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People have been complaining about Bo's D being "light in the pants" all season. Not enough beef for conference play, Big 10 play, etc. Bo's "speedy, light" D was custom built to stop Mizzou and I think they'll do it.

Plus, missery doesn't know how to deal with the success of finally beating OU. I think they'll have a letdown vs NU next week. They're a real good team, but I think we take them out.

Good stuff buddy. Keep it up.

I think this is the youtube video that Bo showed to the players. There is another Lion hunting video but the lion dies where in this video the lion is getting hunted but then turns to the table to become the hunter and lives which Bo message was all about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQahgDP8d_k&feature=related

Buddy, this lion didn't live. They got him.

Some cool characters from Lonesome Dove left Texas for a better life on the great plains.

I remember all those years of mediocrity for Texas. The Red River Rivalry was little more than a local show, not the national-interest game it's become in the last decade-ish.

 

What I cannot fathom, though, is how Texas can ever become "bad." You guys have more five-star players within a stone's throw of your campus than any school outside of Florida and SoCal. There is absolutely no excuse for poor players on your roster, yet here we are, watching this team fuddle its way around the field. It's baffling to me how Mack can underperform like this.

 

I think a lot of it is on the position coaches. Mac McWhorter is a terrible O line coach. We're just now realizing it because these past two years are the first time in forever that we haven't had multiple future NFL guys, including some first rounders, on our O line. Now that the talent level is a notch lower, the line went from a strength to a huge liability. That screams coaching to me, specifically that a coach's defects were covered up for years by simply having better athletes than the guys on the other side of the ball most of the time.

 

And WR coach Bobby Kennedy should be on the hot seat, too. Malcolm Williams, John Chiles, and DeSean Hales were all highly regarded 4-stars that haven't developed at all. Our routes are sloppy and there are way too many drops. Freshman Mike Davis looks to be better right now than guys that have been in Kennedy's system for two or three years.

 

And then there's the playcalling. See avatar.

 

But as bad as it is, we're not heading back to the 80's by any stretch. Worst case this year looks to be about 7-5, and we hardly lose anyone to graduation (Curtis Brown is the only one worth anything), plus we've got a 5 star tackle coming in along with Malcolm Brown next year. This is a dip in the road, not a decline, we'll be contenders for the conference again next year (not that y'all will care, lol).

 

That quote you're responding to is mine, not Junior's.

 

But the rest of your post speaks to what I'm talking about. It just makes no sense that with all of those four- and five-star kids on your roster that you would EVER have a dip in talent level. Your coaches are smack in the middle of prime prep football country, and should have zero problems diagnosing talent properly. I cannot fathom how they could be the flagship school in a talent-rich state, the school that all the Texas kids originally want to go to (A&M/Tech being fall-backs, and on down the list), and yet still have that kind of underperformance.

 

There are only two explanations I can see: 1) Your coaches simply are not that good at gauging talent, and recruit the wrong kids (see: Rex Burkhead), or 2) Your coaches are not very good at teaching football to these kids once they get them. I think what you're saying is it's the latter, which begs the question, why are they still at UT?

Don't forget, another reason UT dropped off the planet for nearly two decades was because they ALSO got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. When the rest of the SWC got tired of being held down by the State Legislation, they started cheating to try to do anything to beat UT. UT started getting lit up by SMU and some other programs, so they started cheating as well. The whole conference got caught. Rumor has it that when UT ratted SMU out, SMU turned around and did the same to UT. At one point in the mid 80's EVERY team in the SWC was on NCAA probation.... not investigation, probation (except Rice, Baylor, and Arkansas).

Remember Broadrick Thomas? He wanted to go to UT, and was on his way but said all the NCAA investigators were calling him day and night to ask if he'd been offered or taken money from UT... he said he got tired of it and just decided to go to Nebraska instead. So I'm sure that being put on NCAA probation also helped put a dent in all the resources that UT had at it's disposal.

Legend has it, he was born with that tattoo...

Two things:

 

1) They should never have announced that TV deal until this was finalized. It ruined a lot of monetary leverage they had against the two schools.

