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53 minutes ago, Fru said:
The only possible wins on the schedule
- Purdue
- Northwestern
- Minnesota
- Bethune Cookman
- Illinois
I'm guessing the first win will be a close one with Bethune Cookman. I hate that that game has been scheduled. It wouldn't shock me if we were winless going into that game. An FCS school looking to knock off a vulnerable NU team that knows it has OSU the following week. Frost says that we've hit bottom and there's nowhere to go but up. I think there's plenty of room to sink deeper than where we are now. BC or Illinois is my guess.
If we don’t get significantly better then I think you are right. Heck if we play this bad we could lose to Bethune-Cookman.
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Just now, TherealTomOsborne said:
Just stating what I thought Frost said. He doesn't think anyone will be jumping ship. Whatever the issues are, they better get it fixed. I heard one of Michigans players say that some players didn't look like they wanted to play after the first series so, maybe they aren't buying in.
Like half of the o-line? Rewatching the game and my lord they just wiff on blocks sometimes.
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26 minutes ago, HuskerJax said:
Hopefully we won’t turn it over...always a factor. If we don’t we can win.
We always CAN win, but unless Scott replaces the entire o-line before the next game we WON’T win. This team today would struggle against Bethune-Cookman.
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Then maybe we need to hold walkon tryouts for the o-line or something. It would be hard to be worse than what we have now.
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It seemed that the way several of our players reacted after tackles that they felt that Colorado was being dirtier than usual.... not sure who else noticed this.
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7 hours ago, Roll Skers said:
I saw that on twitter, Still fast
He looks like a dynamic runner on his film... lol
Went and found some film on him and I agree he can run out of designed plays, but I didn't see any running from blocking breakdowns and such... maybe because they were highlight films... anyway he seems a great get, so hopefully he does well at Nebraska.
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The Adrian Martinez get is pretty impressive considering the kid was offered by basically every major program and was the #4 QB in the country according to ESPN.
My only concern is that the scouting report on him is that he basically only plays from the shotgun and is not a dynamic runner. Not sure how he fits into Frost's scheme given this. Anyone have any thoughts on that?
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For those arguing the Midwest naming thing... remember... when that was first used (around 1820s I think), Nebraska wasn't even a Territory yet. I've always considered Nebraska 'Midwest' and it was always called by everyone I knew when I lived there. It seemed really strange to me to have Ohioans considering themselves 'Midwest' because they aren't even remotely west... unless you are counting from the original 13 colonies
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If I remember correctly, we ran this same play 2 years in a row on the first play from scrimmage against CU and scored a TD each year. Extra credit for having the incomparable Tommy Frazier and Ahman Green run it. Bonus points for doing it against Neuheisal (aka Sweater Boy).
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On 12/9/2017 at 8:57 AM, Carolina Husker said:
Black 41 flash. Just because that was my first and only game I’ve seen in Lincoln. What a day it was.
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Megathread officially over?
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2 minutes ago, krc1995 said:
That is probably THE one factor for our lack of progress. Maybe we could just fix that....
Yeah, it’s embarrassing. It’s like that never even practice run blocks or something.
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Ozigbo is 2x the back that Wilbon is... why is Ozigbo not in?
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15 hours ago, Husker_Bohunk said:
I never said you did. However, look around at this board and many others do.
I don't have contempt for Riley. I find his coaching to be seriously lacking, but I don't hold him in contempt. My contempt is our former AD and Pearlman. SE was worse than incompetent at his job... he was so bad he was incapable of seeing how bad he was. They call it the the Dunning-Kruger effect. Where people of low ability have a cognitive bias of superiority and cannot then accurately assess their own performance. Certain recent governmental leaders have it too, with similar disastrous results.
Anyway, I agree with you that Riley is not to 'blame' for this mess. He came in, did his best, and failed. But he was always going to do that. SE was a moron for failing to see that was by far the most likely outcome. SE is horrible and possibly even a Wisconsin mole designed to destroy Nebraska football (well maybe not, but it sure seems like it).
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Lee cleared concussion protocol and will play apparently. Not sure if anyone else reported this already.
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1 hour ago, Glendower said:
This one makes me sad... I think he did think he could win. I think he bought into the hype that was being spread: that he had never had the facilities or the backing to really put together a cracker jack team. So, he comes to UNL, has all the resources he could imagine, and still loses. This is what he's been doing his entire life, is finally given almost everything he probably ever felt he was lacking at other colleges, and still ended up .500. That has to be really just crushing. It's just a really sad story. I truly believe he thought he could win here.
Well, probably so. I mean, I don't know too many people who start out a new job TRYING to fail, so he probably didn't. But I also know that at his age, most of the people I've seen just don't have the energy you probably need to run a big time football program. You can do 'strategic direction' and 'coaching of coaches' but having the energy to get into everyone else's business down on the field just seems unlikely. He needed a great, tireless assistant to do the details while he worked the other.. and clearly he did not have that.
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What really was your reason for coming to Nebraska? Did you really expect to win or did you do it to get more money for retirement? Because you sure didn't approach it like you expected to win.
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40 minutes ago, RedNebraskan said:
Here's a funny article that relates to this thread perfectly.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/11/14/16648556/college-football-coach-rumors
Yeah i think I've read every single one of these on this thread. Heck I've probably written some. This nails it for sure.
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It might be closer than we think because POB will be playing the whole game. Those sorts of changes can result in unintended (both good and bad) consequences. But I think unless Diaco throws out his whole D scheme and starts over it is going to be bad no matter what.
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3 hours ago, tyrone_biggums said:
"It's not like I've got a coach to hire this afternoon at 3:30,"
I lol'd at that.
What would be hilarious is if, at 3:30 this afternoon he was approving Scott Frost's contract.... he wouldn't 'technically' be lying...
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35 minutes ago, HuskerMav11 said:
Is to hire someone that is currently available. Our guy won't be available until the end of November.
Everyone needs to calm down. Quit acting like a bunch of whiny babies who need their passafire.
Unless someone can bring up a good reason to fire Mike Riley this week as opposed to in 2 or 3 weeks?
Not to be a killjoy, but it's pacifier....
If either the DC or OC were BETTER than Riley (instead of being likely WORSE), then I would say we should fire him today. As it is, firing him or not firing him... this team won't get better without a whole new staff.
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Coach, are you satisfied with fielding the worst team in 50 years or do you have loftier goals for the future?
Do you even look at what your DC is doing? Why are your DBs playing 10 yards off the line of scrimmage every single down?
Will you live in Corvallis when you go back to Oregon or are you buying a place in Lincoln City on the coast?
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Just now, Hammerhead said:
I'm not trying to say he wouldn't have been fired anyway. My point is that that's why he was fired during the season rather than after.
Ok sorry. Guess I missed your point.
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2 minutes ago, Hammerhead said:
Florida fired McElwain because he was caught in a lie that embarrassed the university. I don't know why Tennessee decided to fire Jones now, but I don't see why we should be looking at them as a shining example of how to operate a football program.
That’s hilarious. Florida fired McElwain because his offenses sucked. They timed the firing of him after his comment about death threats so they could negotiate down his $12M buyout.
Michigan players: Nebraska gave up 'after the first series'
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Hopefully Coach Frost posts this on the bulletin board and starts calling people out.