Herbie95

23 minutes ago, Hilltop said:

I think that is a very valid point.  However, it's not like pandemics come around too often and the B1G listened to it's members in the end.  I think college football is either headed towards an expanded playoff or 4 super conferences.  4 super conferences make a lot more sense to many as it results in a very clean playoff picture- the 4 conference champions play for the title.  Not sure which conference goas away but it won't be the B1G or the SEC if that happens.  The Big 12 seems the most fragile at the moment to me. 

I don't know if suing the conference to get clarity on its bylaws, and being told to do as we say or you won't be a member anymore equates to listening to its members.  To anyone who didn't already know

this pandemic clearly illustrates how the conference is run.  Instead of just providing a framework for scheduling and collective bargaining power for media rights it envisions itself as a some sort of mini-NFL where the league office dictates what happens and the teams do it.  Not how it works in College Football historically.  I really think the BIG is now a much harder sell to any legitimate team that has any choice where to go if the BIG 12 does indeed break up someday.  The conference has really harmed itself and its members collectively with how it has handled this situation. 

Don't think how heavy handed the BIG has been during the Covid outbreak was lost on any school looking to join the BIG.  I think the idea Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas wanting to join and surrendering their right to decide anything on their own campuses severely hinders the BIG ability to recruit any new schools of note--even with a BIG pay day.  The door is shut now for good on Notre Dame.  ACC was accommodating and the precedent was set.  Big 12, ACC and SEC are reasonable during this outbreak and the PAC12 and particularly the BIG were reactionary, stubborn and dictatorial.  The Western spirit that Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas evolved under doesn't lend itself to being dictated to from a far. 

Looks like we now know the concrete end date for Solich to retire now. 

13 hours ago, Huskersince62 said:

Yep...I remember him for sure...I started attending games regularly in 73..he was a fixture. I also remember the cop mentioned by Herbie...that had to be in the 80's?

My first game in Memorial Stadium was in 1989 so the cop was still doing his thing then but I don't remember him when I was a student at UNL in the mid 1990s. 

I remember him.  He didn't look like a hippie in the 90s when I remember getting a hot dog.  You would signal what you wanted.  He'd gun you a dog and you would put the money in the hot dog wrapper and toss it back to him--likely hitting some other guy in the vicinity instead of this guy. 

Does anyone remember the cop you would go up the platform/steps in the southeast corner of the stadium?  It was pre-Huskervision days. 

What did Washington do?  If it is not related to the court case then and he's not been arrested.  What could it be? 

Trending towards another top 20 class but not top 15.  

2 minutes ago, Huckleberry Muhammad said:

I have hope, but I don't live on it wrt Nebraska football.

 

Not any more. 

 

I'll get flamed for saying what I believe about Frost, so I'll just express that I do think we could have a better HC and co-ordinators.  But I'm sick of changing coaches and have accepted that we're a 7 or 8 win team maximum program and likely will never dominate much of anything any more. 

 

It ain't like it used to be.. that two coach 30 odd years of greatness is history.  That's college football.

 

 

I honestly don't know who that coach would be.  Top 10 established coaches aren't coming here to slog through during a rebuild and it is a rebuild.  Devaney built Nebraska and Osborne maintained it and added to the legacy his last 5 years.  But is was built.  This needs to be built but in a world with 85 scholarships instead of the no limits of the Devaney era. 

16 minutes ago, Huskers93-97 said:

I think I view competitive as being able to compete with anyone in the country. As far as what "competitive" should mean when you are one of the blue bloods in college football history. Which 2009 is really the only time we have competed with a national championship caliber team in probably the 20 years you referenced. BUT we still lost 4 games that year so as great as that 2009 defense was it was still a 4 loss team. So we have not fielded a team that had realistic national championship aspirations for about 20 years. 

True, the last time in the big game was 2001.  Last complete team was 2000 team.  Last top 15 team was 2009 with 2012 the last division winner and team deserving of any top 25 year end ranking.   We are seven years removed from any kind of accomplishment and 18 years from being a top 10 team. 

