MichiganDad3
All-American
I have to agree with your assessment. Oline or any other position on O or D cannot be reliably assessed given the staff and system we had the past few years.
Farmer to Center?
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Mierin
Assistant Coach
If they're made of paper I don't see why they're on scholarship. No wonder we've had problems.
I'd say Cav's inability to develop depth and start a one legged guy over a younger guy was his problem.BigRedBuster said:
Mierin
Assistant Coach
If everything we've heard about lifting and workouts with the old staff is true, an important change even with the same starters (minus Gates) is they won't get time off from lifting as a reward and they'll know they can be bumped down the depth chart if they don't do the work. That will make them and their backups better.
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Danimal
All-Conference
Ya, hard to develop depth when you pick your five and that's just it, that's who you are going to prep then keep in the whole game. He lost me right out of the gate when that stupidity came to light post-BYU.
Making Chimichangas
Banned
There is though, some credence to the idea (that others have pointed out) it was actually a GOOD thing Riley was hired. Let's say it wouldn't have been Riley that was hired and someone else. Let's say this someone else didn't stink it up as bad as Riley. So instead of finishing 4-8, Nebraska finishes 8-4. Then Frost does what he does at UCF in 2017 where he is the #1 upcoming big time coach. Under this scenario, we completely miss the window to hire Frost. So while yeah the Riley era completely sucked, and 2017 was an abysmal failure...it was that failure that allowed us to bring Coach Frost home.
Dallas Cowboy fan. My fave Cowboy ever? Hershel Walker. Trading him built the dynasty in the 90's.... Same with Riley. Frost meets or exceeds expectations he might go down as one of the favorite NU coaches....Because his craptastic show allowed us to get Frost home.
Mierin
Assistant Coach
I don't think we would have missed out on Frost if we'd had someone who was somewhat less bad than Riley. In fact I think the decision was harder for Frost because he'd only been at UCF for 2 years. I think if he'd had his druthers he would've stayed there 4 years then come here.
A problem would have arisen if we'd had someone too much less bad than Riley who might've stayed more than 2 years longer and Frost got restless and took another P5 job. I don't think he would have taken a P5 job last season though. I always felt it was us or UCF in that moment in time.
A problem would have arisen if we'd had someone too much less bad than Riley who might've stayed more than 2 years longer and Frost got restless and took another P5 job. I don't think he would have taken a P5 job last season though. I always felt it was us or UCF in that moment in time.
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It's been in the tea leaves for awhile. From a starting standpoint it's good, Farmer has a lot of potential as a center. Depth is a concern, though.
I keep seeing more reports that Conrad is expected to be the starting Center, that the staff really likes what they've seen from him and that a lot of the reason he struggled last year was he was never really healthy after getting hurt against Oregon.
Since I've seen that several times now, I tend to believe it. So now I'm thinking that Farmer is being groomed as a backup in case Conrad would get hurt but the most likely starting five as of now is Jaimes-Foster-Conrad-Farmer-Farniok. Should Conrad get hurt, I would think that would mean Farmer would slide to Center and (likely) Bo Wilson would come in at guard.
Since I've seen that several times now, I tend to believe it. So now I'm thinking that Farmer is being groomed as a backup in case Conrad would get hurt but the most likely starting five as of now is Jaimes-Foster-Conrad-Farmer-Farniok. Should Conrad get hurt, I would think that would mean Farmer would slide to Center and (likely) Bo Wilson would come in at guard.
