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FS Bo 'Beaux' Pelini (DC LSU Tigers)

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DaddyBigBucks;1218276; said:
A big factor in Nebraska's demise is the slide of their walk-on program.

A big reason for that is that everyone has a great s&c program now. They were the first with a 20,000 ft.[sup]2[/sup] weight room, but now all the major programs have at least that. They used to be great because they were bigger and stronger than everyone. They aren't anymore and never will be again.
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Weren't they rumored to have a lot of guys juicing in the Osborne era?
 
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Thank you for not slamming me with my Pelini to OSU comments. To be honest with you the last few years have been humbling. I hope Coach Pelini gets the job done. Although Callahan may not have been the best of coaches he could recruit like the dickens.


I honestly believe there is talent but it is messed up mentally.
 
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sportsline

Pelini maintains balance as main man at Nebraska

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A large family portrait hangs on the wall behind Bo Pelini's desk. In front is a window overlooking the Nebraska weight room, a sort of window to the future.

In between is Pelini, who's four weeks from his first game as the Cornhuskers' head football coach. Since his hiring in December, the 40-year-old Pelini has become the most talked-about person in the state and most recognized next to the man upstairs, athletic director Tom Osborne.

Osborne remains the face of Nebraska football, though it's been 11 years and three coaches since he left the sideline. Osborne's teams averaged 10 wins a season and won three national titles in his 25 years, but the program started to falter in Frank Solich's six-year run. Then came, by Nebraska standards, the total collapse under Bill Callahan.

Pelini's task is to pick up the pieces and make right a program that hasn't seen the top 10 of the Associated Press poll since October 2003.

If Pelini begins to sense the pressure, he can look over his shoulder at that photo of him, wife Mary Pat and their three kids.

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usatoday

Under new coach Pelini, Nebraska gets back to basics

LINCOLN, Neb. - Nobody here is asking: Will he?

Locals have embraced Bo Pelini, and believed in him, from the day in December that Nebraska's 40-year-old football coach was introduced. He's hard-working and straight-shooting, a fine choice to represent a sleeves-rolled, cut-the-bull state. He understands what once made the Cornhuskers great - smash-mouth sensibilities and homegrown talent - and expectations are that he will make them great again.

The only detectable question being: How soon?

Pelini smiles. Fall camp opens Monday, when Nebraska's opener against Western Michigan will be 26 days away. "These days, they're never going to be patient," he says. "I think there's some sense of realism, but I don't know.

"I know where we are. I know where we want to get to, and I think I know how to get there. It's going to take some time. There's a lot that needed to be done, and it's not as much X- and O-wise. - It just takes time to heal so many wounds."

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si.com

Nebraska star RB Lucky to split carries with Helu?

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- On the field, Marlon Lucky remains Nebraska's clear-cut starting I-back.

On paper, he shares the job with Roy Helu Jr.

Never mind the distinction.

When the I-back depth chart lists two players at the top and separates their names with OR, it's a big deal at Nebraska, where running backs once were the identity of the offense.

The stir over that simple two-letter word leaves offensive coordinator
Shawn Watson incredulous.

"Everybody," he said, "is making a big deal out of 'or."'

That Lucky is getting pushed is surprising. He's the Big 12's only returning 1,000-yard rusher and the 2007 national leader in receptions by a running back.

Helu posted modest statistics in seven games as a true freshman last year but zoomed up the chart on the strength of an impressive spring.

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Marlon, your the man but don't slack off. There is a young kid named Roy who is chomping at the bit to get playing time.


Both guys are going to get playing time. How do you help a defense that had the worst year in school history?

1. Hire a guy with a proven track record defensively everywhere he has been.
2. Recommit yourself with running the ball (RB's and OL are the strength of this years team) and keep your lousy D off the field.
 
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Large family, nomadic career shape new Nebraska coach Pelini



http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/waco_...%2F10%2F24%2F10242008wacpelini.html%3Fimw%3DY
Friday, October 24, 2008
By Brice Cherry
Tribune-Herald staff writer


If anyone knows the value of a team, it?s Bo Pelini.
Long before Pelini made coaching stops at seven different college and NFL teams, and even before his playing career in high school and at Ohio State, he understood the concept of an all-for-one brotherhood.
He had to ? he lived with it every day.
Pelini, Nebraska?s first-year head football coach, grew up as the youngest of eight children in the blue-collar town of Youngstown, Ohio. Surrounded by so many brothers and sisters, Pelini was forced to learn to pitch in and share, lest one of his older brothers demonstrate the family version of a ?defensive takeaway.?
?It was great,? Pelini said. ?My parents made so many sacrifices for us, raising such a big family. I enjoyed it. It was all I knew. Later on, I found that it was a big advantage.?
Pelini spent hours playing baseball and basketball as a child, while his initial football exposure was mostly limited to watching the games of his older brothers. But when he finally found his way to the gridiron, he knew he?d found his game.

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Published Tuesday October 28, 2008
Coaches shared lives and homes
BY MITCH SHERMAN
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN - Carl Pelini's voice drifted into that unmistakable tone - coachspeak, it's called - as the Nebraska defensive coordinator began to discuss the relationships in play as the Huskers prepare to visit Oklahoma.



Carl Pelini, Bo Pelini and Bob Stoops.

"You don't think about who you're coaching against," he said. "It doesn't affect anything."

But soon, his words slowed. Pelini's inflection softened. The coachspeak disappeared.

It is impossible to deny, he said, the connection between Oklahoma, under Bob Stoops, and the new Nebraska, with Carl's brother, Bo Pelini, as head coach.

Their families grew up together, intertwined because of sports and school and the bond formed during two decades on the south side of Youngstown, Ohio. Stoops, 48, is the second oldest of four boys in a family of six children. Pelini, 40, is the youngest of eight, including five boys.

"It's pretty unique, I would agree," Carl Pelini said. "I shouldn't try to compare it to other friendships we've made in this profession. But at the same time, you've got to try to set that aside. We've got a game to play."

Oh, yes, the game. Set for Saturday night at 7 in Norman, Okla., it makes for an interesting backdrop as two of Youngstown's favorite sons take center stage.

Stoops, with 104 victories in nine-plus seasons at OU, and Pelini, in his first year in charge at Nebraska, are closer than you might imagine for two men separated in age by 7 years, 3 months and 3 days.

They never played together at Cardinal Mooney High School, where Bob (class of 1978) and Bo (class of '86) both starred in football and basketball. In fact, Bob graduated with Bo's oldest brother, Vince. Bo ran mainly with Bob's youngest brother, Mark, now the defensive coordinator under Mike Stoops at Arizona.

But the two future Big 12 leaders crossed paths often.

"To understand it," Bo Pelini said, "you've got to look at the community."
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