Jim Hammer

Ben Garnett - LB Chumlee from Pawn Stars

Eric Crouch facemask non-call against KSU. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSVVpg_fEUE

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Also, what would your life be like if you won the lottery and married a supermodel?

After watching NU run a couple of options, I commented to my buddy that we should run the option pass. Next drive, there it was. I also said that Barney Cotton needs to go. We'll see how that one works out. I did notice Bo barking at him after that tripping call...

I think the main problem is the line. For any team to be successful, you need a line to open holes for the running backs or give the QB time to throw. But i do think Watson has to coach to the strengths of his players and right now the power running game works better than the "spread option" or "zone read" or whatever that crap they run from the shotgun.

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I guess the point I'm trying to make is that you can't predict what's going to happen over the next 50 years. Your "article" seems to base future success on what's happened in the past 5 years. That's fine. You presented your opinion, I presented mine.

1. Money - Money is important to attract a good coach and have good facilities. Also to pay recruits under the table. 2. Geography - Not so important. Kids want to play where they will be successful, where they will be seen on TV, and somewhere that gives them a good shot at going to the NFL. A good coach sells them on all of these things and convinces them to join his program. How do you think Osborn was able to get all those kids from FL and NJ to come to NU? 3. Great fan base - Another selling point to recruits. Great fans fill the stadium through thick and thin, not just when the team is winning. A great fan base would never allow another school to outnumber them a home games (I was in the sea of red in Lawrence in '98). 4a. History - Selling point. Also builds the fan base. Players want to play where they saw other great players, but not as much as they want to be on TV. 4b. Game day experience - More for the fans than the players, but bringing in recruits to a packed house going crazy for the home team can seal the deal. 5. Great facilities - Not that important. Snyder build a some very good teams with the worst facilities in the conference. Kids want to play for a winner. 6. Proximity to fans - Aren't most fans already close to the school? It's not like the majority of fans at NU games have to be bussed in from Ohio. All these things can attract top recruits, but unless you have a good coach who can develop the talent (Osborne, Snyder, Mangino), a top 5 recruiting class is for naught (Callahan, Blake, Neuheisel).

Very specious reasoning in this thread. If you look at the Big 12 teams, the main factor in each team's success has been the head coach. When McCarney was at ISU, they were challenging for the North title. Now that KU has Mangino and Pinkel is at MU, they are up there. NU gets Callahan and they drop off. OU was way down before they got Stoops. KSU had a great run with Snyder. To infer anything about the next 50 years, you need to look at the ability to attract a top coach. UT and OU will be up there because they will throw the most money at a coach and have tradition. OSU and TAMU will do the same without the tradition. NU won't spend as much, but they have tradition to attract talent. The other schools will have to gamble on a hot assistant coach or small school head coach and hope to hit a home run.

Looks like he's the one painted.

You were warned.... You can only get three fingers in a bowling ball. You could eat a bowling ball if you had to.

What's the difference between a CU girl and a bowling ball? There are two actually... You sure you want to hear this?

How do you get a Colorado grad off your porch? Pay for the pizza. What's the difference between a Colorado co-ed and a trash bag? The trash bag gets taken out once a week. I know some filthier ones if it's ok to post....

Some guys on 610 here in KC mentioned Turner Gill as a candidate. Said something about he might be interested since NU turned him down twice and he might want to stick it to the Huskers. Yeah, they're idiots.

Obie looks like he is ready to RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I doubt there are too many fruits or vegetables in Mangino's diet.

Long before these other schools were doing the blackouts and the white outs, Nebraska was the sea of red. Where other schools had to organize their fans to wear a single color, it just happened naturally at Memorial Stadium. I would hate to see tradition replaced by a gimmick.

"It's not how long your ball is...it's how you use it" And we Cyclone fans refer to the Iowa offense as the "Possum"....Plays dead at home and gets killed on the road. I haven't watched any of the games since they are PAY PER VIEW. But I do watch husker highlites on tuesdays with that dork of an announcer. I personally don't think that the PRODUCT which is cornhusker football is WORTH the price right now. I want to see a action/adventure and not a COMEDY. In myyyy day you paid the man 4 bits ta' watch the football through that lookin' knot hole! You could only see plays from the 30 yard line in! But we didn't care and we liked it! You young whipper snappers with you's hula hoops and slinkies and fancy pants passing whyyyyyyyyy..... And if that football resembled anything like a comedy they got a strap a taken to em....... "So there was this one time, I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I? Oh, yeah — the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...."

Living in Kansas City, I deal with KU and MU fans every day. Halfway through the season last year all I was hearing from KU fans was how they were going to run the table and have a shot at the national championship. MU fans were looking forward to the showdown with KU and a shot at the Big XII championship. Kinda reminded me of KSU in '98 when they were all pumped for the BCS championship game only to lose to A&M in the Big XII. Now this year I am bombarded with radio ads for KU proclaiming their "tradition" in football while only listing accomplishments from last year including putting up 76 on Nebraska. It makes me want to puke. I remember going to the Nebraska game in Lawrence and having more Husker fans in the stands than KU fans. I wonder if their basketball team were to go a couple of seasons around .500 how full Allen Fieldhouse would be. Right now KU's program is on par with Rutgers. They both had a good year, but have yet to prove they can sustain it.

spot on. you play the best guys and try to win every game, every year. any other approach would be foolish. It would also be doing a huge disservice to the seniors to not play the best players. "Sorry guys, we're going to play the freshmen and sophs so we have a better chance to win down the road. Feel free to come back next year and stand on the sideline as alumni."

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Be careful what you wish for....