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46 minutes ago, Husker816 said:

Team has been sloppy every week and yet some of you dumbasses want to make Joesph the coach

I look forward to the first opportunity to rub this post in your ugly face.

2 minutes ago, cheekygeek said:

Run the damn ball Whip.

Run the damn ball Whip.

Volacek TD! 93 yds in 5 plays agains #3 D in the country.

Way to go Whip! 
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Including 2 Yant runs for -2 yds.

Run the damn ball Whip.

Run the damn ball Whip.

Volacek TD! 93 yds in 5 plays agains #3 D in the country.

Way to go Whip! 
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T.I.L. that Huskerboard game threads are FULL of posters that you could not PAY me to watch a game with. 

Alante Brown is going to have a HUGE day..

13 hours ago, husker1996 said:

There could very well be a handshake agreement in place with the new coach already. I think if it were Mickey, Trev would have announced it by now. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mickey has an agreement with Trev to remain on the staff in some capacity. It would be beneficial to have such an agreement in place so Mickey could tell recruits such as Coleman that he will be on the staff no matter what. 

Yes, his wife said in an interview that they have a 3 year contract- so if the new coach wants him - he stays.

I’ll be the first to say that I really didn’t know a lot about Bill O’Brien’s career before I read this. But I now think he would be a hell of a “get”. If he keeps MJ (and Applewhite, & possibly O’Brien in some position) he would be my new #1.

It’s only a BONUS that he looks like he could be Bob Devaney’s grandson.

11 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

Do you really think there's even the slightest chance that Deion Sanders will be the next HC of the Nebraska Cornhuskers? I sure don't. An African-American coach trying to garner attention for HBCUs, taking a big-$ offer to coach at one of the most white-bread schools in the country. He'd be labeled an Uncle Tom before you know it. It's just not happening.

Don't know why but I seem to always be a full 180 degrees from your takes.

You really don't think Deion is smart enough to make the message be that he's turned the (much-needed) spotlight on HBCUs and why they deserve funds and attention and now he's going to turn the spotlight on the woeful lack of black P5 Head Coaches running successful programs?

I don't think the guy is coming and I don't think he's even on the short list, but you thinking it is because he can't get himself out from under the HBCU banner now is laughable for somebody as quick of lip as Deion.

8 minutes ago, M.A. said:

Like your approach. Creative! This is one I was playing around with last night.

 

The “HATE TO LOSE” Plan (Draft 1)

4 Year Contact 

 

Signing Bonus
$210,000

 

Base Salary 
$350,000/Mo
($4,200,000/Yr)

 

Non Conference Game Win

$187,000/Game

 

Conference Game Win 

$343,750/Game

 

Bowl Win 

$265,625

Western Division Champ

 $304,688

BIG 10 Champ 

$453,032

CFP Champs  

$906,064

 

*Potential Total Compensation
$9,629,409

 

*Includes
$6,500,000

 Discretionary Staff Budget

 Won't be long until somebody figures out how to create a similar scheme to incentivize/reward all the players via the N.I.L. piles of money.

38 minutes ago, Sker fer life said:

We need a coach that will get us to the desert tray.

We’ve been in the desert tray for years now. I think you mean dessert tray.

4 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

Memories
Light the corners of my mind
Misty watercolor memories
Of the way we were

Scattered pictures
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were

Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we?
Could we?

Memories
May be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply to choose to forget

So it's the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember
The way we were
The way we were

This whole thread is worth reading. Sounds a lot like MJ, to me.

(AND the big things) but I’d like this thread to be lessons in Leadership that we believe should be a given - the attitude of people who are going to be WINNERS. Please contribute your favorites. Here’s one:

29 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

From another board:

 

Nebraska should embrace its roots and go back to the Wing-T Option that they won 3 national titles with in the 90s...they should hire Army's Jeff Monken!! I don't think people truly realize the outstanding job Monken has done at Army. I mean they won 9, 10 and 11 games in consecutive seasons. He beats Navy!! He almost knocked off both Ohio State and Oklahoma in back to back seasons. Give this guy the resources that Nebraska has!! There has never been a time like right now, where the option can make a strong comeback. Nobody runs it and therefore, nobody knows how to defend it. Its very hard to prepare for in just one week. Again...go back to what made Nebraska football...Nebraska!! 

This take has multiple problems:

1) It only looks at the final score (OU won by 7 - it was 21-21 at Halftime). Army was held scoreless in the final half.
2) It only looks at the offensive side of the ball: In that game Army had a TOP of 44:41 to Oklahoma's 15:19. Oklahoma only had 3 Third Downs the entire game. A HC has to play/recruit/coach Defense also.

3) It only looks at Won/Loss records and ignores that Army's Strength of Schedule in 2018 was ranked #73 (at the end of the year). Is their 11-2 the same quality as that year's Georgia team (who went 11-3 against the 3rd most difficult Strength of Schedule???)

That poster also got it right that Army played Ohio State (2017) and Oklahoma (2018) in back-to-back seasons. "Almost knocked off" Ohio State???

Ohio St. won 38-7.

