knapplc
International Man of Mystery
For the first time in a long time I am confident that our defense will be good overall. During this last season the thing I noticed from our defense was character. Not one time did any defensive player publicly criticize the offense. They stuck with each other. I remember Suh being the first to pick up his offensive teammates when they made a mistake. That type of leadership is hard to come by. Suh has set the example of what a leader should be both on and off the field. The point to all of this is the defense was a reflection of the coaches leadership. They had the attitude that whatever the offense scored is good enough and it their job to ensure the other teams offense scores less. Coach Pelini does listen to the media he played the us against the world card to a T last year. Remember the message on the eye black in the Big 12 championship or the United we Tunnel Walk before the ISU game. This year as a media darling he will break them down to build them up. Not one player will feel that they have arrived or are worthy of any extra attention.
After all the Kool Aid above let me get back to me for my name sake:
I don't know what the heck the offense will look like next year.

Who are you and what have you done to NoKoolAid?!?!???!?

I'm probably only a notch or two above you on the pessimism scale, but even I think there's room to be hopeful this year. Some, anyway.
I just hope the O Line depth is better and we move the ball. That's it. If we can do that, we'll be OK.