StuckinChicago

Hey Cody, maybe you want to check on the times of the other players who ran the forties on said day. Im sure you have been to Texas, based on your name, so you would know that its a pretty windy state. Was either running into/with the wind? Was it on the same surface? Who timed it? Was it electronic? What did the other guys run? Comparing two forty times two years apart is just plain stupid. I was just going off what I have seen on film of Castille and in person on Glenn. I know that the general speed of players that Castille is running away from easily in his highlight reel isnt as high as what Glenn is running against now, but high school dbs in the largest classification in Texas arent slow either. Maybe Glenn is marginally faster than Castille, but it isnt night and day. Callahan told Castille that he was the best player he has ever seen in high school. He didnt tell Glenn, Lucky, or Wilson that, so maybe, just maybe, he sees something in this kid. Take the blinders off man. Glenn is a good back. Im glad we have him. He isnt the second coming of Eric Dickerson.

Funny, we lead the nation in sacks two years ago, the big twelve in blitz percentage this year, and yet travis thinks we are too conservative. Mack Brown said that we actually are one of the few teams who blitz to the point where you cant block everyone we send, where as most teams blitz to eat up bodies and hope you blow an assignment. For those of you who have never played football, which must include travis, EVERY defense ever run past pick up game in grandma's yard level has assignments. Players dont just freelance. They are given a limited set of options, which is even laid out for you by what our coaches call our defensive line positions, which are the three technique base end, the five technique open end, the three technique defensive tackle and the one technique nose tackle. I would call our defense alot of things, but conservative is not one of them.

Castille weighs 25 lbs more than Glenn does, plays in the highest classifcation in Texas, and is as fast as he is. He is no where near as fast as Lucky is, but he does have good enough speed. He will see the field this year. My guess, and this is just a guess, is that Glenn will see a more prominent role as far as recieving more carries between the twenties, and Castille will get Glenn's role as a more short yardage situation back. You have to remember that Glenn is losing weight to improve on his skill set, so maybe by the time fall camp roles around, Castille will be alot bigger than Glenn, hell he already weighs 250

Frankly, not many can tote the ball that many times against the competition we are facing. Even AP gets injured, and everyone of our running backs got hurt at least once this year. Im just glad we have more than one option. If McFadden goes down at Arkansas, or Slaton goes down at West V, they are screwed.

A cb doesnt have to tackle Glenn on a swing pattern, he can just get in the way enough for a lb or safety to get over there. He isnt gonna make the cb miss and take it downfield another 50 yards like Lucky did against Texas A&M, just like he isnt going to make three cuts to get downfield and score on a big run like Lucky did against K State, just like he isnt going to take a center screen and turn it into a 30 yd plus play like Lucky did a few times this year. That being said, Lucky isnt going to run over three guys to plow his way into the endzone like Glenn did, but I never said that Glenn shouldnt see the field. Lucky has more skills, is faster, more elusive, and has better vision than Glenn does. Glenn is bigger and tougher to tackle. Each is better in roles than the other, but Lucky brings alot more to the plate.

Not to mention facts, since they seem to be irrelevant here, but Glenn actually got stuffed behind the line more than Lucky did.... gasp! You dont think if Glenn could catch or pass protect, he would have been in there more in passing situations? His skill set led us to being predictable when he was in there. If a guy is only good for running the power O, you are either gonna run that play or fake that play. And just for fun, here are their stats... Lucky, Marlon 14-6 141 762 34 728 5.2 6 51 52.0 Glenn, Cody 9-0 71 375 5 370 5.2 8 36 41.1 Notice that the ypc, which Still referred too, were actually a dead heat, not to mention that Glenn racked up nearly half his yards against an overpowered, two win Iowa State team. Now for the receiving stats. Lucky, Marlon 14-6 32 383 12.0 0 42 27.4 Glenn, Cody 00000000000000000000000000 Sorry, couldnt make it look pretty cuz Glenn didnt catch a ball the whole year. Let us also remember that Lucky got a hell of alot of his carries against USC and Auburn, the two best defenses we played last year, which would obviously affect his ypc. Put Glenn in there in short yardage situations and when Lucky is tired, but thats about it.

