Sargon

http://saturdaytradition.com/nebraska-football/westerkamp-never-more-motivated-2017/

 

There’s still a decent chance that he could be back to 100 percent by March 14. Westerkamp said that he’s ahead of schedule, but that he would push his workout back if he felt his knee wasn’t fully healed.

That won’t be from a lack of trying. Westerkamp is currently rehabbing and training at Bommarito Performance Systems in Davie, Fla. Six days a week, he’s at the facility from 6 a.m.—4 p.m. Four or those hours are spent in the physical therapy room.

“It’s a grind. It’s a grind,” he said. “But I love it. I love doing it. It’s getting me better.”

Westerkamp will spend the next few weeks training alongside fellow former Huskers Nate Gerry and Josh Banderas.

Whoa. Riley better cash in, and I expect he will, on the dad-power the team has now. Kurt, KJ and Les....that's a USC-esque list.

NU....the school where players can rub elbows with and learn from giants. Many of our staff and former players ain't chopped liver either.

I hope Kade has enough speed to get it done. Not sure but we'll see soon enough. Anyone have a verified electronic time? I've not seen any.

Hopefully their horrible results will give the university a dose of humility

Hopefully they win a championship to annoy you more.

I remember in 2011 when everyone had an opinion whether Braylon Heard, Aaron Green or Ameer Abdullah would be the best successor to Rex Burkhead.

 

It wasn't an obvious choice. Nobody had distinguished himself yet.

 

I'd say our current threesome of Ozigbo, Wilbon & Bryant is comparable, possibly better, even if one doesn't reach Ameer status. Let's see who gets the lions share of Newby's carries.

Drinking early today?

Old white guys are the greatest. His shirt fits too. Respect.

Irving Fryar. 17 years. 265 games. 215 starts. Released from jail last year after serving 8 months of a 5 year sentence. Odd data selection but I'm odd.

Cools stuff thanks seofred.

I suggest folks look at final ratings and not record when analyzing coaching performance. No doubt the team tries to win em all but SOS and volatile events such as turnovers, close game results, and star player availability in the tough games all play big roles and are mostly random.

Mike + staff actually seems to me to be constantly improving. From November 15 to today....there have been numerous changes and I can't say I've had a negative take on any of them.

Want to do better? Change.

2018. Yeah. I predict NU loses some games that year

 

Average rating for years 2, 3, 4 is 30 for NU. Better metric imo. Nearly the same though. '13 class will contribute jack to the team this year. 17 class will contribute forced into action players. Let's hope some turn into veterans quickly.

 

3-2 record, perhaps even 2-3, vs Oregon, Wisky, NW, Iowa and bowl....should get NU rated at seasons end. Won't be easy but very possible.

 

The part in green...that's because just about all of them have either exhausted their eligibility or transferred out.

 

According to my count, there are literally only 2 players left on the team from that recruiting class, and they're redshirt seniors. [David Knevel and Boaz Joseph]

 

So technically you're right, but not for the reason you're implying.

 

Lulz. Block me please. BTW try focus on clear meaning before you wander off into your fancy implication analysis.

 

Another win for NU imo. Welcome Bob. Bob's are usually reliable good guys. Go Bobs!

 

 

Bob's also have keen senses of talent and for motivation. Cooperative. They're real Bobs' Bobs.

Average rating for years 2, 3, 4 is 30 for NU. Better metric imo. Nearly the same though. '13 class will contribute jack to the team this year. 17 class will contribute forced into action players. Let's hope some turn into veterans quickly.

3-2 record, perhaps even 2-3, vs Oregon, Wisky, NW, Iowa and bowl....should get NU rated at seasons end. Won't be easy but very possible.

Another win for NU imo. Welcome Bob. Bob's are usually reliable good guys. Go Bobs!

Heh, so Leonhard is in the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame? Not to rain on your parade, but here is another esteemed Wisconsin Athletics HoF inductee:

 

LINK

I hereby report you to you, for trouble-making. LOL good one as usual. Need more...this board is way low on humor IMO.

Final Sagarin NU ranking:

2013---38

2014---29

2015---42

2016---45

Our starting lineup doesn't look to be much different overall compared to the recent past (13, 14 had 3 stars AA, Kenny, Randy). Expecting NU to end way higher like 20, 15, etc, you need to make the significant upgrades arguments.

Maybe OL, maybe QB, maybe D and ST coaching...will upgrade enough for a 25 spot jump, but mostly likely not.

