For want of a nail .......

[NCsker]

 

[SlumpBuster]

 

[Flabio]

 

[djw004]

@HuskerGarrett can I just started a trash dump we put all the taters in? A cleansing of this board is needed!

If you come for @ThankGODforWVB I will come after you. He's a great one to have. He's too smart for us - not too tater for us. There's a big difference.

 

[djw004]

We definitely weren’t missing a poem, but we got it anyway, and here we are.

The universe has a way of filling the energy lost in a place.

Dylan took his poem to Oregon.

TGFWVB fills our holes with a poem. All is right.

Let it speak to you. Sit with it. And let it enter your being.

 

[herbsinator]

If you come for @ThankGODforWVB I will come after you. He's a great one to have. He's too smart for us - not too tater for us. There's a big difference.

Wasn’t he also the guy claiming that we could only sign 6 transfers?

 

[Cavalot]

I trying to point out something to people that they don't seem to quite realize. Nebraska has changed coaches and staffs, and offensive and defensive design concepts, players and player styles like diapers in a hospital nursery. But nothing seems to actually change in the result of all this throwing aside of everything.

Why is that?

What are we really missing here

Easy! consistency and a singular plan. In an effort to build fast the foundation has never been secured.

Indiana is not the norm. And it remains to be seen if they will truly be a dominant program or just a flash in the pan. I believe that Cignetti is a hell of a coach and a model of consistency and discipline. I believe his program will endure. Maybe not at the level it is now, but I don't see them falling off a lot because of the very thing that NU is lacking. Consistency.

 

[Kaladin]

Wasn’t he also the guy claiming that we could only sign 6 transfers?

Yes and we all made fun of him for it

But he’s a solid board member and we should be more welcoming to new members who don’t constantly bitch and moan about everything under the sun

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

The comparison of American football and warfare, is a common concept. There are so many attributes of football that are akin to those of medieval style warfare; though in the modern iteration of American football, it now contains the attributes also of logistics in modern warfare.

Here in this poem, written anonymously in 1629, lies a story that Nebraska football fans might recognize ....

For Want of a Nail​

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost;
For want of a horse, the rider was lost;
For want of a rider, the battle was lost;
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.​

In too many recent seasons, Nebraska has been foredoomed by series of missed pieces, sometimes multiple but often just singular, but intrinsic points. The failures of 2024 largely loomed because we hadn't a good long snapper, in 2025, because we hadn't a singular real nose tackle to control opponents running game. There were of course other points last year; including a complete miss in our passing attack design against tight zone coverage in short yardage situations.

These misses haven't always been consistent in what arena of the game we failed, in the last 12 years; that has varied.

One could say they were almost systemic.

Like as if were just too careless as a cogent and coherent body, within our athletic department, to acknowledge these faultlines.

TLDR

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

The universe has a way of filling the energy lost in a place.

Dylan took his poem to Oregon.

TGFWVB fills our holes with a poem. All is right.

Let it speak to you. Sit with it. And let it enter your being.

I don't want any of my holes filled with poems

 

[djw004]

I don't want any of my holes filled with poems

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

If we were a really well run company; we'd hire a forensic analysis of these problems to find out why this occurs.

It is also what the military does whenever they fight a battle; win/lose/draw.

 

[ThankGODforWVB]

Tale of two teams:
Nebraska has paid according to reports I just read; $78 million dollars to head football coaches that we have fired since 2003.
Indiana has paid $20 million since 2003 in buyouts. Mostly to Tom Allen who they fired in 2023. Some of that may have been mitigated by income that Allen had as a DC afterwards.

As a net result Indiana has had over $58 million more in net resources for Cignetti.

 

[ThankGODforWVB]

Lets imagine that you are a medium size stockholder in a corporation. That corporation has had a very bad ROI for the last 12 years. They repeatedly keep firing their CEO's and Presidents but there is no change or improvement in the ROI. Other corporations in the same industry have mixed bags of results, but key competitors are showing significantly high ROIs.

Three options exist for what you would want: 1.) Demand an analysis to determine what is the problem here with the way in which the business is operating. 2. Sell your stock (at probably a relative loss). 3.) Lastly would you suggest continuing to keep firing and hiring new CEO's and Presidents (which has had no impact as of so far, and cost the company even more money)??