Huskerzoo

Redux

Ree-ducks

You're more dud now than dude, twisted and evil.

Nap-ick 

Mainly because of how many people think it's an uppercase I and not a lowercase l

 I'm just teasing. As long as you're feeling it, and they mean the world to you, DO IT! 

Ha, good one @ZRod, try reverse psychology 

We got married in the CO mountains.  We then had an informal party in my hometown and our current home (her hometown) for friends/family to celebrate.  For both parties, we rented out a pavilion at a park and had BBQ catered and coolers of beer.  It worked great!

I feel so bad for him. That has to be such a tough moment. 

It did, and now the great Blizzard of 2017 is crashing the board.  Frost advisory in full effect on Huskerboard.

err, it was even, not it did.

Oh duh. Sorry was watching the game. I'll fix after I get back for the night. 

No prob, just wanted you to know.

Thank you!

It's amazing how little discussion about SF is in that thread. Even less that's related to rumors or anything. 

That's still a good bit of reading. I think it's amazing you're going through this much effort. It'll make for a cool timeline.

For the love of God...Stop immediately and seek help now. That is the type of thread that has made people disappear into the deep recesses of cyber space forever. Please, think about your loved ones.

But it does its job. 

If by fly trap you mean fully engulfed dumpster fire....yeah.

No i think this is a good point.  Is she hear for good or evil.

Update, I might have a tailgate for you to crash.  Both of you (Not you Redux, sorry, you are the worst ever) but I will let you guys know as it gets closer or just remind me.

Worst ever at NOT being kickass maybe

HA!  That has to be a T-shirt!  

That is freaking awesome.  

Nice! I've donated the last two rounds. I didn't used to when I was in college and joined about 10 years ago (aka broke) but it feels good to give back to something because you want to and not because you have to.

Yeah, I have a mortgage of a student loan situation going on and have to travel to see the lady but it's something I use a lot. Figured I can spare 10 dollars, again if everyone gives a dollar or two it goes quickly. 

I just donated too. Couldn't pass on that generous anonymous offer to match until the goal is reached.

He seems a little slimmy.

Congrats

Contracts 

Well whoops. Meant congrats

Yup...

If it's more than 3 hours, I'll upgrade. Anything less I can suffer the uncomfort.

Airplanes and cars are where being short finally pays off. Suck it tall people!!

Ha, 2 for 2, I'm only about 5'-11" 

But I'm sorta fat...

@El Diaco Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. 

There are undoubtedly other viable candidates. However, he is a clear cut homerun hire before any games are played. If there is a chance he can be a successful P5 headcoach, the huskers need to bring him in or do everything they can to get him (I guess unless Riley wins out?). 

There are still other feasible coaches out there though. So not getting Frost doesn't mean we can't land a good hire and fans need to remember that. 

Usually the more you learn about a guy the more concerns come up, but I find Frost is the opposite. I still have concerns, no doubt, but I've gone from already being a big fan of the idea (have been for a long time) to seeing a big time coach growing before our eyes.

He wouldn't be my first pick. He's in the top 5 for sure tho. I hope we explore all our options.

He could work out great, then again... Just tired of the attitude that it's him or bust.

My pleasure.

Yes! 

So the plan is I'm going to be proposing while we stay in that room. We did a giant scavenger hunt that got us free hotel rooms with McMenamins. So I want to frame the art from the room for her xmas gift. 

Nice! 

Take that, Bo!

Is this a political post?  Ha

I feel like the random gifbombings are some of my best work on this board. I would be sad if that went away.

Usually those only happen in threads that are destined for a lock anyway, though.

+1 for zoo

Okay okay, I'll volunteer to be the one who defines what's bad and what isn't

Actually, I do understand that there was some legitimate discussion going on in that thread. But as happens from time to time and much more recently, there are a few posters who want to beat the same dead horse in every thread. Hopefully when "those" guys start yet another thread for that purpose we can Enola Gay the sh#t out of it.

Sad lack of awareness by the QB.

Rookie mistake?  We were wondering the same thing!

What about is realist? 

@RunMickeyRun02 I agree. For me it's the intolerance of other opinions that drives me nuts. The thought that you must be an idiot to think differently than I do.  I like discussion, I like talking to people who think nothing good is coming from Riley, but I also want to have room for my experiences and opinion. 

@ZRod The internet is no place for reality. 

After awhile you know how most posters are going to respond too.

Congrats! What's his name?!

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE FINALLY GOING TO ASK ME!!!!

You're fault lol

The three hour time change for the Oregon game kinda sucked for me. I was tired and it was only 10pm Pacific time.

How many whiskeys were tasked with 

@El Diaco apparently a few too many. 

I FOUND ONE SHIRT (WOMEN'S) WITH LIL RED ON IT.

I FEEL LIKE A SHIRT WITH LIL RED ON IT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF PUTTING PENNYWISE THE CLOWN ON A SHIRT

I had a 47 brand hat with lil red on it. I liked it.

That's the whole point GSG. 