I'm not one who will be assuming the new Wiscy DC will be a weakness. Since Barry's arrival what is their great/stupid ratio in hiring? Pretty great. Now, about the DC. He's smart. Very.

http://www.uwbadgers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=210&path=football

 

 

Jim Leonhard
Defensive Coordinator/DBs

Few could be considered more knowledgeable on the ins and outs of Wisconsin’s defense than Jim Leonhard, a 2015 inductee to the UW Athletic Hall of Fame who was one of the most successful players to ever patrol the Badgers’ defensive backfield.

Leonhard joined the Badgers’ coaching staff for the 2016 season as defensive backs coach, a matter of months after becoming a Hall of Famer. Less than a year later, on Feb. 2, 2017, he was named UW's defensive coordinator.

Leonhard’s impact on the Badgers’ secondary was immediate in 2016. His unit was instrumental in the Badgers grabbing 22 interceptions, a total that ranked second in the FBS and marked UW’s highest output since 2002, when Leonhard himself recorded a school-record 11 of UW’s 22 picks.

The secondary contributed to an overall effort that saw the Badgers finish the season ranked No. 4 nationally in scoring defense (15.6 points per game), No. 7 in total defense (301.4 yards per game), No. 3 in rushing defense (98.8 yards per game) and No. 10 in passing efficiency defense (106.9).

Under Leonhard’s tutelage, senior cornerback Sojourn Shelton was named first-team All-Big Ten for a season in which he recorded four interceptions and 12 pass breakups. Senior safety Leo Musso, the Badgers’ MVP, finished with a team-high five picks, while fellow safety D’Cota Dixon grabbed four and cornerback Derrick Tindal had three.

A product of tiny Tony, Wisconsin, Leonhard arrived on campus in 2001 as an unheralded, 5-foot-8 walk-on and left four years later as a three-time first-team All-American. He played in every game of his four-year career, including each of the last 39 as a starting safety, en route to becoming one of the best defensive players in school history.

He matched UW’s school record with 21 interceptions in his career, the fourth-most in Big Ten history, and finished with 50 passes defended — 25 of which came during his breakout sophomore season in 2002. His nation-leading 11 interceptions that year tied the Big Ten’s single-season record.

Leonhard went on to earn first-team All-America laurels that season and became the first sophomore to be named Wisconsin’s team MVP since 1947.

The following season, Leonhard proved those numbers were no fluke, again being named a first-team All-American. He led the Big Ten once again with eight interceptions, including a key fourth-quarter pick in Wisconsin’s 17-10 upset of No. 3 Ohio State, and tied for the team lead with 98 tackles. He also returned two punts for touchdowns and broke his own school record with 470 punt return yards.

As a senior, Leonhard again earned first-team All-America honors and was a finalist for the inaugural Lott IMPACT Trophy. He finished his career with 21 interceptions, tying Jamar Fletcher’s school record. He also broke the Big Ten record with 1,347 career punt return yards, a mark that currently ranks second in league annals.

In addition to his three All-America nods and three first-team All-Big Ten honors, Leonhard excelled in the classroom as well. A two-time Academic All-American, he joined Alan Ameche, Dave Mohapp and Don Davey as the only Badgers to earn that distinction multiple times. He was also one of 15 players nationally to earn a post-graduate scholarship from the National Football Foundation in 2004.

Though he went undrafted, Leonhard put together a 10-year NFL career with Buffalo, Baltimore, the New York Jets, Denver, New Orleans and Cleveland. He played in 142 games over his 10-year NFL career, starting 73 of them. He made 14 career interceptions and averaged 9.2 yards per punt return.

He earned a spot on the Bills’ 53-man roster after signing as an undrafted free agent following his senior season and spent three seasons in Buffalo, playing in 38 games.

Leonhard got his big break in 2008 after signing with the Baltimore Ravens. Following an injury to Dawan Landry, he started 16 of Baltimore’s final 17 games, including all three in the playoffs. He signed with the New York Jets the following season and started 40 games over the next three seasons. He then played for the Denver Broncos in 2012 and the Bills again in 2013 before retiring following the 2014 season with the Cleveland Browns.

Leonhard, 34, resides in Madison with his wife, Katie, and two sons, Reese and Graham.

