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Who should we hire? Well in all honestly who wants this job? Frost I likely the only one that would say YES. I would imagine everyone else would say well idk maybe it could be neat or hell no. We go through coaches like my kids throUgh shoes. Now I hated the Riley hire and still can't stand him but no coach will want to come here knowing we fired a 9 win coach and went through another one in less than 5 years not even allowing him to use "his guys, for whatever the hell that means" and having just revamped the staff. Most coaches like stability plus other schools will use this against us in recruiting as I am sure they already do. Maybe coaches that know that they can get a massive buyout once they suck will consider this place but otherwise if you wise if you would think big names or young up and coming coaches would be interested (besides Frost), but I don't see it.

Tanner will be fine. Now what fine is I exactly don't know. I find it hard to believe he will miss the throws he did today each game. This has to be one of the biggest if not the biggest game he has played in a couple years. Hell he sat all last year out. Now yes I agree he needs to learn to go through his progressions and not lock in but when the nerve of not playing an actual games hit, it's not as easy to do. It will come in time. Problem is not sure if the fans will give him that. Also again playcalling isn't setting him up for success either. In my opinion. Settle him down on screens roll him on some bootlegs where little dump offs are there. Stop having high snaps (only happened a couple times but killed the timing)

What I really didn't understand was the complete failure of clock management. Yes we had a chance but had we played with any urgency late I believe we get 1 maybe 2 more possessions. Also why the hell was every pass play off of play action at the end of the game. They knew were we throwing and it didn't suck the backers or freeze the safeties. In fact they would have loved us to ran and get 5 and waste 35 seconds of clock. All it did was make the pass plays have to take tanner longer to get set and deliver which in turn allows the d line to get push Like they did. As for the last INT. I see and hear people saying he was throwing into coverage regardless. I think he was trying to go deep on the post route on the sideline. It was man coverage on that WR so not a terrible idea but with two minutes not needed. Also did diaco learn 4 linebackers can't cover 4 wr and a speed back on pass plays yet?? 3rd downs and turnover tell the story. Bend but not break sure as hell broke hard today. I fear what will happen all year.

To answer the do people in MI work, likely not. I think Ann Arbor is EST though (damn state has both CST and EST), so its 630 for them.

Sorry if this has maybe discussed, if so then my bad. I dont post often but always am always on here reading for recruiting news and injury updates. Or to see how many "fire (insert coach name here threads)". But is it just me or does it seem like this year the D line is simply not getting hands up to disrupt QB passing lanes or tip passes. I have been noticing this a lot throughout the early season. There were several seam routes or plays in the middle of the field were if the D line would get their hands up i think the passes would have been deflected. Just seems that tipped passes happened often in the past and you saw that a lot but not seeing it as much or at all this year. The D line in my opinion is getting a decent push and i think they could have tipped or disrupted several passes. Sadly the same could be said for the secondary, in good position (many times) but cant turn heads and get the hand up.

not sure if this was stated already, but what about 1985 Okie St? I believe that was in stillwater and was indeed at night, well pending whatever constitutes as night and we won

I would be curious to see what percentage of our passes are 20yd or more down field. I think the problem truly starts there, even great NFL QBs dont complete these passes at a high clip so why are we attempting so many deep passes? I mean I am not saying NEVER do it, I am just saying we have WRs like Bell and Pierson El and even Reilly now who can turn a 10yd slant or 5yd curl into a long gain. The times Tommy struggles is when he has pressure in his face, he tends to then throw the ball off his back foot which causes it fo sale on deep balls or or short routes that require touch he throws with his hands lagged behind and makes it appear that he flicks the ball out and he seems to miss these high. However, on many 3-5 step drops when he hits it and fires on short passes to sidelines or the middle he has looks good overall. My big concern is that Beck tries to over think everything, you get inside the 5yd line, just run it in. Its not "neat" but damn its effective. I also agree with the above on the huddling, when we are running option routes and rubs or picks as some will call, you have to get everyone on the same page and it seems too many times this year that hasnt been the case. But seriously if someone gets the time, or if I do. See if there is a way to find the passing charts, I think we would all be surprised how often we are going deep. Maybe more of thats on Tommy, since the post might not always be the primary read but he is just taking it. Just my thoughts on this. GBR!!

