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Hiring Lance Leipold, my username would be Lance Leipold. Thats not fun. I dont want him.

Can you list one reason why trev would announce tomorrow instead of waiting 3.5 days later for the season to wrap? There is literally zero coherent reason to announce tomorrow outside of appeasing desperate anxious fans who seem to have the patience of a 3 year old

Just think, in a week he’ll announce the new coach, then we can all complain about him.

It isn’t cosplay when you get, or have been, paid to put the uniform on. Your childish insult aside, you do realize that the academies are probably the hardest jobs in FBS and Army is the hardest of the three? What Monken has done at Army is amazing. Oh and he just beat a bowl eligible UConn 34-17. What Monken would bring is leadership, an emphasis on culture and development, a tenacious approach to recruiting, and a tailored plan that would fit NU. People hear Monken or Calhoun and automatically think triple option, but I am pretty sure Monken would employ a power run first spread O with option elements to it, not the same O he runs at Army. Monken isn’t the offensive play caller for Army, nor is he married to their scheme. He has modified his offensive and defensive approach as needed over the years based on what he feels his talent available would succeed at. Monken is a program builder pure and simple, it is naive to blindly think of him as a triple option guy.

Both Alito and Wright are denying the story.

Bullcrap. Navy just beat ranked UCF with FAR inferior athletes. Air Force was bowl eligible a month ago. Army just beat up bowl eligible UConn. The service academies can't really recruit, yet have won 11 games multiple seasons the last decade. What we've tried to do the last 20 years doesn't work.

Nebraska fans will be very happy that Monken doesn’t get the job and so will big 10 west coaches that don’t have to prepare for his offense. Nobody wants that smoke.

NO TO ANY COACHES!

If anyone plays a great defense, they struggle to move the ball. Defenses today aren't built to stop power option football. They're built to stop the spread. What I wouldn't give to play bully-ball against conference opponents again instead of patty-cake and getting pushed around...

Man, there is a bunch of way too depressed people on here today. Did that one loss to Wisconsin yesterday make everyone that crazy? I don't know how that game has suddenly changed people's mindset, but the Wisconsin game pretty much happened how so many games have happened the past 5 years. I've been saying all year the program is broken. But that doesn't mean there isn't a coach out there who can get NU back to winning. It just takes one coach, and that doesn't necessarily need to be a "big name".

We're not hiring Monken. Let It Go

If you listened to TA’s summary of what he is looking for in a coach, Monken checks all of the boxes. He is a grinder who will emphasize development and culture. Nebraska needs a program builder right now, Monken is a proven program builder.

I get it alot of the fan base participates in military cosplay. Monken sucks he plays an extremely soft schedule and still manages to lose to teams like Uconn & Ball State. You can't run the option today, linebackers run like WRs & Safeties have range of the whole field. Way different story in the 90s.

I completely understand wanting a big-name guy to move the needle, especially in recruiting… But I don’t believe it has to be that type of person to get dudes here. most on the board believe MJ is not a household name and would not be considered for any many other HC Giggs based on his résumé, yet he is an amazing recruiter. It will always be difficult to recruit five * to Lincoln Nebraska. This is why it’s more important to get a developer then anything else. I think expecting nine wins within the next three years is a little too optimistic. It would be wonderful, and you might catch lightning in a bottle like Michigan State did through the portal, but that is not how you build a program and it will be a seesaw affair. You better learn how to walk before you run, which means building with 6 to 7 winds working your way up after 4 to 5 years

Texas A&M never won in the Big XII and hasn't won in the SEC. I'd say it's the biggest underachieving program with the resources they have. Sirr Parker dethroning K-State's dream season and Manziel-Evans attention. That's really it for the program in recent history. Might have an oil well in College Station but it is a dry hole for football sucsess. R.C. Slocum was pretty darn good years ago and they haven't really topped it.

Kyle Field: home of the 0.12th man!

Monken is a fantastic coach. The risk is coaching at Nebraska is nothing like either of his HC jobs, massive risk. Might take time for him to figure out coaching a B1G school, recruiting at a B1G school...people are not going to be very patient.

Admo, im starting to think this is you.

I'd like an offense that is dedicated to getting a RB 25 touches a game. One the has the ability to do traps, counters and draws to counter an aggressive DL ie anyone that NU faces. Use a 2 back set to run this. Allow another blocker on passing downs. A lead blocker when we are up 14-3 to get us 2 yards. And not every down. I am a HUGE fan of the triple option. BUT that was simply another wrinkle for TO's scheme. Have we used the RB on a toss sweep once this year? Tried to do anything (even under Frost) to counter the DL or push? A creative running game, which Whip is incapable of calling, would do wonders. PA, roll the QB out to pass or on a designed RPO.

FYI - you don't have to quote yourself if you wish to share a continuation of your previous thought. You can just click the three dots and 'Edit.'

Monken or Calhoun would bring the Nebraska brand of football back very quickly

Really in depth analysis there. Thanks for contributing to the conversation.

