PLAN NINE

so i assume that all you lee lovers will be prepared to eat crow as well when he SUCKS, AGAIN, and by the end of the season doesn't even sniff the field.

I'm backing Bo 100%. Stop crying, girls...the season starts in a couple weeks.

Somebody please tell USC and their awful mutant offspring in the morning to put a sock in it. They aren't special, OWH be damned as well. Both the University as an entity and Coach Pelini in particular are intimately involved, and fully vested in the matter. I personally trust Bo's take on this, seeing how well the program has responded under his leadership, and specifically due to T.O.'s over-seeing the entire operation. This is football, not 8th grade recess.

Coach Sez: Practice shut down for 3 days? GOOD. Get 'em in line, Bo....we've got your back. GBR!

WHO CARES ABOUT PRESEASON PUNDIT RANKINGS?? Don't give these guys click through traffic for basically drooling on themselves. I predict if NU wins every football game they play this upcoming season, another national championship trophy will magically appear in Lincoln, NE.

I hope to God you're right.

Yeah, I understand you don't want Zac Lee. You obviously have some personal vendetta against the kid, however you failed to answer WHY you would pick ONE of the other QB's on roster? And saying cause Zac Lee sucks is not a reason why you would want to start one of the other guys. I want to know why you think that guy is better than Zac Lee. Yeah, uh, my opinion is that Lee sucks at playing QB. I don't know him, don't care. I just want some stand up, rock jawed SOB ready to make things happen back there. Somebody not afraid, and that has the superlative physical tools to dress down an opposing defense. Who here really can argue against that? I mean, i've watched many a scrub team roll through lincoln and get waxed, and i find myself wishing that we could have any of their quarterbacks. any of them look better than Lee did all of last season. It was one of the most atrocious things i've ever seen at d1 level, honestly. i used to think that we had some poor quarterbacks, comparatively, over the last 10 years until Lee became starter. Now i wish that we had any of them. Sure, you can probably pull out a highlight or something to counter what i'm saying here, but i watched every down. of every game. so did you. i know what i saw. so do you. it was not pretty. you know this. every time Green came in i saw a guy who clearly had every single physical tool necessary to dominate a game from the QB position. Just physically impose his will on the game, a la Vince Young. I also saw that he did not have any confidence whatsoever. What solves that problem? Game experience. Denying him game experience is also denying him the ability to correct his lack of confidence, which is in turn what is preventing him from seeing the field, or challenging for a starting role. So basically, until he actually plays, he probably won't ever play. There is only one solution: take a chance, early in the season, against some lesser opponents, and Just Start Him. Let him struggle, let him figure it out. Late in the season we will be better off. Just like if we would have had a physically superior athlete at the quarter back position against some other opponents, say VT or UT, he would have had enough plays in him to pull out at least a couple 1st downs that Lee could not, which basically could and in all likelihood would have reversed the results of both contests. And this season that could mean the B12 championship game and bowl game. How can the coaching staff not take this chance? I have no explanation, and unless somebody can give me a logical deduction with supporting examples of a good reason, i say the fix is in, or the offensive staff needs to go IF Lee starts game 1. REACT and don't BS me.

??? kosher? (nice one) race reference? dude, lighten the hell up. oversensitive "PC" status of board mod = CONFIRMED. Fact: in no way have i been derogatory whatsoever to anyone of any racial orientation except maybe whatever race Lee happens to be. so stuff it. OUT COMES TEH BANHAMMER! and the WHAAAMBULANCE! I'm a freaking huge NU fan dude, white as hell(irish in fact), and don't give two craps about any kind of skin color. but whatever. clown away.

yeah, Lee is a 1st round lock in the league. sure looked like it all last season. Blazing speed. Tough as nails. Impossible to stop or tackle or even understand what the hell he was doing at any given moment. he's like the Sphynx from Mystery Men, but in QB form.

No way man, Lee is officially the stuff. I mean, who wants the 6'4" super fast, freakishly athletic black guy with the cannon attached to his shoulder, or the slightly smaller, quicker, faster, black guy with the rocket attached to his shoulder back there. Or anybody else because (a)we haven't seen them play yet and (b)they can't be any better than the guy we've seen play. Lord knows those two should never get a shot because {c}they don't have 100X the physical skills of the returning starter, and (d)are only lacking game experience to actually be good. I get it now, it's clear. I'm on board. Its simple math: a + b + c + d = Lee. Lee, Lee he's our man, if he can't do it, no one can! All together now! Lee, Lee he's our man, if he can't do it, No One Can! YAY Lee!

dang, you guys are right. Lee is awesome. what was i thinking?

Burkhead is white, & he doesn't suck. or is slow. he's pretty tough too. in fact, i heard he used to play QB. WAIT! ZZZZOMG!

dang man, get some thicker skin. I wasn't aware that the mod's had a stake in Lee's starting at QB this season. is there a pool or something? whats the over/under? I want in.

Thanks for missing the clearly explained premise. that being: Failure, demonstrated repeatedly, does not belong as a starting QB at an NU team with aspirations of national prominence. sure, try again! go you! why not? but after 1 whole season of "mediocre at best, usually pathetic" performance at QB, can't we try something else for, i don't know, 3 or 4 consecutive games? pretty please? i'd rather see another running back behind center than that slow, inept, incapable white boy. its like somebody took the worst parts of ganz, taylor, and keller, and BANG out came Lee. AND THEN HE STARTS. ALL SEASON. AND SUCKS! and then the best part: YOU LIKE IT??? and want more of it. please.

100% not what i said, thanks. Feel free to re-read.