Kiyoat Husker

9 hours ago, JKinney said:

 

 

Great video, but I couldn't help but be reminded of this Schick and Nick Show from back in the day.  Enjoy with headphones if you are at work.

epic, and that was exactly what I was thinking of. +1

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Meh....would be better if he wasn’t a Texas longhorn fan. 

Yeah, how did the voice of "The Longhorn Network " get into a Husker video?

I did enjoy that video, though.  Excellent editing.

The hard things to know are the intangibles each QB has.  Decision-making skill and speed.  Instincts, field vision, toughness, confidence, intelligence, ability to read the defense, running style, elusiveness, etc, etc.

The ability to evaluate those intangibles in a recruit without the benefit of seeing that player running your offense is what separates the elite talent evaluates from the rest.  I hope Frost & Co. are as good at that as T.O. appeared to be in his prime.

In the end, I'm just glad he will have a number of options on-campus this spring at QB.  The cream should rise to the top.

13 hours ago, Landlord said:

 We went from power I rushing/triple option offense to a little bit more of a spread option offense to a terrible west coast offense to a good west coast offense to an intentionally shut down/ball control wco/pro style offense to a zone read run heavy with wco passing schemes offense to a very 'multiple' run-heavy zone read spread to a west coast again.

Drink.

11 hours ago, olddominionhusker said:

Rome has been a guilty pleasure of mine for car listening for a while. He has always been unabashedly pro Nebraska. I think it’s just a result of him coming of age career wise when we were such a force. 

Personally I think his respect for Nebraska stems from the knowledge and skills of the callers from "Bugaha".  He is a coneseuer of smack-talk.

5 hours ago, DrunkOffPunch said:

Rumor going around that Held is either a witch or a hologram.

The Ryan Helds vs. Harbaugh in a recruiting battle:

I'll be interested to see if some of our large non-coach football staff can somehow help manage a larger group of walk-ons without running afoul of the NCAA.  I have no idea what all the specifics are with regard to those rules.

What are everyone's thoughts on the changes in college football that have made having a big, contributing walk-on program at Nebraska more difficult?

What can be done to get around these obstacles?  I feel like HCSF sounded determined to make it happen, and i tend to believe that he will try.  T.O. always seemed to be good at finding creative solutions to Nebraska's disadvantages.  How is Nebraska going to convince players NOT to take advantage of scholarship opportunities?  Are NCAA rules about number of coaches and practice time an obstacle?  How about "volunteer" coaches?

Or is it just as simple as the fact that past coaches just didn't "get it"?

Even Frank started the trend of a smaller walk-on program, IIRC.

Chuck Norris/ Barry Allen I think.

12 hours ago, Landlord said:

 

 

I'd love if Frost adjusted his scheme towards a little bit more of a heavy-set/power focus, at least at times, as sort of an entirely realized and modernized Nebraska power running attack using a lot of those same ideas.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that basically a description of what Meyer runs at OSU?  Not that that's a bad thing.

19 minutes ago, brophog said:

 

Accuracy is different than completion percentage, but I can speak on completion percentage, and I'd definitely say no. This offense has a variety of screens and dump offs that aid in high completion percentage, but this is a downfield passing attack. They use the threat of those plays more to control space than as a primary play. Baker Mayfield and McKenzie Milton were 1 and 2 in yards per attempt and completion percentage, and the only 2 that were top ten in both.

 

The offense does result in more open targets, so in that sense it gives more opportunities than an offense like Langs that often only had 2 or 3 receivers out on slow developing routes. You don't have to throw the ball away nearly as much, so obviously that helps in a way. You can clearly see an effect of this in Milton's year to year percentages. 57.7% and 5.9 ypa his first year, 69.2% and 10.2 ypa in his second year. It's practically unheard of to make that kind of jump in the same offense with over 300 attempts both years.  If I were a young QB prospect, I'd want a piece of that action. 

 

 

So would you agree with the statement that "this offense doesn't require super-stud QB's to make it great"?  I would contend that Mariota actually was a "super-stud" coming out of high-school - he was just an unknown, due to playing backup to another D-1 bound QB.  I don't know much about Milton.

I disagree with that statement.  Recruiting less-than-accurate QBs that are great runners is not going to make Frost's offense great, IMHO.  As you explained, there is a difference between accuracy and completion percentage.  A QB with poor accuracy isn't going to get more accurate by running this system.  They might get a bump in stats, but wouldn't you rather have the stud (accurate/ athletic/ intangibles) QB?

32 minutes ago, secretasianman said:

Good job Coach Frost !  Testament to his good staff too.

 

On a humorous note , he’s part of an elite fraternity now : 

 

 

Maybe he could invite Les up to his office and compare trophies.... or Frank.

Question: Do we oversign a little, in anticipation of transfers?  I'm sure there will be at least a few.

22 hours ago, ColoradoHusk said:

I think the good thing about Frost's offense is that it doesn't require super-stud QB's to make it great.  Mariotta and MIlton weren't highly recruited coming out of high school.  The system requires the coaches to make the best decisions very quickly.  McKenzie Milton has a 69% completion percentage this year because he's the most accurate passer in the country, it's because the system utilizes quick passes and receivers running wide open downfield.

Wait a second.  Let's not go back to the old narrative about getting QBs that nobody is recruiting as a QB.  Frost's system may very well artificially elevate a QB's accuracy (I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, don't know enough about it), 

BUT, it shure as hell will run better with a more accurate QB.  Frost isn't going to go for RBs that want to be QBs.  He is going to try and get the best dual threat guys in the country, going H2H with other top programs.

Mariota wasn't lightly recruited because he had a bad completion percentage.  He was just unknown because he was a backup.  Helfrich "found" him, saw his potential, and the rest is history.  I don't know about Milton, but I doubt he had a low completion percentage in HS.

Three B1G teams pulled off upsets in the second round.  Not surprised, but good to see.

If you're going to dip things in frosting daily you may want to rename it the Mangino/Weis Jayhawk diet.

nvm.  this thread moves too fast!

I LOVE SLOGANS!

/s

2 hours ago, MichiganDad3 said:

Bo took over a losing team (5-7), and had us in the CCG in year 2, and if it weren't for a kickoff out of bounds, followed by a stupid penalty, and a very questionable second, Bo would have won the CCG against the #3 team in the nation. I think Frost is better than Bo, so there is no reason to expect anything less.

Your analogy works until you realize that Frost will not have a Suh or Amukamara on his 2018 team.  I think frost will be great here, but let's not start off with expectations of immediate dominance.  Frost deserves a little patience IMO and I hope he gets it.

27 minutes ago, Nebfanatic said:

I'll leave the sloganeering to Frost

Imagineering is what's going on here.  

What, no 300 gifs?

You know what tastes good with cheese fries?

A nice cold pale ale

14 hours ago, RedDenver said:

"Fruit" comes from the latin word fructus which comes from the Latin word frui, which means enjoy.

I enjoy cheese fries.

Etymology is fun, and so is surname origin.  For example, I'll just pick a random surname.....

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Frost is a surname with a rich scandinavian history. it originates from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian meaning born at the time of frost (winter) or someone with an icy or unbending disposition, and was originally a title of one who was shown to be unflinching in times of battle or confrontation, or to have an "icy" disposition, rather than a surname.