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Who should we hire? Well in all honestly who wants this job? Frost I likely the only one that would say YES. I would imagine everyone else would say well idk maybe it could be neat or hell no. We go through coaches like my kids throUgh shoes. Now I hated the Riley hire and still can't stand him but no coach will want to come here knowing we fired a 9 win coach and went through another one in less than 5 years not even allowing him to use "his guys, for whatever the hell that means" and having just revamped the staff. Most coaches like stability plus other schools will use this against us in recruiting as I am sure they already do. Maybe coaches that know that they can get a massive buyout once they suck will consider this place but otherwise if you wise if you would think big names or young up and coming coaches would be interested (besides Frost), but I don't see it.

Tanner will be fine. Now what fine is I exactly don't know. I find it hard to believe he will miss the throws he did today each game. This has to be one of the biggest if not the biggest game he has played in a couple years. Hell he sat all last year out. Now yes I agree he needs to learn to go through his progressions and not lock in but when the nerve of not playing an actual games hit, it's not as easy to do. It will come in time. Problem is not sure if the fans will give him that. Also again playcalling isn't setting him up for success either. In my opinion. Settle him down on screens roll him on some bootlegs where little dump offs are there. Stop having high snaps (only happened a couple times but killed the timing)

What I really didn't understand was the complete failure of clock management. Yes we had a chance but had we played with any urgency late I believe we get 1 maybe 2 more possessions. Also why the hell was every pass play off of play action at the end of the game. They knew were we throwing and it didn't suck the backers or freeze the safeties. In fact they would have loved us to ran and get 5 and waste 35 seconds of clock. All it did was make the pass plays have to take tanner longer to get set and deliver which in turn allows the d line to get push Like they did. As for the last INT. I see and hear people saying he was throwing into coverage regardless. I think he was trying to go deep on the post route on the sideline. It was man coverage on that WR so not a terrible idea but with two minutes not needed. Also did diaco learn 4 linebackers can't cover 4 wr and a speed back on pass plays yet?? 3rd downs and turnover tell the story. Bend but not break sure as hell broke hard today. I fear what will happen all year.

To answer the do people in MI work, likely not. I think Ann Arbor is EST though (damn state has both CST and EST), so its 630 for them.

Sorry if this has maybe discussed, if so then my bad. I dont post often but always am always on here reading for recruiting news and injury updates. Or to see how many "fire (insert coach name here threads)". But is it just me or does it seem like this year the D line is simply not getting hands up to disrupt QB passing lanes or tip passes. I have been noticing this a lot throughout the early season. There were several seam routes or plays in the middle of the field were if the D line would get their hands up i think the passes would have been deflected. Just seems that tipped passes happened often in the past and you saw that a lot but not seeing it as much or at all this year. The D line in my opinion is getting a decent push and i think they could have tipped or disrupted several passes. Sadly the same could be said for the secondary, in good position (many times) but cant turn heads and get the hand up.

not sure if this was stated already, but what about 1985 Okie St? I believe that was in stillwater and was indeed at night, well pending whatever constitutes as night and we won

I would be curious to see what percentage of our passes are 20yd or more down field. I think the problem truly starts there, even great NFL QBs dont complete these passes at a high clip so why are we attempting so many deep passes? I mean I am not saying NEVER do it, I am just saying we have WRs like Bell and Pierson El and even Reilly now who can turn a 10yd slant or 5yd curl into a long gain. The times Tommy struggles is when he has pressure in his face, he tends to then throw the ball off his back foot which causes it fo sale on deep balls or or short routes that require touch he throws with his hands lagged behind and makes it appear that he flicks the ball out and he seems to miss these high. However, on many 3-5 step drops when he hits it and fires on short passes to sidelines or the middle he has looks good overall. My big concern is that Beck tries to over think everything, you get inside the 5yd line, just run it in. Its not "neat" but damn its effective. I also agree with the above on the huddling, when we are running option routes and rubs or picks as some will call, you have to get everyone on the same page and it seems too many times this year that hasnt been the case. But seriously if someone gets the time, or if I do. See if there is a way to find the passing charts, I think we would all be surprised how often we are going deep. Maybe more of thats on Tommy, since the post might not always be the primary read but he is just taking it. Just my thoughts on this. GBR!!

