Norm Peterson

Wish he was 6'9" and 250.

Class of 2021. She's a young girl. Any relation to Gary Puckett?

True. If his leg hair looks anything like his facial hair, he's done growing.

I vote Andy. Nothing against Jake but I always enjoyed the extra detail that Andy added. Very knowledgeable about the game. Only problem is I think Andy burned a bridge or so I'd heard. Can't remember the detail; maybe it was with the last AD.

That's awful. I hope they get it figured out just after they play us.

I like this Beran kid, by the way. Since we got snubbed by that Samuell Williamson dude, this kid represents a very satisfactory alternative IMO. I wouldn't even call him a Plan B kind of option.

Our toughest home test is Michigan St., on Nov. 17, in game #11 on the year. We'll have a seasoned QB by then, no matter who gets the starting nod. Toughest early test, according to the RealTimeRPI graphic above, is Troy. I'm sorry, but it's Troy. We are NOT going to lose to Troy at home. Aside from that, we have a few middling games against Akron, Purdue and Minnesota, and we host a couple of bottom dwellers in Colorado and Illinois. Illinois, by the way, might start former Husker QB AJ Bush, who grad-transferred to Illinois after riding the bench at VA Tech after transferring from Nebraska when Mike Riley was hired. How 'bout them apples? I firmly believe last year's team had more talent than the final record reflected. I think the wheels kind of fell off and we couldn't harness the talent we had to succeed on the field. A new staff with a strong sense of purpose and high expectations is going to probably produce some pretty immediate results in the "everyone on the same page" department. We're being underestimated this year. That's a good thing.

Last year, Tanner Lee had twice as many tackles as Daishon Neal.

OK, so I saw it for the first time today. That's news to me, right?

Well, that just reflects one of the shortcomings of computers. They have us losing at home to Troy? I'm sorry, but that's not going to happen. Nor are we going to lose at home to Purdue, Minnesota or Michigan State. We are not losing at home next season. And Northwestern and Iowa better both watch out.

One thing you have to give Frost credit for already is that he has addressed the weaknesses in the returning roster. He's transformed the O-line with work in the weight room and the training table, and he's transformed the defensive secondary with recruiting. It just about can't help but yield some results. Plus, this reminds me of Doc Sadler's last season or Tim Miles' 5th team. They had more talent than their final records would have reflected. I think the same is true for last year's football team.

I was looking for depth chart info for this coming year and I happened to come across the 2-deep depth chart for the Iowa game last year. Six seniors on offense made the 2-deep; 4 seniors on the defensive 2-deep. Out of 44 2-deep spots, only 10 were seniors. That's less than 25%, far below what you'd normally expect. Only 1 of those 10 seniors was a lineman on either side of the ball. The linemen are basically all back and bigger than ever. Crazy how much weight our veteran offensive linemen have gained this off-season. The presumptive O-line starters gained an average of 22 pounds. This suggests strongly that they weren't very developed under the old regime. Our offensive line got pushed around a lot last year. I think that might not happen so much this coming season. We had a very young secondary last season and we return that secondary nearly intact, but we add some talented transfers who are immediately eligible. Plus, Frost picked up a couple of 4-star DBs in this latest recruiting class. You'd expect at least one of them to break into the rotation. So, we've basically taken what we had last year, subtracted Josh Kalu and Chris Jones, and added a ton of talent and experience. I think O-line and defensive secondary were the two biggest question marks going into this season. But if you dig a little bit, there's certainly some reason for optimism. I can't wait, man. I'm as enthusiastic for this season as for any in maybe the last decade.

Washut tweeted it.

We made his latest cut. Sorry, no link.

That didn't last long.

I've sort of answered my own question from earlier in the thread about the type of QB best suited for this system, and my conclusion is that Martinez is not a shoe-in to start even though he's clearly the best runner. Kinda of getting antsy with anticipation about the start of the season, so spent some time this weekend watching our spring game condensed to 40 minutes as well as UCF's games against Memphis and USF condensed to 40 minutes. (Basically cuts out everything from the end of the last play until just before the snap of the next play, so it really shortens your watching time. Very nice.) What I saw was a UCF offense that ... 1. Forced the defense to cover from sideline to sideline; 2. Forced the safeties into man coverage by getting all the eligible receiving options downfield; 3. Relied on a QB who could make very quick and very accurate throws; 4. Took advantage of a QB who could be an opportunistic runner, but running wasn't his primary job. In Pelini's offense, the QB tended to be one of the primary run threats in the offense and passing was a secondary responsibility that he tended not to be great at. His zone read job was to read the end and decide, based on that read, whether to hand the ball off to the back or keep it himself. Our QBs under that system did a lot of running. Frost's system is completely different. Passing was far and away the most important tool that McKenzie Milton brought to the table. He could run when he needed to but the QB runs primarily were designed to get the QB in space when the defense was expecting a pass. Mostly, it was a precision passing game where his receivers are in man coverage with no safety over the top, and even a little bit of separation was enough for them to be "open" for a throw. And Milton could fit the ball into tight spaces and get it out there quickly. I think all the QBs we have can run well enough to be effective in this offense. What's going to separate them is how well they can sling the ball around, how quickly they can fire it out there, and how good they are at intersecting the flight of the ball with the route of the receiver. Milton's receivers were catching most of his balls in stride and had to do very little adjusting on the flight of the ball. I expect the best passer to win the starting job. And I'm not saying that's going to be Gebbia either. But it could be.

