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Ha! I always ruin everything...

Dead on, zoogies.

Just thinking the same thing knapp...good to see Hujan make an appearence! I've wondered from time to time if we'd see you back. I always hoped so. Nice to see a damn good poster show back up on the Board.

Compelling argument! Heh...even "f u" has lost real meaning. It used to be when I heard that I looked up and got ready to figure out who was getting ready to throw down. Now it's just another anonymous dude, letting us all know he's here to let us here him talk. 'Cause if you don't agree with him, we-llllllll....you can straight go f#*k yourself apparently. Haha...people are rad.

It's over. Colorado 2001 was like a cataclysmic disaster of sorts in terms of how we spoke about it and the lasting tremors it sent through our program. I can remember people talking about that game like the final whistle had just blown six, seven years after the fact. Well, last year we got the KSU Matt Turman Playbook thrown at us in the CCG on national television and we literally got beaten like we were a kids Pee Wee team who'd just met up with 100 coked up Lawrence Phillips clones on a gravel road in Calcutta. The term "ugly" doesn't even begin to touch on how badly we got embarrassed. Colorado 2001 was a pretty damn solid CFB team. Won the conference title. In place of more traditional markings, the Buffaloes had the final score from that grim day in Boulder etched onto their rings. Wisconsin won that game and the conference mantle and rapidly went ahead wrapping up an 8-6 season that saw their head coach depart for (supposedly) greener pastures. There were no specialized rings. In NE, a lot of shrugs stood in place of anger, frustration, all those laments that a stunned fanbase often displays. Because none of us were stunned. In almost all of us, some part of our mind muttered "Pfff. Of COURSE." That is the state of NU football. An epic dismantling of almost historical proportions is just kinda...murmured over. Bo Pelini is not the man for the job of making Nebraska football a program that demands an annual spot in the perennial "who can win it all" discussion. I have finally lost the ability to see glints of silver buried on slabs of slag. It's an ugly gray mound, and that's all it'll ever be under Bo Pelini's bumbling attempts at leadership. I wish the man the very best. Somewhere else. Go Broncos. Aw hell...and Go Big Red.

What do you do when the second string quarterback doesn't perform well enough to be the answer to all our problems? Easy: Third string, baby. LMFAO.

DC would run a kid's neighborhood lemonade stand so deep into the red the entire country would have to be taxed to dig our way out of the smoking crater left behind. If you're still carrying the banner for either of these entrenched, predatory parties then YOU are the problem. Not the GOP, not the "progressives," (God, what a beautifully manipulative moniker!) YOU. Obama, by the way, is going to be regarded as one of the worst presidents in US history. That's two double term train wreck administrations in a row. Don't thank Obama. Thank your dyed-in-the-wool Republican/Democrat neighbors. I find it bitterly hysterical that anyone seriously believes having the American government run anything as large and unwieldy as health care is a good idea. These f'ing people don't even pretend they don't have ulterior motives anymore. God Bless the Queen.

John...John!!! Just sh#t in my pants bro. How's your wife?

I hear where you're coming from man, which is why we used to just laugh it off. Really, that was just a stream of consciousness rumination: Reflecting on the whole tenure. Thinking about this scheme, whatever gap * X it may be. I have this nettlesome pessimistic suspicion that we simply had playmaking studs at all three tiers, and our vicious destruction of opposing offenses merely a consequence of Suh scoffing at double teams while three guys lined up beside him feasted off the chaos he generated. That's not genius X and O stuff. That's an all time college DT right next to another current NFL player who often gleefully blazed past a single team while that Storm of Suh caused mass wreckage and frustration next to him...and then, whatever panicked or rushed pitch or flare to a safety valve that managed to squeak out of a wide eyed QBs hand was cleaned up by Hagg or Gomes or Prince or Dennard...or O'Hanlon. (Sic?) Remember that first or second series for Arizona in that bowl game, when Matt came flying up and just beat up a WR or RB trying to move upfield after a little screen? That was sound tackling. Our safeties haven't done that since Courtney Osborne got whatever career altering injury he incurred. (Something happened. PJ Smith or Harvey Jackson ain't hitting Gabbert like that. Just not happening. This scheme, what we're doing now, is '09 offense painful to watch. I have consistently stuck by this staff for six years, and I'm not gathering pitchforks over here. I will say though...something's gotta give. I am patient. Past posts of mine will illuminate that. But this guy better figure out a way to make this defense at least an average unit. Average is not an extravagant request. And the disheartening thing is that we're a long way from that. We are absolutely awful right now. Like bottom league bad. And "process" and "execution" isn't enough for me at this point...sorry. This is not a backwater school with kids playing two ways. There is enough speed and athleticism to hold opponents to 400 yards and 28 points. Yes. That is how low the bar is right now. And 28 points seems too low. 400 yards? That's only gets you 2/3 of the way to Laramie. Sorry guys...really longwinded, I know. Just been kind of bottling it up and trying like hell to not worry about Wyoming, focus on the 1st half against UCLA (when they arguably did as much to stop themselves on offense as we did on D.) Arguably because it's unfair to discount what the defense did manage to achieve: Look like a unit capable of getting a pretty decent offense off the field with some regularity. That's our high point. And that included a dropped snap by a punter, two short field scores for us...and some misses for plays that were there for the Bruins.

