ndobney

Fire Riley

You can fire your coach after one year if you are going to be getting a new AD, bc a new AD has the right to get his guy in there period.

I've watched every huskers for the last 25 years, and I have pulled my support for them as of yesterday. I will not support any coach hired again by either the Pearlman or Eichorst regime. If I feel this way then I know many others feel this way as well. You can fire a coach after one year if you are getting a new AD and chancellor as well. Then you have the excuse to do it. So we might be able to flush this moron after this year before he runs the program to deep into the ground. We can't afford to loose to many recruiting classes.

 

I don't know the answer to that question, but I do know one thing with 100% certainty: neither Pelini nor Riley are the answer for righting this program.

 

I agree...Pelini should have been fired after the 2012 debacle vs Wisconsin, and Riley is simply not the right answer to turn this program around. I honestly think that, had Pelini's personality not been such a strong factor in his firing, we may not have focued on finding the nicest guy out there to take over. It's like Eichorst was so focused on finding the anti-Bo that he forgot to find a good head coach.

 

Maybe its this administration that we can't win with.

Pelini's firing had almost nothing to do with his record and almost everything to do with the severe hatred for his job that he seemed to develop the longer he was here. It wasn't healthy for either party to be in that relationship anymore, and that is okay. If Pelini had Riley's personality I'd be willing to say he would still be here.

 

Riley seems completely inept. There should be staff changes made at the end of the season- again I am going to continue to beat the Todd Orlando drum for DC- but there won't be changes. Nebraska can afford any real coach they want for the most part, the money is there. The biggest issue isn't that they chose an out of the box candidate, it's that they chose an out of the box candidate that has proven to be mediocre over an extremely large sample size and has a philosophy on football that does not mesh with how Nebraskans believe the game should be played.

 

The man for this job is Tom Herman. His emphasis on developing a strong running game while playing to Greg Ward Jr's strengths on offense is simply amazing. If we are lucky enough to have Herman remain at Houston for another 2 years (allowing Riley to have 3 seasons) and Riley still hasn't produced, I don't see how Nebraska won't make him an offer. To think that we could've had an ace recruiter in the south on this staff in Ed Oregeron and instead we chose Mark effing Banker and Hank effing Hughes is laughable. I'm a UConn fan and I love Hughes but to think that he would bring more to Nebraska than a coach like Oregeron is absolutely ridiculous.

 

 

I will give Riley credit for Trent Bray. Pay that man.

ok then who would you rather have kept Pelini or Eichorst and Pearlman?

Pelini's firing was far overdue, and it wasn't *just* about on field performance.

 

If Riley turns this program into a Top 15 team in year 2 or year 3, nobody remembers this year. Similarly, if he had somehow escaped all those close games to turn in a 10-win year 1, and craps the bed in year 3, nobody will care.

 

Programs take some time to be defined under a coach. Once that time is given, they have to produce fairly consistently, on and off the field.

I don't know if I agree with that, cause I don't think the fans will ever forget a coach missing a bowl game.

Who is more deserving to get fired? PElini getting fired when he did or Riley right now after the Northwestern loss?

The OP has further convinced me that Riley should be fired, but I was already at 100%

 

I'm sticking with giving Riley seven years. It's the principle of the matter. If Nebraska sh!t cans two nine win coaches and then cuts a third loose because he couldn't hit nine wins, the whole state looks retarded.

 

Please stop

 

let me guess your marriage didn't last 7 years so now your bitter

I won't support this team until he does get fired.

Can't wait till hes fired

Good bye don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out!!

the entire season this year has been lke watching someone try to force a square peg into a round hole

 

It will probably be best if POB redshirts next season and I would be surprised if anybody other than Armstrong takes snaps at QB unless an injury occurs.

 

As far as Armstrong being on the bench right now... there simply isn't another QB on the roster who's even close to being starting QB material.

 

I really dislike that notion. I know players practice and all but how do you know a player is not game ready unless you give them a shot? Many players throughout history have come off the bench and jumped into the spotlight. You really don't know how good someone is until you put them in a live game. See 2007 when Sam Keller went down, Joey Ganz came in and became a very, very good QB and people constantly kept saying we had no one behind Keller that could be a solid QB.

 

I heard AJ Bush was good

I think he will start by the end of the year. Riley is hellbent on passing more than he should. I think he should just run more until we can get a type of qb that can actually complete 65% of his passes as oppossed to 50%

There is now no such thing as a good clean hit. They are all potentially dangerous and need to be banned from the game. Further, it is necessary that we should use 5 minutes of replay to determine if two helmets contacted one another, and if this happens the player must be ejected. We can simply not tolerate hard hits above the stomach, and these players need to made examples of. After all millions of dollars are at stake with the health and future of this game, and really isn't that what it's all about?

