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If RIley had the balls, I'd love to see him slam Dirk.

Todd Gurley?

This guy is unreal. He has a smile on his face as he subtly twists the knife. NU should have beaten 8 of 9 teams 9 of 10 times. To pretend that if you just have a couple of rematches, you'd be much better, ignores basic logic and math.

He think the "fix" that's needed is better defense/coaching around a hail mary against a non-P5 team. Wow, I'm losing my mind here. This guy needs to be fired on his way out of the press conference.

Riley just stated that Perlman is stopping by practice regularly. REALLY??? Yikes.

Ok, scratch that. Just heard his suck up to the AD and Perlman. Wow.

As poor a fit as I think he is as the HC, and that putting off replacing him is just putting off the inevitable, I think he's a great person. I think his priorities are exactly right. Maybe we should consider him as the AD? I'm sort of serious. He knows coaching and he's even keel and he has the right mindset. then again, I don't know if I'd trust him to fire the right head coach.

I hate that he probably actually believes a rebuild was required. This guy needs to gtfo now.

"Your support and patience as Mike Riley rebuilds our storied program one brick at a time mean the world to our young men, our staff and our university. " What, after you and he took a wrecking ball to the program during the first 9 games of this season? Get the f#*k out, man.

People are too focused on perceived talent disparities. What we should recognize is that Purdue is a very poorly coached team. Hence their record the past 3 years. And they just lit up NU's staff. That is the disparity we should be focused on.

A few decent seasons? My recollection is that he extended Weiss during his first season after like a 6-2 start (and the near win over ND on the bush push). Athletic directors are often morons. I wish we could get Tom back, but that ship has sailed.

"75th most talented team in the country" smfh Fine. Play that game. But NU has maybe the 110th most talented coaching staff. And that isn't going to get better. No matter who you recruit. A good coach would not be 3-6 with this team.

I think Riley and Pederhorst fans base their judgment on NU talent based on results caused by poor coaching. Before the season, who here looked at our roster and our schedule and predicted NU would be 3-6. Of that small number who argued it would be due to talent deficiencies? USA Today writer nailed it: all sorts of revisionism going on. And produce top ten teams??!? Who's arguing that???! How about a top 100 team? Do we have the talent for that? Or to expect wins over teams that aren't top 100?

I read the article and without seeing it in comparison to teams across the country, it doesn't mean as much. What's the scale being used? For instance, if Ohio State is a 5.9, and UCF is a 5.0, the spread is small, and it's not as close as it appears. The scale is how each service ranks the players Rivals 247 I get that. But see my example about comparison for the range of values. It's important to establish how much weight to give to the variance. Exactly. That's why back in that original thread, I showed that the variance between NU and MSU is actually smaller than the one between Purdue and NU. And that if you control for walkons, which are clearly not adequately captured in this methodology, NU and MSU are tied and both outpace Purdue by a wide margin. The entire premise that we should rely on unpaid (or very low paid) rivals recruitniks for determining a kid's ability out of high school based on an arbitrary decimal point is flawed. It actually just idiotic.

No, they aren't. Or, if you want to use that jacked up methodology, so is Mich St. And so was NU most of the previous 10 to 15 years. This is what the Rivals and 247 data churns out. If you want to invent your own methodology, then go right ahead. Is it perfect? No. But it is two data points. It's stupid. Because if a kid who takes a scholarship to Purdue walks on at Michigan, his rating drops (or really, he's never rated) even though he's the exact same kid. Anyone who believes Purdue is close to as talented as Nebraska has completely lost their mind.

If they aren't capable or struggling in a scheme, why in the world would you continue to stick with something that isn't working? A large part of coaching is finding something that works and putting players in the best position to succeed. I'm not seeing that at all. Throwing 48 times with ANY QBs currently on the roster is a really good way to lose a game. They weren't recruited to sling it all over the field, so why do we continually do it? Why not create a run heavy game plan one week to see how it works? It's not like there is a lot to lose at this point. The o-line is a total joke this year. I have seen three o-linemen consistently whiff blocks or just get flat out dominated, yet there isn't even an attempt to switch it up to see if a different combination works better. Am I to believe these things don't happen in practice? I have a really hard time believing that these things only happen on game day. I don't wholly disagree with you. We seem to be in between what we want to be and what we actually can be. It just doesn't seem like we are good at much of anything. That can never be entirely on a coaching staff. Especially not in their first year here, at least, not in my opinion. If we want to be a 40+ attempt per game WCO, NU will be sub .500 from here out under this staff. I'm hoping Patrick O'Brien will have something to say about that someday...... If not him, then any QB that can consistently complete an accurate pass will do. Passing the ball is not the problem, it's not completing the passes that is the issue. Yeah, and in the down years, the valleys are even lower. "Balanced" offenses that lean on the pass to open up the run are awful unless run by an all pro QB. I'd like us to try and maintain balance as well, but let's not abandon our search for an all pro QB. That might be a neat new thing Nebraska could experience considering most of us have never seen on in a Husker uniform.I don't want to be balanced. I'd rather see us hire Leach than chase the notion of "balance." It's mostly ineffective at the college level unless you have top 5 talent. No. No it's not. Not based on reality anyway. Most successful offenses maintain balance, and most successful offenses aren't built with top five talent. No, most successful offenses keep defenses off balance. And 50/50 play calling isn't how that's achieved.

