Husker03

We had lead with 5 minutes left and our d couldn't stop them. The d couldn't stop Oklahoma when it needed to either. Listen, this D is great, but lets not rewrite reality here. They could have sealed the win for us yesterday as well, and they didn't. All parts of the team played very well yesterday, we should be proud of them. But as in every game, there were plays that made us almost win and there were plays that made us almost lose and you can't just pick the ones that fit a narrative.

The thing is.. Every team has boosters. So if it were that then a lot of teams would do it. The boosters don't buy but a fraction of tickets when they do, and attendance numbers still stay high which means boosters are buying them to give away as a perk to whatever company they are running. Long story short, pointing to an occasional booster block buy to undermine the entire thing is stupider than the streak itself.

Bitter pricks around the country look at it like that. Most reasonable people understand that the damn stadium has sold every ticket for a long long time, a lot longer than ANY other school in the US. I am sure it is tough to wrap your head around when you cheer for programs that, say, have had success for small stint of history over the past few years. The fact is, NU has been horrible for 5 times as long as either of the programs in your handle has been good and we still fill the stadium weekly for our boys.

Picked NU by 8-14 because I don't love our chances in a close one. There are a lot of great things we have shown over the past 4 games, but we haven't yet proven that we can execute with games on the line nor that we can coach to win close game. I would love to be wrong if needed and we win by 3, but would enjoy the experience a lot more if we are just up by 10 with 1:30 left.

Agreed. Add to that the carousel at RB we have seen this year and I am not sure we can even be confident in him getting time this week. The good news, it is great to have 3+ "above average" backs to choose from. It is a luxury looking for 'elite' that we haven't had since Abdullah imo.

But our offense is horrible......

We had a coach in high school that would always, totally serious, tell us to 'have a seat and sit down.'

It also doesn't mean that the expectation was that he lose all 25. We just don't know and, really, it doesn't matter. It could be that Frost wants him at 225, he showed up at 250, Scott is made, says that isn't playing shape, that's 25 more than we want you, so, lets do this, get down under 235 and we can go from there. 18pounds in 8 weeks for an 18 year old with access to diet and exercise professionals isn't a reach at all.

Ya, it's an area where we are going to have to walk before we run.. For now, I am happy to see we can stay upright.

Fitz just dropped a "Frosty" at the 5:45 mark.. That's grounds to hang another 17 on him right now, imo.

TO finally cashing in on that NIL...

And, 18 months ago, everybody wanted him gone. Patience paid off there.

If we hadn’t improved our secondary, linebackers, d line, running back room, quarterback, wide receivers, and tight ends, we’d be ranked 132 and getting embarrassed every week, but oh well.

False. Cam's snaps are not a conversation anymore, we don't have lineman falling down presnap w/ no contact, we have recruited large bodies to fit in the Big10 on the line, he brought in special teams analyst, etc. Again, you can argue they haven't been the perfect steps but you can't argue that he has not taken steps. False. We have lost maybe 1 excellent player and brought in about 5. This isn't a hill you want to die on, as Frost is actually borderline masterful at the portal game so far. False. He has taken steps and made staff changes EVERY off season to try to fix it. You don't want to see it because it is easier to just throw a fit and stamp you feet and say, "This isn't perfect," but there was ALOT broken here. And we finally have a program after 10+ years that we can be proud of. They are doing things the right way. Strength, conditioning, culture, attitude, out of the newpapers, working, building, etc. Maybe you forget the days where we got Melvin Gordon'd by teams much worse than we play this year routinely, but I don't and I can take what I see right now 1000 times over before I watch that "give up" culture again. They start next week.

When he went down yesterday I said, "Oh crap, we can't do this without him." And my friends said, "Let's see what Smother's has." And I said, "Doesn't matter what Smothers had, Adrian is the only one that knows how to cover up for this O-Line. Without him, we are F'd." Glad he came back. Wish the outcome would have been what it could have been....

False. He was hired to turn the program around. Many signs indicate he is doing so. We cut bait now we are just giving another program the winner we have been patiently training. Let's not do that. Let's ride with our guy and reap the rewards that are coming in 2021 and beyond until 2050.

He fixes things that are glaring problems. Honestly, one of the only coaches during this failed 20 year experience that I can say has been willing to look at things that aren't working and change them. He DID attempt to fix the special teams problems by doing exactly what you stated. Now, certainly in hindsight we can say that it wasn't enough but it is not that he ignored the issue. He just didn't find the right solution yet. I have no doubts that he will make changes in that area again this offseason because he has shown over and over again that he is not afraid to do so and will do so when necessary. Again, the guy isn't perfect but he deserves credit for not being so stubborn or blind or scared to change.

