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Trust me Saunders you didnt need that article to prove it. Think about how many Jayhawk football fans you knew before last year. I grew up and spent the first 24 yrs of my life 1 hr from KC. I personally knew ONE person who liked KU football. I knew hundreds who liked KU basketball, but none of them ever spoke about Ku football. In fact, I know more KU basketball/NU football fans than KU basketball/ku football fans. Now when i go home i couldn't throw a rock with out hitting one. KU football every where. PUKE I have loved MU since i was 8. They were horrible until i was 15 then they went in the crapper for another 5-6 years and it has been a slow and wonderful climb out. If you love your team and they suck, then props to you. it can be a cruel world. Trust me i know. I can and will put up with a ton of stuff from my one friend who has always liked KU football, but everyone else who jumped on the wagon, you can suck it!

Cy, I would consider a trade for 4 tickets to the MU/ISU game + parking pass. But I am not sure what I could offer is worth another night of "dead arm" under a questionable "account exec". Beyond a possible hat or worn-in hoodie, you could take pride in allowing 4 Tiger fans their first road game. 2 would be going to their very first D-1 college game PERIOD. What a great opportunity to show what a wonderful town Ames is and allow someone a great experiance at the same time. We could also all promise to clap for both teams. If all that fails, I could try to talk my friend into letting you kick him in the cojones.

By that same logic, VT doesn't have an all-B12 caliber player either. And Mizzou only has Daniel and Maclin - and given the QB's you've listed, it might only be Maclin. And even if Mizzou had a roster entirely made up of All-B12 players, that still doesn't guarantee victory. I can't remember which coach said it, but this discussion reminds me of this quote: "It's not the team with the best players who wins, it's the team who plays the best." you forgot a few: William Moore - S Sean Weatherspoon - LB Stryker Sulak - DE Chase Coffman - TE Colin Brown - OL Jeff Wolfert - K But as you said, all conference players on paper won't win the game

Is that similar to "the-good-ol-days-ites"? AKA- Nebraska Fever. Side effects for both "Nebraska Fever & OleMiss/Clemson Syndrome include diarrhea of the mouth. Requires those suffering to take in lots of liquids, preferrably kool-aid.

I agree race doesnt matter, but I had to laugh that as a white guy i have to go back to steve largent. lol. There sure are not very many white stud WR's thats for sure lol Missouri always made Todd Blythe look like a stud.... oh cy you and your affirmative action for white WR's. Blythe avg'd 3.5 catches and 44 yrds against MU. But once AA is kicked in. That looks pretty darn good. Cy's AA dance Afffirmative Action, making white WR's look better since 2003

I agree race doesnt matter, but I had to laugh that as a white guy i have to go back to steve largent. lol. There sure are not very many white stud WR's thats for sure lol

very true Michael. However MU is not the same spread as TT. Mu is pretty balanced and will take what you give them. If you drop back they run, if you stack they pass. TT is pretty one dimensional. You are however spot on about mixing it up. Obviously from being a Tiger fan I know of examples from Tiger games, but if you stay the same and dont adjust MU will just keep running the same thing. perfect example was the Cotton Bowl. Arkansas took out their LBs and went with 8 and sometimes 9 DB's and dropped back. MU ran all game. CU stacked and pressed and MU threw all game. You have to keep them guessing

The main problem with that is that the spread is meant to take advantage of a mismatch. The offense runs it because they feel their wr/te/rb is better than the other teams cb/safety/lb. Like others have said you have to have great cover corners and great defensive personel as a whole. If not there will always be someone open. CU tried this against MU last year and if I remember correctly MU had big plays over the top 5 or 6. CU could not match up and MU went over the top all day. The best way to stop it is to make your tackles. Keep the play in front of you and limit the YAC. Really the truth is, it is very hard to stop the really good ones. And chances are they are going to score. So you have to try and create TO's, make sure tackles and limit your mistakes. ***EDIT***, I looked up the plays from the MU/Cu game and 3 times MU had scoring pass plays of 20 or more yards. Threw for 400+ yrds, avg'ed 16 yrds a completion and had 5 recievers that had a catch of 25 yrd or longer.

MU could run these guys by 40 or 50 with their 3rd string. They barely beat SW Baptist. For those unfamilar with D-II football, SWB is AWFUL. They have won 9 games the last five years. They were 0-11 last year. They have 6 conference wins in their last 45 conference games. Northwest Missouri State beat them 86-13 last season. Husker coaches and players or not, i hope no one wastes their energy on this one.

