HuskerJen

Collins Okafor has the Jay Sims/Clinton Childs vibe...always the #3 guy but still capable if called upon. i hope you are right Jen. That makes two of us...

How bout an apology? No apology is necessary...Maud was asking for a source which was not provided.

I still hate Notre Shame...but you're okay...notwithstanding being an Irish fan.

I heard it was fiddle-faddles... Fiddle-faddle is addictive. I heard they call it the gateway snack. If that's true I sincerely hope he doesn't move on to Ho-Ho's or, Heaven forbid, Cupcakes.

<----- Kisses skersfan and hopes he's up to date on his shots....

I heard it was fiddle-faddles...

Fair post What's "fair" about it? He's making a bunch of vague and unsubstatiated claims. Now if I'm truly guilty of what he's accusing me of then it should be really easy to find the appropriate supporting documentation from this site wouldn't it? Bottom line, he should either: 1) prove what he's insinuating, in which case I'll apologize, admit I was wrong and try to do better, or 2) admit he was exaggerating in an effort to derail this thread.

I do? Are you my psychiatrist? Seriously though, I do not "throw anyone under the bus" who disagrees with me. I expect people to fully articulate their point of view and if they do and I still disagree then that's my perogative. Find one post where I have demanded people fall into lock-step with me. (Crickets.) So again I ask where is the threatening, hateful vemon I'm supposedly spewing which so utterly terrifies you? Again, if I've posted something that's so over the line please share it with me right here. If it's truly over the line then I'll apologize. But I guess it's just easier to make vague unsubstantiated claims and run away.

I think you are on the right track.

Collins Okafor has the Jay Sims/Clinton Childs vibe...always the #3 guy but still capable if called upon.

Or if there is an injury another player steps up...

Petrino has a "plan" for his players to attain a master's degree in five years? Bullsh**! To get a master's degree in five years means you would have to take at least 18 credit hours every semester and summer school every year on top of that. There is no way the average student, let alone a football player, could maintain that type of pace academically. P.S. I know it can be done...but out of 100 students that would attempt this...maybe five would make it.

So you agree Mangino got jobed, since he won his last 3 Bowl games (half of the Bowl wins in KU istory, sadly) and one was a BCS and all, of course Bo has 1 bowl win and all. Bo has two bowl wins... 1. The Alamo Bowl against Michigan St. 2. The Gator Bowl against Clemson. I guess that is technically true. I am not sure how I feel about him getting ot jump in and interim one, but I guess he did it. Had he lost, I would not have held it against him either, those are weird situations. Regardless, still nowhere near what Mangino has done... 1. It doesn't matter how you "feel" about it. Bo was the interim coach during the bowl game preparation against Michigan St and he gets credit for the win. If Nebraska had lost he'd be credited with the loss on his "record." 2. Mark Mangino has done quite a remarkable job at Kansas no doubt about it. But in my... very knowledgable and never wrong about anything ever opinion, ...Bo is by far the better coach. Mangino is offense and Bo is defense and when a game is on the line I'll take the team with the stronger defense. 3. Bo will prove he's one of the best Big 12 coaches this season.

Thread derail alert! Thread derail alert! Thread derail alert!

To Quentin Castille: Thank you for the time you spent at Nebraska, your performance in the Gator Bowl helped the team to win and good luck in the future. The good thing is he can transfer to another D-1A school, sit out a year as a redshirt and still have two years of elgibility remaining. Or he could transfer to a D-1AA school and play right away.

Notre Dame is hated because: 1. The fact is that the irish play a psuedo Big 10+1 schedule and all three service academies. The weakness of their schedule every year is a joke. And yet, even with a patsy schedule they still struggle to get 7 wins. And, to top it all off they have a special clause which guarantees them a BCS bowl game with 9 wins. 2. No team lives off it's past moreso than the domers. Oh and congrats on beating a mediocre Hawaii squad in the meaningless Toilet Bowl last season. 3. They are on television every single week. I'm sorry but watching a 2-3 Notre Dame @ 1-3 Purdue is the ultimate yawn fest. At home they're on NBC and when they're on the road the game is picked up by espn/abc. 4. Charlie Weiss is typical of a offensive NFL coach who comes to the college ranks as a head coach: He delusionally thinks that an NFL style west coast offense is invincible despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Notre Dame will always be over-rated...that's just the way it is... The one part of this poll that has me scratching my head is that Mississippi is in the top 10. They went 9-4 last year and lost to: Wake Forest, Vanderbilt and South Carolina. Given how good Alabama was losing to them is understandable. Oh wait...they beat Jesus Tebow and the Florida Gaytors... How a team can go from 9-4 one season to the top 10 next season, based on one victory, is puzzling to be sure.

So you agree Mangino got jobed, since he won his last 3 Bowl games (half of the Bowl wins in KU istory, sadly) and one was a BCS and all, of course Bo has 1 bowl win and all. Bo has two bowl wins... 1. The Alamo Bowl against Michigan St. 2. The Gator Bowl against Clemson.

That attached picture is classic!

Or maybe, and I'm simply throwing this out there, that: 1. The coaches found something out, cooled on their recruitment and/or told the kid to look elsewhere. 2. Maybe the kid grew up dreaming about playing for school X and when school X offers he jumps on it. I guess what I'm saying is...let's not always assume that the fault is on our end.

Bo and company are probably pushing recruits to commit just as hard as any other school. I think Danimal was theoretically talking to recruits: Take all your visits...then decide.

Pure unadulterated Zen. The part in green has to be the greatest sentence ever posted on a message board.

Bo should be #1 because at least he can win his bowl games.

B)--> QUOTE(Husker B @ Aug 21 2009, 07:29 AM) 454115[/snapback] I have never seen a WR at the combine run a 4.7...maybe I don't watch enough. Anquan Boldin did. How's that working out for him? Pretty well. Although maybe having Larry Fitzgerald on the other side of the field has something to do with his success?

Now don't take this personally, but I think you are wrong and here's why: 1) recruiting is an inexact science to say the least, 2) most recruiting "experts" say the difference between the #1 and the #10 class perception, (And if you can't tell the difference between 1st and 10th just how reliable are the rankings overall?) 3) if you think Tom Osborne's recruiting classes were consistently in the top 15 then you are revising history-in a good way, (Tom Osborne's classes were typically rated 20th or lower. Now there were years, 1986 [Maybe it was '87] and 1996 where the Huskers had the #1, or at least top 5, rated class and there were other years where Nebraska was in the top 15. But overall, TO's classes were ranked 20th or lower.) Let's say there are two RB's: * One is from Omaha, 6'0" 195 lbs and runs a verified 4.49 40 and is rated 3 's. * One is from Florida, 6'0" 203 lbs and runs a verified 4.49 40 and is rated 5 's. Let's assume that all other attributes: Bench, squat, 10 yard dash, shuttle, cone, vertical, etc are the same. Furthermore, let's also assume the differences between them regarding speed, vision, agility, blocking, catching, etc are negligible. Of the two RB's, which one is better? Is the five star from Florida really better than the three star from Omaha just because some recruiting "expert" says so? Let's take an actual case study: Marlon Lucky was 5 's coming out of high school. Roy Helu was 3 's coming out of high school. Of the two, which, in your opinion, is the better running back? (Please note I'm not Lucky bashing here because I love the kid and thought he gave everything he possibly could.)