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Frost interviewed both Harrell and Whipple Sunday. Whipple was the choice and they went after him. Speculation that he'll get around $900k to come here.

So UMASS going from 110 to 35 and Pitt going from 112 to 3 is just completely ignored? Outside of the fact those are not talent rich schools at all.

I hope everyone who was freaking out feels real good about themselves right now LOL If it truly ends up being Whipple, Quinn, Joseph, and Busch filling the vacant positions, I'm honestly not sure how much more people could have asked for.

It's impossible to answer specific items in this rambling mess. I just think it's lazy for people's answer to the ills of Nebraska football is just to say "We need to go back and do things how they were in the 80s and 90s. That will work for sure!!"

Word is Whipple is the first choice, though it was previously reported it might be tough to get him to leave. Anae and Harrell are said to be the other finalists.

Some pushback on the Mitch Sherman rumor.

Not sure if Harrell will work or not, but excuse me for pointing out that a sample size of 1 doesn’t indicate make you Nostradamus.

Jeff Quinn said to be the current favorite for OL.

Rhymes with Mitch but starts with a B.

You've done this in the past, and you are doing it again now. Your "wish" for an offense at Nebraska is completely unrealistic and is based on how offenses operated 30-40 years ago. You want 550 yards of offense a game? Well only one team in the country achieved that in 2021 (Ohio State). You want 300 yards rushing? That was done by 2 military academies, Air Force and Army. You want a 70-30 run-pass ratio? Again, only done by military academies. You want a top offense in the country while having more rush yards than passing yards? Of the top 20 offenses, only 1 team is anywhere near a 50-50 ratio and that Coastal Carolina. You need to have an understanding of how modern football actually works, because your posts make no sense when you make posts of your "wishes". The only thing that will make your wish come true is if you get in that Delorean of yours and go back to the 1980s and 1990s.

Beckton moves to RB, GA takes TEs with Joseph. Hiring a STC - probably Busch.

Can we just quit overreacting like this?

I have my plate ready

That guy pushing us to run the flexbone was.

I'm somewhere in the middle on pro or anti Frost camp, but if he hires Graham Harrell he might as well just resign. I think hiring Kendall Briles given what he was associated with at Baylor is also a travesty. Hell of a play caller, toilet of a human being.

Well.....Mickey Joseph was lame duck by your example and he's a damn good hire. If Harrell does become the new OC, there are many things he brings to the table that are upgraded. We are not completely changing scheme, so that's not a concern. I think Harrell would eba better recruiter than Walters, Lubick or Verduzco And perhaps someone like Harrell would be better at quarterback development than Verduzco ended up being for us?

Give me Whipple over Harrell all day

Does the Pope s#!t in the woods?!

Quick, someone make a thread stating that Grimes is the favorite. It will blow other board's minds.

He's not bad, its just fans having a higher opinion of where the program is at right now and who we can realistically get. I'd say that the offense's issue this past year was the oline over anything schematically. There was good success against all the top teams that we played and they were the only team to really light up Wisconsin this year (something Frost has done every year he's faced them). I think Harrell can help improve the overall efficiency of the offense so it's not as much boom or bust. If I were to rate the prospective hires, though, Harrell'd be in the top 5, but not my first choice.

I’m not sure why so many are against him. He’s not my first choice, but he’s a solid choice. To your point, USC’s defense ranked 89th in total defense this year. They definitely didn’t help the offense out. USC were 25th in total offense, right behind Nebraska. Georgia was 27th and OU was 28th for comparison sake.

Maybe, just maybe, if we had a dedicated section on this board for rumors the rest of the board wouldn't get filled with them.

In the morning!

Seems like a weird thing to think is weird. Typically you resign from a job to take a new job.

Someone in addition to already changing Whipple’s page, have changed Quinn’s now as well.

Guys, I think Kenny Pickett would actually be eligible for one more year at a different school as a grad transfer if he wanted it. Just saying...

If Frost goes out and assembles a staff of legit P5 dudes, color me hyped. (Assuming we get a QB).

At the end of the day points scored are most important for an offense and Pitt was 3rd in the nation. https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/27

He simply hasn't had the resources and pedigree at his disposal, always punching in a weight class above him. Imagine what he'll do here

"Family related" as in his wife wants a bigger house...

It's family-related. His family will be moving with him to his new job.

The quote by Toure was super easy to get right. Sherman wasn't running out of space in the tweet. So why edit it? That's a major mistake from a guy who's been in the business as long as Mitch. Completely self-inflicted wound on Sherman's part.

I am going to stand up a bit for Sherman. Sherman never specifically said that AM and SF were butting heads. Here are the paragraphs in his article that talk about the Frost/player dynamics: Second, this guy is completely overstating Sherman's tweet about the Toure comment on Smothers. Some people are just looking for things to get angry about. Here is Mitch's tweet: Here is Sherman's next tweet after people got their panties in a wad: And lastly, Sherman didn't misquote "Toure with the sole intention of getting more bites to click on his article." because there IS NO ARTICLE TO CLICK ON.

