Out on a Limb

[grandpasknee]

How's this for bucking the trend and going out on a limb.

 

I'm going to say that Bo has known what he had on defense for quite some time. Some under-performers as starters and some studs in waiting. Those studs in waiting weren't quite ready to start at the beginning of the year. (With just four weeks of pre-season practice, those freshman now have 50% more practice time already than they had at the first game, plus a little playing time). He thought it safest from a fragile youngster ego standpoint, and from a "here's what I've got right now at the beginning of the season" standpoint that he played the Defense we saw. Perhaps Bo is indeed the defensive guru we've thought he was at times and just had to play a few bad cards in the early hands. Now he has two games where he can clear the table, deal a new deck and give the young studs the start and playing time they deserve, with a modified defense built around them. (Many accounts say they've been dabbling with non-2 gap defenses since Spring).

 

Add to that perhaps the offense might have just had a bad game and got rattled by the lack of defense in the UCLA game. That happens. On the offensive side of the ball I think it is a matter of game experience and confidence, both of which can be restored these next two weeks.

 

I think Bo and crew right this ship, guys start playing with a little fire and we lose maybe one more game all year before we play in the Rose Bowl again in January.

 

 

Or, I need to put down the kool-aid. One or the other.

[GSG]

[FriendlyLurker2007]

um...would be cool if our defense tackled

[irieboy8]

i think we have major problems... i dont think Bo expected this... i know he a great D guy but even sometimes the best make mistakes... i believe he can right the ship.. but the question was he blindsided by this or did he see it coming?

[JJ Husker]

I'm gonna go with grandpa on this. I hope you've got it mostly right. I don't know about your house but mine ran out of koolaid last saturday night. In fact I'll take it one step further and offer that maybe Bo threw the game as part of a big misinformation effort meant for our conference foes. Sorry I don't have emoticons on my droid. Figure for yourselves if I'm serious.

[HuskerShark]

Yeah, I'm sure Bo knew a month ago that he would put one of the worst tackling teams he's probably ever seen out on the field for the first two games...................

 

 

 

 

 

I actually agree with you, gramps. I just had to make my sarcastic comment.

[Flood]

I am still waiting for next year. I nearly got ahead of myself, and could still be very wrong. But I have always thought next year could be THE year.

 

Obviously we have serious work to do, and I hope we accomplish it.

 

Anything this year I view as a bonus.

 

I am troubled by the continuing departures, though. If we win 9 this year, I will cry victory. If we win 7 or less, I will cry in my beer and consider becoming an Iowa fan. After which, I will immediately demand a contract extension for Bo and a 2 mil per year raise.

[grandpasknee]

I am still waiting for next year. I nearly got ahead of myself, and could still be very wrong. But I have always thought next year could be THE year.

 

Obviously we have serious work to do, and I hope we accomplish it.

 

Anything this year I view as a bonus.

 

I am troubled by the continuing departures, though. If we win 9 this year, I will cry victory. If we win 7 or less, I will cry in my beer and consider becoming an Iowa fan. After which, I will immediately demand a contract extension for Bo and a 2 mil per year raise.

 

I know that would be a bad year Flood..but really..an Iowa fan? That's just wrong.....

[ADS]

Grandpasknee might the creepiest name ever. ButI do agree with you. +1

[grandpasknee]

Grandpasknee might the creepiest name ever. ButI do agree with you. +1

 

Ha!!! Well, with the whole Sandusky thing, I have been rethinking my name...but that's where i first remember listening to Husker games..on my Grandpa's knee in the living room of his old house.

[Count 'Bility]

Grandpasknee might the creepiest name ever. ButI do agree with you. +1

 

Ha!!! Well, with the whole Sandusky thing, I have been rethinking my name...but that's where i first remember listening to Husker games..on my Grandpa's knee in the living room of his old house.

 

Man alive! grandpas knee, sandusky, thread enititled "out on a limb".

[B.B. Hemingway]

i think we have major problems... i dont think Bo expected this... i know he a great D guy but even sometimes the best make mistakes... i believe he can right the ship.. but the question was he blindsided by this or did he see it coming?

 

Surely, after spending all summer with these guys he saw this coming. He knows talent when he sees it, and some of these guys don't resemble good talent (Suh, Hagg, Gomes, David, Prince, Dennard, all the LSU guys).... He had to know this was atleast a possiblilty, and lets hope the anticipation of this caused him to rush the young gunners into learning the complex scheme...

[B.B. Hemingway]

Grandpasknee might the creepiest name ever. ButI do agree with you. +1

 

Ha!!! Well, with the whole Sandusky thing, I have been rethinking my name...but that's where i first remember listening to Husker games..on my Grandpa's knee in the living room of his old house.

 

You're not going with Sandusky, are you?

[grandpasknee]

Grandpasknee might the creepiest name ever. ButI do agree with you. +1

 

Ha!!! Well, with the whole Sandusky thing, I have been rethinking my name...but that's where i first remember listening to Husker games..on my Grandpa's knee in the living room of his old house.

 

You're not going with Sandusky, are you?

 

No, no no!!! Thinking of going with "anonymous" or such.....

 

To be clear here, bringing up the Sandusky thing was definitely not my intent. That whole saga is just absolutely disgusting and as wrong as wrong can be, and I'm sorry I brought it up in any other light than that.

[tschu]

Grandpasknee might the creepiest name ever. ButI do agree with you. +1

hahahahahaha