Pat Forde

Dude, Forde and his tiger bias becomes more evident every month. I cannot believe he said our coach lost his mind. He didn't hit, touch, throw, storm, or otherwise disrupt the actual game on the field. The freaking dumbass N for nowledge joke that's about as old as Snyder?. And calling Carl equally as Hotheaded? This guy is calling names and flaming like a rival fan on a message board. He points out the absolute bias calls against us, then waits 4 paragraphs later to fall for a suspension on BO?? Please, how about call for an inquiry into the 194 snaps of our offense without ONE live ball foul called in 3 games by the same officiating crew?

I don't disagree with forde giving his opinion about Bo hollering for 3 hours, but leave the straight up name calling and calling for suspensions and sh#t to the message boards. He's still pissed Helu ran for 300 against mizz.

We're outta here in 2 games. Go f#*k yourself B12

 
Jim Delany is much less inclined than Dan Beebe to tolerate the Linda Blair "Exorcist" routine from a millionaire head coach.
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The Linda Blair "Exorcist" quote was excellent! Maybe the best Forde article I can recall reading. Even though he slipped in the "Nowledge" joke.

 
nowhereman said:
I can't disagree that Pelini's raging on the officials ups the penalty count against Nebraska, but therein lies the problem. Refs should be calling the game fairly whether or not one of the coaches is acting like a tool on the sidelines. If they're retaliating against a coach they have a problem with, I don't see how that's any less shady than some hazy conspiracy theory involving orders from the top to screw Nebraska.

Either way the officials are targeting one particular team, whether it be for conference politics or manic behavior by its coach. I know the Nebraska haters will counter with "well herp derp he deserves the wrath of the officials!" Right. Gotcha. So what happens when they suddenly find a beef with your coach for whatever reason? Then it probably won't be so awesome for you.
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That's a good argument but to some extent I believe it's a case of positive feedback. Bo explodes over the first bad call, the refs think "here we go again" and it's downhill from there. I know that Bo is angry because he wants our team to get a fair shake, and of course we should, but show me one example of a ref being intimidated into making better calls.

In any dispute you want to maximize sympathy and make the other party look like the bad guys. Right now we are not getting much sympathy from anyone because of Bo's behavior. So while a lot of people know we were screwed by some bad calls, they are looking more at Bo than the refs.

As for penalties on the whole, the Martin suspension and phantom kick return personal fouls really say it all. Bo is not going to tell our guys to soften up on legal hits in the current atmosphere where every big hit is replayed and panned from every angle on TV (and he shouldn't because it's complete crap). But you combine that with our discipline problems on offense and it's no surprise why we have been penalized so much.

 
Great post krill. I will say however, standing on sidelines my WHOLE life, getting in the refs ear is a part of what a head coach/ coordinator is supposed to do. They're supposed to point out grabs, formations, facemasks, shoveing, play clocks, and get explanations and confirmarions of penalties and game management situations.

This, I think is where Bo loses focus. Sometimes the refs can help by calling quick timeouts, getting an extra measurement, or inform other refs of discrepancies during the game. If Bo just plain cusses them out the whole game, he may not have their attention for other things.

He needs to find a balmce for himself or have his assistants do some of the dirty work.

But overall--16-2?!!? The B12 can go stick their thumb up their butt

 
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knapplc said:
Shockingly, I don't disagree with this Pat Forde column hardly at all. I think that's a first.

I think I need to go lay down for a while. :huh:
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While the column may be spot on...I would be curious to what he thought about TO and the whole LP fiasco. I brought this up in another topic but we get so much praise for TO now but back in 95 he could do no right after that mess. How will Bo be remembered is the question? A great D mind or a coach constantly losing his mind?

 
He had a couple good points in there.

That doesn't discount the fact I think he's an F'tard, and should go back to what ever stankwater town he's from and write about the goings on at the Moose Club.

 
BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA said:
Forde did a good job of shining the light on Jerod-Eddie and Beebe's office will know there are extra eyes on this. Yet I'd be shocked if anything is done.
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Considering that Forde doesn't really give NU much love, that column is money and calls out Beebe and T A & M. Thanks, Pat.

 
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Only thing with Forde's "Pelini revenge" theory is that 12 refs that it means are not just being vindictive and dishonest but flat-out stupid. You don't like Bo's outbursts so you engage in behavior that leads to more outbursts? That makes no freaking sense. Wouldn't it make more sense to call a square game and if Bo happens to blow-up you flag him for it? This way you actually....you know...DO YOUR DAMN JOB and you address Bo's temper in a way that will get results.

 
I think the more telling stat is that our last 3 opponents were flagged a total of 6 times for 41 yards to our 28 for 262. If that doesn't raise an eyebrow I don't know what will.

Furthermore I read where 9 of our last 11 possessions drew flags. Impossible to get a rhythm going.

 
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