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Here's an update. Things arel ookign better
http://govolsxtra.com/news/2008/sep/10/oku...nt-made-choice/
Reading that article makes me wonder where Crabtree was getting his information.
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What was wrong with Pavelka? I loved listening to that guy, he was just as into the game as any of the fans. Not just some radio play by play guy. Whenever NU would have a big play he would go ape sh!t and really made the game exciting to listen to. I can remember putting the TV on mute and turning up the radio because it was more exciting. Pavelka does a good job right now as the men's basketball guy. If the opportunity ever came up I would be ecstatic if they got Pavelka back.
But Sharpe is doing a good job, much better IMO than Rose did.
I am right there with you on the whole TV thing. My family loved to hear Pavelka call the game. I left the area in 1995 and I distinctly remember reading about the change and being sad for awhile. I do have to say that I think Sharpe does a good job though. I definately have enjoyed his work thus far.
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So we should be a bunch of stepford wives and pretend everything is hunky dory? Not this fan. And I am a fan by the way. Being critical of what is happening on the field doesn't make anyone a bad fan, it makes them a realistic one.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Being critical after two games isn't realistic.
you might need a bigger body of work before you make this kind of judgement
"Being critical of what is happening on the field doesn't make anyone a bad fan, it makes them a realistic one."
...or an uninformed one.
If everything was Hunky Dory, we wouldn't have Bo. We know it isn't, just give him more than 120 minutes of football to judge his entire staff on.
For the last time go look at Cotton's track of nonsuccess. Is that a big enough body of work to make a judgement? I have had more then 120 minutes of football to base my opinion on him.
If you are going to go this route, you need to give the man credit for his whole D1 coaching career. From 1997-2002 he was the Offensive Coordinator/O-line Coach for New Mexico State. Below are the stats for each season from 1999-2002.
RUSH YDS RANK
1999 - 2450 14th
2000 - 2972 6th
2001 - 2493 19th
2002 - 2575 14th
From looking at this, I think it is an unfair statement to say Cotton's track record is only of nonsuccess. He also guided NU to 7th in Rushing Yards in 2003. Granted NU was a mostly a run only team then and was almost always in the top 10, but he still did the job.
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Pelini has made two things clear in his pressers this week:
1. He doesn't believe the team came out flat. He said the players came out and displayed poor fundamentals and failed to execute the game plan.
2. The coaches made virtually NO ADJUSTMENTS to their defensive gameplan throughout the game. Yes, he said that. I will look up a link to back it up if nobody else remembers reading this.
Thus I don't think the early struggles were due to a lack of desire. Nor do I think the outcome of the game was a testament to Pelini's ability to adapt in game situations.
Very interesting on both counts.
Now can we stop hating on Callahan for being arrogant, not making adjustments, and just trying to get players to execute better instead of switching schemes they were taught?
If players executed a scheme properly, but are still getting beat then that is when adjustments should be made. If they fail to execute, you have no basis as to what is/is not working to adjust off of. The players need to execute properly first, then you can adjust schemes. Why adjust a scheme and then have it not work either because the players don't execute?
Difference between Coz and Bo is that one did not teach the system properly and one does. I have read several articles quoting players and former players that under Coz they only knew what they were supposed to do on a play, not why they were doing it nor what everone else around them is going to do and why. Bo is big on teaching the system, the players should have that understanding. You see it in the swarm mentality. Coz trying to get the players to execute better was an exercise in futility because he failed to lay the foundation of knowledge with the players. Bo is the oposite, he came in started with the very basics in the Spring and built from there. Players now know what they are supposed to do, they should be expected to execute and then allow Bo to do his job of calling the game and making adjustments.
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HIO on Husker Pedia updated his list. (Times, heights, weights, etc. from Scout or Rivals (linked)):
QB Robert Bolden Ht: 6-3 Wt: 191 40: 4.63 St. Mary Preparatory School, Orchard Lake, MI
QB Tyler Gabbert Ht: 6-0 Wt: 174 Ballwin (MO) Parkway West
QB Devin Gardner Ht: 6-4 Wt: 196 Inkster, MI
WR Markeith Ambles Ht: 6-3 Wt: 185 40: 4.62 Henry County HS, McDonough, GA
WR Chris Dunkley Ht: 5-10 Wt: 164 40: 4.45 Royal Palm Beach, FL
WR Jeremy Jackson Ht: 6-2 Wt: 175 Huron HS, Ann Arbor, MI
WR Justin McCay Ht: 6-3 Wt: 197 Shawnee (KS) Bishop Miege
WR Darius Terrell Ht: 6-2 Wt: 195 Desoto, TX
OL Andrew Rodriguez Ht: 6-6 Wt: 300 40: 5.5 Aurora, NE
LB Shaun Lewis Ht: 5-11.5 Wt: 188 4.86 Hightower HS, Sugar Land, TX attended UA/Scout Combine
Is Tyler, Blaine's little brother? That looks like the same town Blaine is from. If so wouldn't that be ironic if we signed Tyler and they end up playing against each other.
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If I'm not mistaken, Furman is a FCS powerhouse.
Well at least very decent FCS team:
40 16 Presbyterian
17 32 Hofstra
10 38 Clemson
20 45 Wofford
27 17 Coastal Caro.
51 54 Citadel OT
28 22 Chattanooga
27 34 Appalachian St.
52 49 Elon
24 22 Ga. Southern
52 21 Western Caro.
Beat Georgia Southern and came with 7 points of App. St.
Yeah but then you see head scratchers in there like a loss to Citadel
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Pancake blocks aren't a "real" stat anymore are they? I really wish they would have kept this as an official stat. Remember when Finoti (spelling?) averaged about 20 or so a game? that was insane
Actually the team will have this an official stat again this year. Look at the very bottom of the linked story. Good to see it back!!!!!
http://huskerextra.com/articles/2008/08/15...65200349355.txt
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There's no reason Tim Hiller and the passing attack can't put up 300 yards or more on anyone other than the top secondaries
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2007 Schedule
CFN Prediction: 6-6
2007 Record: 5-7
Sept. 1 at W Virginia L 62-24
Sept. 8 Indiana L 37-27
Sept. 15 at Missouri L 52-24
Sept. 22 Cent Conn. St W 51-14
Sept. 29 at Toledo W 42-28
Oct. 6 Akron L 39-38
Oct. 13 at No Illinois W 17-13
Oct. 20 Ball State L 27-23
Oct. 27 at Eastern Mich L 19-2
Nov. 6 Central Mich L 34-31
Nov. 17 at Iowa W 28-19
Nov. 24 Temple W 16-3
Who knew Eastern Michigan had one of the top secondaries in the country last year?
The run defense needs to be a little bit more stout, and it should be.They can start by not giving up 200-300 yards rushing in each of their first 5 games. I get West Virginia, but Indiana? Lucky goes for 150 yards in this game.
Not sure how many people noticed, but Indiana did finish 7-6 after losing to OK ST in the Insight Dot Com Bowl. I think the 14 point spread is more accurate than most people want to believe at this stage. Now if Bo can get the defense to improve by a larger margin, let's say top 20-30 vs. top 50-60, then this will be a blow out. Right now WMU looks like they will put up a good fight.
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Is he by chance the son of Ozzie Newsome?
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I am dumber for having read that.
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I think that when we criticize Joe for his INTs, it is not in ignorance of the game situations at the time of many of them. However, the last image we have of him is the one where he cost us the game against Colorado. Say what you want about the D in that game, but Joe's 3rd quarter was absolutely horrible.
That being said, I am excited to have Ganz back. The experience he got last year taught him a few things I'm sure. With another spring and fall camp under his belt, I'm betting he becomes really good at deciding when to make the deep throw, when to dump it off, when to tuck and run, and when to throw it away. The O should be just fine this year.
Where is the Texas Tech QB at? They throw more than anyone? I kinda think you left him off purposely! Graham Harrell was 48-14, which was better than any QB you listed, and he plays in the Big 12!
You beat me to the punch on Graham, I realized he wasn't on the list as well. His line this past year was:
NAME CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT
Graham Harrell 512 713 5705 71.8 8.00 48 14 157.3
Despite everyone knowing that TT would throw every down, he threw for 48 TD's and still had less than 20 INT's. This is why I don't fully buy the argument that you can't take what Joe did on face value simply because NU threw a lot over the last 4 games. Yes they did throw a lot, but he still made a higher percentage of bad plays than the other top Big XII QB's. Hopefully the practice with the 1st Team O will gain experience and confidence so that he doesn't force it as often. Like I said earlier if he keeps up his current pace of INT's, a high negative TO DIFF will result and NU won't win 8+ games.
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The only negative I keep hearing about him is that he has a tendency to throw a lot of int's well I would just like to ask people where they are getting this idea from. Keep in mind he had never started a game before those last 4 and that about 80% of the time the defenses knew we were going to pass and dropped extra people back to add to the coverage. All that being said he still managed a decent int/td ratio in my opinion.
NAME TD/INT INT/TD Ratio
Joe Ganz 16/7 44%
Chase Daniel 33/11 33%
Sam Bradford 36/8 22%
Colt Brennan 38/17 45%
Brian Brohm 30/12 40%
Todd Reesing 33/7 21%
Chose Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mizzou QB's as they are in our conference and are really great, and then just chose Brohm and Brennan from the top 15 in pass efficiency randomly last year. As you can see Ganz fit's in with them decently and these are all Heisman quality quarterbacks.
You're missing one key stat: INT's per game or better yet INT's per attempt. Don't just use TD-to-INT ratio cause like you said, we sat back and passed a lot.
Don't want to take anything away from Ganz cause I think he'll win out this fall and will do well. The offense seemed to rally around him and really started to take off.
I agree that you need to look at the per game stats vs. his overall stats. The big flaw with his overall stats is that it was for only 4 games, hence only 7 INT's. If you take the stats average per game (4TD/1.75INT) and project it over a standard 12 game schedule he would have had a wopping 48TD's and 21 INT's. Yes the 44% rate compares favorably with Brohm and Brennan, but no one on your list sniffed 20+ INT's last year. That is just way too many. Looking at this another way, NU has averaged 15.7 INT's and 9.7 fumbles recovered per year over the last 10 years. NU also averaged 13.6 fumbles lost per year. NU already averages 4 more fumbles per year lost than our opponents and if Joe continues to average 1.75 INT's a game, then in 2008 the averages tell you that the overall turn over differential could be -9 or -10. That is almost a -1 diff per game and is a terrible number.
Too be fair none of them sniffed anywhere near 48 TD's either. And none of them apart from maybe Colt Brennan had defenses that played pass defense nearly the entire game, none of them had absolutely terrible defenses to give them any support, and it also seemed Callahan didn't want him running the ball which he could have done in situations where he ended up throwing picks, which would also bring that number down. Not to mention that he'll have more and more experience as this season goes on and before those 4 games he had never started before.
I agree that he has tremendous upside and I am excited to see what he can do with starting experience in the offense. He just looked like he has that Farve attitude too much, if he changes his mentatilty and is a bit more conservative with the ball then he will excel. If he doesn't, 48TD's or not, a -8 TO margin will not allow this team to win 8+ games. A running game would help as well.
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The only negative I keep hearing about him is that he has a tendency to throw a lot of int's well I would just like to ask people where they are getting this idea from. Keep in mind he had never started a game before those last 4 and that about 80% of the time the defenses knew we were going to pass and dropped extra people back to add to the coverage. All that being said he still managed a decent int/td ratio in my opinion.
NAME TD/INT INT/TD Ratio
Joe Ganz 16/7 44%
Chase Daniel 33/11 33%
Sam Bradford 36/8 22%
Colt Brennan 38/17 45%
Brian Brohm 30/12 40%
Todd Reesing 33/7 21%
Chose Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mizzou QB's as they are in our conference and are really great, and then just chose Brohm and Brennan from the top 15 in pass efficiency randomly last year. As you can see Ganz fit's in with them decently and these are all Heisman quality quarterbacks.
You're missing one key stat: INT's per game or better yet INT's per attempt. Don't just use TD-to-INT ratio cause like you said, we sat back and passed a lot.
Don't want to take anything away from Ganz cause I think he'll win out this fall and will do well. The offense seemed to rally around him and really started to take off.
I agree that you need to look at the per game stats vs. his overall stats. The big flaw with his overall stats is that it was for only 4 games, hence only 7 INT's. If you take the stats average per game (4TD/1.75INT) and project it over a standard 12 game schedule he would have had a wopping 48TD's and 21 INT's. Yes the 44% rate compares favorably with Brohm and Brennan, but no one on your list sniffed 20+ INT's last year. That is just way too many. Looking at this another way, NU has averaged 15.7 INT's and 9.7 fumbles recovered per year over the last 10 years. NU also averaged 13.6 fumbles lost per year. NU already averages 4 more fumbles per year lost than our opponents and if Joe continues to average 1.75 INT's a game, then in 2008 the averages tell you that the overall turn over differential could be -9 or -10. That is almost a -1 diff per game and is a terrible number.
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Ok, fine Lee is for real. So he was good in JC..good against JUCO players is one thing, good against D1 players is another. When have we seen him play against D1. I've beed to every spring game for the last several years and I haven't seen him take a single snap.
