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I tried but the link didn't work.

I'd never heard that Still in Saigon one. It's pretty good. Breakdown by Tom Petty

I figured they'd be taking another kicker in the first. They're pry saving that for next year when Henery comes out. They've got to replace Janny somehow.

Just out of curiosity, and maybe you said it already, but what brought you to Husker nation? Did you follow any other team before this or have you just never been fully interested in football? I went over it vaguely in the Introduce yourself thread (I think thats what its called), but it was my dad that brought me to the huskers. He grew up in minnesota and nebraska, and we moved to lincoln in '99. I've always been a diehard Vikings fan, but never really got into college football, it just didn't interest me as much as the NFL because there weren't any blockbuster trades, drafts, too hard to keep up with players leaving every year etc. I started to get interested in the huskers last year, and the first game I really wanted them to win was against Texas, and I followed that game on my cell phones sports app. When I saw we lost I was actually sad about it, like I am when the Vikings lose, and then I started following them a little more till the end of the season and the first full game I watched was the bowl game. So it was a mixture of my dad, and just desire to have at least ONE of my teams win a championship. I'm trying to get into more sports, like MLB, but I'm starting off with college football, and at least the Huskers give me one reason to be proud to be in nebraska. Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I love me some extra Vikings fans. That means you, me, and Minnesota Husker are the only out of the closet Vikings fans that I know of on this board. It's good to see you following the Huskers now, though. One thing that a lot of posters won't be so quick to point out on here, as far as Husker history goes, are the years between 2002-2007. After Tom Osborne left in 1997, we had a few good years of football under Frank Solich including another trip to the National Championship game. However, the final regular season game before the Big 12 championship, we lost to Colorado 62-36 and have never really recovered since. Until Pelini. You forgot me Enhance. I follow the vikes pretty adamantly, maybe more than the skers. I have ever since I can remember watching football because my dad is from South Dakota, and he says where he was from everyone liked the Minnesota teams just like almost everyone in SD follows the Huskers.

I will say this; I think there is some truth to this. I think a lot of it has to do with culture. White peoples' culture comes from Western philosophy. A lot of our philosophy comes from the Enlightenment movement. The general idea of this was to find an answer to all things that can be explained empirically. It goes back even further than that, but this is probably the last, great factor that affected our outlook on life. In that way it's just in our nature to want to find an answer to all things unexplained. Personally, I gave up on finding the meaning of life a long time ago. Like I said, I live because I'm not dead yet. There's nothing more to it than that.

Judge Smails from Caddyshack? It looks like it was a great time.

White nikes with the black logo. I got a pair for Christmas about a year and a half ago. They're pretty cool. I'm not a shoe guy though.

I was thinking it was this guy. They say that's a nut in his paws. Boy I don't know. Looks like a basketball to me. The Jolly Green Giant would probably be a pretty good post man though.

Ya gotta be sneaky about it..I'm hanging around Sky Harbour the night before with red spray paint..Shouldn't be any problems. I usually don't say anything, but I've read this 5 times, and every time I've done one of these