Nate Gerry is an NFL caliber athlete whose ability is being squandered. No arguing that.

Do you keep a bad staff and risk losing millions in unrealized revenue. Or do you fire the staff in hopes that the buyout investment is recouped as the team improves. Honestly, NU is in an awful corner at this point. Heads in the admin need to roll because they painted NU into it.

The 1/3 of the roster is walkons is just another lie in the propaganda machine run by revisionists who tore Frank down to justify an awful '04 (which sadly isn't looking that bad anymore) and now set its sights on Bo as the scapegoat. Want to provide some context on that number? Like how it compares to rosters during the past 7 years? Or over our history? Is it something that we can really believe will change? Even in 2008, when recruiting was supposedly humming under Callahan, 10 of the 2-deep were walkons. Certain fans will now tear down our walkon tradition to excuse a sub .500 coach doing what sub .500 coachs do.

Can we all just agree that we aren't going to do this anymore? Canning Pelini, justly, and hiring Riley are two different things. One was a correct decision, and the other was not. Keep clinging to that. But firing pelini, similarly to firing Solich, just guaranteed being relegated to a coach like Callahan or Riley. You don't fire a solid coach unless you know you have an upgrade in line

Sterup got put on his ass 3-4 times by the DE. Cav said our guys weren't playing with leverage and were getting manhandled and that it should never have happened.no sh#t. Leverage my ass. Its all attitude with these guys right now. Quit havin the god damned Pelini pity party and start gettin after it. These guys repeatedly got their ass whooped by a NW d end. Is there technique involved? Sure. But just the eye test tells me that aint half the problem. Cav saying what he said is just covering for the players. These coaches i bet would really like to just come out and say how much of a headcase this team is. This team doesn't have a mid 90s Cowboys offensive line, true. But this is D1 football. Despite the perceptions, no team (or few teams) can go out and just run garbage calls that consistently put your oline at a disadvantage and still hope to rack up rushing yards. The talent disparity just isn't great enough. This team is only a "head case" now because of the awful play calling, preparation and clock management that this staff brings to the table. This NU team should have been able to simply grind out at least 6 wins this season if Langs and/or Riley would check their egos or use their brains. When you're a player and know that your losing to inferior teams, it is demoralizing. It does shake confidence in your coaches and the assignments they put on you. You'd have to be an extremely rare breed of person to not have that effect you. And the posters here bashing player effort are the sort who have never really been tested. Or, I'd wager, don't give full effort in their own lives. .500 coach getting .500 results doesn't require a bunch of mental gymnastics justifying those results by blaming the players or the former coach.

And I couldn't give a sh#t if NU ever finds and suits up an elite pro style QB. Because in college, they are overrated and rarely the reason for championships. Name the last great pro style QB whose team didn't really win because of an elite running game.

If they aren't capable or struggling in a scheme, why in the world would you continue to stick with something that isn't working? A large part of coaching is finding something that works and putting players in the best position to succeed. I'm not seeing that at all. Throwing 48 times with ANY QBs currently on the roster is a really good way to lose a game. They weren't recruited to sling it all over the field, so why do we continually do it? Why not create a run heavy game plan one week to see how it works? It's not like there is a lot to lose at this point. The o-line is a total joke this year. I have seen three o-linemen consistently whiff blocks or just get flat out dominated, yet there isn't even an attempt to switch it up to see if a different combination works better. Am I to believe these things don't happen in practice? I have a really hard time believing that these things only happen on game day. I don't wholly disagree with you. We seem to be in between what we want to be and what we actually can be. It just doesn't seem like we are good at much of anything. That can never be entirely on a coaching staff. Especially not in their first year here, at least, not in my opinion. If we want to be a 40+ attempt per game WCO, NU will be sub .500 from here out under this staff. I'm hoping Patrick O'Brien will have something to say about that someday...... If not him, then any QB that can consistently complete an accurate pass will do. Passing the ball is not the problem, it's not completing the passes that is the issue. Yeah, and in the down years, the valleys are even lower. "Balanced" offenses that lean on the pass to open up the run are awful unless run by an all pro QB. I'd like us to try and maintain balance as well, but let's not abandon our search for an all pro QB. That might be a neat new thing Nebraska could experience considering most of us have never seen on in a Husker uniform. I don't want to be balanced. I'd rather see us hire Leach than chase the notion of "balance." It's mostly ineffective at the college level unless you have top 5 talent.

I completely agree and I must have posted the same thing about 20 times. We do have talent. We actually have more weapons than Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, Northwestern, and Rutgers combined but we have horrible coaches that have no idea how to coach. It is like owning a Mustang but you do not know how to drive. That is Riley and company in a nutshell. And if any of these guys had integrity, they'd go back to pre season predictions, when they knew the roster, and see most predicted no fewer than 8 wins and many thought 10 was a possibilith in the reg season. Only now are they rewriting history by dragging players through the mud.

lmao....let me guess you are a grunt or a blueberry. Even if you are not, you are just plain ignorant. Unless you're a pilot, I have zero respect for the bus drivers.