The Tangent Thread

[NUpolo8]

I wrote a book in 2nd grade called Lions on the Loose. That was about 30 yrs ago.

So I must be a zookeeper by now, eh?

If you don't know what "working 80 hrs as a special assistant to Bo Pelini" entails, let me fill you in: he wasnt giving advice to Bo EVER.

this is just a patently ridiculous assertion.

Let me be clear then: I venture to say with pretty solid certainty that Moglia did not have the upper hand in giving Bo X&0 advice that helped us go from 9.5 wins and 4 losses to 9.4 wins and 4 losses.

To say that Moglia would/could be the head coach at Nebraska is a ridiculous assertion; especially over Bo.

By the way, thanks for the quotes and giving me a learning moment on the relationship of Bo and Moglia. That's how it should be conducted.

I still stand on my thought that NuPolo is a negative "fan" and I'm sick of reading every thread that is on here such negative and baseless claims by him.

Since Bo said it out of his own mouth, I stand corrected on a few of those issues and I can admit that. But Polo, for the love of God just stop with incessant bashing and negativity. Please. It's just so old.

I never, ever said Moglia's x&o ability helped Bo.

Yes I am a fan, if I wasn't, why would I be so passionate?

You don't read every thread here. If you did, you'd find I don't post in every thread.

And I wasn't bashing here. I essentially said "I like Joe Moglia, he did good things in the program" in a thread about Joe !oglia.

 

[walksalone]

#342 in a series, "How you can tell it's the offseason"...

There's a Joe Moglia thread...

 

[StPaulHusker]

So what if he helped Bo in some areas of coaching? How does this translate to him being a better coach than the one we have now?

 

[Abdullah the Butcher]

It appears the Pelini quotes I posted were deleted, not sure why, they were relevant to the discussion going on. O well, I'm not sure how Joe compares to Bo but his organizational skills seem great and he's a numbers guy who studies the game, I think he'd be a quality FBS coach.

 

[knapplc]

Those quotes are still in the original thread.

 

[Landlord]

Those quotes are still in the original thread.

knapp honest question here - you started the thread saying this is where the junk would go because we aren't self-policing

what's a person supposed to do here using this thread as an example? has anyone broken the rules? despite possibly thinking that certain posters are incessant twats, it's not really obvious that they might be breaking the rules and nobody wants to be 'that guy' that reports posts because they think that people are being douches

 

[knapplc]

This mess was taken from a thread about Joe Moglia. It very quickly devolved into another bickering about Bo Pelini thread. That was not the subject of the thread, and the instructions in the "be excellent to each other" post were clear.

 

[The Dude]

And I wasn't bashing here. I essentially said "I like Joe Moglia, he did good things in the program" in a thread about Joe !oglia.

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if people even read your posts, or if they just needed a new villain to obsess over after husker_99 or whatever got banned.

 

[Landlord]

Great article. And I don't it's an accident NU's has slipped since he moved on.

I wouldn't mind giving him a look if/when there's a change. Not in the slightest.

His talents had no effect on Bo Pelini, a man who struggles from time to time with management skills, attention to detail, streamlining a working product, and is prone to micromanaging........

Ok, agree to disagree, good day.

I keep coming back to this quote.....

"People act like playing football is putting a man on the moon," he said. "There's sophistication to football, but it's not curing cancer. It's, frankly, having the balls to think outside the box to do something."

And then I think about how we are told in press conferences about how we wouldn't understand all the technical stuff.

I wasn't bashing here. I essentially said "I like Joe Moglia, he did good things in the program" in a thread about Joe !oglia.

 

[sd'sker]

And I wasn't bashing here. I essentially said "I like Joe Moglia, he did good things in the program" in a thread about Joe !oglia.

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if people even read your posts, or if they just needed a new villain to obsess over after husker_99 or whatever got banned.

funny how i am i complains of baseless claims immediately before admitting that he stood corrected after someone had to post quotes for him.

and a lot of the people that thought it was so ridiculous to think that joe helped the program eventually agreed that he probably was an asset.

people just want to hate what polo says. even if it is a compliment to a former staff member, who is objectively a winner in his professional life.

 

[Landlord]

funny how i am i complains of baseless claims immediately before admitting that he stood corrected after someone had to post quotes for him.

and a lot of the people that thought it was so ridiculous to think that joe helped the program eventually agreed that he probably was an asset.

people just want to hate what polo says. even if it is a compliment to a former staff member, who is objectively a winner in his professional life.

Don't think it's ridiculous to think he helped us at all. I would think it'd be ridiculous to think the opposite.

I dislike polo's garbage post because it wasn't just a compliment to a former staff member - it was at the expense of jabs at the current head coach, like 90%+ of his posts are. You can say the first without progressing to the second.

 

[The Dude]

Where in any of those posts you quoted was Bo Pelini even remotely verbally abused?

I guess we have different ideas of what "bashing" is. I don't consider discussing very legitimate concerns as bashing. It should also be pointed out polo didn't even bring up those concerns until the thread was derailed by someone else.

 

[sd'sker]

Don't think it's ridiculous to think he helped us at all. I would think it'd be ridiculous to think the opposite.

whoa, whoa, whoa. how can you know that?

You can't, unless you know some coaches or players personally. Anything else is just guess work, selective data points and confirmation bias.

but i guess now you can know that, because it was never that preposterous of an assertion.

and as the dude alluded to, polo just mentioned that the team was better with joe. i guess that is blasphemy on this board.

 

[Redux]

Which was a adjustment once they realized Taylor wasn't exactly Taylor.

Which makes me wonder the thinking behind crippling an offense and thereby exposing a defense you're pretty sure may be suspect.

Goddamn there were some decisions last year that made no sense.

I would speculate that a big factor in the decision was that we had a redshirt freshman as a backup who really hadn't played, was basically as likely to throw an INT as a TD and has fumble issues of his own. Lesser of two evils and everything. Knowing what we know now - that Martinez wouldn't end up getting better the entire season - it doesn't make as much sense. But trying to win a big game at home with your four-year starter - even if slowed by injury - didn't look really bad at the time.

Allow me: "But a better coach would have prepared for that!"

Now that thats outta the way, +1 Mavric

 

[sd'sker]

Great article. And I don't it's an accident NU's has slipped since he moved on.

I wouldn't mind giving him a look if/when there's a change. Not in the slightest.

His talents had no effect on Bo Pelini, a man who struggles from time to time with management skills, attention to detail, streamlining a working product, and is prone to micromanaging........

Ok, agree to disagree, good day.

I wasn't bashing here. I essentially said "I like Joe Moglia, he did good things in the program" in a thread about Joe !oglia.

i thought this was the "tangent thread", not the "out of context thread".