Jump to content


Nebhawk

Members
  • Posts

    1,631
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Nebhawk

  1. Bielema is a good program builder, but he is really Pelini 2.0 as far as having true success. Yes he won some Big 10 titles, but he did that when Michigan wasn't playing Michigan football and Ohio St when they were not what they are now. Is this team better than those two? NO.. Are they better than Penn St? 50/50 on that one. Is Illinois better than most of the west right now, sure. Like I have said a few times, this west division is the worst I have seen in many years. Quality football not a requirement to win. Now, is Bielema better than Pelini, yes, but is he really the guy who can win 9--10 games a year? I don't know about that. I will not say that after this season when Wisky is not good, Minny is not very good, Iowa sucks, Northwestern is really bad. Bielema is actually a beneficiary of coaching in the BIg 10 when some of its power players are not doing so. This season Wisky is down and Iowa is not very good. Just not impressed with Illinois enough to think he is the man right now. If Illinois wins the west this season and beats MIchigan or Ohio ST along the way then I might think differently. So far the wins this season are not juggernaut wins.
  2. I think we have 4 games remaining after today. I would play every player in the program the rest of the way and see what is on the bench, on this roster. I would also strip Whipple of any play calling. NO MORE! Finish this season off in reboot mode. Find out whats really on this roster and either have players going forward who are good enough or have players leave who are not Big 10 material. We just plainly don't have, and have not had a Big 10 roster yet since joining. We haven't. We haven't developed those players at least, but I haven't seen too many players on our roster now for years that WOW me.
  3. Mickey inherited this mess. By no means is Mickey not accountable for some of this, but overall, this is on the program right now more than the coaching staff overall. Realistically we may never know if Mickey is HC material. What we do know if that Mickey can recruit better athletes than what we have right now. Whipple is awful. I don't know if Raiola is any better, but Mickey is the least of this teams issues right now.
  4. This game is on Whipple, once again. In our losses this season, he is mostly the reason why. He is a terrible play caller. I don't care how bad our line play is, run the ball, use the backs more, anything but this horsesa$$ offense scheme.
  5. I am not an Aranda fan because he hasn't done the dirty work at a program to get things rolling. He inherited a good situation at Baylor. Texas is much easier to recruit in than any other state. They have talent hanging on trees, just pluck yours. I don't like any of these so called candidates. Being honest. None of them wow me. Everyone last year wanted Napier, he isn't winning at Florida yet, and they have talent galore. Deboer isn't setting any Pac 12 records at Washington in his first year.......alll of these so called can't miss hires from a year ago haven't done alot yet either. I think Florida is a culture issue and Napier might get things going in a few seasons, but wasn't an easy fix like so many thought it would be. All I am saying is other than Urban, the rest are all likely the same coach with different spellings. Don't see much difference between any of them. Mickey in my opinion will out recruit alot of those names on this list. Mickey will develop a different staff going forward. He will have a different O-coord, he will likely get a co-defensive cooridnator along with Busch. Honestly just don't see any name that says he's our can't miss guy. I like all of the names to a degree. Leipold, Klieman, Aranda, and Rhule. But please, no Fleck. I could live with Bilemia even.
  6. Yep, we might not win another game this season. Wisky is not a bad football team when they show up to play. Iowa is the best chance to win one from where I am sitting at. OConnell is who we alll thought he was. Just an average Big 10 west QB.
  7. He didn't inherit KU. Your comparing apples to oranges.
  8. It just stuns me to think that we brag about our resources and money yet taking a coach like Leipold is beneath us? Anyone who can win 5 games at KU in the 2nd season, is doing something right. I watch them play, they are undertalented, they are overmatched on Defense most weeks, and still they compete. We could do worse than him as our next head coach, thats for sure.
  9. Know what your talking about if your going to post. Leipold has now been at Kansas for 1 1/2 seasons. Took over the program after recruiting was wrapped in his first season. He has now recruited one class of his players to KU. KU won like 4 games in the last 6 seasons before him. Not saying that I want him as our head coach, but to think that we win 5 games in a row with our talent and coaching staffs we have had in the last 10 years, YEAH, I would take Leipold. One year of recruiting, and now has won 5 gams already. We might not win 5 games against the worst Power 5 football conference in the nation this season.