I wonder how Sam gets along with the rest of the Herald staff (primarily Lee and Holy hell look at the size of my front teeth guy, whatever his name is.) I bet there's a degree of iciness. Sam doesn't EVER come off churlish or intentionally antagonistic. He just consistently churns out incredibly informative articles. I bet lee friggin hates the guy. Anybody feel like the staff has absolutely no idea how to trigger some kind of growth or progress? I know we are really young, and we swung and missed on a bunch of guys...and man, if you're starting or giving substantial playing time to true freshmen on the line (either line) you've got about a 90% chance of having some thin borders. Peat and Rome flaming out really, really hurt. Both highly touted guys, both heavily sought after...there is SUCH a difference in physical growth between the ages of 18 and 23 that occur. Those are the man strength years, and these kids are still growing. Except for Ankrah and Randle, who are exceedingly mediocre and permanently wounded, respectively. Just not good. The LBs...I dunno. They have some athletes. Young, again, but faster and grade out higher on the eye test than guys like Whaley and some of the other rather pedestrian guys we've trotted out the last few years. (No offense.) But I don't see anyone emerging from that pool of youth and having double digit tackle/turnover producing Saturdays yet. I'm thinking back to when Lavonte was emerging and starting to reveal himself as the special player he was for us and is on Sundays currently. David would have these ridiculous, almost stupidly inflated stat lines: 20 tackles, FF, fumble recovery. Every time, Pelini would almost castrate the guy afterwards. "David, actually, made a TON of mistakes out there." At the time, my dad and I would just kinda laugh about it. Now I'm thinking, the most prolific guy on the field for our defense compiled 20 tackles and he had a terrible game? What does that actually mean? Maybe nothing. Maybe it's a green coach flaring the arrogance of youth and staunchly believing his plan, followed EXACTLY, could yield circus tent numbers, 34 tackles, 4 picks, and a hot blonde at halftime. Now though, when we've literally entered Cosgrove era timidity (I'll see your approaching and raise you an arrival, knapp,) those post game comments are on my mind for some reason. It's kind of...nonsensical and idiotic in a way, isn't it? If the guy making a litany of plays is playing the wrong way...is the defense conceived soundly? I just don't know. Maybe you murder people if you have Suh or that LSU tackle whose name eludes me at the moment...and if not, you have what is in all honesty an embarrassingly confused and dazed collection of guys who are not even set 1 out of every 3 snaps. If you can't even get your guys set and ready to play...if they stand with their hands up in the universal "wha?" gesture...that's a product of inadequate coaching. These guys aren't prepared. They don't even know what they're supposed to do a third of the time. I don't know what process that entails, but it sounds like one involving some kind of permanent state of static impotence. Ugh.

Golf buddies? No doubt. Worst...WR corps...EVER. That said, the number of historically abysmal defensive performances is glaring.

Are we winning? Yeah, Dobs is one of the best around. Are we losing? That Dobson sucks. He's gotta go. Is Terrell Farley starting on defense? That Charlie McBride is something else, boy. No Farley? Charlie McBride is the worst thing to happen to football since the advent of the forward pass. Disband the team.

I bet a solid 30 percent of this board would let Dr. Tom perform open heart surgery on them.

I'm going to limit to players I saw live, otherwise Rich Glover may headline the list. In no certain order: Suh Mike Brown Grant Wistrom Jason Peter UmmmLavonteDavidTerrellFarleyTrevAlberts Sorry about that. Carlos Polk. Dammit. (David. Forced at gunpoint to choose I'd have to take one of the most instinctive players I've ever had the privilage to watch.)

Bittersweet night...heated game, boys are playing with a ton of heart and zero depth to spell them, but it's the last time my buddy and I will ever sit in seats that feel as familiar as my couch. If you see a shot of the Minn bench, we're about three rows back. My buddy has his ever present backwards red N hat on, and I'm wearing a black stocking cap. Screaming and getting yelled at by opposing fans as usual. Let's leave the Bob the right way...with a WIN. GO BIG RED!!!!

You should've waited...I was coming on to do just that Nominate Judoka. Domo arigato gozaimasu Nebula-san. I'll take Jap-Anus relations for 300 Alex

Thanks default

Solid thread Minnesota_Husker, much appreciated. I'm wildly optimistic about Miles. We sit about three rows behind the opposing bench, so we can actually hear what Miles is saying sometimes. (And that generally means he's angry, because that only occurs when he's yelling.) The guy is likeable, you can just tell people respond to him. But he also lays into our guys when they aren't putting out the effort they need to be, and I really, really like that about him. Landing a 4-star PG is a big deal. Getting transfers in like the kid from Florida bodes well for the type of athlete Miles seems to be able to get to at least consider coming here. I think we'll be a middle level conference team next year that might be annoyingly troublesome for some of the blue bloods in our incredibly stout conference. And Shields is a scrappy little bastard. He's made HUGE strides, from watching him against USC to seeing him basically single handedly inject enthusiasm into a sluggish NU lineup in our loss to Purdue. That kid has a lot of potential I think, but even more importantly, he CARES about winning. A guy like that who brings positive passion is infectious...the team around that guy starts to get energized too. (I think the same can happen with a player full of negative passion that involves yelling at teammates and complaining constantly...to a detrimental effect, obviously.) We're going to improve next year, but I really think (hope is maybe more apt) that in two or maybe three years, we'll be a team that can compete in and win whenever we take the court. (Disclaimer: I'm an unapologetic optimist, but I think there is some arguable evidence to support it.)

Nominate Mills. (And can I make an appeal? I think 308_Husker and atbone95 are both definitely worthy canidates for either remaning position. If you agree, let's get those guys into the voting pool!) EDIT: Lyons in a Sea of Red, too. Sorry to campaign like that, and there are even more people I could mention, but I humbly ask that we try and get as many noms and seconds for the last two spots that we can, because there are a LOT of posters who help make HB the only Husker message board I even contribute to any more. This board is vastly superior because of how many great posters we have, so let's at least give them a shot by getting them into the voting stage!