The Dude

How is he wrong again? His arm strength was way over 20% and nobody did know he was injured until the season was over. That makes him vey right. Again, if he really lost 80% of his arm strength he wouldn't be able to lift it, let alone throw a football. Like say, that TD pass to Niles in the Holiday bowl. Reality can be fun.

All the players I've heard talk about it call it the triple option. So I always assumed it was a true triple option.

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I completely disagree. Bo's going to take his time and evaluate where this team and staff is as a whole. Reacting to the debacle of a bowl game by firing Watson immediately would've been a rushed, emotion-driven decision. I'm glad he's taking the time to cool down and approach the decision rationally. That said, we need a change and Watson/Cotton/Gilmore have to go. It wouldn't be rushed. It's well overdue. It needs to happen sooner than later so there's more good coaches available. Florida already went out and got Weiss for example. The sooner you get your staff together, the better. But like I've said before, I'm not convinced Bo has the backbone to fire them.

Wisconsin won't be the same team next year, but I do agree we need linebackers desperately.

I'd love to see the triple option make a comeback. But, if Watson was going to be fired it probably would have happened by now. I get the feeling we're going to continue the fumble, fumble, penalty, punt offense.

Not a doubt in my mind he would have nailed that dead center that night.

Is it safe to say he's the greatest kicker in college football history? Because that's what I've been saying.

We don't deserve to be ranked. One positive I guess is it will keep our guys from being full of themselves. Motivate them to get better in the offseason.

Clearly the treats after the games made it all better. His arm was 20%. What part of that did you miss? BS. He was throwing just fine last year. His arm wasn't the problem. His terrible decision making and inability to see open receivers was the problem. Sorry Chumly but your opinions are wrong. The facts are his elbow was blown out and his arm strength was at 20%. If his elbow was fine the doctors never would have said he needed it needed to be operated on let alone they never would have performed the procedure. I never denied his tendon was torn, I had the same injury, doesn't really effect your ability to throw that much. If his arm was 20% he wouldn't have been able to lift it, let alone complete that pass to Niles in the Holiday Bowl.

Right, his arm was 20%, but he was throwing down the field perfectly fine. Completely logical. If he was 20% he would have been sitting. Get a grip on reality.

Clearly the treats after the games made it all better. His arm was 20%. What part of that did you miss? BS. He was throwing just fine last year. His arm wasn't the problem. His terrible decision making and inability to see open receivers was the problem.

Zac Lee sucks. Everyone excused him because of the torn tendon, but I had that same injury when I was pitching in baseball, it doesn't effect much.

I was on the fence about Barney until the Holiday Bowl. But now I agree, he should be shown the door.

Not everything falls on Watson's shoulders. But the ineptness of the offense from the last two seasons most certainly does. Cotton and Gilmore have gotten plenty of flack this season too, so it's not a matter of finding a scape goat. It's a matter of calling a spade a spade.

If someone else is coaching the offense next year, there's a chance it won't be so horrible. In which case there will be no need for any blame at all. That's how it works. People aren't bagging on Watson just for sh**s and giggles, they're bagging on him because of his horrible job performance.

Other. Green should be switched to TE in my opinion. Martinez's only weapon is his straight-away speed. He doesn't have any moves, can just run in a straight line really fast. It's looking more and more like he's soft and will be hurt a lot, which takes away his only weapon. Plus he can't even hang onto the ball. It's going to be a long year if he's our starter next year. Sure we haven't seen anything from Carnes or Turner, but at this point we need to be looking somewhere else. At least one of those guys will probably be getting some playing time next year if Martinez is the starter anyways.

Watson is never going to be a head coach in D1 football. At least not any time in the near future. Pelini needs to grow a backbone and fire him. Period.

I wonder how much say a new OC would have in replacing a Barney Cotton. What's troubling is when we line it up in the 'I' and run iso's up the middle, our line looks dominate. Even against Washington the other night. Maybe we just need an OC who is on the same page as Cotton and he'll be fine.

I'd rather adjust to a new OC and offense than stick with one we know won't work.

I'm not conviced Bo has the backbone to fire him. I'd love to be wrong.

No, it isn't true at all. I wonder if you have even watched the dline this year, or just making an opinion up. Baker worked much harder than Crick this year, and it showed with the amount of double-teams he faced. Teams schemed away from him with the run game because he took up two blockers, which is really what the DT is designed to do in this D, Suh was special. No, just going off what the guys who practice with him every day say.

I hope all the pansies who wanted Bo to calm down and be something he's not are happy. His fire was one of his biggest assets as a coach.

we need any dime-a-dozen average high school coach to come in and teach these kids how to hang on to a football.

Yet it's so true it's not even funny.

And the much stronger possiblity of roughing the kicker.