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Yeah, I was going to be okay with them holding on too Keith Williams, but in retrospect he was more hype than anything else. There just weren't many results. Despite Morgan/Spielman's big seasons, I still think Coach Fisher routinely put out better WR groups. Not to mention his supposed recruiting acumen, yet the position group is currently undermanned as bad as any on the team.

Yeah, they certainly are young, and lack the years of coaching compared to other guys. However.... look at last year. A HC who had decades of experience, yet mediocre results, an experienced OC who couldn’t devise a run game worth anything, and an extremely experienced OL coach who produced one of the worst OL’s in school history.

After viewing the previous experience of all these assistant coaches, I’m going to say something (likely unpopular) I haven’t really seen discussed on HB. It really is not a very impressive staff if all you consider is the resumes. If you were to ignore the last 1 or 2 seasons of this combined staff, on paper, they would appear worse than anything we’ve had in the last 15 years. Im not complaining about the staff, in fact I think the energy and chemistry and results they have exhibited is much more important than a paper resume but really, it just doesn’t appear to be impressive at all. Am I wrong?

There was no accountability under Riley’s leadership. “Favorite” players were able to skip workouts, starters had no fear of losing their jobs due to poor play, and the coaching staff didn’t know if they were accountable to Riley or Devaney or Eichorst. The whole thing was a complete mess.

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Numerous former players said this was a thing that happened under Riley. It wasn't the problem, but definitely a problem.

Davidson is in charge of calling Winstrom and Peters every week to get their opinion on the program.

It is ok this time mainly because his group of guys just went 12-0. Riley's group were about to get fired.

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I can't help but remember Sam Foltz when I see Wiscy's kicker, Gaglianone, who wears Sam's number 27.

Good interview at the Peach Bowl from Chinander that fits here. https://www.landof10.com/nebraska/erik-chinander-scott-frost-ucf-nebraska-coach/amp “One of the reasons I want to work for Coach Frost — whether I coach for him at UCF, Nebraska or the moon — is that we believe the same thing,” Chinander said. “We believe that if you have 105 guys in fall camp — and you might end up with 150 on the team in the end — but if you take 105 guys and make them into really good fathers, really good sons, really good brothers, really good husbands and really good people in the community, you don’t have to talk about winning and losing much because it takes care of itself." “Taking 18-year-old kids and turning them into grown men is the key to success. As long as we’re doing this, we’ll have good defense, we’ll have good offense, we’ll have good X’s and O’s, you can say whatever you want about that but culture beats scheme 100 out of 100 times. That’s what we believe.”

I could be wrong but it probably has more do with the fact he and his staff took over a program that was 0-12 two years ago and went undefeated in his second season. Taking a G5 school to a New Years Day bowl with the big boys. Would you rather he come in and try to put together a bunch of strangers from scratch? I'm ecstatic he was able to bring his entire staff including some support personnel. They will be able to hit the ground running and won't have to wait for a bunch of guys thrown together to get to know each other, gel (or start in-fighting and back stabbing as seen before) and learn the system they are going to teach. It has been a while since we've had a truly cohesive staff IMHO and from all that we have heard these coaches work together as a unit very well and I believe the results will be seen on the field in fairly short order.

If they're going to allow "choose life" plates then they have to also allow "my body my choice" plates. But my preference would be that the state stay completely out of the issue. Do we really need to see that crap on license plates? Get a frikken bumper sticker if you want to make a statement.

Numb brings up a good point (first time for everything!).

You literally have everything completely backwards in the above paragraph which is exactly what the people doing this want. They want you to think what you're saying is the case, but it's a complete lie. The internet IS unregulated RIGHT NOW. And the way it is now is NOT something that was imposed by Obama or the "Dems." They were keeping with the status quo by closing a loophole the telecomm companies had found. Please read more about it instead of remaining ignorant.

The Force Awakens has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. Many (the majority?) superfans like to claim it's bad. The Last Jedi has has a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Many (the majority?) superfans like to claim it's bad. Either the professionals are just suckers for anything Star Wars/Disney, or the fans bring too much expectation to the films. Or it's a good product of the craft of filmmaking, but isn't enjoyable enough as entertainment? Or something.

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1) The FCC reclassifying the ISP as title 2 originally to enforce network neutrality was in direct response to them pulling some of the things us "regulation lovers" are warning about. They started doing this years ago. 2) ISP's are local monopolys in most cases and you cant really rely on a free market as there is no free market by their nature. They are granted exclusive agreements to run the cable to the homes in a municipality in most cases and that investment in infrastructure is then theirs alone. No other ISP can come in and use it without having to lay the same cable again which is a huge barrier to entry. The large national ISPs collude to split up territory because it doesn't make sense to try and rerun the same infrastructure over and over there'd be no sense in making that investment multiple times to fight for one customer. So unless the government was to take over last mile cable/fiber to the home/business and offer the lines to any ISP at wholesale you aren't going to get a free market economy for Internet Service Providers. So you can just stop the regurgitation of the free market line, because that isn't happening any more than running utility lines and power are going to be solved by the free market. 3) Stifle? LOL, no network neutrality is how the internet worked for the first 10+ years, it lowered the barrier of entry for new businesses. NN codifies that ISP's can't do the things they were starting to do in the past 10 years to double dip or kill competing services by charging companies for good access to their ISP customers or blocking other services from competing with services ISP's themselves were trying to offer at a premium (like blocking voip so customers had to order their in house phone service). NN is about your free and open and uncontrolled access to information on the internet not to be f'd with by your ISP and whoever told you otherwise sold you a line of bulls#!t.

