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People point to this as a knock on Lee, and it's true that he never stole the #2 spot from Witt outright last season, but the prevailing wisdom is that they were essentially 2A and 2B, with very little difference between them. The main difference is Lee's scrambling ability, which better resembles Joey Ganz' than Zac Taylor's, while Witt was the opposite. I would bet dollars to donuts that if you gave the coaches a mulligan on who they put in the Gator Bowl after Witt's near-disaster, they'd have put Lee in instead. In that situation knowing (as the mulligan would let you know) that your QB would be flushed and running in the open field, Lee is your man, not Witt. The play was a pocket pass, not a run, and Witt is a pure pocket passer. Regardless, Witt went in on that play, and pretty much every other mop-up play last year. But that was last year, and heading into the Spring it was clearly NOT Witt's job in the eyes of the coaches. We know that because, by popular rumor, Witt asked for some kind of assurance that he really had the starting gig locked up and Bo refused to give him that, and Witt left. Tim Griffin touched on this in one of his mailbags in the Spring:

It's soooo not the same as watching it live!! Is there a sports bar in or around the airport where you can duck in and watch until halftime? If not, then give them the necessary $$ to get to your place on their own. This is a Husker game, for God's sake. You only get 13-14 times a year to see them. Priorities, man, priorities! It's not the same - it's better. I typically let the game run for a good hour or so before I watch so I can skip past the commercials. I hate how they break up the game with commercial breaks, ESPECIALLY the ever-popular "TD is scored - Two-Minute Commercial Break - Kickoff - Two-Minute Commercial Break - Series starts," and it's even worse when that next series is three-and-out and they go to commercial again after the punt. You'll have six to seven minutes of commercials for maybe two minutes of game time. I really dislike commercials.

That's a good point, but Scott's issues were more due to injury (his and a plethora of others on the team, including the O-Line) than actual factual performance. If a similar thing happens to Green it'll mean that nobody, not Lee, not Green, not Washington, will be OK this year. And let's hope that doesn't happen.

I've seen a very, very few. And no memorable ones.

Do the Blue Hairs allow people to put up signs at Husker games?

I'm pretty sure this is why they invented DVR.

I read that he was replaced on the 105 as well, but now I read this at the bottom of the Niles Paul blurb in Life in the Red: So take that for what it's worth...?

junior, maybe we need to just convince TO to move the franchise to TX or CA in the middle of the night. It is clear that NE is no longer the correct spot for this team, can't get any support if NE kids are no longer going to be contributors to the team right? I thought you looked suspiciously like Robert Irsay....

Winner winner chicken dinner. It's all about where they can make the most money.

It was a play on words, nothing more.

This is exactly how I feel about the situation. I love the potential Green has, but I think he's getting a little "flavor-of-the-month" bump here, while Zac Lee's potential is being overlooked. Lee came to Nebraska with no small amount of fanfare, but that has since died away and Green was a pretty big deal when he signed. I wouldn't be surprised to see Green seriously challenge Lee for the #1 spot next year, but this year is pushing it a bit. I hope Green is all that people think he is, for if nothing else, that'll push Lee to perform at his highest. With nobody looking over a player's shoulder, there's always the potential for slacking. A strong challenger will help with that.

Who are you hearing this from? The coaches? The fans? The media? Joe on the Street? I know there was some random belief back in the day that we "had to" run a running offense because it got so cold on the plains that we "couldn't" run a pass-oriented offense in the snow, but that was random fan blather justifying our Option attack when pundits would crack on it as old-fashioned. Of course, that flew in the face of the offense Devaney ran as well as offenses run by several Big 10 schools, so it was easily dismissed as the kind of nonsensical justification of know-nothings. But I haven't heard lately anyone talking about the weather as a factor in producing talent...?

Brian Christopherson has a good personality piece about Cody Green today. Sounds like he’s not your typical freshman, not wide-eyed and cowed by campus life. Sounds like they’re bringing him along and he’s handling it well, and it sounds like he’s taking it all in stride. I thought this was really interesting, especially considering the wholesale redshirting of the last class: Full article with more quotes about Green here

Agreed. There shouldn't even be a debate now. I'm done with this conversation. We'll let the play on the field show everyone, on either side of the question, how lucky/unlucky we are that we don't have Mr. Paulus here.

Before anyone gets too hung up on the fact that Paulus is the starter at Syracuse, go look at what the Orangemen had at QB before Paulus stepped on campus.

I had a point that you didn't understand because you're looking for a 1:1 analogy, while no such thing exists. Since none exists, you have to think a little outside the box. Since Michael Jordan's failed baseball career didn't make sense to you, try looking up Deion Sanders' career, or Bo Jackson's. Go look up Tony Gonzalez, if you must have a football/basketball comparator, but realize that through college Gonzalez never stopped playing both sports so again, it's not a 1:1 analogy. The point is that athleticism doesn't overcome rust. It's not enough to simply be "athletic" because everyone on that field from the wide receivers to the fat, ugly linemen are athletic at this level. His athleticism may prevent him from getting killed, but if athleticism was all it took to go from one sport to another, even one you used to be talented in five years ago, more people would do it. But they don't. And there's a reason for that. And that reason has a lot to do with why Nebraska and Michigan and every other school but Syracuse (who is completely desperate for a QB) didn't let him come in.

I don't think you could have missed the point any worse had you been aiming in the opposite direction.

It's the second week of January that everyone hates.

And if you look at Syracuse, they fit that to a "T" with the QBs they have. Cam Dantley was horrid last year, bad enough that they'd welcome Paulus to at least try for the job. Their other option was a redshirt freshman who will most likely go in if Paulus gets hurt or stinks it up, so they have nothing to lose by bringing the guy in for one year. Syracuse was 3-9 last year with wins over Northeastern, Louisville and Notre Dame, three schools most people have never heard of (well, Louisville is well-known). So it doesn't hurt them one iota to give the reins to Paulus and see what he can do.

Ah, yes, the "greatest fans" argument. You're not the "greatest fans" if you ever utter something that's not nice! You're not the "greatest fans" if you've ever had a naughty thought! It's like Santa Claus monitors these boards, looking for who's naughty or nice, and if you're not nice by gum, out comes the "greatest fans" line again. He's checked his list twice, Jen, and we're not the "greatest fans" anymore because you uttered a discouraging word! For shame!!!11!!!eleven!

But other than that, you like him, right?

Yes, our DNA is almost identical.

You're right about recent success, but the flip side is that pretty much everyone would trade our last four years for the last four years at USC or OU. It's not a guarantee of success if you have longevity in coaching, just like losing coaches doesn't guarantee failure. The main thing is continuity, and if that comes from keeping your coaches around for a while, that's cool with me. It was always a point of pride that we had such long-term guys on our staff all those years.

Probably not, but I think that's going to be the norm from now on. I doubt Ekeler is here after this season, especially if the LBs really step up. I think we're going to be seeing turnover in the staff every few years, and that's OK, as long as we replace them with quality guys. If that happens, then Nebraska will never be truelly back. With all the great things Snyder did at KState, he really never got a sniff of a NC because of the amount of staff he lost on an annual basis. I fear that you are right. I also fear we may never be "back" because of it. Doesn't seem to have hurt Florida and/or USC much. Oklahoma, too. Ohio State has turnover and they do OK. Just losing coaches to promotions doesn't doom us. It's when we replace the coaches we lose with Craig Bohl that's the problem.

Bo has stated that he intends for all of his Asst. Coaches to get gigs somewhere else and that he'll do whatever he can to help further their careers. But I don't see any teams beating a path to Carl's door anytime soon.