Guy Chamberlin

Notre Dame is certainly having a bad week.

Wisconsin. They should never have become the monkey on our back. Let's just get that over with. Ohio State. They trump Alabama because they're in our conference. Michigan. Jim Harbaugh makes the funniest expressions when he's losing.

Yes, totally made up. Or... LOL!When you take partial quotes out of context, you can infer just about anything your myopic delusional heart desires. You also conveniently over looked this addendum: I'm still missing the part where you're not diminishing the MSU win. It's okay to do that. Just be honest. 1) But that is not what others accused me of, is it now? 2) Nor was it the point that you claimed earlier that I was making. 1) Yes it is. 2) Yes it was. It's a beautiful day today. Let's go out and enjoy it.

Yes, totally made up. Or... LOL! When you take partial quotes out of context, you can infer just about anything your myopic delusional heart desires. You also conveniently over looked this addendum: I'm still missing the part where you're not diminishing the MSU win. It's okay to do that. Just be honest.

If a coach thinks a Freshman can outperform a Senior, there usually isn't enough sentiment prop up the Senior. Happens all the time. Although I do think Newby gets the courtesy of proving himself. And because they have different styles, it's not hard to imagine platooning Newby/Ozigbo as a 1-2 punch. I wouldn't be surprised if Newby surprised us. Sorry, gotta jump back on the Tre Bryant bandwagon. "Let Tre Play!"

I think he's been pretty clear: the MSU upset shouldn't count because we lost to Purdue.

Yeah, that was bizarre. As I recall, it's not like the safeties were trying to cover two guys or something like that. They just totally failed to have anyone anywhere near our best WR. It's proof that you can have one of the best defenses in the country and you can still have mistakes and miscommunication. These are college kids not robots. The other option being that the coach made a terrible decision on what defense should be run and the kids were running what was called. I thought that TA credited Riley/Langs for have the MSU D scouted perfectly. The basically knew if we ran that formation in that situation that Westy would be wide open. edited: Having a good idea of how the Michigan State defense would play it, offensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf said NU formationed to get Westerkamp in the slot to run a particular seam route rather than throwing toward the sidelines. “Westy had a good feel of that route all week, and we felt they were a little vulnerable in the middle,” Langsdorf said. “We knew they were going to kind of go with those three high safeties,” Armstrong said. “We kind of played it smart by watching film, watching certain plays that other guys ran on them in certain situations. I think that it was great that it actually showed up." http://www.omaha.com/huskers/this-time-jordan-westerkamp-sets-up-the-miracle/article_e87153a4-85e1-11e5-b621-e7e9317f4db1.html Nice work. I remember that now but had forgotten that. So that pretty much answers the question. We knew the kind of defense they ran in a prevent-type situation and took advantage of it. Good work by our coaches. Poor job by theirs. Good find on the article and...good coaching. Why do you have to sh#t on our players by crediting our coaches? (kidding)

I see no reason not to be concerned about our defense.

Can you literally find a single person willing to bet their life that Williams didn't? Me. It's pretty much unfathomable that the three times Kevin Williams got caught driving under the influence were the only times he would have blown a .08. And he just blew a .15 at 2:00 a.m. Come on, guys. Illogical conjecture is still conjecture, and it doesn't help this particular problem. I'm rooting for Williams and gotta think this wake up call is the one that takes. He's very, very lucky right now.

'...in reality' isn't the proper set of terms to use for a sentence that is literally conjecture. It's the proper term for reality, though. "Conjecture" is the accurate word, but I bet you "literally" can't find a single person willing to bet his or her life that Williams only drove drunk those three times. It's not unfair to assume Williams has a drinking problem. It's compassionate. The man needs help, not rationalizations.

I've got nothing better to do today, so I'm going to jump on the Tre Bryant bandwagon.

Oh yes. Especially for my age.

No it wasn't. You're both right. For decades now, UCLA has shown the ability to take Top 15 talent and turn them into unranked disappointments.

I think we're a lot alike, Knapp. Neither of us likes to be lectured. I am currently under the impression that you think Bennett is largely correct, but are undermining his right to hold forth on the subject, based on his employer. ESPN has a lot of contributors who are essentially freelance contractors. They often disagree with each other and may well disagree with choices ESPN has made in the past. If you basically agree with Brian Bennett's assertions -- shared by many Husker fans right here on this thread -- I'm not sure I understand the value of dismissing them via the ESPN loophole.

You're a braver man than I.

