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Yeah, I was going to be okay with them holding on too Keith Williams, but in retrospect he was more hype than anything else. There just weren't many results. Despite Morgan/Spielman's big seasons, I still think Coach Fisher routinely put out better WR groups. Not to mention his supposed recruiting acumen, yet the position group is currently undermanned as bad as any on the team.

Yeah, they certainly are young, and lack the years of coaching compared to other guys. However.... look at last year. A HC who had decades of experience, yet mediocre results, an experienced OC who couldn’t devise a run game worth anything, and an extremely experienced OL coach who produced one of the worst OL’s in school history.

After viewing the previous experience of all these assistant coaches, I’m going to say something (likely unpopular) I haven’t really seen discussed on HB. It really is not a very impressive staff if all you consider is the resumes. If you were to ignore the last 1 or 2 seasons of this combined staff, on paper, they would appear worse than anything we’ve had in the last 15 years. Im not complaining about the staff, in fact I think the energy and chemistry and results they have exhibited is much more important than a paper resume but really, it just doesn’t appear to be impressive at all. Am I wrong?

There was no accountability under Riley’s leadership. “Favorite” players were able to skip workouts, starters had no fear of losing their jobs due to poor play, and the coaching staff didn’t know if they were accountable to Riley or Devaney or Eichorst. The whole thing was a complete mess.

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Numerous former players said this was a thing that happened under Riley. It wasn't the problem, but definitely a problem.

Davidson is in charge of calling Winstrom and Peters every week to get their opinion on the program.

It is ok this time mainly because his group of guys just went 12-0. Riley's group were about to get fired.

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I can't help but remember Sam Foltz when I see Wiscy's kicker, Gaglianone, who wears Sam's number 27.

Good interview at the Peach Bowl from Chinander that fits here. https://www.landof10.com/nebraska/erik-chinander-scott-frost-ucf-nebraska-coach/amp “One of the reasons I want to work for Coach Frost — whether I coach for him at UCF, Nebraska or the moon — is that we believe the same thing,” Chinander said. “We believe that if you have 105 guys in fall camp — and you might end up with 150 on the team in the end — but if you take 105 guys and make them into really good fathers, really good sons, really good brothers, really good husbands and really good people in the community, you don’t have to talk about winning and losing much because it takes care of itself." “Taking 18-year-old kids and turning them into grown men is the key to success. As long as we’re doing this, we’ll have good defense, we’ll have good offense, we’ll have good X’s and O’s, you can say whatever you want about that but culture beats scheme 100 out of 100 times. That’s what we believe.”

I could be wrong but it probably has more do with the fact he and his staff took over a program that was 0-12 two years ago and went undefeated in his second season. Taking a G5 school to a New Years Day bowl with the big boys. Would you rather he come in and try to put together a bunch of strangers from scratch? I'm ecstatic he was able to bring his entire staff including some support personnel. They will be able to hit the ground running and won't have to wait for a bunch of guys thrown together to get to know each other, gel (or start in-fighting and back stabbing as seen before) and learn the system they are going to teach. It has been a while since we've had a truly cohesive staff IMHO and from all that we have heard these coaches work together as a unit very well and I believe the results will be seen on the field in fairly short order.

If they're going to allow "choose life" plates then they have to also allow "my body my choice" plates. But my preference would be that the state stay completely out of the issue. Do we really need to see that crap on license plates? Get a frikken bumper sticker if you want to make a statement.

Numb brings up a good point (first time for everything!).

You literally have everything completely backwards in the above paragraph which is exactly what the people doing this want. They want you to think what you're saying is the case, but it's a complete lie. The internet IS unregulated RIGHT NOW. And the way it is now is NOT something that was imposed by Obama or the "Dems." They were keeping with the status quo by closing a loophole the telecomm companies had found. Please read more about it instead of remaining ignorant.

The Force Awakens has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. Many (the majority?) superfans like to claim it's bad. The Last Jedi has has a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Many (the majority?) superfans like to claim it's bad. Either the professionals are just suckers for anything Star Wars/Disney, or the fans bring too much expectation to the films. Or it's a good product of the craft of filmmaking, but isn't enjoyable enough as entertainment? Or something.

