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If we have a guy (Bo) who can win 9 games in a season where, at times, he and the team go all Keystone Kops on us....I think Meyer will be just fine.

He'll just have to play 'Old Man SEC type football'

LOL

 

Hail Varsity wrote up a pretty good explanation of what the Huskers are going to try with practice this year.

 

“If you’re fresher, you’re mind’s going to be fresher too,” he said. “Just looking at every way we possibly can to make ourselves better, and I think we’ve done that this offseason.”

It’s part of a two-pronged attack to streamline the Huskers, both on the physical and mental fronts. Mentally sharp and physically sharp are synonymous, Bell said.

“(We’re) thinking about how well we know the play and how well we run it,” Bell said. “I think we’ve narrowed our sight on what we’re good at, now it’s time to get great at those things.”

Simplification is the other arm of the attack, where Pelini sees the Huskers able to stay fresh when they’re knowledgeable of the playbook.

 

I kinda see their point in keeping guys fresh, but the common logic around here is that more 1-vs-1 in practice is a good thing, and I've always kind of agreed with that. We'll see how this works out this year.

It makes sense, but yeah the first game where there is poor tackling there's going to be a lot of "THEY NEED TO HIT, MAKE PRACTICE WORSE THANTHE GAME LIKE I HEARD JASON PETER SAY,"

 

Football can be broken down into 3 things:

Tackling.

Blocking.

Execution.

Those who do the first two well will have the third fall right into place.

If you aren't tackling some in practice, you will always field a team that doesn't tackle well during games.

Here's a novel idea...

How about letting the actual players who have to get themselves up for the game pick the pregame music?

I did some of this last week for the first time. Had to put the results on my Youtube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYt_xni8XdU

Already a @#$@#$ Shawn Watson thread on ShaggyBevo.

Just read through it. Hilarious.

 

I wish him the best but I think a lot of people, fair or not, are going to criticize him for the heat he took at Nebraska and they'll say he was only successful at Louisville because of Bridgewater.

Horrible hire for TexPN. That being said, I'm definitely going to be tuning in when they play their first big game this year.

Already a @#$@#$ Shawn Watson thread on ShaggyBevo.

Lol

ShaggyBevo was on meltdown over there when they saw that one.

LOL...but we all know what he'll REALLY be doing.

The epic fail of TexPN has begun, LOL.

Anybody getting the feeling of deja vu when they look at this coaching search and how fubarred it is?

I, for one, am enjoying the circus that is Tejas football right now, LOLZ

In the current landscape of college football no team in a power conference that has the history and backing such as Nebraska is truly irrelevant. It just takes the right mix of coaching and a few years of recruiting.

Also, in the current landscape of college football, you can't be in the NC hunt if you're not in the hunt for your conference's championship.

How about running an offense that isn't built solely around your QB's physical and decision making skills? Then, when the guy gets hurt, you don't have a huge drop off in production from your offense?

 

Or, even better, how about running an offense that requires an actual QUARTERBACK? One that is a QB first, elusive second, and mobile third?

 

Makes sense to me, at least.

 

LOLZ

 

I am sick of these darned zone read BS offenses. Look at teams like LSU, Bammer, Stanford. How do they win football games?

 

Line up and smack a mofo in the mouth until they can stop you. Get 5-6 yards on 1st down. Stay on schedule. Get 3 on 2nd down. Get into 3rd and short at the longest, open up the playbook for play action, screens and draws.

 

Defensively, make the scheme easier for kids to understand and enjoy playing in. Don't put so much pressure on your D tackles. Make football for defensive players what it should be....go get the ball. Plain and simple.

 

you mean use our depth and talent at RB to move the ball in the ground game, instead of the QB? That's crazy talk right thar'.

This should be what defense is about (LOL):

 

People seem to forget it took Osborne about 20 years before he won his first MNC title

 

Meaning what exactly?

Meaning NU fans can be a fickle bunch and expect the team to win a MNC every damn year. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, Huskers fans can be a bunch of whiny-ass babies if things don't go the way they want them to go.

I don't think the true Husker fan thinks they can win a national championship each year. I'm sick of hearing that line of poo. Only Bammer fans think that way. :-)

BUT

I think ALLLLLLL Husker fans want them to be in the running for a conference championship each SEASON...and that's a goal that Bo HIMSELF stated was their first and foremost goal in the conference each year.

So, let's do the math:

Played in 3 conference championship games.

0-3 (0-2 in the Big XII, 0-1 in the B1G).

Ask CFB HOF head coach John Cooper what happens when expectations aren't met....

How about running an offense that isn't built solely around your QB's physical and decision making skills? Then, when the guy gets hurt, you don't have a huge drop off in production from your offense?

Or, even better, how about running an offense that requires an actual QUARTERBACK? One that is a QB first, elusive second, and mobile third?

