Mavric

No. His defensive scheme last year was an abomination. This year's is significantly better but still nothing great. We've benefited from playing a lot of terrible offenses. The only two good offenses we've played this year we had trouble stopping (Oregon, without their best offensive player for most of the game) or literally couldn't stop at all (Ohio St.). So I'm not a Banker fan. Although the reason I bring that up - and why it's in this thread - is because I think Bray is going to start getting calls and we may have to find a way to get him a promotion to keep him. Probably not this year but it's not going to be long. And I think losing him would be bad - worth shipping Banker out to keep him. Banker isn't going anywhere this year, and if the time comes to replace him someday you do so by hiring a great, proven DC. Not a position coach you are afraid to lose. Your entire thought about Bray is verbatum what people said about Papuchis at one point. How did that work out? And that was with a defensive minded head coach. You seriously think firing Banker and handing the D over to a guy who has never called plays is a good plan when Riley is all offense at this stage of his career? I don't particularly want Bray moving on but if he does then the way you replace him is with another stud linebacker coach not by putting him in a position he likely is not ready for - expecially at a program like Nebraska. So tired of people wringing their hands and worrying if people are going to leave someday like this isn't f'n Nebraska. A big problem the past decade plus is for some dumb reason we started making decisions that make the program weaker in fear of losing talent. If good talent leaves it sucks , but you man the F up and treat it as an opportunity to upgrade and get stronger. Quite certain the first bolded never happened. Not sure what you're referring to on the second bolded but I'm not really sure that happened either. If we had a pretty good DC at the moment, I wouldn't be in favor of making that move. I really don't think there's any possibility that Bray would be worse and think it's entirely possible that he'd be a decent upgrade so I'm not seeing the down-side.

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I think they're usually right about some storm coming through the area. The thing that's hard to know very far ahead of time is exactly what path it's going to take.

Conference Career W L Pct Current W L Pct Big 12 11.7 91.4 50.6 0.644 8.9 73.2 36.0 0.670 SEC 9.6 54.6 30.2 0.644 3.8 29.6 17.2 0.633 MAC 11.7 68.5 38.2 0.642 3.9 22.9 24.8 0.481 ACC 14.1 81.6 45.6 0.642 4.5 34.4 21.6 0.614 Pac-12 11.3 71.7 44.0 0.620 4.8 34.8 23.3 0.600 Big Ten 10.8 57.9 36.7 0.612 4.6 34.4 22.3 0.607 SEC No Saban 7.5 42.8 27.9 0.605 3.3 23.0 17.2 0.573 AAC 7.0 51.0 33.5 0.604 3.1 20.4 15.8 0.564 MWC 8.0 45.4 34.4 0.569 3.8 24.2 21.7 0.527 Sun Belt 6.2 39.0 30.2 0.564 3.3 18.9 17.5 0.519 CUSA 8.8 36.2 33.9 0.517 4.0 23.9 23.3 0.506

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Reading an update on him and "Okie from Muskogee" comes on SiriusXM. It's a sign.

Dang.

https://twitter.com/KenKensmiley5/status/804058037883379713

Hope this doesn't screw up travel plans....

Not that I know of.

Parrella to attend their state championship game on Saturday.

LB Omari Harris Who voted for: California obert1, HuskermanMike

Committed to Cal Who voted for: California obert1, HuskermanMike

Right, but wasn't the implication that it wouldn't happen under the current regime in the Athletic Department? And if Riley goes, so goes Eichorst... One of the dumbest attitudes fans have in sports. Not that I necessarily agree, but that is often how it actually goes. So it's not just the fans. It's the administration. Especially when one administration hired the AD to fire the previous coach but now it's a new administration.

For the record, I don't really think we are running a dribble drive offense. Of course, I can't seem to find where we are running any offense, but I digress. We may use some dribble drive concepts. Against VaTech was the first time I really remember seeing what I would call a dribble drive look where the three guards run kind of a weave, each taking turns attacking off the dribble. But I'm not sure that's really the base concept of our offense. We run a lot of pick-and-rolls. It looks to me like it's mostly set up to be two-man-games with the two involved changing as the possession runs. The other three guys may occasionally screen for each other but it's not synced up enough with the two-man-game to do much good. They other three mainly try to stay out of the way.

These arguments are always one-sided - pointing to the time that TA passed on another throw. My argument is that there are other games when we were calling different types of pass plays that didn't have the deep options for TA to choose. There were several games where we almost exclusively had short routes and TA had high completion percentages those games. My point is we did not seem to be calling those same types of plays in other games. That is the play caller's fault. Not sure why you are saying it's "one sided". There were games where he did a good job of hitting short passes. Other games, the open receiver is still there but he does nothing but chucks it down field 40 yards. Sure....different plays are called. But, that probably has to do with going against different defenses and what the defense is doing. But....the fact remains. The short passes are still there but TA refused to even consider them. This discussion started by people claiming Alabama's OC was SOOOOO much better than Langsdorf for some reason. That argument is not valid when you actually look at the offenses. People are pissed at Langs because he expects TA to be able to throw the ball. Alabama's OC expects their mobile QB to do the same thing. The difference is, their QB was MUCH more successful doing so which greatly changed their entire offensive dynamic. My point on "one-sided" is that they're always pointing to the times when plays were called that gave TA an option to throw deep and never looking at other times when a different play was called that did not give him that option. I've been trying to point out that we have both in the playbook. So, yes, TA is at fault for not taking the shorter throws when they are there. But the play-calling is also at least as much at fault for continuing to give him that option - especially when it's not working and he's shown repeatedly that he will keep doing it if given the option.

Sounds like mom is pretty taken with Riley so I'm going all YOLO on you guys and changing my pick to Nebraska.

Kind of a statistical oddity but it's interesting how many teams the Huskers will play over a three year span that either had new coaches or fired their coach later that season. 2015 Miami fired Golden after Huskers played them Illinois fired Beckman before season Minnesota - Kill retired Wisconsin - new coach Chryst 2016 Fresno St. fired DeRuyter after Oregon fired Helfrich after Illinois - new coach Smith Purdue fired Hazell the week before the Husker game Maryland - new coach Durkin 2017 Oregon - new coach ? Purdue - new coach ?