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1) The FCC reclassifying the ISP as title 2 originally to enforce network neutrality was in direct response to them pulling some of the things us "regulation lovers" are warning about. They started doing this years ago. 2) ISP's are local monopolys in most cases and you cant really rely on a free market as there is no free market by their nature. They are granted exclusive agreements to run the cable to the homes in a municipality in most cases and that investment in infrastructure is then theirs alone. No other ISP can come in and use it without having to lay the same cable again which is a huge barrier to entry. The large national ISPs collude to split up territory because it doesn't make sense to try and rerun the same infrastructure over and over there'd be no sense in making that investment multiple times to fight for one customer. So unless the government was to take over last mile cable/fiber to the home/business and offer the lines to any ISP at wholesale you aren't going to get a free market economy for Internet Service Providers. So you can just stop the regurgitation of the free market line, because that isn't happening any more than running utility lines and power are going to be solved by the free market. 3) Stifle? LOL, no network neutrality is how the internet worked for the first 10+ years, it lowered the barrier of entry for new businesses. NN codifies that ISP's can't do the things they were starting to do in the past 10 years to double dip or kill competing services by charging companies for good access to their ISP customers or blocking other services from competing with services ISP's themselves were trying to offer at a premium (like blocking voip so customers had to order their in house phone service). NN is about your free and open and uncontrolled access to information on the internet not to be f'd with by your ISP and whoever told you otherwise sold you a line of bulls#!t.

Wow.....this could get really interesting. Wish we would have a competent President at this point.

One more game. Actually Michigan will be easy-peazy foe (against Gamecocks). 7-0. 4-0 West, 3-0 East GO WOLVERINES !

It's not a "partisan" issue. Trump is an asshat and is being called out as such. This is a good thing that we aren't willing to forget about fixing the clock just because it is right twice a day.

Of course you are because youre not a Nebraska fan unless you think a hire will fail before the first game he coaches in.

This whole Hillary thing is getting real old and it’s so easy to see how republicans are being played on the issue. During the election, all we heard was “lock her up”. Trump even said said in a debate he would throw her in jail. Once elected, Trump proclaims he isn’t going to prosecute her. Now, the heat is getter no turned up on the Russia election, we are back to “lock her up”. They are are so easily played.

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Every previous misstep was confirmation that the coaches were a poor fit for our program something that we all intrinsically or subconsciously believed and hence the short leash. Although I believe that most, if not all, of our previous coaches had enough football knowledge to win, they lacked having a head coach with enough leadership skills to manage their egos and put a decent product on the field. I’m willing to bet that the next staff will be a unit rather than a hodgepodge mix of hole pluggers.

This is a fair concern. And well founded considering the struggles of our last two staffs.

Sam Stein lays bare the hypocrisy & bad faith found in most circles of the Republican Utopia (particularly influential media figures):

I'm not saying Lee will get drafted high, or at all, but if turnovers are a part of it, then why is USC's Sam Darnold predicted to be such a high pick - he had more turnovers than Lee did. I do think Tanner will at least get a look. Wish him the best of luck.

Good teams are the ones taking QBs late typically, because they already have one and don't have to reach. Bad teams take them in the first two rounds because they don't have one.

2 good points in this thread- 1. the new staff has very little experience especially in P5 schools 2.Having P5 experienced coaches haven't equaled winning / success both points don't clearly state the obvious reason why this crew should outperform the last- the last crew were proven losers- I think it is clear to anyone now that the Riley hire and crew had a predictable outcome based on their past history, and however abbreviated the history may be for Frosts crew, they have a predictable outcome, which in the short term will be getting back to winning seasons and long term will be winning Championships.

Yep. I'll take this staff over the last. The new one went 12-0........And have the most explosive O in FBS to date..... As @Comfortably Numb said above, when looking back on the staff were they really that good? They could get the stars to NU, but the classes were not much higher than Bo's....Coupled with going 4-8......Unsure on the D if that was just the "strain" of Diaco....I'm leaning to give them more of a break than the O.....The on field production didn't live up to the resumes of the previous staff.

I think that’s fair to say. And I’ve been waiting for someone to say something along those line. As you alluded to, the other side of the coin is that doing it the other way hasn’t exactly gotten us great results. I think we’re seeing that Pelini’s crew didn’t really get enough credit for what they were actually able to do on the field - not that it was great but it was a lot harder to win 9-10 games and division championships than a lot of people thought it was. But overall disappointing results. So I’m fine with trying a different route.

