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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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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.

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

No, we do not need to copy anyone. Frosts offense is designed to put stress on the defense and catch them off guard. It uses big play ability and deep ball passing to keep the defense guessing. He runs the ball a lot, but nothing like Wisconsin. I would rather have take it to the house with tempo and score then slowly pound the rock. I would also rather be able to blow teams out and run an exciting offense. Wisconsin does their thing well, but the offense they run has a ceiling of points that they can score against top 50 teams. Although today they are doing well with extended time against Miami today. Frost will build his culture where we will outwork Wisconsin and build continued success just like they do.

I'm on the record for thinking Chins will suck. Think hiring a more experienced DC would have been a better play. I figure they will better than Diaco and his crap but will struggle to be above average while at NU.

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.

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

Accountability in the weight room seemed like a problem, from what I heard. The woes on the field including a weak OL, something directly linked to S&C.

Frost has a golden ticket. He's 'one of our own.' He will get to do things we've complained about with other coaches. As far as Frost as HC, that hire makes sense whether he was a Husker or not. Hottest up and coming name in coaching. Other big football programs rumored to be after him. All coaches will bring a staff that they think is loyal and familiar with their systems but it didn't even seem like Frost looked at anyone else. Could be wrong? Bo 'hired' his buddies.' Many people were upset that Riley brought so many of his friends from Oregon State. Frost has done all of this but it is OK because he won an NC here? As for the 'No Block, No Rock' that stuff plays great with a blue collar pound the rock mentality and it caters to a fan base with glory days based in running the ball. I wonder how it plays with elite receiver recruits?

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.

This is a fair concern. And well founded considering the struggles of our last two staffs.

Most coaches that are coaching right now didn't start off at P5 schools: Nick Saban - Toledo Urban Meyer - Illinois State, Bowling Green Mike Leach - Coached at Cal Poly, College of the Desert (Whaaaaa?!?), Pori Bears (Whaaaaaa??!!??!?), Iowa Wesleyan, Valdosta State prior to getting his first P5 Job. Gus Malzahn - Coached High School Football, Toledo prior to his Arkansas Tenure

Sam Stein lays bare the hypocrisy & bad faith found in most circles of the Republican Utopia (particularly influential media figures):

I'm not saying Lee will get drafted high, or at all, but if turnovers are a part of it, then why is USC's Sam Darnold predicted to be such a high pick - he had more turnovers than Lee did. I do think Tanner will at least get a look. Wish him the best of luck.

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'm right there with you on this. Individually, they are a "meh" group. But, i think together, the chemistry and amount of trust between them overcomes their collective lack of resume. They're going to make mistakes and they'll need time to gel with their new team, but i think they'll get there in a year or two.

Yep. I'll take this staff over the last. The new one went 12-0........And have the most explosive O in FBS to date..... As @Comfortably Numb said above, when looking back on the staff were they really that good? They could get the stars to NU, but the classes were not much higher than Bo's....Coupled with going 4-8......Unsure on the D if that was just the "strain" of Diaco....I'm leaning to give them more of a break than the O.....The on field production didn't live up to the resumes of the previous staff.

I think that’s fair to say. And I’ve been waiting for someone to say something along those line. As you alluded to, the other side of the coin is that doing it the other way hasn’t exactly gotten us great results. I think we’re seeing that Pelini’s crew didn’t really get enough credit for what they were actually able to do on the field - not that it was great but it was a lot harder to win 9-10 games and division championships than a lot of people thought it was. But overall disappointing results. So I’m fine with trying a different route.

Mike Riley's first two teams played Wisconsin nearly straight up. He upset a Top 5 ranked Michigan State that first year. Ohio State got curb stomped by a middling Iowa squad this year. It's really hard to sustain excellence over a season - or several seasons - that's why we're chasing these programs, but there is no reason to concede a loss to Wisconsin, Ohio State, or anyone else before the game is played. I expect an immediate turnaround from Frost because we went 4 and frikkin 8 last season. A change of attitude should be enough for three additional wins alone. It's not exactly magical thinking or delusional fandom -- it happens all the time. Most recently at the University of Central Florida.

I hope we sign 2-4 JUCOs per year minimum. Plenty of high profile JUCOs that can help us every year. Held has the contacts and ability to make it happen and we would be stupid to not get JUCO help. It will help us cover the gap between our talent and the Ohio states of the world. Add a Lavonte David and Randy Gregory to a defense and see what happens

In that Northwestern game the couple decisions mentioned above were real head scratchers, not punting on own 30+ and that over the top fake pass play instead of just running for a yard. Fun fact, this was the first time they won 2 bowl games back to back. Gentlemen we were watching history in the making, 20 years from now you will remember where you were when you watched that game. I was on a couch.

White "christianity" and their politics of hate, intolerance, bigotry, and fear (of non-whites, lbgtqia, immigrants, etc) has been something I have been talking about for a VERY long time. I've made some pretty strong generalizations in the past, but that's only because I've seen with my own eyes everything I've ever spoken about. And the worst part is, I know for a fact there are genuinely good Christians out there--white Christians who are NOT racists, bigots, anti-lbgtqia, anti-immigrants, etc. The problem is, those few moderate voices are mostly shouted down by the Mike Pence's, Mike Huckabee"s, and Ted Cruz's in this country. As an atheist I am 100% in favor of religious liberty. I think people should be free to pick whatever, I think, bogus religion (or none at all) that they believe works for them. However, one's religious beliefs does not, and should never, supercede anyone's right to live and exist. And when someone uses their "faith" as weapon to discriminate against someone else, that's crossing the line and is not covered by religious liberty.

He wasn't going to get spooked Having said that, if a player is spooked by competition I would rather not see them on the team.

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.

I would consider myself a conservative Christian. I was prepared to not like the article, however, the author is right on many accounts. I fell that evangelicals lost their way as they sold themselves to the Republican party. When it comes to politics I feel any group screws themselves when they put all of their eggs in one basket. (political party) Christians have done this with the Repubs. You end up living or dying with them. Ask the groups on the left who feel disenfranchised right now. As Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." I have many friends who are very conservative Christians who are also liberal. Some Christians would think they are headed to hell. I think that would go against what the Bible teachers.

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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You couldn't use a UCF photo? C'mon man!

^ Painted From Memory (the album) is amazing. They blended perfectly.