The Dude

No. Until they start playing harder teams consistently instead of playing our guaranteed non-conference wins, then they will be legit. Well we will find out this year since the MWC is a step up from the WAC. Eh, not really. This may have been true before 2 of the 3 top MWC schools left. With TCU leaving next year, it's basically the WAC 2.0.

I'm pretty sure you're right zoogies. They weren't all on target. That being said, I'm a firm believer that you have to catch it if it hits your hands. BK did not.

Don't tell Martinez that, his post-game quote was "Hopefully the receivers will continue working on catching the ball to make me look good." Wow, if that ain't cocky i don't know what is. Beck's quote "I ran the same play over and over until it worked." If this keeps up, our offense is in trouble. Really? Now we're just blatantly making things up to dis Husker players?

Let's be fair, Beck took over an abysmal offense. Give him at least a little time before we start pushing the panic button. Pelini's defense was pretty terrible for about half the season his first year. I'm encouraged because penalties were better, ball security was better. If we wanted to put up more points, we could have. Nebraska mailed in that 4th quarter. Offensive line and WRs are still an issue for this team, but I'm willing to let them develop a little before I throw the towel in. If we still see guys running into each other by the Wyoming game, I'll be concerned.

How was the Dline over rated? Giving up 2 yards per carry, 3 sacks. They had a lot of quick passes to help their young Oline. Getting shoved around by 1AA schools doesn't bode well. I noticed that with Stien, but that's to be expected. Camstache had a great game, and Crick is probably the best defensive lineman in the country. I'd definately say Stienkuhler is way overrated, but our whole defensive line? Naaaaaaaah.

Man, we're screwed without that guy. Love him or hate him, our offense is as useful as tits on a boar without him.

The one Burkhead nearly took to the house from 50-60 yards out?

Well, with Niles having butterfingers was the norm. Not the case with BK. Waaaaaaaay too harsh for having one bad game.

Pederson distanced himself from the past of this program and I understand that and in some respects, again, SOME, I did agree with it. Osborne cast a large shadow over this program, Nebraska football needed to get out from under that shadow in some respects, because that staff and the folks who built that program weren't here any longer. What has always rubbed me the wrong way about this is how upset people were when Steve did these things and when similar events go down a few years later that are "in favor" they are suddenly alright. It comes back to the hypocrisy. Much like the criticisms of the walk-on program under Callahan/Pederson. Callahan was so evil, they cut the walk-on program and Bo came to "save it", but in reality, nothing has really changed with it. It was simple gasbagging rhetoric so that the new staff could play "Joe-Hero" There is a way to distance yourself from previous regimes without tossing them under the bus. I don't care how incompetent or successful things were seen. It has nothing to do with "hypocrisy." It has everything to do with a culture established in a program 40 years ago, perpetuated by one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, carried on by his