I agree with this a lot. to be really honest I don't think football will even be around in 20 years. We can become a soft society

 

Expect athlete Donovan McDonald to join Nebraska’s program next spring.

McDonald, a 5-11, 178-pound wide receiver and defensive back from Fork Union (Virginia) Military Academy, has been watching the Huskers practice this fall. He told The World-Herald on Tuesday that he plans to be on the team next spring as a walk-on at the very least.

 

OWH

 

Thats great news!!!! We need to fill up the ranks with athletes. We need to expand our walk on program big time

I a lot of people in the know are questioning why we don't bring our CB's up. Why doesn't someone in the media ask this question during the pressers? I am interested in knowing why we don't.

We all knew it would take time for the team to gel, and yesterday they did. They won on the road as an underdog, against a team that had beaten NU 2 straight years. Two years ago we were embarrassed and resoundingly beaten, by a team coached by an asst. coach that had no coaching experience. Not yesterday by seasoned coach that everyone respects.

Yesterday, we witnessed a coaching staff that put together a great gameplan and a team that finally bought in. Maybe part of it was the speech that Lewis gave the team earlier this week. (If so, it proves that Riley handled the matter with him correctly) But the team and coaching staff played to win and put a team away yesterday. They did everything we thought they could do coming into the season. They got everything out of the talent that they had. Its on to bigger and better things.

Lets look at what they did.

 

Put together a great gameplan - A+

Playcalling - A+

Game management - A

Special Teams - B

D-line - A+

Linebackers - A

D-backs - B-

O-line - B+

Qb - A-

Receiver's - A

 

So, if not a contract extension, then maybe a raise! Hip Hip Hooray!

 

Do you smoke crack?

Personally I am really glad that MSU beat mechicken, but for Boldin to be ejected for the hit on the MSU QB is so far beyond stupid it makes the tuck rule look like a great call. I encourage all true Nebraska fans to email the big ten and complain about this crap they have the nerve to call refs. I mean seriously at what point does the big ten take some kind of responsibility for the dog sh#t they are putting on the field. We as husker fans have seen some crap, but this call demand someone gets fired.

I think Langsdorf called a damn good game! I thought the playcalling was an A-! Defensively, I have no idea why our cb's play 8 yards off, it makes me wonder if they don't trust our corners in press man to man coverage.

to be fair most langsdorf haters would agree with him doing well. husker fans over react but we are no where close to dumb like irish fans

Although I don't consider it a big deal I thought it was nice that Gerry pointed to the fans after that last interception. Almost like the players were sharing the win with the fans and thanking them for being there.

 

I could be wrong but with the crazy losses this season, and the overwhelming negativity on boards like this, it was nice to see him react that way. A nice change from the us vs them bunker mentality.

I loved it

Yes, I agree with your sentiments Redux! I felt this game was the critical 'watershed' game of the season. If we blew this one, we had to punt the rest of them and play the young guys for experience, etc. Now, we can play next week. Assuming we play our very best game, we can win that one as well. Suddenly we are back to even and still have some hopes for a 'winning' season record and maybe a bowl game near Christmas time in a warm place. That gives us a bunch more practice time and the chance to build for the future. We also can keep the recruits and fish for a few more. The future can be quickly restored and optimism flows from there. But, there remains many very tough games left. Wins are going to be hard to come by - but this team did not fold and remained confident enough and played with more focus and effort than we have seen really. We didn't have a total 'waste' of a quarter of the game today. A couple 5 minute spells were crappy but we are shortening those spells. A good sign. If we can play 4 quarters complete next week, we have a chance to finish the season on a very positive note and with some momentum for 2016. We can avoid a blow out and finish just about 15 points from being undefeated on the score board. Now we all know we have a LONG way to go to get to where we want to go, but I think the kids will get more faith that Riley can get it done. We MUST make dramatic improvement in pass defense immediately. We need a dime package or something. Maybe play a couple LBs on the DE spots and play our fastest DTs up front and bring more safeties out there. We must get better coverage of the 10 or `15 yard passes.

Yeah it puts a bowl game back in the conversation. and 48 pts against this Minnesota defense is worthy of praise. Still a ways to go but at least on the offensive side on the ball the coaches made the right adjustments. 25 pts vs Minnesota is too much though.

Well, I am not sure we saw a lot of 'improvement' except of course in the 'win' area. Certainly, played well enough to win.

how about play calling, game management, Newby, completion percentage, big plays with pierson el ect, penalties, finishing a game. But outside of that I pretty much agree with you

Almost a perfect game playcalling wise. Start to finish very, very, very well coached game.

I was thinking the same thing. First drive of the 4th they needed to run the ball