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RedMyMind

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Well, step 1 of 3 has been completed.

Step 1: Bring down the Bo cult and get some fresh cut pansies.
Step 2: Toughen up their pansy asses.
Step 3: Profit
 
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It's interesting that Raiola saw it this past summer in the weight room before the downfall officially started. We have too many high level recruits who do not pass the eyeball test after being on campus for a year or two. It sounds like Dom is free now. Let him come to a few practices and help out. Shoot, let him don the pads and beat on dlinemen to toughen them up a bit.
 
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coachDubs said:
Anyone wonder why Sipp doesn't publish discussions with other firmer Huskers who've actually been around the program a lot since December 2015? Plenty of former players around, but he chooses to write about someone that's rarely in Lincoln (around the team).
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So where was Raiola wrong in his thinking? Riley was even worse than Callahan. The guy should have never been leading the Huskers. Anyone unbiased could see that from day one.
 
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supersport24 said:
So where was Raiola wrong in his thinking? Riley was even worse than Callahan. The guy should have never been leading the Huskers. Anyone unbiased could see that from day one.
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Right here:

"It was almost like a (Bill) Callahan, but worse."

I take comments from people actually around the program a lot more serious than I do someone who hasn't been around the program. I also have full confidence we're not going to hear much, if any at all, negativity on the past once Frost is named coach. Former players popping off like DR are a part of the Husker football problem.

@Sean Callahan even commented on it in the last couple weeks regarding the toxic nature noticed by many.
 
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coachDubs said:
Right here:

"It was almost like a (Bill) Callahan, but worse."

I take comments from people actually around the program a lot more serious than I do someone who hasn't been around the program. I also have full confidence we're not going to hear much, if any at all, negativity on the past once Frost is named coach. Former players popping off like DR are a part of the Husker football problem.

@Sean Callahan even commented on it in the last couple weeks regarding the toxic nature noticed by many.
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Rilebots was the worst bots

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RedMyMind said:
Well, step 1 of 3 has been completed.

Step 1: Bring down the Bo cult and get some fresh cut pansies.
Step 2: Toughen up their pansy asses.
Step 3: Profit
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I just read the article. I missed the 1st point you cite. Can you show me which part of the article says that we need to "Bring down the Bo cult and get some fresh cut pansies." Tks.
 
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meo1960 said:
I just read the article. I missed the 1st point you cite. Can you show me which part of the article says that we need to "Bring down the Bo cult and get some fresh cut pansies." Tks.
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I wasn't referencing the article
 
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When you got here, it was a cold dark day as a freshman..

There was a nice Charlie

Get to work

UCF just embraced this perspective.

"What else has to happen before their Blackshirts get yanked"

Frost is not putting up with this nonsense.

At a mimimum
 
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meo1960 said:
So, then can you explain what you meant by that statement because it read like another slam against BO.
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mmm, no
 
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I don't know why anyone should listen to Raiola. After all, he is just a former player and one of the best we ever had. He hasn't been hanging around Riley's practices so obviously this is just more stupid *** Sipple creating trouble. Raiola can't possibly tell what was wrong with Riley's program just by watching the games. Sure, we had a historically bad season, especially on defense, but come on .... the dude was not at our practices so how could he know anything?? All of these former players like Raiola and Carriker just need to stfu. They are a big problem with all of their passionate comments about the program and how much they want it to be great again.

I would rather hear from the former players who have been around the Riley program and had no problem with what they saw. More of them please....
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Penny did you not watch the O LINE this year, sawft as they come, Gates watched people go around him, no attempt to block because Cavs wasn't going to put anybody else in. just one issue of accountability. no attitudes no energy nothing. hard to watch man.
 
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I was at the Iowa game. That was bad NU football playing against a team that wasn't particularly good. The team couldn't even play for pride.
Raiola hasn't been around the program. But he was at a time when play like that would have been corrected by fellow players before the coaches had to address it. And it would have been done in practice.
We need more talent to compete against the best in the league. But this year wasn't a talent issue, it was a 365 day preparation issue. Not a big fan of using terms like culture flip, think outside of the box etc. But a concept that might be useful for a lot of kids on the NU team would be moment of clarity. It would be best if kids like Gates experienced it ASAP. I don't think many players were taking advantage of the coaching that was available to them. Some of them are in for a rude awakening.
 
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Didn't read the article but if he's referring we need flip the culture in regards to how sooooooffffffttttttttt we were under Riley then he is correct. You don't have to be a Husker great or a long term NFL center to see that. According to some there is still "toxins" within the program left over from Bo so yeah...that will need to be fixed as well.
 
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Raiola recalls the awful feeling in his stomach in 1998 when Nebraska finished 9-4.

"I swear to God, I thought the world was coming to an end," he said. "We were embarrassed to walk around campus."

Teammate Tracey Wistrom was his off-campus neighbor. When Grant Wistrom, a Nebraska All-America rush end in 1997, visited Lincoln, Raiola had trouble facing him.

"There was an accountability that came with the culture," Raiola said. "That's what came with the territory of playing at Nebraska."
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I could be off base, but this seems to be the kind of thing missing from the program.
 
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