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The biggest expectation is having Eichorst, Riley, and friends removed from the program. There is a massive derth in leadership down there that unfortunately will not be removed for a few years. The only thing worse then watching talent and resources being wasted is watching time being wasted. Can't get time back.
None of this leadership has shown any signs of actual leadership or quality decision making. We had or worst loss in fifty years and our athletic director writes a fricken letter. A letter violating his own policy of commenting on coaches during the year, which he had already violated once before. He sends the coaches to take all the flack while sending out a letter. That's not leadership. He also makes the decision to bring in a 62 year old coach who is going to completely change the offense and defense. To accommodate this we have to wait 2-4 years for 'his guys to get down here.' Great, so we will now have 64-68 year old head coach with a couple of years before he needs to retire or watch football pass him by if it hasn't already. Thats a lot of time and money wasted when time is the one thing that hurts the most to lose.
This team is exactly what a poorly coached team is: highly penalized and turnover prone. He has a .536 winning record over a career. I would love to be optimistic but the decisions that have been made during the season give little hope of anything better then .536. Look at the teams and coaches we beat this year:
South Alabama - 5-6 Not much needs said here
Southern Miss - 0-12 in 2013, 3-9 in 2014, with improvement in 2015.
Minnesota - 5-7 coach retires weeks later
MSU - Will tip my hat to this, except the said fact shows out talent is close to the big boys. Msu came to play.
Rutgers - 4-8 Whole athletic department canned.
This is embarrassing.
Now the teams we lost included an interim coach. a coach fired mid season, Purdue, a first year coach (one year removed from another first year coach). There is little to look forward to with this coaching staff except for quotes such as 'we have to pass the ball better to run the ball,' 'I was spooked because our one short yardage run play was already stopped for no loss,' paying 450,000 for a special teams coordinator (his sole responsibility) that constantly looks worse then the other teams special teams. It is evident they don't want to run the ball or adjust their schemes which means the program is going to be at the mercy of one single 18 year old kid from California. None of it makes sense.
There are two teams on that list of wins that are playing for their conference championships today. I wonder if any other team can say this. No one in the B1G can.
That's certainly a creative way to spin things...
But off the top of my head, LSU can probably make the same claim.
I should have said that two of the five teams we beat are playing in their respective conference championships today. LSU only beat Florida, but lost to Alabama. I think that's it for them.
Riley knows how to beat the good teams, it's the Purdue's and Illinois's of the world that we need to beat.
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The biggest expectation is having Eichorst, Riley, and friends removed from the program. There is a massive derth in leadership down there that unfortunately will not be removed for a few years. The only thing worse then watching talent and resources being wasted is watching time being wasted. Can't get time back.
None of this leadership has shown any signs of actual leadership or quality decision making. We had or worst loss in fifty years and our athletic director writes a fricken letter. A letter violating his own policy of commenting on coaches during the year, which he had already violated once before. He sends the coaches to take all the flack while sending out a letter. That's not leadership. He also makes the decision to bring in a 62 year old coach who is going to completely change the offense and defense. To accommodate this we have to wait 2-4 years for 'his guys to get down here.' Great, so we will now have 64-68 year old head coach with a couple of years before he needs to retire or watch football pass him by if it hasn't already. Thats a lot of time and money wasted when time is the one thing that hurts the most to lose.
This team is exactly what a poorly coached team is: highly penalized and turnover prone. He has a .536 winning record over a career. I would love to be optimistic but the decisions that have been made during the season give little hope of anything better then .536. Look at the teams and coaches we beat this year:
South Alabama - 5-6 Not much needs said here
Southern Miss - 0-12 in 2013, 3-9 in 2014, with improvement in 2015.
Minnesota - 5-7 coach retires weeks later
MSU - Will tip my hat to this, except the said fact shows out talent is close to the big boys. Msu came to play.
Rutgers - 4-8 Whole athletic department canned.
This is embarrassing.
Now the teams we lost included an interim coach. a coach fired mid season, Purdue, a first year coach (one year removed from another first year coach). There is little to look forward to with this coaching staff except for quotes such as 'we have to pass the ball better to run the ball,' 'I was spooked because our one short yardage run play was already stopped for no loss,' paying 450,000 for a special teams coordinator (his sole responsibility) that constantly looks worse then the other teams special teams. It is evident they don't want to run the ball or adjust their schemes which means the program is going to be at the mercy of one single 18 year old kid from California. None of it makes sense.
