I wish UCLA was experiencing a resurgence with anybody BUT Jim Mora, harry. I still think he's a clown, but I'm glad the Bruins are doing well.

slow down, applejack. numbers are fun but to bandy 'best offense' about based off home wins vs. wofford & buffalo is pretty silly. let's play a team in the top 50 (on the road even) before we start using superlatives & baylor in the same breath.

Well, of course. It's still early but, statistically, they're averaging 70 points a game. Really, in 6 quarters. But to think, at this point, they're not a contender for a Big 12 title is silly. OSU looks solid but OU, UT, TCU and KSU are all down and the rest of the league stinks, except possibly TT which could be above average.

Let me dream damn you! I don't care that we've played two teams sans pulse!

Prom, what's your reaction to the Deadspin story on Bo Pellini?

Bo Pelini On Nebraska Fans: "Fuck You, Fans. Fuck All Of You."

It's a big deal after a bad loss, but it really shouldn't be, since it is a rehash of a public feud that he had with a young journalist from the Omaha World Herald last year.
I'm sure Pelini is an intolerable prick, and that he could use a little tact when dealing with the local media, but most husker fans don't want to admit that they would call in to the Paul Finebaum show if he regularly covered Nebraska and talk shit about him. There are way too many of us that still believe Tom Osborne deserves sainthood and that he never did anything that would make him appear to be a complete douchebag, but I'm pretty sure all of this would have been forgiven if Pelini's last name was Saban and the Huskers were coming off back to back National titles
I thought Chatelain was doing a hatchet job on him last year in an attempt to make a name for himself in the media, and believe that he is a product of modern journalism and what is slowly becoming a shoddy Journalism/Mass Media department at the University of Nebraska.
I would have preferred if this story died last year rather than gaining legs this season, since the season could be bad enough without having to deal with a bunch of butt hurt grandmas and naïve simpletons writing letters to the editors of the Lincoln Journal Star and Omaha World Herald complaining about how the football coach is a total jackass. I just want this total jackass to be the Defensive guru everyone claimed he was, and not some hack getting paid nearly three million a year to lead the team to a 7-5 record and an appearance in the Buffalo Wild Wings bowl.

They should fire him today.

I hated those 90's Nebraska teams along with Miami, Florida, and Notre Dame but most reports are that Nebraska fans are about as nice as college fans can get (of course it was easy being nice when you're winning multiple titles). They certainly are about as loyal as it gets. If Pelini can't take fans being frustrated and leaving in Lincoln, either get a thicker skin or get the fuck out of the profession, it's not going to be easier at that level anywhere else.

I'm sure all of the big money donors will have their say this off season.

Dude has had about as bad a week as you can have.

I think he has thick skin and I believe that he is pretty callous. They probably could have fired him after they managed to get rid of Marvin Sanders and his brother from his staff for various improprieties that were swept under the rug, but his defenses still looked rather formidable. I simply think he's far too thickheaded to realize that his defensive system is worthless without an all-conference cornerback, an All American Linebacker and a complete freak of nature shoring up the Defensive Line, and that is what really pisses him off. I think he seriously believed that he'd lead Nebraska back to glory within a few years, and then either jump ship to the NFL, return to his alma mater the Ohio State or take over for Les Miles in Baton Rouge. I'm also pretty sure that the program made some sort of financial deal with Taylor Martinez's father at some point in time that prevented them from benching him for good after the Texas A&M loss a few years ago.
The problem with the big money donors around here is that they speak with their checkbooks when it comes to firing somebody, but they won't throw down the big bucks to buy a coach and keep a few first rate coordinators happy.

As for firing him today. I think it would be a worse move than firing Solich after the 2003 season. They need to let him fail in epic fashion this year or simply walk away from the pressure. There isn't anyone on the staff right now besides Offensive coordinator Tim Beck who deserves a shot as a head coach, and much of the current staff should leave with Pelini when/if he gets fired. Scott Frost, the former Nebraska QB and current offensive coordinator at Oregon seems to be the front runner as his replacement if they do get rid of him at some point this season, and I wouldn't be surprised if they went after North Dakota State head coach Craig Bohl, which would be ironic, since he was fired in 2002 to make room for Pelini.

Firing Solich was a cautionary tale. Sometimes you get what you deserve.

Totally, especially after his team went 10-3 in his final year, and he was only two years removed from leading a team to a BCS bowl and an appearance in the national title game. They might have landed somebody better than Bill Callahan, if they had cleaned house after a 7-7 season and a loss in the Independence bowl in 2002, but he clearly deserved a chance to redeem himself. They initially made a wise choice in letting some of the old guard assistant coaches go who could no longer recruit and seemed to be slowly righting the ship with Pelini as Defensive Coordinator, but then they allowed a completely incompetent AD to destroy over 30yrs of tradition and lead the program to the two things he feared, mediocrity and irrelevance. I think most of the fan base is realistic about the state of Husker Football. They realize that it is hard to recruit blue chip talent to a state like Nebraska and that the run of the mid 90's is an anomaly that only comes around once or twice in a century in the world of college football. There were far too many people who lost sight of the fact that it took Osborne 25yrs to win a national title, and a lot of those people still believe that Nebraska should be viewed as a premier program with or without results on the field.

