CheeseHusker

Checking in here. I have actually posted here previously under another name in years past, but I have not spent much time here lately. Now that free HP is no more, it appears most of the non-Max contingent has chosen HuskerBoard, so it is HuskerBoard for me.

I think it is too simplistic to simply say you are either with David Max or against him. While I support the HP site and avoid the Max site, I do not necessarily condone the actions of those who have done wrong in this case. I don't think anybody really does. I think I speak for myself and a number and others when I say that we simply took advantage of the split and decided to use a site that we previously enjoyed, content wise, but could now use the message board. It must be said that there was a large group of posters on the pay site that I never much cared to be around.... it just so happens that the majority of them were Max loyalists, so they left. I have nothing against David Max personally at all... I don't know him. I hear good things about him, and if the facts of this whole saga are indeed true, then it sounds like the verdict is fair, just, and correct.

I chose not to participate at the original Pedia, and the breakaway site, because I did not, and do not, feel the $20 is good value for money. There are a number of reasons for this, the least of which is that I do not live in Nebraska and have no use for the special tailgate privileges offered, nor any of the other discounts. I usually attend one game a year, sometimes in Lincoln, sometimes an away game.

But the main reason, as alluded to before, is that there is simply a large group of hard core posters and members within that community that rub me the wrong way, and have for a number of years. A lot of these guys are basically the same guys that all tailgate together.... I really have no desire to meet most of them socially. I guess I simply do not fit in with the culture of that community. I feel the football content became a distant afterthought to a number of other things, including politics, personal agendas and vendettas, and plain, old-fashioned phallus measuring contests. I also feel that the moderation was inconsistent. It seems like if you knew David Max personally, you could get away with more abhorrent behavior on the forums. These are all just observations and opinions I have developed, and I'm sure almost anyone from that site will vehemently disagree with me, and would probably go out of their way to try to discredit all of these things. And that's part of the culture.... if you look at some of the threads on HP now, they are full of HM loyalists who have made it their first act of duty to patronize, belittle, and discredit any person who does not wish to subscribe to the pay site.

This isn't David's fault, and again, nobody here begrudges his victory in this, which he thoroughly deserves. He just keeps some company that many of us would rather not be around.

Sweet. Thank you muchly.

Please change it to CheeseHusker.

That is my Huskerpedia handle, and the Maxes have regained control of that site, so I do not wish to post there any longer. I don't believe it is being used,

Cannot seem to find the option. The help section says it is possible to do so, but I'm unable to find out where exactly you do this.

Advice, please.

Kudos to you sir.... you could have really rubbed it in (with every reason to do so, I might add).Don't know what it is. Texas just knows how to match up with us and do everything right whenever they come into this stadium. OU did the same f-cking thing every single year. Didn't matter what our record was, or theirs.I had a bad feeling about this game for weeks.

Speaking of that, I knew we were screwed when about an hour before the game I got that nervous feeling in my stomach. I don't think fans are supposed to have that happen to them. I normally don't have that happen before Husker games. From that moment I knew it wasn't gonna end well.

Here's some intuition for you.

I flew home from Australia on Saturday/Sunday. I've just been vacationing there for a month. Being an idiot, I forgot the time difference and scheduled my flight back here to the US on the same day (it was Sunday the 17th there). So I missed the entire thing and had to watch it on my DVR.

While I was on the plane, I had a terrible premonition that we'd lost. It was an unshakeable feeling. I got a bad headache, got sick to my stomach, threw up once or twice (this despite NOT eating the airline food) and just generally felt really grumpy and irritable the whole way. I'm not a great flyer anyway, but I was absolutely nuts this time.

And it was exactly the kind of game that played out in my mind.... the offense lays an egg, a crucial turnover, a couple of FGs that should have been TDs, etc..

When I saw the game play out, I got really spooked.

I looked at this just now and realized every post bar one was made before the Texas game.

This might get ugly.

Kudos to you sir.... you could have really rubbed it in (with every reason to do so, I might add).