See I thought my post clearly took your glass house argument into account: "What part of Bennett's article don't we agree with? I mean, other than the fact that it was written by an outsider." The parable "don't kill the messenger" isn't difficult to understand either.

I'm reading Bennet's piece and it reads a lot like what sensible posters have already posted here. Didn't find it overheated or click-baity at all. If working with Michael Irvin -- or any other ESPN colleague with a past -- precludes you from having an opinion, that not really fair, either. That he previously supported the University for their forgiveness of Bo only confirms he views those situations differently. As do most of us. What part of Bennett's article don't we agree with? I mean, other than the fact that it was written by an outsider.

I think it was both classy and smart for the Athletic Department to keep Pelini's 2011 outburst private, and to have his back when the tape became public. No comparison at all to a third DUI, which unlike petty tantrums is an actual crime. That being said, I'd prefer to rehabilitate Williams over Bo.

Seems to me there are a couple good reasons for Nebraska practices to be comparatively subdued at this particular moment.

I really don't want to open up the entire can of worms again, but in terms of legal jurisprudence and the UNL athletic department, the times in Lincoln these days are not nearly as strange as the 1990s. I understand the desire to blame administrators for everything, but once you get past Keith Williams 100% responsibility for himself, the decision basically cut down the middle of admonishing Williams and protecting the football program. It felt a bit light to me, and I have no trouble with outside media chiming in and wagging a finger, but as someone else pointed out it will soon be forgotten by all unless Williams gives reason otherwise. Or --- yikes --- a student athlete crosses the same line and we have to decide if the penalties should match.

If you're all about understanding and forgiveness, you'll understand the strong likelihood that Williams has driven drunk multiple times in recent years without getting caught, and encourage him to dig deeper beyond the required apology. He needs to understand his responsibilities and consequences — and I think he does. But claiming the 8 year span between DUIs diminishes his guilt doesn't really do Williams - or us - any favors.

Yeah, I always thought there were legal ramifications for a third DUI that took you out of commission (i.e. jail) regardless of how an employer decided to handle the situation. Say, as long as we're killing off-season time and making all manner of speculations: Would you rather be Keith Williams or Ryan Lochte right now? I'd rather be Williams.

Tommy averaged 261 yards a game - mostly passing - running a spread offense in 2014. Tommy averaged 285 yards a game - mostly passing - running whatever you want to call Langdorf's offense in 2015. He was #2 in Total Offense in the Big 10 both years. He would have been a top contender for post season awards in both seasons if Nebraska was also a contender. Oh yeah. And the interceptions. He was a maddeningly inconsistent decision-maker under both coaching staffs. But you knew that.

The issue being addressed was whether TO should have let Phillips play in view of what he'd done to Kate McEwen. And I pointed out that it was actually in Kate McEwen's best interest that he played, as it turned out, with the civil judgement and all. Granted, my choice of wording was very poor ("Not a bad payday"), and LP's actions were criminal (as I said in my post). But you also have to remember that Kate McEwen was a college athlete and likely received injuries as bad or even worse that that on the basketball court. (And before any of you get on a high horse with a new strawman for me to address, No, I am not saying it's okay to beat up college athletes just because they're used to playing a little rougher than the rest of us.) Given your previous poor choice of words, I wouldn't have doubled-down on this dangerously flawed premise. But that's just me.

Well the "Nebraska Way" was born when Bob Devaney came to Lincoln, turned the program around, and launched an unprecedented 40 year run of winning as both coach and Athletic Director. Back in that simpler, more stoic time, Lincoln Police would look the other way when Bob was too drunk to drive. Which was often. The word DUI hadn't been invented yet. Of course we cared what the outside world said. The outside world said Nebraska was a football dynasty. Husker football made the state famous. They marveled at our ability to recruit to the windswept plains, turn our stadium into the state's third largest city, and regularly cited our fans as among the best and most knowledgable in college football. They put us on Sports Illustrated and Time magazine. They jumped us over Michigan in 1997. They regularly put us on TV, despite our small population base. We really, really cared what the outside world said. We didn't like it so much when "they" said less flattering things about the program. But they weren't making them up. We lapped that sh#t up when it happened to rival programs. So I guess it's the Nebraska Way when we are winning championships. Not so much when we're not. And the tricky thing about "loyalty" is that you have to be loyal. You don't just declare that all the integrity died when a previous alcoholic coach got fired, and that the program will never be the same. That's not the Husker Way.