The Weekly Buzz
The buzz this week includes Bo Pelini and Tom Osborne laying out hopes for the media in Lincoln, Bo gives his personal expectations on the Western Nebraska tour, fans are pumped to be meeting with them, and Todd Peterson is trying to steal our readers.
» Pelini and Osborne really lay out their hopes for the 2008 season. How will they evaluate progress at the end of the year? Very carefully. Osborne realizes that true evaluation will come in 3-4 years by looking at the development of recruited players. Let's hope Dr. Tom continues to be a resource for this staff as long as they need it.
» Bo is getting our panhandle friends all pumped up about this fall. Of course, they love hearing about Bo's personal expectations of winning every game. We've heard before that he sets his staff's goal quite high, but this is something else. Of course, no coach would be fool enough to admit that they wanted to just win 50-75% of their games in a season. I've been all about tempering expectations this off season, and I sometimes let me get away from myself, but if you feel that way, please don't tell the media. It only gives the rest of the football world the fodder they need to call us crazy cornheads.
» It's interesting that the Sporting News is getting football players to write articles/columns for them. To me, they are just blogs from people who have seen the field. While it is an interesting perspective, I'm just mad that they didn't ask me so I could sell out like SMQ's recent Yahoo hiring. This is just another indication of the direction online news sources are going to be taking in the next few years. You will be seeing the legitimizing of a site like this one as a first hand news source. Any Husker players out there willing to write a piece for us?
8/2/2008
Organized, heart, preparation.
Those were lacking? -My attempt at facetiousness.
Pelini seems to be comfortable, with Dr. Tom as his department manager. Sees him as a resource. That he is. He’s a football man unparalleled, in an era of corporate Athletic Directors. He will be evaluating, analyzing. Most importantly, he’ll be projecting and forecasting, like those who make the big bucks.
Osborne is loyal. Especially, to the program. So, Pelini can’t get too comfy. Then again, he now lives in a state not known for creature comforts and such aesthetics. I guess that goes back partly to why Osborne and Perlman hired this young Bo.
Comfy doesn’t seem to be in his personal vocabulary.
3/15/2012
, I am not in favor of filling up the rinnimeag 4 non-conference games with the Tennessee-Chattanooga’s of the world. I always look forward to intra-BCS conference games as they are some of the most revealing games of the year (think Ohio St vs. Miami or Nebreask vs Virginia Tech). Perhaps the Big 10 conference can make it a requirement that all of its member teams must schedule at least two (or three?) BCS conference teams, or prohibit playing I-AA teams. I’m sure someone in the Big 10 conference is smart enough to figure out a scheduling system where you can’t just load up your non-conference schedule with patsies, and yet still get each team 7 home games. I have no big problem with playing one warm up’ game to start the year, but then the quality of the opponents needs to improve. I realize its not an exact science as a team’s quality fluctuates over time, but you know playing North Texas or Middle Tennessee State is never going to amount to much competition. Ultimately voters should reward teams for playing tougher competion anyway so I don’t think you lose anything (e.g most voters would put a one-loss Alabama team ahead of a no-loss Boise St. team). My two cents