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helu has one bad season because he has one nagging injury that the coaches wouldn't just bench him...does anyone not remember this guys monster sophomore year...even injury riddled last year(one nagging injury) he still put up big yards and had big plays(saved the kansas game with a big run)...i know rex is the new big thing, got to meet him and it was awesome, but i think helu will show what we all thought he would be last year I think people forget how good Helu is. Rex is the "new toy" and immediately became a crowd favorite. Its easy to cheer for a guy like Rex. He is a coaches dream and exactly what parents would want their sons to be. Hes a hard worker,has great character,and very dedicated on and off the field.All this said ON THE FIELD Helu is a better player. I think Rex is more of a "grinder" and Nebraska fans have a soft spot in their heart for this kind of a guy. Im SURE Rex has improved a lot but IMO Helu is still a better RB. I simply go back to the VT and OU games and no other back we had performed CLOSE to that level. I think Burkheads best game at Colorado was good but nowhere near the level that Roy Helu is at. I honestly expect their years to be similar.Rex will get some wildcat carries and catch more passes than Helu. I expect Roy to average more ypc(from behind center anyway). They will split it 55-45 to me(Helu 55%) with a goal to keep both healthy.Hopefully that works. Roy will outrush him while I honestly think Rex gets to close games out.

Hi dudeguyy, Nice to meet you. My name is Fro Daddy. I see that you are new to football. I can help you with info on MU if you ever need it. And you can ask you Husker brethren about things that happened previous to last year... Here are some fun facts: -Mu's Rushing Avg against NU since going to the spread in 05 - 198 yrds a game -Since going to the spread Mu has never had less than 119 yards against NE -Since going to the spread Mu is 3-1 against NE -NE hasnt won in Columbia since 2001. -In Bo Bo's two games agaisnt MU his D has given up 235 yrds passing and 221 yrds rushing per game (and that includes his 2003 #1 ranked D at the time, cause your new, you wouldnt have know that) OH!! I almost forgot. Somethings "mystique" or novelty usually would wear off by the second time you have seen it. This will be the 5 time. So....not sure where you were going with that...Opps! I forgot, your new to football. 1 more point for you since I sure you wont know this, But...MU beat NE before Daniel, Maclin, Coffman, Moore, Hood, ect... So pretending like now that those guys are gone, its "back to normal" wont do you any good. Maybe since your new to football you could ask the older folks about when they said that same things when Brad Smith, Justin Gage, Dwayne Blakely, Damian Nash, Atiyyah Ellison, ect... all left MU. How'd that turn out for you again... BTW I am a smart arse and this post was done in fun SO dont take it personal and go and get your panties in a bunch. Its Thursday, one day closer to Friday and I am in a good mood so I though I would have some fun with you. STYLES MAKE FIGHTS.I think this comparison is an example of that.Just like a boxer can be tailor made for another and a terrible match for another its the same with football. A guy like Q is a bigger guy his strengths wont be going sideline to sideline on a fast defense but running it down that defenses throat.Clemson had one of the 3 fastest defenses that we faced last year and while they were very fast they were a good match for Q...not so for Helu.Q is more a 1 cut downhill runner while Helu is probably a little better at getting outside.Against Clemson they were enrirely to fast to run outside on so Helu ended up being less effective PLUS he was injured/hurt also. Its just like having a big CB on a big WR its a better matchup for the CB because PHYSICALLY he can match the strength of a big bodied WR where as a smaller CB MAY be the better CB he simply doesnt match up well with a bigger stronger guy. JMHO its hard to judge these guys.Im sure Mizzu wouldnt trade Washington for Helu and I KNOW NU fans nor coaches would trade Helu for Washington.That said I honestly think most of the country will be suprised at how good Helu is this year.PERSONALLY I think Washington is more of a product of MUs system but that remains to be seen.IMO hes the benefit of teams worrying about Maclin,Coffman,Daniels etc.I think we will see just how good he is this year as well.Lets have this same conversation in November and see if anyones opinions change.

Mendoza not really. Paul yes I am a little surprised I actually wouldn't be surprised if Tim Marlowe, Khiry Cooper and Antonio Bell all supplanted Chris Brooks, Niles Paul and Will Henry as the top WR's. I'm sorry but thus far Niles Paul has been a huge disappoinment. Sure he has very good straight line speed but when it comes to cutting and changing directions he's average at best. C'mon Niles...make me eat crow...prove you are the legit WR most other Husker fans think you are. I could agree about Bell passing them but Id have to question Khiry Cooper AND Marlowe.Cooper basically missed the entire spring.Im a huge fan of his and think POTENTIALLY Cooper and Bell could be the best pair of WRs we have had.Both have good height,size and speed.I just wish Cooper could be here for spring but of course baseball gets most of his spring attention.Talent wise ...YES I agree Cooper could pass all three guys BUT we know how hard it GENERALLY is for our guys to get this system down.I just dont see how Cooper could pass them...even though IMO he is more talented than them. Now as far as Marlowe I just think his job will GENERALLY be as a slot guy in our offense.I do think hes explosive and may have a couple plays designed for him but I doubt we will see him as an every down WR over either of these guys.IMO he MIGHT play when their is multiple WRs sets BUT if he were to surpass Paul I think that would that would put him in the top 2-3 guys...I dont see that.Top 6?maybe but not top 3.