YES! That makes me feel a ton better! Sinclair has been great, along with all the other starter really. My question would be is DeLeon even available this weekend?? I had heard last Saturday that he threw a bullpen session of only 28 pitches and all were fastballs. Sounds like he still has a ways to go, which is tough considering we really need him. I think Erstad might be regretting leaving him in so late in games when we have had a pretty decent back end of the bullpen pitching this year. However, hard to say I could blame him either. Anyone else hearing anything on DeLeon?

I believe we are already at the max for full time assistant coaches and therefore would have to let someone go to do this. Typicallys guys go and work with someone in the off season anyways and there are many teams that dont have a QB coach. I am sure there is some Youngstown middle school headcoach that Bo was buddiies with back in the day that he would be more than willing to give a couple hundred grand to come in and be an assistant at one of the most winningest programs in college football history (that was a joke). I get what you are saying about the QB coach, I have thought this before too and really would like Ganz to get that position but again I think we would have to get rid of someone to do so and i dont see any changes for next season.

Just so you can follow along, here is the list of players that needed to be used more and have the ball more this year: TM - till we saw how hurt he was. Armstrong - till we saw him play. Kellog - till the last game or two. Ameer - But don't you dare run him in the ground. Cross - Well, he is a beast so give him the ball. Enunwa - Can't you see he is unstoppable. He just needs the ball more. Any tightend - We just don't use them enough. Any fullback - because that is what Nebraska does. Bell - I don't care if his shoulder was hurt, he needs the ball. Turner - to hell with his hamstring, these coaches caused the injury anyway. Westercamp - can't you see he catches anything thrown his way? Newby - After all, he was all world coming out of HS....you need to get him the ball more than we saw this year. Adam Taylor - Really??? Redshirt??? You suck as a coordinator unless you get all of these players more touches. If they don't, they are all going to transfer. LOL that was awesome and spot on.

We're recruiting for Quincy's spot. You don't plug a 6'1" 185lb kid into a position that requires you to be 6'2 225lb. (Allen bulked up maybe?) Turner's a slot guy. Kinnie, Niles Paul, Enunwa...those guys play that spot. I agree and think Turner is more of a slot type wr. I would like to see Allen get the chance to play the opposite side of Bell, if he is 100%. Allen is a big body type reciever and seems to have good hands. Westerkamp is guy that I think can play both in the slot and on the egde. I think what could hurt Turner would be if Alzono Moore emerges and gets more time or we use a TE more (wont happen). However, I would like to see Turner used a lot in like a wingback type roll, run some speed option where he is the pitch man or use the Diamond more and have him in the backfield. Also returning punts and kickoffs would be nice. Turner can be a very explosive player and should get at least 5-7 touches per game in various roles.

IMO Richt is one of the most overrated coaches in the SEC. The state of Georgia is loaded with talent and half the guys go else where, everyone says he can recruit but thats like saying Mack Brown is a great recruiter, well he should be he never has to leave the state to get any players. Nebraska doesnt have that in state talent and i dont see Richt doing anything great to go and sit with big name kids and convince them to play here. He doesnt have anything on his resume that sticks out, well besides coaching in the SEC which to me is a very overrated conference that ESPN tries to make me care about. If you look at his team they lose 2 games a year that you scratch your head about, Vandy? The other thing that is evident is his teams will flat out quick, every 3 or 4 years its quote "their year" and they loose on early and get sad and tank the season and go 9-4 and beat some crappy B1G team in a bowl. To me this does no scream great coach.

