B.B. Hemingway

I think aTm will have a hard time winning the support of Ben Cotton.

I know im in the minority here, but Musberger is my favorite play-by-play guy. Always have liked his style.

honestly, palmer is my favorite person at espn. i also like the pollack kid, because he seems a little stupid, which i think makes him more honest.

 

Pollack is a moron. He has received a few looks from the rest of the guys on "The Experts" show. But you are correct, dumb is honest.

on ESPN, i'll take honesty over intelligence any day.

Agreed, any network that closes out the college football day with Holtz, and Mark May is in trouble. Reese is the only guy who brings any credibility to that show.

No offense to Toon, he is a nice player, but if anyone here thinks that Toon vs. a healthy Dennard is even close, they've lost their minds. A healthy Dennard shuts down almost any college wide receiver.

fixed it for you

No, I had it right the first time. Dennard is lockdown, need I remind you of the OSU game last year. Blackmon did nothing in the 2nd half because of Dennard.

I know im in the minority here, but Musberger is my favorite play-by-play guy. Always have liked his style.

Surely you jest? Mr. OverTheTop himself, your favorite? Mushburger blows.

Hard to beat the Purify TD catch against Texas 5 or so years ago. "Fires....Got him....Breaks free", Or the Suh call after the McCoy sack. "Ndamukong is dominating".

I know im in the minority here, but Musberger is my favorite play-by-play guy. Always have liked his style.

honestly, palmer is my favorite person at espn. i also like the pollack kid, because he seems a little stupid, which i think makes him more honest.

Pollack is a moron. He has received a few looks from the rest of the guys on "The Experts" show. But you are correct, dumb is honest.

No offense to Toon, he is a nice player, but if anyone here thinks that Toon vs. a healthy Dennard is even close, they've lost their minds. A healthy Dennard shuts down any college wide receiver.

I know im in the minority here, but Musberger is my favorite play-by-play guy. Always have liked his style.

I think some fans are making Wisconsin in to a much better team then they are.... They are a good team, but some posters are saying it would be a "huge" upset if we win. Really? I am nowhere nearly as impressed with them as that. I lik e Taylor nd Yoshi's

Groundbreaking, as always.

Good work Knapp!

We played off the ball with Dennard, and Prince as well. Maybe not as often but we did do it often enough from what I remember. Usually on 3rd and short there is going to be inside help for the slant patterns. I'm not expert, just my read.

What team plays without injuries? It's a lousy excuse. Injuries to Dennard and Crick still can't hide the fact that our secondary plays 5-10 yards off the recievers on 3rd and short!

I would assume that Bo, and Carl know what they are doing. The busts we see are most likely not faults of the scheme, but faults of the execution. There were a handful of times in the Wyoming game when you saw two guys go with one receiver. One time in particular I remember, right after the catch Dennard went to Stafford, and seemed to be telling him that he went the wrong way.

My only concern is that with all this stuff on Offense and Defense that "we haven't seen yet", are we going to be able to execute it since it will be the first time in game speed or is going to be a cluster %$? That worries me a little. I would give them the slight edge at this point in the season, but would give us the edge in CCG

I don't think there is going to be much that "we haven't seen yet" come Saturday, because of the reasons you mentioned. If we haven't had a chance to work on the stuff, especially on offense, then a night game at Camp Randall would not be the place to break it out. My gameplan would be:

On offense: Give Rex Burkhead the ball atleast 30 times (atleast 10 RexCat plays). This team is obviously capable, and fond of running downhill. I don't think the success of those toss sweep plays is a coincidence. I think we are going to be an excellent running team as the year goes on.

On defense: Get After Em'. Wisconsin's offense is a very effective one, but they have not seen nowhere near the speed we have on defense this year, or last year for that matter. We need to use our speed to get to Wilson, and make them run the ball. So what if they run for 200 yards, if they pass for 100, then we win this game!

Didnt Wisconsin lose to a MWC team last year?

Yep, they did (TCU).

Ok this is getting boring.

EVERYONE, I am currently going to start a new "Martinez sucks, give me Choi at Quarterback" thread. So if you will, back to the homepage. BYAHHHH!!!!

 

Wasn't there an article in the OWH awhile back talking of a guy who was being primed for the AD job. Osborne loved him, and everyone that came into contact with him loved him (thats what she said). I can't remember the guys name though.

 

Paul Meyers?

Bingo!! I believe that was it.

Fantastic!!!!

This team has no reason to be cocky. It actually pisses me off a bit

Sure, sure....Relax, relax.

They are kids, let them express themselves, and have some fun if they want too. They don't have to be "Husker Football 100% of the time", Like the rest of US!!!!

Wasn't there an article in the OWH awhile back talking of a guy who was being primed for the AD job. Osborne loved him, and everyone that came into contact with him loved him (thats what she said). I can't remember the guys name though.

That Andrew Green has been impressive.

No but seriously Legate has impressed me, block, run and pass.