Doesn't Missouri use this? I don't know. The only time I care about what Missery is doing is when they're playing Nebraska. Okay, what Gator Bowl did you watch? I really did think Clemson was a lot faster than the Huskers. I just thought Clemson's QB was awful, their execution was bad and they could not move the ball in a consistent manner. You all deserved your win, but Clemson was the much faster team. Exactly from top to bottom Clemson was a much faster team than Nebraska.Listen Im a huge fan but I know speed when I see it.Clemson was as fast as any team we played this year EXCEPT maybe OU.Just because we won the game doesnt mean they were not faster.That said of theams we lost to this year...MU,OU,VT and TT were all faster than us as a whole in fact Clemson was the only team that had more team speed that we beat this year.FACTS.

Mudturtle.walk on candidate MAYBE.No way would get an offer imo.Id be interested to see what kind of blocker he is because that MIGHT get him to college as a FB but as a RB he wouldnt even make it out of the backfield.Id bet our entire DL is as fast as him if not faster.

No offense but there wasnt an offensive set we could have used to match OUs speed...wasnt happening.That said it doesnt mean we couldnt have been effective against them.We couldnt match Clemsons speed either but we found a way to get the job done.Personally I think UF showed how to beat OU.Of course you need talent to do it.Spread em out with speed all over the field and then run at them using misdirection/option/power. I think BP knows that and although some say it wont happen I still see us moving toward a UF style offense in the future.We must get some speed outside though in order to be truly effective in that style offense.

No we cant do it.We dont have near the talent or speed across the board that those teams did.Our talent has been very over rated AND underveloped.Those days are gone now.The guys we get now will be coached up and developed to their fullest.That said we dont have the speed talent across the board as Florida,OU or OSU did in their second years. IMHO anything close to what we did last year would be great.I think other than QB which is a huge spot we will be better all over.Especially on defense.If Lee can be anywhere close to as effective as Ganz was we will be a pretty good team.We could have a better team this year and a worse record though.VT,KU,MU,and CU all on the road as well as OU.Throw in TT and the schedule will much more difficult than last year.Id take 9-4 and be very happy this year.That said by seasons end I EXPECT us to be as good if not BETTER than ANY team in the Big 12 North(we was the best team last year at seasons end).Hopefully Lees inexperience doesnt cost us a game early.If it doesnt I think we have a chance to be a 9 maybe even 10 win team.But National Championship is a HUGE REACH.

Thats very true AND its also the reason BP/Wats wants NU to be able to line up and smash some teams with the run game.Right now everyone is basing and scheming their way to slow down these high powered spread offenses in the big 12.If a team finds a power rushing attack/spread hybrid that they can execute at a high level(see OU) teams lining up to stop the spread will be hard pressed to slow them downThats one reason I dont want NU to go to a full all out spread on offense.If you can somehow have some spread installed in your offense to go along with the power/option game it will be near impossible to stop by teams who BASICALLY are building their defenses around stopping spread offenses.Thats why you see BP /Wats tweaking our offense to the point that they can become a power running team as well as enough option to make teams have to practice for it.ADD that to the spread passing game and you will see an offense thats VERY hard to contain.Mobile QBs simply make it worse on defenses and BP knows that. He has told Wats things that are very hard to defend as a DC and is having them implement it into our offensive philosophy.I think in about three years we will have an offense that is a combination of Florida and OUs .A hypbrid spread that features power running,options,the zone reads as well as the QB run game.IMHO it will give defense fits.Especially when you have versatile guys like Kyler Reed and McNeil at TE.These guys can be in line blockers as well as being split wide as receivers(think Gresham from OU).If you line up in nickel the bring them on line and run down your throats but if you play base you gotta have LBs who can run with Reed all day.I count count on 1 hand the number of teams who will have guys like that.This offense will have our TEs as walking mismatches.Very similar again to how OU uses Gresham and Florida uses Ingram and the big TE who killed OU in the NCG.