  10. The Big 10 West and some of the the Big 10 east football teams are just plain awful. Awful! This is not parity, its just plain bad football. USC and UCLA will come into this conference and will be in the top 4 teams in this conference. No doubt! Talent is not there in this conference. Does Wisky still have a chance to win the west? Its up for grabs. I hope we beat Illini next week and really muck up this conference.
  11. Casey is a very decent QB. He does hold onto the ball too long sometimes, but my biggest complaint is his lack of interest in scrambling for a few yards when things break down fast. I know this was a knock on Adrian, but I think we see now why he bailed so fast. I don't want to see CAsey become that, but sometimes get out of there and run for a few positive yards. Thats really my biggest knock on him. The thing is we really only have one WR who I think can get open. The other receivers either don't run the routes right or they take to long to develop. I sure like the slants that Purdue uses. We need more plays like that.
  12. Although we like to think the Big 10 is by far more superior in football to the Big 12, I don't see much difference in the two honestly. Seriously, would you consider Ohio St more like Big 10 football or Big 12? This narrative drives me crazy all the time. SEC is the best conference, and I would say all the rest have some quality teams at the top and have crappy teams in the bottom. This season, for sure, I would really give the nod to Big 12 in having more good teams top to bottom. I think Ohio St is the better team in both but in all reality, I don't see this conference thing as being Big 10 superior to anyone right now. SEC is still the king, and I don't like that either, but its real.
  13. Mathis is not what he was billed as. Some of that is scheme and some of that is him. I watch him alot, and he is usually standing and watching. Once he fails at getting too the QB, he just stops. Not a big fan. Like I said, could be some to do with scheme. Our blitz packages all take the wrong angles and or just are too slow at getting there. Is that athletes or is that just scheme?
  14. Again, everyone misses the point with ARanda. He inherited a well oiled and tooled machine with Baylor. Rhule spent the time and hard work doing the rebuilding. Your hiring Callahan all over again. Callahan led the Oakland Raiders to the Super Bowl with Jon Gruden players and same offensive scheme. The true guy in that equation was Gruden. I understand the hype for Aranda, but he has not proven to me to be a guy who can rebuild a program or shape one into what he wants. He has taken a good product and not let it slide downhill yet. West Virginia just beat them, so I don't know what his value is right now. Its much easier to take over and manage a product that is already selling well. Can Aranda come here and build this into a power? Does he want to come here and do that hard work? Many don't, and many haven't if recent years should tell us something.
  15. Lets stop with using the 2019 LSU TIgers in any coach speak. Joe Brady? Dave Aranda? Come on. These guys all road the coattails of one of the best college teams(offensively) ever. Who wouldn't have success with that team on either side of the ball. They were also a one hit wonder.
  16. Illinois has sucked at football for along time. That why Chicago kids chose to leave the state. When you start winning some games, you get some of those players to stay and play for the in-state team. I am not saying that they will get all of those kids, but if they get 4 or 5 difference makers, its all they need. Again, I like Brett as a coach, I think he is tough and gets his kids to play above what they should. I don't think he leaves that job for us right now. If he leaves for any other BIg 10 job, its going to be Iowa, his alma mater.
  17. I learned that I am not a huge Whipple fan. We run routes with our WR's that take forever for them to get open. Sure, Palmer had some great plays tonight on go routes, but most of the time we are running deep crosses and just can't get the time for those plays to develop. Purdue has slow Wr's and just keep busting us with slants all night. One on one plays. I think we give up on Grant and Yant way to easy. I don't think that Casey does a good job of running the zone read. Tonight he actually kept the ball and gained 6 easy yards. That is there alot of the time. He doesn't have to keep it often, just keep the D honest from time to time. I think our Defense has moments where they look better, but right now we are a mash unit. I learned once again that our talent level across the board is not up to the level of most Big 10 schools. We have some really nice pieces, and good enough talent to compete, but not enough difference makers across the board on both sides of the ball. I liked Hill returning kicks, he looks natural at that. No more Martin on punt returns, put in Hill.
