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  1. He'll be a good DC for them. Much better than average Nebraska fan believes.
    7 points
  2. If Purdue gets good at defense I'm gonna give up on football forever.
    6 points
  3. Considering he just got hired and 2020 is a few days away, I say yes
    6 points
  4. Well we can once again marvel at what a great coach he is right Eichorst? I just hope John Cook has a chance to pick his brain this time.
    5 points
  5. To be fair, they played no one, other than Texas, who they got destroyed by. I am however slightly concerned our defense under him was more of a Nebraska problem than a crazy Bob problem.
    5 points
  6. I am now on record as that game now moves to the WIN column.
    5 points
  7. My first thought as well. If we get beat by Diaco then I will officially believe in curses. That will be enough scientific evidence for me.
    4 points
  8. I’d put Vokolek numero uno on the TE depth chart right now
    4 points
  9. Oh boy. If he does well there I'm pretty sure about 90% of Husker fan's heads will explode
    4 points
  10. Seem's that Slusher wanted to go to a SEC team, after he had made a commitment to Oregon, who is a hell of a lot better than Ark. We wanted him bad also. Read all the time the top recruits want to play in the SEC, because they say it's a fast track to the NFL. Recruit's flip I get it, but PAC 12 didn't help themselves with how their viewed. OSU winning the NC and the rest of B1G winning bowl games, would only help the image, of the B1G. There is only so many spots on each team, not everyone can play at OSU. If we learned anything by Slusher and other players, conference status seems to matter. jmo GBR!!!
    4 points
  11. A couple things. I admit that i have been beating this drum about Martinez for a while now. The reason for it is that i believe very strongly that, although their were many reasons we are 5-7, the single biggest reason was our QB play. The QB has more effect on the outcome of a game than any other single player on a team, not just for Nebraska. To point out how big of a difference the QB can make, with Burrow at QB we dont lose to Colorado, Indiana, Purdue, or Iowa. That puts us at 9-3. As good as Burrow or Fields are, we may even have beaten Wiscy. Like i said its not personal its just sports. Martinez seems like a great guy, someone id be proud of as a friend or son or brother. But on the football field he was really bad, and it was more on the mental side of things, so i dont think the injuries had much to do with it. Maybe things will click mentally and he will be very good next year. If not i hope Luke is playing. Adrian certainly has potential, and can take contact. He has alot of talent thats for sure. For the record his ethnicity has nothing to do with the fact i think he was a bad quarterback this year.
    4 points
  12. I feel a lot of people will be shocked at how much of a difference having more than one WR will have on the offense.
    3 points
  13. I could've shut out Miami... by that I mean my non-college-athlete a$$ could've have single handedly shut out Miami
    3 points
  14. Luke McCaffrey as..................... The obvious answer is he didn't get his chance to try kicking field goals and extra points this last season.
    3 points
  15. But can Luke McCaffrey even play fullback?
    3 points
  16. First of all, the claim was the 4 and 5 stars would all be offered things. I can buy that, doesn't mean every school is offering something. I hope we don't do it, but it wouldn't be much on Frost's radar if we did. It's the kind of thing you don't talk about with the coaches, as the article mentions. If we're talking just offering kids money to come here, I'm sure we don't. If we're talking occasional payments/"gifts", I hope we don't but wouldn't be shocked if we do.
    3 points
  17. 3 points
  18. So I'm watching the Panthers vs Saints this afternoon and I continue to have the same thoughts I had all this season with the Huskers. The Saints hit a home run with Taysom Hill. IF 2AM wins the QB race for 2020, why not use Luke like the Saints to Taysom. Taysom is listed as 6'2/221 and Luke is listed as 6'2/200...They use him as a receiver, slot receiver, QB, wildcat QB, RB etc......He is a playmaker and makes things happen. Watching Luke in limited duty last season, he is a tough runner and took some hits. Another season of lifting and he gets bigger and more durable. IMHO, he is too dynamic to sit on the bench the entire season. Again, maybe 10-12 snaps per game in the positions mentioned above.....Give DC's something else to think about in that he might be a decoy, might get the direct snap, double pass etc......It's off season.....What can I say.
