OpinionsPlease

[Travis9]

Just wanted to get everyones opinion on

 

1. would you like to see any of the staff stay

 

2. Do we or do we not have talent on this team

 

3. fu.ck espn or love espn

 

 

 

 

1. I think we have some good coaches but i dont want any to stay, simply for the fact that i would like every player to have a shot at a job. Open competition with unbiased views from the coaches will most assuredly put the best players on the field. I think if some of our coaches stay then some players and some positiions will not have unbiased and fair competition

 

a. QB i know most of you are ready to annoint Joe the starter, but i seriously think an open competition with Lee and Ganz and Witt puts the best out there and i think IMO Ganz comes in 3rd

b. RB so many of our fans rag on Lucky. I think he is great. I would love for fair competition and he wins the job so we as fans will stop riding his ass.

c. WR again so many love to annoint Swift and Petersen as these great players. While i love them for being huskers i think unbiased competition puts them so far down the depth chart that you rarely see thm. To go where we want to go (back to national prominence) it doesnt happen with those 2 at WR. I think if Holt and Henry and Paul and Brooks have a system where it is not mandated that they run 14.4 yards and cut at precisely a 27.9 degree angle but rather a system that lets athletes make plays then they will shine.

 

2. I think there is loads of talent on this team it has just been wasted and underused and uncoached

 

3. Fu.ck ESPN

[huskerjack23]

Just wanted to get everyones opinion on

 

1. would you like to see any of the staff stay

 

2. Do we or do we not have talent on this team

 

3. fu.ck espn or love espn

 

1. Watson can stay. I don't think the coaches staying brings bias. If anything, bias would lean towards character and not ability. If a kid can play, he will.

 

2. We've got talent, it just either got put in the wrong places or they weren't trained enough for the kind of football that's being played now.

 

3. It's a love/hate relationship. The production values at FSN are shiite and ESPN just blows everybody out of the water with their's. Chris Berman is the biggest idiot on the planet and no one needs to hear opinions on sports EVERY SINGLE DAY, especially if it comes from Jay Mariotti, Woody Paige, or Dan LeBetard

[California Husker]

1. I agree with some that Watson should stay.

 

2. I think we are loaded with talent.

 

3. You asked for it. Below is a copy of my opinion of ESPN from another thread. Sorry.

 

 

Okay, this is going to be long...sorry.

 

Back in the day, when ESPN showed up, I thought cool, an all sports network. Wow, you talk about setting your expectations too high. ESPN is nothing but a self-promoting, money hungry, puppet of the Disney Corporation. There used to be one person on ESPN with a clue, but I think Trev Alberts got sick of the corporate games and crap that is ESPN. Also, I think he got sick of having to break out the crayons and coloring books to attempt to explain football to that tard Mark May.

 

This is a little story (I’ve told here before) about when I realized that ESPN was nothing but a cross promoting whore for the little rat at Disney.

 

The year was 1997. The Nebraska Cornhuskers were number one in the nation. Peyton Manning was, by far, the best player in college football (at least in a high profile position). Of course there were a few problems. If Nebraska won out and played in a bowl game, it was going to be the Orange Bowl. That was a problem for the little money whore that is ESPN. You see, they were not going to carry the Orange Bowl. They had the Rose Bowl that year. In fact, If Tennessee kept wining; they too would go to the Orange Bowl because of the Bowl Alliance (the one the Rose Bowl refused to join). So there we have it, for that pimp Disney to make any real money, they had to somehow make the Rose Bowl relevant. And since its little whore ESPN was more than willing to help out, they went to work to set up a situation whereby they would make more money for their pimp-daddy, good old Mickey Rat.

 