Fair point, but I want a proven program builder. Calhoun took over for the legendary Fisher Deberry, whom he played for and had his first coaching jobs under. The AF program took a bit of a dip at the end of DeBerry’s tenure, but the foundation was already there and it was really a lot to do with DeBerry’s energy to continue to grind like you have to at an academy, not a broken foundation. Monken has proven he can build a program at different levels of CFB. He guided Georgia Southern to the FBS level as HC after taking them to the FCS playoffs semifinals 3 years in a row. He did a total rebuild of Army from the ground up of every aspect of the program, recruiting, S&C, culture, etc., under the most restrictive conditions of any program period. That is why I would prefer Monken if you are choosing between the two.

https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/98017-who-should-our-next-hc-be/

I swear to god if its Campbell im going to tomahawk all my stored cans of soup.

Trev is going to be on Big Noon Kickoff to announce Urban as the new Husker Coach. I heard it from a guy who hangs out with Urb at Grinder's bar.

Monken sucks give it a rest

No to any academy coaches!!! Not happening no way no how

I say this once every 200 pages or so, but I am so excited to see y'alls reaction to the Mike Locksley hiring news.

Why wouldn’t private jets fly into Lincoln’s airport? There is no need to fly into Eppley and then drive from Omaha.

Trev isn’t here at Culver’s

We are down to TikTok rumors? Figured that would be about 75 pages from now.

Rumblings on TikTok about the search company that NU is using and Urban Meyers jets landed at Eppley at the same time today. Take that for what you will..

People have been joking about certain guys being Riley 2.0 Traylor truly would be Riley 2.0. Every person in Nebraska would simultaneously be performing Google searches

Decent article on Rhule. Says all the right things. And is undefeated at Baylor when his RB gets over 150 yards..Says if it was up to him, he'd use 22 personnel and play smash mouth in a vacuum. I like that. Haha https://footballscoop.com/news/matt-rhule-came-grips-rpo-game-smash-mouth-coach

I am a football coach who is definitely a run a run first guy and I absolutely love teams that will pound it down your throat…now, with that said Wiscy is typically a good example, but yesterday, they barely scored 15 pts against a really bad defense. Add in a Mobile qb who has a group of great TE… then yes

No, I'm not being sarcastic at all. That offense would destroy the BIG. I personally would switch it up once in a while to throw more passes out of the shotgun, but that was done regularly in Solich's pro offense;.. not really reinventing the wheel. I think we've been sold a load of crap with this scissor draw garbage. AG gets 8ypc...6 behind the line. The main requirement would be that we would prioritize the line as #1.

I'd like to just start with not being flipping terrible. We can go from there. Maybe a 4th place division finish and a bowl.

6-5 record

Klieman turned Easton Stick (a local 2-star from Creighton Prep) into a 5th round pick, 8th QB selected. Not to mention what he did with Wentz (unranked) and Lance (really low 3-star).

Here is a great article about the success of TO. Talks about guestimated recruiting stars and a lot of other stuff.... http://sportstreatise.com/2018/01/1995-nebraska-and-the-myth-of-championship-recruiting/ The other strategy for excellence is to purposefully recruit guys that are likely to thrive as role players with a narrower range of duties and then only rely on the exceptional talents at the positions that are necessarily featured by the scheme. Obviously that’s what Tom Osborne achieved. The local high schools in Nebraska were running his system and he was plucking the best and brightest talents from a limited pool in terms of executing the essential points of his system while recruiting nationally for the RBs, QBs, and defenders necessary to hold up against South Floridian athletes in championship games. They were able to recruit and develop well enough in conjunction with that system that they achieved the same effect and more of a team that’s really good at convincing brilliant athletes to master supporting roles. It’s the Jerod McDougal effect basically, every team can field a couple of great talents but the best teams have role players that will give anything and everything they have to thrive in a narrow and sacrificial role. Nebraska recruited guys to do that rather than asking stars to figure it out. This system didn’t require a pro-style TE that could run option routes, nor did it ask a ton in the passing game of the WRs save to try and run past conflicted safeties at times on play-action. The OL needn’t have the length and feet for pass protection (note the 6-2 LT), just the quickness, meanness, and necessary power to reach and drive defenders. Even the QB and RBs, while they needed to be superior athletes, could be recruited from a national pool due to the ‘Huskers brand and reputation for setting up their runners to look very good. On defense things were different. Osborne’s genius extended to offense and he had to update his “blackshirts” tactics and methods when his teams were regularly foiled by their inability to stop pro-style passing attacks from schools like Miami. Their defensive strategy essentially became to play the same style of 4-3 defense as everyone else with great athletes at outside linebacker and safety that would have to be recruited. No doubt their defenses were greatly aided by the fact that the offenses controlled the ball, ran clock, and scored lots of touchdowns.

I am curious where "everyone wants the program to be". I think people want NU to go from 3-4-5 wins which they have been at for most of the past 8 years to go right to 9-10-11 wins in no time. To me, that's unrealistic expectations. The program will need to get back to winning 7-8-9 wins, before fans should start expecting more.

If Klieman was coming from NDSU, would that change the perception around him more? He was a very good recruiter there, a proven winner, and , from all accounts, a well prepared game day coach. It's a weird phenomena that his promotion to K State has taken a bit of that shine away. He has more QBs in the NFL than Dabo.

I think the guy in the stall next to me had one too many runzas