I would agree. Chase Daniel is the cockiest loud mouth in the conference. The dude has never heard of the word humble. He makes me sick. You love um when they are on your team. You hate them when they are not. NU fans loved Scott Frost and he was probably one of the biggest pricks in big 12 history. KU fans love Ressing. He plays up to the cameras, talking smack and dancing for the cameras pregame. Chase acts like he is good. But i have yet to hear him say anything that comes off like a prick when being interviewed. He is good and he knows it. I'll admit he has his times. But good god look at Freeman. He is a mouthy little punk and he hasnt done a darn thing. If I was Jordy Nelson when i came to a KSU game I would smack him right up side his fat head. JSG, I love ya man, but Chase is pretty humble when talking to the media. I have only heard two things that someone could say sounded bad. The crack on NU's D last year. After he was asked about the 10th time what they did, he said nothing that he didnt see in HS. That came off bad and is probably a big reason why some NU fans dislike him. The other was during big 12 media day when asked who the best big 12 qb was. Said himself, then followed with you have to believe in yourself and talked about the quality and depth of talent in the conference. Thats it. I would say he comes off pretty humble considering.

The schedual is much easier than the past two years for MU, but I don't think its that easy. And comparing it to KU's a year ago is a joke. They didnt play anybody intil the last game of the season. MU opens with a top 20 team on a neutral site, plays a top 15 team on neutral ground, & plays a top 10 team away. Is it the toughest, no not even close. Is it the easiest, no, not even close. OU's schedual is easier. They play Texas, Kansas and TT. One is nuetral and two at home. Just a couple of points. 1. You can not control your conference lineup. The last two years MU had OU, TT & aTm. Now its Texas, Baylor and Okie Light. That is easier, but not MU's fault. 2. KC and STL are truely neutral sites. Granted the majority of the cities are in Missouri. However they both crosse the rivers into the other states. Both cities are pretty evenly split between the two and the real hard up would argue that Ill gets the love in STL and KU gets it in KC.

Jeez don't get all butt hurt on us and sorry that I misspelled your precious QB's last name and Mizzo oops it's suppose to be Mizzou but if you want to get technical it's actually Missouri. Now as I was saying with the Kansas has a better shot than Mizzo oops I mean Mizzou at beating Nebraska in Lincoln I'll prove my point and I'll go back 4 years as you did earlier because it's so relevant. Kansas in 2004 lost to us 14-8 where Mizzou lost to us 24-3 and thats when we had Joe Dailey as our QB....that's pretty bad compared to your Brad Smith but you guys had pay back in 2005 at home where you slaughtered us. Kansas in 2006 lost to us in overtime 39-32 where we beat Mizzou 34-20 and you guys had Chase Daniels oops it's Daniel. So going with your 4 year span because it's relevant as you so put it, Kansas has proved to us that they can beat us on our own home field where else Mizzou has struggled and Kansas didn't really have any well known players. And you say this is the Best Mizzou team you've had in 30 years, well when's the last time Nebraska had a team this bad from last years team???? So don't get all excited because your 07 Tigers beat one of thee worst Nebraska Teams in history and now this year we won't have Callahoon on our sidelines anymore. And nobody ever said 08's toughest stadiums to play at....go ahead and scroll up, it says it nowhere believe me I've looked already. So don't come to a Nebraska Message board and tell Husker fans to get it through their heads because now you just sound ignorant. I posted my opinions and you've backlashed everyone mocking me and even told us as Husker fans to get it through our little heads. So please do us all a favor and respect other peoples opinions and to NEVER TELL HUSKER FANS TO GET THINGS THROUGH THEIR HEADS THE BETTER OFF WE'LL BE. So Fro Daddy please play nice or don't play at all. Huskerjock, Sorry if i came off as a dick, that was not my intention. I felt like you where coming after me for no real reason. Message boards are tricky that way. Its heard to get a read on the emotion of someone when its being typed. All I was doing was defending my stance cause I felt like you were getting on me for being a tiger fan. Truth is I have rarely mentioned the tigers. This come to this board for discussion. I enjoy it. I did get defensive with you because, i thought you were after me because of my avitar. There were other husker fans saying the same as i was, and I felt singled out. No hard feelings and like i said, I meant it as a sarcastic ass, sorry if it didnt come off that way

