Spooky Tooth

Any new word on Mack? Due to going to school abroad he was in a screwy academic-transfer situation where he had too many credits to play high school ball but not enough to come here. He's going to Fort Scott Community. He should at-least be here next summer but could be here in the winter. Does that meas he has committed? Rumor a while back was that he was a silent commit.

Can always count on Cy to put things into perspective. Good on yer.

Any new word on Mack?

You have your priorities right and God bless you for it. Frosts my behind to see an American flag flying at night with no light on it.

Excellante! (I made up a word! Wikipedia, here I come.)

While I understand why you have this idea, and ultimately it may have some merit, it is too early to worry about the '10 class. We are not far off where we were last year at this time, and that class turned out to be somewhere above mediocre. Also, the quality of the '10 class is above average. If the staff continues to fill the class up with this level of recruit I will be friggin ecstatic. Check out Scout and you will see that Reeves is now a 4 star. We are prolly going to get at least one more commit this weekend (Mobley) and we are in the running for Curtis Carter. Bottom line this whole discussion of Nebraska '10 commits. If I have a choice of fewer high quality commits or more marginal commits, I'll take the former. And for your posting entertainment I give you THREE dancing bananas....

Not necessarily true. Shawn Bodtmann ring a bell? The staff believed they knew what they were getting, and if much of what I have read was true about his h/s coach, the NU staff was somewhat blindsided. I agree with Jen. One would hope the staff does due diligence on proffers, and we have to give them that benefit of a doubt, but even then it is possible for surprises to happen. We as fans may not learn the reason for those surprises, and I'm fine with that unless it becomes a systemic problem. Certainly no signs of that yet.

According to Rivals, he's 5'10, 190 lbs and benches 450!

I'm not sure I'd want to go to the beaches right around UF. I think you'd discover why they have the mascot they do. Plus it's freaking ridiculously hot and humid in Florida, makes us northerners want to die. You couldn't pay me to go to school in the south. If the school was right on the beach, maybe, but once you get over that first line of sand dunes, sweltering heat. I chatted with a guy from that area who is at Offutt AFB. He is miserable because it ISN'T as hot and humid here as down there. Sickness!

I want to have your child!

I say we go about this methodically and take the time to do some research, scan over the Kansas State roster and look for players from Nebraska, or those that have relatives who have played at Nebraska. Again, if you have any leads or are able to figure out who it is please post it right away so everybody knows. Thank you why? Really, why? Agree. If you are serious, why would you do that if the gent asked that you don't? Personally, I hope the mods delete any post that identifies the player.

No worries. His grammatical errors are a huge turn-off for her hey why's everyone shooting down my internet game... besides our (future) relationship revolves around love/nebraska football/cuddling/sea glass/surfing gnary waves/fishing/playing music/intrepretive dance/our mutual study of russina prison tattoos...... and NOT grammer Okay, this is funny on several levels and VERY unlikely on another.

A ) I agree with this in concept for sure. B ) The problem with this whole thread is we do not know what really happened in either case. lots of rumors. I played college athletics, albeit Basketball, but I can tell you that any group of guys have their buddies and people they do not like, so even rumors from guys "on the team" can be prety darn useless if you do not know who is in with who. Due to the size of a football team, I would imagine it is worse about having different groups of friends within the team. I will just say this thread is ultimately pointless, because the quality of information we are going to get will not let us understnad things in an unbiased way to really speak intelligently about the issue with out being unfair to someone, or everyone, involved. Pithy yet deliberate. Me likey.

I don't get this post.

A thread on HI is saying that William Yancy is no longer on the roster. Does that open a schollie? Feel for the young man, but no one can say he did not have time and chances to get it done. http://nebraska.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid...928&style=2

6' 5", 240 lbs. AND A 4.7 40!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Two words: BOO YAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Been reading over at HI that Rex is doing so well that not only will he be the #3 RB, but that Ward and Okafor are losing ground. Positive comments on his athleticism, hands and moves. As much as I liked to hear all that, I am maybe more impressed with his character. This young man was BORN to wear scarlet and cream. Check out his run at the 1 minute mark. Dang! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycDP5s9t-kM

OK... you got me. 73 yards would be hella impressive!! Bah...I made an 80 yarder one time in practice! Course I had to kick it four times and then pick it up and throw it over the cross bar once I got close enough but still.... And that's only if some disoriented Clone doesn't run into the goal first and knock it down. BTW Cy, hearing good things about Rhoades and the mindset he is instilling at ISU. Whatcha hear about that, and is the QB injury serious? Arnaud is fine...saw him this morning. The rumor about the "shattered wrist" was posted on a Hawkeye board and took off from there. Hawkeyes also think they are going to win the Big 11, go to a major bowl, have a QB who doesn't throw like a girl and think the Big 11 is the toughest conference in football...which goes to show how credible information from someone in Iowa City is... The Clones are looking good offensively. Defensive secondary also looks good. DL still looks a little porous and the LB's still look slow but everyone is showing lots of excitement. Season looks a lot better going in than last year. Gald to hear it, cuz the cooters in Iowa State East need to be beat down regularly.