 

2) The relatively low figure (over $20 million less than some estimates) tells me that our speculation of shady dealings by the other schools has legs. It should have been much more. What motivation does the Big 12 have for making this easy on Nebraska at this stage? None whatsoever. They got every dime they could, but they got much less than they should have gotten

Your second point is EXACTLY what I was thinking. There is NO reason these bitter little... people wouldn't want to break it off in our hind ends.... so why aren't they? There's a lot of UTerus dirt under the rugs they don't want coming up in court. Most of it petty little crap just in a vain attempt to spook NU into not leaving. But you gotta wonder if there's some BIG stuff under that rug?

Tune up game. I want to see some 2nd and 3rd stringers early and often. The worst thing that can happen in this game is a major injury

I'd like to see TM get nothing but passing reps in, and not get hit one time.

Ok, more weirdness. Had chinese food 2 nights ago, but didn't eat the fortune cookie.

 

Wife opened it today and the fortune reads: "Focus on the color purple to bring you luck" WTF?!?!

 

Edit, took picture to prove how truly strange this is:

 

 

WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?!

lmao!

You're off base, the value is in voluntarily sacrificing to help the poor.

 

Taking someone else's wealth, and giving it to someone else is a completely different thing.

 

If I decide to help people with what I have, I have the choice of who it goes to. If the government does it, some of my money immediately vanishes for overhead, more vanishes to those that scam the system.

 

Quote from Thomas Jefferson says it better than I ever could.

 

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

 

Right, and if the government didn't take our money and give it to someone else, the world would be so much better off. Because, deep down inside, we know that all human beings are incredibly charitable people who would give up their grossly oversized meal portions and big-screen televisions for the sake of our less well off brothers and sisters living down at the homeless shelter.

 

Anyways, yeah this is about to get way out of hand, so I'm gonna go argue about whether Taylor Martinez is faster than Eric Crouch or something stupid like that. Out.

Maybe that's what he was getting at. If more people would freely give to the more needy, we wouldn't have to bork up what was once the greatest economy in the world with something like socialism or communism.

Good luck to the Nebraska Cornhuskers this season; may you take the Big XII North, stomp the dogstuff out of Texas twice, and leave a broken wake of a joke of a Texas and the Nine Dwarves conference behind you!

pure..... poetry....

I must admit I'm one who adamantly is against Iowa as our Main Rivalry. I understand the geography thing and the fact that they run their mouths, but that is completely reminiscent of Colorado.

 

I don't understand why so many of the fans who were so opposed to the force CU rivalry joke are so on board with the Iowa rivalry! I understand they have big mouths and the bragging rights I guess, but they really have done nothing to compare themselves to us or even associate themselves with us as our top Rival. They have achieved relatively little compared to us, so why should we tie our program to a weaker one like their's?

 

They have no national titles, they have one Heisman winner from 1939, 11 conference titles (6 modern era), and only twenty all-americans!!!!

 

Colorado has traditionally been a more successful program than Iowa, yet we refused to acknowledge CU as a rival (myself included), but welcome Iowa with open arms?!?!?!?!?!

 

Yes Iowa has had a decent decade (arguably their best in their modern era), but I think that makes them even less qualified. This is one of the worst decades in the history of Husker football in the modern era and we still had a better record than them, a better winning percentage, a Heisman winner and a National Title appearance while they didn't!

 

Now I have to be careful here, because my entire Mom's side of the family (who I love dearly) is in east Iowa and they all are extreme Hawks fans, but from a football standpoint it makes no sense!!!!!!

 

Why should one of the nation's most prestigious programs in college football settle for Iowa as their main rival?!?!?!

 

USC has Notre Dame, Miami has Florida State, Michigan has Ohio State, Oklahoma now has Texas (which I still hate to say), and so on... And we would have IOWA?????? That's like USC's main rival being Stanford (a program with a decent amount of history, with Bill Walsh and John Elway), but no where near in comparison with USC!

 

Each of these have two things in common, both teams have at least 1 National Title (although everyone beside Stanford has at least 2 in this), and the series are relatively close.

 

the last three times we played Iowa we put up 49 on them and they achieved a double digit score once in those three games.

 

I don't understand this!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Feel free to explain, rebuttal or simply state your view

I'm with you on all of this.

why does Texass have so many wins? Seriously, I barely remember them being relevant AT ALL when I was growing up (i'm 33)...

 

were they just the absolute best in like, 1952?

 

it seems to me, personally, that they didn't start getting really good until about the late nineties?

That's what happens when you have a entire conference made up of texas schools, and the state of texas legislation making sure that the University of texas gets taken care of first and foremost (their flagship university). It's been going on for the last 100 years. Not hard to wrack up massive wins that way.

