Fire Foley. It’s past time.

Moiraine said:
There are no rules limiting the number of coaches but universities don’t print money. Maybe reassign him to a job paying $50K and see if he wants to stay.
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That's your (and mine), thinking but Rhule has yet to fire anyone. Satterfield is still on staff. We were paying 3 OCs the #1 amount in the country last year at 2.2 million and all are still employed.  He doesn't seem overly concerned about assistants pay.

 
Foley will be the bane of Rhule’s existence if he ever wishes to play good football. Dude has to go. At least move him in another spot. 

 
Red Five said:
FGs

ASU 11/20

NU 13/19
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They said today ND has the worst FG percentage in the Power 4 (I thought you needed to be in a conference for that distinction, but hey). So 2 of the 12 playoff teams are worse than us on FG, pretty remarkable and speaks to the overall state of kicking apparently.  You wouldn't think it should be quite this difficult to have a 75%+ operation at every school.

 
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runningblind said:
They said today ND has the worst FG percentage in the Power (I thought you needed to be in a conference for that distinction, but hey). So 2 of the 12 playoff teams are worse than us on FG, pretty remarkable and speaks to the overall state of kicking apparently.  You wouldn't think it should be quite this difficult to have a 75%+ operation at every school.
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The problem is we are bad at everything with special teams, not just field goals. I believe we had 10 kicks blocked, we rank near the bottom in both returns and kick/punt coverage - even in the year where our punter set the school record for punting average, our net punting was terrible. The only thing we rank highly in is opponent field goal percentage. Partially because of 2 blocks which maybe you can credit partially to Foley, but mostly because as you pointed out the college kicking game sucks at the moment. 

 
In addition to all that we end up in a lot of close games where that fg would make a HUGE difference. 
 

I don’t think most of the playoff teams have that problem…at least during the season.

 
Red Five said:
FGs

ASU 11/20

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Not sure the cause was the same on all of them, though.  Connor Culp was 13/15 on year, earning B1G kicker of the year honors.  The next year he was 6/12. 

The difference for Nebraska this year is most of the kicking issues have been with the snap and hold messing things up.  Those should be things that are much more controllable than actually kicking it.

 
I gotta think that if you're a savvy football coach and you made special teams your specialty, and approached it with genuine focus and innovation like offensive and defensive coordinators do, you would find yourself in high-demand across both college and the NFL.

I mean, are there any special teams gurus that pop to mind? 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
I gotta think that if you're a savvy football coach and you made special teams your specialty, and approached it with genuine focus and innovation like offensive and defensive coordinators do, you would find yourself in high-demand across both college and the NFL.

I mean, are there any special teams gurus that pop to mind? 
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Several in the NFL, but in college Sean Snyder is a name that always pops up. I would say LeVar Woods also should be a name every Nebraska fans knows and simultaneously repects/dislikes.

 
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