successor (to a degree), and then purposefully trampled underfoot by a new regime. There is a Nebraska Way about our program, and that way is the right way. Trashing that culture in favor of some megalomaniac's "vision" is stupid, irresponsible and, as we saw, an abject failure. This is not the Steve Pederson program. It is what it is - the Nebraska Football program. It is all right to remove the BS from our program that Pederson instilled. It is all right to get this ship right again. It is all right to state overtly that we were going in the wrong direction under Pederson, and it is all right to regain what we lost. You can hero-worship Pederson and Callahan all you want. Wishing for that era, or that culture, to come back is futile. Where you are wrong is that you need to separate Peterson from Callahan. Callahan did have more than his fair share of stupid things that he said (2004 after CU) but getting mad because of the throat slash and calling OU fans hillbillies, then praising Bo for his lunacy on the sidelines is where the hypocrisy lies in the fan base. I will agree with 90% of the criticisms of Peterson with his biggest mistake being that he should have let Frank stay one more year so he could complete his failure since the 2004 had very little talent and no dept due to his crappy recruiting. Then Frank would have killed the last two streaks that we had at the time (KU and the Bowl Streak) then there wouldn't have been two sides to the fan base, it would have been behind getting rid of him after that year. But he listened to too many boosters after the KSU ass whipping in Lincoln that year. Then by saying that he wasn't going to allow OU and UT to take the conference put undeserved pressure on Callahan in his first year with very little to work with. Which is why he had to go the JUCO route after that year to get competitive in the conference. By and large, negativity about Callahan stems from the fact that he was a god awful coach. If Bo was anywhere near as bad as Callahan, he wouldn't get nearly as much slack. It may not be fair, but it's the way of the world. 100% agree. Man, the Jets are terrible. Quite possibly the worst team in the NFL. Who cares about the Jets or the NFL?? NU is "college" football. Really? My God, you learn something new everyday, don't you? Then specify, he is a bad COLLEGE coach, not he is a bad COACH. If you can find the word COLLEGE coach in his post, then I'll take back what I wrote. But guess what, you won't. Sorry. Truth is, hes not a bad coach. He was a bad fit for Nebraska. That's all. Get over it, he's gone. And so is Shawn Watson and Ted Gilmore. So now you get to see if they were the actual problem. Well gee, Clownahan's been gone over three years now and I haven't seen any losing seasons since. Not even close. I'd guess he was a problem. Re-read the post. I said Shawn Watson and Ted Gilmore are gone too, so now you get to see if they (as in Watson and Gilmore) were the actual problem. I think we all know Callahan was a bad hire. There is no point in even discussing that anymore. It's been beatin to a pulp and buried long ago. Gilmore is gone and receivers were still having trouble catching the ball today. You can only blame those guys for so long. Who are you going to blame next if our offense still continues to stink? We've already decided Barney Cotton is the scapegoat this year. Where have you been?