Don't know what it is. Texas just knows how to match up with us and do everything right whenever they come into this stadium. OU did the same f-cking thing every single year. Didn't matter what our record was, or theirs.

I had a bad feeling about this game for weeks.

I hope the reasons for this have more to do with something as simple as changing the offensive system and less to do with personal things. These stories about giving out wrong signals are disheartening, and I hope they're BS.

We'll never know. But I applaud Patrick and his family for being adult about it, something that doesn't always happen with transfers.

I wonder if his coffin will be lined with soft, Corinthian leather.

Qui es, mas macho?

ESPN puts one player on a sickeningly high pedestal every year; this is nothing new.

I'll never forget the man-love they had for Michael Vick. Funny how that guy turned out.

Likewise, for Eddie George, which probably cost Tommie a Heisman.

If we'd been in a BCS bowl, I'd have been able to watch it on television, instead of on a computer. Good enough reason for me.

I'd like to see who some of the other 4-loss teams played.

All of our losses were against teams rated in the final top 20. I doubt some of the other teams there did it that hard.

The BCS title game is too late (Jan. 8) to the point where it feels disconnected from the rest of the bowls. I wish they'd move it back to Jan. 1 or 2. I realize the offseason is a week shorter this way, but this game didn't feel like a college bowl so much as some kind of end of season exhibition. For all intents and purposes, I stopped caring after the end of the Gator Bowl anyway.

As for the NFL.... the Packers stunk this year, so I don't get into the playoffs as much in years when they don't make it. I don't care who wins the Super Bowl as long as it isn't the Giants or the Steelers. I'd kind of like to see Arizona make it just because they never have.

I like what they run, but I can't believe it works so well. Tebow looks so incredibly awkward every time he runs it.... it's a wonder the execution is there.

I have to admit, I LOVE that play where the tight end follows the QB and takes a shovel pass, almost like an inverted option. OU never stopped it.

Nobody seems to remember the freakish turn of events that led to that matchup. There were at least three teams above us, possibly four, in the polls, who all lost after us.

In the end, Oregon probably should have been there, but I'm not convinced they would have fared any better.

I won't watch it.

I watched it on justin.tv - at least until my monthly download limit kicked in midway through the third quarter, then I was forced to go to the radio feed.

Oddly enough, the game turned in our favor at that point. Maybe it was a good thing.

We'll do well if we win the division next year. Very well. We play at Missouri, at Kansas, and at Colorado. And we play at Baylor, which all of a sudden seems like a really hard game. Oh, and we have to play OU and T-Tech again, albeit on our fieldturf.

With a new quarterback, it's going to be hard anyway.

Not saying it can't be done.... I certainly wish we could play the first half of this season over again with the Huskers we saw during the second.

It's unfair to call next year a writeoff so soon, but I'm prepared to chalk next year up as a second rebuild year if things don't go well, just because things seem really set up more for 2010 - by then you have an established QB, a more favorable schedule, and a balance of players recruited and tutored in Bo's system.

But this year exceeded my wildest expectations already.... sky's the limit.

I will miss:

-Mental toughness

-Ability to make clutch throws on third down

-Can move around in the pocket

-Puts mistakes behind him

-Plays through injury (without being reckless)

I won't miss:

-The one stupid interception he throws every game

Another team and they don't even show this call.

"Oh Nebraska won... let's taint it and show everybody how lucky they were... we can't have them do anything on merit."

If I were them I would have gone vertical earlier.... it was there. They scored on a couple of big pass plays.

Just watch the second half, it's much better on the blood pressure.

My dad hasn't watched it yet.... maybe I should tell him to fast-forward.

Thanks to all of them.

For not necessarily being the quickest, or strongest, or the most talented, or even the most fundamentally sound at times.

But for playing through all of that, for playing your absolute guts out, all the time, even when things aren't going well, and showing the most mental toughness I've seen from a Husker team since Osborne left.

Damn straight. They owned both lines of scrimmage in the first half. I'm still trying to figure out how we scored 26 points.

Yeah, Niles had a shocker. Pulling a scholarship is a bit harsh though, isn't it?