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Thanks man!

What channel is NET World? Is it on Cox cable in Omaha?

God...dammit.

Haha...just read the thread. Cripes. I gotta get into the press...people will believe friggin anything.

If we played in the SEC, or if it was PSU or MSU or OSU...hell, all four: We'd all be in the top 15. Because we'd lose some like we did this year, but we'd also win a game at S Carolina and Georgia and play that late season garbage team the SEC slips in there and guess what?

It's all bullsh#t, straight...up. Those teams are overrated. They're good, but not as good as the rankings say every year.

A 9:30 game against KSU is not the bellwether for the state of BIG football.

See y'all in another month. Gack.

Not really. Mizzou and A&M suddenly are top 10 programs?

We beat them pretty routinely. You know why they're suddenly contenders? SEC wins are worth *2, based on genuine opinion and espin. Oh...also, it might be easier to find ways to add additional enticement for top shelf recruits down there. Just speculating.

There is also the possibility that the AD has been testing the waters during the season, and discovered/decided that there were no better options available to him outside of retaining Bo.

In the meantime, I see us locking up defensive linemen left and friggin right. I have a sinking suspicion the Blackshirts are about to be filthy unit for the next few years. Optimism rising.

Thank GOD we don't have to hear about how the MVC is "actually a lot tougher than you think" anymore.

Gonna be REAL fun watching Creighton realize how bad they miss Evansville. Once Doug leaves I bet you'll see a lot less snobbish douchebags walking around Omaha with Bluejay gear on.

Come ON Nebraska...

Love Nebraska, awfully hard to cheer for coach Bo. An apology was beyond necessary, good to see it happened. Here's to next year I guess, really hope it's not more of the same.

This is a good spot to stop reading this brain melting thread. I feel like punching myself in the face in front of a bunch of kindergartners.

+1

Yeah, I think it's a bit grasping at straws to say the team responds differently. May be they do, but that's hard to qualify. On the other hand, it's not as hard to see what our current QBs bring to the table. We just run a smoother offense when they're in there. It doesn't always work, but one thing it's not is haphazard. When Tommy turns a busted play into a 2 yard gain, that sort of thing doesn't show up on the stat sheet, but that doesn't stop the effect from being real.

 

Defensively, things changed from Minnesota to this week. Apparently VV's inexplicable benching ended. That was truly utterly inexplicable and may have cost us the game against the Gophers.

This is a well reasoned post. Out of character for you, really.

What's that? I thought I heard something SUPER boring, but I'm literally too disinterested to care.

Wiegert was so friggin good...but so was that whole unit. What I remember about those guys is that Zatacha (sic) and all those other guys were rocking 4.0s in like biochemistry...and Zach had a 2.8 in something like Continuing Studies on Jim Morrison's Drunkest Moments

Man...we had like 9 of the top 20 linemen in the nation on that team. I'll never forget...like clockwork, about 5 mins into the 3rd quarter they'd stop the game every three plays to help a defender off the field. So many players straight up quit against those guys. They'd just had enough...and really, who could blame them?

Yeah, maybe...they're a scrappy bunch. If Fitz goes that thing could implode fast though.

I see the obvious one...NU-Wisco. There's just something about that team I do not like...the kind of dislike that is borne out of a grudging respect.

I really thought MSU would turn into kind of an annual blood feud. Oh well...Wisco is even better. If/when Iowa beats us a couple times we'll learn to despise them in a heartbeat. That is one douchebag-infested fanbase right there. My buddy and I got into it with about 10 Hawkeye fans at The Bob last year...this guy in front of us was literally turning around and gloating in our faces.

Then we staged an epic second half comeback and buried 'em. One 35-40 year old woman told me "suck it." Completely out of the blue, no antagonizing on my part. It was trashily hilarious.

This is the only video they should ever show. (Linked rather than embedded due to language.)

Best news I've heard all day.

I am not saying we are elite, but we are far from sh**ty as well.

Nothing there I disagree with E. We lost some guys too, one who is logging substantial time for Florida. (Although apparently he's struggling down there a bit.)

