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I thought the same thing too until I watched Cal's DL destroy FSU's offense. If Cal's DL/Defense can dominate them, we should have no trouble beating them next week. They are very young and will take a lot of lumps this year. The good news is that we can play as bad as we did on offense next week and still win. Let's just hope that we don't and our OL and TMart show some improvement so we can get the backups some good playing time.

Once again well said. He failed because he couldn't fire one of his best friends in Cozgrove and that is what I hope doesn't happen to Bo. But I'm going to hold out hope that he sees the bigger picture and that he won't be able to win any championships with Barney on the coaching staff. Just as Callahan couldn't win anything with Cozgrove around.

Pederson distanced himself from the past of this program and I understand that and in some respects, again, SOME, I did agree with it. Osborne cast a large shadow over this program, Nebraska football needed to get out from under that shadow in some respects, because that staff and the folks who built that program weren't here any longer. What has always rubbed me the wrong way about this is how upset people were when Steve did these things and when similar events go down a few years later that are "in favor" they are suddenly alright. It comes back to the hypocrisy. Much like the criticisms of the walk-on program under Callahan/Pederson. Callahan was so evil, they cut the walk-on program and Bo came to "save it", but in reality, nothing has really changed with it. It was simple gasbagging rhetoric so that the new staff could play "Joe-Hero" There is a way to distance yourself from previous regimes without tossing them under the bus. I don't care how incompetent or successful things were seen. It has nothing to do with "hypocrisy." It has everything to do with a culture established in a program 40 years ago, perpetuated by one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, carried on by his successor (to a degree), and then purposefully trampled underfoot by a new regime. There is a Nebraska Way about our program, and that way is the right way. Trashing that culture in favor of some megalomaniac's "vision" is stupid, irresponsible and, as we saw, an abject failure. This is not the Steve Pederson program. It is what it is - the Nebraska Football program. It is all right to remove the BS from our program that Pederson instilled. It is all right to get this ship right again. It is all right to state overtly that we were going in the wrong direction under Pederson, and it is all right to regain what we lost. You can hero-worship Pederson and Callahan all you want. Wishing for that era, or that culture, to come back is futile. Where you are wrong is that you need to separate Peterson from Callahan. Callahan did have more than his fair share of stupid things that he said (2004 after CU) but getting mad because of the throat slash and calling OU fans hillbillies, then praising Bo for his lunacy on the sidelines is where the hypocrisy lies in the fan base. I will agree with 90% of the criticisms of Peterson with his biggest mistake being that he should have let Frank stay one more year so he could complete his failure since the 2004 had very little talent and no dept due to his crappy recruiting. Then Frank would have killed the last two streaks that we had at the time (KU and the Bowl Streak) then there wouldn't have been two sides to the fan base, it would have been behind getting rid of him after that year. But he listened to too many boosters after the KSU ass whipping in Lincoln that year. Then by saying that he wasn't going to allow OU and UT to take the conference put undeserved pressure on Callahan in his first year with very little to work with. Which is why he had to go the JUCO route after that year to get competitive in the conference.

Pederson distanced himself from the past of this program and I understand that and in some respects, again, SOME, I did agree with it. Osborne cast a large shadow over this program, Nebraska football needed to get out from under that shadow in some respects, because that staff and the folks who built that program weren't here any longer. What has always rubbed me the wrong way about this is how upset people were when Steve did these things and when similar events go down a few years later that are "in favor" they are suddenly alright. It comes back to the hypocrisy. Much like the criticisms of the walk-on program under Callahan/Pederson. Callahan was so evil, they cut the walk-on program and Bo came to "save it", but in reality, nothing has really changed with it. It was simple gasbagging rhetoric so that the new staff could play "Joe-Hero" There is a way to distance yourself from previous regimes without tossing them under the bus. I don't care how incompetent or successful things were seen. This may be the best post on this topic I have ever seen on this topic.

