StuckinChicago

Actually, the O-line from last year was one of the few pleasent surprises that Nebraska had. Seppo made a successful transition from defense to offense and came in and played well enough to be moved to left tackle this year, which is the most important position on the line. The line from last year produced a 1000 yard rusher in Ross, and did an adequate job of protecting Joe. With some new blood in the line this year from Juco players, and continued improvement from last year, this O-line could be pretty good.

Semantics!? What, so are you saying that you were a viable candidated for your high schools coaching job? Are you saying that these schools, by not saying we dont want Frank Solich, in some way means that Solich was the best coach out there, but they wanted the second best. He coaches at OHIO!!!!!!!! I told you that all of those recruits you listed in a prior agrument, the one where you said Josh Mueller was the ninth rated tight end, and listed a bunch of other ones, were three star recruits, with a couple of exceptions, and that their position rankings were evidence of a weak recruiting year at that position, not how good they are. How can you not understand that Devaney took a team that had three wins the year before he got there, and got consistantly BETTER! where as Frank's teams got consistantly WORSE. Its like you dont understand simple concepts. Devaney took over what is the equivelent of a Kansas right now, and Solich took over fricken national champions!!!!! It's not the same!!!!! These are simple elementry school patterns. And I cannot believe you want me to give you the specific Sports Center where they mention schools pursuing coaches. Do you live in a hole or something.

Indiana, please tell me what you think that facts are, because I keep giving what most would call facts, but apparantly you dont consider them to be. I told you how recruiting services, both very recongnizable ones, rated the players we recruited, i mentioned what sports center, a nationally recognized tv station, says all of the time, I mentioned what schools specifically had made coaching changes, passing a very available Frank, who was searching for a job, by. I have given the name of specific schools that have been successful recently, and if you dont believe me, please refer to earth, and have said that they can both run and pass the ball. If you dont believe me on that one, see last reference. I have given the name of specific Nebraska recruits who have done well. I have looked up and informed you of what "highly regarded recruits" that you mentioned were rated, and I have said that Devaney took a poor football team with no talent or tradition and taken them to the promise land in eleven years of coaching. Stat- championships before Devaney-0 After-2. I have said that frank took a team loaded with talent and tradition, and made them a mediocre program. Stat- championships in the 4 years before frank-3 after-0. I have given a specific stat, 16-10 that says that Frank lost lots of games after he lost TO's recruits. I have mentioned that the big twelve north was weak and that we played a weak schedule in franks last year. we played a struggling penn state team that did not make a bowl. we played utah state, we played a relatively tough southern miss. i guess that was Franks "big win" we played a texas A&M that struggled. We played an Oklahoma State team that underacheived. We got beat to a pulp by Texas, Kansas State at home, and a decent but not great missouri team. We then preceded to beat up on the cannon fodder that is the rest of the big twelve north, who couldnt beat a single big twelve south team except baylor this year. Facts, Facts, Facts.

Oh, and Joe was a three star recruit as ranked by rivals, and Donovan was a five. Where are your facts?

First of all, saying that all of those guys were ranked in the top twenty at their position is misleading. All of them were in relatively thin years at that position, and none of them were ranked higher than three stars, except for Leflore, who was from Nebraska, by both scouts and rivals. Second of all, since the search for a new coach, with the exception of Nebraska and Callahan, is all public information, one would know before they hired, lets say Notre Dame hired Charlie Wiess, that Notre Dame has contacted the New England Patriots about pursuing Weiss for their head coaching position, which is almost verbatim to what they say on Sports Center, or any newspaper that is reporting on it. It takes someone with their head in the ground to think that coaches apply to a position at a major university like it's a seven eleven, where do I sign up, I wanted to be the next coach at Florida. While I guess I havent been rejected, just overlooked. Obviously I should be the head coach of Nebraska.