    2 points
  19. Of course Vokolek looked great on the scout team, where they were simulating offenses that use TEs.
    2 points
  20. A few things. I remember reading that article a few years ago plus a few times Sports Illustrated has written about it too. I'm not an expert but this is my understanding of how this stuff works. 1) The head coach rarely has anything to do with this stuff and is shielded from it. It's plausible deniability. Just like in politics people shield presidents and senators from things. 2) A booster doesn't need any connection to the football program to pay a kid. All he needs to know is if a kid is in town on a visit (and he can easily find this out online now) and he can magically " bump" into him. If a coach on staff is needed for help it's a GA or a position coach at the highest. 3) Players aren't given thousands of dollars unless they're already on campus. They're given a few hundred on visits to build relationships. Once a kid is on campus and playing well, then maybe they start getting more. $300 is easy to cover up or explain away. $10,000 is not. $100,000 definitely is not. 4) Some kids don't want impermissible benefits and don't take them. Some do. If you think Nebraska, along with every other Big 10 school, isn't cheating then you're kidding yourself. The only thing is the head coach probably is not in on it. If purity in collegiate athletics is important to you, then watch D-III or NAIA.
    2 points
  21. ...because he learned from ALL of his mistakes as our DC??? Bad doesn't begin to describe our defense under Diaco.
    2 points
  22. I would honestly rank both poor special teams play and poor linebacker play ahead of bad QB play. And in that order, too.
    2 points
  23. I was curious how you were defining "balanced," just for discussion's sake. This may not have been at all what you meant, but just some scattered thoughts: One of the reasons I believe that we've sucked so bad the past two seasons is because there weren't good offensive line recruits that really panned out in the '15, '16, '17, and '18 classes. That then started to change with Frost's second class ('19) and again in this one. I think we could have gotten away with this better in terms of the W/L column if we were still playing in the Big 12 where the quality of defenses (at least in my opinion) is markedly lower than in the B1G. I think that the class averages of '15-'18 was dragged up by skill players - but in the B1G, if you had the choice you'd probably want it the other way around where you're top heavy on linemen versus skill players. Frost is now finding that balance and the high quality offensive line recruits are piling in. Then and only then does your team start really trending up in the Big 10 IMO.
    2 points
  24. There's a huge difference between someone making the "okay" sign with their hand and someone dressing as a Klansmen. But you know that. Why do you do this?
    2 points
  25. We do use a FB. It is called the read key. Instead of blocking the end, we read the end. Instead of leading on and iso, we run a RPO. When you a bring a FB in the box, the defense brings in another player to defend the box. By being a spread team you can account for the FBs guy by reading a defender. It is riskier in the NFL bc teams don’t want to run the QB. In ncaa you can run the qb without as much risk of injury.
    2 points
  26. A lot to unpack here. I don't have much time, but the thing that sticks out immediately to me is If you're of the opinion that an injury to the non-throwing shoulder doesn't matter you've never thrown a baseball or football property one time. Clearly, there are differences between the front side and the throwing arm. But your front side is extremely important. Stand sideways and throw a baseball or football without raising your off shoulder/arm.
    2 points
  27. Kind of the whole point of the article is what is there to report? Most of the time it's not paying a kid $20,000 to go to a school, it's buying/finding him a TV because he doesn't have one. Or slipping him some spending money. Who is going to prove that he didn't get the money or whatever himself?
    2 points
  28. After this season I assume Frost is only wondering how we can figure him into a bubble screen.
    2 points
  29. Imagine all the ineffective side to side passes they could dream up with two QBs in the game. I hope there is an honest QB competition for next year.