There are two teams on that list of wins that are playing for their conference championships today. I wonder if any other team can say this. No one in the B1G can.
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Speaking of turnover prone, I saw on the B1G championship game preview shows the Iowa defense's first interception of Armstrong. Where in the hell was he throwing that? I saw it during the game but it looks worse a week later.
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After Nebraska was robbed by the A**holes in the Big XII that year they went to the Holiday Bowl and played Arizona. On the first series O'Hanlon (I think) got an interception deep on Zona's side of the field and I arrogantly turned to Zona fan sitting next to me and said "Game over". He responded with "There's a lot of football left". I just smiled and sat down and thought to myself, little does he know....
I long for a defense so dominant, and that I had so much confidence in...that even with the anemic offense Nebraska had in 2009, an interception on the first series, which guaranteed at least a field goal, pretty much sewed up the game for Nebraska. I know that had a lot to do with one particular player being on the field...and Nebraska may never get another one like him...but one can dream, right?
I loved that defense, and it was more than Suh, he had alot to do with things, but think about those DB's. Asante, Hagg, Gomes, Amukamura, O'Hanlon. They were fun to watch
It's funny to look down that roster and see all the freshmen that were seniors in 2013, and 2014
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Harbaugh and Kelly are far worse than Bo. So is Saban if one actually watches their games.
True, Nick Saban is not the nicest guy in the world, neither is Mark Dantonio with the media, and they do show some displeasure on the sidelines, but it's not the over the top stuff we saw from Bo. I loved the Bo hire eight years ago, and I thought he was doing a good job in the first two or three years. It seems the move to the B1G didn't do so well, but then maybe after three years, that coincided with the less than stellar recruiting. But, how bad were those guys because he won nine games with them and Riley could only eek out 5......help I'm going in circles again.
Doing that didnt work well for the last guy. Thankfully Bo's focus on making good students is helping this coach get to a bowl game on 5 wins. Maybe MR should split his $150,000 bonus with Bo since that's the reason we qualify.Win 70%+ of games and graduate good student athletes. Hopefully that includes some 10 to 12 win regular seasons.
Run a clean program.
They can say what ever they want about why BP was fired, he was fired because of the way he acted on the sideline, towards his bosses, towards the fan base and media. I was fine with his coaching and was very happy with the academic standards he set as a HC, but that type of personality is exhausting. If you have neve worked with or for someone like that you will never know. I have had a boss like that, it was like walking on egg shells all the time. One minute he was great and the next he would blow up about some stupid insignificant thing.
If BP would have won 70+% of his games and had that type of academic record and a better additude about things, he would still be at Nebraska. He doesn't have to be the nicest guy in the world, he just needs to not be a big dick.
Personally, I'd rather see that than the "hands in pockets, stare at the ground and wait for it to be over" stuff that we see from other coaches.
I'm with you CM, I like to see some passion on the sidelines, to me it shows you care. Urban Meyer chucking the headset last year in the Sugar Bowl comes to mind. A guy adjusting the draw strings on his hoodie doesn't instill in me that he is fully into the game, I guess.
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Riley is a .500 coach. He had the talent to win more games this year had he truly played to the strengths of the players.
HE HAD HIS GUYS AT OSU. And still produced .546 career there............. Why does anyone suddenly think he will win here? What in his resume or previous performance says that he will change. The worrisome issue is that piss poor coaching cost some games. Not players, talent or "want to", but coaching. As Lightfighter said, look at who we lost to. That should never happen at NU. Not with some guy with such an incredible coaching pedigree..
We will suffer through the next few years until Riley is gone. Sadly, I wouldn't make a move until SE is kicked to the curb. I figure settle in for some 7-5, 8-4 seasons with a crazy win (MSU) every season, but playing for no conference championships or big bowls....
Two Grey Cups
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Doing that didnt work well for the last guy. Thankfully Bo's focus on making good students is helping this coach get to a bowl game on 5 wins. Maybe MR should split his $150,000 bonus with Bo since that's the reason we qualify.Win 70%+ of games and graduate good student athletes. Hopefully that includes some 10 to 12 win regular seasons.
Run a clean program.
