knapplc

If so it'll come down to coaching.

I just ran into Kaitlynn at the grocery store. I was standing behind her in a really, really slow line. We talked for a while about her situation, the team this year, Nebraska weather - just general stuff. She's yet another really nice athlete I've met recently, another great example of the kinds of kids we want representing the Huskers.

I keep forgetting to post this. Last week I was walking by the stadium and there was a crew drilling into the dirt about 30 feet from the East Stadium's outer wall. I asked the guy what they were doing and he said they were testing to see how far down the bedrock was. I asked him if that was for expansion of the East Stadium and he said, "Probably."

It's Bleacher Report. It's a blog. It holds as much water as a sieve.

They've almost got the new trophy case finished. Walked past it at noon on my daily campus walk, and they've got everything in there except the National Championship trophies. It's a nice display.

Best article by Forde I've read in a while, but he couldn't resist continually linking the second put back on the clock with Nebraska's decision to leave. He minimized the real reason (academics) and he minimized Nebraska's impact on the BTN. But those are small gripes. Overall, good article.

He's gotta catch on somewhere. The guy is just a gamer. Gritty, determined, all the things you would want in a DB. He also just happens to be a damned fine tackler, and he spent a lot of time around the ball last season, much to the chagrin of ballcarriers.

Why Martinez over Green? I might probably agree with you, just wondering what your reasoning is. I'm really on the fence on this.

Last reminder. Let's keep it cool, all right folks? No personal attacks, no craziness. Please, for your best buddy knapplc? OK?

We're going to take a breather from the really partisan discussions in here, OK? Let's wait until next year to start drawing battle lines. It's kind of nice to be on good terms with fan bases from a whole conference for once. It'll end soon enough when the chinstraps get tightened, so let's enjoy it while we can. And certainly let's not spill milk over a rumor. Of all things to get into a discussion about, this is the least meritorious.

I'll just about guarantee it. Michigan didn't become the winningest college football team of all time by accident. They have a huge fan base. They have boosters up the wazoo, with money up the wazoo. They have a huge, great, destination school. They have tradition that 95% of all college football teams can only dream of having. They are among the elite for a reason, and one or two bad coaches in a row isn't going to be enough to keep them down. It would take generations of horrific play to fully dampen the ardor from Ann Arbor. We saw this stumble with Nebraska. We saw it with Oklahoma. We saw it with USC. We saw it with Miami. We saw it with Alabama. We saw it with any one of another ten schools, just like we're seeing it right now with Notre Dame and Michigan, but I will double-dog guarantee you that both Notre Dame and Michigan are going to rise up again. Gonna happen, not a doubt in my mind.

Holy Cow! MAN, did I have a crush on her when I was a young'un.

Yep. Bo posts once in a blue moon on Twitter. He's no FakeTomOsborne.

The 'problem' is explained by this guy: A Buckeye The problem with this is you're talking to a fan base who had their best game of the year taken away entirely, not just moved to a different day. You're not going to get a lot of sympathy here.

I think all anyone has been asking you for this whole time is, who is that QB, and on what do you base that "upside?" I would say any of the QB's might have a better upside then the one that struggles to score one td a game, or is that the high water mark for this offense? What are you afraid of that they might score more then one td? The fact is that we know Lee's basement. We have no idea what TMart's or Green's basement is. What if these guys come in with their zero game experience and score one field goal per game? You have no idea that they'll be better than a second-year starter. You're willing to risk an entire season's worth of 2009 ISU games because Lee had one. "Might" might be worse.

Is that all you people have? Fat jokes? Boring!

Remember the lesson of DeJon Gomes. Gomes didn't start until after the Missouri game, but he became one of our better defenders as the season went on. Maybe our QB isn't Lee, maybe he's just starting until someone takes his place. Maybe it's TMart, maybe Green comes on strong, maybe LaTravis Washington is the secret weapon that the coaches aren't even talking about. You just never, ever know.

I think all anyone has been asking you for this whole time is, who is that QB, and on what do you base that "upside?"

What am I missing here? He said Michigan and OSU would play every year. What's the issue?

It is now 40% to 37%. The OSU guy has gotten a ton of votes recently.

I thought y'all still referred to it as The War of Northern Aggression? Be truthful, now.

Before the hubbub gets out of control, I doubt we can read much into the use of the word "Blackshirts" since this was a JournalStar article. Also, after going to SAC's website, it appears that the Blackshirts will actually be former members of the team, not current. Nobody is really specific, but I think current team members will be a little too busy to attend.

Niles Paul - 6'1" 220lb Brandon Kinnie - 6'3" 220lb Mike McNeill - 6'4" 235lb Kyler Reed (TE) - 6'3" 230lb Yep, that's a bunch of muscle on the outside.

Nobody is "anointing" Lee anything. If he doesn't earn it out of camp, too bad. If he does earn the starting gig, likely he'll have done it based on his season of experience leading the offense, something none of the other candidates has. If, with that year of experience, he's beaten out by Green or Martinez, that clearly means he's not good enough to hold the job, and I'm totally cool with that. If we're looking for Bo to name a starter at this point in camp we may as well spend our time searching for a reasonable K-State fan. We'll just as much luck doing that as getting anything concrete out of Bo's mouth concerning QBs.

That is exactly my point. I don't get the need to trash our guy in favor of more of our guys who we know next to nothing about. What do we know about Cody Green? He can beat Baylor and he looked way over his head against Oklahoma, and he was fine in mop-up duty against the rest. He was a true Freshman and shouldn't be expected to be anything other than that - but nothing we saw last year makes him any better than Lee, and likely he would be a step down. We know absolutely nothing about Taylor Martinez except that he was impressive in a game-like scrimmage. We know a little bit more about LaTravis Washington, but less than we know about Green. Denouncing Lee in favor our troop of unknowns doesn't make sense in the least. Denouncing Lee because he's not Dave Humm makes no sense whatsoever.