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@Vince R. What killed Wilbon was that Riley & co had him overthinking everything. He lost his natural instincts as a runner that he had coming out of high school. And he didn't get many chances to run because Riley cared less about running the ball than he did about pass protection (which Bryant did fairly well, hence why Riley favored him so much). "Sometimes I just think too much and just try to do too much," he said. "Some games, I’d get one play and they’d take me right back out. I was like, ‘I’ve got to get a rhythm.’ That’s what they had me doing, and really, since my snaps were so limited, I really pressured myself. I was harder on myself because I was trying to be perfect every time I’m in, because I don’t know how many times I’m going to be in." https://247sports.com/Bolt/Mikale-Wilbon-is-making-a-push-for-playing-time-behind-new-attitude--51946460/

Man, Rutgers has had nine offensive coordinators in nine years? And we thought it's crazy how we go through DB coaches...

@Husker John That's from somebody's Deviant Art account from like five years ago. https://www.deviantart.com/thegreatktulu/gallery/30209404/Football-Uniform-Concepts

Yeah, hiring Frost was an incredibly obvious choice. Moos really couldn't have walked into a better situation in that respect. Credit Moos for actually landing Frost, though - from the sound of things, that was definitely not a given. What I thought was interesting was when Moos was talking about the different approaches required in getting Mike Leach vs Scott Frost. Of course, having a cheat sheet in Osborne and Matt Davison didn't hurt.

^ I think Osborne probably still has Frost beat in that department.

Gussets, man, we need more gussets!

@knapplc Pretty sure you meant John Blake, not Jeff Blake.

"Some of the pieces that were in place particularly on offense I think fit us pretty well. You look at the receiver group and Stanley Morgan and JD [Spielman] and Tyjon Lindsey, those are the type of guys we would recruit," Frost said. Reading the tea leaves a bit, I kinda wonder if that might favor Gebbia as the starter. Like Martinez might be the better athlete, but if Gebbia is a better passer, he might be able to get more out of the offense as a whole.

Callahan might have been like getting underwear for Christmas, but Riley was like waking up on Christmas morning and finding that Santa took a dump in your stocking.

It would be hard for them to NOT be much better than what we saw last year. But with the jump in schedule difficulty this year, we could have a much better team and still not have a real stellar win/loss record. We're still only two years removed from a 9-3 season, though, and I don't think that's out of the question for this year.

@Comfortably Numb I think pretty much all of us are excited, it's just that some of us are more iffy on how long things will take, like how we'll look in year 1 vs year 3.

"QBs should expect a camera phone out wherever they are" <- In other words, "Please don't be Johnny Manziel."

TBH, I imagine that most players are kinda indifferent about the issue. They have bigger things to worry about.

I was in favor of keeping it at 4 teams until I saw how awful the selections were this past season. Yet another SEC circlejerk? Big Ten goes 7-1 in bowls, but wasn't worthy of having a representative in the playoff? UCF has a perfect season but isn't even close to getting in? Like why do they even pretend that G5 teams are in the same division when they've essentially declared that it's impossible for them to be national champions, whether they're the best team or not?

Will that be a public announcement, or just inside the team?

I'm still trying to figure out how you can supposedly be 100% supportive of UNL's anti-discrimination rules, yet still be vehemently opposed to similar anti-discrimination rules up in Omaha...

Unsurprisingly, the thread on the UCF board about this is a complete s#!tshow.

If you feel like doing some reading, there's a big four-part interview with him from about five years ago on HuskerMax: https://www.huskermax.com/anatomy-of-an-era-dave-ellis-part-1/

"Fixtures of the 80s and 90s?" DeLoreans were a fixture of Back to the Future movies, but that's pretty much it.

In other words, they're the crazy uncles of the American family...