Makes sense to me, at least.

I could afford club seats in West Stadium if I had a dollar for every time I've read the phrase "real Husker fan" in the past few days.

 

Only thing is, there doesn't seem to be a definitive concept of what that "real" fan is, or does, or believes, or how they feel, and we need to get cracking on this crucial line item if we're ever gonna move forward.

 

Here's the start of a list I made a while back. Please add to it, so we can nail down what a "real" fan is. This is important. Be for real on this.

 

 

A True Husker Fan is someone who thinks what I think, who disagrees with the things I disagree with, who likes my favorite player and who wants to bench the same player I think should be benched.

 

A True Husker Fan is someone who echoes my sentiments after a loss, who agrees with my take on the team's flaws, and whose rhetoric matches mine while discussing both.

 

A True Husker Fan shares my taste in runzas, Valentino's pizza and Fairbury hot dogs.

 

A True Husker Fan stands when I stand, shouts when I shout, sits when I sit and stays quiet when I stay quiet.

 

A True Husker Fan shares my opinion of Lil' Red.

 

A True Husker Fan shares my opinions on Nebraska's rivals, which conference we belong in, and which team we love/hate the most.

 

A True Husker Fan agrees with me on that call that one ref made - you know the one, in that one game, the one that changed the game? Yeah, that one.

 

A True Husker Fan is someone who knows who the greatest QB, RB, WR and Coach at Nebraska is, and I don't even have to mention names of who I think it is, because they know.

A true Husker fan knows that football exists outside of the 77,355 square miles that is the state of Nebraska. This makes them a football fan first.

:-)

If you think we're a bad or difficult fan base to deal with...

Take a look at this article. Keep in mind:

Saban has gone 74-14 in seven seasons at Alabama.

Saban has won three Crystal Waterford Footballs at Alabama.

Saban has lost eight games in SIX YEARS at Alabama.

Alabama’s Iron Bowl defeat was Nick Saban’s fault, but instead of taking the blame, he threw his players under the bus. They deserve a coach who’ll stand behind them after a loss.

 

Fans will remember Saturday’s Iron Bowl as one of the great college games ever played. But for the 28 seniors on the two teams, it will forever be remembered as their last regular season college game.

 

This is a game played by kids not long out of high school, and while some suit up for the chance to get rich, most play for sheer love of the sport. Because they dazzle us with acts of extraordinary athleticism and, yes, courage, we tend to forget that under their helmets and pads, these players are just as vulnerable and needing of support as any other college kids. Indeed, given the pressures placed upon them and the intensity of the spotlight, these young athletes need more support.

 

It’s understandable that all this may be lost on fans given the excitement of the moment. But for a coach to forget how much his players need his support in moments of defeat is just unforgivable.

 

For the Alabama players, Saturday’s game was a searing experience. It was so bad, their senior kicker received death threats. This was the time for an icon like Alabama coach Nick Saban to focus his postgame remarks on helping the players he supposedly loves. Saban should have had one goal in mind: Protect his players.

 

Instead, he gave passing reference to “taking responsibility” then piled on, reeling off a litany of mistakes that could have won the game. Saban’s mealy-mouthed mutterings were all the more regrettable as he had done more to lose the game than any player.

 

In one of the biggest games of his career, Saban made one of the greatest blunders in big time college football history. With one second left on the clock, he had three choices: Run it out and go into overtime; let his incredible quarterback have a shot at a Hail Mary pass; or attempt a 57-yard field goal, a distance only made twice in Alabama football history.

 

Saban went for the third option, bringing in a freshman who had never made a game kick longer than 40 yards. He left on the bench his starting kicker who had been having a terrible day, missing three earlier field goals.

 

The decision was utter folly. In college, a 57-yard field goal is basically giving the other side a chance to return a kickoff. Worse yet, it’s a kickoff without putting a kickoff team on the field to defend. Instead you have nine players selected for their ability to block, not run or tackle. Generally, when your kicker is the best athlete on your side, you best hope the play doesn’t require a lot of running.

 

The kick was predictably short, and Auburn unpredictably returned it for a touchdown. Lighting in a bottle, but it was Saban’s disastrous decision that put the lighting in the bottle.

 

Saban wins a lot of football games. He’s a great football coach. But he’s a college coach who seems to have forgotten he’s not coaching in the pros. He’s reduced the joy of sport to what he famously calls “the process,” which seems as apt an indictment as any critic could muster.

 

It doesn’t have to be this way. Coaches like Auburn’s Gus Malzahn, Ole Miss’s Hugh Freeze, Vanderbilt’s James Franklin, and LSU’s Les Miles make you want to love the sport because they love the sport. They are open and visible about their love for their players. In October, after heavily favored LSU lost to Ole Miss and his star quarterback had one of the worst nights of his career, Les Miles took all the blame, saying in classic Miles style, “I did a piss poor job preparing this football team to play in this game.”

