alwayshusking
Starter
Buck stops at Mike. Buck stopped at Bo and so on. The HC is the man that can change things or not.
Coordinator Hate
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southernoregonhusker
Starter
Langsdorf sucks. It's that simple. He sucked at OSU too. We hated him as much as we hated Banker. At least Riley took play calling away from Langsdorf and guess what......the offense improved. Riley needs to do it again unless he's ready for the Old Coaches House.
VectorVictor
Heisman Trophy Winner
Who doesn’t like a coach you can meet and bum a bump off of now and again? :dunno
ladyhawke
All-Conference
Hi brophog-Could you clarify the bolted statement? Did something happen to Coach Kill during the game?
Other than forgetting how to call an offense, he seemed fine. Sorry if I scared you.
Landlord
Banned
I personally was a big fan of Shawn Watson for the most part. His 2008 offense was fantastic, '09 I think was at least decently out of control and our 2010 offense was the most electric I've ever seen until Taylor got hurt.
I liked Beck in '11-'12 too.
I would add Carl Pelini to the list if he wasn't so scummy.
I liked Beck in '11-'12 too.
I would add Carl Pelini to the list if he wasn't so scummy.
ladyhawke
All-Conference
No problem. We were on the road and could only hear part of the game on the radio. Thanks for the clarification.
VectorVictor
Heisman Trophy Winner
Kill called a good game—his kids didn’t execute (see the high number of dropped passes) and our defense really did a good job stopping the run.
Rutgers has been in the cellar for a while now for good reason...
VectorVictor
Heisman Trophy Winner
As for coordinators, I think folks would have liked Beck if he would have stoped overthinking things and looking at the new vs. what worked. A big case-in-point for this is when Beck started the season with the diamond formation (3 RBs in backfield with QB) which was rather successful. Then we stopped seeing it completely, save for maybe one play in 100 or 150.
Nebraska fans care more than most and pay attention more than most fans...which is a double-edged sword. It produces things like the sellout streak, but it also makes it difficult for coordinators to mask their inadequate behavior before they can learn from it.
Assuming they do learn from their mistakes **cough**Dorf**cough**...
Nebraska fans care more than most and pay attention more than most fans...which is a double-edged sword. It produces things like the sellout streak, but it also makes it difficult for coordinators to mask their inadequate behavior before they can learn from it.
Assuming they do learn from their mistakes **cough**Dorf**cough**...
ColoradoHusk
Heisman Trophy Winner
I think with a lot of offensive coordinators out there, they like to show how well they can design and draw up plays, and they like to try and use those "cool plays". But, they don't think about all the factors it will take into being successful on that play.
For example, on NU's 3rd and 6 from around the Rutgers 40 with about 1:00 left in the first half, Langsdorf called a pretty cool play, with a receiver streaking down the sidelines, and Lee making a good pass. It was a "good play" until the walk-on WR (Conor Young maybe) dropped the pass. It was a higher risk play. Failed 3rd down, and NU doesn't get any points before halftime. In that situation the better play would have been 3 or 4 receivers all running 8-yard hook routes, with Lee making an easy pass to the open guy and NU getting the first down. NU had all 3 timeouts left, so the clock wouldn't be an issue (if you can forget about the Mike Riley school of clock management).
For example, on NU's 3rd and 6 from around the Rutgers 40 with about 1:00 left in the first half, Langsdorf called a pretty cool play, with a receiver streaking down the sidelines, and Lee making a good pass. It was a "good play" until the walk-on WR (Conor Young maybe) dropped the pass. It was a higher risk play. Failed 3rd down, and NU doesn't get any points before halftime. In that situation the better play would have been 3 or 4 receivers all running 8-yard hook routes, with Lee making an easy pass to the open guy and NU getting the first down. NU had all 3 timeouts left, so the clock wouldn't be an issue (if you can forget about the Mike Riley school of clock management).
SuperBigFan69
Head Coach
As someone who has drawn up plays (while they are giving tests or showing a movie in class) there is nothing more fun than drawing them up and going out and practicing them. But come game time it is a lot easier to use stuff that works at a higher %.
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ZRod
Heisman Trophy Winner
Anybody want to explain to me why we come out with (I don't remember specifically) either 3 tightends or 22 personnel inside the red zone on first down, motion the single split receiver into the formation, and try to run a dive play against 11 in the box? What the hell were we trying to accomplish with that? Waste a down? We ended up kicking a field goal there.