1.The beatdown in Boulder to CU was a clue in which way our program was headed.Many dismissed that as just a bad game but all the signs were there THEN that FS was in over his head as a HC at Nebraska. 2.The massive "undressing" that was TT in Lubbock in 2004.That whipping alone was the single molst hardest game I ever watched as a Husker fan. 3.Allowing KU to drop 76 on us 2 years ago.That was the omega of the BC era imo.Nothing he did after that could have saved his job.As much as I wanted FS to get fired BC was absolutely NOT the right person for the job.He was every bit as bad if not mor so than FS. 4.The USC game in 06 I think where our coaches basically played to NOT get blown out.I understand we were facing a more talented team.But the very game plan told the players that the coaches had NO CONFIDENCE in them beating USC.The coaches had lost that game before they even stepped on the field. 5.2002(entire season).Just watching the once proud program that I cheer for turn into a below average teamLosing to the likes of ISU and basically beoming just "ANOTHER" team.

Was there any mention of Okafor? All I heard when we recruited him was what a manchild he was and his greatness. Now, I hear absolutely nothing about him. Is he not panning out, or are there just that many that are better? Is there a chance he makes it into the rotation? I read a few things about him, but no links. Okafor is a barn burner, but one thing he was criticized for in high school was his inability to make cuts and read holes, something Helu does very well. My guess is that he has the physical tools, mostly, but the mental tools are what is keeping him back. Obviously something is up because Lester Ward is apparently the third back, and Ward wasn't as highly rated as Okafor was. Yeah, I have heard he is the fastest back we have right now. BUT, if you ever watched his HS footage, all his long runs are pretty much straight down the field. His vision and cutting seems to be his weakness. Hopefully he will develop that a little bit at some point. Some guys never do. Ward was rated a ** in part because he had a hard time staying healthy his last couple of years of high school... if he had the chance to put it together and show what he could do, he pry would have been rated higher. Some players are just natural at finding lanes and making things happen (Helu - Who in many posters opinions when we signed him should have been moved to LB before he stepped on campus ) Not sure how small Helu was but he was 206 pounds or so as a HS junior.I know he stated last year that he started out at 198 because of an injury but my guess is that he was initially heavier than that.I wouldnt consider a 205 pound junior(HS) at RB as small.I think Lucky weighed in at 202 as a junior and Id consider that to be about an average sized back.

Love it! I love his attitude and the way he plays the game.That said his speed or lack there f may limit his PT as far as Safety goes.

Having speed is only one part of the deal.Tierre Green and Andrew Shanle were probably our fastest two DBs a couple years ago as well.What kind of football players are they?You need fast FOOTBALL PLAYERS to be successful.Nothing against May because he he looked pretty good in the limited time that I saw him but Ill be very suprised if he takes snaps from Whaley or Lawrence.Holt and May are good gap fillers who did good in the pinch but Id hate to face a schedule next year with either starting. Again, that kind of sounds like you are saying if they are walk-ons, they should not play ahead of scholarship players. Because we have not even seen Whaley play yet, and from what I have seen of Lawrence, these two are just as good. I think we need to take in account how good Bo is at developing players, and forget about who is a walk-on, and who is on scholarship. You make a good point about Whaley but word around camp is that Whaley is our best LB.YES BEST LB as a Rfr.Im not doubting may one bit but when Lawrence and May were both healthy Lawrence got the reps and May watched.We all know as you stated that Bo isnt scared to play walk ons so why would Lawrence play instead of May?Just maybe he is BETTER?Listen Im not tryingto bash these kids because the walk ons are needed and have their place in the program.But for guys thinking these guys will be starting for us for the most part will be disappointed.I never questioned his speed but as I said if all you had to do to be a great LB was being fast recruiting wouldnt be so hard.Just get the fastest guys you can find and line em up. Now again I think May was pretty good with what little he played but I will tell you now he didnt play in front of Lawrence last year,he wont play in front of him next year.IMHO from all Ive heard and I beleive it Whaley will play ahead of both of them next year and be a starter.In fact when Glenn was suspended it was stated that Whaley had become our best LB by some in the know.Mays PT last year was because of injuries and Redshirting of guys like Fisher,Compton,and Whaley.Now if these guys stay healthy Im almost sure they will ALL be on the 2 deep.Throw in Dillard and Lawrence and their is 5 of 6.That leaves one spot and a goup of about 4-5 fighting for it PROVIDING incoming recruits Williams and Martin Rs(Martin wants to play though so we shall see).Anyways that leaves Stafford,May,Holt,L.Washington(if he doesnt move to RE),Williams,and Martin.Of all those guys it looks like 1 might make the 2 deep.Im guessing Holt but its still up in the air.I still think STs is where these guys will call home and make their mark o the program. Dont want to discourage guys because we all like to hear the walk on to NFL feel good stories.They do happen sometimes but in most cases these guys are walk ons for a reason.

Having speed is only one part of the deal.Tierre Green and Andrew Shanle were probably our fastest two DBs a couple years ago as well.What kind of football players are they?You need fast FOOTBALL PLAYERS to be successful.Nothing against May because he he looked pretty good in the limited time that I saw him but Ill be very suprised if he takes snaps from Whaley or Lawrence.Holt and May are good gap fillers who did good in the pinch but Id hate to face a schedule next year with either starting.