I'm with you though, I didn't even know they had a team growing up, they'd ran the corrupt vice ridden den that was the swc into the ground.

As much as I like Suh, and as much as I think that he is a great player and a better person, he had a penchant for getting personal foul penalities at NU too. It kinda makes him look like a dirty player, and I don't think that he is.

 

Let's not forget what really happened. The majority of those personal foul penalties he got at NU were incorrect calls. The tackle vs. Baylor, the hit against Tyrod Taylor two years ago, several others that I'm not recalling immediately, were judgment calls that most likely shouldn't have been thrown. As bad as this hit was, let's not rewrite history.

Don't forget the "horse collar" he got called vs Gabbart when he basically grabbed a hand full of shirt on Gab's numbers and pulled him to the turf.

As an Ohio State fan I just wanted to say no blame should be going your way. Nebraska is a outstanding school with a great team cheered on by phenomenal fans, you will be an excellent addition to the conference. A fan base that got their traditions thrown in the dirt to make way for the future in no way deserves to hear anyone whine over something that doesn't amount to one tenth of what happened to you.

 

I'm sure with everything you've lost we probably seem like petulant children screaming because we aren't getting our way. It is important to me, but I fear something bad is about to happen to an institution exaggerated into myth and legend that I grew up with. A tradition I shared with my grandfathers and my father and assumed I'd celebrate with my children and theirs. I realize that we will still play every year but I do not believe it will feel the same in ten.

 

Anyway welcome home Nebraska.

 

GO BIG RED BEAT TEXAS!

This is why I just hope they leave the Michigan OSU rivalry completely alone. Tradition is an odd thing. I was in the service overseas when the NU vs OU game went by the wayside and I didn't know much about it until after it happened. If I were an OSU or Michigan fan I'd scream like a child as loud as I could if a change in the date bothered me.

I guess the best thing is to see what they announce for sure in the next few months, and then really raise cain if need be. There'll be a whole year to do it before the deed is done.

I am the only one who doesn't care about the PSU-NU "rivalry?" Really, they are half way across the country, and it would just be awkward. I respect PSUs tradition and some of the great, meaningful games that we have had with them, but I am more stoked about NU-Iowa, NU-UW, heck even NU-Minn.

 

So.. according to your line of thinking... Nebraska-Oklahoma wasn't a good rivalry because OU was too far away and therefore just awkward? You respected Oklahoma's tradition and the great, meaningful games NU/OU had but Colorado, Missouri and Kansas were more our "real" rivals because of their geographic proximity?

Apples and oranges. Lincoln to Norman is about an 8 hour drive, but it is about 15 hours from Lincoln to Happy Valley?

 

NU-PSU have had, what about 6 non-conference games played against each other since the late 70's (30-35 years), some had NC implications. For 30 years, the NU-OU game was normally for at least a share of the Big 8/12 championship/Orange Bowl, which often had NC implications.

 

NU-OU was a tradion rich, natural rivalry. Just simply putting NU and PSU in the same division and making them play the day after Thanksgiving does not make a natural rivalry (see NU-CU).

All of this..... and you're wanting a "rivalry" with Iowa over PSU or anyone else??? Two of the games we played against PSU probably meant more than all the games we've played vs Iowa. How many games have we played against Iowa anyhow? I've no clue and more important, I don't even care to look it up. I bet the rest of the nation doesn't get fired up about a Nebraska vs. Iowa match up. They would over NU vs PSU or Michigan though.

I think some of our Husker fan base has been polluted by this whole "state of texas bragging rights" thing. Good football and rivalries aren't about beating someone, anyone so you can talk smack to their fans the next Monday at work. Or call them up and rub it in on the phone. That's the only logical reasoning I can come up with when I see some of our fans desiring a rivalry with Iowa.

I'd say either Michigan or PSU, it wouldn't matter to me, but I just feel that Michigan is OSU territory so hopefully PSU.

As a matter of fact, anything EXCEPT Iowa. They've been doing good lately, but having a rivalry with that team for me would be like sitting and staring at a small chunk of styrofoam for three straight days. I'd rather have a neo rivalry with Northwestern than Iowa. And I'm serious.

I personally would just like to see them put Michigan and OSU in the same division and keep the normal date for the game. I know it wouldn't really matter that much if they changed it a bit, but it's tradition. I know what it feels like to have your main rivalry game messed with and I didn't like it.

