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Agreed. Just as a "for fun" and tangential reference point, I watched a large bit of the 1994 Colorado game yesterday where Berringer started. I totally realize that you can't draw many comparisons to that team and anything that might happen to our team in the next few seasons (mainly due to what we had in our offensive line and Lawrence Phillips). But at any rate, the way Dr. Tom would get his tight ends open in space through savant-like play calling was a thing of beauty. He'd do it out of the shotgun. He'd do it out of play action. Incredible. Colorado's DC must have just been ******* his pants. We would need our offensive line to show up in big ways so that our I-Backs can get the run game going next season to help facilitate this type of thing more. But my point is, having a QB that's more of a "throw first, run second" mobile guy is something I'd love to watch. The Joe Ganz guy. The Brook Berringer guy. I'm excited for whatever we do under Frost on offense. I have almost no doubt that it'll be better than the product Watson & Beck drew up under Bo and I think it's less dependent on having that incredible offensive line.

I'm hoping to be able to beat Wisconsin and Iowa in year three and compete well in the conference title game. Long term, I'm hoping to win our division 50% of the time and win the conference every 1 in 4 years. If either of the above doesn't happen, but our team has unity and competes without the drama and headcase nonsense that we've seen at times by the last three regimes, I won't be upset. I won't be on here or anywhere else disparaging coach Frost. I'll be proud of us again.

Agreed for sure.

One main point that I think is important is that it's not as if it's as easy as just sitting here talking about "what's better." The "what's better" part is obvious - the kid that's great both running and passing. I'm thinking of the majority of the QBs Art Bryles or Gary Patterson have fielded in that category even. Is Frost going to recruit that kid? That's probably one of the more interesting questions on my mind this offseason.

+1, Cdog. Really great research and post. I see O'Brien potentially being fully capable of this.

ROFL, +1. This could be one of our better memes on this forum.

I believe it has a measurable effect on passes of over 15 yards-ish, especially the higher the loft on the ball. For shorter passes I believe it's demonstrably negligible. And if it's particularly windy on a given Saturday, you probably up your run ratio. Do you think our wind factor should be cause for coach Frost to do things drastically different than the way he did them in Florida?

I've even heard people say it's because of "wind." As in, because it's typically windier on the plains than in any other part of the country. That just sounds ridiculous. I say the answer to all of this is "no" and I'd present Ohio State - consistently the best team in the conference - as evidence. They run a spread offense, and even though it doesn't go as fast as Chip Kelly or do identical things it's still similar (and yes, I know they have a big emphasis on the power run as well in their scheme).

+1. And as to the bold, it's just like you mentioned with Reilly and it's what I was going to say - There are guys that know that if their abilities get developed the right way they'll be millionaires someday. So frustrating.

Un-*******-believable. Seriously. This goes back to the assumption that I put together as this season unfolded - It was a top-to-bottom deficiency of both work effort and focus on competition. I grow tired of having so many discussions on this board revolve back to a comparison against our program to the nineties, as their are umpteen other great examples to compare against...but just get your head around all of this. This is nothing like the program that McBride & Tenopir were involved with. A complete failure to compete.

Congrats, coach!

Great post, agreed. And to the bold - I think another big facet of Milton's game is rolling out into the flat. That's the Chip Kelly stuff that I remember that just made their whole system so freaking dangerous. You have this QB who is putting hours and hours of practice time into throwing on the run. The OLB gets baited in and then there's a seven yard throw to somebody in the flat with almost a jump pass from the QB. Incredibly fun to watch and extremely effective at spreading the field out wide. I hope to see this next year so bad.

In the Deed pointed that out, yes.

Agreed, good point.

Nah, it really doesn't beg that question.

Being that the media is not employed by the University of Nebraska that really probably isn't feasible.

Agreed on Andrew Bunch. There's no reason to think he's not right there, poised to potentially be the starter. Probably comes down to Frost's vision for setting up the team for year 3 or 4 versus prioritizing things for years 1 & 2.

I getcha.

+1

The point you're making is well taken, honestly. But what about this angle? The team we fielded in 2016 wasn't good enough to beat Wisconsin and got blown out by Iowa. So even that level of play isn't good enough. Actually, it's nowhere close to being good enough. We need our players in the kind of shape where we're beating the top teams in the conference in all four quarters. That's the goal. So forget whatever 2017 or 2016 looked like; we're aiming much, MUCH higher than that now with Frost's work ethic at the helm.

I very much desire to see objectivity around here and appreciate it very much, @zoogs. We don't have enough of it anywhere in Husker Nation. You've identified it as being more of a footnote for you. That makes sense and seems an appropriate level of concern. I would probably agree that an off-the-record aside with the press group could have served the same purpose. One thing that I think we see is that Scott wears his emotions on his sleeve. This is neither good nor bad. I predict he'll be compared negatively against Osborne as being opposite of Tom in this respect if/when times are bad around here. But at the end of the day, objectively speaking, I felt that direct ground rules with the press is actually called for and not out of line.

It's possible that part of the issue might have been not pushing the concept of off-season voluntary workouts and the amount of time spent on S&T during Spring/Fall camp, maybe not so much the plan inside the weight room. It seems evident that the work ethic just hasn't been there in all facets these last three years.

And as I just posted in another thread, the fan base should be supportive of any attempts that he makes to keep things out that distract him and his team from turning this thing around. How could anyone not be on board with that? Was it blunt and direct? Yes! It got the point across, it saved time. I want the guy as focused as possible on his job. If the media honors his request, he'll be able to do that more effectively. It's a no-brainer.

I sometimes feel like I'm in a small minority of people that just isn't that concerned with what our coaching staff says to the press as long as it doesn't negatively impact the players' life/playing career's trajectories or the outcome on the field. This obsession with dissecting press conferences to the nth degree is what seems superfluous to me personally. Or also, what about this angle? Could we possibly all agree that: 1. If Scott Frost is taking care of his players and growing them into quality young men -and- 2. If Scott Frost puts a product on the football field that Husker Nation can be proud of that we should try to honor requests he has where he frankly asks all of us to not do things that distract and detract from accomplishing those two things above? Doesn't that follow? Doesn't it seem obvious? I'm fully on board with Frost's direct leadership style. It's refreshing, frankly.

I believe that a passive 3-4 scheme is not going to consistently beat the type of Wisconsin team that was fielded this year. Their offensive line is one of the best in the country and you'll get chipped for 5+ yards a carry. **EDIT** -- I'm not saying that Frost's DC runs a passive 3-4. inb4 somebody says that. It's really about how the linebackers are used. In an agressive 3-4 scheme with physical linebackers it's a completely different defense. Especially when your corners are lined up closer to the line of scrimmage for run support. I'm not worried about anything right now. I believe Frost has the tactician's mind and (I hope, at least) won't have the stubborn qualities to not adjust if something isn't working. With that said, I've said for three seasons now that we need a defensive coordinator that takes a simple look at what Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, and Wisconsin do in this conference to be successful and tries to duplicate that.