One of the main culprit’s behind Florida’s struggles in pass protection is Moore. Entering the season, he was supposed to help provide depth at multiple positions along the line, but a season-ending injury to Chaz Green forced him to take on a bigger role and he has struggled thus far. His play against Missouri had Florida fans yearning for the days of former Gator Xavier Nixon, which speaks more to how bad Moore was than to how “good” Nixon ever was. Moore was abused by Missouri defensive end Michael Sam, who finished the game with three sacks.

http://isportsweb.co...ine-struggling/

Either way, I'm encouraged and hope for continuing improvement.

The O-Line isn't "sh**ty." It also isn't an upper tier unit, as evidenced by the massive drop off with the Long injury. We don't have depth, and I don't see any 1st teamers in that lineup outside of Spencer.

I respect your dogged support of the team, but we flat out need to improve at that position both in quality and quanity if we want to be a top-5 offense. Losing Moore and Klatch undoubtably set us back, which is unfortunate.

If Moudy is your first guy up, and every season inevitably requires at LEAST one guy to step in for injury and usually more...well...that's not a top unit nationally. Just isn't. Nothing against Mike. But we both see the drop off, and he's the #6 guy.

Running Springs CA, basically fighting an entire room of Pac 10 fans. Ohhhh...deliciously satisfying. They were literally pointing in my face and laughing until, like the kids who had to screech to a halt from a dead sprint to the field in Columbia they too froze...

And I just grinned as serene as can be. God, that was awesome.

Speaking of Dan Fouts ball, what's up with Tarriq (sic) Allen? Did he make it back from that gruesome injury? I friggin HATE that he got hurt like that...kid had the mojo.

Michigan State is for real, and that loss last year is the kind of wound that scars. It'll fade...but it won't disappear.

I just hope they get all Texas 2010 revenge crazy...and promptly piss all over themselves. Wouldn't bet on it. Sparty reminds me of '09 NU a little bit...good...but MEAN.

Then again, we are still Nebraska. Even when we're supposedly a faded belle who'll never regain her glory, we show up and beat you. Wisco, Penn State, Mich...they can all vouch for that. Hell, so can those big, bad SEC teams that had to grind to beat an NU team with a really porous defense and pretty average guys standing as integral cogs on the o-line.

Uh oh...here comes the optimism again! Wait until Valentine, Moss, Gregory, Bando, Rose, that friggin criminal Alfalava (he's my dark horse candidate for maybe the best of the bunch...that's a strong maybe)....wait'll those guys are playing like Asante did his senior year. Bigger, faster....and instinctual because the scheme is ingrained rather than uncertain. We saw some hard hits yesterday...I really only remember Martin hitting like that last year, and we've got a few guys clacking helmets. (Btw...Corey Cooper HURTS. He's just one of those guys...not a fun collision. Love that.)

Haha...can't stay in the gloom baby! Pretty soon it'll be an annual bloodbath for the division in a game that will quickly become a must-see national rivalry: Nebraska-Wisconsin. Mmmm....there's the love. Lost her for a minute there.

But losing to Minnesota will hurt the toughest of men. And I'm a friggin p***y.

If you don't feel like Armstrong is your man next year, (and you also legitimately feel like Ron gives you a better chance to win, which I'm not convinced is true,) then sure, play Kellogg.

Some kids react to things in different ways. Getting pulled might serve to inspire Armstrong to train harder, practice longer,grit his teeth and just DIE waiting for the chance to show everyone what a huge mistake they made by pulling him off the field. Or it could crack his confidence...maybe even permanently, always nervous that one pick or one misread will lead to a benching. You never really know. And maybe neither happens and he shrugs it off.

For what it's worth....Armstrong strikes me as the kind of kid who'd get pissed. In a good way. I base that on literally nothing but unfounded intuition. Just his body language and general demeanor. I like the way he carries himself. (More than Taylor even, my favorite person ever!)

Ha...daylight savings has screwed me up. More, I mean. Screwed me up even more.

