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Different rules, from what I remember tackles must be made below the waist, there needs to be a clear attempt to wrap up the opponent and no leaving the ground while making contact.

I was thinking the same thing and its sad. We've gone soft. Knowledge is power. The more they come out with results of studies in any arena actually the more power we have to make informed decisions...bluster aside. If being soft means you don't play contact sports then I just have to disagree on that point.

I live in CT and hockey is bigger than football. My nephew starts on the high school team and is the captain. All has been good until last season when he got his bell rung and wound up in the hospital. I can say for a fact that the whole hockey/contact sports thing took on a totally different light that night. He's still playing but if he receives another serious concussion I'll say that his parents will be close to pulling the plug on the game. We've had a couple Alzheimer's members of the family, both died recently. You don't go through an experience like that and not have your views altered.

Too much attributed to home field. Yes it has advantages but there are plenty of examples of failures on home fields by home teams. We played USC at the Shoe a few years back. For as long as I can remember Bucks fans have been grousing about the west coast's teams having the advantage in the Rose Bowl and have been clamoring to get our nemesis USC in our house. Well after a few decades we finally get them at the Shoe...and lose...to a frosh QB. IMO the worst regular season loss we ever had. It was our one chance to kill that argument and we had all the advantages we could ask for, but stunk it up. In that one game the home field advantage got blown to pieces. Same thing with our loss to Texas as Colt McCoy marched his team down the field in the closing minutes. The power of shutting down a home team and silencing the home crowd is almost as powerful as having the crowd in your corner. I'd still like to see a team from the west coast/south to come up there in Oct or Nov. that's the real B1G home field advantage. So USC and Texass came up in sept when it was still warm, big deal. It's not like Ohio is the arctic in Oct/Nov. I now live in CT and have workers on my construction crew that still wear shorts those months and CT isn't that different from OH. I've never been to Nebraska but I'd say the weather is similar? With all our losses I can think of the execution, personnel, or coaching screw-ups that cost us the game. I can't really remember crowd or weather being a factor.

Too much attributed to home field. Yes it has advantages but there are plenty of examples of failures on home fields by home teams. We played USC at the Shoe a few years back. For as long as I can remember Bucks fans have been grousing about the west coast's teams having the advantage in the Rose Bowl and have been clamoring to get our nemesis USC in our house. Well after a few decades we finally get them at the Shoe...and lose...to a frosh QB. IMO the worst regular season loss we ever had. It was our one chance to kill that argument and we had all the advantages we could ask for, but stunk it up. In that one game the home field advantage got blown to pieces. Same thing with our loss to Texas as Colt McCoy marched his team down the field in the closing minutes. The power of shutting down a home team and silencing the home crowd is almost as powerful as having the crowd in your corner. I watched that game. Matt Barkley didn't beat you. The All-Americans on their interior offensive line beat you. You could not stop them in short yardage and I think that's the biggest reason you lost. Coqui is correct, our prevent cost us the game. No reason for it, just the style that Heacock (our DC at the time) conducted business at the closing minutes.

Too much attributed to home field. Yes it has advantages but there are plenty of examples of failures on home fields by home teams. We played USC at the Shoe a few years back. For as long as I can remember Bucks fans have been grousing about the west coast's teams having the advantage in the Rose Bowl and have been clamoring to get our nemesis USC in our house. Well after a few decades we finally get them at the Shoe...and lose...to a frosh QB. IMO the worst regular season loss we ever had. It was our one chance to kill that argument and we had all the advantages we could ask for, but stunk it up. In that one game the home field advantage got blown to pieces. Same thing with our loss to Texas as Colt McCoy marched his team down the field in the closing minutes. The power of shutting down a home team and silencing the home crowd is almost as powerful as having the crowd in your corner. You mean Vince Young, right? So, not that big of a fail, considering they won the NC that year. Nothing at all to be ashamed of. Actually I referenced the '08 bowl game against Texas where they marched down the field last minute just like USC did. We're famous for closing minute prevent defenses that let the other team win a game we had in the bag. Wasn't a home game but the loss was the same script as the USC game. I could have been more clear.