ROFL!!!!!!! The cookie in the whirlpool thing reminds me of Caddyshack.

OK... you got me. 73 yards would be hella impressive!! Bah...I made an 80 yarder one time in practice! Course I had to kick it four times and then pick it up and throw it over the cross bar once I got close enough but still.... And that's only if some disoriented Clone doesn't run into the goal first and knock it down. BTW Cy, hearing good things about Rhoades and the mindset he is instilling at ISU. Whatcha hear about that, and is the QB injury serious?

Trying hard not to gush about a kid who hasn't played a snap of D-1 ball yet, but dang.......

Good sir, what are these "adjustments" of which you speak? I know not what you mean...? Sincerely, Bill Callahan

I look at this question as, "Is NU turning a corner?" and not "Has NU turned a corner?" If the question is like I see it, the answer is clearly yes and one need not look farther back than the CU and KU games last season. NU had just received some good old fashioned curbstompings from MU and OU. If it were the 07 season the team would have folded and been beat down when faced with adversity in the CU and KU games. Does anyone seriously doubt that? Then look at the Gator bowl. NU flat out stunk in the first half. If it were 07, they would have come out in the second half, Joey would have thrown for a bunch of yards, the defense would have packed it in due out of lack of faith in the coaches and NU would have been embarrassed on national tv. Instead, NU came out in the second half with HONEST TO GOD EFFECTIVE ADJUSTMENTS and won against a very good defense and some very good skill offensive players (Spiller, Davis and Kelly). Some will look at our recruiting so far and be concerned. We have a very good class shaping up and fewer schollies to give out. We are not too far off from last year at this time in terms of NUMBER of schollies, and last year we had a lot more to fill out. Having said that, I am concerned at reports that some of the staff are not carrying their share of the water re: recruiting. In balance, I think NU is turning the corner. There are some concerns and there are some really bright signs ahead. The end of this season ought to answer this question.

LA Times writer does a good job of capturing what NU has gone thru since TO retired, and what Pelini is doing now. Can't hurt some of those CA players to read this..... http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-colleg...0,1176369.story COLLEGE FOOTBALL Chris Dufresne's preseason top 25: No. 20 Nebraska Cornhuskers continue rebuilding the program with defense in the offense-crazy Big 12 Conference. Bo Pelini Bo Pelini, entering Year Two on the gigantic job, has already transformed the Cornhuskers' famed "Blackshirts" defense into a premiere outfit. OK . . . premiere for the Big 12 Conference. Nebraska's national total defense ranking of 55th in 2008 isn't going to make anyone hold a nickname contest, but it ranked second in the league behind Texas at No. 51. Look at it this way: Every other Big 12 team registered between yellow and orange on USA Today's color-coded weather map: Kansas State (117, Death Valley), Texas A&M (114, Needles), Iowa State (112, Desert Hot Springs), Missouri (98), Oklahoma State (93), Kansas (89), Baylor (85), Colorado (78), Texas Tech (79) and Oklahoma (68). There's a debate raging as to whether porous defense in the Big 12 is a byproduct of prolific offense. The conference, after all, boasted five of the country's top 10 offenses in 2008. The only clue we had in the end last season was Oklahoma, which averaged 50 points a game, scoring 14 against Florida in the BCS title game -- but maybe that was just a blip. One thing was certain in Lincoln, Neb.: The gushing on defense had to stop. Players and citizens alike take great pride in "blackshirt" tradition, which dates to the early 1960s and involves deserving defensive starters pulling dark-colored practice jerseys over their pads. Trust me, it's special. Pride took a hit in late 2001, when undefeated Nebraska yielded 62 points to Colorado in Boulder and reached the nadir in 2007, at the end of the Bill Callahan era, when the Cornhuskers allowed 76 points (whoa) at Kansas and 65 (yikes) at Colorado. Pelini, a former Cornhusker assistant, was almost airlifted in from Baton Rouge, where he had coordinated Louisiana State's defense to the 2007 national title. Nebraska improved from 5-7 in 2007, with a horrific No. 112 total defense ranking, to 9-4 last year and victory against Clemson in the Gator Bowl. No wonder Cornhusker fans are excited. Nebraska's defense this year is built around 300-pound nose tackle Ndamukong Suh, aka the Human Silo. Pelini, typical coach, warns that Nebraska's blackshirts are not back yet. "We're not in the same galaxy of where I want to be on defense," he says. That said, the first defensive coach in the Big 12 who can slow down a Big 12 offense may be on to something. Offense could be an issue early for the Cornhuskers, with Zac Lee replacing Joe Ganz at quarterback, but working out kinks should be easier with five of the first seven games at home. Nebraska also misses Texas this year in the regular season and gets Oklahoma in Lincoln. More than a decade after Tom Osborne retired with his third national title, and the ugly in between involving replacements Frank Solich and Callahan, Nebraska seems a serious threat to reclaim the Big 12 North. "We won't be satisfied until we win them all, until we're playing for a national championship," Pelini says. Now that's the kind of Lincoln talk they like to hear.

Congrats on the #300 milestone.