Quite frankly, if a college or pro coach can't figure out with his own, unassisted brain, when to and when not to go for 2, then he shouldn't be coaching and they shouldn't be paying them millions of bucks. I can see where analytics would help save time by analyizing large amts of info, like the other team's/players tendencies, etc, so as they may not have to speand as much time looking @ film, etc.

 

Hey listen up the big _____ski.

Quite frankly, everything you just said was wrong.

Quite accurately, the article proved that NFL coaches are terrible at this. So, according to you, they must all be fired immediately. But you failed to point that out to us.

Analytics saves time, eh? LOL. Analytics is the ONLY WAY to determine the most advantageous decision. Something less than a few percent of the US population could do this in their own unassisted brains. Even then, they would be using analytics (in their head). You can't, and you talk again and again like you can.

You seem to like to teach us so I have a question. Who is the most likely person to be unaware when anti-wisdom is being spoken?

Imagine combining the 2004 offense with the 2007 D. Um yeah no that's not a good idea.

Bray....he should stay to learn 3-4 from a great DC and LB coach, IMO. I hope he hangs around.

Hey geniuses...Tom should have gone for 2 after the second to last touchdown. I could prove it, but I won't. If you read and comprehended that article you would already know that answer. More hilarity shall certainly follow in this thread.

Cool stat.

Of the higher recruiting teams UCLA must lead the pack of making less out of more.

For the few here who have picked up what's going on, you may enjoy the last few paragraphs from the article (that most posters here haven't read).

 

The most common and significant mistakes by far are failing to go for 2 when down 4, 8 or 11 late in the game: Of 81 such clear-cut decisions, coaches got it right a combined zero times. They also kicked the extra point down 2 in the third quarter five times, when they clearly shouldn’t have, and once in the fourth(!) for good measure.

There is no excuse for professional coaches to make such simple mistakes. If you’re a coach, you should be doing this analysis yourself — or doing it better. If you’re still kicking extra points 14 times more often than going for 2, you’re not doing your job. If you’re in the sports media and you haven’t mastered this material, and won’t hold coaches accountable for not doing their jobs, then you’re not doing your job either.

Is the author correct? Yes.

Does the author know why those people are constantly making the mistakes? Don't know he didn't say anything about it. I know why...but I'm not telling lol.

Careful what you wish for , there is plenty of hypocrisy from the left as well...

666% more hypocrisy from leftist, roughly.

 

Mack Brown spoke with Washington's OC before the game. The OC said they needed to play a NFL type game by rushing up the middle to keep Alabama's defense honest. I laughed knowing fans here on HB would scoff at such a notion, Of course, Washington's OC is ex-Beaver QB Jonathan Smith. Smith played for both Riley and Erickson.

 

Our coaches are veterans and know what they're doing despite the whining from those who have never put on a jock strap.

And Washington is averaging less than three yards per carry, getting blown out and has only one score in the game which came on a drive that was largely passing.

 

So just because an OC says something doesn't mean he's right. It's great to WANT to be able to just run it up the middle every time. Actually being able to do it is something different altogether.

 

Haha. And to pile on, geniuses don't usually give up the secrets of battle plans to national TV "journalists."

Year 3 I think you can throw out that the players aren't your coaches guys. Are some of the players not recruited by Riley and Co? Sure, absolutely, but they will have had 3 years with those coaches and should have been developed for and by those coaches. They would have most likely been under Riley and Co longer then Bo.

 

Each passing year the window of excuses gets smaller and smaller. Year 3 we should start to see a major uptick with the new staff, but it seems from what I am hearing is year 3 is somehow a rebuild year. That won't be acceptable.

Logical fallacy. Year 3 is DEFINITELY a rebuild year. The mess of Husker football is by far not a two year rebuild project. To say 2017 is not rebuild is to say we are today but one more logical step away being "successful." That is not true in the least considering Drew Brown is the ONLY significant part of the team that most would correctly agree can be counted on for championship level performance.

Today I have no strong prediction re MR's success here but if he does achieve at the highest possible level I expect he won't get into a final four before year 5. A final four is my goal for him btw, I have zero goals re MNC or BIG championships. If he achieved that within 8 years I call him a success and 9-4 years along the way won't have me hammering on him because I know his job is quite difficult (nothing like at Bama or USC or tOsu etc).

On a brighter side old OU teams used to be a lot like that. So maybe football powerhouse is just around the corner for MR's Huskers

The law of averages prevents them from sucking that bad for a whole game.

It's nice that there are a few folks here who understand stats, logic etc. LOL