What does the W-L record have to do with it being a tough place to play? I don't think that's really something an opponent considers. Why would they care? How does that make it tough for them to play there? I don't understand your logic... Not to sound mean but ARE YOU SERIOUS???? So we could be undefeated at Home and still not be considered the toughtest place to play on our home field. I think a lot of people just have their mind set on......."Well if their crowd is loud, their stadium must be a hard place to play at!" I don't believe in that logic at all. If you're the best team in the nation YOUR record will reflect that in most cases in hence you'll play in the NC title game.....right? Lets say we go to Baylor and their crowd is screaming non stop then their stadium must deserve to be in the Toughest places to play at LOL. I'm just not found of people saying that just because they have a loud stadium doesn't mean that their stadium is a hard place to play at. My math was way off early in this post but in 27 years we've only had 21 teams beat us at HOME. People are just thinking about what had happen last year and the past 4 years at Nebraska and totally forgot what Nebraska had back in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Ya it's easy for Mizzo fans to pull up numbers for the past 4 years because now they think that their program is a great program that we had talked about earlier this week. Football is all about numbers, stats, records, etc and our home record is one of those numbers. Everybody looks at other teams records and stats to justify on who's the best team in the Country or Conference. Football is a game about numbers...........not crowd noise. But I'm going to go now and watch a high school football game because their crowd is loud and must be a tough place to play in. I never said anything about Mizzou being some great program. I did how ever throw a BS flag on how something from 38 years ago matters for this season. PLEASE explain that to me how records from the 70's, set long before anyone one either team was born effects what happens on the field . Or maybe you could explain how the 80's do, because I am sure when Lucky was 3 years old in California he couldn't wait for the husker game on saturday. Maybe the 90's when all the kids playing this season were in middle school. History is great for fans, media and tour guides. Even good for recruiting. But it does diddly squat for toughest places to play and it doesnt relate to wins. If that was the case then all NU would have to do is show up. And we all know that is not the case. Yeah titles are cool. Even though as a stated the other day, you won the last one right before my niece was born and she is now in the seventh grade. I will still take any of them to brag about for my team. The deal is just because MU shut NU out four staight years in the 60s doesnt mean they will shut them out this year. Just because NU won all most all their home games 15-30 years ago doesnt mean its the toughest place to play now. I looked at 4 years because thats pretty relivant. Many players who are on teams now in college football where also on teams in 03 and 04. It is recent, not old. It realates to now, not reliving the past. If you want go back 5 or 6 years, I guess that is still pretty close, but to go back 20 years ago is a waste of time. The sooner some of the husker fans get this through their heads the better off they will be. Unfortuanatlly for everyone I fear a small few never will As we were talking earlier, someone brought up the toughest places to play and never said THIS YEAR, so I assumed it was the toughest places to play since football started. Someone also said that you have to have a loud crowd to be consider one of the toughest places to play at. Back in the 70's, 80's, 90's and early 00 our fans weren't loud but yet we were still consider a tough atmosphere to play at and our record proved that. And the only reason why I went back to 1980 is because I got that info off of a website and they went back to 1980. I think that you took that past four years because it's a time were Mizzo was starting to improve where most people would pick a easier number like 5 or 10. When VT, Kansas, and Mizzo come in to Lincoln I think that it'll be tough for them to beat us even after the season we had last year. I still think that Lincoln is still in the top 15 toughest places to play and the SOONER Mizoo fans get through their heads the better off they'll be. So ya I'm drinking the because I have 110% convidence that we'll play better this year compared to last year and I believe that we can beat VT, KU, and Mizzo at home and I could honestly see your precious Daniels choking in Lincoln like he did 2 years ago. Mizzo has a better chance at choking in Lincoln this year than Kansas because Kansas has come close to beating us two times in Lincoln from the past 4 years. So heres my little dance and . Nebraska will be back and I can't wait till we beat Mizzo in Lincoln and the sooner you Mizzo fans get this through your heads the better. GO BIG RED 1. its Daniel. not daniels 2. its Mizzou. not mizzo the sooner you get that through your head, or actually pay attention to college football and stop your 'homer' roll the better off you will be. 3. if you are willing to place a bet on that "I believe that we can beat VT, KU, and Mizzo at home" statement I will be happy to take your money from you. If you think you have a better chance against MU than KU you are drinking the kool-aid. And thats cool. It's your right. Who am I to tell you anything. You jumped in on something that was brought up about this year and how NU is/isn't one of the toughest places to play. You took it since the beginning of time, we were talking about 08. Thats cool to it was a misunderstanding. And as I said above you can streatch it out to including further years if you choose. I gave my reasoning for that time frame. (current players, sitiuations, teams ect.) You can throw the since "MU got good" card, whatever. Seems like you have tigers on the mind since you keep bringin them up. And maybe you should. Yeah MU choked 2 years ago with a team full of underclassmen against a team they were underdogs against. That is not the case this year. GO ahead, tell me about 30 years. I will tell you when was there a MU team this good in the last 30 years. There hasnt been one. I will also tell you NU is a shell of its former self, but that wont stop you from drinking . SO I guess I will just let this die and I will look for your first post after the MU/NU game. Good luck. Just try not to choke.