What your arguing was also claimed back then too. Dam few teams ran the Osbone or wishbone then. That’s why it worked better than any other offense - when run exceptionally well. Two primary advantages to a different run based offense: 1 Teams never practiced against it and really couldn’t even simulate it at the level needed to defend it. Because nobody could as didn’t know how and didn’t have time. 2. Recruiting was much easier when you recruited athletes that nobody else wanted. In the everybody else offenses, NU and OU have to search high and low and try to lure guys away from home. OU has had success because of Texas being close and the SW conference imploded basically leaving lots of guys available for those two. Texas used the bone along with half a dozen others in the 70s as well. Today - to run what virtually everybody else does, NU must out recruit the top 5 to get the very best fun n gun guys. Can’t be done. Even TO tried, unsuccessfully to run the popular offenses in the 70s but couldn’t best teams with comparable and better talent. So, he wisely converted to an offense nobody else ran and the 80s and 90s resulted. if NU goes even further away from power run / option, things, things will get worse, not better. Bama sits in the heart of football talent. Ohio Stste similarly. Clemson draws off the SE pool (AL, GA, Fl with scatterings from outside. Milt Tenopir built his pipeline - he didn’t recruit it essentially. We recruited guys who were all but ignored by most non-power / option. Finding future NFL guys was NOT a Neb recruiting goal. We wanted the tough, hardest working guys we could make into Husker football players. Some became pros but mostly defensive guys. We had many great QBs but not many NFL QBs. OU the same way. Bama and Texas likewise. But all 4 programs won lots of games. It will be a terrible mistake to try to go all pass happy (ier) in the effort to get over the hump. Frost and many others say we are ‘close’ and we were this year. But close to what? Winning 6 more games by 3 or 7 pts and being 9-3 instead of 3-9? That’s still a long ways from 12-0 and winning a natty. That gets us up to where TO was before he switched offenses and then changed defenses from big and slow to small and fast. Our defenses which became good at beating the air raid teams had trouble stopping our own offense, even though we saw it everyday in practice. We usually stuffed the other Big 8 foes who tried to play BB on grass but with lesser talent overall. Miami beat us with great defense, not offense. TO and BD both also made sure the special teams were exceptional. Period. Frost is so focused on offense (trying to out fun n gun the rest) he loses sight of the other aspects of building a championship caliber team. He uses too many scholarships on skill offensive spots, he fails to get great defensive guys and specialists. He even ignored the O line - I guess thinking the big dummies are easy to just grab off the street.

x1000 I'm curious how any of the proposed OC's schemes would mesh with what we have and how it will play out. I wasn't a fan of hiring Harrell at first, but the cry assing in this thread is making me root for hiring Harrell just to see the reaction. Plus, I'm now genuinely curious what he bring as a scheme here. Elements of the Air Raid with some RPO and TE's sounds interesting at least.

Man not I'm seeing it. He seems like a southern boy who is a little awkward in front of the camera. I didn't see the arrogance at all.

Staff is visiting him today in Louisiana:

here's the rankings- Big Ten/NCAA- 130 teams ranked- avg would be an NCAA ranking of 65 points- 22.7 9th/37th Total Defense- 366.0 8th/52 Rushing defense- 146.9 8th/58 Passing Defense-219.1 9th/42 Sacks- 22 10th/98th Interceptions 10 6th/52nd Opp. 3rd down Conversions 39.2% 10th/71st Opp. 4th down Conversions 31.6 2nd/5th Red Zone defense 11th/61st 8th/53 There is no denying that last years defense was the best in a long time. you could even take out the special team and offensive points given up and they would rank 3rd in points, if you don't do it for every team at about 17.3 points per game. The defense played extremely hard and kept us in games but look at the numbers and they were just above average

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Our offense is almost Tim Miles-bad. I didn't think that was possible.

Why the hell would we want the Charmin guy as our OC?

Harrell comes off as another "Big 10 is going to adjust to us" type hire.

I'd be willing to bet a lot of the people ticked off about how slow this process is going were also frustrated that Frost brought his entire staff with him back when he was hired. You can't have it both ways. He is likely doing his due diligence. The fact is, trying to get 3-4 coaches who are great teachers and mentors is not easy. Trying to get 3-4 coaches who will mesh well with each other and the current coaches, as well as be able to put together a solid offense and recruit, and oh by the way, actually want to come to Nebraska right now, is a big time challenge. Am I prepared to be underwhelmed, of course. But I at least think Frost is thinking outside the box of guys he's worked with and trying to find guys he can learn from. That's what Saban does. He surrounds himself with the best coaches and tries to learn new things from them all the time. I don't know if he'll make the right hires, and even if they're announced tomorrow we won't really know until next fall if they work out. One thing I do know is I'll be following closely and cheering them on, just like most of you suckers. GBR!