whateveritis1224

Too much of a Texas homer and focuses too much on the South for my tastes. But he is the only Big 12/Nebraska blog that I know of and it's easy to access. I really don't have a problem with his writing as long as it's just about Nebraska and doesn't include a South team/Texas. When it starts to involve that his bias starts to show too much. Here's to hoping that ESPN starts looking to bring in writers for all the individual divisions (Big XII North and South; SEC East and West) for the coming years when the Pac-10 and Big-10 start looking to bring their numbers up to get a championship game.

I thought he looked a little awkward with the ball in his hands. He can make the cuts, it just seemed like he slowed down too much to make them. Definitely looked like a straight line speed guy. But that might just be the video, that definitely sucked. Too much quick little flashbacks after he made plays. Just an overall bad highlight reel. The reel also focused too much on offense when the guy is going to college as a Safety, didn't see too much on the defensive side of the ball, but he did look good when they did show defense.

How do you get on an Academic All-American team? I know getting the best grades is a requirement, but what needs to be done to get on the team? Do they take the top students, no matter how they perform on the field? Or do they take the best students that also perform well on the field?

I think we probably should've used him instead of Green this year, just the extra year for Green could've been gold for the program and himself. He really did look like a freshman playing even with the scaled back playbook. Better to have him sit out last year and hit the ground running this spring than to have his confidence take a beating. But things didn't happen like that and I hope we don't sit here in a few years lamenting about what might have been.

Looks to have some nice size, though without some other measurable or some game tape it's hard to come to a decision with him.

It's because he got hurt with a nagging injury this year (at least I think) and didn't put up the same numbers as his Sophomore year.

He had Chip Kelley for UO's in home a couple days ago right? Then he had UCLA tonight. I'm guessing he sat through them and didn't hear anything that blew him away and screamed that that school would be where he should go to for the next 4/5 years. We've all heard that Oregon was pretty much only in the running because of the proximity to his mom, and then UCLA was mostly because of a Nigerian community that appealed to his mom. He's seen that Nebraska is the best where it comes to the overall football culture, and it has the best coaches that he can use to develop his talent for the possibility of a big payday to help his family in the future. He's been on a Nebraska lean since before the Holiday Bowl but didn't feel comfortable going so far away from his mom and brothers. Then after the bowl game he saw just how much of a bad idea it was to throw out Nebraska just because of the distance so he brought them back in.

Not really knowing too much about analyzing videos, but I saw a few plays where he relied only on his speed to run around the defensive player. Not going to fly in college. But I was very impressed by his vision and cutting abilities. I think we will see him playing somewhere as soon as he gets adapted to the speed of the game next year. Maybe use him as a returner, just something to get the ball in his hands. Bell's another kid that could provide a spark in the return game (if they decide to not use Paul next year, kind of stupid not to though), but I see Bell redshirting to get his weight in the 190 range before he really starts playing.

It might be because Notre Dame is a really good school that could set him up in life better than a Nebraska education? Don't get me wrong in saying that, there's nothing wrong with an education from Nebraska, it's just Notre Dame is a better school academically. Add to that they have one of the biggest football programs (unwarranted or not), and also it's way closer to his home than Lincoln and I see why he's having trouble picking a school between us and them. Sometimes you have to look past your time playing football. But I don't know what's going on in his mind, but with his dropping FSU I like our chances more than it's been in a while.

Drawing it out doesn't sound very good. He's going to make his decision on signing day because that's exactly how long it's going to take for him to weigh all the information he has and make that decision.

Anyone got any videos on him? I know that there were some up before but they seem to have been taken down.

That's the biggest knock on Griffin, too much OU and Texas. His 10 moments had Vince's run 1, Crabtree's catch 2, Williams superman leap 3, and then Crouch's catch at 4. Tell me how the Williams leap was a bigger moment? Texas still had to drive 98 yards on a defense that'd stopped them all game. Crouch's catch pretty much gave Crouch the Heisman and probably vaulted Nebraska to the BCS championship game.

Really think that the offense we saw in '08 is the offense we will strive too be every year. Next year I see the running game and Wildcat take the place of all those short throws that Ganz did with Swift and Peterson. Biggest problems with the offense this year were o-line depth/injury problems and inconsistent WR and QB play. Our No. 1 was too inconsistent and out no. 2 and 3 dropped off a cliff and by the time we brought in new players to replace them we went to our vanilla offense. This has been hashed and rehashed but as long as our O-line stays healthy, our WRs don't drop passes, and our QBs can be somewhat accurate against the top flight teams. I see our offense not having the same problems we had this year because of the amount of experience we are returning.

