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I mean For Real. This is pathetic.

Although Carnes did have a good spring game that isn't fully the reason. Did you not watch the end of last year? It was absolutely pathetic. Obviously stats wise it was horrible, but his attitude was even worse, and he still isn't fully healthy. I think Taylor and Carnes can take us far. Just have to trust Bo and his decision. The greater majority (mainly the second half) of 2009 was pathetic. People clamored for Martinez during the spring/fall and low-and-behold he started in 2010. He got injured, and the offense was pathetic to finish out another season. Two seasons in a row, two different quarterbacks and both offenses were just embarrassing against above average competition. I'm not clamoring for either quarterback, and obviously Martinez was a problem. How could he not be with the way he played to finish 2010? But two years in a row our offenses failed after injuries to our quarterback, which says a lot to me about the TEAM than just the quarterback. Championship teams should be able to perform better than they did when the starter got hurt, and I blame that more on Watson and his offensive unit as a whole than I do Martinez. I still feel today that our offensive line and the coaching is the weakest facet of this team. Enhance: You state that : "Championship teams should be able to perform better than they did when the starter got hurt..." I agree wholeheartedly. That said, NU is not a championship team --- when did we last win a conference? NU is nowhere near a championship team --- just a decent team, a fringe top 25 team... no more. It is just that our fans --- especially on this site --- somehow think NU is more and have expectations that are out of sync with what the immediate past or the present would suggest is reasonable. We love our team... we all do. And, seemingly, many on this site see NU red like the NU red of the early 70's and the mid 1990's when we think of NU football --- or, at least project onto this team the expectations we had of those teams. I reiterate... NU is so long removed from being a championship-level team that expecting from NU championship-level performance is well... really hopeful and not to realistic. We have all sorts of problems on the NU team --- and I agree with you when you say that "our offensive line and the coaching is the weakest facet of this team." I can only add that the WR and Qb positions are also problematic as well --- both talent wise and coaching wise (or, at least we had coaching problems there... what we have now remains to be seen... but could not hardly get worse, could it?) I should have worded that differently, because that's not what I meant. I didn't mean Nebraska was a championship team last year, even though I would have said it was possible before Martinez got hurt and the other problems with our offense began to reveal themselves. My point is that IF Nebraska wants to contend for championships, the offense has to be better than that as a whole. I think we can agree that for the last two years we have had a defense capable of winning a national championship game, only to have it squandered by a poor offense. Once Martinez got hurt, the issues Martinez masked with this athleticism began to showcase themselves, and they were the same issues from the 2009 season. But regardless of whether or not we were a championship team, a team ranked in the top 10 shouldn't have had an offense that bad when the starting quarterback went down. We should be better than that. We may be far removed from championship winning teams but not we should never be removed from expecting a certain caliber of play. What part of "new offense", "new offensive co-ordinator", "more line coaching", "silly incoming talent", and "fat slow opponents on the way" did you miss? ITS BEEN ADDRESSED. STOP CRYING. at least give the new staff a chance before you jump off the cliff with the rest of the lemmings.

Feel free to disagree, but yes, that's my opinion. I think wisconsin is a joke. Trying to stop the blitzkrieg with the polish cavalry. I think they will be exposed horribly, and lose by 3 or 4 touchdowns, and probably not score....say 24 - 0 Huskers, or thereabouts. Wisconsin has to beat you in one particular way, which matches up really poorly with Nebraska's team D and other team strengths this year. PSU is late in the season, away game, probably the toughest away environment being furthest from Lincoln and a really huge stadium, lots of pride and tradition. PSU also has a lock on the top talent in their home state year in and year out. I believe the PSU away game will regularly be the toughest game for Nebrasaka, at least until michigan gets on their feet. How about 17-16 PSU? OSU does have the talent to match up with Nebraska, but not enough to overcome the "1st game back" issues for pryor and etc., plus its in Lincoln. Say, 23-10 Huskers. Nebraska wins the division and vs. wisconsin or PSU for the inaugural B1G title. Rematches are tough. Pick 'em. You're entitled to think what you want, but we're capable of beating teams more than one way. We use a strong run game to overpower teams, not because we have to, but because we can. We're usually capable of beating teams throwing the ball as well. Ideally, we want to run the ball around 40 times, and throw maybe 20, many of them play action. That's where we get most of our big plays in the passing game. Our first 3 WRs will be as good as anyone in the conference, and our TE group should be the best. We're not going to have as potent an offense this year, at least early on, due to inexperience at QB. We'll have to rely on the run game the first 3-4 weeks, while our new QB gets his legs under him. While we lost a lot of guys to the draft, we still return a lot of experience. We had pretty good depth last year, and were able to play 2-3 spots down the depth chart in several games, at several different position. We expect the defense to be very good this year. Probably better than last year. One starting LB is fully recovered from a knee injury suffered 2 years ago, and has all of his explosion back. Another missed 10 games plus the bowl last year, and he's our best defensive player. Alvarez has been quoted as saying he's the best pure football player he's ever seen. How does it feel to be rooting for little red now that Big Red is in the building?