Sorry, i was afk for awhile, and i missed my chance to put up some facts. 1. The current power teams in college football, USC, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Texas, Michigan, and Florida State all consistanly get highly ranked recruiting classes. (and by highly ranked I mean higher than 21, or 24, or whatever you consider a great Solich class) 2. Devaney took over a talentless team with almost no tradition and built them into a dyanasty. Frank took a dynasty and turned them into a mediocre football team that, after all of TO's recruits had left, went 16 and 10 while playing in a weak big twelve north. 3. Jammal Lord could not throw, and you have a point that we couldnt be two dimensional with him at the helm, but then again Frank recruited him and Joe after saying that more emphasis was going to be put on the pass. 4. Big schools like Florida, South Carolina, Notre Dame, Washington, and the rest do not go, lets see who applied for head coach today. They actively pursue coaches and make offers to coaches, some of which are still employed else where who technically cannot express intrest unless the school contacts the current place of employment and gets permission. None of these schools hired Frank, which means either they had zero interest in him, or the contacted him and he applied and did not get the job in favor of someone better. 5. It is true that we recruited to a system so we could not go out and get the big name wide outs and tight ends. But where are our I backs, dual threat quarterbacks, and defenses period. Horne was the only highly regarded i back we got under Solich, and he was from Nebraska. Dukes was the only quarterback, and he was a bust. Demorrio was a good recruit, and Fabian, and Rude, but three impact players in probably about 40 or 50 defensive recruits is hardly a jaw dropping amount. Frank couldn't recruit, he couldn't coach in today's game, and he doesn't belong as the head coach of Nebraska. That being said, I wish him all of the luck in the world and I hope he proves me wrong.

WHAT CHANGES DID SOLICH MAKE! He didnt recruit any differently, he didnt coach any differently, he didnt change the only thing that really needed changing, the offense, and he rode a weak schedule and luck to a decent season in his last go. Now he is at THE UNIVESITY OF OHIO!, not Ohio State, not even Miami of Ohio or Akron. HE IS AT THE FOURTH BEST SCHOOL IN A STATE!, not the country. Comparing Solich to Devaney is ludicris, and saying that the other 118 division one schools that passed on him, including, Notre Dame, Washington, Florida, Utah, South Carolina, Arizona, and a lot more mid major schools have no idea what they are talking about and that you, in your infinate wisdom, are a better evaluater of coaches than they borders on insanity. I support Solich as far as giving him an office job in the athletic department for the years of service he provided the University with, and venerating him as a great running backs coach under TO, but not as the head coach of one of the most storied programs in the nation. His time was done.

whoa whoa whoa. I agree that we can not overlook a team like wake forest, but putting them in the hunt for the acc crown and eliminating our home field advantage? Come on. They have serious issues offensively as far as being very one dimesional, and believe it or not, we were very good against the run last year. Our stats dont look as good because our d was on the field so much. And defensively this team is mediocre and looks better for the same reason that we look bad. Their offense keeps their defense off of the field, unless of course they cant run the ball, which they shouldnt be able to do. This team is no Southern Miss from last year, and we are not the Nebraska team from last year. I predict a comfortable victory.

good point. like i said, i may be wrong. I was just reporting on what I observed, and I hope that you are right. You are definately right about one thing, Zac looked alot more comfortable than JD did in the pocket, and you cant attribute that to just the green jersey, because we had JD in green to compare it with at the same game, and the man still looked like he was walking on coals.

Tell me Indiana, what changed offensively in Solich's last year. I believe that the repotoire was pretty much the same. Option left, option right, quarterback draw, and play action. The only reason that the Huskers were marginally successful that last year is due to a weak schedule and alot of luck in creating turnovers. I would hardly call us the juggernaut we were. Oh, and by the way, whose recruits were in that national championship game? I believe TO's. The inability to adapt was what sunk Solich, and hiring some new assistants that called the same plays did little to change the situation.