Scott Frost agrees with you.

I think what we have to hope for as fans (the coaches know a lot more than we do, obviously) is that there's some European big man that no one knew about or that someone somehow gets released from an LOI and happens to fall in our laps. Grad transfers are probably not a fertile source at this point, but a Euro big could still materialize. I think Brian Diaz came along about this time of year and would have played as a freshman if someone would have checked a different block on his admissions application. So, unlikely though it is, it could still happen that we get a decent contributor at this late stage.

I'm not so sure. A year ago, maybe. But #MeToo has brought down some big names. People are finally taking some of this shit seriously. And domestic violence is a problem that we see repeatedly in the context of big-time sports, so to sweep it under the rug and pretend you didn't know that an assistant should have been fired years ago just isn't going to fly very well in the current climate. I think he could be toast.

Congrats, Nana "Lil Jordy" Akenten. You are now the third-heaviest scholarship player on the Nebraska basketball team. You'll make a great power forward, just like Ade Dagunduro. Yay team. (Just THINK of all the minutes you're now in line for with Jordy leaving!) http://www.huskers.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&SPID=24&SPSID=23

I also like Robbie Beran, and not as a Plan B guy. I think the kid is good. Would be more than happy to get a commit from him.

We currently have 5 spots open for the 2019 recruiting class. By the time April rolls around, that number could swell to 6 or, hell, even 7. We have no idea what will happen before the end of this month to add front line depth. Maybe there's a grad transfer out there; maybe a 2019 kid can reclassify to 2018. Let's assume that, when everything shakes out, we'll still have 5 spots to fill for the 2019 class. Who do you want? Probably limit it to guys with offers who haven't crossed us off their list yet; otherwise, this thread will devolve into a discussion of how many years of eligibility Lebron James still has. And I'm not interested in that. Without a ton of thought, here's my 5 (wonder if we'll get any of them?): Samuell Williamson, #35 in Rivals 150, 6'7" 170# SG/SF from Texas -- this is the kid we just offered; hopefully, that offer wasn't in vain. Zeke Nnaji, #34 in Rivals 150, 6'10" 215# PF from Minnesota -- Rivals still has us listed among his suiters but that's probably hoping against hope, which is why we have this thread. Zach Harvey, #48 in Rivals 150, 6'4" 170# SG from Topeka -- had my eye on this kid for awhile as you can see from his recruiting thread. Apparently said recently that Miles calls him 4 times/week. Quenton Jackson, juco, 6'5" SG -- I'm intrigued by his stratospheric leaping ability, 40% 3-point shooting, and I think we'll need some experience on the roster. Khalid Thomas, juco, 6'9" PF 202# -- another juco (experience for the roster) and shoots over40% from 3. He needs to gain some weight to play PF in this league, but who knows how long ago that weight measurement was taken? Probably need a PG somewhere in there, and a PF with a little more heft. But if we get a few of the above, it'll be a really good start.

Did they talk at all about Jordy leaving? Or did you just leave that one alone? We're going to miss Jordy's size and I was figuring him for 20+ min/game (his 14 from last year plus Duby's 7) and more if the starters got into foul trouble. Sounds like Amir can maybe fill Evan Taylor's role. That's very important. Evan was underrated last year. He didn't score a ton but he played good D, rebounded well from the guard position and dished a bunch of assists (third on the team.) Be nice if Amir can fill those shoes off the bat. And Thomas Allen can probably more than fill Anton Gill's shoes as Anton kinda started hot and fizzled late.

If rumors of his weight gain are true I’d hate to be Dayton if Jordy lands on him.

Also, as long as we're talking pie-in-the-sky, the #34 recruit in Rivals 150 for 2019 also holds a Husker offer: Zeke Nnaji from Minnesota, 6'10" PF. #fingerscrossed