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247 just repeating month-old news... http://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/82971-espn-fpi-not-high-on-huskers/

Safety, eh? Going the Scott Frost route.

Same with pool trick shooters, it's a lot different when the balls are set up perfectly for your trick than it is in an actual head-to-head game.

Unless it's Alex "I'm sorry we suck" Lewis...

Depends. Do you consider a tortilla to be bread? I would classify it as a type of unleavened flatbread, akin to roti.

Is a quesadilla a grilled cheese sandwich?

I've said that for years. Callahan could recruit, but couldn't coach guys up to their potential. Pelini, on the other hand, was just OK at recruiting. And overall, as you said, the performance of his teams matched the recruiting rankings - neither coached up nor coached down. You wonder how Bo might have fared if he'd hired some serious recruiters, instead of filling his staff with inexperienced assistants.

I snort lines of anthrax. I used to do that, but these days I've moved on to injecting Megadeth.

Yeah, I was thinking maybe like how Ohio State used Braxton Miller in his final season.

He supposedly does have some anxiety issues, but I don't think there was any shortage of help available to him...

Or not... Edit: beaten...

Trailed off toward the end of last season and was demoted to backup in spring. Sounds like he needs some strength & conditioning work, so sitting out a year would probably do him some good. http://lubbockonline.com/news/sports-red-raiders/sports/2017-04-28/tech-receiving-leader-jonathan-giles-announces-intent

Might be a good idea to specify which Coach Williams you're talking about.

Every Husker coach since Devaney has either won or played for a conference championship by his third year. Even Callahan managed that mark. If Riley can't do that, I'd probably consider it a major failure.... ...but playing in a major bowl (which we haven't done since 2001) would do a lot to placate me.

*facepalm* Alright, fine, how about the bigger picture on offense? #14 scoring offense in 2014, #43 scoring offense in 2015, #79 scoring offense in 2016. Any volunteers to put a nice sunshine and roses spin on that?

What turnaround?! Armstrong went from being a 53.3% completions/12 int/24 TD/133.04 QB efficiency rating. passer in 2014 to 55%/16 int/22 TD/128.64 effic in 2015. Yeah, he had about 300 more passing yards, but statistically that's almost purely from more attempts, and it came at the expense of about 300 rushing yards. He had slightly fewer picks in his senior season, but the rest of his stats went downhill in 2016, completing a career-worst 51.4% and only 14 TDs. Tommy left Nebraska as pretty much the same YOLO bomber that couldn't complete a screen to save his life that he was the day he set foot on campus, and in the process he lost half of his rushing.

You are talking about 2 different schemes that produced 2 different results. Players are more likely to be lazy in practice then they are in games. I witnessed first hand a number of players being lazy during S&C sessions. Dobson didn't hold them accountable and Bo didn't really give a sh#t. Which side are you even trying to argue? "Dobson didn't hold them accountable and Bo didn't really give a sh#t"? So you're saying that Riley & co 'fixing' the problem is what made it nosedive? And don't feed me some BS about different schemes when Riley himself said he wanted to be a top 3 rushing team - he sure as hell ain't trending in the right direction for that!

Funny how 'lazy Bo players' produced the #19 rushing offense in the country in Bo's last year, but could only manage #73 under Riley, ain't it Chimi? (Oh, I'm sure that was all Ameer, and not the guys who had to clear a path for him. Nevermind that it continued to go downhill from 2015 to 2016 with basically the same players...)

One of the biggest things a coach (or any sort of leader) needs to be able to do is take control. You might have good players and be a good coach in every other respect, but if you can't be The Man in the eyes of the team, it's not gonna be pretty. Frankly, Turner Gill at KU is a good example of this: good guy, good coach, but he never really took control of his players and he was rightly fired for it. (Granted, KU is a good place to go if you want your career to die, but still.)

News flash: this line didn't play for Pelini. There's a grand total of one guy on this line that played in a game under Bo. If Cavanaugh and Riley haven't taken control of this group and coached them up, well...

And this season Nebraska is likely to start a 2* guy with only one single in high school! And he's starting ahead of two 4*s. tell me, did you think he looked like a 1-2* on Saturday? I have no idea, I didn't get to watch the game. My point is that stars aren't everything. Derp, one single *offer* in HS.

And this season Nebraska is likely to start a 2* guy with only one single in high school!

Or just flat out tell the other team where the play is going... Or if they called off the dogs so that the O-line wouldn't look so bad...