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9 minutes ago, WyoHusker56 said:

 

And I agree on the QB play. I also wonder though if some of the QB looked so good because of the play around them. Those teams had great RBs, TEs, WRs, and lines. Mariota and Milton were great, but the players around them were too. Martinez's ceiling is probably close to those two, but he has to reach it for us to have that sort of season.

For sure; Martinez is still the same guy we thought he was freshman year. He didn't suddenly forget how to play. The departure of Stan morgan, JD and ozigbio hurt badly. That's on frost for not having dudes ready to pick up the slack, but damn. I challenge anyone to find a team that wins with no skill players. Our wide receiver corps was pathetic. I guess you can get by if your a pure power running team, but you better have a bad a$$ Online and some backs in the stable. We have neither nor is that our scheme.  If we can get production out of our skill players (mainly WR) and clean up the mistakes and turn overs I bet we ball out. If not, expect more of the same. 

52 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

Guys, it doesn't take 4 years to get to .500. 

In this case it does 

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Nebraska fans are so over infatuated with Frost - it just absolutely has to be him that wins - and this thinking needs to stop. His recruiting is mediocre, whether they're big tall players or not. We're not competing with big time programs on the recruiting trail.

We have made our self a laughing stock of a program. We have fired not 1, but 2 coaches that had consistent 9+ win seasons. That's a bad look and I doubt many coaches that are worth a damn want to walk into that situation. As far as recruiting, Out of 130 fbs teams, 19 had higher rankings than us this year so mediocre doesn't seem to be the term I would use, but to each their own.

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His failures as a coach, recruiter and leader of the program are stacking up. It's okay to admit this, there are other coaches and other philosophies that might work. Just stop with the all or nothing with Frost.

The dude has been a HC for 5 or 6 years. Step back from the edge. He has made some coaching errors, some curious play calls in critical situations and has not blown me away with player development up to this point but please elaborate on another "Philosophy" that could work here and would realistically be a viable candidate? because outside of hiring an established elite head coach, elite position coaches and bringing in blue chip players year after year,  I got news for you, only a handful of programs can or will do that and it ain't us, never has been us and prolly never will be us. we would be rolling the dice on another unproven, washed up or "up and commer" hoping for the best and the revolving door continues.

The only thing that can get us back on track is consistacy over time. A ruff pill to swallow but best to just face reality. We have had so much instability in our AD office and football coaching staffs it's no wonder we cant get anything going. If a grand slam hire is out there, by all means pull the trigger, but don't change just for the sake of change, that's just flat out stupid. 

I'm pretty much a glass half empty guy at all times but picking up a 6'6" 210lbs guy with a big arm seems like a good thing. Idk, just sayin 

12 minutes ago, Hilltop said:

  I'm guessing the special teams will be much better this year. 

2 hours ago, Toe said:

I thought you guys said you're sick of small receivers.

I believe we are sick of our play calling/coach not using small receivers as running backs, but as receivers where they can get open and receive the football. 

26 minutes ago, FrantzHardySwag said:

Yeah, this s#!t doesn't happen at Bama and OSU. Frost/Players silence is grim to me as well. A team ready to compete would be up in arms about their biggest game possibly being taken from them. This is a moment I'd prefer a big "hell no!" from Frost and the guys, instead of a "meh". I know I'm reading too much into it, but the confidence of everyone (from fans, to coaches to players, to admin) seems like it's at a zero right now. 

More of the same. Just like at the beginning of last season when we said we would play anyone, anywhere, anytime any how....then declined the bowl game at the end. All talk and the byproduct of mediocrity (mediocrity is actually being quite generous at this point) 

5 hours ago, All Hail Herbie said:

With another sub-500 year possible on the horizon   pretty much guaranteed, the only staff departures set to occur will be those that result from termination,

There ya go, fixed that for ya.

16 hours ago, ColoradoHusk said:

 Also, usually what makes them so great as players is their pure talent and athleticism.  It's hard to be a good coach  to be players who aren't nearly as talented as the player once was.

Exhibit A 

On 2/5/2021 at 11:35 AM, TGHusker said:

The Solich curse

I've always thought this. We need to sign frank to a 1 day contract, allow him to retire and sacrifice a goat or something at mid field. Maybe then the curse can be lifted. 

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Error...posted in wrong thread. 

24 minutes ago, FrantzHardySwag said:

Hate to open this can of worms, but this is an ex-NFL QB so I'll throw it out there. 

 

 

I wouldn't put any stock in what an iowa native has to say. Prolly still has an axe to grind from his cyclone days 

https://www.huskermax.com/game/1999-iowa-state-football/

13 minutes ago, All Hail Herbie said:

 

Completely agree.  While I like confidence in a coach, it was his hubris that struck me from the outset.  "The Big Ten will need to adjust to us" when discussing offense 

In all fairness, the defenses have had to adjust. Normally, they would need to game plan all week, make note of tendencies and formations and identify mismatches then come up with a scheme then practice executing that plan.  With us, that is not needed as teams can play base, vanilla defense and not worry about all that stuff because out offense sucks. In that sense, Scott was right 

This is great news!

To all y'all haters out there...told ya so! Just a year too soon for you to handle. 

1 hour ago, Toe said:

Meanwhile in Texas... https://footballscoop.com/news/texas-reportedly-set-to-make-jeff-banks-college-footballs-first-1-million-special-teams-coordinator/

Huh...pay elite assistants top dollar and they will come and coach for your program  weird 

FYI, we gonna suck on offense wheather wan'dale is here or not, so, there's that. 

10 hours ago, HANC said:

Kade Warner? Dad popping off on twitter saying how he would love to have his sons play for Campbell, in the culture that ISU has created. Garnered a lot of speculation. 

That would be awesome, dude had 5 catches and 0 TDs all year. That would do us a favor. Thanks Kurt! 

25 minutes ago, Decked said:

The issue is both our talent is completely average with no vertical or home run threats at WR/RB, a QB who turns the ball over too many times with mental inconsistencies, + we are a horribly coached team that makes go from an average team to a below average one. 
 

 

It’s not just one issue. The whole offense is a flop in all categories. 

Exactly, it's not 1 issue, it's like 7 or 8. 

Anyways, back to spring practice. 

Can't wait till we get back to the practice field so we can work on our swing pass game. We should be ripping off 2, maybe 3 yards a pop by week 1! GBR! 

I remember when these guys were the next joe montana in a husker uniform: Harrison beck, Tristan gebbia, Bubba starling, Ryker Fyfe, Patrick o'brian, Tanner lee, Mike stuntz, Cody green, Sam keller, Brion carnes, Johnny stanton, Zack darlington, AJ bush, etc, etc; you get the point.

Will smothers be a baller or a turd? Who knows. What I do know is until we get our OL figured out, stop the bad snaps, turnovers, make an actual commitment to run the ball, stop the penalties, get some reliable recievers that can get open and quit with the questionable play calling, it wouldn't matter if you put patrick mahomes back there. 1 guy isn't going to tip the scales for us with all that garbage. 

I've been pretty critical of AM, but the guy isn't getting a ton of help from the rest of the team and coaching staff. He's probably the best QB on the roster at the end of the day. 

15 minutes ago, Undone said: