Undone

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.

Yeah, **** Herbstreit for doing his job talking logically about college football. It is entirely reasonable to make an argument that Florida and Florida State will always out-recruit us...because it's actual reality.

It can't. If it could or if it did, one of the top 4-5 teams in the conference would be doing it. Running that defense would really be the only thing to take the air out of the Scott Frost sails at this point. Other than that, I'd be totally happy to see the no-huddle spread here.

Awesome stats, @Mavric. Brutally depressing. But really interesting data. As the emotions subside and are hopefully very soon drowned out with the positives of almost undoubtedly bringing in Frost, I can say that it stands to reason that it's hard to judge Diaco's efforts on just one season. But I still say that a passive 3-4 will never work all that well in a run-heavy conference. Your defensive line will constantly be a weak link. I'm so glad to not have to watch another year of a passive 3-4 combined with a secondary that's lined up way too far off the line of scrimmage.

I would have a small sliver of doubt if it happened. It's not crazy. But I'd say it's such a microscopic chance given that Frost could have said "yes" to a huge-money deal at Florida anyway.

But yeah, as far as offense goes, there have been a lot of great posts in this thread. Not a whole lot to add. But it really does look so much like the "basketball on grass" offense of Chip Kelly. It's really entertaining to watch and if it's what he runs, I'll be looking forward to it.

Defense is the concern. Hopefully he'll look at what Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin do to be successful in this conference. Our last two coaches sure didn't.

I'd say it really is a 90% - 95% lock at this point with Frost. Feels so good. So good. I felt pretty nervous on Thursday/Friday when it felt like his agents really would be meeting with Florida, but it's a completely different feeling now.

Totally agree with knapplc's idea on looking to the back of the playbook. And especially on the blitzing. I have a feeling Lee will throw it 60 times.

Exactly. As if he needed to do research at some point with other trusted head coaches and try to figure out where his "practice focus" and "practice intensity" measures up to other successful programs. It doesn't seem that hard to read between the lines and make a relatively fair assumption in saying that Riley probably just kept doing what he'd always done, and therefore got the same results. We all know that our practices in the 90s under Osborne were high intensity. It's well-documented. If you play like you practice, it seems relatively obvious that either Riley or his coordinators just don't have appropriate standards of practice intensity that the average Top 25 program has. How else does Iowa knock off Ohio State? How else does Wisconsin consistently spend the vast majority of every season ranked, and even sniffing the Top 10?