BartonHusker

I want hard nosed, consistent football that doesn't make stupid continual mistakes. One that values not turning over the ball and one that plays with their hair on fire forcing turnovers themselves. Something like you see from Kansas State (just with better recruiting) currently. I expect 10 wins a season. Sure we aren't going to go 13-0 often but 10-3 or 11-2 should be the norm. If you want to admit it or not, Bo IS a control freak. He has yes men as his coordinators that run exactly what he wants and nothing else. He won't bring in top notch coordinators due to having to give over power or letting those guys do their jobs (possibly running a different defense than he wants). He can turn things around if he would just adapt plain and simple. If it is broke, fix it! Just don't sit there saying, "I don't know, you tell me"? The best coaches adapt to their personnel and play to their strengths.

I may be brand new to this board (somehow just now found this board) but junior4949 brought up one of my biggest stinks of Coach Pelini and his defense. I can't stand the 2-Gap system we are using with our defensive front. The system itself only works when you have the proper personnel to run it. Suh and Crick are not walking through that tunnel. It was also a system that may work great at OU and LSU but they are able to recruit the cream of the crop from the south and Texas along the DL. You add on top of that blue-chip recruits do not want to come in and play in a 2-Gap system. It isn't fancy and glorifiying to say the least. These elite kids want to go to a 1-Gap system that will showcase their speed and pass rushing skills. As we know DT/DE's do not rush the QB in our system. We are lucky to get the likes of Peat and Valentine but to be a big time program you need a lot of quality depth along the DL. Right now it doesn't seem like we have that and the best DL talent imo are red-shirting or still quite young. These same kids would make excellent 4-3 1-Gappers also. One of my major gripes about Bo is his unwillingness to adapt to the personnel he has. He is so dang stubborn! I think this is the reason we have Beck and Paps as our coordinators. They may be up and coming big time coordinators that are two of our best recruiters but they are very much green in the playcalling department. They were selected and not others from the outside with much better resumes due to the fact he wanted yes men and coaches that would run exactly what he wanted. Bo needs to make changes or he is going to lose his job. He will have no one to blame for the continual down turn of his program but only himself.

Gary Patterson - TCU Paul Rhoads - ISU Dan Mullen - Mississippi State James Franklin - Vanderbilt