 

That’s what Saban should have done. He should have shifted the blame from his field goal kicker to himself. Saban’s paid millions of dollars to take the heat. Instead he offered no comfort to a broken-hearted kid who was receiving death threats. That’s shameful and a moment that should give pause to every athlete thinking of playing for Alabama and every parent who expects a coach to look out for their son.

 

Alabama’s not one of those problem programs that always seems to be in trouble. It has a graduation rate of 71 percent, and while that’s a tad below Notre Dame’s 94 percent, it’s still about average for Division 1 programs. A lot of good coaches and support staff at Alabama work hard to play by the rules. Their fan base is the envy of the nation.

 

Alabama shouldn’t believe it needs Nick Saban more than Saban needs Alabama. Alabama knew greatness before Saban and will after. The players and the university deserve a coach who will stand behind the players when they lose, even when it’s their fault. And this one was Saban’s fault.

 

I think I speak for a lot of Husker fans when I say that we, the fans in the stands, would really like to know that Bo, the Bo these guys will run through legions of Satan's demons for. Maybe the perception would be different if he even remotely tried to embrace the fans like he embraces the kids.

 

We're a huge part of this equation. It's not just the players on the field and the coaches in their offices. "Us" includes the blokes in the bleachers. We are not "them," but many of us feel like Bo believes we are.

 

It's not that we can't understand. Bo won't let us understand him. He keeps us at arm's length.

 

It's a two-way street.

Here's the way I see this. And many may or may not agree with me, but here goes.

Fans that go to the game and pony up money for single game tickets.

Fans that are season ticket holders that donate money PLUS get the season tickets.

Fans that pay subscription fees to BTN and ESPN watch games online.

No matter what we say or think....college football isn't what it used to be. We need to get out of the box that we're all in. College football is no longer just a game. It IS a business.

It's a business where, in Lincoln, on Saturdays during the season, 90,000+ people are share holders in said business. And those shareholders want to see a good ROI in that business.

If you want to know when the business is suffering - all you need to do is look at the stands. 4th quarter of the game on Friday. Look at the additional seats that were empty. That's $$$ not coming into the school through vendors and sales.

Listen, I'm a trustee at my church here in Omaha. We have people that say, "Well, the church is a church, it's not a business."

That's not how the world sees churches any longer. We pay taxes, we are also 501©3 as well. There's things we need to show the state on the business side.

Why are teams like Baylor and Oregon doing better? Because they embraced the business side and are SELLING their program to kids and parents as such.

The head coach is only part of the solution. We have other problems down in Lincoln right now that need to be solved.

Choices would be : (in no order) Tressel-question his ability to recruit away from Ohio- Richt-recruiting to Big 10 vs SEC- Paul Johnson- recruiting period-Brent Venables- midwest values who coached and recruited to OU and KSU where he played.

 

Now I will rank my choices:

1. Richt

2. Venables

3. Tressel

4. Paul Johnson( really I love his wishbone, triple option offense, but he isn't big time level.

 

I think that Richt might be a good hire, but again, is he more like Pelini or more like Saban.....if you can't get the job done at Georgia can u here?

Venables is eager and looking for a start, is this a good start, probably not, but with his national name and recruiting ties around the nation, might be worthy.

Tressel knows the landscape of the Big 10, no doubt, but I don't think he could do any better than Bo. Honestly!

 

Those who I left off, : Petrino, Kiffin,Frost, Gill. I like Petrino, but he wouldn't stay around long. The guy can recruit and coach football players. Kiffin is a joke, and while I like Frost, he isn't even close to b eing ready yet.

Coach Tressel is under a show-cause, so that isn't gonna happen anytime soon. Your comment about him not being able to recruit - he recruited the majority of the guys that urban Meyer has gone undefeated with the last two years.

Petrino could do it. Everybody would just need to watch their co-eds.

Kiffin and Turner. No way. Nuh uh.

Frost? Borderline, cause I've seen what has happened the last 3 - 4 weeks with his offenses up in Eugene.

If we get an offensive minded coach here, we need to have a guy who will re-establish some darned toughness on the offensive side of the ball. Some smack-you-in-the-mouth-and-you-know-it's-coming-but-you-can't-stop-it type football.

Brent Venables, not seeing, Mark Richt - no way. He's the Bo Pelini of the south, just nicer. Did you see what happened to Georgia this year? They had it worse than we did with injuries (hell, they lost Aaron Murray to a torn ACL in the last GAME of his Georgia career).

For all the folks that are talking about Bo winning 9 games in 5 years (possible to win a ninth this year), and how it's just unthinkable to fire a guy after winning that many games in his coaching career....there is a precedent set on this that has nothing to do with Frank Solich, nor the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

Look at one John Cooper. Hall of fame head coach. Coach Cooper went 111-43-4 as the Buckeyes head man, winning over 70% of his games.