Plenty of idiots who played football just like non-football types. Insignificant question... BTW I didn't play football...hockey. But I find that my years studying organizational behavior has more applications to sport than any experience with an athletic team I was ever part of. Insignificant post. Predictable response

Seriously? What type of style is it that you're referring to? Because he yells? He intimidates? Gets in your face? That's good? That's bad? We have to be college football players to understand intimidation? Motivation techniques? Bo's type exists everywhere...so do Tressel types. Do I have to be a college football player to understand Tressel's type of personality? Landry, Schembechler, Shula. Should I go outside of sports? Yes, there is a perspective that non-college football players will not have that those that did do. But so what? There's plenty of perspective that the ex college player doesn't understand too.

Too much attributed to home field. Yes it has advantages but there are plenty of examples of failures on home fields by home teams. We played USC at the Shoe a few years back. For as long as I can remember Bucks fans have been grousing about the west coast's teams having the advantage in the Rose Bowl and have been clamoring to get our nemesis USC in our house. Well after a few decades we finally get them at the Shoe...and lose...to a frosh QB. IMO the worst regular season loss we ever had. It was our one chance to kill that argument and we had all the advantages we could ask for, but stunk it up. In that one game the home field advantage got blown to pieces. Same thing with our loss to Texas as Colt McCoy marched his team down the field in the closing minutes. The power of shutting down a home team and silencing the home crowd is almost as powerful as having the crowd in your corner.

Plenty of idiots who played football just like non-football types. Insignificant question... BTW I didn't play football...hockey. But I find that my years studying organizational behavior has more applications to sport than any experience with an athletic team I was ever part of.

Insubordination...I'd hammer his ass in some way. That type of behavior can be infectious. Not the end of the world but it does show some cracks IMO.

Ohio State grad here. Gotta say I love the addition of your school to the B1G. It's great to watch a quality team with a rich tradition join our conference. Never liked the addition of PSU to the conference, just never seemed like a good fit to me and still doesn't and I'm glad you beat 'em. I'd love OK to join too just so your classic rivalry could be reborn. Now go run the table and represent!

By on the job I'm assuming you mean first time on the job training...Beckman is an experiment but that's going backwards, Chizik was pretty much a noob HC unless you count one year at Iowa State as an ice breaker, Will Muschamp is doing pretty good and it's his first time to the ball, Mark Dantonio, O'brien seems to be doing some good in a very difficult situation. And exactly how many true top tier coaches are there...five maybe? It's the same predicament that OSU was in until the Urban thing fell in our lap. Pelini seemed to be a good hire, I wouldn't get down over that hire at the time regardless of your present feelings. UM couldn't find what they needed did they? It's harder than people think. Just for kicks...if a top tier coach made his interest known to Nebraska you don't think they'd pony up?

skersfan...OSU got Urban through a real stroke of luck. Many events had to happen to get him here at the right time. Illness, burnout, Pryor tatoos, Tress covering it up, Urban's wife wanting to go back home, open position at his home school, and on and on and on. Obviously the school ponied up but so would most top tier FBS schools if they had an opportunity to obtain a coach of that stature. Really, the prospects were quite bleak for obtaining a head coach for OSU. Us fans were trying to come up with lists of potential candidates and it wasn't pretty. Beckman, your coach's name came up, Randy Edsal (gag), Tucker, Spencer? Other top coaches for various reasons had no interest and OSU has good drawing power. In the end if Urban wasn't available the OSU spot could have gone to a relatively unknown up-and-comer, a roll of the dice. I saw a post on one of the other threads, I think it was the "I wish I knew" thread where one member suggested to go out and get a big coach because we're Nebraska. It's just not that easy even for a program as prestigious as Nebraska. Heck, Michigan which is another big time program had Miles and Harbaugh turn down offers and they got RR and now Hoke (who is doing a good job BTW but hardly a top name at the time). So I guess it's "be careful what you wish for" with your coach. I don't know who's out there at this time but at least Bo has brought Nebraska back to the discussion. In the end, we lucked out getting Urban, we all know it but are looking forward to some new style football with a new attitude that hasn't been seen for a long time.