butterswolfman

I just want Bo to hire some semi splashy guys that can RECRUIT.

I know that feel bro. My dad is an OSU fan we are going to be spending alot of sats brooding. Stick around the boards and have some good chats my man Your dad at least has an excuse after losing the head coach and several of the best players from the team. What's our excuse? Bad offensive play calling. We ask Tmart to do things he isn't good at. Just a poor showing we are better than this.

I know that feel bro. My dad is an OSU fan we are going to be spending alot of sats brooding. Stick around the boards and have some good chats my man

Don't join a union that constrains you to follow in line w/ the other thousands of employees then. Unions award the underperforming with job security, and consequently fail to award high performers. If you're in the high performer group - don't be in a union. If you're in the underperforming group, pay your dues enjoy the status quo. Why do you think teachers are on salary schedules? (hint: unions) Teacher of the year for the state of Nebraska gets the same compesation as the teacher the district is attempting to fire but can't without a year's worth of documentation. The children ultimately pay the price. If businesses were run this way they'd fail (oh wait, large numbers of them recently did) I used to think the way you do. I am a high performer at my job. Hated the Union. Then the compnay started trying to bone me for no reason what so ever, the company tried to cut our pay, they want to limit our medical excuses to 4 a year, with out unions these large companies could do pretty much whatever they want with their employees fair or not. End of the day there are tons of out of control unions. However they have a purpose and that is to get fair payment and treatment for all employees. Look back at the days before unions in America, get rid of unions get ready for some real bs

The offense was a bad version of Oregon. The play book read Zone Read, Zone Read, Zone Read, Zone Read, pass that takes forever to develope, Zone Read, Zone Read, Zone Read, Fake Zone read, wildcat run, wildcat zoneread

Can't agree more.. I have actually come around on Wats staying for at least one more year probably two. When you really look at it this is the first year we REALLY got to run this offense with a Freshman QB. I still think the zone read is called too much to be effective. Also his play calling doesn't adapt well in game. I.E. no pitches or screens against a defense that is blowing things up. still I think in a year or two i think this offense will be pretty good.

In my opinion (from a Southern California native; aka "outsider"), the 'classiest' label has morphed from just the fans in the stadium to Nebraska's worldwide following. Here is an example... a couple of years ago I was standing in line at a Starbucks in Huntington Beach, CA, and an Oklahoma fan came in... we were both dressed in our gear and soon the OU fan and I were having a great discussion... much respect on both sides, "You guys look great this year", "So do you", "Go Big Red", "Boomer Sooner"... it was great and ended on a peaceful and respectful note. 'Classiest fans in college football'. Later during that same visit, a guy walks in wearing USC gear... mouthing off "Trojans all the way baby!" and eventually gets around to my new OU friend who is still standing in line. After a few stupid taunts he comes right out (in public) with "Oh, and f*ck you Oklahoma... we got your asses back in 05!" With that perspective in mind, we ARE the classiest fans in college football. I live in SEC town and have to hear about how good the SEC is on a daily basis. SEC fans are almost thugs Went to the Mississippi State LSU game and the fans literally throw liquor bottles onto the feild (if they have the arms) or into the crowd. Wearing my Neb. gear gets alot of "you guys wouldn't win 6 games in the SEC blah blah blah. We have some pretty good fan's. oh and bandwagon Texas fans are the WORSTE fans ever.

I agree, No player runs in open space with both hands on the ball. From what i saw he was actually heading to the ground and the defender just got a good angle on him. More of a fluke than anything. Roy has had his worst year this year as far as fumbles are concerned. But looking at his career he has been sure handed. Last year he fumbled a lot due to his banged up shoulder in one game. Other than that he single handedly won the KU game for us. I will miss Roy.

I agree! If you call the same plays Watson did during the Missouri game, and the blocking isnt there, or Helu fumbles a couple times the result is very different.All 3 losses this year were because of poor execution by the players, not the play calls.Bottom line is if the players run the plays properly (Block well, dont fumble , catch the ball,make good decisions at QB, and keep stupid penalties to a minimum)the OC ,and all the other coaches, look like a heroes. Otherwise people are calling for your head. Perhaps because this isn't Madden, and there is more to coaching than play-calling. How is it that everyone can so easily explain away Watson's shortcomings with "players didn't execute"? How many games can we explain away to poor execution before someone is held accountable? The QB not make good decisions falls on lack of coaching by the QB coach. Guess who that is? When did "coaching" get removed from Watson's job description leaving soley "formulate plays" - because player execution is exactly what coaching gives you. Don't coach...players won't execute, simple as that. I wish someone would put together a seasonal breakdown of Watson's offense, then remove the big plays and see what you're left with. I mean honestly - that's the difference between the games everyone calls him a genius for (Washington, 1st qtr Missouri, 1st half Oklahoma) and the games we lost (Texas, A&M, 2nd half Oklahoma). Watson's offensive philosophy depends on big plays (which is fine if you have playmakers)...but big plays are almost always generaited from defensive breakdowns. In essense, Watson's entire offensive scheme is crap against a disciplined defense. Which is why we consistently lost against top-50 defenses. In fact, that's one of the few consistent things we can count on. When you are constantly searching for that big play - you can't count on anything w/ the offense. We should have kicked the 62 yard field goal w/ 3:30 left. Alex had that much leg in him. Then we should have kicked the 64 yarder on 4th and 4. It had a better chance than a Taylor pass. It's good to be able to 100% agree with someone. Poor execution is on the coaches.

Lol, why leave a better job? Doubt he comes here unless it is under the pretense of a promotion.

It is his fault for not coaching ball security well enough. Just as it is the WR coaches fault for dropped balls, teach the kids to catch or recruit kids who can. It is also SW's fault for calling the zone read about 2354234 times when it worked about 3 times that entire game. Once off of a blown Oklahoma assignment. Well coached players hang on to catches and don't drop passes, that's not conjecture it's fact. How many dropped passes have you seen out of OKstate recivers? Oklahoma recivers? not alot. fumbles? also a small number. I coach children who play kids 2 and 3 years their senior and they don't drop the ball that much. Taylor making the wrong reads? ALL his fault? no he has not been coached well enough. The players are sloppy and make bad mistakes and turn the ball over because they are poorly coached. falls right on Wat's shoulders

Best options available for an upgrade to a bigger school. NIU OC. Matt Limegrover, Arkansas OL coach Chris Klenakis, Nevada's Cameron Norcross ECU's Lincoln Riley, maybe TROY's Kenny Edenfiel as we missed out on Neal Brown. any other ideas people?

I was never mad at him persay. I just had the "if you don't want to be here hit the bricks" mentality. He looked much better in this game to me then at last game. My gf was making the comment that maybe so many sacks were being given up cuz the line didnt like him lol.

Best options available for an upgrade to a bigger school. NIU OC. Matt Limegrover, Arkansas OL coach Chris Klenakis, Nevada's Cameron Norcross ECU's Lincoln Riley, maybe TROY's Kenny Edenfiel as we missed out on Neal Brown. any other ideas people?

Can't disagree more. You didn't what i saw. Him talking to other QBs, interacting with team mates giving them helmet taps. He looked to me more like someone had a talk with him that finally sunk in. IF you want to make it any were you have to have a team behind you.