  18. Why would Bielema come here with Chicago in the back yard for recruiting? Brett is from Illinois, just went to Iowa as a player. I think he is home. I don't know who is a viable coaching option at this point. I truly don't think that Urbs is in the conversation at this point, but he is the homerun hire. I don't think that Kiffin is a real option, and don't know if he is any better than some others. He had chances at USC and at Tennessee and never really lit the world on fire. Rhule could be a choice, but I am sure he is getting money now from a fired contract and might not want back into the college game right away. Rhule is the only other coach that I would consider over Mickey at this point. I think he can build a roster with all positions covered.
  19. My weekly coach take as follows: Right now I don't see a great realistic choice. Urban in my opinion is out of this discussion. Great if we end up with him, but in all reality, not seeing him wearing our shade of red. I really like Leipold, but I don't think his defensive staff is any better than what we have presently. I still think that he is a really good coach and do understand that this is only his second season, and really only has one full season of recruiting under his belt, but not impressed with his defense at all. Kleiman is not a good choice because I don't think he wants this job because of its pressures. Kiffin won't leave an SEC school right now to come here. Bama is losing its mojo, Saban is starting to lose games that he always won. The level of competition in the SEC is starting to level out and that means that someone like Kiffin is in a really good spot right now. No pun intended, but the tide is turning in the SEC. That leaves us with MIckey. I truly think that MJ is, and has to be the frontrunner as of right now. IF we can not get a homerun hire, Urbs, then it might as well be Mickey at this point. I just don't know if any of the other choices are any better than Mickey right now.
  20. Purdue is a lot better than Indiana and Rutgers. Purdue might be Big 10 West champs, and I know that doesn't mean a lot this season, but still they are better than what we have been playing. Truly, that Georgia Southern and Northwestern games are going to limit what this team does this season. If those two games would have been different this team would be different right now, but we would still have Frost. I will take what Mickey is doing.
  21. I have a question that is a real one: Why does Purdue have walk ons that can produce like that? I also have the anwer: We use to have those players once upon a time in the 90's! This game showed us once again what it means to have a quality walk on program once again.
  22. I do agree that MJ is doing a pretty good job and should be considered and even the front runner right now. I think he could bring in his brother Vance as co D-C and keep Busch as co. I don't like Whipple. I don't know if I really think that CAsey is the anwer next season either. I would prefer a dual threat QB. We are lacking athletes from A-Z. We have some pieces, but not enough. This is not on Mickey. I would love to see Mickey have some more pieces and then see what this team could be. We have not recruited enough defenders of quality. Our linebackers are not really D-1 linebackers like other schools have. Our O and D lines are not Big 10 quality either. When you add all this up, were lucky to even be where we are right now. I don't think Minny, Wisky, and Iowa are very good. I still think we have a chance to win 3 more and get bowl bound.
  23. Whipple just keeps throwing the ball no matter where we are in the game. I serious think that running that zone read at least once every quarter keeps defenses honest. Casey only needs to run the ball one or two times and the defense will stay honest. Hell, I dont know if the play is called more and CAsey just always hands it off, but its there.
  24. No matter what, this team keeps fighting. I wish however we would hit the QB in the first quarter late rather than now. I don't mind those plays early in a game. Our defense is not good, but they are fighting some. Plain and simple: Our offense is just as much to blame for this game as our Defense. I get tired of seeing us running the same pass plays over and over again. IF not for Palmer, we don't have a chance, but he even dropped a couple that would have mattered. Casey made some nice deep balls, but he really isn't that good with underneath passes. Some of that is on having no line play, but some of that is on him.
  25. This game is not on Mickey. If you blame any of our coaches, its on Whipple. HIs play calling at times is just awfull and leads to us having to use bad timeouts. One timeout is on Mickey, but this game is on Whipple. We keep running stupid plays. We don't run the ball enough. The zone read is there, we don't run it enough just to keep the defense honest.
×
×
  • Create New...