Lucky and Glenn were both banged up the whole year... As a matter of fact, I remember seeing a coach callahan show where cally praised Lucky for his toughness and ability to play through injuries. Glenn is indecisive in the hole, runs too high up and lets people get at his feet, has shown zero pass catching ability and what will ultimately keep him from ever being as good as a bjax/lucky, can not make people miss in the open field. Its nice to be able to run people over, but doing that slows you down and lets the defense catch up. Even Jerome Bettis could make a cb miss in the open field on a swing pass. Lucky can run though tackles, maybe not quite as well as Glenn, but Lucky can also do more than run through tackles.

I think Lucky is just as good, and will be drafted just as high if not higher when he leaves, so at least our cupboard isnt bear....

Watch this highlight real. I understand that these are his best plays, but there are a hell of alot of plays on there, and not once did he fall backwards, he showed great patience, great receiving ability, he breaks a hell of alot of tackles, and is almost impossible to tackle one on one in the open field. I honestly believe that Lucky and Jackson made a very average offensive line look alot better than it was.

Hey RSD, what about Jeff Souder, a Callahan recruit who got shot in Omaha? or Major Culbert, who was accused of sexual assualt before he even got here. In case you didnt go to high school, or were to much of a "social liability" to hang out with anyone who was involved in athletics, the majority of 18 year old football players drink, smoke pot, vandalize, get in fights, have sex, and generally are stupid. When you have 180 kids on the football team, as TO did, there are going to be idiots among them. No one, even Callahan is immune. TO's greatest strength and his greatest liability was his compassion and his stalwart belief in people, and that they could change for the better.

He is a hell of alot bigger than Kenny Irons.. I would say he is more like P.J. Hill from Wisconsin as far as body type.

I dont have to prove your point Hunter. The rest of the NCAA does it for me. Relying entirely on one player because your quarterback in incapable of running the offense (Arkansas), or having no depth, no talent, and no hope (Kansas State) is not the kind of team I want to have. If you want to have them, go cheer for them. I would rather have a team that has talent, develops quarterbacks, and can run AND throw the ball EVERY YEAR (USC). As previously stated, USC has no problem recruiting quarterbacks, or retaining them, and NO ONE starts as a freshman. We have had one quarterback leave the team in four years and you freak out. I dont want to start freshman, I want to develop them and consistantly be in the top ten. The teams that are dont rely on bagging one phenom every four years to run the team. Thats the difference between the Ohio States/USCs/soon to be Nebraska, and fricken Arkansas.

Hunter, you dont know anything about football, so stop talking please, its hurting my head listening to your gross misinformation and compleatly inane "opinions..." I dont mind if someone disagrees with me, but at least have a legit argument.

You know what, i have heard some posters on this board say that Lucky is to shifty behind the line and gets happy feet, and I kept thinking that they must have been watching someone else, cuz i didnt remember Lucky getting tackled behind the line very often. To verify my suspicions, I actually went back and watched a few games I have on dvd. In those games, I saw Wilson, supposedly a power back, get taken down behind the line three times, Glenn four times, and Lucky.... 0. Maybe the defense just takes plays off when Lucky is in

I wonder why he would be interested in making a lateral move? Unless it was to get back closer to family and friends in California?

Ok, lets say you go to a job interview. You have a bit of a reputation in the field, so some big companies are going after you. You interview with a few of them, and than decide to take the job at husker co. Now, you are there for a few years, and you like your job, but then, your best friend and your mentor, who encouraged you to take the job in the first place, has left to take a better offer at another company. You start to think that maybe you missed out by not taking another job, further more, you still have a rep. The big companies out there, like Trojanco and Buckeyeco, are still out there and you still might be able to land a job there. Is it a lack of loyalty or character if you think about leaving? No. Last I checked, if Lucky leaves, he doesnt count against our scholarship count. He wouldnt get anymore free classes from us, or any of the other perks that come with being a football player. I think what alot of people miss out on is that yes, playing sports is fun, but playing sports at that level is a hell of alot of work too. Practices, conditioning, media, trips away from school while classes are going on. If he, or anyone else here, felt they werent getting out of it what they could get somewhere else, they would be asking the same questions.

With Joe Dailey as our quarterback, we werent supposed to beat anyone, so Im gonna throw in those five wins with the Michigan/Colorado thing you guys have going.