The only answer that I need, is if Frank was the wonder coach and qualified to be at Nebraska, why did it take him a year to get a job at a lowly MAC conferenece cellar dwellar. Explain that and I will agree with you. No other major team or conference had any interest. They are hired to evaluate coaches and their potential. None moved and where Frank ended up was a last gasp. Tell me why and make me understand it. I like Frank and always have, but he was in over his head from day one. -Skysker Now dont get me wrong, I think that Pederson made some mistakes in the hiring process, and frankly, I think that he fired Solich to late, but Skysker and others have made good points. Times change, Solich didnt. When TO took over, we didnt run the option offense. When TO took over we didnt run a 4-3 defense. Both of the changes were instigated when we fell behind Oklahoma and copied off of them, so I am tired of people saying over and over again that they ruined the tradition of Nebraska when they hired Callahan. Frank didnt change, he wasnt going to change, and all of the knowlegeble people around football knew this and so he ends up in Ohio. I wish Frank all of the luck in the world, but the college football world has changed, and Nebraska need to change too or be left behind, like last year when we were caught with our pants around our ankles. The only traditions at Nebraska are winning and winning with class, and Callahan and some new blood gives Nebraska a better chance to do that in years to come.

unless Taylor plays poorly, it is unlikely that Beck will see the field in anything but mop up duties, even if he plays well in practice. Im aware that Beck is supposed to be the franchise player for this team, but no one is going to bench and experienced quarterback who is playing well for a freshman anywhere in college football. If Taylor struggles on the other hand.......

Not to burst your bubble or anything Indiana, but the one thing I saw at the spring game that kind of worried me about Zac is that he usually stared down he receiver and didnt go through reads, so I'm not sure how well he goes through progressions, because he didn't have to at the spring game, and as for the starring, that was kind of shades of JD. That man use to shoot laser beams out of his eyes, and you just cant do that against good secondarys, you have to look them off. That being said, he still completed over seventy percent of his passes, so maybe he was trying to look someone off, and then the person he was looking at was open every time

Former fan, i have one thing to say to all of your comment, LOL! Everything you say on these boards is meant to instigate, so i recommend that people simply stop listening. Im calling for a site wide boycott of formerfan. Ignore him. Dont answer him. all that you are doing is to give him (or her?) a rise, because that is what his or her life has sunk too, so I am going to act like his or her posts dont exist, and to that effect, to answer the oringinal question, no one on the inside has said much about Gilmore, so most of what your gonna hear is speculation from people with limited access to the team. Eric says that he looks more active in practice, which is good, but other than that you can only go by the spring game and how his pupils performed, so here is what I saw. I saw relatively clean routes against backups and vanilla defense, which is what they saw last year, minus the clean routes. The receivers showed good abitilty to make some tougher catches that they probably would have dropped last year, including a nice slant route by Nate Swift, and a couple of nice outs by Swift and Nunn. I saw an increased ability to do something with the ball after the catch, as Swift, Nunn, and Leflore made some nice tough yards after the catch. Also, and this is the most encouraging, I actually saw some improvization by receivers after a play broke down. Nunn has a long TD catch on a play where he ran a post, and then after Taylor looked around for a second and made eye contact, Nunn took off down the seam and made a great play. All of these observations have led me to believe that Gilmore is doing his job, at least we hope.

wow, im surprised more people havent picked mike rozier. the man was one of only three huskers to win the heisman and the only one to play i back. That being said, I picked Ahman Green, but what can I say, Im a Packer fan too!

I actually think that the list hit at least one thing on the head. Publicity. Lets say that Nebraska wins ten games this year on the back of Zac Taylor, or Harrison. You take a former, and future , powerhouse and put a new name out there at quarterback who throws for three thousand and 25 or 30 tds, and they very well may be in the heisman race. It's more probable than Ross winning it, and probably a lot of the other 75 candidates in front of the Nebraska quarterbacks.

he has amazing arm strength throwing off of his back foot ala Bret Farve (no wonder Bret is his idle) Just wait until we get an O-line in front of him. With some coaching, he could be one of the greats.

former fan, how dare you even have the guts to call yourself a fan. your name in itself is a contradiction. no true fan quits on his team because they make a coaching change, espcially not a husker. this football team is not about coaches, or ads, or players even. its about a hundred plus year old instituition that represents everything great about football. in what other stadium can you find fans that cheer for the opposing team. in what stadium can you find over 200 former academic all americans including numerous ones from last year, and more to come. in what stadium can you find harder workers than in memorial stadium. Callahan has moved his family, come into a difficult situation with high expectations, and worked harder than Solich ever did, yet you quit on him and Nebraska before they can even get started. Im glad your a former fan, because you dont know what it means to be a Nebraska football fan, and I wish you would take your "opinions" off of this site, which is for FANS, and go find something better to do. I loved Tom, I loved Frank, and I love Bill, but most off all I love Nebraska.