They can say what ever they want about why BP was fired, he was fired because of the way he acted on the sideline, towards his bosses, towards the fan base and media. I was fine with his coaching and was very happy with the academic standards he set as a HC, but that type of personality is exhausting. If you have neve worked with or for someone like that you will never know. I have had a boss like that, it was like walking on egg shells all the time. One minute he was great and the next he would blow up about some stupid insignificant thing.
If BP would have won 70+% of his games and had that type of academic record and a better additude about things, he would still be at Nebraska. He doesn't have to be the nicest guy in the world, he just needs to not be a big dick.
True, Nick Saban is not the nicest guy in the world, neither is Mark Dantonio with the media, and they do show some displeasure on the sidelines, but it's not the over the top stuff we saw from Bo. I loved the Bo hire eight years ago, and I thought he was doing a good job in the first two or three years. It seems the move to the B1G didn't do so well, but then maybe after three years, that coincided with the less than stellar recruiting. But, how bad were those guys because he won nine games with them and Riley could only eek out 5......help I'm going in circles again.
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And I sat there after that game thinking great things were ahead for the Huskers. It almost feels as if that loss was the "pinnacle" of Bo's years in Lincoln, looking back on it, now anyway.
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Well, I waited all year. This thread and MANY have gone way off track. Even as I post I can't believe there are 2 pages of Tommy Armstrong's Instagram of "us against the world". and the insane responses from the few. Let's review, those who think Tommy played the games for Bo, ie: Us against the fans, or those who think you all are idiots. Just stop. Social media has driven the syci of our young for the past few years and will only get worse. Oh and Husker67, change your avatar....Beck, really?!
Changed the avatar just for you, scarletNcream. Is this one better?
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Well, Riley pretty much showed what kind of coach he was with his 15 years of college head coaching experience. I'm not expecting a miraculous turnaround in year 16.Just as Tommy seems to try to do too much on the field, he is also trying too hard off the field. Riley gave him a completely fair shot to lead NU in 2015 and he failed, and I do not trust him to lead this team in 2016. If he has not been able to show signs of improvement in 3 years of starting, I don't see a miraculous turnaround in year 4.
Yep, 16 picks and the horrendous decision making this year, make me read this statement by Tommy as just a bunch of hot air. Once in a while, it's ok to not have to say everything and quietly go about your business of getting better. There will be thousands of college football players this year who show up to workouts, sweat their a$$es off with their brothers and say nothing about it. They will go out and show it on the field.
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Didn't Beck try to emulate Oregon's offense the last couple years? Funny how Bo could've just got the guy himself...
No Beck's offense was mostly Nevada Pistol read option, but he junked the pass portion of it for KU's pass attack I think. Ultimately it was some bastard hybrid that never really worked.
Lol! After all these years, and now we finally have a name for it. I like this better than "multiple"
Gawd, after hearing Beck say it so many times, I couldn't even teach my math class basic facts, I was so sick of the word.
All it ever really amounted to was "multiple" misfires, "multiple" miscues, "multiple" screw-ups, and ultimately "multiple" inexplicable losses
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Read the rest of the tweets by Reilly. He kind comes off a bit baby-ish afterwords. He wanted to make a big production out of it by posting it on social media, what did he think would happen. When the backlash started, he didn't like it, so he got defensive, and then deleted the tweet. Kind of along the lines of he figured everyone would agree with him, but when it went south he didn't like so he took his ball and went home.
And for the first guy who responded with "Did Bo teach you that?" No, probably not because Bo didn't really know what Twitter was, remember him saying that a few years ago.
I guess us old guys in our 40's understand that not every thought needs to be expressed verbally, on social media, or otherwise, and nor does every single event in my life need to be out there for anyone to see. I hope both sides learned a lesson from this.
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Hip Hip! Great job Read! You have now justified your half a million dollar a year salary! Get that man a raise!
Both of our kickers have done very well this season and should be congratulated. Read earned his salary here.
But he didn't earn his salary anywhere else.
I thought Stevenson did a good job when Read finally got him on the field
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The guy also managed to get a 3rd string QB to 3-0. The B1G championship, the first playoff game and the MNC.....
Ha ha! Yeah, Cardale Jones was just your run of the mill third stringer. /sarcasm
I doubt if there has been another college football team with a better 3rd team QB in the last twenty years.