Im pretty sure that putting in wide recievers who have never played a game on the d-1 level, like Tyrell Spain, or putting in Thenarse, who admitted to getting beat every play during Cotton Bowl practices would be a bad idea, so Im gonna trust Elmo, and I guess by hunter's speculation in the face of evidence, Coz's decisions. Those defensive ranking arent gonna win us national titles.... well guess what ladies and gentlemen, that secondary was not gonna win us a national title no matter who the damn coach was, and frankly, our offense wasnt gonna win us a national title. WE WERENT GOOD ENOUGH IN ANY PHASE OF THE GAME. Call it lack of coaching, Im gonna call it the fact that we have one top ten recruting class on that field, and the teams that played for the national title have more, and the teams that we lost to with the exception of ok st, have more. They were better teams. Guys on our side were blowing assignments, our offense couldnt execute towards the end of the year, we have special teams melt downs. None of these has anything to do with the defensive scheme that we were running, and certainly none of this has to do with our linebacker play. OUR DEFENSE ACTUALLY CAME UP BIG IN OUR BIG GAMES!!! WHAT THE HELL MORE DO YOU WANT FROM COZ? A ROBOT THAT CAN PLAY CORNER FOR US?

Overland, I like the respectful disaggredness of your post, so I shall not rant, but I thought that I made it somewhat clear in my post that Coz does not teach d back technique, that is clearly in the realm of elmo. He is the linebackers coach, and NO ONE has complained about them, but somehow having two exploitable corners out there due to injury and lack of depth has become Coz's problem.

You know, I have refrained from jumping in on this whole Cosgrove debate, but I am tired of this sh#t. There are three reasons that I can think off offhand that prove that all of you haters are complete idiots who know nothing about football and dare to think that you know more than someone who has been in the business for decades. 1.) There was not a single case of blown coverage in the last three years. Call me out, find a case of a player being abosolutely wide open with no one within ten yards of him. Anyone who wants to get on the Pelini bandwagon should remember a lowly Utah State team, with fairly talented tight end who is now in the NFL, who was the only player to manage to slip down the seam, SEVERAL times with no one within ten yards of him proves that anyone who says that Cosgrove, who doesnt teach d back technique, is to blame for our struggles against the pass. 2.) If you had Cortney Grixby, and Andre Jones, who is completely inexperienced at that level, as cornerbacks, would you be the one to have them play press coverage with no one over the top, basically conceding the touchdown if the reciever cought the ball? No, I thought not. If you noticed from the two years previous to that, we had some pretty talented cornerbacks, and no one complained about our pass defense. 3.) LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. Im sorry to say it, but the average high school coach/internet poster knows far less than the average division one level, and even if you are arrogant enough and stupid enough to believe that you know more than coz, consider what opposing coaches say. Mack Brown complemented our defensive scheme, saying that most defenses blitz just to eat up bodies, but that Nebraska blitzed to overload you til you simply couldnt block people, and said that our defense was TOUGH TO DEFEND AGAINST because of that. For someone who controls only the overall scheme of the defense, and the technique of the linebackers, who are the most overacheiving unit on the team and have been for the last few years, this is high praise. THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK, IT MIGHT JUST STOP YOU FROM BEING STUPID IN FRONT OF ALOT OF PEOPLE.

Lucky is not a soft runner.... he breaks a hell of alot more tackles than people give him credit for, and he ran inside just as well as anyone else this year. I thought his blocking, and more importantly, injuries held him back towards the end of the year. I thought all year long that him and Jackson were playing about as well as each other, though I do think Lucky has more upside simply because he is faster.

Is anyone else watching this and wishing we had mallet....

not good

Screw the option, I say bring back Tommie Frazier, and Ahman Green, and Grant Wistrom... Great teams are built on great players, ask any coach. Those guys could have run an electronic football offense and still won titles. I dont care what kind of offense you are running, Pat Ricketts is never gonna be a part of a championship team, let alone start.

My favorite part is when Herbstreit went "did they throw the ball!?," and I think it was Corso who shouted back, they didnt need to throw the ball!" Great football teams impose their will on the other team. That 95 team could have lined up in your defensive huddle and TOLD you what play they were running and you still couldnt stop it.