1) What are your first impressions of this recruit (speed, strength, character, leadership, grades, etc)? Tremendous top end speed. Has great recovery speed when beat. Good solid hitter who can contribute on the run. Has a tendency to bait receivers to try and make the big play, but can be an absolute lock down corner that can shut down his side of the field when he on his game. He is a firm believer in commiment and honoring one's word, and has shown great academic improvement since high school. He is not very vocal, but leads by example. 2) Rank his importance to the Huskers 1-10 (10 the most important). 10 due to the lack of secondary depth and his ability to contribute right away. 3) Will he contribute right away? In what capacity? will start right away and possibly be good enough to leave for the NFL as early as after next year 4) Who does this player most remind you of? tough one, I would say a less cocky better hitting deion, but as of yet umproven. 5) Where do you see this player in 2009? top ten draft pick playing for some NFL team

he doesnt project well into the wide receiver postition, so that is unlikely. He has all of the speed of a wide receiver, but his hands are a little questionable even at the running back position. He also likes playing facing the whole field and reading and reacting, hence playing safety in high school instead of corner, and putting him at receiver would take away from his field vision and his abilty to make the big play.

unbelievable that a guy with measurables like that has only garnerned one offer. Any idea as to why? I havent gotten the skinny on this guy yet because i have been out of town, but i would be interested to hear about his stats and character (maybe thats why he isnt getting any offers?)

you missed a couple on the Titans signings. Yesterday they announced they would sign Chewbacca, The guy who lives next to the citgo station, hobo Steve, and me.

I love the optimism red november. That was spoken like a true husker. The only problem I can see in this matchup with Mizzou is the fact that our lineup is VERY streaky. Recently the middle of the lineup has not produced, and those are the guys you need to break a good pitching staff like the one Mizzou has. But that being said, our pitching is better even than their's, and I have all the confidence in the world that our hitters can get at least a few runs. Or at least Alex Gordan can get us a few runs.

1) What are your first impressions of this recruit (speed, strength, character, leadership, grades, etc)? As far as speed goes, second to none. This guy is flat out, endzone to endzone fast. As for strength, at first glance on his highlight video, he appears to be extremely strong, but upon further review, you can actually see that alot of his broken tackles are the result of tremendous balance and the ability to bounce off of tackles instead of run through them, which I think is a more important ability at the college and pro level than pure strength (see Ahman Green) He seems to be a very competitive guy and a very vocal leader and as far as his grades go, he seems to be struggling, but once (if) he gets here, Im not too worried. There is a reason we have more academic all americans than anyother school in the country. When was the last time you remeber a player on Nebraska be academically inelegible? 2) Rank his importance to the Huskers 1-10 (10 the most important). 10 if he plays safety due to his ability to come in and contribute right away, and 8 if he plays RB, only because of our great depth there, not because he wouldnt be great anyways. 3) Will he contribute right away? In what capacity? If he plays safety, he can come in and start right away, ala Fabian or Ralph Brown. If he plays IB, he still doesnt redshirt, but doesnt see the field very much. 4) Who does this player most remind you of? A more upright (he has to work on that) Ahman Green type runner. 5) Where do you see this player in 2009? Coul be in the NFL if he plays safety, or could be part of a two headed, sick house, omg backfield with Lucky(unless he leaves early )

point taken Eric. I guess we will have to wait and see who turns out to be the better quarterback. Cate could just be that guy who comes in underrated and proves us all wrong, and if he does, I am prepared to bow down to you as the recruiting guru of this board (allthough it looks like you allready hold that distinction) But we shall see. I still hold out hope that Freeman will be better simply for matters of pride P.S. How much do you think that the recruiting draw that Freeman will generate, much like Beck did last year as an early signee, figure into Freeman's worth vs. Cates? Just for discussion.