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I would settle for a winning record, then double digit wins and restart a winning tradition. If you complete 74% of passes but don’t win who cares. It’s 74% because most were less than 10 yards. Get real boys. Some of you love excuses more than winning I think

We need to put things in perspective. Because I see guys post stuff like this on this board. Or other similiar comments about talent. Those evaluations and thoughts make sense to me and hold water when you are comparing against an opponent like Ohio State, Penn State etc. Teams who have better talent across the board and specifically on Dline and Linebackers who is mostly who are Oline is blocking. You cannot blame the offensive line for Martinez or any other QB looking like dog s#!t against the likes of Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Minnesota. We out recruit everyone in the big 10 outside of michigan, ohio state and penn state. So I personally dont like saying we suck because lack of talent.

I agree with the media/fan assessment of the new guy being the future savior. BUT, has anyone progressed and developed into said savior? No- that would lean on development and recruitment.

Not to make an excuse for the negative thoughts. But we as a fanbase have had basically the last 20 years worth of conditioning from the program to have us get let down. I have been the homer positive fan for the last 18.5 years but the last 1.5 I have gotten tired of being burned over and over and over.

Sounds like mixed reviews about smothers in the media. More positive thoughts about Haarberg. That seems to be a bad sign about how we are recruiting. Seems like lately the new arrival is the best looking but needs development. Then the next year he doesn’t look ready or can’t throw very good but the new kid is the best of them all just doesn’t know the offense. I think if we truly recruited a great talent they would stand out

I like the optimism. But Fant is doing well in the NFL and Fidone was basically a 5 star.

Give him the Shocker herm.

Dude it shouldn’t be that hard. Have you seen Martinez the last 2 years. We tried Mcaffrey last year it was so bad. Freshman Adrian beats out Sophomore and Junior Adrian. I am just saying pretty much no other legit school wanted Luke as a qb, hasberg isn’t beating out anyone anytime soon. You don’t give yourself much options when no one else is ready. How many years running have we had no depth behind our starter?

Did you think any QBs recruited after Martinez were going to come in and compete for the job right away? Or did we hear they all needed a year or 2 development. That’s what I remember the narrative being

McAffrey is not recruiting over. Haarberg is not recruiting over. I dont think you can say Smothers is recruiting over anyway. Martinez is the highest rated and most sought after QB we have landed and that was year 1. Smothers may end up being a badass but we have no idea. Saying oh well he committed early to Nebraska and shut his recruiting down so thats why he didnt rise in the rankings or get more offers is not good enough for me. Do you really think the top teams in the country would not have pursued him if they thought he was gonna be the next Marcus Mariota. I doubt any of the top teams were saying man I dont think we can steal someone from Nebraska?

For me our offense was pathetic, predictable and hard to watch. I don’t see how any sane person would think we had the 35th best offense in the country. It looked like we were the 100th best- which is pretty much where we were in most normal statistics I feel like SP+ is like polishing a turd. But at the end of the day we still have a turd.

Do the top schools take project QBs or the best available every year? The top teams go get the best they can. I remember the Osborne staff talked about how their job was to recruit over the current kids on the roster. Not say oh we have good players no reason to try to get a kid who could beat Martinez

I’m not worried about Duval. I’m worried about developing our WRs so they can actually play in the games mentally

I agree. But more reason to snag a high profile kid every year. No more development projects. Those kids transfer out now too with the portal so might as well recruit a stud and if he wins the job you got an upgrade. McCaffrey was a sub par QB development projected who was supposed to be content sitting behind Martinez and look how that worked

I think he is running scared right now with Frost about to take us to the next level.

I agree our offense sucks. But we are probably being ignorant because we expect points. J-Magic will you tell us how good our offense is based on SP+- the true way to know if you are a good team or not.

How do you know we are doing the best we can with what we have? You are saying we have maximized the wins every year under Frost?

Pretty sure Pelini took over from Callahan what most at the time considered a dumpster fire. Pretty sure he won 9 games the next year.

I remember when Bill Callahan was the joke of all husker nation as a horrible coach. The. Riley came and made Callahan not look so bad. I hope Frost changes his trajectory

Wandale and McCaffrey left so they are no longer part of that class. They both would have been solid players and probably would have received some individual honors. Ty Robinson is one I have seen enough to know he is going to be a Force. He will be winning some individual honors and should put up some good stats and hopefully help us win some games. The other guys you listed I have no doubt they will play and contribute. I just hope the potential turns into legit results.

I agree the 2019 class appears to have been a good one. But at the same time Frost came in with the mentality of flipping the roster to his players and a lot of Riley guys transferred or have graduated so to say it’s a good class because they are playing doesn’t mean much. If guys are playing because we don’t have a better option on the roster doesn’t mean they are actually good. If they produce wins or get individual honors I think is a more telling stat than playing time. If the 2019 class graduates and never do much more than 6-7-8 wins a season I would be disappointed in the production.

In my book an impressive season showing progress is at least 7 wins and no blowout losses. No losses over 21 points because that’s not competitive. Our starting QB is in his 4th season so should be a big year

I think Moos has already publicly said it is time to start winning this year. I believe he said something along the lines that it is time this year to start competing for the division.

I am sure we can drum up some new excuses for another disappointing season. Too many tv breaks and clapping on the sideline have been used up. It will be fun to see what we come up with this year. The sun was in our eyes has withstood the test of time- I say we give that a try. I’m sure the sun is pretty bright down in Oklahoma

I would not say our defense is a strength. 30 PPG is not good. I do agree it is better than our offense and special teams but those are not hard to beat. Describing the offense as a little shaky is being way too generous. The rest of what you say is what you would like to see but nothing pointing to positive signs with the staff