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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 kind of agree, I don't really buy into the idea of purging assistants and keeping the head man. He's the Captain, it's his ship. If you want wholesale changes, why not just get rid of the hand man too? I say get rid of MR now. Miami fired Golden. This is unacceptable. Name an interim HC, and get a great HC as soon as possible. Send SE the door at the same time if he made this hire. I still don't understand how SE is allowed to choose the HC without input from others. Some of y'all have been saying that since BYU or week 4. Well news flash bud, anyone can say that. What is the game plan after you fire someone? What is the resolution to the solution? What is option B in case your best favorite expert coach says no thanks? Not specifically you, but you and the rest. WHO IS THE COACH THAT WANTS TO GO WHERE THEY HAVE LESS THAN A FOUR WEEK PATIENCE/TOLERANCE LEVEL (FAN BASE) WAITING FOR HIM???!!! PROVIDE NAMES AS YOUR SOLUTION PLEASE! AND WHAT DO YOU DO IF HERMAN SAYS "NOT A CHANCE IN HELL"??? AND CALHOUN SAYS "YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME, NO WAY!" AND AFTER 4 OR 5 TOP CHOICES SAY NOPE, ALL YOU HAVE LEFT IS ..............?? Can't a coaching search be like dating women? You know make before break? If you get turned down by everyone that is better than what you have then stick with what you have. To our fan bases credit we haven't started flying banners. It should be interesting to see what kind of coaches Miami is able to attract. I think Miami might be a slightly more attractive destination due to the recruits down there. BTW what do Miami and Nebraska have in common, aside from a history of playing each other? Eichorst as AD. Yeah, and, uh, Miami is 10000000x nicer than Lincoln, especially when you have DIA coaching money. Eh, depends what you like. Having been there countless times, I think Miami is a crap hole. For games or to the nicer parts? With money, it's a beautiful place, if you can handle the heat.

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.

It's realistic to believe with fewer of the upperclassmen that are currently causing the locker room issues as well as better depth across the board you will see improvement starting next season. If we are below 500 next season you have to fire them all including SE. .500 coach doing what a .500 coach does. But fans blame the players. It's ok to admit your faith in Pederhorst and Riley was misplaced.

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.

Wait wait wait. The assistants got multi year contracts?? Are you kidding me?

I kind of agree, I don't really buy into the idea of purging assistants and keeping the head man. He's the Captain, it's his ship. If you want wholesale changes, why not just get rid of the hand man too? I say get rid of MR now. Miami fired Golden. This is unacceptable. Name an interim HC, and get a great HC as soon as possible. Send SE the door at the same time if he made this hire. I still don't understand how SE is allowed to choose the HC without input from others. Some of y'all have been saying that since BYU or week 4. Well news flash bud, anyone can say that. What is the game plan after you fire someone? What is the resolution to the solution? What is option B in case your best favorite expert coach says no thanks? Not specifically you, but you and the rest. WHO IS THE COACH THAT WANTS TO GO WHERE THEY HAVE LESS THAN A FOUR WEEK PATIENCE/TOLERANCE LEVEL (FAN BASE) WAITING FOR HIM???!!! PROVIDE NAMES AS YOUR SOLUTION PLEASE! AND WHAT DO YOU DO IF HERMAN SAYS "NOT A CHANCE IN HELL"??? AND CALHOUN SAYS "YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME, NO WAY!" AND AFTER 4 OR 5 TOP CHOICES SAY NOPE, ALL YOU HAVE LEFT IS ..............?? Can't a coaching search be like dating women? You know make before break? If you get turned down by everyone that is better than what you have then stick with what you have. To our fan bases credit we haven't started flying banners. It should be interesting to see what kind of coaches Miami is able to attract. I think Miami might be a slightly more attractive destination due to the recruits down there. BTW what do Miami and Nebraska have in common, aside from a history of playing each other? Eichorst as AD. Yeah, and, uh, Miami is 10000000x nicer than Lincoln, especially when you have DIA coaching money.

Peterson left Boise..... Money talks. This noble idea that coaches won't leave is crazy. A. He takes way too much pride in who he's coaching there. I can send you multiple quotes about the love he has of that program and who he is working with there. B. No good coach in their right mind would come to Nebraska. Too many disadvantages and no loyalties. I'm talking about Riley; I don't think he's earned anything here. But firing two .700 coaches for "not winning games that matter" means no one is coming around this program who has any long term coaching goals. Separately, Coach Niamat is an islander. I don't think he'd much like the plains of Nebraska and the related recruiting challenges, even though I think his system would be outstanding in Lincoln.

That's essentially a lie. The person pushing that stuff is assigning a super low point (star) rating to "walkons" at Nebraska (guys like Janovich, for example) and then claiming those guys are less talented than the scholarship kids at Purdue (even though those Purdue kids didn't have any more DIA/P5 scholly than our walkons). It's just another piece of propaganda promulgated to white wash this disaster that's been wrought upon the program. Just as a point of reference, I read that the '94 team had something like 4 walkons starting on D (or maybe it was the '93 team).