-Snippets- Wildcat - ...The general scheme can be instituted in many different offensive systems, but the distinguishing factor is a direct snap to the running back and an unbalanced offensive line. The wildcat is an offensive formation rather than an overall offensive philosophy or 'offense' (for example, a spread-option offense might use the wildcat formation to keep the defense guessing, or a West Coast offense may use the power-I formation to threaten a powerful run attack). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_formation Spread - ...The fundamental nature of the spread offense involves spreading the field horizontally using 3, 4, and even 5-receiver sets (some implementations of the spread also feature wide splits between the offensive linemen). The object of the spread offense is to open up multiple vertical seams for both the running and passing game to exploit, as the defense is forced to spread itself thin across the field (a "horizontal stretch") to cover everyone. There are many forms of the spread system. One of the extremes is the "Air Raid" pass-oriented version...The other extreme version is the spread option, consisting of the slot receiver and tail back as well as a speedy quarterback...Despite the multi-receiver sets, the spread option is a run-first scheme which requires a quarterback that is comfortable carrying the ball, a mobile offensive line that can pull and trap effectively, and receivers that can hold their blocks. The essence of the spread option is misdirection. Effectively, this is the old triple option except that it utilizes spread sets. In particular, the quarterback must be able to read the defensive end and determine whether he is collapsing down the line or playing upfield contain...A third version of the spread offense is the Pistol offense...Professional teams have also used various versions of this scheme beginning with the former Houston Oilers, the Atlanta Falcons, and Detroit Lions. The 2007 New England Patriots utilized the spread with quarterback Tom Brady and wide receivers Randy Moss, Wes Welker, Donte Stallworth, and Jabar Gaffney. In addition, the San Diego Chargers (1980s) and the various West Coast schemes developed by Bill Walsh and the San Francisco 49ers (1980s) stemmed their offenses, in many ways, from Ellison's and Davis' designs. In addition, a new offense known as the "spread-flex" is emerging among many programs. This offense combines the flex-bone and the spread offense together in order to cause confusion for defenses and to take advantage of mismatches. This dynamic offense has worked its way up into the smaller colleges and universities such as Air Force who use it very effectively. It can be effective in many ways to spread the ball out to the wide receivers as well as using a lot of pre-snap shifting and motion to run the option zone read plays. Imagine combining the offenses of Navy (a heavily run-oriented option offense that has led the NCAA in rushing in every season since 2003) and Texas Tech (one of the most pass-oriented college offenses) and you have the "spread-flex". The 2008 Miami Dolphins are the most recent team to implement some form of the spread offense in their offensive schemes. Lining up in the "wildcat" formation, the Miami Dolphins, borrowing from Gus Malzahn's college spread offense, “direct snap” the ball to their running back, Ronnie Brown.[5] Brown is then able to read the defense, and either pass or keep the ball himself. Thus far, defenses have had difficulty stopping this new-look Miami offense—an offense which stunned the New England Patriots at New England and the San Diego Chargers at Miami during the 2008 season, although some teams were able to adapt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_offense Sorry to make this such a lengthy response, but I wanted to try to clear up misconceptions, as I see them, about the Spread and Wildcat. I think this will probably answer the question by itself. There are further examples though. I say the Spread is a concept because, as this points out, it's just an idea based on spreading out the field. It's not a play, a set of plays, or a set of formations. It's an approach. I think it's clear that Nebraska has been running the spread since about our 4th game in 2008. In 2008 we'd air it out because that's what our personell was suited for, but in 2009 we transitioned to running out of it, and eventually running the Wildcat out of it because that's what our personell dictated. The Wildcat is basically just the idea of lining some other skill position player up at qb and trying to mask the formation to make it look like all the other formations. Teams make substitutions and play calls based on who's in the huddle. If the qb is still in there, they'll think there's nothing strange going on. Then when you line up, they can make changes, but they have to be quick. Teams like the Broncos last year added more complexity to this by lining Orton up at WR and sometimes motioning him back in at qb. This means that a team can't know what will be run until it's run. This makes for huge mismatches. Although, the Wildcat originated from the Wing-T, it can be run out of anything. If I didn't explain something very well, or something still needs to be cleared up, please don't hesitate to let me know. I know these are only wikipedia links, but I have no doubt they'll do for the atmosphere of a message board. I understand that I might not explain this that well. To me it's clear, and it was before I read the wikipedia pages, but I didn't grow up before the Spread so, in some ways, I benefited from that because it was easier to make the connections. It's similar to the situation people face that grew up before computers came into their own. It's often hard for them to adapt and understand. I'm sure when I turn grey, I'll face many more problems than I can't even comprehend. This is kind of a reflection, though, and isn't really necesarry for explaining the question. I just didn't want to come off sounding condescending or anything like that. It's just that I hear these terms used in the wrong way pretty frequently, and I'm just trying to clear up any misconceptons.

Sorry, i saw Mendoza under IB on Huskers.com, so I thought they moved him back there. It would be interesting to see how he performs at CB. No worries. Just trying to get the info correct. Who is Brandon Chapek? I agree with most of your assessment. I'll be keeping my eyes on three areas: OL, LB, and S, in that order. 6'5" 305 lb Redshirt Freshman from Wahoo, NE, he wasn't talked very highly about, but his size gave him a lot of potential. I am curious to see how he has fair so far in the system. Oh that's how I recognize his name. He went to Wahoo-Neumann right?

The Spread is definitely a concept LINK. I know a lot of people who think otherwise. I've met a guy from the south who tried to tell me the BIG 12 offenses didn't run the spread because they threw all the time. He was used to spread teams running a lot of option variants out of it. It doesn't really matter what plays you run. It's a concept based on spreading out the field. The O-line takes wider splits, and , I believe, it's the most versatile offense there is. That's why in a different thread I voted that I would like to see NU run the spread. The spread option and the spread are the same thing. The wildcat is run out of the spread. The possibilities are endless, and it's a concept that best suits a coach that caters to his personell.

I know what you mean. I was so excited when the vikes drafted Adrian Peterson because I knew how much of a beast he was because he tore us up so badly.

@Husker 37 This is probably the funniest picture you've posted

Born in Omaha but lives in Ashland. Hell Yeah

I don't know. I feel like our defense is so solid the players are almost interchangeable. Last year our offense revolved around moving the ball up to the 35 and kicking, or giving our D good enough field position to basically score for us. I voted for Henery.

I can't believe Bo doesn't have the most secure spot. His first year here, he could've run for King of Nebraska. Then he came back and resurrected our program. I don't think anyone wants him gone ever. I think some people want Mack gone because of that huge DC contract, and I think some people want Stoops gone because he's had a hard time winning the big games.