What does the W-L record have to do with it being a tough place to play? I don't think that's really something an opponent considers. Why would they care? How does that make it tough for them to play there? I don't understand your logic... Not to sound mean but ARE YOU SERIOUS???? So we could be undefeated at Home and still not be considered the toughtest place to play on our home field. I think a lot of people just have their mind set on......."Well if their crowd is loud, their stadium must be a hard place to play at!" I don't believe in that logic at all. If you're the best team in the nation YOUR record will reflect that in most cases in hence you'll play in the NC title game.....right? Lets say we go to Baylor and their crowd is screaming non stop then their stadium must deserve to be in the Toughest places to play at LOL. I'm just not found of people saying that just because they have a loud stadium doesn't mean that their stadium is a hard place to play at. My math was way off early in this post but in 27 years we've only had 21 teams beat us at HOME. People are just thinking about what had happen last year and the past 4 years at Nebraska and totally forgot what Nebraska had back in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Ya it's easy for Mizzo fans to pull up numbers for the past 4 years because now they think that their program is a great program that we had talked about earlier this week. Football is all about numbers, stats, records, etc and our home record is one of those numbers. Everybody looks at other teams records and stats to justify on who's the best team in the Country or Conference. Football is a game about numbers...........not crowd noise. But I'm going to go now and watch a high school football game because their crowd is loud and must be a tough place to play in. I never said anything about Mizzou being some great program. I did how ever throw a BS flag on how something from 38 years ago matters for this season. PLEASE explain that to me how records from the 70's, set long before anyone one either team was born effects what happens on the field . Or maybe you could explain how the 80's do, because I am sure when Lucky was 3 years old in California he couldn't wait for the husker game on saturday. Maybe the 90's when all the kids playing this season were in middle school. History is great for fans, media and tour guides. Even good for recruiting. But it does diddly squat for toughest places to play and it doesnt relate to wins. If that was the case then all NU would have to do is show up. And we all know that is not the case. Yeah titles are cool. Even though as a stated the other day, you won the last one right before my niece was born and she is now in the seventh grade. I will still take any of them to brag about for my team. The deal is just because MU shut NU out four staight years in the 60s doesnt mean they will shut them out this year. Just because NU won all most all their home games 15-30 years ago doesnt mean its the toughest place to play now. I looked at 4 years because thats pretty relivant. Many players who are on teams now in college football where also on teams in 03 and 04. It is recent, not old. It realates to now, not reliving the past. If you want go back 5 or 6 years, I guess that is still pretty close, but to go back 20 years ago is a waste of time. The sooner some of the husker fans get this through their heads the better off they will be. Unfortuanatlly for everyone I fear a small few never will

hey that place is so tough the birds die trying to fly across it.

nate swift out ran something/some one?! yeah right, liars. No really though, good story. Glad he is well.

CY you know that BS holding call that cost MU the game 2 years ago shouldn't count. Come on, even the freaking BIG 12 said it was a BS call dumb officials 3-2, like everyone else, should be the record

Again I say: what does the number of wins at home have to do with how tough a stadium is to play in? How does this make it tougher for opponents to win? I don't get it... It does't mean anything more than they win most of their home games. It means about as much as pictures, sellouts, games from 30 years ago and a national title that was won two months before my niece was born. She is now in the seventh grade.