Silly approach, in my opinion. In some ways, the guys who spanned the Callahan era should be given more weight because they've seen awful coaching... up close and personal. That's what makes the 90s guys frustrating... "We were the best and gave amazing effort, etc." Yes, all true, but your nerve never really got tested because your coach never put you in the awful position these players are being put in.

There's another side to this, that I didn't see in the thread, but may have missed. Travelling and being present, or even in the press box, would have been a great learning opportunity for Armstrong. It's beneficial to take "mental reps" with the OC/HC on the headset. Provides insight into how and why your coaches are making calls. Helps a lot when you do return. It's puzzling they wouldn't bring their captain along.

No way that Coach Niumatalolo leave Navy to come to Nebraska. Would never happen.

We weren't playing a team nearly as good as KSU. We were playing a defense that was awful against the run.

Heck, Illinois may have been a worse loss. But nothing is worse than the NU loss to KU under Callahan. That was the worst since devaney. Huskers were in the Top 15 last year and a few points shy of beating a very good Michigan St team and breaking the Top 10. One year ago. Have we already forgot? People forgot about that after two weeks. Nebraska made it's bed, now it has to lay in it.... I made the comments to a buddy, who really hated Pelini, after conversations if he should be fired or not. I didn't necessarily feel he should have been fired because it would leave Eichorst zero room for a bad hire. My buddy feels that Pelini would have the same record as Riley does now. This will never be proven one way or the other, but lets pretend he's right. If Pelini imploded this year, there would be zero argument for keeping him. Eichorst wanted to try to ride the small ripple of Pelini's momemtum and pulled the trigger. Eichorst gambled, and lost. Oh well..... Exactly. I'll never understand the rush to fire pelini. If this year was doomed to failure, then one year would have given NU more credibility. Personally, I agree with those who have stated that Pederhorst was hired for the purpose of firing Pelini, and he only got headed off in '13 by TO and some regents. Eichorst needs to go. Now. Like yesterday.

This is why I hate the chAir force so much. It's unreal how wrong you guys consistently are on damn near everything.

You may want to look at that entire defense not to mention the rest of the team and see how much more talent there was. I think it is you who is misunderstood. The DL destroys this one with names like Suh, Allen, Steinkuhler, Potter, and Crick. Dillard (and it is also debatable that so are the rest of the LB's) is better than any LB we have now. Asante runs circles around Gerry who can't do anything right. Look on the depth chart and you will see names like Amukamara, Hagg, Dennard, Thenarse, Who do we have now that compares to those guys. http://www.huskermax.com/games/2008/files/depth_current.html This team is devoid of depth and with no pass rush DE's and LB's it is killing the CB's. There is very little talent on this defense (team) and it is showing. There is also a bunch of players that are butthurt about Bo being fired and are anything but passionate about wining games. Those are the ones that need to GTFO of Lincoln and go to YSU if that is what they want to do. But they need to stop poisoning this team with their antics. The funniest comparison is at kicker. Bo was left with Henery and turned that position into Brown. Talk about a fall from grace. And yet all that "obvious" D talent in '08 was lit the F up in '07 and no one expected good things from them. Coaching matters. If Bo were still here, new guys would be emerging as playmakers just like they did every year he coached going back to D Williams. And your kicker comment is idiotic. Both were walkons. Both have been excellent.

For all of the attacks on Ryfe for playing a poor game, I just wonder why he was put in that position, and in turn put our D in that position. I just go back to that game in '94 against KSU. What if TO had insisted on running his offense rather than grinding out a win? And before someone says "this OL that" or "these RBs this", go back and look at the stats. Look at the game. NU was getting movement on the ground. This staff either has too much ego or they aren't very smart. When I look back at the OSU losses to D1AA teams and such, I see a similar pattern of "form over function." And that's concerning.

"Almost all players go on Twitter to attack AD" I stopped after this lie.

Look back at Bo's roster in 2008. Look at who was starting at LB. So much myth and misunderstanding around Husker football. This team has plenty of talent and passion. What we lack is a coaching staff with the ability to utilize it. That's no ones fault but the coaches and admins who hired them.

Thanks to Ameer or McNeese State would be on this list. I also vote for the 62-36 to Colorado because that was the first of many ass whippings to come over the next 14 years. That is the day that the Nebraska football that we all knew and loved died. It was also the game when we knew that Frank wasn't going to cut it and we have been looking for an identity and competent coaching staff since. "Knew" Really? A bad loss causes you to "know" that Frank wasn't going to cut it despite his overall record and experience. Interesting. If that's the case, how do we not already know that Riley won't cut it?