We learned absolutely NOTHING. This is year 6 and its the same song and dance. Well maybe we learned that real coaching/coaches trump neat uniforms

In all honesty i think this game might have been one of the best things that could happen to us and the young defense. Memorial Staduim and the N on the side of your helment and number of stars some neat website gave you doesnt mean crap. We were not only out played but 100% out coached, the sad part about that is that in the Pelini Era this has happened quite frequently. I understand the defense is young but there was still bad tackling and terrible ball skills in the secondary. Bo said after the game that there were several times players were in the right spots to make plays but just didnt, i wish the reported had asked one simple question WHEN? The defense was put in horrible position, we gave them underneath routes and played 10yd off the outside recievers and let them run the secondary deep and leaving the middle open for the slot to run free. The man to man seemed to hurt, i would have liked to see maybe some zone underneath and more creative blitzing from corners and safeties. the offense seems to struggle adjusting from spread fast pace and slow power football, this is no surprise because even the great Oregon offensives had this issue. The difference is Oregon knew it and didnt change what worked and played fast and put 70 on anyone they could, Beck go too conservative and didnt "play to win the game, hello!" - Herm Edwards Dline- looked good, sometimes the edge rushers got too much pentration by using their speed and going out too wide to get around the tack and opened up throwing lanes (not too woried this will get fixed). Terrible call on the roughing the passer on the sack, this is were we seemed to loose the momentum and WY got it back, to me that was the turning point and instead of maning up we got sad and took after our coach and complained about the call versus sucking it up and getting mad and tearing WY to hell. LB- where were they??? Seriously anyone, i saw them maybe a handfull of time. Zarie Anderson, Santos, Afalava, these guys CAN play so geth them out there and let them make plays. SS- played below average for the most part, great tackle Green (hope that got him some time on the pine, this guy is a senoir and we can put the waterboy out there and see a better attempt to tackle). Also on the deeper passes they seemed to struggle finding the ball, should have had another pick on one of those flaoting passes CB- SJB (he can play and we are FINALLY using him!). Everyone else is ummmm maybe ok, its hard to tell when they were forced to cover for at least 7 second, for all the talk this unit got they played pretty poor but they were put in terrible positions by the coaching. I dont care what you say Pelini, they were NOT in good position SEVERAL times! Offense QB- nothing needs said, minus the pick and fumble (which didnt matter) Taylor played good. Bad play calling by not taking more shots down field to keep the safeties honest RB- WOW! Ameer, Imani, Newby, good luck B1G WR/TE- good as i figured, Turner, Bell, Enuwa beasts. TEs dont care because we dont use them anyways (see Reed and McNiel). OL- best under Pelini hmmm well probably because we have always had a bad line in the Bo era and this line isnt terrible more like mediocre to above average, so I guess this is correct. They did look like they were in great shape for how early and hot it was out, they wore down the Dline of WY ST- outside of the odd missed extra point, check Penalties- Alot and not a big surpise, see the last 5 years under Bo. Not trying to bash Bo just being honest. Coaches need to hold themselves accountable for getting these guys in positions to make the plays, the defensive play calling was flat out bad. We have a short peroid of time before UCLA but we will see. They say you make the biggest jump from week 1 to 2, so here is hoping we hold 0-12 (from last year) to under 500 yards.

Not trying to be negative but in all seriousness do we really use the TEs outside of blocking? We had 2 great TEs in McNeil and Reed in the past and didn’t use them near as much as we should have. I think Enuwa wants to catch more balls and not less therefore he is better off fighting for receptions with bell, and turner at WR. It seems every year we talk about the TEs and hear how they will be "used more" but I haven’t seen it. This really is no knock on the coaching staff; many teams have good TEs and don’t use them. It’s only a few teams in the NFL that pick some big dumb idiot (Gronk) and throw the ball to him 700 times a season, yet somehow no NFL team can stop him because they all live by the rule that you "have to" cover a TE with a LB of Safety, ummm no you don’t if that’s the other teams best pass catching weapon go ahead and line up your best corner on him and shut him out. With all the talent at wide out I would be fine seeing multiple WR sets with 4-5 wideouts and not using the TEs at all. Enuwa and Bell are great blockers and Turner is no slouch either. Either way I am sure we will be just fine at TE like most seasons.

Although I was disappointed with Pierce today, I think the pitching staff will get things figured out. Its hard to go and win against teams that have been able to practice outdoors all year around. However I think we made many mental mistakes, have to fix BB, HBP, WP. I think if we just dont kill ourselves we will be alright. I thought going 2-2 this weekend would be a great start to the season and we still have a chance to do that. Split the series tomorrow and beat USC. This was in no way a bad loss, we seemed a bit tight at the plate and the timing isnt there early in the season so to scratch across 4 runs really isnt bad. try to stay the course and be at .500 heading into BIG 10 play and then win the conference. I think we will be ok, i have faith in our coaches and the kids will continue to play hard.

