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Pelini blasts 'mentally weak' team

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08:21 AM ET 03.11 | What a difference seven days makes. A week ago, there was dancing after a Husker football practice. Um, no such thing this Saturday. Just a ticked-off coach. "What I watched was a mentally weak football team, a bad football team, especially on the defensive side of the football," Husker coach Bo Pelini said. ... It was Nebraska's fifth practice of the spring, and first on back-to-back days. There was some scrimmaging. Pelini apparently saw nothing he really liked. The struggles weren't about youth and experience, the coach said. Just about a team not being strong enough to show fight. "It's a mentally weak football team," Pelini said. "Guys gave in and didn't feel like practicing. I'm ashamed of what I just watched."

Lincoln Journal Star

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March 11, 2013 09:50 AM ET

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Whom hasn't Pelini "Blasted"?

LUS>Arky

LAST day to pay the man......

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WPS

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March 11, 2013 09:54 AM ET

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What say just sayin?

Deep Creek

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March 11, 2013 10:17 AM ET

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Says a mentally weak coach...

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March 11, 2013 10:23 AM ET

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Originally posted 09:54 AM ET 03.11 by Deep Creek

What say just sayin?

I can't imagine how many current recruits out there think this guy is not for them. Just seems like an ahole across the board

SL Guido

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March 11, 2013 10:35 AM ET

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I lift things up and put them down...

BackRoads

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March 11, 2013 10:42 AM ET

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This should help recruiting.

South_Florida_Sports

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March 11, 2013 11:16 AM ET

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You're all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty!!!

Joe Kidd #1

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March 11, 2013 12:45 PM ET

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Pelini was just the start, they got an earful from every coach on the defensive side of the ball and then they had a defensive meeting and it has all created some unity they have been lacking, it's what helps build good teams and weeds out ****...

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March 11, 2013 01:22 PM ET

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Originally posted 10:23 AM ET 03.11 by SL Guido

I can't imagine how many current recruits out there think this guy is not for them. Just seems like an ahole across the board

Exactly! Just don't think he cuts it as a HC!

Razorbacker88

Hot Springs, AR

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March 11, 2013 03:09 PM ET

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As a loyal Husker I must remind the coach that he was hired for his defensive mind, and the first years looked good because he had Suh... The years after Suh have shown a weakness in defensive coaching. Bo, after having a poor showing one week and a good one the next said.. "Some of you thought I forgot how to coach a defense." and then went out the next weeks to prove he really had forgot.

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March 11, 2013 03:36 PM ET

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Originally posted 11:16 AM ET 03.11 by Joe Kidd #1

You're all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty!!!

About that pledge pin....

Tin Man

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March 11, 2013 04:30 PM ET

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Some are great coordinators but not great head coaches. Maybe Bo fits in that category. He was a good defensive coordinator at LSU.
Hope he can turn things around so he can keep his job at Nebraska.
I still remember back when the recruits all wanted to go to Nebraska.

KjunMan2012

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March 11, 2013 07:33 PM ET

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Yeah, it's not anything to do w/ the coach being a doofus, huh? Go ballistic, show your spazzout nature, Bo, you will never win a national title let alone a B1G crown.

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March 11, 2013 07:34 PM ET

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Originally posted 03:09 PM ET 03.11 by Nutterbetter

As a loyal Husker I must remind the coach that he was hired for his defensive mind, and the first years looked good because he had Suh... The years after Suh have shown a weakness in defensive coaching. Bo, after having a poor showing one week and a good one the next said.. "Some of you thought I forgot how to coach a defense." and then went out the next weeks to prove he really had forgot.

Kind of reminds one of Mike Stoops, doesn't it? ; )

robertclemente21

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March 11, 2013 10:42 PM ET

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Players who are mentally weak, and a head coach who is mentally unstable. Now THERE'S a program headed in the right direction, lol.

Does ANYONE really take Bo Pelini seriously anymore?

eyesWIDEopen

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March 12, 2013 08:06 AM ET

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Originally posted 04:30 PM ET 03.11 by KjunMan2012

Some are great coordinators but not great head coaches. Maybe Bo fits in that category. He was a good defensive coordinator at LSU. Hope he can turn things around so he can keep his job at Nebraska. I still remember back when the recruits all wanted to go to Nebraska.

We'll see how old Muschamp does with his talent leaving as well. Another LSU defensive grad...