@zoogs

I'm not 100% sure I agree. I think there were many criticisms of Riley when he was hired. One of them being he was bringing a bunch of assistant coaches that were his buddies. It seems he figured that out. Riley has always come across as more of a big picture guy instead of a super hands on person like Bo was. I think this to an extent is why he's so flummoxed about what's going on. In the big picture, things should be going the right direction. The moves have seemed to be pretty good, but the details just aren't playing out in the way we might predict. In theory we have a higher talent level in our starters than we have for awhile. In theory, we have the right players for the system. Yet, something is going wrong. 

From a management perspective, you look at your mid-level managers (the assistants) to assess why the product isn't right. My (uneducated) impression is this.

1. Too many mistakes were made at the initial onboarding. Riley has enough connections we should've been putting together an A list roster from the get go. It's absurd that it's taken us this long. With that said, the hires we have made have promise for the most part I think. If this translates to reality or not I'm not sure. However, I think Williams, Williams, Bray and co are pretty solid. I think Bob has potential. I want to see what happens through the season. My field demands you need a minimum of 3 data points to make a read of a situation. When one datapoint (NIU) isn't like the others, you have to collect more information. 

2. I think this team is better in practice than on the field. I think the team has some issues with performance anxiety or something. It sucks, but I don't think that's something that's easy to evaluate in scouting and it's hard to pull the plug on a guy who kills it in practice but can't execute on the field. 

3. I think our depth right now is not good. I think we have good talent in our starters, but beyond that the team is full of journeymen and/or potential. Yes, Riley should have his guys by this point, but his guys are rSO or Jrs. While it's no longer rare to see true Fr make impacts. It's certainly still more rare than rJrs and rSr making a difference. I think you could easily make the case that 3 of our 5 best players were injured against NIU. Granted 2 of them were on D and I think our D played a good game (not amazing, but good). I still stand by my belief that our team is not deep enough to lose our starters. 

4. I think change starts at the very top. SE has had a disappointing career across the board sans volleyball. I don't think there's any reason that our basketball team should be this bad given the resources we put in. I think our baseball team continues to underachieve. I also think that SE is not objective when it comes to HCMR. Unlike HCMR who seems to be doing his best to adapt (firing those who need to be fired) which makes me want to give him more of a chance (as all you can do is adapt when the situation calls for it). I think that SE has shown nothing but rigidity. I think that unless we salvage this season somehow, SE needs to go. Our new AD can come in and really assess the state of the program and determine if HCMR is inept or not. However, in the meantime, I say keep firing coaches who can't do their job. It's not like we're firing guys after 1 year. Cav has not done anything to show that he can perform with college students. Davis has questionable recruiting at best in my opinion. Unfortunately, Nebraska is a program where there cannot be squeeky wheels. We don't have talent base to have guys who cannot coach and recruit. Further, we don't have an established system where we can find the right guy and plug him in ala Wisconsin. This is a program that seems to need everything to go right and it's just not right now. The question is: is this coaching regime the people fixing up the old fastback mustang and we're just dealing with the trial and error process that goes into repairing something amazing? or is this a situation where we're a dude trying to get the childhood he never had, so he bought a nice old car that he has no clue how to drive? 

At the end of the day, I want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to salvage the nice car. I do think there's going to be a lot of trial and error though. And it sucks. If you've ever attempted something like that, it's painful. It makes you want to quit and just trash the thing. That doesn't mean the cars bad, it just means you've got more work to do and you might need to change some parts. Eventually you'll know when you've got to sell and cut your losses, but it's hard to know exactly when that is. Right now though, I think we just need a new alternator. 

Zoo--great post. 

I'd also like to add that someone needs to tell Riley to hit up JuCo players and FCS kids to fill gaps in our depth.

We have plenty of both types of programs in the immediate vicinity, yet we're not giving them any attention. Most of these kids honestly aren't going to be world-beaters, but many will have some modicum of talent and can fill glaring roster holes. Plus, for some kids, it's a second chance at the big time, and they're going to work their ass off as a result--those kids are positive contagions for a program trying to establish a good work-ethic.  

I completely agree Vector. I have a bit of a guess that this might be a somewhat high risk high reward game that's being played and has been from the get go. 

I kind of wonder if this was a known long term rebuild aimed at 2019. Every move seems to be compromising the short term to "ensure" the long term. Now it might be backfiring because they didn't understand how bad it could get. It feels like the long game though, mainly in terms of changing culture. I think they want to have the players be theirs for as long as possible to have the "right" guys. 

I was pretty squarely in the fire Bo crowd. I don't know if HCMR was the right hire, but I thought bo had created a toxic environment. This trying to do things the right way seems to be priority number 1, even over winning. I think that could pay off long term...if the staff can make it to the long term. I have started to wonder if giving KJJ a second chance was more a favor to Keyshawn than Keyshawn being the super dad. 

It's a bit conspiracy theory, but I think there's something that happened with the football program that led to a we gotta change this no-matter what situation. To that end, JUCO guys are interesting because they usually messed up pretty big at some point. We've shown almost no willingness to go after them. I think I remember 2 guys. I would love if we could get some help from those ranks though.