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Half correct. We do need a head coach who understands what being physical truly means and has a running based offense that pounds the defense relentlessly. However, we absolutely need the ability to throw and catch the ball. 100% true.

So .... about #1 and #3..... Not sure about 3, but I now agree on 1. But you forgot about firing Langsdorf. We will never be successful with his offense. We went 9-4 this year, I'd say that's pretty successfull. Especially when you consider we don't have all the pieces in place for the offense yet, but it's getting there. 9 and 4 were failures under 2 of the past 3 coaches. Did you actually watch the offense the past 2 years? With the exception of Tommy it's been awful.

We had a soft chancellor, who hired a soft AD, who hired a soft coach with a soft style who brought in a soft staff. This should not be a surprise to anyone who knows.

So .... about #1 and #3..... Not sure about 3, but I now agree on 1. But you forgot about firing Langsdorf. We will never be successful with his offense.

At least some people are happy with the state of the program.

At least some peoples' posts add something of value to the board.

Even a blind squirrel can fine a nut, a broke clock is right twice a day, Langs can sometines not Langs. Lol. So true.

Next year is gonna be worse, IMO. Agreed. They've already started the Tanner Lee hype train, trying to convince people how good he is. I saw him play many times I'm he and twice at Tulane, and he was not good. The excuse will be that he played with a terrible OL in Tulane. I don't know what they think he's getting here. Prior to his Nebraska workout, he had a workout at LSU. They wanted nothing to do with him, which tells me all I need to know, because LSU's QB situation was not good coming into this season. We have the QB whisperer though, see how awesome we've been at QB the last 2 years.

he's making nebraska great again Everyone bitched about the last coach giving a damn so we got the opposite now

Against a depleted UT team..... screw injuries. Every team has them. Others just recruit/develop depth... Which he is trying to do because the last guy did a pathetic job at it. Quit blaming Bo. This is Rileys show. Year 2.....Harbaugh, Fuentes, Frost, Richt all say hello..... It's common sense, you don't rebuild a program with very little talent and zero depth with one recruiting class.As for those coaches you mentioned, those guys all walked into teams that had a lot of talent and depth because the firings were for a different reason, they had the needed talent, but didn't get it done which is nowhere were NU is at in the post Bo era. Let's see how Harbaugh does next year after losing 17-18 guys off of this team and Hokes players are gone. Much like how Bo's best years were with Callahan's players. Wasn't Frost's team 0 and 12 last year, yet they went bowling this year? That's not great talent. This team has more talent than Iowa, Illinois, and Purdue.

Good thing that we don't have any of those awful dual threat QBs any more.

Yep. Langsdorf too. We have the worst coordinators in football. At any level.

This. SE would never admit he made a mistake.Eichorst has to go first, just like Pederson.You need to go. But I'm not wrong. Eichorst won't fire Riley, and he has no business hiring another coach.

This. SE would never admit he made a mistake. Eichorst has to go first, just like Pederson.

Yep.

I agree, and it would be fun to watch. Not sure if Langsdorf would know how to use him.

Screw Langsdorf and his crappy screen game and jet sweep nonsense.

I've read a lot of stuff about Riley that compares him to Osborne. That's not a dis on Osborne, it's a compliment to Riley. We can still be tough, even with a balanced offense. No. It's a dis to Osborne, the hall of famer. There is no real comparison. Riley will never come close to Osborne's greatness, and to say he will is an insult.

Yeah. It's too much to ask. It's not just Nebraska getting squeezed out over the last 20 years. There are a lot more football programs demanding excellence and competing for what may be a dwindling number of game-changing recruits. You know all the unsatisfying 9 win seasons we've had of late? Tom Osborne had them, too, for the first 20 years of his career. They were still good enough to keep the Huskers ranked because the competition wasn't as deep as it is today. By your standards we should have been tired of Tom Osborne's weak sauce around his fifth season. A lot of people were. I think there are 128 teams out there. Some years nobody wins them all. Not even Alabama. Every team we think we'd like to be has a fan board bitching about what they'd do differently and who they should have hired and fired. Everybody's goal is to win them all, but 127 teams will go away disappointed. Well ol wise sage it was alot easier to swallow those 9 win seasons when you show up in the big games and represent and then usually wind up in the top 10 at the end of the yr. That is a far cry from the black hole of mediocrity we are circling now. Oh and btw the competition was plenty tough back then. I know I was around. Are you sure you were around in those days? Nebraska was famous for not showing up in big games. Tom Osborne had a reputation for not being a big game coach. Barry Switzer owned him -- many of those Oklahoma games were nationally televised humiliations -- and Osborne had a terrible bowl record for years. Combined with the Oklahoma losses, it appeared to most that the Husker's could physically dominate weaker teams, but the power game got exposed late in the season when the competition was elite. If you're saying that was still better than what we have today....sure. But if you think those 9 win seasons -- with the two late losses -- didn't create the same grumbling heard on this board, you weren't around. I was around, there was tons of grumbling and finger pointing by fans. In between Steve Taylor and Tommie Frazier, NU had some quarterbacks that were certainly less than stellar as well. Guys like Mickey Joseph and Keithen McCant were adequate but they were by no means elite quarterbacks. Mike Grant's ineptness at throwing the ball is imo, the catalyst that saw Tommie Frazier take the field as a true freshman. People remember Osborne's 60-3 run and forget about all the blood, sweat and tears that got him there. Tons of grumbling but also plenty of people pleading patience and giving support to our nice guy coach who represented the state so well. The more things change..... Funny how Keithen was "adequate" yet he was all Big 8. Maybe if he, Crouch, Lord, and Gdowski were "pro style " yet led us to nothing (like Zac Taylor) they'd be thought of as at least good. It's crazy how Osborne led us to so many Championships without a pro style offense or QB.

Jesus. Poor Bo, he was just perfect. Give me a f'n break. I didn't read that at all in his post. Why can't it be both?IF, Eichorst was brought in specifically for firing Bo...how does that make him the bad guy for doing what his bosses wanted? Just to be clear, I don't necessarily subscribe to the theory that Eichorst was brought here specfically for that reason. I think he was brought here just for that. Anyone with common sense knows that,and he is not the bad guy for that. He is what he is, an over paid axeman. This is Harvey's fart in the elevator. He's the bad guy for being a liar and being incompetent while searching for the next coach.

No. He rents a place in many people's minds rent free while collecting 140k a month from UNL. He wins.

This post is so wrong that simple common sense feels stupid reading it.

Oh how rich. L F@#$ing O L

How about almost every time a person of color cleary commits a crime (caught on camera) their ethnicity is not reported while looking for the POS, yet when a supposedly white person supposedly commits a crime the perp is described as white. That is clearly systematic racism.

Excellent post.