Enough with this ridiculous notion that the best path forward for our program as we stand here right now is to start over. While it is true that Frost is responsible for the entirety of what we see on the field, we can't have our cake and eat it too. You have to look at the whole picture and you have to compare it to 2017/18. The fact is, this team is light years more competitive than it was 2 years ago. The fact is, Frost is a HUGE reason for that. He came in green, he took some HUGE lumps, he made changes, he grew as a coach, and what we are seeing today is the direct result of that. He has a team that loves him and goes out there and fights HARD every week. There are still holes. Special teams.. Woof. But, he has shown over and over again that he will fix that. But credit him for the rest, man. Credit him for the guys he brought in to allow us to be competitive this year. Credit him for changing the makeup of the athletes on the team to fit into the Big10, etc. Part of the reason people are so are upset that we lost to Michigan St because it was "supposed" to be a win at the beginning of the season. And that is true, but St is looking to be a better team than we thought they were a month ago. The good news is, most of the teams we have chalked up to losses look a lot more beatable now in turn. We have a get right game here with NW. We need to make sure we make it a get right game. If the boys are committed to Scott and this season, they will be there for it. I no longer worry about them not showing up nearly as much as I used to, another thing I am thankful Frost has changed. From there, we see chinks in the armor all over at Michigan, OSU, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Hell, OSU may not even have enough guys to field a team by the time Day gets done running them out of town one by one. So, we go out and play those teams like we belong there and all of the sudden, the season doesn't look so dire. I suppose if we meltdown and lose our way to the end, there may be no choice but to make a change, but we owe it to the program to let it play out. There is good progress being made here, starting over should be reserved for the apocalypse.

Like we would be doing this year if he would have had the stick to ittiveness to hang around and see the project through, but he had other things important to him so it is what it is. We will have to see how the season plays out. In general, when players flake to find better opportunities elsewhere, they don't. Even in the case of Wandale, it is possible by the end of the season we could show that he may have still not benefited stat wise/football wise from shifting to Kentucky. Really, what I take home from these discussions is that 90% of the time the problem lies with the player and his expectations as opposed to our coaches being a$$-ups, which, not going to lie, I prefer.

Fixed it for you.

Would that be categorized under quarterback development or no?......

I never played O-Line and admittedly do not know all of the ins and outs. But I have watched football at all levels for 30+ years pretty much every chance I get and I know one thing, the O-Line is one of the most difficult area's to "fix". I know that, at the college level, in general if you are telling me there is a team with no Jr. or Sr. O-lineman present, I am telling you that team will not be very good. If you are telling me there is an NFL team with a rooking O-Line, I am telling you that team will have a long year, even if those rookies are all first round picks. Let's be honest here for a minute.. This team was bad. Bad bad. There were talent problems, there was work ethic problems, there was attitude problems throughout every area in the locker room. By all accounts most of those areas are much improved. We look better physically, we play harder mentally, we resemble a unified team for the first time in 10+ years. We are better in almost all areas of the team, the only possible exception being O-line. (I know the special teamers will jump on me here, but we are better in special teams, we just can't kick field goals this year.) The O-line takes time, especially when so much strength needs to be developed in an 18 year old moving towards a 22 year old. I am not ready to say that Austin is the worse because he was given a deck stacked against him. I know everybody hates to hear it, but this line IS young and this line didn't have incredible upperclassmen to mentor them for 2-3 years before they got thrown into the fire. There is a lot of development and gelling that has to happen to created a good offensive line, and there are no magic "talent" hacks to speed that up. That said, the silver lining here is that what you do have on that line is loads of potential still. As opposed to an O-line filled w/ juniors and seniors where I would tell you the bad line is what it is and there is not a lot of hope for improvement, with this line they should absolutely improve each week throughout the season as they take those lumps and look at film and move on to new lumps. This line isn't even near tip top shape yet, it will improve.. We just have to be patient and let the boys learn.

I think maybe your expectations are too high for a college QB on 13-48 team. We ought to buy him a throne.

Scrolled all pages looking for this.. This is my answer as well.

Things will go south on us at some point. If we don't crumble, I'll count it as a win. Sad days in Lincoln.