YES! That makes me feel a ton better! Sinclair has been great, along with all the other starter really. My question would be is DeLeon even available this weekend?? I had heard last Saturday that he threw a bullpen session of only 28 pitches and all were fastballs. Sounds like he still has a ways to go, which is tough considering we really need him. I think Erstad might be regretting leaving him in so late in games when we have had a pretty decent back end of the bullpen pitching this year. However, hard to say I could blame him either. Anyone else hearing anything on DeLeon?

I believe we are already at the max for full time assistant coaches and therefore would have to let someone go to do this. Typicallys guys go and work with someone in the off season anyways and there are many teams that dont have a QB coach. I am sure there is some Youngstown middle school headcoach that Bo was buddiies with back in the day that he would be more than willing to give a couple hundred grand to come in and be an assistant at one of the most winningest programs in college football history (that was a joke). I get what you are saying about the QB coach, I have thought this before too and really would like Ganz to get that position but again I think we would have to get rid of someone to do so and i dont see any changes for next season.

Just so you can follow along, here is the list of players that needed to be used more and have the ball more this year: TM - till we saw how hurt he was. Armstrong - till we saw him play. Kellog - till the last game or two. Ameer - But don't you dare run him in the ground. Cross - Well, he is a beast so give him the ball. Enunwa - Can't you see he is unstoppable. He just needs the ball more. Any tightend - We just don't use them enough. Any fullback - because that is what Nebraska does. Bell - I don't care if his shoulder was hurt, he needs the ball. Turner - to hell with his hamstring, these coaches caused the injury anyway. Westercamp - can't you see he catches anything thrown his way? Newby - After all, he was all world coming out of HS....you need to get him the ball more than we saw this year. Adam Taylor - Really??? Redshirt??? You suck as a coordinator unless you get all of these players more touches. If they don't, they are all going to transfer. LOL that was awesome and spot on.

We're recruiting for Quincy's spot. You don't plug a 6'1" 185lb kid into a position that requires you to be 6'2 225lb. (Allen bulked up maybe?) Turner's a slot guy. Kinnie, Niles Paul, Enunwa...those guys play that spot. I agree and think Turner is more of a slot type wr. I would like to see Allen get the chance to play the opposite side of Bell, if he is 100%. Allen is a big body type reciever and seems to have good hands. Westerkamp is guy that I think can play both in the slot and on the egde. I think what could hurt Turner would be if Alzono Moore emerges and gets more time or we use a TE more (wont happen). However, I would like to see Turner used a lot in like a wingback type roll, run some speed option where he is the pitch man or use the Diamond more and have him in the backfield. Also returning punts and kickoffs would be nice. Turner can be a very explosive player and should get at least 5-7 touches per game in various roles.

IMO Richt is one of the most overrated coaches in the SEC. The state of Georgia is loaded with talent and half the guys go else where, everyone says he can recruit but thats like saying Mack Brown is a great recruiter, well he should be he never has to leave the state to get any players. Nebraska doesnt have that in state talent and i dont see Richt doing anything great to go and sit with big name kids and convince them to play here. He doesnt have anything on his resume that sticks out, well besides coaching in the SEC which to me is a very overrated conference that ESPN tries to make me care about. If you look at his team they lose 2 games a year that you scratch your head about, Vandy? The other thing that is evident is his teams will flat out quick, every 3 or 4 years its quote "their year" and they loose on early and get sad and tank the season and go 9-4 and beat some crappy B1G team in a bowl. To me this does no scream great coach.