He had two non bowl years in 1988 (4-6-1) and 1999 (6-6). In 1990, they went 7-4-1 and lost in the Liberty Bowl.

All other years he was the head man at The Ohio State University? No less than 8 wins in a season. In his final year, he went 8-4 and got FIRED. Why?

He went 2-10-1 against Michigan.

Don't tell me that you can't fire a guy after he wins so many games. John Cooper is in the CFB Hall of Fame. And he never played for a national championship. He did win the B1G 3 times in his 13 seasons, so he's past Bo on that one. Each school and fan base has different expectations. I DO know, and would think, however, that for the team that is fourth all time in CFB wins in the HISTORY of the sport that we do take winning seriously.

The irony of this entire thread? John Cooper coached one Mark "Bo" Pelini in his Senior year (the team that went 4-6-1).

The obvious grab would be Craig Bohl from ND State up north. The guy is from Lincoln, played at Lincoln, used to coach at Lincoln, understands the mindset of fans in Nebraska. Doesn't hurt that the guy is a pretty damn good head coach where he is right now, with hard nosed football on both sides of the ball. Did I mention that the guy has won 2 nattys at the FCS level, is 11-0 right now, has a 39-2 record since 2011, and has won over 75% of his games in 11 years as the HC?

 

NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.

 

There's a reason Craig Bohl is a good FCS coach.

 

Some guy named James Tressel would beg to differ with your opinion, sir.

 

You do know that Jim Tressel actually had success on a FBS level, right?

You're confusing me. Jim Tressel was the head coach at Youngstown State (FCS). He won four championships at that level. He replaced John Cooper at Ohio State. Won a national championship, played in two others (total of 8 BCS games). What am I missing from your argument?

Ironically, John Cooper went 4-6-1 in his first season, 7-4-1 in 1990, and 6-6 in his 2nd to last season. All other seasons? won more than 8 games in a season. He coached some guy named Mark Pelini, I believe...

The obvious grab would be Craig Bohl from ND State up north. The guy is from Lincoln, played at Lincoln, used to coach at Lincoln, understands the mindset of fans in Nebraska. Doesn't hurt that the guy is a pretty damn good head coach where he is right now, with hard nosed football on both sides of the ball. Did I mention that the guy has won 2 nattys at the FCS level, is 11-0 right now, has a 39-2 record since 2011, and has won over 75% of his games in 11 years as the HC?

 

NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.

 

There's a reason Craig Bohl is a good FCS coach.

Some guy named James Tressel would beg to differ with your opinion, sir.

So for all of you that say he should be fired or gone, what is your recomendationn for replacement? I mean he has his issues but he has won 9 games a season for six years, what coach in his right mind would sign up to coach us if we fire a coach that wins 9 a season.

#1 - The nine wins argument meant something when teams were only playing 10-11 games a season. Most teams play 13-14 games a season now, including championship games.

#2 - Kirby Smart of Alabama is a pretty smart guy. Doug Nussmeier of Bama is too. There is Scott Frost (longshot IMHO), Chad Morris of Clemson. At the NFL level (all longshots), you've got Bill Cowher (don't laugh, the guy is a hard nosed FB coach), Jon Gruden.

The obvious grab would be Craig Bohl from ND State up north. The guy is from Lincoln, played at Lincoln, used to coach at Lincoln, understands the mindset of fans in Nebraska. Doesn't hurt that the guy is a pretty damn good head coach where he is right now, with hard nosed football on both sides of the ball. Did I mention that the guy has won 2 nattys at the FCS level, is 11-0 right now, has a 39-2 record since 2011, and has won over 75% of his games in 11 years as the HC?

Just thought I would throw it out there, but every time we got the prayer right we won, and every time we messed it up we lost. What can I say, I'm superstitious.

I thought someone was gonna throw out the pimp's prayer...

You can't fire the guy now. You CAN force him to make staff changes. The staff needs to make some kind of change here, otherwise, in another years' time, we'll be revisiting the same crap.

why not?

 

and if you are going to let him coach here, you should let him run his team the way he sees fit.

Looking at the 7 millie buyout plus all the assistants that would probably be replaced as well. That and the new salaries for a new HC and staff. It's more than 3 mill a year, just sayin.

An insider at HuskerOnline is saying that a discussion has been made and that the fans won't be happy about it. Seems like Bo will be back next year

if eichorst does not have a list of potential replacement coaches at all times, he is not doing his job. and if bo stays, i am thinking he has not been doing his job.

You can't fire the guy now. You CAN force him to make staff changes. The staff needs to make some kind of change here, otherwise, in another years' time, we'll be revisiting the same crap.