There was some half a$$ed effort in todays game. No doubt. Get onboard or get off. Yup. But the coaches are just as responsible. Not only are these players still around, but being rewarded with game time. Purge the program. It all started with coaching and talent not coming through when it needed to. Now, passion and drive have started to affect them. I think the want to and drive was there for the first half of the season, or, at least the first few games. But, I think teams can only take so much. Sure, some of the guys may be focused, but 125 of them probably are not. And can you blame them? They went from winning 9 games to now probably not even going to a bowl game. They've had coaches telling them do things a certain way all season and it's not transitioning to the field. There's a chance there's doubt in many of their minds. Honestly, I think the season is officially a wash. I'm supporting the players through and through but it just feels like nothing is left of this season, and we're seeing it in the overall performance. Well it goes back to what Benning and Jason Peter said about taking pride in your craft. They're D-1 athletes and it's time to act like it. I can see where they have lost faith in the coaches, but still play with some damn pride. You have to want it. Peters and Benning would be no names under this staff. That's what they don't really "get." Okay? Doesn't invalidate their points. They, like too many people here, equate wins with effort. Wins are a result of superior preparation, of which effort is a component but not alone sufficient. They like to think they gave better effort than these kids because they were getting better results under a far superior HC. Reality check: they may not have been. Secondary reality check, if they gave better effort, it may have been because they saw it paying off under a coaching staff that knew how to win. If they'd played under the abominable mismanagement we see today, maybe they would have "given up" too.

The difference is in magnitude and weight. You're suggesting an HR manager making "one of his/her hires", and it turning out poorly, is the equivalent of an athletic director hiring the head football coach at one of the most storied, respected, and well-funded football programs in the country, and that hire not turning out. Very different circumstances. You could make a list of the most important jobs in this state and NU's head football coach would be Top 5. That's not a place you can make a hire and casually not let it "work out." The AD's number one job at the University of Nebraska is the sustained success of the football program, and that means having the right head coach in place. The baseball, basketball and volleyball programs are nice, but they're not what makes the department tick. 1. Hr managers dont hire people. They are facilitators. Departmental managers make hiring decisons. 2. Comparing a run of the mill hiring decision to the nebraska head football coach is disingenuous at best. Thats comparing apples to elephants. Just a dumb comment. Actually, a lot of HR managers DO hire people. And you folks have no idea what I am talking about. I'm not talking about hiring Jane Does off the street for menial tasks. I've watched the process to find/hire new store managers for Wal-Mart. District HR managers and (and another district manager, I forget the exact title atm) make the decisions on who is going to be the next store manager. This is a huge decision that can affect many things in how the store is run including the profitability of that store. When a store manager doesn't work out, the people who hired him/her don't get fired, they simply do another search and hire someone else they feel will get the job done. Frankly, you're wrong about most hr managers. And if Walmart let's their poor upper management continue doing a poor job, I'll be divesting my position. Actually, no I'm not. Every company I've worked for the HR managers make hiring decisions every day.For c level executive leadership? Are you insane. The entire analogy is silly. Pederhorst isn't an HR manager. Who is Pederhorst? Calling people names does not give you any credibility. Same same but different, as they say.

We just lost to Purdont dude. We have hit bottom once again. If your company HR hires a ceo that destroys your company, you bet your áss the HR gets his papersI don't think certain people have ever worked a management level job. Otherwise, they couldn't possibly harbor these thoughts. Way to succinctly put that garbage line to rest. Actually, I have worked in management. I have also owned my own business. I also know to NOT let the inmates run the asylum. And you guys are the inmates right now.What was your market cap? It's time to let the adults run things. And adults would scrap this admin immediately. Actually, adults would sit down and talk about all the pros and cons in a logical and rational manner. And there are not to many adults on this board. Wish they'd done that when they were "christaizing" on firing Bo and hiring a .500 staff to replace him. Eichorst shot his load. All credibility is gone. He must be replaced. Now.

There was some half a$$ed effort in todays game. No doubt. Get onboard or get off. Yup. But the coaches are just as responsible. Not only are these players still around, but being rewarded with game time. Purge the program. It all started with coaching and talent not coming through when it needed to. Now, passion and drive have started to affect them. I think the want to and drive was there for the first half of the season, or, at least the first few games. But, I think teams can only take so much. Sure, some of the guys may be focused, but 125 of them probably are not. And can you blame them? They went from winning 9 games to now probably not even going to a bowl game. They've had coaches telling them do things a certain way all season and it's not transitioning to the field. There's a chance there's doubt in many of their minds. Honestly, I think the season is officially a wash. I'm supporting the players through and through but it just feels like nothing is left of this season, and we're seeing it in the overall performance. Well it goes back to what Benning and Jason Peter said about taking pride in your craft. They're D-1 athletes and it's time to act like it. I can see where they have lost faith in the coaches, but still play with some damn pride. You have to want it. Peters and Benning would be no names under this staff. That's what they don't really "get."

We just lost to Purdont dude. We have hit bottom once again. If your company HR hires a ceo that destroys your company, you bet your áss the HR gets his papersI don't think certain people have ever worked a management level job. Otherwise, they couldn't possibly harbor these thoughts. Way to succinctly put that garbage line to rest. Actually, I have worked in management. I have also owned my own business. I also know to NOT let the inmates run the asylum. And you guys are the inmates right now. What was your market cap? It's time to let the adults run things. And adults would scrap this admin immediately.