If things get changed around, I sure hope the Big 10 teams/fans don't blame the Huskers for the changes in tradition. If anyone knows what blown up tradition is like, it's us.

Anybody think LSU could be a possibility? Les Miles is on the hot seat and I think they'd definitely be willing to make a hard push for Bo.

Bo's wife absolutely HATED LSU. She loved Lincoln from what I've heard and thought that was a big factor in Bo's decision making..... for any of you non married types.

Looking at the schedule, I see the very winnable games as BYU, Syracuse, Arizona State, UCLA, Cal and Washington State. Oregon State could be a possibility since it's at home and 'Zona is right in that mix as well. That is 8 potential wins right there. The remaining 4 are Stanford (I'm higher on them than others), @ USC (they'll be looking for revenge, could be a real toughy) @ Oregon (not the most realistic bet to call a win) and the Blackshirts (even if I believed it I would project victory here; I'm outnumbered..haha).

 

You know you guys are gonna have to play against our offense and special teams as well? FYI, our defense is called the Blackshirts, not our entire team. You just lost a lot of credibility there, sorry.

 

I'm aware that it's just the D that are called the Blackshirts. The question I had received was specific to the match-up of the Nebraska defense versus the Washington offense so that stuck in my mind for the thread. Good catch, though. I don't want to come over here and sound like a foreigner, at least not anymore than I already have.

You've been courteous and polite in my opinion. Thanks for stopping by. I didn't take it as you calling our team the Blackshirts, I figured you knew what you were talking about. Happy you know our D's nickname. It should be a very good game. I am hoping Coach Bo can find a way to neutralize Locker's scrambling (Bo notices things like that on tape) and that we can come away with a win. I think the Huskies will climb out of the hole they've been in for a while and do some great things this year. Just hope it isn't against the Huskers .

The only problem I had with them putting a second back on the clock is that I have a funny feeling that they wouldn't have done that if Nebraska was in the same situation but that might be me being a little naive. I feel bad for you guys about 08 but I don't think you got too robbed since it seemed like OU was the better team.

 

Seemed like the better team? Remember OU lost head to head to Texas on a neutral field? OU was a great team that year, but Texas proved on the field it was better.

 

and about the :01, it was done for you guys in the same situation in 94. Things like that have a way of going around, sometimes your team is the one catching the break, next time your team has the breaks going against you. In both the 94 Orange Bowl and the 09 CCG it was the correct call.

 

 

you mean the neutral field in dallass texass? LOL there are no neutral fields in texass

 

 

It's not in Norman, It's not in Austin. Fair Park is alomst equal distance from OU and UT (It's actually closer to OU). Fans are split 50/50. Cant get much more neutral than that.

Very true. The RRS, even though in Texas, is neutral. 50/50.

Just out of curiosity, wanted to ask you, if the CCG is played in Jerry's World, and UT and NU were playing, would that be a neutral site in your opinion?

Won't be able to go.

NU 13 - 6

Game won't be as close as the score seems though.

1. @Texas A&M

2. @Kansas State

3. Missouri[/color][/color]

4. Texas

5. @Washington

6. @Oklahoma State

7. Colorado

8. Idaho

9. Kansas

10.@Iowa State

11. Western Kentucky

12. South Dakota State

Why do you have k state ahead of texas?

The KSU game has me spooked for some reason. Snyder will put everything into that game, which will be no different than any other school in the big 12 unloaded.... but I hate to admit it, the guy can coach and scheme. I'm worried our Huskers may be looking a tad ahead. I think Bo will have them ready, but the game just flat out spooks me for some reason.

I for one didn't know that UT invented the term... "be loud". That's pretty awesome.

It's funny how the UT fans have raved about UN fans over the last 15 years. "Husker fans are the best fans in college football." "Wow they were great to us." "What an honorable fanbase the Huskers are.." etc etc..

But we expose them and their beloved QB, nearly beat them (we didn't even beat them and they're all up in arms), and show cfb that the UT horns are not really what the media had made them out to be... and they get rocked by Bama. Now we're the scum of the Earth.

Guess they're still a little mad about all that.

1. @Texas A&M

2. @Kansas State

3. Missouri

4. Texas

5. @Washington

6. @Oklahoma State

7. Colorado

8. Idaho

9. Kansas

10.@Iowa State

11. Western Kentucky

12. South Dakota State