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“Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. The very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. Battle is the most significant competition in which a man can indulge. It brings out...

The team that year in, year out, is in contention for this game, and has appeared in it and won it more than any other Conference team. The team that plays physical, fundamentally-sound football, and consistently defeats teams with greater overall speed and athleticism. The one that DIDN'T get...

I think you should review the teams playing in Indianapolis right now, as well as those who will be in the playoffs. That "overblown bluster" seems to take teams quite far, as has always been the case.

I'm referring to the coaches and their philosophical and schematic comfort zones, not players' geographic origins. Coaches who demand physicality get it more often than those who do not, regardless of their players' home towns. They recruit to it, in terms of both on-field/on-film demonstration...

Am I the only one troubled somewhat by the prospect of additional PAC 12 influences on Nebraska? Didn't we just endure a season where a woeful lack of physicality proved devastating to NU when matched up against the Big Ten's best - as well as it's middle-of-the-road (Iowa)?

Enough of the SJW snowflake ramblings. It passed pathetic several posts ago, and it ends now, one way or another. Validity of one's observations or analyses has nothing to do with one's sex. No one, (including many of us who've been here a lot longer than 5 years), has the market cornered on...

Tavita Thompson is beloved among NU players. He's got player relatability similar to Linebacker Coach Trent Bray and a motor similar to Strength Coach Mark Phillipe. NU may already be in talks with him. There is some maneuvering that the AD will need help with for him to jump straight from GA to...

Pitch-perfect statement, Ohio.

Doc, I love your posts and respect your opinions; you know the game from the inner side of the facemask, just as I do. I went through not one but two coaching changes in college. I never saw a player willing to sabotage his team or his own career over it, and I find it all but impossible to...

This speaks very well of Coach Riley, indeed. Letting Hank Hughes go last year was relatively easy; he had no direct ties to Riley, but Bruce Read has been with him for a very long time, so this couldn't have been easy on a personal level. There are still problems with his other two...

There aren't any "Freshmen" in Game 12 of a season - not when they've started every one of the prior eleven.

They can post the best record percentage-wise by an NU team since 2003! Something else happened that season...can't quite recall exactly what...

I think he's talking about production per dollar spent on Read, relative to his ridiculously-high salary. A great special teams unit will produce 3-5 blocks, 3-5 scores, and set the offense up on a short field at least once a game. $450K a year should more than cover that tab.

You know, I've mellowed quite a lot over the years, in terms of the extent to which I let games in which I neither played nor coached impact me, but I have to say that I am angrier about yesterday's game than I have been in years. This team had shown such grit and heart all year, then yesterday...