San Diego Husker

3-9 NU to bowl game? not a chance, most of the players have gone home, train for NFL, gone to other teams, missing two coaches, this list goes on... Not to mention we needed to be at least 5-7 to get a bowl invite in special circumstances like this..

This is exactly the reason they brought in Sam Keller... to save a staff.

saw/heard on Sport-nightly, HCSF said he had pretty much made up his mind on last coach but wanted to get everyone together to let them know first what his decision is. With Finals now over, we may settle the last staff position before Christmas?

Now Joe Ganz was a really good QB. too bad Callahan took to long to figure that out.

Adrian "turn over" Martinez. will always be a controversial player for NU. Clearly one of most talented athletes NU has ever had but often made absolutely critical mental gaffs, and way tooo many turnovers. With that said, i will root for him at K-State. the pressure there will not be a high as it was here. with his shoulder surgery, i am curious if he even plays much next season, maybe does the 4 game thing and red-shirts to give shoulder more time to heal.

this is good, need to keep some of the defense in tack and his experience will return some depth to the outside linebacker corp.

thought, if he did this transfer from BCU to CSU after one year at BCU, wasn't that before the portal? if so, he may have already set out a year may?

i think Scott does have it right, problem we all see is that we going right along with Scott as he climbs the learning curve on being a head coach. He only had two seasons of HC work and that was a group of 5 team. not sure how much patience the fan base has. everytime i think Scott is slipping, he does something to change that idea. weather it is in recruiting or selecting an OC who is probably one of the best (at least one of the most experienced).

Still think you need a dedicated RB coach, they under-performed last season (IMO due to O-line play).

maybe he makes the NFL as a receiver or DB, not sure he would succeed as a QB with his turnovers (fumbles). hard to pin all the fumbles on the O-line in this case.

would paying (or promising to pay) an athlete to come to your school be a major NCAA violation? Once they arrive, signed and enrolled, sure the let the NIL money roll.

I don't think NU needs two LB coaches. when Frost first arrived here, NCAA only allowed 9 assistants not the current 10. so we hired Rudd with that 10th spot. so, what i am suggesting let one of the existing LB coaches, coach the whole group. either re-assign one of the coaches to an open spot (RB or ST) or simply $hit can one of the current LB coaches. Then hire both a dedicated ST coach and a RB coach. if the ST coach has spare time with their duties they can assist with the LB's or something. However their primary duties would be ST.

The worst part of this is that other then Cam Jergens (JR), every starter on the O-line is an underclassman. They are going up against 5-6th year seniors with a ton more experience and weight room training, I suspect that when these guys get to be 5-6th year seniors they will dominate and we will have forgotten all about their growing pains. IMO we simply need to get some upper-class dudes with lots of experience from the portal (if that is even possible) to step in and play against these 5-6th year D-line players. this will allow the under-classmen to learn from guys in-front of them (how the pipe-line worked) Our young O-linemen are getting their baptism by fire and will be pretty good one day (i am not giving up on all of them) but they do need development time.

If Nebraska/Power 5 schools are the Major Leagues (baseball analogy), the group of 5 would be triple A and northern Co would be what, double A? Maybe he can make the jump and contribute, i would personally go get some beasts from a Power 5 school it at all possible.

while i know about 90% of the good folks on this board want a dedicated special teams coach, i am thinking it may be a waste of coach position. i have read that the average team only spends about 15 minutes a practice on special teams. I also know that the problems are that we have a field goal kicker who had the yipps, and probably couldn't kick the ball over a barn, and punter that is brand new to the game. I didn't see a lot of breakdowns (kicking) on the other 10 players. Yes, Cam Britt was a mess on special teams (punt return) but his errors generally could be classified as aggressive errors, trying to make something happen on his own. other punt returners simply fair caugt everything. Scott definitely needs to dedicate resources to the return game (ST as a whole). Maybe have two coaches combine special teams work and not one dedicated coach? if they dedicate a coach who will spend 15 minutes a practice to ST, that does seem a bit wasteful. the running back room really needs a dedicated coach. Scott cannot ignore ST any longer, so I am glad I don't have the make this decision. Scott could be the one to work with ST, his job depends on getting that part fixed. Not sure i want to leave my Nebraska career in the hands of another coach that easily.

yeah, that was sour grapes with someone who got let go. Pure revenge is all that is. IF the NCAA ever showed their backbone and audit all top 25 schools for this nearly, if not all, would be in violation of that rule.

anyone remember the Charmin commercials from years ago... Mr. Whipple.... "don't squeeze the Charmin"..

Being from San Diego and see Rileys' $hit job when he was the head coach there first hand... i was mortified when i found out his hiring at NU was true.. World's nicest coach but horrible, and i mean horrible head coach..

I am a big fan of both Brown and Busch.. both are very good recruiters and have NU ties. I would probably lean towards Brown myself, but would hate to lose the recruiting ability of Busch.

Wonder how much time each week is spent on Special Teams. I can fully see your point about his future employment..

Will always wonder how good 2AM would have been if he had a good (and I mean really good) offensive line? fact that he was running for his life most of the time can hardly be laid at his feet. think about it, good OL = more time to find open receiver/TE, more holes for RB's. it all starts in the trenches...

While 2AM did have some horrible gaffs at the worst times, he kept us in most games by his play. Always cheered for him up until last two minutes of game.. that was when his Mr. Hyde would show up.

Just something to add to the discussion. it looks like last coaching position will come down to two questions. 1. Coach for Special teams (Busch) 2. Coach for running backs (Brown). this is a tough spot to (assuming no other staff re-alignments/departures) Both are very good coaches and recruiters.. I would not want to make that call.. your thoughts?

We're almost there!!! special teams has not improved one bit under frost.

Glad i stopped the streaming service, could not stand to see that $hit!!