The Professor

Trev: Tough loss yesterday. Scott: Yeah, shoulda won. We held them to 14 yards in the 2nd half. Trev: About the special teams… Scott: We’ve spend a lot of time on it in practice. Trev: Which part punting, kicking or receiving…anything? It seemed like a lot of punts didn’t get caught and bounced for another 20 yards. Scott: We figured that if we don’t field them is no chance for a fumble...or safety. Trev: You guys have talked to the punt team about how when the coverage goes right and punt needs to go right too? Scott: Ya know, Trev, this a problem with Mike Riley’s teams that we inherited. Trev: We need to find a student who can make a punt longer than 7 yards. When the punters practice does anyone actually watch them? It kind of appears they are expected to show up on Saturday and do their thing...Perhaps send a grad assistant to check out the intermural teams…How about that offensive line? The pentalties kind of held things up in the first half. Scott: Those things happen. Trev: I’m a little curious why you look so mystified on the sidelines when those penalties get called, because…let’s be honest… it’s virtually every game…Say, does Greg Austin know Steve Taylor, former QB at Nebraska? Scott; I think so. Trev: He’s a great realtor…Say about your quarterback coach. Has he ever coached at Power 5 school? Scott: He was at Rutgers. TreV: Gotta give give him credit for that. It just seems that a quarterback coach might be able to “coach” the quarterback to hit the tight ends when they are wide open…Maybe they didn’t do that at Rutgers…Lets see…the other backups to Adrian transferred, right? Scott: Yeah. Trev: Kind of hard to get a read them right? Woulda, coulda shoulda…but listen Scott, no matter how this works out you’re getting generational wealth, right? …I think we might be still paying Bo Pelini.

Touche'....Damned auto correct! LOL!

Scott Frost’s biggest mistake was bringing his entire staff from UCF to Nebraska. The entire staff is completely over their skis with Big 10 competition. I am a college professor and do well at my job. I am not at the university level. If I was to move up to the Big 10 it would be very difficult at first: Dissertations to approve and correct, fund raising, “publish or parish” etc.… Not impossible by any stretch but there would certainly be a learning curve. Now imagine every coach on the staff having to make that jump. They aren’t up to the task. Verduzco in particular, has not shown any acumen to coach Power 5 level QBs. AM has regressed. Nearly everyone else to measure transferred! Austin hasn’t done anything to distinguish himself at the Power 5 level as an offensive line coach. Look at the rest of the staff! They get out coached coming out of the half nearly every game. Chinander might be the outlier, but Ill. had a pretty easy drive opening the 3rd quarter. HCSF says they practiced against an odd front and Ill. played an even front. You’ve got to be kidding me!?! How many weeks of practice did they have? Couldn’t they have taken 15 minutes in a practice and tell them “We think they’re going to be odd but just in case be prepared for the even” and practiced that a bit? It’s not wasted time. Won’t other teams be playing “even” the rest of the year? That is baffling and inept. I was watching the B1G Network where they were interviewing coaches. Frost was with Bielema and Franklin. My initial impression was “Boy, those guys must be tough to recruit against.” Well spoken, polished, CEO like, with a certain gravitas that Frost didn’t seem to possess. (To be fair, neither did Tom Osborne in his early years. Old timers will recall how uncomfortable he looked on “The Tom Osborne Show” in the 70s!) But the point is, the B1G coaches are the top of the heap and DONU’s staff isn’t anywhere near competing with them. I could go on about how Frost’s offense can’t match up at this level…(“We’re not going to run Martinez as often”…but that’s all they’ve got.) but that’s all for tonight

I'm a Husker in Las Vegas and thought I might share some handicapping info regarding the game with Miami: Al Golden is 2-9 verse the spread since 2013 w/ no covers away from home. The Canes are currently 0-5-1 ATS (against the spread) as a non conference underdog (This is the good news.) NU lost three games at home last year, so playing at home shouldn't be considered too strongly. NU is 1-4 ATS before their first BIG home game. (I'm not weighing this "trend' too heavily.) Perhaps most telling is Pellini is 3-11-1 ATS at home when playing off back to back wins. This is the primary reason the NE newspaper columnists reference the NU "roller coaster effect". How many times in the past few years have we thought that the team finally turned the corner only to have them lay an egg? I certainly hope that Pellini and the Huskers can get over this hump. Pelini's track record says otherwise. I'm not playing this one.