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How are they gonna stop Brandon?

Why no link for JC/WR Brandon Kinnie? He's visited and we've made him an offer.

6' 3" 218lb 4.37/40

Think of the biggest blown calls by the officials in nebraska games and post the one you think was worst. Eric crouch facemask, 82 penn st., lord throwing a td from his knees, whatever comes to mind.

 

Ill start it off with the '82 penn st. game when the reciever caught the ball six rows up in the student section and they called it complete.

 

I thought the facemask was frost?

 

I am seriously drawing a blank on blown calls here...maybe i get so mad i temporarily black out and lose the memory permanantely. Who knows but I do like the ones your threw out there.

It was Crouch against K State.

Perhaps not a biggie and I don't know if it would have changed the outcome, but in 1962 Mizzou beat Nebraska 16-7.

Johnny Roland broke loose on a long "Touchdown" run. Only problem, the ball had come out of Roland's grasp about the three yard line. It rolled through the end zone and should have been Nebraska ball at the 20. Our seats were on the three yard line where it happened. We went nuts, but there was nothing we could do!

Unfortunately, the ref who was about 20-30 yds behind Roland signaled "Touchdown".

senior Igor Somda, who broke out in the men’s triple jump with a big-time personal best of 48-7 ½.

04/29/2007

Some say MU, some say KSU, and some say CU. But comparing those games with OU is like comparing apples to oranges.

More like rotten apples to an apple!

OK, I finally got to read the entire article. I had only read the first few paragraphs.

Having lived back east for some time, I was sensing a typical East Coast media hatchet job. Taken in it's entirety, I think it was a good article.

I still don't like the Osborne picture. It reminds me of the small headed guy in the cars.com ad.

One final question. The article said, "They offered polite applause when Osborne introduced Pelini as a man as unpretentious as they are.. Can anyone that was there tell me if that is accurate? I would think the the place would have exploded at the Pelini introduction.

I glanced at the article. I'll go back and read the entire article, but first a few quick observations. The Times leads off with the Headline Huskers’ New Coach Promises to Heed Program’s Old Ways. They then instead of showing a picture of Pelini, they show a picture of Orborne who is, to be honest, old. The picture, due to the lens they used, makes Osborne (who I love) look freakish. To me they are painting the picture of Nebraska football as OLD, OLD, OLD!

Then they say the people come to inspect Pelini. They mention the NFL and LSU, as if no one in Nebraska noticed that Pelini was the Husker Defensive Coordinator in 2003!

I'll read on, but the Times is not off to a good start!

Hell, why stop the clock at all! Let the forward pass be a live ball just like a backwards pass (lateral)!

Sackmaster? How many did he get to warrant that nickname?

Considered by many as the most dominant defensive player in Montgomery County. As a junior Stanley tallied 37 tackles for loss, 16.5 sacks and forced 9 fumbles. Stanley earned first-team Washington-Post All-Met honors. -- Scouts

This isn't a question so much for this year, but...

 

Bo stated he wanted to run a spread option prior to being hired. As a defensive-minded coach, he has to believe that one way to "protect" a defense is with a strong running game. But all statements subsequent to Bo's hire is that we'll merely "tweak" the current offense.

 

What's it going to be? Are we going to go with a tweaked version of the West Coast offense? Are we going spread option? Either way, I would assume that the base of the offense will be a power running game.

 

Is next year going to be a kind of transition from a West Coast offense to the spread option? Are the quarterbacks that are being recruited better suited to one style or the other?

 

Just curious, more than anything, and thought I'd throw this out there to get the opinions of everyone...

 

 

The kind that runs over people, I hope.

 

GBR!!!

If you are looking for a label to pin on Nebraska's offense for next season, you might be out of luck according to Husker offensive coordinator Shawn Watson.

 

"We're not going to be a spread offense, that's not the deal," Watson said. "But that's the beautiful thing about the Nebraska offense. We're not going to be West Coast, we're not going to be spread. Those terms are overused by everybody. We're going to be the Nebraska offense. We're going to be multiple, balanced, and use the field, make the defense defend the field and defend us formationally."

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Watson has said several times this offseason that he wants to see more of a running attack from his offense this year. Last year, the team struggled statistically running the ball, though much of that can be attributed to huge deficits in games.

 

"It's not fair to talk about last year. You got to throw that out, just situationally. So that's not fair to even talk about that," Watson said. "But I think to be a championship team you have to be able to run the football. You look at championship games, the team that rushes the ball, that can eat up chain, eat up clock, but be able to be multi-dimensional, being able to run and it pass it, is going to be the team that wins. But it all starts with being able to run the football."

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Watson believes he’s got the personnel there this fall to be a strong running team, but also a team that brings great physical presence be it a run or pass play.

 

“And that has nothing to do with plays, it has everything to do with heart,” he said.

 

“And we feel like our No. 1 mission is to coach that type of effort and create that type of desire to be that type of offense, to be able to take the will of another team just because you’re so relentless in what you do.”

Watson: Offensive meetings full of "creative discussions"

Actually isn't this Marvin Sanders quote?

 

 

 

What is the quote, Eric? I haven't seen it.

From first post...