No, really, go ahead. Bo Pelini and Urban Meyer are all ears.

You must have missed the part where he said that the KSU game was the only game he watched. If K State or Okie State were all I had to go on, I'd think he was Superman too. Obviously Meyer must have issues noticing which player on the field is more dynamic than the others, and clearly he doesn't know talent when he sees it. Meyer essentially just said that he would have started TM last season, and would this season, and NOW WHAT. Bo Pelini called TM's number first, Meyer knows what's up, Most of America does, and somehow you don't. Just stop it. TM is going to start. Last season he was the most impressive NU first year quarterback I've ever seen, you've ever seen, & anyone in this state has ever seen, until some fat ass fell on his leg. Unless another fat ass falls on his leg, he's going to slice the big ten into thin strips of lunchmeat this season, and in doing so, ride the blackshirts to the big ten trophy & a BCS birth. If a fat ass does fall on his leg, we'll find out all about Carnes, who certainly looks good vs. scrubs.

SHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Double secret!

Yeah, last year was tough. Here's to bigger and better RED things ahead!

check.

Here's to you, broad-paint-brush-guy!

Oh you two! get a room.

You say this so leisurely (at least that's the way I imagine it). If my memory holds true, I saw him limp off the field at some point in the last 3 games he played in and still look pretty tender in the Spring game. You should have put this first and followed it with a TBD. Yeah, i don't expect him to last a whole season. Viva la Carnes!

I swear if jesus christ flew down here and played QB for Nebraska this upcoming season, people around here would still bitch. regarding tmobile.... Quickest first step TO has ever seen? check. Broke most all-time freshman records @ NU? check. Was a freshman last year? check. Was a freshman all american last year? check. Will improve this year? check. Will start barring injury throughout 2011? check.

You win!

So, I guess robsker (and those likeminded) believes that Nebraska's players and coaching staff doesn't measure up against our big ten competition? Our personnel is less talented than who? Our coaching staff is worse than whose? Our strength and conditioning program is worse than whose? Our tradition is less than...? Our defense will be worse than.....? Our skill players are worse than....? Our OLine is worse than.....? Answer questions like these and the future becomes more clear, and favorable in my opinion, my dear timid Husker mice.

^^ gets my vote.

SO who won?

WE'RE CREATING A MONSTER!!!!!

I use the Multiple Playbook in NCAA '11. It's the closest to what we did last year. We'll finally have custom playbooks in '12, so mine is going to feature some Pistol, Ace, I-Form, Wishbone, and Shotgun formations. Can't wait. Does anyone else lol at this? Oh, the irony.

T-MOBILE FOR PREZ!!!!

This. Performance is within the context of the scheme, within which the team D becomes much greater than the sum of its parts.

We're part of the same kool-aid conspiracy. Just ask around.

Maybe so, but this is CFB we're talking about. Not exactly a hotbed for "by the book" behavior and/or punishment.................. Point taken. Chizik still has a job, USC is still playing football, and the FBI hasn't raided the big 12/big texas conference offices yet. "But the player didn't know that we were selling him" ignorance is bli$$ i suppose. All of it makes this guy sick...."not the victory" & "in the deed the glory" makes a lot of sense when noted how men and institutions debase themselves for the W's, honesty and integrity be damned!