I think that is very accurate. Well they probably earn 3 points and we gift them a late TD so they get 10. And we probably dont get 40, i mean 5 TDs, 1 FG, 1 safety (1994, 1995 both had them). I will agree with Michigan Charles Woodson would have had a career day (I have agreed for years), in fact he would probably have had an NCAA record in that game that could never be broken and thats number of tackles because he would have had to chase Green, Frost, Makovicka all day. The pipeline would have eaten Michigan's D line alive.

Wasnt it Terrance Nunn who fumbled, Hardy didnt do much, Nunn was solid. Another guy I liked was Ross Pilkington. Shevin Wiggons has to make the list, i mean it was his foot that kicked it to Matt lol, he did have a good Orange Bowl too that season

PR- Groce, Rodgers, Newcombe KR- Stella (a LB returning kicks), Walker (he also went back with Newcombe and was the up man when they tried to punt away from Bobby, TO was a genius. Why dont we have Ameer and Turner both deep??) K- Henery, K. Brown P- Larsen, Koch Other- Ragoni, Thenarse (didnt like him at ss but was a good gunner), List (I am sure no one remembers Greg List, he was a walk on and played ST, blocked a punt or two, this was a homer pick, he is from my hometown and I grew up knowing the family) Worst- Niles Paul, i am sorry I just had to find a way to put him on here lol. Actually he had some good returns but he made more head scratching plays then anyone

First let me state that Bo has not lost my support. I think he can get the job done, there are things I question and would like to see some things fixed. I think we can all agree that winning fixes all, in no way am I saying that we need to win every game because that isn’t realistic but here are something’s that I think would win him favor and show all of us that he is the guy to bring us back to what we want: 1. Compete, what I mean is beat bad teams like we should, don't play down to level of our competition and continue to improve week in and week out. No more getting throttled by 20 plus points. No more losing to some weird Iowa St or Northwestern. I know it’s tough to get the guys up for games like that every week but that’s what good coaches do. 2. Fix the little things, no more killing ourselves every week. I want us to be more disciplined. After getting beat by someone I want to say hey nice game and think and believe that "the better team won" many times that hasn’t been the case. Many times after a loss we all think if we didn’t have 5 turnover or 10 penalties or little things like that. It’s not doing the little things right most of the time it’s all the time. Once you set that as an expectation then uphold it and hold guys accountable, if they aren’t doing the little things get them out. Set an attitude of excellence all the time and never deviate from it. 3. Continue to recruit like he done, I think he has done fine here so I would just want to see that continue. I would like to emphasize that I think stars *** is overrated and it’s more about developing that talent. 4. Treat the media with a bit more respect, (personally I could careless how he does interviews or what he says) but I know it bothers some and I can see how it can rub people the wrong way and we are paying his salary so he should answer the questions and not try to always seem so superior. Notice I didn’t say anything about winning the B1G or a national title or anything like that. That’s because I think if he does these things and continues to do what he is doing that those things will take care of themselves over time. I really don’t think any of this is unreasonable or anything. I know I have limited posts on here and typically I am just looking for some good discussion and news from Lincoln and get the pulse of the rest of the Husker fans. So because of that feel free to bash away.

Or until he wins "something". I agree. I dont think its the losing of the games its how we are losing them. I stated in another post in our last 6 losses we have given up an average of 42pts per game. He is suppose to be a defensive guy, that would be like Osborne losing 6 games and the offense only scoring 3 points in each game, since he was known more as an offensive guy. I dont want to rebuild again but Bo needs to show improvement over the rest of this season and next.

