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  1. < La Travis Washington! > 5-7 offensive snaps for the Holiday bowl!
  2. Suh is throwing Colt McCoy around like a little kid in this video...
  3. Suh would have been 2nd Team all Pac ten as a Beaver in 08 40-45 tackles 4-5 sacks ect 1st Team Pac Ten 09 2nd Team all-american! IMO credit the development of the Suh & Bronko award to the Pelini clan!
  4. Bring back the tear away jerseys! NOT~ Anyone ever notice how tight Suh's uniform is? Got to be the holding stuff he faces on nearly every play!
  5. With a few practices ....Green should be up to leanring 40% of the playbook! Please throw to the tight end! Mcneil has not sniffed a solid look in a few games Best hands on the team! The guy is glue on 3rd down! IMO 0.00 vs Baylor 1-2 vs OU 4-27 vs Kansas 3-26 vs KSU 1-3 vs Colorado 0.00 vs Texas Get the ball to McNeil!
  6. Thanks! Good point on the recruiting! My veins bleed scarlet red!
  7. What does this one game have to do with all the rest that the offense failed to do much of anything in? Good grief the watson talk has been ongoing. You act like we're disrespecting the texass defense. We averaged around 280 yards offense per game in big 12 play. Unacceptable. Mr Watson is likely skating thin ice! Thin Bo ice! His OC duties may be severly limited if our offense does another 160ish-190 yard fiasco filled with a few untimely turnovers in the holiday bowl. Playing not to lose~ is just not playing . Our "D" may be able to win the game by itself! That may be another tall order in itself We need our offense to make some serious contributions for us to win!
  8. He telegraphs is target! This might be coaching! More likely , it may be Zachs lack of confidence
  9. Turn the clock back to 1978~! Hello all I hail from the Seattle Wa I have been a husker since 1978. Migrated here from back east! Best friend in HS was a husker- his dad was a husker born in Nebraska. College football was the Saturday event for several years back then. 46 years old! Seen the Nebraska program grow from its relative infancy as Tom molded it after the Bob Devaney prototype Let me start by saying that I have been a Husker fan since 1978! I bleed Scarlet & Cream forever! This post will detail my memories of the 1978 husker season. This essay will also detail similarities relating to today’s Husker coach Bo Pelini. Tom Osborne was 40 yrs old in 1978, roughly the same age Bo is currently. Bo Pelini is learning many things about coaching such as the rigors of the media & that cutthroat recruiting. Interestingly, had the internet been around in summer of 1978 Tom Osborne may have been even more pressured to leave Nebraska for another rival~~ Colorado! Back to 1978! That cover of Sports Illustrated portraying Rick Berns running through the OU defense says it all! Seeing Rick Bern’s shred the Oklahoma Sooners & Billy Sims that day on ABC remains one of my pride memories. That OU team was perhaps Switzer’s best team (as he admitted years later publicly in the media). Tom Osborne was forever snake bit by losing to OU for a long time it seemed. His break through win was the 1978 game. 1978 notes (I did see the Huskers a few times on T.V ~~ including the Orange Bowl on NBC at the time!) Nebraska finished 9-3 that year (losing a rare conference rematch to OU 24-31 in the Orange Bowl) Nebraska had the nation’s best offense statistically that year 501.3 yards per game & 38-40pts per game. A Power-I based run-oriented attack vaulted the Huskers to a top ten final ranking. That offense featured the “I-Back” mostly- with occasional QB option. Misdirection was emphasized, and play action passes to the tight-end/split ends were devastating. The I-Backs would get the ball 30-35 times per game, and wear down a defense so that by the start of the 4th quarter an opposing “D” was gassed. Off-tackle’s and sweeps were the feature plays. It was all abut power football. The husker offensive linemen were led by all-conference Kelvin Clark and the steady Barney Cotton (yes that Barney! ~ NU’s current OL coach! ). 250 lbs-to 270 lbs not huge lineman, but again fundamentally sound and usually experienced! Most went through the red-shirt process back then. The offenses goal was to gain 5-7 yards from the I-Back on 1st or 2nd down. Then surprise an over-pursing defense with a wingback end around or toss-sweep/counter option. Play action passing was equally devastating against 8-9 man fronts intent on stopping the ground attack. The offense had QB’s Tim Hager & Tom Sorely. Both players were passing oriented QB’s in a 75% + run-oriented offense. IB’s were Rick Berns & I.M Hipp Interestingly NU converted to this style the year before in 1977 after years of a more balanced run-pass offense from Osborne’s early offenses. I believe this was meant to approach Oklahoma’s program dominance at that time. TE was a tall rangy player named Junior Miller. A fullback named Andra Franklin rounded out a powerful husker offense. The huskers at that time, were not supremely talented (likely top 30 talent overall), but were well-schooled in fundamentals, playing smart – nearly mistake free football. The offense had only a few players capable of taking it to the house for a TD in a game. Mainly