This statment makes it obvious you have no clue what he actually does. That was a bit of a head-shaker for me, too. Not sure where that criticism even comes from. I have been critical of Jamrog because of some boneheaded things he has done and said since getting here, and certainly his requirement that players call him "Coach" and his headset are just a few of the things that make him an oddball character. That being said, as an administrator he has been alright, and he actually took the time to respond to some critical emails after we announced some future schedules filled with patsy games. One of the first acts when he got here was to throw the previous scheduling/schedulers under the bus because they filled it with some easy games. There were direct quotes where he took shots at people like Tim Cassidy because of how the upcoming years looked, and here is today announcing some future non-conference schedules that are at best, on par with those that he inherited. Again, kind of goes back to the PR campaign waged when we transitioned to Pelini as our coach, everything and anything from the previous regime needed to receive the "slash and burn" treatment, because as we all know, not only was Bill Callahan and his staff bad a coaching, but they also performed abortions on the side and volunteered as puppy killers at the Lincoln pound. Yep, a group of baby and puppy killing no good people who couldn't coach worth a lick. Somebody get it!

Speaking specifically about the recruiting services comment here, I think we're back to a time in Husker history where you pretty much have to completely ignore the stars beside a kid's name when we recruit them. I'll put Bo's ability to analyze a kid's potential up against that of Scout or Rivals any day. If Bo recruits them, you can just about bet they're a five-star recruit for our system. And that distinction is all that matters. Or they are family members that need a scholly like Marlowe. I wouldn't go as far as you, especially since he's a defensive coach so he needs someone with a good eye for talent on the offensive side to complement him. Hopefully that is Beck and we will be fine.

People really need to learn the difference between facts and opinions. And that's just my opinion, not a fact. I't's amazing how many people claim their "opinions" are "facts" because....well.....because.......they say so! No you two need to pull your head out of the sand and look at the facts. It's thinking like that that makes me want to throw up every time they call NU fans the best in the country. The facts back up the opinion that he sucks as a coach. Just look at the numbers while he's been here without your scarlet and cream glasses on. What is so odd to me is that the poster refers to our previous offensive coordinator in mocking fashion as Callawatts, but he gets really defensive of any criticisms leveled against Cotton. The same guy also uses facts and information to form his opinions on Watson and passes off his opinion of Watson being an incompetent boob as a "fact" but it is when your "facts" are in disagreement with his "facts" that he again reverts back and starts attacking your "facts" as an opinion. A very odd dynamic indeed. I think this was meant for someone else, if not then you have me confused with somebody else. I have never used the term "Callawats" in my life. Or are you talking about BShirt and RedDenver?

The problems with Milt haven't been overblown. Milt's respect for Cotton as a coach is almost nonexistent. The time that Osborne and Tenopir have spent trying like hell to get Barney to a level of even basic competency is mind boggling, and this has been at Bo's request, because he recognizes this as a huge problem. The writing is on the wall with Cotton's move to the booth on this one. Spare me the Tenopir comparison, because Milt had proven himself as a coach, and was allowed to do those things. Cotton has not proven himself as a competent coach/coordinator in his time here in Lincoln. This move has see you later written all over it, much like it did for Ekeler last fall. If you get our your Bo cypher, you will see what this means. Next year Barney will likely still be in the "front office" where he can be the recipient of "Husker Welfare" Thank you very much for telling it like it is. It gives me hope that the fan base isn't a bunch of brainless twits that assume everything that the staff past or present is unchallengeable. It's disgusting on how some people will defend a sinking ship like Barney. Actually I don't think that ship could ever float, but anyway the sooner he's gone the better. And unfortunately you hit the nail on the head with the "husker welfare" comment. He will get paid much like Jamrog to do nothing that helps the university. Don't lump Jamrog in with Barney. He's actually done his job pretty well with the exception of getting a middle tier team to do a 2 for 1 with us which may not be very realistic now days. That actually falls as much on TO as it does Jamrog. Until he schedules somebody with a heartbeat, then IMO he's not doing what he's paid to do. This statment makes it obvious you have no clue what he actually does. Ok all knowledgeable one, enlighten me and tell me what he does other than schedule a bunch of easy wins?

