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But what about printing it on? might make it look better, but the only way it'll look good is if the whole jersey is mesh

I'm afraid it's going to look god awful! Just taking a mesh number and sewing on a jersey that isn't mesh is going to be pretty underwhelming imo

Optimistic, I think this offense could be a lot of fun to watch if Lee is what a lot of people seem to think he is. As far a the defense goes, I'm more curious than anything. I'm hoping that our defense can take on Diaco's aggressive attitude. If they do and our Dline plays well at all, we could honestly have a really good season.

LJS Would love to see him with the Chefs! Their WR position is very lackluster and his chances to see the field with them are probably as good as they are with anyone!

Honestly lets not kid ourselves there are 2 more things. 1. if you have a volatile attitude that embarrasses the school year after year (and before you tear me up, I honestly didn't care too much about this but it did play a part) 2. If you're not the new AD's guy, and he wants to make a statement

fort scott used to be a feeder school for us for awhile. Its where we got several players, including LaVonte David and Yoshi

I think you guys arguments are both fairly valid. But lets consider a few things. 1. Tommy Scrambling instead of throwing the ball away had to have jacked the rushing attempts numbers up some. 2. Langs came to Nebraska from the NFL where it is very common to pass the ball more than you run it. 3. Langs has "his guy" in Tanner Lee. A true pocket passer who will hopefully be able to make the defense pay for being out of position. I honestly don't think we will pass it more than we run, but it will be VERY close imo. IF Tanner Lee is able to live up to the hype surrounding him then why in the hell wouldn't we pass more than we run. Tommy Armstrong struggled to read a defense before the snap and make adjustments on the fly. How often did the defense come out in a pretty base defense and not worry about having to disguise its coverage because they felt TA could read what they were doing, and they could pin their ears back and rush 7 because he wouldn't hit the hole in the zone, or see the mismatch in man coverage? If Lee is able to make the defense have to think and try to constantly adjust from play to play it makes it much tougher on them because they now have to do a lot more thinking and can't just go out and play football. A great QB makes defensive coordinators overthink their calls, and DB's second guess their reads. That is what we are all hoping we get out of Lee. And if we do then we very easily could win our division and play with the teams a program like Nebraska feels it should be

I just bought tickets for my wife and I to go to this game! It will be my second game ever at memorial stadium (first was against KU in 08) and it will be her first time ever. Our tickets are section 5 row 46. Are those decent/good seats? and also if there is anyone on the board who is down with her and I stopping by, drinking a few beers, and tailgating with you before and maybe partying after the game please let me know. I want my wives experience to be awesome. After all I am attempting to sway her away from the dark side of being a KState fan!!!

could be having trouble grasping the new defense?

With Crouch it's going to be 4. I realize Frost is only 1 spot ahead of Gill but if you polled 90,000 fans on gameday that about 95% of them would take Gill ahead of Frost. In Frost's defense, he won a national championship and Gill didn't. I'm betting that is why they placed him ahead of Gill

I understand the possible urgency to bring in an OT but to think that Cav is on the hotseat when he has brought in 11 OL in 3 years plus another one committed this year seems premature. especially when most of them are redshirt freshmen and are on the 2 deep after spring. I totally get that, and I understand that the depth on the OL has been pretty thin, but IDK if I can say that we have seen the OL trend upward in level of play. This year will be telling since the coaches will be coaching kids in the scheme they are most familiar with

We need him badly since Bleich decided to go to UCLA. I've been a supporter of Coach Cav but he is going to have to get this kid or his seat might be on fire by the end of the season

After losing out on Bliech we need to land this kid, he is big and can come in and play right away. IF we get another OT in this class then I'm afraid he will be an undersized project and Cav can't afford to be signing kids like that every year.

Legit question on that. I live here in KS (obviously) and there is still a lot of butt hurt about Nebraska leaving the Big XII. Kansas feel that the conference would be on a lot more stable ground if Nebraska would have stayed. Do you think that could play a role in a lot of these kids decisions. If their coaches feel the same way a lot of other Kansans do and could be in these kids ears about how terrible Nebraska is and how it shows no loyalty to anyone?

I agree, the only thing that might make him decommitt would be a coaching change

what is the benefit of moving it from Friday to Saturday? Honestly it's not that important of a game nationally but it becomes a whole hell of a lot less important when we are competing against The Iron Bowl and The Game and whatever other hot team might just so happen to be playing that day. Keep it on Black Friday, tradition isn't built in 5 years. Tradition takes along time before it really becomes something relevant. If we improve as a program like the majority of us think/hope we are, and Iowa continues to be really good every 3 years, good 1 of those years, and terrible 1 of those years like recent trends. Then this game will become a lot more popular. Plus I need an excuse to not go black Friday shopping in the morning other than duck hunting!

