Hot Reads: The Second Half
Last week, I said I was looking forward to seeing how the Big Ten Network's Tom Dienhart -- whose work I very much like -- would rank Nebraska's individual defensive units. The offense, of course, had placed pretty well on Dienhart's lists, ranking in the top four at quarterback, running back, wide receiver and offensive line. But how would you rank a linebacking corps with no starters back or a defensive line that lacks even one truly proven playmaker? We now have ...
A Brief History of Husker Recruiting Rankings: 1987-2012
On the surface, recruiting class rankings are an exercise in subjectivity. Individual players are rated by individual experts and you inherently get some wildly divergent opinions on the hundreds of high school player who end up playing college football. With that many kids scattered across the country, it would be more surprising if there weren't differences of opinion. But overall the recruiting services do a good job of evaluating high school talent. Matt Hinton -- of CBSSports.com, SB Nation and Yahoo! ...
Hot Reads: Apology requested
So it turns out Bill Callahan still strikes a chord with Nebraska fans. There was a lot of Twitter chatter yesterday over Tim Brown's accusation that Callahan sabotaged the Raiders' chances in Super Bowl XXXVII by changing the game plan two days before the game. Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated had, perhaps, the best response of all to this: Callahan had a dominant run game and tried to pass too much? That isn’t him throwing the Super Bowl. That’s his Nebraska tenure. — Andy ...
What winning looks like at Nebraska
At a place like Nebraska, you're expected to win. That's the baseline. And at a place like Nebraska you can probably win about 70-percent of your games simply by being Nebraska. When you factor in the seven or eight home games every year, the significant advantage in money over most schools, the significant advantage in resources over the bottom half of your conference, and simple name recognition, that's where you start. Not incidentally, that's the school's all-time winning percentage -- ...
A quick, historical look at Nebraska’s 2012 offense
We all know that Nebraska's offense is good. At the moment, it's the best in the Big Ten and 20th nationally in terms of yards per play. The real question is how good? Just to satisfy my own curiosity, I decided to look at Nebraska's numbers this year against those of the past 20 years. I wouldn't call it historically good quite yet, but it's close, and a year of experience in offensive coordinator Tim Beck's offense has made a significant ...