Yes I really do believe that playing football in Lincoln is still one of the hardest placest to play for one reason....OUR FANS. 289 Consecutive Sellouts and the Greatest College football fans, our fans always go nuts at every home game. Just because we had 4 bad years well 05 and 06 season wasn't that bad but it still doesn't exclude us from the top 25 toughest places to play category. We might be in the Top 25 but there is no way we are in the Top 15 as the hardest stadiums to play. I have been all around the country watching football games and there are louder stadiums. Sure Nebraska has the consecutive sellout streak but our fans our not that loud, and compared to other stadiums they don't go "nuts" Crowd Noise is the number one factor in making it a tuff place to play and our stadium doesn't get that loud. Most of the fans sit during the game and tell their own fans to sit down and stop cheering. I have had it happen to me numerous times at memorial stadium. Ok so Michigan, Florida, and USC are probably in the top 10 if not the top 15 toughest places to play but LSU beat a really good Florida team in Florida, and Appalachian State beat a Michigan team in Ann Arbor, and Standford beat USC in LA and all of those Stadiums are all LOUD. Just because a stadium is loud doesn't always mean that it's a hard place to play.....you have to put in their Home Record in the mix not the crowd noise. From 1923 to 2007 our home record is 362-110-13 (.760) record. From 1980-2007 we've lost to about 21 teams at home with isn't bad in a 17 year span. So lets say we have 5 home games every year thats 17x5=85 home games in 17 years and only allowing 21 teams to beat us at home. Thats not bad. I rest my case Anyone can bend numbers. Watch my magic yeah magic over the last 4 years (pretty relivant), unlike going back to 1970 (the year my dad graduated from HS) which is not relivant at all to the 2008 season. I compiled home winning percantages for D-1 football. NU is 38th. What does this mean. It means 37 other teams win more often at home. Team Win% gms 1. Boise State 1.000 32 2. Oklahoma 0.969 32 3. Southern California 0.967 30 4. Louisiana State 0.914 35 5. Ohio State 0.914 35 6. Louisville 0.897 29 7. Wisconsin 0.879 33 8. Texas 0.867 30 9. Texas Christian 0.862 29 10. Virginia Tech 0.857 35 11. Florida 0.844 32 12. Georgia 0.844 32 13. Texas Tech 0.839 31 14. Michigan 0.829 35 15. Toledo 0.828 29 16. Iowa 0.812 32 17. West Virginia 0.812 37 18. Auburn 0.811 37 19. Hawaii 0.811 37 20. Missouri 0.806 31 21. California 0.800 30 22. Utah 0.800 30 23. Virginia 0.800 30 24. Arkansas State 0.792 24 25. Kansas 0.788 33 26. Boston College 0.774 31 27. UCLA 0.774 31 28. Tennessee 0.765 34 29. Bowling Green State 0.760 25 30. Fresno State 0.759 29 31. Tulsa 0.759 29 32. Arizona State 0.758 33 33. Clemson 0.758 33 34. Connecticut 0.758 33 35. Florida State 0.742 31 36. Oregon 0.742 31 37. Navy 0.741 27 38. Nebraska 0.735 34 How does this relate to toughest places to play? It matters, but its not the whole story. Any how it means a hell of a lot more that "289 sellouts." I dont for a second believe that Ark St. is a tougher place to play than Lincoln. Lots of things go into how tough it is to play somewhere. The number 1 factor is how good your team is. Lincoln was not a tough place to play last year. Yet the games sold out, and the fans were the same people. Is it a coincidence that playing games at the 'ZOU' has gotton tougher for oppenents since the Tigers started putting winning seasons together? Fact is no one thing can dictate what is, or is not the "Top 25 toughest places to play". There is no science to it. Its opionion. Of course NU fans feel they are the toughest place to play. At one time it was. But at one time i was 16 and had a boner all day. Things change. There are ups and downs. AND there is nothing more than opinions that can come from this topic. Unless that is someone has been to EVERY college football staduim in the country multiple times in the last 5-10 years. Then by all means, give us the list. I rest my case

I disagree. I have been to both. Granted I have only been to 1 game in each, but everyone I know says that now a days lincoln isnt even in the top 25. I have heard this a number of times from writers and broadcaster. All my husker buddies say its pretty tame now compared to 15 yrs ago. Like I said I have been to each just once, and Norman was by far louder. But 1 is not a very big sample size. soooo

Hey mel I think we are saying the same thing just from oppisite sides. Like you said I am not going to beat the horse, I agree with what you are saying, just a different point of view. Oh and I have to give you hell about the 03 thing again. NU's D was in the 50's the previous year ( not 114th), had 3 NFL D backs and other NFL players on the D and the schedual in 03 was much easier. OH and MU won 41-24. Looks good for me. Just messing with you