Ummmm....no.

Armstrong nearly threw the game away in a do or die situation yesterday. If that'd been Martinez, the vitriol would've been suffocating. Armstrong somehow gets understanding? What...the....

It's the Jammal Lord syndrome I guess. Permanently, irreversibly underappreciated. Martinez will forever absorb a criminally inflated degree of the blame for the things that have gone wrong the last few years, and he doesn't deserve it for a lot of pretty obvious reasons, but people see what they want I guess. There is ALWAYS a scapegoat...and usually, he's not a charming guy. Think what you want but that's a big part of it, in my opinion anyway. If the guy had charisma for days he'd have a far different status among Husker fans. Just what I think...but I believe it all the way.

I mean....LOL....now he's the reason for abysmal defensive play for two and half years? That's....nah. Won't even touch that.

Martinez is one of my favorite Huskers, only because his name seems to breed freakish allergies to objective reasoning and he's never thrown a Niles Paul style temper tantrum even though he's taken FAR worse than Niles ever did. People get MAD about Martinez...I mean, there are people that REALLY do not like the kid. They'll reference his play, but good lord...it's venemous. And personal. Ask Dirk.

Our problem is pretty well summed up by defections/injuries/swings-and-misses on O-line recruits, ditto for the D-line with Peat and Rome and Ankrah never living up to their billing and other kids signing elsewhere, a pretty much non-existent stable of LBs up until a couple seasons ago so the talent we have is ultra young and green...oh, and maybe breaking in two completely inexperienced coordinators also contributed. I dunno. It's possible.

The HC doesn't have a hell of a lot of experience either, for that matter.

Martinez is just a magnet for a lot of people. Easy to say, "there's the problem," when the reality is that there are problemS, plural, and a lot of them.

You know...there IS a legitimate discussion to be had about turnovers which are poisonous death according to every coach ever, and Martinez has given the ball away a LOT. But he's done way too many good things on a pretty flawed team that are overlooked to such a crazy degree that I can never seem to get to that.

Sorry....I don't mean to get snippy. I just honestly feel kind of embarrassed by how some of us have acted over the last 8-10 years. Yelling at Cosgrove's kids, the whine fest over a second that WAS in fact still on the clock...lotta stuff. We're a judgemental lot lately. Which is pretty human, but couple that with our self-adulation while walking under the "Through These Gates" signs every home Saturday...I dunno. It's left a sour taste in my mouth. Sanctimonious stuff coupled with hypocritical acts...hell...has anyone even mentioned that Dr. Tom was FAR too humble to have the field named after him four years ago, but all of the sudden now it's cool? I mean...that's not a huge deal or anything. But it is kinda...well....bullsh#t....especially when I hear this dogmatic refrain on "Tom never woulda done this" or "Tom woulda done that." Isn't it? Maybe I'm way off base. (Full disclosure: I only said that because some people will be pissed about that. I may not be totally right, but this stuff isn't lost on the CFB world. And who cares what anyone else thinks...although, I think we actually DO care. A lot.)

Weird post, I know. But I'm just being straight up honest, no proofreading. I LOVE Nebraska football, will FOREVER love Osborne. I just had to get some of that off my chest I guess, and if some of that upsets some people I apologize for that. I'm wrong plenty. I just think our fanbase is NOT helping the overall aura of the program, and I don't blame anyone. It's been a tough friggin decade plus, to be totally honest.

Is Martinez the problem? When I think about Beebe and the A&M game and this goddamn tape (which says more about the health of the inner program than it does the coach) and a ton of defections and...no. No man. Taylor is not the problem, not from where I'm sitting.

Rant done...sorry everyone.

Hey, I appreciate being excited

Davison's catch straight up saved a NC for us. Plus we ripped out Mizzou's heart. Easy call for me.

Ha!

Nothing says "time well spent" like a nice little bitchfest post that concludes with the admonition for people to "stop crying."

My brain...oh....god.

My brain.

Had to ruin a perfectly beautiful post...

Ha! I always ruin everything...