We learned absolutely NOTHING. This is year 6 and its the same song and dance. Well maybe we learned that real coaching/coaches trump neat uniforms

In all honesty i think this game might have been one of the best things that could happen to us and the young defense. Memorial Staduim and the N on the side of your helment and number of stars some neat website gave you doesnt mean crap. We were not only out played but 100% out coached, the sad part about that is that in the Pelini Era this has happened quite frequently. I understand the defense is young but there was still bad tackling and terrible ball skills in the secondary. Bo said after the game that there were several times players were in the right spots to make plays but just didnt, i wish the reported had asked one simple question WHEN? The defense was put in horrible position, we gave them underneath routes and played 10yd off the outside recievers and let them run the secondary deep and leaving the middle open for the slot to run free. The man to man seemed to hurt, i would have liked to see maybe some zone underneath and more creative blitzing from corners and safeties. the offense seems to struggle adjusting from spread fast pace and slow power football, this is no surprise because even the great Oregon offensives had this issue. The difference is Oregon knew it and didnt change what worked and played fast and put 70 on anyone they could, Beck go too conservative and didnt "play to win the game, hello!" - Herm Edwards Dline- looked good, sometimes the edge rushers got too much pentration by using their speed and going out too wide to get around the tack and opened up throwing lanes (not too woried this will get fixed). Terrible call on the roughing the passer on the sack, this is were we seemed to loose the momentum and WY got it back, to me that was the turning point and instead of maning up we got sad and took after our coach and complained about the call versus sucking it up and getting mad and tearing WY to hell. LB- where were they??? Seriously anyone, i saw them maybe a handfull of time. Zarie Anderson, Santos, Afalava, these guys CAN play so geth them out there and let them make plays. SS- played below average for the most part, great tackle Green (hope that got him some time on the pine, this guy is a senoir and we can put the waterboy out there and see a better attempt to tackle). Also on the deeper passes they seemed to struggle finding the ball, should have had another pick on one of those flaoting passes CB- SJB (he can play and we are FINALLY using him!). Everyone else is ummmm maybe ok, its hard to tell when they were forced to cover for at least 7 second, for all the talk this unit got they played pretty poor but they were put in terrible positions by the coaching. I dont care what you say Pelini, they were NOT in good position SEVERAL times! Offense QB- nothing needs said, minus the pick and fumble (which didnt matter) Taylor played good. Bad play calling by not taking more shots down field to keep the safeties honest RB- WOW! Ameer, Imani, Newby, good luck B1G WR/TE- good as i figured, Turner, Bell, Enuwa beasts. TEs dont care because we dont use them anyways (see Reed and McNiel). OL- best under Pelini hmmm well probably because we have always had a bad line in the Bo era and this line isnt terrible more like mediocre to above average, so I guess this is correct. They did look like they were in great shape for how early and hot it was out, they wore down the Dline of WY ST- outside of the odd missed extra point, check Penalties- Alot and not a big surpise, see the last 5 years under Bo. Not trying to bash Bo just being honest. Coaches need to hold themselves accountable for getting these guys in positions to make the plays, the defensive play calling was flat out bad. We have a short peroid of time before UCLA but we will see. They say you make the biggest jump from week 1 to 2, so here is hoping we hold 0-12 (from last year) to under 500 yards.

Not trying to be negative but in all seriousness do we really use the TEs outside of blocking? We had 2 great TEs in McNeil and Reed in the past and didn’t use them near as much as we should have. I think Enuwa wants to catch more balls and not less therefore he is better off fighting for receptions with bell, and turner at WR. It seems every year we talk about the TEs and hear how they will be "used more" but I haven’t seen it. This really is no knock on the coaching staff; many teams have good TEs and don’t use them. It’s only a few teams in the NFL that pick some big dumb idiot (Gronk) and throw the ball to him 700 times a season, yet somehow no NFL team can stop him because they all live by the rule that you "have to" cover a TE with a LB of Safety, ummm no you don’t if that’s the other teams best pass catching weapon go ahead and line up your best corner on him and shut him out. With all the talent at wide out I would be fine seeing multiple WR sets with 4-5 wideouts and not using the TEs at all. Enuwa and Bell are great blockers and Turner is no slouch either. Either way I am sure we will be just fine at TE like most seasons.