Bo has commented in the past that he has gone to Coach Cotton for ideas. There have been several articles that have indicated that Cotton is good at the big picture. Cotton has indicated that he works well with Coach Beck. Cotton will not get in Beck's way. Cotton will evaluate the splits and what the front 7 is trying to do and make recommendations when Beck asks. Splitting up the oline coaches make sense. I thought Barney did a decent job as OC when he was here. There were a few things that made it challenging for him that would of been tough for anyone. If Bo had doubts about Barney he would of made the change last year. I bet Beck had input as well. I will trust Bo&Beck on this one. Is it Els and Raymond in the booth for the D? Looking at it again, the last two years whoever was pushed to the box from the sideline was fired after the year, so I'll ease up on Barney since this is likely his last year here. (Thank God!) A decent job? 345 yards a game and only scoring 16 points vs the only two teams with a heartbeat that year (7 UT and 9 KSU) is decent? In Barney's defense we weren't exactly loaded, and Lord was pretty dang limited as a qb. He was good for the occasional play-action long-ball, that was it. Not saying he was a great OC by any means, but I'd say that O was more the product of tons of recruiting deadweight and not recruiting hard during the season than Barney. Yes part of that is true, but that falls on Frank and his lazy recruiting. He tuned a porsche of a program into a pinto. Frank did have lots of recruiting problems and part of that had to do with many of his coaches not wanting to recruit out of state or recruit period. For example, it was hard to build an oline when your Oline coaches wouldn't go out on the road. Where TO made up for part of that Solich didn't. Those stating Lord was a bad QB as a reson for Cotton's down fall at OC are off base. What I was agreeing with was that the talent level was obviously down for the team during Frank's two years without TO's recruits. Franks belief that recruiting was for the office season was the reason for the crappy classes that he brought in and why the drop off in talent was seen immediately in year 5. This time around we are in year 4 (talking about Barney again) and while we have gotten some good rated recruits, it seems that they don't hit their potential. Now that could be the recruiting services being off base as we all know they can be, but with the results to this point, it has to be coaching because nobody has that bad of luck to have every OL miss their potential that they recruited.

The problems with Milt haven't been overblown. Milt's respect for Cotton as a coach is almost nonexistent. The time that Osborne and Tenopir have spent trying like hell to get Barney to a level of even basic competency is mind boggling, and this has been at Bo's request, because he recognizes this as a huge problem. The writing is on the wall with Cotton's move to the booth on this one. Spare me the Tenopir comparison, because Milt had proven himself as a coach, and was allowed to do those things. Cotton has not proven himself as a competent coach/coordinator in his time here in Lincoln. This move has see you later written all over it, much like it did for Ekeler last fall. If you get our your Bo cypher, you will see what this means. Next year Barney will likely still be in the "front office" where he can be the recipient of "Husker Welfare" Thank you very much for telling it like it is. It gives me hope that the fan base isn't a bunch of brainless twits that assume everything that the staff past or present is unchallengeable. It's disgusting on how some people will defend a sinking ship like Barney. Actually I don't think that ship could ever float, but anyway the sooner he's gone the better. And unfortunately you hit the nail on the head with the "husker welfare" comment. He will get paid much like Jamrog to do nothing that helps the university. Don't lump Jamrog in with Barney. He's actually done his job pretty well with the exception of getting a middle tier team to do a 2 for 1 with us which may not be very realistic now days. That actually falls as much on TO as it does Jamrog. Until he schedules somebody with a heartbeat, then IMO he's not doing what he's paid to do.

People really need to learn the difference between facts and opinions. And that's just my opinion, not a fact. I't's amazing how many people claim their "opinions" are "facts" because....well.....because.......they say so! No you two need to pull your head out of the sand and look at the facts. It's thinking like that that makes me want to throw up every time they call NU fans the best in the country. The facts back up the opinion that he sucks as a coach. Just look at the numbers while he's been here without your scarlet and cream glasses on.

Bo has commented in the past that he has gone to Coach Cotton for ideas. There have been several articles that have indicated that Cotton is good at the big picture. Cotton has indicated that he works well with Coach Beck. Cotton will not get in Beck's way. Cotton will evaluate the splits and what the front 7 is trying to do and make recommendations when Beck asks. Splitting up the oline coaches make sense. I thought Barney did a decent job as OC when he was here. There were a few things that made it challenging for him that would of been tough for anyone. If Bo had doubts about Barney he would of made the change last year. I bet Beck had input as well. I will trust Bo&Beck on this one. Is it Els and Raymond in the booth for the D? Looking at it again, the last two years whoever was pushed to the box from the sideline was fired after the year, so I'll ease up on Barney since this is likely his last year here. (Thank God!) A decent job? 345 yards a game and only scoring 16 points vs the only two teams with a heartbeat that year (7 UT and 9 KSU) is decent? In Barney's defense we weren't exactly loaded, and Lord was pretty dang limited as a qb. He was good for the occasional play-action long-ball, that was it. Not saying he was a great OC by any means, but I'd say that O was more the product of tons of recruiting deadweight and not recruiting hard during the season than Barney. Yes part of that is true, but that falls on Frank and his lazy recruiting. He tuned a porsche of a program into a pinto.

