Entitlement. We got the N on the helmet so that must mean something - no way someone beats us when we are up big. We are big bad Nebraska. These guys aren't hungry enough - just like what Tannor said.
They don't understand what it means. These coaches still aren't getting that through to these guys.
This is exactly why I am not in favor of Mickey being the full time head coach. The program is broken. I think the players need a shock to the system in order for things to significantly change. If Mickey were promoted to full-time head coach, I don't know if the players would fully understand how much they need to change going forward. I think a lot of them would think "great, we can do things how we have been doing them". In fact, they may even think "What we did the last 9 games of the season was so good, that we were able to get Mickey the full time head coaching job. Why do we need to change?"
The reverse might also be true: the players leaving through the transfer portal might be the shock to the system that Nebraska fans need to realize that maybe we can't get a quick fix or a "big time" coach and need to start thinking about long-term success and not being good again in a season or two.
To the bold... What year did it first happen to be broken ?? :confucius :confucius
I would say 2017. The first 2 years under Riley still had some strong leadership from players who were recruited by Bo, but starting with the 2017, there was a complete lack of leadership and accountability. It has only continued to regress since then.
It’s a manifestation with multiple layers going back to Frank. A series of missteps one after the other. The landscape of the game changed over time. We didn’t negotiate it well. Not just from a coaching standpoint. Bo got things on the upswing for a period then around 2012 it seemed to spiral down from there again.
Really ? 2017 ?
There have been little to no positives in following Nebraska football since 2017. That’s why I chose that year. Because since then, the program has been a complete mess and an absolute joke of a football program. You can say it “broke” a lot earlier than that, but I think there were still a number of positive moments in the Callahan, Pelini, and even Riley years. Other than that, we are just arguing semantics. I don’t really care “when it broke”, I just care that we hire a head coach that can fix it for the long-term.
Carl Crawford choosing baseball over NU. JLo (one of my fave Huskers) played QB instead of safety. 63-36....Debacle that was Cally, then Bo with little front office support, Riley and finally Frost. Now being the only P5 team with no bowl since 2017 is just one more of the 1000 cuts that has finally bled NU dry.
