedly) improving enough to make the offense competitive, we actually have a shot at a MNC this year. I would be surprised if we put that shot in the hands of a redshirt freshman making the first starts of his career. If you're going to do that you have to be balls-out confident that this guy is so head-and-shoulders above the other guys on your team that he has to be in at QB. If Bo puts him in, he had better be sure.

Beast Mode... Beast Mode.... B. M. I've got it - Bowel Movement! Amirite?

I don't know, Taylor's a pretty good passer. Just look at this brilliant play he made in the Spring Game.

There weren't enough wins to keep Callahan around. Tom talked extensively about the health of the program once he was hired, and it absolutely wasn't what he wanted. The losses simply made it easier to fire the guy from a PR standpoint.

Modern Pizza was invented in Naples in the 1700s. Deep Dish pizza was invented by Rudy Malnati.

Willie, it's frustrating that you seem to know more than the average schmoe (like me) but can't disclose all you know. I respect that you don't, but sitting here waiting for something to happen, or to at least know what's going to happen, sucks.

You're probably right, but there shouldn't be any upset people here. The guy who starts is going to be the guy who impressed the coaches the most in practice. I would not say COACHES. I would say coach, but it is the only one that really matters. If Taylor starts, and it seems more and more likely he will, this is completely Bo's decision and his alone. Really gonna be one of the first major decisions Bo has made on his own that can affect his career for the good or the bad. Right, it's understood that the final decision is always Bo's, but he's not going to go into that decision without input from Watson and the rest of the staff.

Lee has been getting plenty of praise. Here's just one, the first one that popped into my head:

I can't fathom how anyone is picking Nebraska in the top five. It's like they didn't watch our offense at all last year, or maybe only watched the bowl game. We have SO MANY questions to answer on O that I can't take a top five ranking seriously at all.

Coaches make mistakes all the time. If it were me, knowing what I know and not watching practices, I'd start Lee for sure. But even knowing coaches can make mistakes (and having witnessed far too many of them over the past six years) I'm willing to believe that the guy who starts is the guy who's most likely to win us some football games.

There's a lot of solid reasoning here, but the one caveat I can come up with is that Martinez starting is a bigger story and sells more papers. That's pretty flimsy, so who knows. I can't wait for Saturday, too. Regardless of who runs out for that first series, I'll bet there's a pretty good ovation from the crowd. There are plenty of Lee Supporters, Green Supporters, and Martinez Supporters, plus a hefty portion of "I don't care who starts I just want the best player to play" people. I'm in the latter group.

You're probably right, but there shouldn't be any upset people here. The guy who starts is going to be the guy who impressed the coaches the most in practice. If that's Lee or Green or Martinez or Kellogg or Washington or Carnes, what's the difference? The people who are going to be upset about whichever quarterback starts are the people whose posts I'm most likely to ignore while reading threads. Just because you put a Husker t-shirt on your back doesn't mean you know what you're talking about.

Good point.

I know about TO's comments - I read the paper too. I just don't buy that wins and losses are the only reason Callahan was fired, just like I don't buy that Bo still needs to evaluate his QBs because he can't figure out who his starter is. There are things a program will state publicly that are palatable and convey the message that the program wants conveyed. These are not always the sum total of the facts, nor are they always truly factual to the situation.

I suppose I misspoke here. I prefer Chicago style of the two, but the reality is that I like both. I grill a mean New York style pizza, too. So it's not like I just do one or the other. I'm an equal opportunity pizza lover.

The full circle part of this is odd/weird/ironic. I didn't know that Bo was TO's second choice. Who was his first? Kelly? I don't know why TO picked Solich. Frank is a Husker to the core, always will be, but he never seemed like the right guy. It's too bad he ever got put into the position of being the Head Coach, because that was the decision that eventually led to his ouster from the program, and a "Husker Guy" like Solich shouldn't have been put in a position where he had to get fired like that. But the reality is that it wasn't working, for a lot of reasons, and Pederson was most definitely not willing to let it go until Frank figured it all out - if Frank figured it all out. I wonder about that Callahan stuff. I know next to nothing about his regime, or TO's actual factual reasons for letting him go, but it seems like the wins/losses thing was an excuse. I can't imagine Tom came in, saw the condition the program was in, and had any real thoughts of keeping Callahan on past 2007 regardless of wins/losses. It's convenient that Callahan lost the way he did, from a PR standpoint, but I have to figure he would have been gone no matter what. Callahan was just never a Husker Guy, not in any sense of the phrase. Frank was, but wasn't "Head Coach at Nebraska" material. Turner is, but I'm not sure he's "HC@N" material right now. I suppose I'm happy with Bo as HC right now, but all things considered, I'd rather not have gone through the Callahan Era to get here. Two mediocre seasons and two extremely embarrassing seasons just aren't worth this, nor is the end of the bowl streak, or any of the records we gave up.

Some of us know both, and that you're a little off in your assessment of Solich's performance at the helm. I didn't give an assessment. I gave factual statistics. If they are wrong, by all means correct them. The data isn't wrong, but your assessment of what that data means is not entirely correct. Wins/losses weren't all that was taken into account. That's all.

Well, you're gonna like what you like, and there's no changing your mind I guess. I absolutely love that recipe I just posted. In fact, I just finished off the last of the leftovers for lunch. Très fantastique!