The problems with Milt haven't been overblown. Milt's respect for Cotton as a coach is almost nonexistent. The time that Osborne and Tenopir have spent trying like hell to get Barney to a level of even basic competency is mind boggling, and this has been at Bo's request, because he recognizes this as a huge problem. The writing is on the wall with Cotton's move to the booth on this one. Spare me the Tenopir comparison, because Milt had proven himself as a coach, and was allowed to do those things. Cotton has not proven himself as a competent coach/coordinator in his time here in Lincoln. This move has see you later written all over it, much like it did for Ekeler last fall. If you get our your Bo cypher, you will see what this means. Next year Barney will likely still be in the "front office" where he can be the recipient of "Husker Welfare" Thank you very much for telling it like it is. It gives me hope that the fan base isn't a bunch of brainless twits that assume everything that the staff past or present is unchallengeable. It's disgusting on how some people will defend a sinking ship like Barney. Actually I don't think that ship could ever float, but anyway the sooner he's gone the better. And unfortunately you hit the nail on the head with the "husker welfare" comment. He will get paid much like Jamrog to do nothing that helps the university.

A perfect way to start Gameday!

Don't feel bad, I had no clue either until I started to read the thread. I totally forgot about PSU.

Bo has commented in the past that he has gone to Coach Cotton for ideas. There have been several articles that have indicated that Cotton is good at the big picture. Cotton has indicated that he works well with Coach Beck. Cotton will not get in Beck's way. Cotton will evaluate the splits and what the front 7 is trying to do and make recommendations when Beck asks. Splitting up the oline coaches make sense. I thought Barney did a decent job as OC when he was here. There were a few things that made it challenging for him that would of been tough for anyone. If Bo had doubts about Barney he would of made the change last year. I bet Beck had input as well. I will trust Bo&Beck on this one. Is it Els and Raymond in the booth for the D? Looking at it again, the last two years whoever was pushed to the box from the sideline was fired after the year, so I'll ease up on Barney since this is likely his last year here. (Thank God!) A decent job? 345 yards a game and only scoring 16 points vs the only two teams with a heartbeat that year (7 UT and 9 KSU) is decent?

If we only get 9 wins then the season is a failure since we will have regressed from our last two years. We can still be a better team with a lesser record. Are we going to debate that this year's schedule is tougher than our Big 12 schedule. Of course it is. We don't have KSU, Kansas, Missouri, or Iowa State anymore. 10 wins in the Big 12 is good, but I think it's a lot tougher to get ten wins in the Big Ten. We may regress a bit as far as number of wins, but quality of this team will go up in my opinion. Our first major improvement is saying Bye Bye to the Watson sham of an offense. This offense will blow that out of the water. But it is only the first year trying to execute this offense. The 4 OOC games, NW, Minny, UM, PSU and Iowa should all be wins. That leaves MSU, tOSU, and Wisky as our three toughest games. All we have to do is win one game against the three best teams on our schedule to get to 10. So 10-2 is a very reasonable expecaton. The Big 10 has some big names such as Michigan and Penn State that are not very good right now. So the schedule seems harder, when in reality it isn't.

So you are happy with the Frank/Barney 4 play offense. I believe you were attempting to reply to me but instead replied to yourself. But anyway, I don't think you bother reading others' posts and you seem to enjoy putting words into people's mouths, because that's what you just did. I don't want Barney to be the offensive coordinator, and he's not the offensive coordinator. You are acting as if he will be a co-coordinator, and he's not even that. For crap's sake, he's not even the sole OL coach anymore. Like others have said, Pelini is not stupid. The stuff you are spouting would be appropriate IFF he had a co-coordinator title. As it is, it's not accurate. You sound like a doomsday preacher. He's the associate Head Coach, whatever that means. I'm not doom and gloom at all, it's just a fact that Barney it a terrible coach and is a waste of money and a coaching position on the staff. If we need to hire more coaches to cover up for his limitations, then why not just get rid of him? It makes no freaking sense.