But their hands were tied right? They just report sports, right? Well, not really. With an important game coming up between Michigan and Notre Dame (I think) the question around ESPN was who should be number one? Should Michigan be number one if they beat Notre Dame? And the like. That question led every Sports Center, it was the number one topic on every college football report, and in fact they pounded it into the ground. What, you dare ask, what about Nebraska? Aren’t they number one? If they win this weekend shouldn’t they stay number one? Hasn’t that been the tradition? (For more on that tradition, see below). Well, they all seemed to forget about Nebraska. Could it be because Nebraska was landlocked in the middle of “fly over” territory? Maybe. But more than likely it had more to do with the fact that Nebraska was not going to be on one of Mickey Rat’s networks on New Years Day. Oh, and by the way, remember that Peyton Manning guy, the guy on the other team that would not end up on ESPN/ABC on New Years Day? Well, he played his ass off all year. But when ESPN/ABC showed highlights of him, he was getting sacked, throwing an interception, or some other unflattering event. Then, they began to show highlights of another player. Charles Woodson from Michigan. They showed him intercepting passes, catching passes, running punts back for touchdowns, basically doing everything right. You could tell from the highlight reel he was amazing. And poor Peyton Manning, he came back for his senior year and was just doing awful (at least it seemed that way from the ESPN highlights). I myself was in awe of how many touchdowns a defensive player like Charles Woodson was scoring. I thought, “Wow, that guy is good. I wonder how many T.D.’s he has this year?” The funny thing is, if you check out the numbers, Charles Woodson only ran back one kick for a touchdown. ESPN just showed that clip every time they talked about him (I just didn’t realize it was the same clip all the time). And what about poor Peyton Manning and his “disappointing” senior season? Well, a look at his stats shows that he had a Heisman-like year statistically. But wait…why didn’t we know that? Wasn’t ESPN, the “sports authority” responsible for telling us that? Well, yes, until you realize that they were going to have the Rose Bowl on ABC that year and wanted to hype the Heisman winner on their network. And they were going to make sure it happened. Never mind that their endless campaign for Charles Woodson most likely cost the clear-cut winner (Peyton Manning) his Heisman Trophy. After all, when your out pimpin’ your ho’s all that matters is money, right? Who cares if your ho’s have integrity. Ho’s are not supposed to have integrity. They are just supposed to lay down and make you money, and it is all about the ratings, right? Oh, and remember when I said earlier that when you are number one and you win, you are not supposed to have your ranking taken from you. Do you know how I know that? Well, it’s because after Nebraska soundly beat a legitimately good Tennessee team in the Orange Bowl and Michigan barely beat a mediocre Washington State team in the Rose Bowl, and the ESPN contingent were livid that you never, ever take away the number one ranking from a team that wins. In fact, before the polls even came out, as the clock ticked to double zero in the Rose Bowl (with the Nebraska/Tennessee game still to be played), Bob Greece announced that Michigan (with his little drunken son at the helm) had won the National Championship. (I mean, why wait for the polls to come out). ESPN had already orchestrated the theft of the National title from Nebraska way back in week 5 or 6 hadn’t they? Well, they didn’t count on the fact that the coaches had a conscience and decided to do what was right and give Nebraska the National Title they deserved. Those ESPN guys made nasty comments about Nebraska and how they should have never won the title when Michigan was number one and had won their bowl game. Funny though, they didn’t see any problem with Michigan jumping Nebraska in the polls (they actually went from #4 to #1) earlier in the season even though Nebraska won it’s game. Can you say double standard?

 

So you see, we are dealing with ratings minded media whores that have absolutely no integrity and should never, ever be taken seriously. They should be considered just what they are, cross promoting ratings prostitutes for that little flea bitten, disease carrying, Mickey Rat.

[Chef K]

1. would you like to see any of the staff stay? - I'll leave that up to our next HC.

 

2. Do we or do we not have talent on this team? - Hell yeah the Hukers have talent.

 

3. fu.ck espn or love espn? - Aside from broadcasting live games, there's not one damn thing worthy of my time from ESPN.

[BigRedPowerWagon]

Jesus Aparently i wasnt paying that much attention that year.

 

Ben

[California Husker]

Jesus Aparently i wasnt paying that much attention that year.

 

Ben

Sorry about the rant. It's just that the events of that year really frosted my ass. I guess you could tell.

[Travis9]

California Husker

 

To further solidify your point (which was very well constructed) Check out the numbers that year of another DB that happened to play at OKIE ST. R.W. McQuarters

 

The point is Woodson was supposedly this dual threat offense and Defense guy plus special teams. R.W. did the same thing with equal or better stats across the board

 

I bring this up because it further solidifies your notion. Just food for thought

[knapplc]

1. Watson can stay. I don't think the coaches staying brings bias. If anything, bias would lean towards character and not ability. If a kid can play, he will.

 

2. We've got talent, it just either got put in the wrong places or they weren't trained enough for the kind of football that's being played now.

 

3. It's a love/hate relationship. The production values at FSN are shiite and ESPN just blows everybody out of the water with their's. Chris Berman is the biggest idiot on the planet and no one needs to hear opinions on sports EVERY SINGLE DAY, especially if it comes from Jay Mariotti, Woody Paige, or Dan LeBetard

Very well said. Almost verbatim to what I was going to type.