I think the writer is saying that Nebraska is NOT in the elite echelon, which starts at $71 million. Not that it matters one way or the other but the writer clearly said the elite echelon starts at Nebraska. Not sure the qualifications he was using for making that statement. It just struck me as funny that the article was about revenue and we are almost exactly the same in that regard as MSU but he put us in the elite category and not MSU. It's the little things that amuse me. Agree, he said that these programs seem to yearly avoid fluctuation despite on the field performance

That's not ideal. Riley had one in his 14 years at OSU, 3* Brandin Cooks. I bet Riley has had nearly as many 4* recruits already at Nebraska as he did at Oregon St. (I haven't researched this, just an assumption). And with the number of quality recruits we have coming in one would like to think we have a higher chance of getting more high draft picks

If we win 10 or 11+ games, i don't give two sh*ts how many rush vs. pass yards we have. In the words of the late Al Davis " Just Win Baby!"

I wonder if Riley being Eichorst's guy if he will be given more time than Bo was. HCMR seems to be much more welled like amongst the boosters and athletic department than Bo was. (Outsiders perspective, it's obviously an assumption as I'm neither a booster or in the a.d.). Also the total perspective of the Nebraska Football program across the nation is way better than it was under Bo. The only reason we were ever on ESPN was to show Bo throwing a fit on the sideline, or being an ass to the media after a game. With HCMR it's upbeat and mostly about the positive trend in our recruiting. Unless we have back to back terrible losing seasons, I think Riley will be here until 2019 and that is when our play on the field will really go through the roof and we will be a legit contender for conference titles, and possibly even a playoff bid

Most of our rational fan base probably doesn't post very regularly here!

Maybe my favorite thing I seen from Gebbia was early in the game, and he got heat in his face almost immediately and instead of just chucking up a yolo bomb or forcing the ball into double coverage (both of which we seen in the recent past) he hit is hot route who in turned dropped the past. I don't care about the dropped pass, I was just excited to see a kid who should be a HS senior right now see his hot route and hit him in the hands like a veteran would do.

I wasn't trying to say that they don't appreciate Riley, I just said Bo chose not to pull his scholarship offer when he was being recruited and got hurt. I also had not seen Darlington's tweet. Like I said wasn't disagreeing with you, just asking if they look at from a different perspective

OWH Sigh... At this point, I'm almost hoping Riley drops the axe on Cavanaugh after spring. he won't but it wouldnt be a bad idea except that we would most likely lose the #3 center in the country and have a really hard time pulling in any decent o-line recruits this year. I don't think firing a coach in the spring is a good thing to do unless 1. said coach does something absolutely dumb/terrible and forces the head coaches hand, or 2. is just so god awful as a coach and recruiter that you have to get rid of him immediately. I don't think coach cav has shown he is either

Two things: 1. You can have a plan, but if your personnel can't handle it then you won't accomplish it. Thus was the case the year following the UCLA bowl game. 2. Lord have mercy are you going back to the 90's? 400 rush yards per game? No one in the NCAA came close to that as an average (highest being 350 ypg). That includes teams that are all option all the time. Please come back to the current era of football. No. The 1993,94,95,97 Huskers could line up and kick the dogsh** out of these kids. Why would I come back to that.Mike Riley apologizes for not being 90's Nebraska football in 2017.Cmon. Hit me with some truth. Justify 169 ypg. Justify listening to a man that says one thing then does another. Justify the low achievement of Husker football these days. Well hard to generate a valid argument when your comparison was the best rushing attack college football has ever seen. Lofty expectations. You're right in comparison to the 90's we are exceptionally low achievement. My argument is that you'll probably never see that again and it's not reasonable to expect 400 yards a game. Just for kicks, Clemson averaged 169 yards per game on the ground as well. Ohio State and Alabama are both below 250. Year before, Alabama averaged below 200 ypg. Physical football doesn't have to be defined by the number of rush yards. Also, he did set a lofty rushing goal, but if we were watching the same games, our rushing attack was not successful. If you're the head coach of a team where the run game is not successful, what do you do? By the looks of this board, no body thinks we have any capable players to make a run game happen so you can't just force it. It's year three. His recruits are just now starting to grow up. So as I've said before, patience is what we need as opposed to snap judgements based on what we all know was not a team that could run the ball for 400 yards a game (FYI no team in the country is). Last thing. UCLA was considerably more vulnerable to the run than a decent chunk of Big 10 Schools. Looks like only 4-5 Big 10 schools allowed more YPA than the Bruins (We were one, thanks Banker). That's especially not good since the Pac 12 is a pass heavy league.. That game was good game planning and attacking a weakness that doesn't generally exist week to week in the Big 10. Clemson runs a spread offense that does NOT emphasize the run and Alabama (245) and OSU (245.2) both are in the top 12 of the entire FBS in rushing when it comes to YPG. Those examples were just there to show that averaging 400 ypg is irrational. Ohio State and Alabama admittedly better examples. Funny, I don't see the word "irrational" on either of the Sears trophies we won. If we ran the ball almost exclusively in order to try to reach this 400 yard mark, then our passing game would be almost non existent. At that point when we would be in a situation where the passing game was needed (because running for 400 yards per game would never happen) then people would be complaining about how our coaches are inept because were not passing for 250+ yards per game. There is no perfect number on passing vs. rushing yards. A good offense is one that is adaptable and is able to score enough points to win the game. If we run for 400 ypg. but only average 17 ppg. then that offense blows. However if we average 165 ypg. but are scoring 35 points per, then I who cares because were probably winning a lot more