I'm willing to give him a pass on this one considering it seems to be the exception and not the rule. He's usually dependable. Everyone has off days.

He definately had some nice passes. He also had some not so nice passes. His WRs could have done more to help him. I understand that not all the passes were perfect, but if it hits your hands, you have to catch it. BK is usually sure-handed, but he looked like the second coming of Niles Paul out there today. He'll bounce back.

I dunno how the Jets are doing, but I sense snarkiness here. Whatever the Jets are doing has nothing to do with the Huskers. Not the point. The point is he said Cally is a bad coach. He is not a bad coach, he is a very good OL coach. My point was there's negativity about Callahan in Husker Nation because he was a horrible coach while he coached here. What he does as a position coach in the NFL is completely irrelevant.

Pederson distanced himself from the past of this program and I understand that and in some respects, again, SOME, I did agree with it. Osborne cast a large shadow over this program, Nebraska football needed to get out from under that shadow in some respects, because that staff and the folks who built that program weren't here any longer. What has always rubbed me the wrong way about this is how upset people were when Steve did these things and when similar events go down a few years later that are "in favor" they are suddenly alright. It comes back to the hypocrisy. Much like the criticisms of the walk-on program under Callahan/Pederson. Callahan was so evil, they cut the walk-on program and Bo came to "save it", but in reality, nothing has really changed with it. It was simple gasbagging rhetoric so that the new staff could play "Joe-Hero" There is a way to distance yourself from previous regimes without tossing them under the bus. I don't care how incompetent or successful things were seen. It has nothing to do with "hypocrisy." It has everything to do with a culture established in a program 40 years ago, perpetuated by one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, carried on by his successor (to a degree), and then purposefully trampled underfoot by a new regime. There is a Nebraska Way about our program, and that way is the right way. Trashing that culture in favor of some megalomaniac's "vision" is stupid, irresponsible and, as we saw, an abject failure. This is not the Steve Pederson program. It is what it is - the Nebraska Football program. It is all right to remove the BS from our program that Pederson instilled. It is all right to get this ship right again. It is all right to state overtly that we were going in the wrong direction under Pederson, and it is all right to regain what we lost. You can hero-worship Pederson and Callahan all you want. Wishing for that era, or that culture, to come back is futile. Where you are wrong is that you need to separate Peterson from Callahan. Callahan did have more than his fair share of stupid things that he said (2004 after CU) but getting mad because of the throat slash and calling OU fans hillbillies, then praising Bo for his lunacy on the sidelines is where the hypocrisy lies in the fan base. I will agree with 90% of the criticisms of Peterson with his biggest mistake being that he should have let Frank stay one more year so he could complete his failure since the 2004 had very little talent and no dept due to his crappy recruiting. Then Frank would have killed the last two streaks that we had at the time (KU and the Bowl Streak) then there wouldn't have been two sides to the fan base, it would have been behind getting rid of him after that year. But he listened to too many boosters after the KSU ass whipping in Lincoln that year. Then by saying that he wasn't going to allow OU and UT to take the conference put undeserved pressure on Callahan in his first year with very little to work with. Which is why he had to go the JUCO route after that year to get competitive in the conference. By and large, negativity about Callahan stems from the fact that he was a god awful coach. If Bo was anywhere near as bad as Callahan, he wouldn't get nearly as much slack. It may not be fair, but it's the way of the world. 100% agree. Man, the Jets are terrible. Quite possibly the worst team in the NFL. Who cares about the Jets or the NFL?? NU is "college" football. Really? My God, you learn something new everyday, don't you? Then specify, he is a bad COLLEGE coach, not he is a bad COACH. If you can find the word COLLEGE coach in his post, then I'll take back what I wrote. But guess what, you won't. Sorry. Truth is, hes not a bad coach. He was a bad fit for Nebraska. That's all. Get over it, he's gone. And so is Shawn Watson and Ted Gilmore. So now you get to see if they were the problem. He's a good offensive line coach. A down right lousy head coach. He proved that in college and pro. Sure, he took Gruden's Raiders to the Super Bowl (and got destroyed), but led them to a sub .500 record the very next year. No need to rehash how he did everything in his power to destroy the program around here. He has no business ever being a head coach at either level, if someone decides he does, they'll get what they deserve.

It was nice to see Mendoza have a huge hit, and nice response from the crowd.

I disagree about some aspects of the offense. Where we need 2 yards and can't get it? That doesn't require chemistry and complicated blocking, that's drive your guy off the ball, and we couldn't do it. Agreed Lyons. While the offense should improve with time, we need to be able to punch it in against a glorified high school team. Also, Stien really needs to step it up if he wants to live up to all the offseason hype. Noticed him still getting pushed around way too much.

