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I'm telling you guys, we need to go get Tom Allen from Indiana. watch him be top 3 in the B1G east this year.

At the end of the day, here's the deal. Scott Frost is (still) an offensive play design genius. it's why he was successful in oregon and UCF. their conferences are filled with teams who just either aren't talented, or aren't beholden to having to scrap and earn every point scored on saturdays. in those conferences, you basically only have to "out-talent" your opponent to win. no issues for Scott there. in the B1G and the SEC, no dice. if you aren't outcoaching your opponent, you aren't winning. that's it. look at teams from those conferences with great recruiting, but poor coaching - Tennessee, Florida State, Michigan, Texas A&M, and to an extent Georgia and Penn state. it's why we've seen certain coaches flame out in the SEC and B1G, despite being heralded. here's where Scott just doesn't have the required skillset. Teams/Head Coaches that have the prerequisite attention to details and intentionality about personnel, schemes, and special teams are the ones who are successful. Frost just doesn't have that. you can out-playdesign all you want, but if you lack the will to prepare and compete at that level in all phases of the game, and the required attention to detail to prepare your team down to an individual level, you just won't succeed in those conferences. Something else that those coaches have is a certain amount of humility to take self-inventory and look inwards. no hubris. where you see hubris at this level of football, you see underachievers. and that's what Scott Frost is at this level. He may well be successful at the next job he has, but don't let that fool you. if he doesn't develop the right skillset, he'll never be successful in the SEC or B1G.

send me dms please!

i would think oklahoma-level talent would be the least concern a new head coach would have.

I think the QB coach and the head coach both need to ride the pine. When the same mistakes keep on happening year after year, and you either can’t or won’t create a solution or a replacement, it’s no longer the player.

At the end of the day, our offensive challenges have nothing to do with the players. it goes all the way to the top. they spent the better part of fall camp playing misdirection with 4 supposedly talented running backs, only to trot out the youngest one, and then give the four talented running backs a total of *checks notes* 21 carries. against a newcomer to the B1G. in the first game of the season. your QB can't find anything open in a house without doors, and won't set his feet for easy throws, yet you keep on calling complicated pass plays. they pass when they need to run, and run when they need to pass. the situational awareness is terrible. your supposed star 3-year center can't pick up a stunt, and tackles the running back sometimes. stick with martinez as QB all you want, but there's no justification for not having a competent backup. this is all about the head coach, the lack of attention to detail, the inability to recognize the situation, the inability to adjust, and the inexcusable inability to deploy and develop talent effectively. this is all the head coach, folks. no one else.

man there are some losers in this thread. losing sucks, but you don't have to be a loser.

go hire indiana's coach. back up the brink's truck.

I was looking for a polite way of saying this. In many cases, arrogance is just a mask for some area that is deficient. When the hubris is bad enough, they can find themselves doing things to protect the mask instead of fixing the deficiency. That’s how really arrogant people come out looking stupid at times.

the bit about the echo chamber is right, IMO. The folks down there in Lincoln know that if there are no results this year, they can’t justify year 5 or an extension. There’s no way an AD tries to remove Oklahoma from the schedule without full signoff and possible initiation from the head coach. That no one down there saw it fit to point out the foolishness of this idea is just alarming.

Best thing I did when it comes to Nebraska sports is to block that guy on all platforms. He singlehandedly made me unsubscribe from 247 and stop listening to their podcast. At some point you have to be self aware enough to not insult and troll your customers. Then again, he would probably say the loss of my subscription fee does nothing to his paycheck...

there is no reason to keep that thread locked.

Based on the smoke, shouldn't we unlock that one thread that was poopooed from head to toe?

and yet, they are able to win in spite of those issues. you can't say on one hand say that kids being different today is part of the reason why Nebraska can't hold on to talent or build a successful culture, then on the other, say these same different kids would be nice to have in the program while they help other teams win. at some point, we have to stop making excuses for poor coaching.

So why aren’t our peers and lesser talented teams having this same problem? Heck, ferentz and his staff got accused of being racists yet they have a better record.

So, you’re saying our issue is... too much talent? We can’t build a lasting culture because of the talent on the roster?

if multiple players are saying this, then at some point you have to look at what they are saying. it's nice and all to back the coaches whom we all love, but coaches aren't perfect, just like players aren't perfect..

Maurice, is that you?

for those in the know, why haven't we offered/got in contact? he seems like a good player, at least someone who can be a culture builder type of player. he's a better athlete than luke gifford, only shorter.

your opinion. but that decision created locker room issues and arguably contributed to QB poor performance and at least 1 loss. yea i'd say it could have helped us get one more win. just curious. what are your top 10 reasons?

absolutely agree. just tough to be sitting there now not going to a bowl game partly because we chose to play a center who couldn't snap the ball when we didn't have to, then at the same time, blamed the "pieces around the quarterback" for the poor offense.

i'm saying players on the team knew we had a better center at the time who was being sacrificed for the future. nu beat illinois and northwestern with average center play which was already available on the team. said average center play could have contributed to beating colorado, but instead we had poor center play which contributed to the loss.

Agree that Jurgens may be better, But that’s not the central point. winning games over Illinois and northwestern cannot make up for not going to a bowl game, especially if equal center play would have been available.

It was definitely one of the factors, yes.

That’s great. But we sacrificed a bowl game for that decision, even though we got better center play at the end of the year.