the offense relied on power running plays & the occasional play action passing. Opposing defenses were generally worn out by the start of a 4th quarter. Nebraska football was all about controlling the clock and the line of scrimmage. The Husker defense was a hard hitting unit, but lacked overall team speed- in my opinion! Defenders of note were DE George Andrews- and LB Lee Kunz. Kerry Weinmaster was an undersized Middle Guard at 207 lbs! The Defense ran a standard “5-2” look designed to slow down the Wishbones & Veers of the day. These offenses were the Spread or Spread-option of the today’s 2009 game. Basically the MG would use “stunts” to create penetration. The DT’s responsibly would be hold the line or play gap control, while LB’s and monster back would be featured making many of the big-tackles. Jim Pillen was a hard-hitting monster back (SS) capable of making big plays. From the 1978 season (finishing 9-3) Big Wins 17-14 vs. #1 ranked Oklahoma Sooners at the time. OU had a tremendous team that year! Lots of speedsters in the wishbone led by the bandana man QB Thomas Lott, fullback Kenny King, RB David Overstreet ( very underrated), and Heisman Trophy winner RB Billy Sims. OU led the nation in rushing (NU was 2nd, OU was 2nd in total offense (1st was NU!). Oklahoma had Outland Trophy winner Greg Roberts as well, in likely the nation’s most talented offensive line. The opportunistic defense was wickedly quick, led by George Cumby & company. The Sooners came in unbeaten opening as a double digit favorite. The feeling was the nation’s fastest team (Oklahoma) would overwhelm Nebraska. A shootout favored OU, while a lower scoring game favored NU. This game was one of the hardest hitting games I ever saw on T.V; Memorial stadium must have been electric that day! Nebraska controlled momentum most of the game, but Oklahoma was still in position to steal another victory. Despite losing 5 fumbles earlier in the the game! Jim Pillen stripped the ball from Billy Sims late in the 4th quarter (for OU’s 6th lost fumble) to maintain Tom Osborne’s signature win over his biggest rival 17-14. Nebraska destroyed a ranked Colorado team in mid season 52-14, showing the nation they were for real as the huskers rolled up some huge offensive numbers. Other notable wins were over Kansas, California, and Indiana (coached by Lee Corso. Notable Losses 3-20 to Alabama at Tuscaloosa ~~ Bama they went to share the national champion with U.S.C. Alabama had a great team that year led by Jeff Rutledge (QB), Tony Nathan RB & Major Ogilvie RB. Bama’s defense was likely the nation’s best led by Barry Krauss and E. J Junior. The secondary featured 2 or 3 all-league performers as well. Also Nebraska lost a heartbreaker to the Missouri Tigers 31-35, just 1 week after defeating top-ranked Oklahoma. With a many future NFL stars, Missouri ran a split-back Veer that sliced the husker defense wide open at times. James Wilder had his best game of the season running for nearly 200 years. Nebraska I-back Rick Berns exceeded that effort by setting the Nebraska single game rushing record with 255 yards. Nearly 1000 yards of offense were generated in this game! Nebraska would have played Penn State for the National championship, had they beaten Missouri…. Instead… On New Years Day, Nebraska was toyed with by revenge minded Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl 24-31. The huskers 2 late TD’s made the score appear closer than the game was. Time Warp from 1978 to 2009! Bo Pelini has Nebraska headed in the right direction we need it! Being a defensive coach, he has instilled a toughness we never had with Bill Callahan. Bo was correct in designing his defenses to stop the B-12's popular versions of the Spread Offense(s). These Offences have both run and pass doctrines. Offense! It will take a little time! Power football is returning to Lincoln slowly but surely. YEs, our offense garnered a mere 106 yards in the B-12 championship game. But the team still came within a whisker of the title! Improvement is here! Improvement is ahead in Nebraska's future starting with *** Improved Offensive line play possibly scheming up wrinkles in modern zone blocking techniques. *** Going to a base Zone-Read offense similar to Oregons current creation. (Lets Lure Scott Frost back to Lincoln ) I would like to see more TE stuff to feature Mcneil, and perhaps add several FB variants during short yardage situations. Also~~ misdirection has profound effects against even the fastest of defenses. How about some play action, like we did ...hmmmm like 1978~ *** Settling on a single quarterback, and sticking with him. (My choice would be this Martinez kid who is red-shirting this year~~ possibly to give Kody Spano a shot at QB during the Spring). Right now Zach Lee has lost confidence, which has mired his decisions. Green knows how much of the playbook 30%? Whoa! *** Bo is still maturing as a head coach. In a few years he will be considered one of the premier coachs in the B-12. I think he is already Let’s win this Holiday bowl- thingy! We owe the wildcats some payback from 1998~ If we score 2 TD's we win! Arizona will be hard pressed to score more than single TD vs. our D!
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