Now you are right on with the "this is all PRE SEASON". It wouldnt matter much if the teams dont go and win their games. However I do believe most people last year saw the Huskers falling off a little. ( I in no way will throw some BS out there that I saw what was going to happen and thought "I told you so") However when you lose 2 DE's that were as good as NU had that is a big hole. I had my doubts about your D line and Linebackers upfront, AGAIN, I thought MAYBE 4 losses MAX last year. Things were worse than many thought and has been mentions millions of times, the team quit at the end of the year. With that being said I dont believe anyone outside of NU fans thought Nebraska had a chance in hell to beat USC, they were not equal, not even close. Although the cupboard in not bare, football players don't forget how to play football. WR who could run routes in high school can still run routes in college. Callahan and as a result NU fans, became addicted to stars and ratings. Recruited top tier athelets and not top tier football players. NU's key to sucsess for almost 30 years was always getting GOOD football players. Kids from around the area the fit the program and ideals. 5 star athletes playing WR from California who can't run routes to save their life will not make you better. GOOD football players will. And just like all of you, I have no idea just how many of those type of players are on this roster. The long and short of it, your full of talent team got rocked all last year by teams who had no where as many "stars" per rivals, but they had a lot of football players. And please dont talk to me about the coaching, Yes that had something to do with it. But their was little tackling, lots of dropped balls, no big plays on D. PLayers make plays. even when guys were finally in positions to do that, they didnt. Nobody knows what to expect. I know I dont. Thats why all of you are pumped to see the first game, right? P.S. I dont think colorado has a chance against MU in columbia this year. Well maybe a 5% chance. that is the very definition of a poor coaching. it has EVERYTHING to do with it Last time i played football my coach didnt catch the ball for me and hand it off so i could run. Cosgrove sucked yes. But he didnt make your offensive players drop balls when they were wide open. Didnt make your linebackers duck there heads when they tackled. Didnt make your db's drop INTS. Those are things your PLAYERS did. I have played plenty of sports. and yes coaching can make a difference. adjustments, gameplans, those are things my coaches helped with. But I learned to tackle correctly in 6th grade. I didnt need a coach to hold my hand to show me how when I was 20. Just a thought Husker fan, could it be that coaching wasn't the only issue??? those are still skills that you have to practice.... practice everyday. I cant speak as much for football, but I can tell you about other sports. Mich state is known in basketball as one of the best rebounding teams in the country... do you know why? I have seen there practices. I have heard Izzo at clinics. they practice rebounding every day. and not just 15 minutes. but yeah that is something that I learned in 4th grade and I'm sure so did all of the D1 players a MSU. if it were only as simple as you say you could just have meeting and conditioning instead of practice and decrease injuries. i'm not buying what your selling obviously practice makes perfect. All I'm saying is some of this is on the players too. Why didnt WR stay late with QB after practice to fine tune things? Why didnt WR or DB catch balls on their own time if they needed to improve their skills? every team i have played on had guys working on their own time not just 'practice' time. All i was saying is even when NU players had chances to make plays last year they failed. Granted those times were not often, thus why they were so costly. Basically the point is some NU fans are acting like the players had no responsibility in last years failures. My point was the players didnt do what they needed too. Like I said, I learned how to do something long ago, I dont need to be taught like im in middle school again. But as you also said, reps help. The deal is, it is a two way street. just make sure to look at both sides. BTW, in all sports I played, football, basketball & baseball. Camp and preseason is when we worked on the basics. After that, conditioning and walkthroughs covered much of what we did. We just added to our playbooks. But thats just my experiances. I am sure 400 people could give you 400 different ways they did it.

This is my opinion about that. I think that we have a very legit shot at beating Mizzou this season. The number one absolute reason is that we have you at home. Secondly the Blaine Gabbert decommit stung. People will say that it didnt but it did. We know that if we are going to have a game to prove a point in ... its that game. Vt is important too but Im talking about a conference and division foe and defending division champ. One thing I can tell you is that win or lose, we will bring it all... 4 quarters. I agree with you HSKRNOKC 110%. I'm more worried about Texas Tech more than Mizzo is because A) It's in Lubbock B) They have like 10-11 returning starters on Offense C)Their QB is a stud (Better than Daniels IMO) and D) They have a passing attack Offense compared to our mediocre DB's. I'm sorry but everytime Kansas and Mizzo come into Lincoln they choke like OU does every Fiesta Bowl they've been in. I think that we can actually beat both Kansas and Mizzo in Lincoln this year. I won't be too surprise with all of this Heisman Hype that Daniels is getting that he'll pull off a Brady Quinn and Drew Tate when they were Seniors.......you know have a breakout year their Junior year and choke on their Senior year. Yes for many years, 30 to be exact Mu has not won in Lincoln. For many of those years NU was clearly the better team. NU won all the time, especially at home. HOWEVER, when was the last time MU had this talented of a team?? maybe they have never been this good, but when Mu did have good teams they won in Lincoln often. MU is clearly better than NU. NU's home field has meant less and less over the past few years. Am I 100% certain, no. Im a friggin Tiger fan. WE are never 100% certain on anything, unless you are talking about being cursed. I am 100% certain about that. I think MU will clearly have an advantage and I would not be surprised to see NU come in to that game as 7 1/2 pt dogs. I do believe MU wins. Both teams will be jacked, that is a given. NU homecoming will not scare this team, the gave OU everything they could handle last year on OU's homecoming and sorry, but its much louder and intimidating in Norman than Lincoln. Unless your scared of ticked off old people who can't stand to watch the game... Really...come on now. Did you see last years game? Have you seen MU? If that is you fear about TT then you should be equally scared of MU. I am all about your right to drink the kool-aid and cheer on your team, but seriously at least try and make sense when presenting an bullet point arguement. Facts are cool. Chase threw for over 4300 yrds last season. 5th most in the country. MU's O, had the 9th highest total passing yrds per game. Come on buddy, just show a little love or respect. Or atleast dont make me throw the bs flag on ya.

Now you are right on with the "this is all PRE SEASON". It wouldnt matter much if the teams dont go and win their games. However I do believe most people last year saw the Huskers falling off a little. ( I in no way will throw some BS out there that I saw what was going to happen and thought "I told you so") However when you lose 2 DE's that were as good as NU had that is a big hole. I had my doubts about your D line and Linebackers upfront, AGAIN, I thought MAYBE 4 losses MAX last year. Things were worse than many thought and has been mentions millions of times, the team quit at the end of the year. With that being said I dont believe anyone outside of NU fans thought Nebraska had a chance in hell to beat USC, they were not equal, not even close. Although the cupboard in not bare, football players don't forget how to play football. WR who could run routes in high school can still run routes in college. Callahan and as a result NU fans, became addicted to stars and ratings. Recruited top tier athelets and not top tier football players. NU's key to sucsess for almost 30 years was always getting GOOD football players. Kids from around the area the fit the program and ideals. 5 star athletes playing WR from California who can't run routes to save their life will not make you better. GOOD football players will. And just like all of you, I have no idea just how many of those type of players are on this roster. The long and short of it, your full of talent team got rocked all last year by teams who had no where as many "stars" per rivals, but they had a lot of football players. And please dont talk to me about the coaching, Yes that had something to do with it. But their was little tackling, lots of dropped balls, no big plays on D. PLayers make plays. even when guys were finally in positions to do that, they didnt. Nobody knows what to expect. I know I dont. Thats why all of you are pumped to see the first game, right? P.S. I dont think colorado has a chance against MU in columbia this year. Well maybe a 5% chance. that is the very definition of a poor coaching. it has EVERYTHING to do with it Last time i played football my coach didnt catch the ball for me and hand it off so i could run. Cosgrove sucked yes. But he didnt make your offensive players drop balls when they were wide open. Didnt make your linebackers duck there heads when they tackled. Didnt make your db's drop INTS. Those are things your PLAYERS did. I have played plenty of sports. and yes coaching can make a difference. adjustments, gameplans, those are things my coaches helped with. But I learned to tackle correctly in 6th grade. I didnt need a coach to hold my hand to show me how when I was 20. Just a thought Husker fan, could it be that coaching wasn't the only issue???

What a crock of sh#t. Why don't they show some really great games of Nebraska like the 2001 OU vs NEB game, 2006 UT vs NEB, 2006 Mizzo lose to Nebraska. These games up above are done right poor choices and the Director who organized this should be fired I think only games that aired on FSN qualify. The 2001 OU game was on ABC as was the 06 UT game. I'd take the 06 Mizzou game though, I think that was on FSN. i'm pretty sure its just FSN games. They had the 07 OU/MU on Monday and I think MU/TT 03 is on Thusday. For those Brad Smith lovers or haters that is one to watch and marvel or curse. Either way it will be fun to see again