I would think if he really were so much better than Witt or Ganz he would have been Sam Keller's back up. As is stands the last depth chart I saw had Keller, Ganz and Witt in that order on it and as I recall Beau Davis was fourth. That would seem to indicate that Lee was fifth or worse.
Evidence would therefore suggest that this year Patrick Wit would be the number 2 guy, unless Davis or Lee just has a stupendous spring or fall camp. The Starting job is Ganz's to lose.
We'll see who plays this spring.
I know that there is a lot of love for Ganz, I am guilty of this also, as well as for Lee, but I keep reading articles here and there that say Witt has the most talent. The radio play by play guys also seemed to echo this during the season last year. I am not sure what will happen, but I fully expect a serious 3 way battle.
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Everyone seems to want to go to some form of the spread, but I must defend the WCO for a second and say when we finished last year we were the 11th overall offense, we put up 30+ points against 7 teams on our scedule, and 50+ against 3 teams. (one of the 30+ games was USC keep in mind.) One thing I will say is we have depth in athletic QBs, we have a recruiting class of a fair amount of receivers, with this last class we added even more talented depth at RB. I would say it looks to me that we are going to transition in to the spread, which I will be interested to see what the next few seasons will look like with this tranisition, I feel it will be fun to watch
The Trojans broke open the game by scoring three straight touchdowns in the second half, the first two set up by interceptions."Once we got going, geez, we just took control," Carroll said.
USC led 49-17 in the fourth quarter, but Sam Keller led two touchdown drives against the Trojans' prevent defense to close the gap.
Can people get it out of their head that this offense wasn't so great and exspecially during the USC game? First of all Nebraska was behind 42-10 and scored 21 point off of USC second team playing prevent defense. Lets not bringup the fact that 2 int set up USC for two TD (Kind of like Colorado see a pattern?) that allowed such a huge lead.
Stats are good but they don't tell half the story and some times tell none of it.
The number 11 offense didnt help during Oklahoma St and Texas A & M which were two home games.
Gotta agree with that. The 11th ranked offense was out-gained by opponents in 8 of 12 games...Throw out the stats for the KSU and Nevada game and this offense was average at best.
Ball St. (hard to defend the offense there cuz its ball st but still scored 40.)If I remember rightly the offense had to rely on a Bo Ruud 34 Yd Interception Return at the end to even beat them.
Kansas- how was that an average offense? we scored more points on them than anybody else.With their(Kansas) schedule I would hope that Nebraska would be at or near the top.
and colorado. take away a couple of early second half picks and thats a stellar performance.Take away the int? If this offense was that great they would have run and been able to run the clock down and thus making the game shorter with a 11 point lead coming out at half time.
Under keller the offense was average at best. ill give you that but under ganz it flourished.1-3 record I could do with less flourishing and take a win.
A-freAKING-MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It will be a 'sleeper'. Someone we've not become largely aware of yet. Bo's staff will develop some guys and we'll be pleasantly surprised by someone that hasn't been in the limelight.
I agree. Someone in the secondary will emerge. Probably a safety. Bo's defenses always seem to have a play-making safety.
I agree, Bo likes to rely on corners playing man allowing him to flex his safeties into Blitz or special coverage plays. A speedy/fiesty safety will have 6-10 sacks and maybe become a ball hawk ala NU's 2003 defense.
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How did this guy coach defenses that allowed a team to go to the Rose Bowl three times? The Big Ten is really weak, a mid 50's defense is like having a top 25 defense in the Big 12.
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I think you will see a change in their attitude. Herbstreit is a big Pelini fan.
Mark May says very few things positive on anyone. That is his nature. If we win and do it consitently he will be backing us. We have very little to show that he did not predict. He said we did not belong on the field with SC, Missouri, Kansas and said we would give Texas a pretty game. He seems right more than he is wrong. I do not like his attitude, but he is far from being an idiot on college football. Turn off the picture, listen to his words and what he expects and he is damned near spot on most of the time. When he is wrong he admits it. Some just pass it by.
I do not like the guy either, but we have pretty much sucked the last 8 years, we need to learn to deal with it. It is not what you did in 93-98, it what you do today. The messenger may be a jerk, but he is telling the truth. We need to learn to deal with it.
I seem to remember the early periods of the ESPN college football bloom in the late 80's and early 90's when we couldn't buy a win in the Orange Bowl. Should have heard Corso then, I used to thing the same thing about him as many in this string are saying about Herbstreet. After 3 titles, Corso rarely says a negative thing now.