Indeed. If one understands the game they will love to watch it and everything about it. Wow what a pretentious statement! Baseball couldn't be easier to understand if they wrote the rule book in crayon. And given the intellectual capacity of many pro athletes, I wouldn't be surprised if they do. That's true. It is an extremely simple game. Much of baseball can be played on sheer talent, like football. I don't think the reason a lot of people don't like it is because it's too complex. I think it's so simple that it's intricacies go unnoticed by a lot of people, and you don't really understand them until you've been around someone that has a deep knowledge of the game. Also, those people typically have a deep respect for baseball that a lot of people don't have. I think that, too, helps you appreciate it. I've been around baseball for about 19 years now, and I didn't really appreciate it until about 3 years ago.

A native of what town in Nebraska?

Charlie Weis? Man, if Charlie Weiss became our OC I would really have a hard time rooting for our offense... no front butt's in Nebraska please! Charlie Weis an offensive genius? I think he was talking about Mike Leach... edit: or Mangino

I can tell you that Phelps is a true believer. I've watched a documentary on these cooks and it basically burns down to a tyrannical father who probably has at least one mental disorder. Three of his children left his family and one or two of them was interviewed by phone for the documentary. According to them he was violent and rage-prone in the home in addition to his cherub-like social interactions. I like the new sig Husker_x. It's pretty sweet.

Yeah, I read up on him a little when I was writing the response. I just meant that the quote sounded like a psychological theory. I didn't mean to totally dismiss it though. It is an interesting theory. I was just trying to say that I'm very skeptical when I hear theories that deal with human behavioral patterns.

Here's the thing about your last paragraph there. SOCAL is dead set in his point of view and is inherently against changing it, as anyone can tell from his posts. There are others on this board that are vehemently against what SOCAL is saying. These "others" will provide proof or real life examples to back up what they are saying, and then SOCAL will provide his own proof or suggestions to back up what he is saying. We're in a situation with this discussion where neither side will give the other any ground. We're also to the point where the discussion is being taken out of context or the same things are just getting repeated over, and over, and over again until they just become useless commodities in the eyes of the reader. Once you hit a brick wall with someone, you don't feel like continuing the discussion any more, am I right? Some are just sick of talking about. SOCAL won't be sick of talking about it because he's in the minority and there are people here that he can suggest his opinions too. However, the majority just doesn't want to hear it anymore. Sometimes, you can only say too much where any further correspondence is futile and mundane. I believe that's the wall people have hit. It's not sad by any means. It's knowing when to stop..when a discussion has run it's course. It seems like there are plenty of people that "understand where he is coming from", they're just tired of listening to it. And that is nothing against SOCAL, because it's a free country and he's entitled to his opinions. But another important cog in our society is being able to listen to what you want and choose what you want to believe. I, for one, am just sick of listening. I understand where you're coming from. For me personally though, I'm not really reading forums in this area to persuade other people. When I ask SOCAL a question, it really just comes from me wanting to understand where he's coming from, and find out what his stance on the matter is. I'll agree that SOCAL is pretty dead-set in his political beliefs, and I wouldn't say he's blameless, but when you're in a politics and religion thread, is it really necessary to try to persuade someone of your beliefs and pick knits over various things? In some ways, I think it detracts from what could be a better atmosphere on this board. I'm just saying that I see a lot of bickering over various things, and some of that is healthy, but sometimes it gets ridiculous. From your responses, I gather you feel the same way there. The real problem is not just SOCAL, but neither group wants to give an inch, so both sides keep rehashing the same stuff. It's partly our competitive instinct, but it could turn out to be beneficial. I don't know. I just think that if there's something you disagree with someone else on, there's no reason to get on the defensive about it. I think that's a part of what creates this never ending discussion over the same points. I just think you should present SOCAL with examples of why you don't think something will work, and ask him how he can reconcile that. Some people have done a good job of it from what I've read, but I've also seen some pretty defensive posts.

Sounds like a bunch of psycho-babble to me. Nothing against this Michael Shermer guy, but it's hard for me to take anyone who considers himself a “cycling enthusiast” seriously. Better at rationalizing away problems in their world view? Maybe, but maybe they're just better at thinking of how things would work that have never, before, been attempted. There are a number of explanations, and even though I was joking about taking a cycling enthusiast seriously, it is hard for me to take psychological theories with anything but a grain of salt. Tom Cruise was right. LINK I also think there are some people in here that really don't want SOCAL to be right about anything because it would mean they're wrong. Notice that I didn't name any names, or suggest I meant you or anyone else. At times, though, it feels like things have gotten to the point where people aren't even trying to understand where he's coming from; they're just trying to end the discussion quickly because they don't want to read it anymore. It's kind of sad really.

Honestly, I kind of feel bad for Tiger. He cheated on his wife, and that's wrong, but he's still a person. I'm sure everyone on this board has hurt someone close to them. I wouldn't want my personal life being dredged up for the whole world to see. I know that's the price to be paid for being famous, and that tabloids just give the people what they want, but jeez! I hate hearing about this kind of stuff. Plus, no one even knows what his wife is like. Maybe Tiger was just lonely...