What type of job do you think that Bo walked into? This team was pitiful, and the defense was flat out embarrassing. Yes, much worse than this year. Like I said, Fitzgerald could be argued. To me, Northwestern, ISU, and Vandy are all in the same category: average teams that barely make it to bowl games, but once or twice a year, they beat a team they have no business beating. That is what those programs are. If that's what we want Nebraska to become permanently, then by all means, let's dump Bo and hitch our wagon to the land of mediocrity. And I don't mean win-8-or-9-games type of mediocrity. I mean ACTUAL mediocrity of 6 or 7 wins every year and shipping our team off to the toilet bowl in mid-December. Bo has won 9 or 10 games EVERY season he has been here so far. I hope he does it again this season. This year, our defense is slow, unathletic, and just plain not getting the job done. IMO that is a result of the first 2 recruiting classes Bo had here. They were sub-par. Since then, he has found out how important recruiting is, and it has picked up. I am in the group that wants to see what Bo can do in 2 or 3 years when those younger guys are leading the team. If it doesn't work out at that point, then oh well, we move on. It's just a little ridiculous to think that any other coach that has been mentioned that would REALISTICALLY come here could do better than what Bo has done in his first 4 years. This is exactly how I feel about things. People use the "Well this is his 5th year..." excuse way to much. That and the coaches people are throwing out wouldn't do any better than Bo. I hope we get some of these younger guys into games this second half of the season so people can see we're making progress. No use making another Solich mistake. I think there are coaches, such as Fitzgerald that would do better than Bo. I like Bo and want him to succeed but if you are saying 8-9 wins is all you want than Bo is the guy. He has proven that if he has superior talent he wins, but if it comes down to coaching we choke it away. We make the same mistakes today that we did 5 years ago, nothing has changed. I think Bo deserve 2 more years to see what he can do. I dont like the excuses that he is learning on the job or he needs better coaches around him, he hand picks his coaches and hires way too many first time coaches. I liked JP and his fire but he is in way over his head, You can blame recruiting all you want, Calladouche had some pretty good recruits but never developed talent, developing talent to me is more important and that is were we seem to have a issue at times. Bo seems to be married to a philosophy and system and is unable to adjust. The season isnt over but he deserves the pressure to perfrorm, I mean we have been blown out again OSU, South Carolina, UCLA (we werent blown out persay but we couldnt stop them if our lives depended on it), Wisconsin 2011, Michigan 2011. If you look at our losses from this year and last we are giving up 42pts per game on average in those 6 games we also have 16 combined turnovers in those 6 games, that not good and has to be corrected. That is the concern i have, we arent even competing with these teams, I think Pelini may have peaked as a coach, it seems as though we will beat the teams we should beat, will lose 1 game a year to someone we shouldnt, and teams that we are not quite as good as we will get dominated by and kill ourselves with mistakes. I am hoping I am proved wrong in this but I guess time will tell. And why do you think this? If he was a better coach, don't you think he would have better records then what he does? lets not even pretend Northwestern and Nebraska are equal. If you think for a minute that nebraska and northwestern are equal in football then just how far have we truly fallen. Northwestern has been one of the worst programs ever and nebraska has been a traditional power. Also if you want to argue with wins, I will say which coach is 1-0 when they have played eachother?