Pederson distanced himself from the past of this program and I understand that and in some respects, again, SOME, I did agree with it. Osborne cast a large shadow over this program, Nebraska football needed to get out from under that shadow in some respects, because that staff and the folks who built that program weren't here any longer. What has always rubbed me the wrong way about this is how upset people were when Steve did these things and when similar events go down a few years later that are "in favor" they are suddenly alright. It comes back to the hypocrisy. Much like the criticisms of the walk-on program under Callahan/Pederson. Callahan was so evil, they cut the walk-on program and Bo came to "save it", but in reality, nothing has really changed with it. It was simple gasbagging rhetoric so that the new staff could play "Joe-Hero" There is a way to distance yourself from previous regimes without tossing them under the bus. I don't care how incompetent or successful things were seen. It has nothing to do with "hypocrisy." It has everything to do with a culture established in a program 40 years ago, perpetuated by one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, carried on by his successor (to a degree), and then purposefully trampled underfoot by a new regime. There is a Nebraska Way about our program, and that way is the right way. Trashing that culture in favor of some megalomaniac's "vision" is stupid, irresponsible and, as we saw, an abject failure. This is not the Steve Pederson program. It is what it is - the Nebraska Football program. It is all right to remove the BS from our program that Pederson instilled. It is all right to get this ship right again. It is all right to state overtly that we were going in the wrong direction under Pederson, and it is all right to regain what we lost. You can hero-worship Pederson and Callahan all you want. Wishing for that era, or that culture, to come back is futile. Where you are wrong is that you need to separate Peterson from Callahan. Callahan did have more than his fair share of stupid things that he said (2004 after CU) but getting mad because of the throat slash and calling OU fans hillbillies, then praising Bo for his lunacy on the sidelines is where the hypocrisy lies in the fan base. I will agree with 90% of the criticisms of Peterson with his biggest mistake being that he should have let Frank stay one more year so he could complete his failure since the 2004 had very little talent and no dept due to his crappy recruiting. Then Frank would have killed the last two streaks that we had at the time (KU and the Bowl Streak) then there wouldn't have been two sides to the fan base, it would have been behind getting rid of him after that year. But he listened to too many boosters after the KSU ass whipping in Lincoln that year. Then by saying that he wasn't going to allow OU and UT to take the conference put undeserved pressure on Callahan in his first year with very little to work with. Which is why he had to go the JUCO route after that year to get competitive in the conference. By and large, negativity about Callahan stems from the fact that he was a god awful coach. If Bo was anywhere near as bad as Callahan, he wouldn't get nearly as much slack. It may not be fair, but it's the way of the world.

Texas has one of the richest (maybe the richest) athletic departments in the nation. They'll be fine.

I may be wrong, but I'm almost certain mods aren't supposed to troll. I'm sorry if you feel like I'm trolling. I was just assuming you're still attacking that straw man for the sake of being eristic. I guess I didn't even consider the possibility that you actually thought nothing happened to Dennard. Well, the rumors turned out to be false, didn't they? You're right. That's a dig, and I apologize. No need to go down that road again. Although, we did hear some conflicting things about Dennard. Haven't really paid attention to what Bo's said officially, but some have said in the thread that they asked around and it was no big deal, while I've heard slightly different elsewhere (that it was going to really limit him for several weeks). I'm happy that Dennard is out, because if the latter is true, I don't want him rushed back under any circumstances, and rushing back is something this training staff has been prone to do. I half expected Dennard to draw the start regardless of if he was being hampered or not. I like your word usage style, though. 'eristic' is a term that I did not know, but I'll have to remember. I'm not even mad. We're still friends. I'd take a bullet for you. Not in the chest or anything like that. Maybe in the leg, and I'd try really hard not to cry.

I may be wrong, but I'm almost certain mods aren't supposed to troll. I'm sorry if you feel like I'm trolling. I was just assuming you're still attacking that straw man for the sake of being eristic. I guess I didn't even consider the possibility that you actually thought nothing happened to Dennard.

What a lovely pair of boobies you have there.

Look, everyone. She forgot to put a period at the end of her sentence. Teeheeheeheeheehee Teehee

Well, if we're going to get snooty about it, it's not 1AA anymore. Ya wisenheimer.

I may be wrong, but I'm almost certain mods aren't supposed to troll.

In Shawn Watson's defense (seems weird to say this), the staple of TO's championship teams was the weak-side Option. There are fewer defenders on that side of the field, and while you have less space to work with, you not only have one fewer guys to block, but you make the strong-side backer run the width of the field every play. That's a lot of extra miles for that guy. In the context of making it a staple of your offense, it seems less asinine. It was just frustrating to see Lee pitch it just in time for Helu to run out of bounds, when they would have gained good yardage on the other side. Having fewer defenders on that side is nice, but you also have fewer blockers.

Nope, missed it. Very small. But at the same time you know I didn't see it because I wouldn't have posted what I did had I actually seen it. Which leads me to believe you just wanted to make me sound like an a-hole. As intelligent as you are, you would have realized this and decided to go the other route with it. Kudos; thanks for making me feel inferior. What a palooka.