"I remember when I came here, I didn't come here because of what I thought Nebraska could do for me in the future. What I thought was, 'Wow, I'm going to play for Nebraska.' That's the mentality you look for in kids when you go out recruiting: Nebraska is the ultimate prize."

Now if that Kid in Nevada said Nebraska instead of Cal was looking at him he probably would have had a real offer from K-State.

Who did Rivals/HI rank as the top 5 offensive and defensive 08 committments??

You can look it up on the free side!.

Rivals Top 100 (Just look at the postion designation)

Scouts Top 100

Time after time I saw linebackers playing too close the line of scrimmage. Other team lined up 2 and 3 yard deeper. Sometimes the MLB was another yard deep. The LB were rushing to plug a gap while the running back was still 2-3 yards from the LOS. The running back simply picked the gap that wasn't closed. On perimeter plays, too often the linebackers were caught up in the traffic and couldn't get to the outside. Coz made no adjustments.

In the Texas game we did good with the blitz package until Texas figured out to run Charles. Did Coz adjust? LOL! Are you kidding me? I could see it, the announcers could see, but not Coz.

Honestly, I think it had more to do with motivation and wanting to play than it did scheme. Scheme was probably part of it, but I think towards the end a lot of the guys on that side of the ball just weren't into it.

The scheme destroyed the motivation!

does not have an NU offer

Some one is trying to sab-o-tage our program!

It seemed he got a lot of quitters. Dukes, Jackson, Beck, and some others. Was there a cancer on the team last year.

A number of Solich's player quit after spending a year under Callahan.

The is part of article from late 2004...

LINCOLN -- Nebraska's receiving corps has lost another member with the departure of Ross Pilkington.

 

Pilkington, a team captain as a junior this past season, told the Lincoln Journal Star on Tuesday that he will not return for his senior season.

 

Pilkington did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press, but he told the Journal Star that he plans to stay enrolled at Nebraska to finish his business degree.

 

"I'm just going to finish off school and then move on with my life," Pilkington said.

 

Pilkington finished as Nebraska's leading receiver, with 27 catches, even though he went five games without making a reception.

 

"There's been a change in tradition, a tradition that's been built up for however many years," he said. "But I think there's a new tradition in the making."

 

Pilkington said he met with coach Bill Callahan on Monday to tell him his decision. Pilkington said Callahan was positive and wished him good luck.

 

That's not the kind of experience receiver Andy Birkel said he had when he asked Callahan for his scholarship release last week. Birkel said Callahan never gave him an opportunity to prove himself and that Callahan treated him shoddily when he talked to him.

The biggest miss I think in the history of Nebraska football, was not offering Gale Sayers a Scholarship and asking him to walk on. Even the Great Bob D. made mistakes.

 

GBR!!!

 

Gayle Sayers first year in college was 1961. Devaney did not come to NU until 1962. Sayers was offered by Nebraska but picked Kansas instead (NU was not a very good program at the time). One of the reasons he gave was that Kansas had a better track program. Sayers was recruited by NU head coach Bill Jennings and had he got him to commit to NU, maybe he would not have been fired and then there probably would not have been a Devaney and then later Osborne.. You never know. To bad Sayers was not a couple years younger, Devaney probably would of got him, just like he did Johnny R. who wanted to go to USC. NU was 3-0 in Sayers 3 games vs Nebraska when he was at KU, Kansas had won 5 straight vs the Huskers prior to that.

 

Other big misses - Barry Sanders, NU probably could have got him but already had a couple rbs in class and passed on him. Also tried to recruit Marshal Faulk as a db and he wanted to run the ball.

 

One story I heard was thst Sayers had NOT made up his mind where to go.

Jennings heard that Sayers had committed to KU and told Sayers, "I hope you enjoy it at Kansas!". Sayers said that was when he made up his mind to go to Kansas.

Sayers was the best I ever saw! He scared you every time he touched the ball, but he never beat Nebraska!

He and his brother were also the best I ever played against

This was posted on an Alabama website (al.com)

To the University of Nebraska - y'all are getting two of the most exciting players that I have seen in years. There is no finer running back in the state of Alabama than Justin Rogers. Mason Wald is an intense and ferocious hitter in the style of Brian Bosworth.

 

I think I have just become a Nebraska fan!

This was posted on an Alabama site (al.com)

To the University of Nebraska - y'all are getting two of the most exciting players that I have seen in years. There is no finer running back in the state of Alabama than Justin Rogers. Mason Wald is an intense and ferocious hitter in the style of Brian Bosworth.

 

I think I have just become a Nebraska fan!

What is it that makes sCUm fans sooooo mouthy??? I would love to hear opinions on this. They sign a decent to mediocre class and they are talking national championships in boulder? I am not sure i see the logic.....

Inferiority Complex

This feeling may be manifested in withdrawal from social contacts or excessive seeking for attention, criticism of others, overly dutiful obedience, and worry.

Man, how fast Chris Brooks fell. Anyone know what the hell his deal is/was?

This from August 2007...

Also on hamstring-rehabbing detail was sophomore wideout Chris Brooks and his status is day-to-day.

Cy,

Thought you might like to see a picture of Cleyon. He looks pretty laid-back.

I hope he doesn't play dirty. We wouldn't want to have to call him the Alberta clipper! Eh?