Meh. Probably knee jerk but combine a frustrated fan base with the coach ripping into them and you've got a pretty toxic situation.

Good news for Bo is that there are only 2 ranked teams on their schedule the rest of the way. Winning cures everything.

Wouldn't it be easier if all the Big Boy programs just threw a million or so bucks each into a plate and divided it up into a fund to distribute to the lesser tier schools instead of playing these stupid games? Some of the scores yesterday were downright silly.

Or, play nine conference games, two out of conference games from another BCS conference and one (just one) cupcake game.

Seriously. Did you see that the coaches in the Miami/Savannah St game literally agreed to play at 12 minute 4th quarter?

WTF??

And of course Urban Meyer put up 76 points on FAMU. What a prick.

Alright boys, it's game week. I will not be talking any smack, it's not productive. LSU vs. Georgia should be epic.

I'd like to think that when the playoff system kicks in that both ESPN and FOX will consider offering the various conferences they are affiliated with a lucrative incentive to schedule more high profile matchups.
It would also help if the system and polls generally rewarded teams like Georgia who lose a close game against a tough/highly ranked opponent early in the year and typically punished marquee programs that spend a couple million to guarantee having at least three non-conference home games.
It really bothers me when the SEC schools do it late in the year, but it is no worse than a school like Nebraska scheduling three games against Sun Belt teams to start the year.
I know it is entirely unrealistic, but it would be nice if schools were given a little latitude when it comes to non-conference scheduling, and to allow a school to back out of a game that previously booked five to ten years in advance in order to play a high profile team in a marquee match-up that will actually have a real impact that season. Most teams go unpunished when they back out of these deals to play a cupcake, so there needs to be a reward/incentive to get the SEC teams to play west of the Mississippi more frequently and the Pac-12 schools east of it as well.

The SEC is going to 9 conference games, 2 cupcakes and one out of conference game starting in, I think, '16. So Georgia will only play Tech.

The Big Ten is doing the same thing that year. The Huskers are playing their non conference games against Fresno State, Tennessee and Wyoming that year. All of those games are in Lincoln. I guess it makes up for having to travel to Wisconsin and Ohio State back to back weeks in late October/Early November.

All 3 OOC games at home? Please. And which 2 are the cupcakes?

I don't buy the "tough Big10 schedule/back to back road game" excuse. Frankly, I don't think any conference is good enough to justify that BS.

Which two are the cupcakes? I'd generally put Wyoming in that category, but Fresno State is a perennially good mid-major that is currently being projected into a BCS bowl game and Tennessee is a struggling SEC team that is ranked 8th in all-time wins. I mentioned in a previous posts that I would like to see some latitude and changes given to non-conference scheduling, so schools like Nebraska didn't have to any of these games set it stone three years in advance. I'm pretty sure Nebraska and Tennessee agreed to play these games when Fulmer was still coaching the Vols, so it is hard to blame the Huskers for purposely scheduling one of the worst SEC teams of late.
As of now, Washington has only scheduled Portland State, but I could mock them for playing Wisconsin, Nevada and North Dakota all at home in 2018.

They way the system is now, there really is zero incentive to play a big time OOC game and I don't think that's going to change much with the playoff.

I've watched Georgia schedule those games over and over and then watched Florida play for National Titles while scheduling nothing but shit.

Case in point this year: Ohio State

With a minor exception of Wisconsin and Northwestern, their schedule is laughable. They may not play a Top Ten team all year and still get to the title game.

Early observations:

Dawgs open as 3 point early favorite
LSU's offense is better than I thought it'd be but the D has not played an Offense like ours yet.
I'm unimpressed with the Auburn win. I just think they're a 6, maybe 7 win team who still have lots of flaws.
Our Special Teams are a disaster and have already cost us a game this year.
Mettenberger WILL have to answer questions about his past this week
I D-line will have trouble with the LSU running game.

All in all, probably a toss up game. I'll be there cussing like a sailor.

As you should. Nowhere in my post did I exclude Washington from my criticism. I think that's BS as well. Every major college football program should be required to schedule someone (a "non-cupcake") on the road every year. Like others have suggested, hopefully the upcoming playoff changes will force them to do this.

I'm making LSU a slight favorite mainly because of our special teams: If you are ailing on special teams, the absolute worst coach to face (aside from maybe Frank Beemer) is The Hat.

Grantham better have the D ready: If we regress into that sloppy tackling bullshit again, this game could get ugly quick because while our offense is Great, it's not going to be as easy against these guys.

I think it is going to be a "breaks" game. An int on a tipped pass, a cough up in the red zone, a crucial missed FG, or a big play called back by penalty. I think talent and coaching are a wash, with the exception of Cam Cameron. If he has something special, it could be the difference.

Hell of a damn game.