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Yeah, both good ideas. It stands to reason that a dedicated ST coach would make more of an impact than, say, a dedicated TE coach.

Okay. Who do we fire then? OC — Matt Lubbick (and WRs) TEs — Sean Beckton DBs — Travis Fisher ILBs — Barrett Ruud OLBs — Mike Dawson QBs — Mario Verduzco DC — Erik Chinnander OL — Greg Austin (and Assist. HC) RBs — Ryan Held DL — Tony Tuioti btw, Are we limited to nine assistants? Did they change the limit? I count ten.

I dunno. I don't know where that quote came from. But I don't disagree with it. The Covid-19 virus may end up killing a lot of people. Or the soon to arrive warm weather may cause it to peter out. Hard to say exactly what the death toll may be. But the economic toll is a certainty. The disruption to our economy is massive. It's right up there with 911 and the 2008 financial crisis. So what part of Thurston's quote to you folks have a problem with? Or was it his silly into about the smartest guys he knows? (I mean, clearly he doesn't hang with very smart people. He's an HB regular!)

Jim Nantz best sports calls. I'm surprised Nantz's call of The Run by Tommie Frazier isn't in this collection. Many Husker fans would consider it Nantz's best call evar. (If it's in this video I missed it. lol)

"How many tackles can one man break?!?" —Jim Nantz calling The Run by Tommie Frazier in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl LINK

So the Vince from Shamwow poster died? Do you recall how you found out about it?

Can you name the posters?

Covid-19 might help Husker football out a little bit. But it could really jumpstart Nebrasketball. If the ncaa grants another year of eligibility there will be tons of grad transfers available. That will help out major conference teams that are low on talent. Like Nebraska. Hoiberg would feast on huge influx of grad transfers. ========================== btw, Neither the OP nor I nor anyone else is making light of the Covid-19 situation by having this discussion. It has affected everything in the nation, maybe in the world. This is a Husker sports message board. This thread is to discuss how Covid-19 affects Husker athletics. I guess I don't see what the problem is with discussing the topic.

Huskers map out plans for the "most pure part of football" ByBRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON 105 minutes ago Not only do you need to want to play on special teams, you better want to play great on special teams. Those are not the words of the pencil-necked scribe. That's from the longtime coach with the booming voice. Mike Dawson was speaking of that want-to last week, as he discussed the Husker special teams operation going forward. It's an operation which will have a leading mapmaker at the desk upstairs in special teams senior analyst Jonathan Rutledge, but also a lot of helping hands to make sure that map is followed. "Rut's kind of in the command center ... and giving us the vision and stuff," said Dawson, Nebraska's outside linebackers coach. "For me, as a guy that grew up as a 1-AA coach, or going back to my Maine or New Hampshire days, if you're coaching, you're coaching every single special teams." LINK ========================================================= Well, there's plenty of room for improvement in STs. Just the kicking game alone might have cost us a game or two last year. The article mentions true frosh Blaise Gunnerson vying to get of the field on STs. Love it!

Oregon police ask people to stop calling 911 because they ran out of toilet paper By Bradford Betz | Fox News A police department in Oregon is urging people that if they’ve run out of toilet paper, it’s not worth calling 911. LINK ======================================================= Ha ha! Can this actually be true? I mean, it is a Fox News article after all. lol

He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them By Jack Nicas 2 days ago www.nytimes.com On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves. Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes, mostly from “little hole-in-the-wall dollar stores in the backwoods,” his brother said. “The major metro areas were cleaned out.” LINK ======================================================= What a greedy, selfish asshat. /facepalm

"Dreamweaver" by Gary Wright. It came on the classic station I listen to just now. What a great, classic song!

You can see a few old avatars on Wayback Machine: HB Wayback (mostly thumbnails--what they downloaded and save is hit or miss) There are quite a few posters who were regulars back then, but long gone now. Like Vince, remember him? Vince from ShamWOW (fr Jan 5, 2010)

No problem about the misunderstanding. I misunderstood this thread to be about who people are planning to vote for and why—but instead it actually seems to be about why a person is wrong if they have any sort of positive opinion about Donald Trump. :shrug:

I didn't miss the third column. I created it. It's from the LINKed source of data. I compiled the data and put the third column there so people could see the W-L result of Husker teams with various YPC gained and given up. Frost hasn't merely been tweaking a position or two on offense. He, or rather, his staff have retooled the S&C program, and upgraded our lineman recruiting efforts on both sides of the ball. The thing is, neither of these—S&C or recruiting—make an overnight impact. There just aren't too many lineman ready to start in the Big 10 during their frosh or soph years. Similarly with S&C, one year under Duval certainly helps. But really it probably takes a couple of years to achieve maximum performance. So what can we expect for this year? Offense: Our offensive line should be better than ever. It has to be, right? I mean, we didn't lose much to graduation, guys are healed up, and we have a class of Frost's 2019 recruits coming out of their redshirt year. Hopefully, Martinez will up his game after last year's sophomore jinx. Not sure what to expect from the RB room. We'll certainly miss Mo Wash a bit. But it's not like he carried the whole run game on his shoulders. Defense: There's a bit more room for concern here. We lost a lot of talent to graduation. Three gus with NFL potential on the D-line alone. I think our poor run defense last season might have been due largely to the linebacking corps. I'm hoping this year's LBs are better run stoppers. For me the 2020 Blackshirts are just a huge question mark. Time will tell, I guess.

Huh? When someone cuts-and-pastes a quote from you, then asks if you're saying such-and-such or something else, they are not putting words in your mouth. They are trying to understand the words that came from you. Perhaps you should read my post before making a smarmy comment about making it simpler for those who don't measure up to your towering intellect. (That last sentence was sarcasm directed towards you—just in case it slipped past your towering intellect.)

Yeah, I'm curious about that too. So let's see: LINK Yards per carry: Husker D Husker O W-L Frost 2019 4.5 4.9 5-7 2018 5.0 5.4 4-8 Riley 2017 5.7 3.5 4-8 2016 4.5 4.2 9-4 2015 3.8 4.7 6-7 Pelini 2014 4.7 5.3 9-4 2013 3.8 4.8 9-4 2012 4.8 5.4 10-4 2011 4.0 4.6 9-4 2010 3.9 4.4 10-4 ================================================================= So basically, it took Riley two years to drive flush our O-line/D-line advantage down the toilet, and Frost hasn't been able to reverse the trend as of his second year. (His first year was a bit better than last season.)

Finally! We agree on something!

btw, I thought this thread was about who you plan to vote for, and why. I didn't realize it was about, if you're voting for Trump call the alarm for all the narrow minded asshats to pile on. Good day asshats!

So you're saying that, because Trump fired one pandemic response team there was no one else in government left with that responsibility? If that's not what you are saying, then what do you mean by "it’s helpful to have a team in place for when it happens"?

Did he fire everyone in the government responsible for flu research and vaccines? Everyone? So there is no one in government right now responsible for researching flu and vaccines. Is that what you are saying? If this was a predictable problem, why was there no outcry over the firings two years ago when they took place?

/Knap climbs up on his holier-than-though democratic pedestal. /NUance makes jokes about how everyone can now see up Knap's skirt.

How could it have been contained? Has any flu outbreak ever been contained?