People have selective memories (to be charitable).

Regarding the Wing-T offense, the poster seems to have forgotton that:
a) It's not just the system - it's recruiting players to effectively run that system

b) Osborne mostly abandoned it and began recruiting differently when he realized that SPEED KILLS the Wing-T Option. TO went on to win back-to-back National Championships taking a more modern approach.

Time marches on, people. Innovation continues. Going back to leather helmets is not the answer.

2 hours ago, Stone Cold said:

Serious question, what does him grinding on co eds /being dishonest in your marriage have in correlation of football games.

Benito Mussolini made the trains run on time. So nothing else matters, right?

3 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

What I’ve learned from this thread is absolutely nothing except some people seem to think that every and all coaches, living or in some cases dead, are in play. The constant mentioning of people like Urban or Kiffin amazes me. Not. Happening.

Screenshotting this!

Learning that Lane Kiffin's salary is going to be capped by State law, pretty much clinches it for me. He can't play this for a salary raise.

It's gonna be Lane (and Monte) Kiffin. You don't think that T.O. can speak to Monte on the phone?  Easiest back door negotiations in the world!

Wonder if Lane could get his brother to come be the DC? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kiffin

NU's coaching staff would sound like a Law Firm: Kiffin, Kiffin, and Kiffin.

32 minutes ago, huskerpower22 said:

 

None of us know who the guy is, so just go ahead and put it out in the universe and don't apologize for it 

One of the media guys said he's floated "the name" out there and is pretty sure that 80% of the fan base would be excited about it. I don't follow him that closely, but I'm guessing he has floated A LOT of names. But I do think that Lane Kiffin makes sense (and I'm guessing 80% of the fan base would be excited about him coming to Nebraska).

It also almost becomes a 2fer because his pop - Monte Kiffin - would likely come with -- -- currently his "player personnel analyst" at Old Miss and most will remember him as Nebraska's DC from (what?) '74-77 under Osborne. All Monte did was:
"mastermind the Tampa 2 scheme" in the NFL. 

His defensive philosophy has several hallmarks.

• Speed over size and strength. Coordinators that employ Kiffin-style defenses will often replace linebackers with safeties in order to put more speed on the field. In particular, linebackers must be able to cover receivers; in the Tampa 2 scheme, one linebacker frequently drops back deep into coverage, turning what looks like a Cover 2 defense into a Cover 3. Kiffin's defenses also employ quick, penetrating defensive tackles.
• Preventing scores over preventing yardage. A Kiffin coordinator doesn't care how many yards an offense gains, as long as the team doesn't score, an approach known as bend-but-don't-break.
• Multiple defenses from one look. Kiffin-style defenses try to use the same personnel (or the same kind of personnel) at all times, so that the offense cannot adjust its play call based on the alignment of the defensive personnel.
• Attacking and causing turnovers. Kiffin-style defenses focus on getting the ball away from the offense by stripping the ball away from the ball carrier or reading the quarterback to make an interception. The risk is that if the ball is not stripped or intercepted, then the ball carrier on offense has a better chance of gaining more yards or scoring; the reward is that the offensive drive is stopped without a score more often, frequently giving good field position." - source Wikipedia
   

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14 minutes ago, Red Silk Smoking Jacket said:

 

• Deion sits down with 60 Minutes for an interview wearing all red that's one part endearing himself to Nebraska fans...

 

I hate to break it to you, but he was wearing Jackson St. colors. The red isn't the same as Nebraska.

Also, his son is the QB at Jackson St. - another son is a DB there.
Are they good enough to follow him to NU?

On the "pro" side of things: He could easily say that he wants to be part of correcting the lack of black HCs in Power 5 football (to those who think he is abandoning HCBUs.)

On 10/18/2022 at 10:46 AM, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

 

Again, moving from Ole Miss to Nebraska would be a step down and make no sense

Not saying he's the guy, but it makes a WHOLE LOT of sense. Coaches are in it for the money, at the end of the day. They make moves when their "stock" is highest. Right now he has Ole Miss undefeated, at the top of SEC West, with the #3 (Tied with Tennessee) "Points For" in the SEC (6 points behind Georgia) combined with a "Points Against" that is #4 in the SEC  (6 better than Alabama). His stock may never be higher in a tough conference. He also would likely LOVE being "the guy" for a team that has a whole State to itself. You know he'd love to play before a home crowd in a sellout Memorial Stadium.

With UCLA, USC, Texas, and Oklahoma bolting their conferences, there have to be a LOT of talented HCs looking to jump from the (sinking) Pac 12 and Big 12 to one of the Big Money conferences. 

I learned that no quarterback in his right mind will want to come to Nebraska until we get a functional offensive line. The fact that Thompson is still standing and able to have the passing success that he HAS had really makes one wonder about the "might have been" if Nouili had not gotten himself suspended for the year and Frost would have made an O-Line coach one of his priorities, rather than an afterthought. 

I learned that if MJ had not been hired and brought Trey Palmer and (now interim DC) Bill Busch with him... well I don't want to even imagine what this season would look like.