If we get him I very much see us using him in a similar situation that we used Barry Turner when he was a freshman, a rush end during obvious passing situations. I can definitely see him producing 5+ sacks next year in limited playing time. From everything we've seen from all the comments coming in, he seems like he wants to come to Nebraska (seen in how many positive things he's said), but other things are keeping him from making his decision. His closeness to his mom and staying close to her being the biggest reasons he hasn't decided on coming to Nebraska. Add to that our defensive coaches are by far the best out of his final 3, and it's hard to see him not coming. But I'm not really confident about it.

I think Swift brought Murtha with him. IIRC Swift committed early in the process, Murtha was committed to Minnesota, went on a trip with Swift to Nebraska, and committed then.

Boise's slow balling Nebraska for a two and one. In fact here's an article from huskerextra that expands on that and also adds input in how Nebraska is scheduling it's games. http://www.huskerextra.com/articles/2010/01/17/football/doc4b525e997772a459155338.txt

Only time he got really beat by Jeffcoat would be the last play of his video. He really didn't do good against Powell in the couple times that they showed him against Powell, but that's a video for Powell and not Westerman so it's understandable.

What our offense seems to need is a QB who can hit the short routes with good accuracy (at least gives the receivers a chance to make the play) and keep their own mistakes down. While accuracy down the field isn't a must, they'd need to be able to at least hit the receivers with regularity. Add to that the ability to run the Zone read. I really think what we did during the Holiday Bowl is what Watson wants to do with the offense. In fact outside of running the Wildcat more, I don't think there was too much of a difference between '08s offense and that game (we just ran a little more). Have that and a productive O-line and I think our offense can be competent. Carnes at least has the running part down, and he looks like he's a great shifty athlete, as opposed to Green's straight forward running. A great get no matter.

Does SC have a good Safety recruit this year? Cause I don't think there's that big a difference between what the Pelini's could do with what Monte could do with a DB. I'd like him to come but I'm not holding my breath, we still have a number of Frosh/Soph DBs that could be able to jump in after next year and play at a high level. I'd absolutely love for him to come to NU, but it's not really at a position where we absolutely need.

If he's able to match some of his previous marks I think he's got a very good chance at being drafted. I think the World Herald had an article on him that said he ran a 4.46 forty (electronic), and a sub 4 cone drill (at least I think it was the cone drill), add to that around a 35 inch vertical and he has some impressive enough numbers to at least get looked at. I'm really hoping he gets in somewhere with a legitimate shot at getting on a team. Hell I'd really like him on the Vikings, Safety position hasn't really been stellar this year.

If there is ever going to be a playoff, it needs to keep at least some of the bowl system alive. I think probably the best thing could be a plus 1 system where if you have more than 2 teams that are undefeated at the end of the BCS bowls that those teams play one more game to decide the winner. How many times has a team with a legitimate shot at winning the NC not played in the game? All I can think of is the '04 Auburn team that went undefeated. Now there have been teams that have gotten into the championship game under unreasonable circumstances ('01 Nebraska), but usually the teams that actually deserved to win did win. While the BCS isn't the best possible system, they generally get things right and get the right teams into the championship game. Now they just need to figure out how to get everyone a chance at the pie, which probably won't happen until the poll voters start to vote the mid-majors high in the early polls. I very much want Boise to run the table next year, because if they do and they don't get into the championship game, then things will not stay the same because the only possible explanation would be that they play in weak conference. But that doesn't really ride well seeing how they've done in previous BCS games. Having the Rose Bowl have a requirement to take a non-AQ team if either the Big-10 or Pac-10 send a representative to the NC game is a step up, now they have to do that with every BCS bowl.

I see the only bad thing about being the coach at Nebraska being the weather, but that is no worse than the rest of the midwest teams. Nebraska has a lot of funds that go through the football program (I think it was the 4th richest the last time they gaged these things, which was recently), and the coaches generally get a couple years before the fan base turns on them, and that's only if they lose more than they win. I'd like to be a coach at Nebraska because it's hard to think of a better culture that surrounds the program.

In obvious running downs next year, is there a possibility of moving Crick to End and having Steinkuhler and Moore or whoever take up the middle? I'm just saying that Crick can move like an end with his size. Maybe it gives us better run stopping power (not that we needed much this year).

Nebraska now officially become the number 1 ranked scoring defense.

They're getting it into their heads that what happened in the Big XII championship was a fluke because they don't want to go into the Championship Game acknowledging that they aren't really good. I see no problem with that, because of confidence levels. Just after the game acknowledge that Nebraska's D-line was better than Alabama's.