    2 points
  30. I suppose he'll have to get reprimanded or something for this but it's awesome.
    2 points
  31. I think the frustration has less to do with how good Burrow is, and more to do with how bad Adrian is (now). At the time of Frosts decision it seemed to be the right one. But mentally Burrow is on a completely different level than Adrian right now. You cant blame his shoulder injury on his NON-THROWING shoulder past the halfway point in the season. If im honest, and not trying to spare someones feelings, AM is as off mentally as i have EVER seen a starting QB. You could heal all his injuries, put LSU's offensive line in front of him, give him LSU's receivers, and he STILL will not time the throws right, not see open guys, hesitate on his decisions, and often miss open receivers even when he DOES see them, including simple screen passes that will not hit the runner in stride. I dont know what the kid is going through, and its nothing about Character, but even with plenty of fans admitting how off Martinez was this entire year, overall i dont think most of our fan base on here at least realizes just how bad he was. It amazes me how many people will blame the OL, the Receivers, and the defense more than the QB, or blame injuries, some phantom sophmore slump theory, anything other than how mentally god aweful he was. Its just the truth. Someone mentioned how much of a difference 1 really good player makes. Especially at QB. With a healthy Vedral (a halfway decent QB) we are 7-5 this year instead of 5-7. With a Joe Burrow level QB (and dont tell me Adrian was much faster than burrow or could buy any more time than Burrow with his legs this year) even if he is not a supposed dual threat QB, we are 9-3 this year. Thats how much difference a very good QB vs a bad QB can make.
    2 points
  32. If Frost recruits in the Top 15-20 range again in 2021, not only will he have the best four year run in recruiting since the 90's but we'll have the most talented and more importantly most balanced roster of talent that we've had since we were playing for a National Championship. Me likey.
    2 points
  33. Scout-team MVPs hope to help Huskers more in 2020 By BRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON 5 hours ago Both Travis Vokolek and Garrett Snodgrass hope they jump into bigger roles in 2020 after being named the offensive and defensive scout team MVPs for Nebraska in 2019, respectively. "Snods, I think he just needed a year in the program to kind of get his feet wet," Nebraska head coach Scott Frost said of the York native recently on the Husker Sports Network. "But he kept coming on as the year went along and did an unbelievable job sacrificing for us on scout team." Snodgrass did play in three games on special teams, and is someone to keep in mind at that middle linebacker spot along with guys from his class like Nick Henrich, Luke Reimer and Jackson Hannah, who will try to build the depth there in 2020. Meanwhile, the tight end Vokolek, who transferred from Rutgers, certainly will bring a giant frame to the competition along with his Big Ten game experience. LINK
    1 point
  34. @Minnesota_husker capitalizes with perfect scores in a quadruple-point game and a triple-point game to surge into the lead with 89. @commando not far behind with 81. You can post your picks for the National Championship game any time before kickoff. Results and Standings
    1 point
  35. Time + weight room + nutrition will thicken and fill out that frame.
    1 point
  36. I'm beginning to feel the strain. Can't you feel the strain?
    1 point
  37. NU has yet to have a TE under SF that is long / strong / Fast - so it will be interesting to see how he uses the rutgers transfer (voletick?) Next season. There has also been talk of some 3 TE sets. A long TE can be an advantage over a short FB. No reason an athleletic TE cant lineup in the back field and plow for 3 yards on a 3rd and 2 or chip a line man and then catch a 3 yard pass better then a FB.
    1 point
  38. FWIW: American: 3 Big East: 7 43 of top 50 comes from the Major 7. The outliers: Gonzaga (6) Dayton (9) San Diego St (20) St. Mary’s (26) BYU (38) VCU (44) Utah St (50)
    1 point
  39. About 9 months to try to see the strain. Purdue ran a 4-3 last year. Bold strategy Brohm, let’s see how this pays off
    1 point
  40. What is it with us having former Hawkeyes as defensive coordinator? Diaco played at Iowa 92-95. Chins played 98-02.
    1 point
  41. Not only this, but those plays were there if the other receivers executed their blocks. I'm not sure if you could see it on TV, but most of those failed plays were due to a WR or TE blocking the wrong guy or completely whiffing on his block.
    1 point
  42. It's a long off season guys. Pace yourselves.
    1 point
  43. Ukraine has less than 1/3 as many people and 1/30th as much land as Russia. Of course they still need help if they have to fight a war against Russia. Whatever resources they can use to fund equipment, Russia can always beat them. They have 10x the GDP of Ukraine and it's not because Ukraine did something wrong in the 28 years they've been a country. Additionally they've been left to deal with Chernobyl. Russia won't admit the health problems its caused and I doubt they're helping keeping it contained, which is expensive.
    1 point
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