Bowl records are fun but the who idea of judging the strength of a conference on a neutral site game a month after the regular season seems odd to me. It would be more interesting if these games were played a week after the regular season at a true neutral site. Most of these games are so meaningless that I can't really get excited watching them.

I hope we sign 2-4 JUCOs per year minimum. Plenty of high profile JUCOs that can help us every year. Held has the contacts and ability to make it happen and we would be stupid to not get JUCO help. It will help us cover the gap between our talent and the Ohio states of the world. Add a Lavonte David and Randy Gregory to a defense and see what happens

Well Frost is given a pool (I think his was 5 million) works with the coaches/AD. With the differences in pay imagine is a combo of things, experience I imagine is a big factor in that. Dewitt also holds two hats coaching both outside lb’s and is the special teams coordinator (he’s also a certified genius) plus 16 years + coaching experience, Austin has 7+ years (NFL and Division 1)... Ryan Held was probably happy with the pay raise he got and besides his time as a GA with Nebraska and Tennessee, UCF was his first major college football coaching experience....Travis Fisher also has limited experience at the division one level, though he did play in the NFL(9 seasons), UCF was also his first step into coaching major college football. Now on the subject of Donte, he was paid a larger amount due to his recruiting abilities and the fact he was leaving a job to join an unknown. I believe guys like Held quickly followed Coach Frost because not only was it a major step up (and in Held’s case his alma mater), but they believe in what Frost is selling. Plus besides Fisher and Walters who both had pretty lucrative NFL careers this is more money then any of these guys have ever made. Plus if you look at Fisher, Held and Duvall all had the largest pay raises percentage wise.

I just don't get why my fellow Christians don't take the Gospel more to heart. It has to contain the most-read books. Why do they go scouring for what kind of genital contact is an abomination instead of focusing on acting like Jesus who was good to prostitutes and people with diseases and the poor?

White "christianity" and their politics of hate, intolerance, bigotry, and fear (of non-whites, lbgtqia, immigrants, etc) has been something I have been talking about for a VERY long time. I've made some pretty strong generalizations in the past, but that's only because I've seen with my own eyes everything I've ever spoken about. And the worst part is, I know for a fact there are genuinely good Christians out there--white Christians who are NOT racists, bigots, anti-lbgtqia, anti-immigrants, etc. The problem is, those few moderate voices are mostly shouted down by the Mike Pence's, Mike Huckabee"s, and Ted Cruz's in this country. As an atheist I am 100% in favor of religious liberty. I think people should be free to pick whatever, I think, bogus religion (or none at all) that they believe works for them. However, one's religious beliefs does not, and should never, supercede anyone's right to live and exist. And when someone uses their "faith" as weapon to discriminate against someone else, that's crossing the line and is not covered by religious liberty.

I'm not watching that, 'cause Ben Shapiro is a butthole.

Ha, even a broken watch is right twice a day. At this point I'll be happy if I end up with a non-negative score. I suck at this. Guess that's what I get for exerting virtually no thought and closely following the Vegas line.

I would consider myself a conservative Christian. I was prepared to not like the article, however, the author is right on many accounts. I fell that evangelicals lost their way as they sold themselves to the Republican party. When it comes to politics I feel any group screws themselves when they put all of their eggs in one basket. (political party) Christians have done this with the Repubs. You end up living or dying with them. Ask the groups on the left who feel disenfranchised right now. As Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." I have many friends who are very conservative Christians who are also liberal. Some Christians would think they are headed to hell. I think that would go against what the Bible teachers.

Should be a much better transition this time around. After that trainwreck season this team is ready for a change and we hired a HC the team is actually excited about.

The o-line returns a lot of starters and by my count has 8 or 9 scholarship players that are sophomores or younger. I think the group is thin at tackles, but has decent depth at the interior line. I just don’t know what to think of the o-line because I think they were stuck with the worst coach on the previous staff. Cavanaugh only cared about pass blocking and getting 5 guys to play the entire game each Saturday. I think the position group will be rejuvenated by a new coach.

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Going all in.