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Agreed, these players don't even know what a BLACKSHIRT means let alone got to wear them last year. Even in the glory days only the elite players received one, just because someone started didn't mean they automatically got a Blackshirt.
I think that the attitude will be there, remember these players voluntarily gave up their blackshirts last year instead of staining them with bad performances. The recent press I have read has a lot of the players excited and voluntarily spending a lot of time with the coaches to learn the scheme so they can hit Spring Practice running. I think there is talent there also, especially in the defensive backfield. If the young core in the back can gel early and cover the passing game effectively in man coverage that will allow Bo to bring a Safety up in Blitz/run coverage as he is apt to do. I know that is a big if, but I think that the talent is there though inexperienced. I don't think a top 30 defense is out of the realm of possibilities.
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Okay, I know all of you are excited to hear what some random guy on a random message board has to say about the Huskers' upcoming season, so here we go:
Western Michigan - Win (1-0)
San Jose State - Win (2-0)
New Mexico State - Win (3-0)
Virginia Tech - Win - Kansas beat them in the Orange Bowl. I think we will win against Kansas this season, so look at the explanation down below. (4-0)
Missouri - Loss - This is a tough one. Missouri should be a great team for the upcoming season, but everyone also thought Nebraska was going to be a great team in 2007 and look what happened. In my opinion, I think Mizzou will remain a great team and win the North again. Fortunately for Nebraska fans, the game will be much closer than 41 to 6.
(4-1)Texas Tech - Loss - This is the first away game, and it will be against a very solid TT team. I just don't think the Huskers have the speed on defense to keep up with the RR's offense (unless the S&C drastically improves this during winter conditioning). (4-2)
Iowa State - Win - No explanation needed. (5-2)
Baylor - Win - See "Iowa State". (6-2)
Oklahoma - Loss - The Big 12 will be pumping out alot of quality teams this season, OU being included in this group. Don't think the Huskers will win, but they will put up a HUGE fight and the game will be fairly close. This is especially true since this game is towards the end of the season, and everything is figured out by now (i.e., which players will play which positions). (6-3)
Kansas - Win - Okay, so KU had a decent team last year. But in my opinion, it wasn't as good as everyone thinks. The only good team they faced all year was Mizzou, and they lost to them. The rest of the teams they played were mediocre (i.e., CU, A&M), and they barely ended up winning against them. NU scored 39 points on them last season...and still lost! With a halfway decent defense, and the fact that this is a home game, I think KU is going to be in some trouble. (7-3)
Kansas State - Win - Josh who? Expect this Josh character to get roughed up big time in this game. Huskers roll over Kansas State Community College (8-3)
Colorado - Win - Home game against CU = Husker victory. Look, we were dominating them going into the half last season, and then our wonderful "defense" started to do what they did best last season...suck. I don't think this game will even be close. (9-3)
Bowl game - Don't know, depends on who we are against...
End of season before Bowl Game record: 9-3
I'm looking forward to the upcoming season. I'm mostly looking forward to see what the defense will look like once all players have been evaluated, and Bo and his assistants decide where each player should go. Samething goes for the offensive side of the ball, but in my opinion, the offense was fairly good last season.
Is it September yet?
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Since I am stranded on the East Coast and can't make the games much anymore, I was wondering how much will miss at the Spring game this year. Are they actually going to go back to 1st string O and 2nd string D on one team vs. 1st string D and second string O on the other team? I really hated it when BC went away from that, it would give us a legitimate look at how good/bad our D will be this year.
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I think Ganz is a mediocre player that can perform in the system adequately, but Zac Lee is for real. He threw for almost 3,500 yards with a 31/5 td-int ratio in a very good Juco league. The kid has a great frame and runs the 40 in 4.6, and since he's been getting healthier, I wouldn't be surprised if he's sharpened it up to a 4.5. He's only been developing.
I remember reading more than once in articles that Shawn W. and the BC era coaches said that P. Witt was the most talented/impressive of the group
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Listening to Mack Brown now and he did acknowledge that his recruiting class is one of his best character classes.
I like Mack and that's exactly what they needed down there. I wouldn't want 5 star criminal athletes on my team either if I was the coach. Character first, academics second, athletic ability third!
I hope you weren't one of the many calling for Frank Solich's head then 5 years ago.
No, I wasn't. Doesn't mean that I still want him here right now though.
I would tend to agree with you there
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RB David Oku
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Doesn't Crabtree work for Rivals? If so, that is not really an answer. That is his company saying the same thing he said yesterday on the radio. The other article, an interview with Oku, seems to contradict what Rivals claims is almost a sure thing.