What type of job do you think that Bo walked into? This team was pitiful, and the defense was flat out embarrassing. Yes, much worse than this year. Like I said, Fitzgerald could be argued. To me, Northwestern, ISU, and Vandy are all in the same category: average teams that barely make it to bowl games, but once or twice a year, they beat a team they have no business beating. That is what those programs are. If that's what we want Nebraska to become permanently, then by all means, let's dump Bo and hitch our wagon to the land of mediocrity. And I don't mean win-8-or-9-games type of mediocrity. I mean ACTUAL mediocrity of 6 or 7 wins every year and shipping our team off to the toilet bowl in mid-December. Bo has won 9 or 10 games EVERY season he has been here so far. I hope he does it again this season. This year, our defense is slow, unathletic, and just plain not getting the job done. IMO that is a result of the first 2 recruiting classes Bo had here. They were sub-par. Since then, he has found out how important recruiting is, and it has picked up. I am in the group that wants to see what Bo can do in 2 or 3 years when those younger guys are leading the team. If it doesn't work out at that point, then oh well, we move on. It's just a little ridiculous to think that any other coach that has been mentioned that would REALISTICALLY come here could do better than what Bo has done in his first 4 years. This is exactly how I feel about things. People use the "Well this is his 5th year..." excuse way to much. That and the coaches people are throwing out wouldn't do any better than Bo. I hope we get some of these younger guys into games this second half of the season so people can see we're making progress. No use making another Solich mistake. I think there are coaches, such as Fitzgerald that would do better than Bo. I like Bo and want him to succeed but if you are saying 8-9 wins is all you want than Bo is the guy. He has proven that if he has superior talent he wins, but if it comes down to coaching we choke it away. We make the same mistakes today that we did 5 years ago, nothing has changed. I think Bo deserve 2 more years to see what he can do. I dont like the excuses that he is learning on the job or he needs better coaches around him, he hand picks his coaches and hires way too many first time coaches. I liked JP and his fire but he is in way over his head, You can blame recruiting all you want, Calladouche had some pretty good recruits but never developed talent, developing talent to me is more important and that is were we seem to have a issue at times. Bo seems to be married to a philosophy and system and is unable to adjust. The season isnt over but he deserves the pressure to perfrorm, I mean we have been blown out again OSU, South Carolina, UCLA (we werent blown out persay but we couldnt stop them if our lives depended on it), Wisconsin 2011, Michigan 2011. If you look at our losses from this year and last we are giving up 42pts per game on average in those 6 games we also have 16 combined turnovers in those 6 games, that not good and has to be corrected. That is the concern i have, we arent even competing with these teams, I think Pelini may have peaked as a coach, it seems as though we will beat the teams we should beat, will lose 1 game a year to someone we shouldnt, and teams that we are not quite as good as we will get dominated by and kill ourselves with mistakes. I am hoping I am proved wrong in this but I guess time will tell.

i think fitzgerald is the best coach in the B1G, but with all of these names thrown out, why do we believe any of them would come here? are we going to fire bo just because there are better coaches out there? and who says given time bo would not be the best fit for neb.? I Support Bo but am tired of hearing give him time. We are in year 5 and we make the same mistakes as we did in year 1. It would be different if I saw improvement but we still play bad every other week, still lose at least 1 game a year that we shouldn't and when we play an elite team we haven't competed. I don't worry so much about recruiting as much as developing talent and scheme. He is married to a system, much like an nfl coordinator. We keep saying he needs more help, he hand picked his guys. I am sorry but what on JPs resume led him to think he was a great d coordinator, I mean I hope he is but I think he is in over his head. We play a read a react defense but in football sometimes you have to attack, lining up 2yds off the ball and never moving the safeties up in run support sounds awfully silly to me when our d line and lbs our as weak as they are. Think of it this way, Pelini is a defensive guy or so we say, the last couple years the d has been spotty people keep saying give him time but it is similar to Osborne an offensive guy struggling to score over 10pts a game, we would be killing him. Why is this so much different? I keep saying there are 2 kinds of coaches, ones like Osborne who are intellectually intellegent and have a system and can adapt to do what they have to in order to win, no matter the talent or what the other team does or the coach that is like a gym teacher and all he knows is one system and if he has all the talent and his guys they look good and they win on talent but if he doesn't or you know how to stop his one system you win because he doesn't know how to adapt, which one is Pelini. I hope the first one, I think time will tell. Again I support him and want him to learn but I am just not sure. As for pat Fitzgerald not only do I consider him the best coach in the big 10 but I think he is one of the best coaches in a nation. I have liked this guy since day one, has no talent and yet his team always pulls off a couple upsets, rarely gets destroyed and his teams play hard. I would love to see him running out of the tunnel someday, hell put some pads on him and he might be able to start for us somewhere. Good coach but don't know if he would leave northwestern.

It was successful once so i assume we will never do it again, I assume that is also why we never run a screen pass or blitz on defense, at some point in the Pelini Era those worked and helped us win a game and so he vowed to never do it again. Or maybe we are holding back for Wisconsin, we don't want to show too much, which is the lamest exucse I have ever heard. Seriouly though i really cant figure it out either, I thought last year after the ohio st game we would use it alot more and never had, i am also serious about screen passes and blitzing and why we dont do those more. I question the coaching decisions, i support Pelini but just shake my head at our inability to make the right moves.