So an entire fanbase can't figure out this offense, and yet you get all of that out of the statement that Barney will be in the press box. This is why I post almost nothing on this board, nor any other board these days. Far too many fans are out of their damn minds. The tiniest little things get fans riled up these days. One wonders if humans have evolved their sense of judgement far enough to handle the instantaneous transmission of information. I'll give it another try next year. You tell me what he brings to the table by being in the press box? He's not coaching the OL (which is a good thing) but if he has input with the play calling, then that is a bad thing since he was the OC for the worst offense we had the past decade. Look at it this way, Barney is the Cozgrove of OC's. Way to take things out of context. But if this is all you bring to the board, then don't worry, nobody will miss you.

If we only get 9 wins then the season is a failure since we will have regressed from our last two years.

I don't. I see it as a new play caller having someone with experience with him in the booth. if Cotton is going to get involved in play calling, Beck is screwed! No this means we will have the same pathetic offense that we had under Frank and he ran at ISU. This is terrible news if he is actually going to have anything to do with the play calling. He needs to just go away, he sucks and this will be Bo's toughest challenge. Can he fire a friend for the betterment of the team? It was a huge part in Callahan's failure with Cozgrove, I hope Bo has the ball to do what Bill didn't. Newsflash....Bo already fired TWO offensive coaches. That's two more than Clownahan canned and also proves he not intimidated to make the move if needed. Bo decided to keep Barney. Have you ever, ever considered that just "maybe" Bo knows a little something about cfb? Watson wasn't one of his guys, so it's not the same. All you have to do is look at how pathetic Barney is as an OL coach and even worse as the OC to see that it doesn't add up as to why he was retained. I hope you are right and Bo does can him as he deserves. Barney's OL has cost NU two Big 12 title games and I'm sure it will cost NU more games this year too. But "knowing something a little about cfb" and making excuses to keep a friend on your staff are two different subjects. The other firing had more to do with transgressions off the field and he had no choice but to fire him.

1-AA, so this is ok with you? It's a joke that all Jamrog has scheduled is teams like this. We all know that playing a Colorado type schedule is stupid, but you should always have one marquee game, one lower BCS type team and two easy wins. Unless I'm mistaken, all Jeff has scheduled is a bunch of easy wins. No, I would rather we play at least one, if not two games against BCS schools and then have the remaining be non-BCS schools. You and I agree on how the schedule should be made, it's really the only logical way of doing it. But Jeff needs to schedule somebody with a heartbeat soon, or he's looking like a huge hypocrite. UCLA, Miami and Tennessee are easy wins? Well, Miami may be when we play them now UCLA and Tennessee were scheduled by Peterson and Miami was scheduled by TO before he hired Jamrog.

Not to pick on you True, but this is the kind of attitude I am fed up with. I am sick of being "brought down to earth" by folks who think I am crazy for going into seasons thinking we are going to win them all. I will never stop supporting this team, I went to every game in the season that shall not be named and cheered and thought we would win every game then. We have people talking about bowl eligible...for christ sake I didn't even know what that meant until 2002. Bowl eligible is not even a goal at Nebraska, it is a absolutely minimal expectation. 9 wins is an expectation, at least it should be. Stop this protecting yourself from pain in case we lose. It's like knapplc said earlier. Let yourself go, remember how much you used to love Nebraska Football when you expected to win every game? That because you went all in as soon as the first card was laid. If we, as a fanbase, allow our expectations to drop below this then that will be the expectations of the program. Expect Excellence, Demand Domination, Hail Huskers. GO BIG RED! Very well said. Will we win them all? Probably not, but we should expect to win every game and at least win the conference. I would actually say with the extra game now compared to TO's days that 10 wins is equal to 9 in TO's days. NU has four easy games in their OOC schedule this year, plus easy games vs NW, Minny and Michigan/PSU/ and Iowa will be tougher than those games but should be wins. That is 9 should wins right there. That leaves tOSU, MSU, and Wisy as the toss up games. If we go 2-1 in those games we are in a BCS game no matter what we do in the CCG, and of course if we win it, we get to go to Pasadena.

Bo had an orchiectomy. Don't ask how I know