Seeing on another board Gates is going to declare for the draft. Anyone heard anything?

Wow.....this could get really interesting. Wish we would have a competent President at this point.

This is going to be a big topic in coming months and years. Thread.....

One more game. Actually Michigan will be easy-peazy foe (against Gamecocks). 7-0. 4-0 West, 3-0 East GO WOLVERINES !

All over the field tonight against Miami. Let’s hope the new staff can pull some dudes like this form IWCC.

I agree that it starts by winning the division, but it doesn’t start by copying Wisconsin. Wisconsin does some good things, but they aren’t that special.

It's not a "partisan" issue. Trump is an asshat and is being called out as such. This is a good thing that we aren't willing to forget about fixing the clock just because it is right twice a day.

But... what... You weren't there... but you don't believe the players who say "Yeah, if I didn't feel like going, I didn't go".... You have more faith in the players than they have in themselves? Is that what I'm getting?

I don't know what you're complaining about. A 7-1 B1G record with a Wisconsin loss is a perfect bowl season IMO. I guess I could have taken the Iowa loss too.

SEC refs be screwing the Badgers.

This whole Hillary thing is getting real old and it’s so easy to see how republicans are being played on the issue. During the election, all we heard was “lock her up”. Trump even said said in a debate he would throw her in jail. Once elected, Trump proclaims he isn’t going to prosecute her. Now, the heat is getter no turned up on the Russia election, we are back to “lock her up”. They are are so easily played.

Is that from a Dicks Sporting Goods commercial?

Sure, in the moment. But great players are made at 5am on a Tuesday in June.

I think it’s completely fair as long as we see the signs of improvement I think we will. I think the differences between the two staffs and what they can get out of the players will be overly apparent. Huge difference between putting a respectable effort out there and whatever it was that has been going on the previous few years. One deserves a longer leash and the other a choke collar.

Good teams are the ones taking QBs late typically, because they already have one and don't have to reach. Bad teams take them in the first two rounds because they don't have one.

I understood your point and mine was I think most people would welcome bipartisanship but Trumps actions always end up negating any good he is doing or tweeting out. I don't think Dems would have a problem supporting Trump on this idea if he was consistent with it, but the problem is he is not. How can anyone get behind anything Trump says when he flip flops on the issues so much? I support the sentiment of free speech but I can't believe Trump sincerely means what he is saying when his entire presidency has been devoted to attacking the first amendment it seems like. Edit: just consider, if John Kasich was president do you think we would be having this conversation?

I think both sides are fair. I think it makes a lot of sense to trust Frost and to trust the people Frost trusts. I’m not entirely sure that everyone on his staff deserved major raises, but we will find out quickly if anyone isn’t qualified/pulling their weight. It feels like a situation where in two years, we all look back and say, “well, obviously he shouldn’t have brought his entire coaching staff with him.” Or it could work out just fine - Frost has already achieved success as a head coach and knows what he’s doing. Either way, I think it’s important that we have the unpopular discussions about things like this so that we aren’t blindsided like we were with this season.

2 good points in this thread- 1. the new staff has very little experience especially in P5 schools 2.Having P5 experienced coaches haven't equaled winning / success both points don't clearly state the obvious reason why this crew should outperform the last- the last crew were proven losers- I think it is clear to anyone now that the Riley hire and crew had a predictable outcome based on their past history, and however abbreviated the history may be for Frosts crew, they have a predictable outcome, which in the short term will be getting back to winning seasons and long term will be winning Championships.

We went toe to toe with Wisconsin in Rileys first two years so yes, I think we can hang with them with Frost at the helm.

I need 4 more wins to cash out!

I just don't get why my fellow Christians don't take the Gospel more to heart. It has to contain the most-read books. Why do they go scouring for what kind of genital contact is an abomination instead of focusing on acting like Jesus who was good to prostitutes and people with diseases and the poor?

Ha, even a broken watch is right twice a day. At this point I'll be happy if I end up with a non-negative score. I suck at this. Guess that's what I get for exerting virtually no thought and closely following the Vegas line.

Should be a much better transition this time around. After that trainwreck season this team is ready for a change and we hired a HC the team is actually excited about.

The o-line returns a lot of starters and by my count has 8 or 9 scholarship players that are sophomores or younger. I think the group is thin at tackles, but has decent depth at the interior line. I just don’t know what to think of the o-line because I think they were stuck with the worst coach on the previous staff. Cavanaugh only cared about pass blocking and getting 5 guys to play the entire game each Saturday. I think the position group will be rejuvenated by a new coach.

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Going all in.

I stopped believing anything that epley said about 25 years ago. There was a time when he was the best in the country but his ego and self promotion ended that. FTR, I think that Phillipe was probably every bit as good as Dobson was. While our team wasn't as strong, at least by the eye test, they were a better conditioned group than Dobson put out there. It may have been from lacknof effort in the first half, but rarely did it look like our team was gassed in the 2nd.