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You know, @Husker_Bohunk, you can quote more than one post at a time. Just hit the + sign on all of the posts you want to quote, then hit the Quote # Posts button in the corner.

I always say it's one thing to lose and another thing to look like you never had a chance. The Huskers should never look like they didn't have a chance.

Maybe they should expand the roster to 150 or so, and make greater use of walk-ons to build more depth and keep players fresh. Somebody should tell Frost that!

Are they showing Husker games on Discovery, TNT, and A&E now?

@Saunders Oh, they'll still be milking their payments from us for a while... But hey, at least they won't be leading (to use the term loosely) us on the field anymore!

I linked that same pic in another thread yesterday. Still say Farniok needs to suck in that gut, though.

@Vince R. Milking the clock was more for the defense's sake, not for the offense to be effective.

2008 was pretty focused on time of possession all year IIRC, but the end of the Missouri game is when they started to transition to their 'spread-coast' offense. 2009 was when they went full-on turtle mode and kinda stopped passing the ball, after they had given up so many turnovers in the first half of the season. What was it, three interceptions and five fumbles lost against Iowa State? That was the turning point.

Hmm... 2008 vs 2018... I feel like the players gave up on Riley to a greater extent than they did Callahan. Last year, everybody pretty much figured it was a lame duck season as soon as Eichorst was fired, and a lot of the players pretty much phoned it in from there on out. 2007 was a little different, though. 2017 sucked all around, but 2007 at least had a pretty good offense. In Callahan's second to last game, they hung 73 on K-State - the team, or at least the offense, still had some fight in them. It's probably safe to say that Riley and Callahan were both fairly poor at developing players. Callahan was probably only marginally better as a recruiter than Riley. Yes, his 2005 class was highly ranked, but that was mainly because it was such a big class - the average rating of the players was really nothing special. I think we've got a perfectly good group in terms of raw potential, but the big question is how quickly they can be developed. I'll take Duval over Dobson in a heartbeat, though! Everybody mentions Suh, but I think people tend to forget that the 2008 defense was still pretty weak overall - the offense was playing ball-hog to keep them off the field. I said above, for all we know we might actually have an undiscovered Suh on this team. But I think the best news I've heard in the last few days is that Chinander said he's been pleasantly surprised by the defense's retention of things - like he's not having to start at ground-zero fundamentals, which I think Bo had to do a lot of. I'm not sure how much of the 2007 offense was Callahan's vs Watson's, but it's probably safe to say that keeping Watson helped smooth the transition. On the other hand, I think Frost is probably a better schemer with a better system than Watson's. Honestly, I think Ganz is a little overrated in some people's memories. He was good, but not amazing. This year we're not returning any QBs with game experience, but does anybody really think we'd be better off if Lee & O'Brien were still on the team? Hell, I a year or so ago a few people were thinking Gebbia might have been ready to take the starter job from Lee by 2018, and if Riley & co were still here we'd probably be saying the same thing. One of the brightest spots on the 2008 squad was Roy Helu. 2018... uhh... let me get back to you on that. Riley's ground game was absolutely pathetic, but I really don't think the RBs were to blame for that. I have no idea who the starter will be, but I feel like we've got enough decent options that somebody should be able to emerge as a solid RB.

Suck in that gut, Farniok! (And goddamn, the thighs on Carlos!)

@ScottyIce $10/mo less than Vue, for starters. YouTube has more channels, but Hulu has their regular on-demand content in addition to the live stuff. YouTube you can view on three devices simultaneously, Hulu only two. https://www.hulu.com/live-tv https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/start/

How do you know we don't have a Suh on this squad? It's not like anyone was expecting Suh to emerge as an absolute monster at this point in 2008!

I dunno, I think back to like when Notre Dame played for the BCS championship like five years ago. At the start of the season, it looked like they had a real nasty schedule. But then looking back at the end when they were undefeated, it was like every 'tough' opponent on their schedule had ended up having a down year, so their schedule actually wasn't nearly as rough at it was expected to be. Unsurprisingly, they got their asses kicked when they played Alabama for the championship.

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On the list of people surprised where we're at: Erik Chinander.

It's not really traditional until we change back to this font.

Let's put this full quote (linked above) in this thread: Former Nebraska coach and AD Tom Osborne was at practice this morning in Lincoln. Osborne was largely absent from the complex under the previous staff, even giving up his suite last year for home games. Safe to say, his presence is felt. "When Tom Osborne comes out to practice, I know I'm at my best," defensive coordinator Erik Chinander said. "Even if I'm having a little down day, I look over and see him, I'm like, ‘Oh, boy, here we go.' I know I've gotta crank it up. It's one of those feelings you get that you can't let that guy down — what he built here, what he created, for me to take an off day when he's there, it can't happen." A lot of people have been worried about our DL, but I keep telling people: we've got the guys, they just need to be allowed to make plays instead of just taking up space!

@Enhance Buy up Oak Lake Park, maybe?

Yeah, for comparison, this is what Northwestern players are practicing in now: Northwestern. That.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/08/competitive-dodgeball

From the shirt he has on, I'm guessing that Verduzco wasn't actually playing, and was instead grading everyone else's technique.

I'm not talking about buyouts, I'm talking about Ohio State's administration trying to save their own jobs, ie trying to keep this from turning into something like Baylor. AFAICT C-4 said nothing about that.

I keep seeing this thread and wishing it was Perlman to Ohio State...

He was a guy who decommitted from us when Bo was fired. As for why any of us should care about what he's doing today, well...