Enhance

nice reseach there, einsteins. shh maybe we can start fooling everyone else into believing 2007 didn't happen too. 2007..what is this year you speak of? I am not familiar with it.

I can't wait till they show a game on ESPN, FSN, et al, with us actually winning.

I expect to see Pelini make the offense a little more run oriented than last year. I think he knows Cotton is a good o-line coach when it comes to running the ball; it's Cotton's forte. I agree about the pass block fundamentals, as well. In all fairness though, pass blocking is a lot harder than run blocking, and offensive linemen love to run the ball a lot more than they do protecting the QB.

The day I started to hate T. Nunn

This. I'm not trying to start anti-Cotton stuff. I'm just saying that we don't know whether he will be a good o-line coach or one that isn't so good. There isn't enough info out there to prove either way. The o-line definitely improved over the year and really showed up in the second half against Clemson. Now, the comment made by Cotton regarding technique make a lot of sense to me. Technique is important, but having a good motor and giving your all on every play is just as important if not a little more important. If players start worrying more about how to step then actually knocking the guy down, then bad things can happen.

Papersun is made of so much win. I lol'd pretty hard too knapplc

Going for two in the 1983 National Championship. Would have been great had it turned out the way it did in Boise State v. Oklahoma

I'm saying I'm not sold on the fact that we have those horses yet. I think we all know the offense we ran in the 90s would work today with the right personnel. The line we have hasn't yet proven that they are the right personnel, though. I have to agree. The pipe line in the 90's would open holes and we could gain 3 to 4 yds with my sister running the ball. I don't believe that the O line now is on the same par. Instead of 3 to 4 yds a run we'd more likely get 2 to 3 yds. 3rd and 6 just isn't the same as 3rd and 2. T.O said that the option was darn near unstoppable " with the right athletes to run it". Now granted, we didn't run a "pure" option offense, but I don't think we have any Green, Rozier or Phillips caliber backs either. We have "good" backs, don't get me wrong. Let's just see if Barney has coached the boys up or not. The interesting thing about our offense in the 90's was that our "short" yardage run plays ended up gaining as many yards as the "short" yardage spread passing attack plays do today. I agree with hskrprid. We don't know how this o-line will do yet, especially since I'm not even sold on how good a coach Cotton really is.

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I think you might be taking a little bit more out of what some of the posters are saying than what is intended. I for one am definitely not saying we are going to have a great rushing team. We probably never will, given that our offensive isn't being recruited to run block but to be a balanced line. Our perimeter blocking will most likely never be what it was like either. But, given what the coaches have said about Helu and what we have read, he's going to be great this year if he is healthy. He had plenty of opportunities to break runs for touchdowns this year, but his lack of speed hurt him. I mean just check the highlights, he got ankle tackled from behind a lot on runs where he would have been gone save that one tackle. So, as for evidence, I give you this. 1) Helu and Castille. Returning guys with a lot of PT under the belt. 2) Helu bulked up and sped up according to coaches, Castille lost weight and picked up where he left off. 3) Two years under Cotton will mean the remaining o-line starters will be a lot better at what they do. Dominant rushing? No. What we hang our offense on this year? Most likely.

I don't think you are necessarily saying this Husker_x, so don't think it's directed at you, but I think its frustrating for people bring up that live game play will be different than the little tap you get when wearing the green jersey. Granted, the Spring Game is different, but by the time the first game has come around the practices will be made live many times. Lee will have plenty of practice going against a defense that is actually trying to get him as opposed to just touching his shirt. And since we like to run the zone read, he will have probably run that many times in practice by the time game starts so taking hits and avoiding the defense won't be new to him. I have a lot of confidence that Lee is going to be just as good if not better than Ganz.

I'm not saying we don't have a chance, I'm just going off of what my predictions for the year are. I think VaTech is a loss, because I still think they have better talent on both sides of the ball, especially there front seven on defense.

This, here, is the problem. Idk if Kellen Huston is what I'm thinking of, because I don't know the names, but there is a video on youtube of a Nebraska player hitting a Missouri fan after Nebraska lost in Columbia. Basketball games are one thing. A basketball court is smaller, there is much easier access as far as getting onto the court, and we are talking about a couple hundred people rushing a court. To get onto a football field there are railings and tons of people blocking your path, not to mention there are thousands of people in the stands and a couple thousand would rush the field. It is not safe. And like another poster said, it doesn't seem classy at all.

I'm sleeping on them. Sorry. We're walking out of non-conference play 3-1, with our one loss being to Virginia Tech. No disrespect intended, but that's how I see it.

By the way it's been talked about and because nothing has been released, I assume it is something very serious, more serious than high blood pressure. I wouldn't say it's anything as bad as cancer, but at the same time I don't think it is too far a stretch to say it could be something serious like that. Just speculating though.

I like this. Lee just needs to keep his head straight. With an unproven quarterback and wide receivers, we are going to have to rely on our running game and our defense to win games imho. I don't think it's too far a stretch to say that Helu gets 1200 yards this season, Castille will probably hover around the 400-500 like last year, and then we'll see some of the younger guys get PT (maybe even Burkhead, cause I don't see a whole lot of reason in redshirting him if he is as good as advertised). This is my prediction if they all stay healthy, especially Helu. Helu is the best back we've had since Buckhalter and some of the guys from the early 2000's. Jackson was good but given his limited role and the fact that he left early, I can't really put him in the great Nebraska running back category.

This times a million as well. BTW I'm ok with pants changing from all white/all red from the white with red stripes or red with white stripes. Both of those pants styles are fine by me.

This times a million. Our helmet design will never and should never change. Schools that don't have a lot of tradition and meaning can get away with this sh#t, while people who live in Nebraska won't let anybody get away with changing anything. The only thing about our helmets that can change is their effectiveness and brand. The design must stay the same.

LOUD NOISES

Hopefully we can get the power running game going this year with some better blocking up front. If we do, I expect to see the fullback used. I'm predicting fewer than 5 carries, if any, for the next year. With Suh still in the line up, I doubt the other full backs will see much playing time.

I say A. He tried to do too much leading up to Missouri (as far as the offense and defense goes) and we really saw the team excel (minus the Oklahoma game) after he realized. I mainly give him the A because outside of Nebraska fans, very few though a 9 win season was possible. Hell, I bet many people figure a 5-6 win season lay ahead of in 2008, but we proved many wrong. He's a great guy, and will hopefully be a great long term coach that gives us championships.

I don't think Nebraska will ever "run up the score" intentionally on opponents, I think we will just run our offense the way it is supposed to be run. When we were putting up ridiculous point totals in the 90's, we weren't intentionally trying to embarrass anyone, we just couldn't be stopped even when we ran our vanilla offense. We'll just run our offense, regardless of who we are playing and without vengeance. If we end up hanging 70, then good for us. And, as far as those three lopsided losses go, I don't feel that any of those schools were like "let's keep going until we demolish the Huskers!" Our defenses could simply do nothing, and our offense in the OU loss kept turning the ball over early.

No, I think the game passed him by his last two years of his previous stint. This. Colorado and Missouri are more talented than K-State right now. Not only that, but borNred had it spot on, because Snyder's last two seasons were meager and generally unimpressive. Plus, after a lengthy hiatus he has to get back into the groove of things. 3 out of 6 B12 North coaches have been in the B12 for 4+ years, and people think Snyder can turn around a team who's best player is 5'8, 165 pounds?