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I hope we don't do the same as mizzou.

Missouri sighted wanting to concentrate on filling the coaching vacancy. Not some gesture of being "unworthy" to go with a losing record.

 

the players were also threatening to not play the rest of the season halfway through. why give them an extra game?

 

You DON'T...this is why he needs to extra 15 days....to weed out the guys whom didn't buy in...according to rumor.... clean the slate NOW, rather than waiting until spring ball ! This was exactly what I was referring to in a post I made earlier. Cut bait with some of these guys, play the younger guys who you believe are there for the right reasons (unless it means burning a RS, which is obviously out of the question.).

 

I think he was talking about Missouri and their threatened boycott.

 

 

 

OK fine. Zac Taylor. Any other easy questions? ha

 

 

Frost as HC. Taylor as OC and coach-in-waiting?

 

After that, Patrick O'Brien. We've already given him the starting QB job, might as well give him HC down the line as well.

LOL, I remember that pic. Wish it would've turned out better for him here. Not sure why it didn't, but I think it's right that he just needed a change and a do-over.

Late to this thread, but was just having that discussion.

 

It seems strange to me that on the drive we go for it on 4th and 1 we are down what, 17-28? Say we get the TD and PAT, we are down 24-28.

 

ON THE VERY NEXT DRIVE we are down there again. The score remains 17-28. This time, we opt for the easy 3 points. Score is now 20-28.

 

So, now we have to stop them, get the ball back, score a TD, score a 2pt conversion just to tie the game at 28.

 

Why didn't we just go for it that second time down there knowing full well we needed as many points as possible? Or why didn't we kick the FG on the 4th and 1 on the previous drive? Just seems completely backwards to me. We did the same thing against NW basically. We kicked a PAT instead of going for 2 with momentum and down by 2 I think. Then later on we scored and needed 2 and came up short.

For one thing, had we gotten the first down and then scored the first time, we would've/should've gone for 2 to cut the lead to 3 if we could. Hopefully we would've been down 25-28, not 24-28. 23-28 wouldn't have been much worse than 24-28 so it's a no-brainer to go for 2.

Regarding the second time, surely you realize the difference between 4th and 1 and 4th and 10, right? The play we called on 4th and 1 wasn't good, but it's even lower percentage on 4th and 10 when Iowa is expecting pass.

Also, with 1:17 to go, the only chance is to score quickly one way or another, recover an onside kick, and score again. So it makes sense to take the FG, and hope to get the ball and go for the end zone in the final minute. On the first drive, there's still 6:37 to go. If we get a TD, even if Iowa gets a FG the next time, we can still win with a TD. There wasn't quite the urgency to put a score on the board immediately.

No two situations in a game are the same. These weren't at all close, so it makes no sense to demand the same decision.

 

 

Actually, with his recent dealings with the LPD, and the response that got, I can actually see Armstrong wanting out of Lincoln.

Response?

 

Sexual assault happened at his house and if you believe the rumors he was involved.

 

Even if it started off consensual, i have no problem with how LPD handled the allegations. I doubt that his reasoning for wanting to leave...

Damion Bennington said the accussed isn't on the football team. But TA is upset the coaches didn't publicly defend any of them.

 

Who is Damion Bennington? I don't know anyone by that first or last name associated with the team in any way.

 

 

The NCAA used to strictly control the number of bowls but will now certify nearly any community that’s willing to write a check. Seven have launched just in the last two years alone. Some on the conference side would gladly let a few go dark this year just to curb the trend, but that would infuriate organizers and in fact potentially lead to lawsuits.

 

 

 

Wonder where he got this from? I read elsewhere that part of the push for more bowls was the small conferences wanting to ensure all of their bowl eligible teams got in. Rarely does a power 5 team get left out. I doubt the Big 10 is too upset to get some 5-7 teams in to fill it's bowl spots either.

 

Jerry Palm has us playing Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl.

See...now you have 12 practices where you are spending all your defensive time getting ready for the flex-bone...something you basically won't see at all next season, so those practices are a bit wasted as for as development.

 

With that said...I love watch AF and this would be sweet game!

 

You don't have to spend the whole time getting ready for a pretty meaningless game. Do whatever you want for most of the early practices, and increase your focus on game specifics as it gets closer.

You go for the TD first if you need 11 points. That way you know whether or not a field goal will do it for you, or if you need to score another TD. If you kick the field goal, then score a TD, your fate rests on the two-point conversion. And NU isn't exactly lighting up the short-yardage situations this year.

 

So on 4th and 1 you try to continue the TD drive. On 4th and 10, you kick and hope you hold them and score a TD, and can convert the two-point attempt.

I agree with this. If it's 4th and longer, kick the FG. But you should be able to pick up the yard and go for the TD. No guarantee at all you get the 2 pt conversion so find out now, and play the rest of the game knowing if you're down by 3 or5.

As far as the play goes, it sounds like Tommy was coached (in general, not for that play), if his receiver has 1 on 1 for a fade, take it. So he never looked to his wide open check offs. If they wanted him to hit the short pass, call a different play that doesn't include that low percentage option. Or communicate to him who his primary receiver is. This is the second time with the game on the line that they've sent in a play with a secondary option they wanted him to take, and he didn't. Maybe they should learn that's not a good thing to do.

 

Just read an article we are going bowling. Said some bowls never heard of, but looks like we are a lock for 3 different ones. Leading the pack as a 5 win team.

 

Edit: source

http://www.cornnation.com/2015/11/29/9813774/nebraska-football-bowl-game-2015

 

• Foster Farms: Nebraska (APR, fan base over Minnesota, Illinois)
• Detroit: No team or Illinois (Played in Dallas in 2014)
• Armed Forces: No team or Minnesota

 

He doesn't know. The committee hasn't even decided the rules yet.

Twitter saying see what happens with us next year and richt would be perfect here. Would we want richt? I think maybe

That twitter dude, he's a bald-faced liar.

Not quiet sure why the Big12 couldnt keep a North/South rivalry consistent each year? Maybe there is a valid reason but why not have a game vs a North/South every year.

 

Such as;

 

Nebraska/Oklahoma

Iowa State/Baylor

Texas/Missouri

Colorado/Texas Tech

Kansas State/Oklahoma State

Texas A&M/Kansas

 

make these annual cross division rivalries each year.

Only one of those games was any semblance of a rivalry. Also, the rotation keeps things more balanced. Rather than one team play a perennial power year after year while another gets the annual doormat, you mix it up so everyone has identical opponents over a 12 year period. You're bending everything for the sake of one game. A compromise might have been to allow us to play Oklahoma on the off years as a non-conference game.

This is the type of story I was looking at when I said that the APR rating wasn't a done deal for Nebraska getting the first 5-7 spot.

http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2015/11/23/ncaa-committee-to-provide-procedures-for-filling-bowl-games

In 2012, the NCAA was asked to come up with a safety net plan to fill all the bowls if there were not enough teams that met the minimum requirements. The protocol allows 5-7 teams to play in the postseason if they are among the top five schools in the NCAA's Academic Progress Report for the most recent season recorded. Those teams (Wisconsin, Northwestern, Duke, Michigan and Stanford) are already bowl eligible

There's an oversight committee that has to decide how to determine who gets in. They may apply the APR record, they may just let bowls pick from the pool of 5-7 teams, or they may decide something else.

Really seems questionable that they wouldn't cover this possibility earlier before, and now they have to make what should be an impartial decision, but knowing which schools are directly impacted. For example, they could be thinking of requiring 5 FBS wins, but someone on the committee lobbying for Missouri could nix that since they have an FCS win.

Do you like gladiator movies?

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

Please don't start a thread for each random absurd thought that might cross your mind during a game.

I said this in another thread last night. Don't give him the job before he's earned it. Remember Curt Dukes? He was interviewed after he transferred out and said when he got to campus everybody told him he was going to be the man, the next Scott Frost. He said he didn't even have to work for it. So he didn't. If you don't remember Dukes, there's a reason for it, he never played a down for us. He actually had a -38 (that's minus 38) QB rating in the few passes he threw his last year at Duke.

Anyway, POB should know the door is open, but he damn well has to work hard before he beats out a 3 year starter, or even gets the job in 2017. Too many flops to anoint anyone.

Wait for Minnesota and Illinois to finish. If either of them loses, and both are down by 2 scores in the 4th quarter, it seems that we're in.

But thanks for re-splitting the threads.

None of the 2nd poll answers apply to me. We don't even know which bowl we'd be going to, and I might go if it was convenient to me during holiday travels, which is unlikely. Warmth and "after this season" aren't that much of a factor. The only possible answers seem to be Yes, No--never, or No--I'm a fair weather fan, either figuratively or literally.

Seems almost certain we are in. I've heard some vagueness about the 5-7 rule though. Somewhere I read the APR ranking deal somehow only applies to the very top APR teams, all of which are either in anyway, or worse than 5-7. Most places assume that the APR ranking will hold, and they'll rank the 5-7 teams by APR and take from the top until bowls are filled. I don't see how it can be otherwise, but I'm just saying what I've read in a place or two. they didn't offer an alternative to how the 5-7 teams would be picked. Bowl choice, I presume, which should favor us. Or conference affiliations, which should also put us in since I don't think the Big 10 will fill all bowls.

Also, Foster makes somewhere around $1M a year, without all the media pressure and duties that a head coach has. How much more do you need, and if he likes concentrating on the defense rather than being a big picture guy, you can see why he'd stay there.

 

 

Wow, guess Foster is content as coordinator

 

Yeah, that seems really odd.....

 

The stories/rumors I hear is that he's got a drinking issue, maybe even more than drinking, that turns schools off. He can get away with about anything in Blacksburg. Don't take that as fact, and I'm not too tied in and never got around to asking some boosters I know that probably do know more about it.

Also he's not a big recruiter. It may be that he's kind of like McBride was, happy with his role as a DC and given a lot of free reign in that. Foster may realize that taking a HC job is a big risk, whereas he knew he could stay under Beamer forever. Given that it looks like he's staying on, they must not have promised him anything more and he's fine with that. Sometimes people recognize the Peter Principle and stop short of advancing to the next job that he won't do well in.

Agree, and I don't know that K St wins out either.. A couple of them could go either way, but I think we're going to see more than one 5-7 team in. They need 7 of 11 teams to win, and probably only 3 are favored.

Here's the play

http://btn.com/2015/11/27/video-nebraskas-nate-gerry-ejected-from-game-for-targeting-call/

You just can't do this anymore. Look at about :32 into that clip, blow it up full screen. Very clearly a head to head hit. You can't possibly argue otherwise.

If you have to, let the guy make the catch and keep yourself in the game and maybe they don't break those two long runs later. At least keep your head up and try to knock it away with your hands. Not as effective, but legal.

The rule kind of sucks and it'll probably change somehow, because the guy on offense can lead with his head and it can be difficult to avoid. But it won't be just backed out because there are too many head injuries and long term damage.

I think that's right, and easy to read. A nit, Georgia State wasn't off this week, they won yesterday.