Just do not touch the helmets....

Wouldnt it be stupid to half ass it if we did get new uniforms? I mean you do it to draw recruits, and attention, and there is nothing attention grabbing about those black uniforms, or helmet. I hope they do not do it, but if they do then you might as well go all out....

Hope you're right. The defense has been horrible so far this year. All the sloppy play from last year has carried over and gotten worse. Over-pursuing, arm "tackles", constantly being out of position. Definate regression since '09. It needs to turn around sooner than later.

If our 2010 Defense is as bad as it gets, we'll be in great shape.

Wanna know the reason I'm not worried? Because Bo is not. When our head coach-whom we have all dubbed that savior-says blatantly in his post game press conference that this team is where he wants it to be, he obviously knows something we dont. He then proceeded to explain that college football is a 5 mo process and 3 games in is never the finished product. Funny, it sounds like Bo is trying to calm down the fanbase to not worry that things will be under control. He also explained that Sark threw the entire book at the D in the first half, there were many things our young guys had not seen before, that they settled in the played well in the 3rd quarter, and just lost focus and did boneheaded things in the end. So while Washington opened it up and showed everything, I'm sure Bo and Carl are still trying to hold some things back. Yes, Dennard back will/should be all the difference in the world. He should be able to shut down that half of the field and hopefully we can get back to some nickel. Im sorry, but 3 backers are not cutting it. We dont have the talent there and I feel that David needs to be playing in the middle where he can fly side to side. Him being an outside backer in a 43 takes him out of too many plays. But im not a coach so who knows.

Bo isn't worried because he has complete faith in his guys, and his ability to coach them. Even if he was worried, he wouldn't express that with the media or us, because he doesn't care what we know. Give me ONE reason that Bo has given us in his four years here that should make any of us concerned about his Defenses. You can't say anything about the first half of his first year, because he was attempting to fix a disaster.

Bo Knows Defense ( I feel like I should coin that phrase, it could be big). We will be fine!

If you guys want to point fingers at anybody on the defense - do not do it at a very young and promising set of players in the secondary who are still developing and getting their feet wet for the first time.

 

Point it at that vaunted, veteran DL of ours, supposed to be the most kickass unit on this defense, getting their butts repeatedly handed to them and just not playing up to the standards they have set for themselves.

I thought the Defensive line played well. The run game for UScrub was shut down from about the middle 2nd quarter and on (besides that longer run by Polk in the late 4th quarter, Chase Rome was in at that point). The secondary is young, but there is definitely a problem there. I do agree though, that they will come on in time. Having Dennard back will help greatly.

I thought the D-Line played best with Josh Williams, Crick, T-Mo, and Meredith out there.

I have a feeling that most of HuskerNation is going to be in panic mode after this game, but I do not see the reason. The Defense definitely has work to do, but I think we'll be good.

Reasons for no-concern:

1. We currently have the best cornerback in the country sitting on the sidelines. Getting Dennard back will be huge because he will shut half of the field down. Therefore Pelini will be able to have more Safety help on the run game.

2. Bo is a master when it comes to coaching a defense, its almost poetic. Think back to the Defense Bo's first year. The progression from the beginning of the year to the end was a miracle. Give him time and the secondary will be just fine.

3. The Secondary has some very talented players. Stafford will really come on in the next couple weeks. Remember Gomes took until the Missouri game (week 4 or 5?) in 2009 until he was really stepping onto the scene as an effective player. That same year he was a absolute force in the Big 12 Championship game against Texas. In a couple weeks our Secondary ought to look a heck of a lot better. ( Where is C. Osborne anyways?)

4. Most of UScrubs points were in junk time. they had 17 points through 3 quarters, and 7 of those points were practically given to them after the Abdullah fumble. I don't like 'what ifs' but the 38 points was a bit obscured. That game was over at 44-17.

Speaking of 'what ifs' UScrub fans need to let it go. The refs mistakes did not cost you that game. Nebraska BEAT you, and was nice enough to let you back in it at the end. Get over move on, you're NOT in our league. Besides you won't find much sympathy from Nebraska fans about bad calls costing games.

Fans and media have every right to 2nd guess Nebraska. Why??? because we have been let down before by having really high expectations that were justified only to be disappointed in the home stretch.

 

The papers are only writing what they see(as do the fans) which is Nebraska isnt very good football team right now. It can get better or it can get worse, quite frankly after 2 games Im worried we might get embarassed in Madison in 3 weeks, but thats just me.

The local media's doubting of our defensive success the rest of the season is what has me confused. The Blackshirts are going to do what they do, the offense is improving. Wisconsin's defense will give us some things. It ought to be a very entertaining game at Camp Randall in a few weeks.

It is hard to base the season off of a few games. If we went off of the S. Dakota St. game last year, then there would be no way to see a team that eventually won the North, and SHOULD have beaten OU in the Big12-3 title game.

Are we going to win a National Championship? Probably not. Can we win a B1G championship? Yes.