Look at him this year...... Just sayin
Under the tutelage of Tim Beck, Ohio State's quarterbacks seemed to have taken a couple of steps backward
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What are you talking about?, Riley's not used to having to worry about bowl bids. Golly shucks, jeepers, this is exciting.
Sobering.I didnt quite fully grasp where Nebraska was until I realized we need San Jose State, Buffalo, and Georgia State to lose....
We got Rileyed.
You are correct, my apologies.
Hip, hip hooray.
Good point, he hasn't had to worry about planning 15 extra practices this time of the year too often.
I'll use a quote from Digger Phelps, longtime Notre Dame basketball coach, and his take on the old consolation games back in the 1970's. In the NCAA tournament, they used to have a consolation game in the regionals weekend, meaning the losers of the Thursday night games played each other on Saturday before the regional finals. Digger said in a book of his that "Consolation games are vile, petty things designed merely to frustrate the winner and embarrass the loser" Kind of sums up our situation. If we win, we'll sit here and gripe why we didn't play like that more often during the season (e.g. MSU game); if we lose, we'll be 5-8, and that isn't pretty no matter how you dress it up
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Just create 24 more bowls, and that would mean all 127 teams could go to a bowl game, regardless of record, and we'd have to take 1 FCS team to fill the extra slot.
If the Huskers, and any other 5-7 team could benefit from the 15 extra practices, why should they be among the privileged 2/3 of FBS teams? Let everyone get some more practices, let everyone get a handful of freebies, let everyone be in the recruiting eye in different parts of the country.
Purdue vs. Iowa State in the Heating and Cooling Bowl played at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse
Colorado vs. Vanderbilt in the Ketchup Bowl played at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh
UCF vs. Kansas in the Appalachian Mountain Bowl played in Morgantown, WV........now there's two teams that could use 15 more practices to get those 0-12 systems further refined.
Louisiana-Monroe vs. Eastern Michigan in the Rocky Top Bowl, played at Neyland Stadium, that way there would be over 100,000 empty seats
Everyone would be happy, everyone would get the 15 extra practices, everyone would get some TV time. No more of this "rich get richer and poor get poorer" Everyone is equal
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Bring back those 2002 beauties.
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I will have to say that on the one interception at Wisconsin where Armstrong just hauls back and heaves it as far as he can, I truly believe he didn't have a clue to where the ball was going and couldn't have cared less where it ended up.
YOLO!
He does this about 4-5 times every game....which is why you can't have this guy throw it 40+ times.
He did it a bunch against Illinois. But, I remember that one against Wisconsin last year, it was almost comical, that he just wound up and heaved. But, as you said, he does this a handful of times each game. Tough to build an offense around that.
I kind of think the 4th and 1 fade route was similar to this yesterday. Three steps and LAUNCH.
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Stanford plays physical and tough, but Langsahan prefers finesse and outsmarting you with his great play designs. I don't see NU becoming Stanford unless there is a coaching change.
Finesse is for candy-@$$es.
I just finished watching Stanford and Notre Dame, too. Gus Johnson could make going to work sound exciting.
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I'm glad to see we've taken to fan fiction writing; it's a healthy outlet.
Some of us have had the last 9 days off and need to get back to work on Monday.
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104th in penalties per game at 7.33 for about 65 yards per game, which ranked 105th.
Makes us the best 5-7 team out there. I was really please with the two consecutive false starts yesterday, near the end of the first quarter. That's the mark of a disciplined football team.
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-13 turnover margin this year
-2 last year
Frank and Bo are gone. Get over it and move on
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The past 7 years has left our cupboard entirely bare.
The above flagged for intentional BS'ing.
Coaches are supposed to DEVELOP players, not pull one off the shelf. I will repeat myself here, but it bears repeating:
When Bo Pelini needed a cornerback and the "cupboard was entirely bare", he took a wide receiver and DEVELOPED him into a cornerback who now draws a paycheck from the NFL. THAT is COACHING.
If all a coach is required to do is pull a player out of the cupboard and talk at press conferences, then sign me up for a $2 million per year gig. If I have to ACTUALLY coach, train, develop, teach, or any of that hard stuff, I am not your guy...amongst others...
Frank and Bo are gone. Get over it and move on
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Foster Farms would be nice. Played in SF, lots of alumni in CA
and Riley knows the West Coast well.
Expectations over the next 5 years
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Yep, I missed that one. I was even watching the game which prompted me to think about Southern Miss winning their division.