I heard from a source that the project budget is now at 140 million and moving the track is part of the plan.

7 minutes ago, Mavric said:

Conference Championships:

 

Kirk - 2

Frank - 1

Outright conference championships:

Frank -1

Kirk - 0

Frankie won another one last night.  His career winning percentage is significantly better than Kirk Ferentz's and he's won more games.  Is Frank a better coach than the GOAT Iowa coach? 

The Colorado game remains the best performance for the year.  The offense and defense were both trending down from Colorado through Michigan.  Purdue stopped the trend down and with the Wisconsin performance the trend continued to go in the right direction.  Northwestern will be the first win of the year.  I’m calling it 30-27 Huskers.  The beginning of a three-game winning streak. 

And a new all time losing streak record will be set so there's that.  Always nice to see something historical so I can tell my grandkids I was there and other great sayings. 

Won't Be Beat!

It's been the perfect storm--literally.  If we play Akron we win.  We likely play better early vs. CU and win without AM getting put in a position to get injured.  With AM we beat Troy.  Team is in a better frame of mind going to MU.  The game is a lot closer and fun to watch and we're sitting at 3-1 and hopeful for the future.  Now people are beginning to panic a little.  It's unfounded but understandable.  

Things we know that should give us hope that we are in good hands.

-        Frost had success as a head coach

-        Has had success as both an offense and defense coordinator

-        He has a lot of experience and success coaching several position groups

-        He understands Nebraska and what its limitations are in terms of recruiting

-        Other schools identified him as having great potential (so it’s not just hometown bias) including

o   Florida

o   Tennessee

o   UCF

-        The only other candidate that would have been considered better at least nationally was Chip Kelly and he is also 0-3. 

I sell all of my tickets but one game every year.  I've been doing this for the last five seasons.  I make enough on the resale to pay for the one home game and to pay for a trip to see them on the road.  I do not have a seat donation however.  So on average figure a 10 to 20 percent profit above what you pay not counting the donation.  With the donation expect to lose money until Frost turns this thing around.

Noah is a Turmaninator too and he will he be the Turmaninator 2. 

5 minutes ago, secretasianman said:

Verzal, Benning , Moore — grain of salt.  Their opinion of Frost from 20 years ago has no bearing today and why they even bring it up, who knows.  On a team of 150 guys, there are 150 personalities and they won’t all get along. 

The past is the past and everybody has grown up.

But those guys are on the radio every week and sometimes every day in the case of DB.  Why can't they be constructively critical like Bishop, Severe, or Bahe?

11 minutes ago, caveman99 said:

He isn’t back tracking on his support of SF as the HC at DONU. Verzal has been honest that he doesn’t like SF personally, but he has also not waivered on respecting SF as a coach and has said that he feels that SF is the right fit for NU and Verzal wants the best for his Alma Mater just like SF does so he will be behind him 100%. Just because he doesn’t like the guy can’t meant that he doesn’t want him to be the coach. It is this same BS conclusion drawing that has people seeing some sort of beef Damon Benning has with with SF, when he he doesn’t.

So has Verzal, Benning, or Moore actually come out and plainly said what their personal beef is with SF?  One poster on this board claimed he heard Benning call SF a "creeper" back several years ago on the radio.

1 minute ago, knapplc said:

Guys, that's a totally normal thing for the media to do. The station who sent the crew there shouldn't be in trouble.

 

Put down the torches & pitchforks.

Really?  Sounds like harassment to me.  

8 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

 

Way to go, local media.

 

Someone please research who this was at his parent's house.  If you identify the local media outlet then it should be exposed and not tolerated by the community.  

8 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

I agree with your, but UCF realizes what's going on, and it's been their AD leaders trying to work and retain Frost (which they should be doing).

It has to be a distraction and Memphis is not the same team that UCF beat earlier in the year.  

8 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said: