ColoradoHusk

I wish NU would have beaten NW.

No changes on the Husker season. Bowl games can be tricky because some teams show up, while others don't. I think Michigan State and Iowa were the 3rd and 4th best teams in the conference this year. MSU would have fared better against OU, but got matched up against Bama, and couldn't match their talent. Iowa just ran into a buzz saw in Stanford, and everything went down hill for them. Iowa couldn't match up with McCaffrey and Beathard played the worst game of his career.

MSU and Iowa were realistically the 3rd and 4th best teams in the B1G this year. MSU beat Michigan on the biggest fluke play I have ever seen, and Iowa avoided the top teams in the B1G East. Yes, MSU beat Ohio State in Columbus, but that maybe happens 2 or 3 times out of 10 games.

Not trying to be a jerk, but how did you become such a Duck fan? Other than the Scott Frost ties, I don't get why someone who grew up in Central Nebraska is such a "huge Duck fan". 2001. I was a 6th grader. NU got spanked by CU, and Then Oregon spanked CU....that's the long story short. Fell in love with Oregon. It had nothing to do with Scott Frost. That just ended up being a cool thing. Ok, I guess. To each their own. The other thing. I don't feel like the powers in charge at NU are truly committed to a winning football program. I still love NU, but I am extremely soured by the fact that they don't have a midwest mentality. That they don't use the money they supposedly have tons of to go get the best coaches out there. Callahan, Pelini, and Riley were never good fits for their own reasons.I will never sour on Nebraska. I may not like what the coaches are doing, but NU will always be my home state school and alma mater. I don't like any other football teams. I will have a game on, and my 9 year old son will ask, "who are you rooting for". I will generally say "I don't care". Because really, if it doesn't involve Nebraska, I really don't care who wins. There are exceptions (Clemson playing OU last night) but I will never have another college football team that I root for on a consistent basis. I'm just a Cornhusker. That's awesome. I didn't go to school at UNL. So I don't have any connection to the university except that I grew up in the center of the stateI also realize it's a lot easier to be a fan of another program when NU has struggled over the past 15 years. My nephews who all live in Omaha aren't huge Husker fans as me and my brothers were, as we grew up in the 70s and 80s.

Not trying to be a jerk, but how did you become such a Duck fan? Other than the Scott Frost ties, I don't get why someone who grew up in Central Nebraska is such a "huge Duck fan". 2001. I was a 6th grader. NU got spanked by CU, and Then Oregon spanked CU....that's the long story short. Fell in love with Oregon. It had nothing to do with Scott Frost. That just ended up being a cool thing. Ok, I guess. To each their own. The other thing. I don't feel like the powers in charge at NU are truly committed to a winning football program. I still love NU, but I am extremely soured by the fact that they don't have a midwest mentality. That they don't use the money they supposedly have tons of to go get the best coaches out there. Callahan, Pelini, and Riley were never good fits for their own reasons.I will never sour on Nebraska. I may not like what the coaches are doing, but NU will always be my home state school and alma mater. I don't like any other football teams. I will have a game on, and my 9 year old son will ask, "who are you rooting for". I will generally say "I don't care". Because really, if it doesn't involve Nebraska, I really don't care who wins. There are exceptions (Clemson playing OU last night) but I will never have another college football team that I root for on a consistent basis. I'm just a Cornhusker.

Not trying to be a jerk, but how did you become such a Duck fan? Other than the Scott Frost ties, I don't get why someone who grew up in Central Nebraska is such a "huge Duck fan". 2001. I was a 6th grader. NU got spanked by CU, and Then Oregon spanked CU....that's the long story short. Fell in love with Oregon. It had nothing to do with Scott Frost. That just ended up being a cool thing. Ok, I guess. To each their own.

Pretty convenient, isn't it? Coaches don't get hired to comparable positions: See how much these coaches suck! Coaches get "promotions" when hired by other programs: They must be stupid for doing that! Nothing like turning up whatever narrative makes you feel better. Yeah and when Baylor was running all over UNC this week, it was all Papuchis' fault, even when Paps isn't the DC at UNC. I think most NU fans would have loved to have the record of UNC this season, and they did it with 2 former Bo assistants on their defensive staff.

Not trying to be a jerk, but how did you become such a Duck fan? Other than the Scott Frost ties, I don't get why someone who grew up in Central Nebraska is such a "huge Duck fan".

Real classy Husker fans. Els is a Nebraska-Omaha alum, has coached in Nebraska and with former NU players and coaches for most of his career. Now NU fans are crapping on him because he worked under Bo Pelini.

Those are great numbers, but also skewed by a defensive TD and special teams TD.

The only reason he was a high school assistant last year was because he was still being paid his NU contract and he wanted to stay in Lincoln with his kids. You are acting like he has never been a D-1 assistant coach. would he still be getting NU money next year if he stayed coaching high school??No, his contract with NU was through 2015. He took an opportunity to stay close with family, while having his agent work with schools for a new college job. Looks like it worked out pretty well for him.

The only reason he was a high school assistant last year was because he was still being paid his NU contract and he wanted to stay in Lincoln with his kids. You are acting like he has never been a D-1 assistant coach.

Should Nebraska fans be making fun of Purdue for anything considering the way they curb stomped NU in 2015?

But Dee might be allergic to the paint in the locker room. Can she coach from the Embassy Suites?

Honestly, I don't see any former Husker players or assistant coaches coming back to NU under the Riley administration. My point is that I don't see Riley going out of his way to hire former Huskers as assistant coaches. He is going to hire guys that he is familiar with and friends of friends.

Honestly, I don't see any former Husker players or assistant coaches coming back to NU under the Riley administration.

Rose-Ivey redshirted in 2012. Yes he did injure his knee in 2014, but will have to apply for an additional year of eligibility, if he wants to return in 2017, as a 6th year guy. So do they have to wait until their "senior" year to apply, or could he apply now? They have to apply for the 6th year of eligibility in their "senior" year.

Rose-Ivey redshirted in 2012. Yes he did injure his knee in 2014, but will have to apply for an additional year of eligibility, if he wants to return in 2017, as a 6th year guy.

Cardale Jones is gonna go pro, but JT Barrett is only a sophomore. So Allen would be a RS Junior in 2017, when Barrett is a senior. I agree it doesn't make sense to transfer for only 1 season as a starting QB.

When you say MSU, do you mean Michigan State? They only threw it an average of 31 attempts per game, and that was with a future NFL QB as their QB for every game except 1.

The Cowboys won't go after Kelly. Jerry Jones likes his coaches to be subservient to him, so Jerry can control the operations of the team. I bet Kelly goes to Tennessee where he will be able to coach Mariota, or he will lay low and find a kick ass college job after the 2016 season.

He didn't go into detail and only brushed upon it. To me, he was taking responsibility in a humble manner. From what I saw (this year) and what it seemed like (to me), was that they thought the QB could do what they wanted him to do, and it backfired. And you know, he's got a really good arm (strong), and can make some passes that wow you. It lures you in. And then the other stuff happens. And you're left broken hearted. So then you brush it off and try it again. And you work with him. And after seeing the good throws and progress moving the ball for several quarters (or a game), it happens again. Before you know it your stuck in this loop and the season is about gone. Anyway, that's just my thinking if that makes sense at all. I will commend Riley for admitting his mistakes, as not many coaches will do that. However, he should have been able to tell from the practice time and film study what type of QB that Armstrong was. It shouldn't have taken 11 games (as TA didn't play against Purdue) of coaching TA to realize the type of QB that TA was. Instead, NU racked up losses this year, and TA's mistakes gave Riley and Langsdorf a scape goat on the crappy season. There were so many threads and posts that basically said that NU would have been 9-3 or 10-2 if NU had a serviceable QB. My argument is that NU went 9-3 with TA at QB when he was a sophomore and Riley should have done more to have TA do less in the offense and not put all the "blame" on TA.

I finally saw TFA yesterday with my family. I thought it was great. Yes, there are parallels to ANH, but I think that was done on purpose by Abrams. I also liked how TFA mixed in the old characters with the new. I am sure most of the focus on Epiosdes 8-9 will be with the new characters, but it's good to have the old characters on the screen.

The part from Admo's post that is concerning to me is that it took Riley and his staff too long to coach to the team's strengths. He is basically saying they screwed up in not seeing what the players could do well, and they were hell-bent on coaching things as they have always done in the past. I won't expect Riley and Langsdorf to commit to the run game with NU until I see it over multiple games in 2016. It is just not in their coaching DNA. They want to pass the ball all over the place and will go back to that style because it's their comfort zone.

I personally feel that "you" are always in the market...if you can find someone better you need to do that...Coaches recruit players and AD's need to be recruiting coaches.Why would Shawn Eichorst fire Mike Riley even if Chip Kelly was available? The amount of uproar around here would be monumental, even if it was a name like Kelly.By who? Or is it, whom? Fans, boosters, you name it. The logic behind reaching out to Kelly suggests a lack of faith in Riley, yet, Eichorst has spent the last year selling us on why Pelini needed to go and Riley was the guy to replace him. And while I can only speak for myself, I'm not thrilled about having Chip Kelly in Nebraska and I don't think he would be a good fit here. But, that's besides the point. Eichorst is not going to willingly fire Riley unless forced to. I'm not an advocate for getting Riley (I actually like the guy) but why don't you think Kelly would work here? He took over a good program in Oregon and made it an elite program. Honestly most of the players on our roster right now would fit his system well. TA would probably be a very good QB in his system. His name alone would bring in top tier recruits, just like Harbaugh did at Michigan. We have everything he'd need to succeed right away. The biggest drawback in my opinion would be how long would he stay before he jetted and took another shot at the NFL? But, if Kelly gets NU back to a dominant program in a 4-5 year time period, I would take that in an instant. If Kelly does leave, then NU goes after Frost and his similar system. Who knows how Riley wants to stick in the coaching game. I know he's a "young 62-63" and that he's younger than Nick Saban, but man there are times when it's a colder game and Riley looks miserable on the sidelines. It's like he can't wait to get back in the locker room and have a cup of hot cocoa.