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It’s been said many times it takes 5 years to build a program. That’s getting your first recruits completely through counting their redshirt year. I’m willing to give Frost at least through his 5th year to truly see what he’s building. Our program has been in the crapper since MR so honestly what do we have to lose. We can all see that if nothing else Frost seems to be getting high caliber athletes and he is trying to build a culture of success. If he fails the next guy will be in better shape from the start then Frost was

I look at the facilities thing like, if it wasn’t a big deal, there wouldn’t be an arms race year in and year out for top notch facilities. And I respect the heck out of Bell and his opinion, but I think he’s probably in the minority of kids we recruit when it comes to how they weigh facilities. We recruit heavy out of the south and their perception is that it’s always cold in Nebraska, so we need top notch indoor facilities to help lure them the Nebraska and let them realize that they won’t freeze to death 

30 minutes ago, UniversalMartin said:

Have a serviceable kicker and that 5-7 goes to a minimum of 6-6 with a rz % around 85...our 5-7 was a bi product of poor D and a need to get in the zone as opposed to 3

I think this is spot on. Our kicker being injured absolutely killed us. We couldn’t kick the ball deep with any hang time at all, and any type of field goal was nerve racking and far from a sure thing. You change your play calling and an be more aggressive/less predictable when you have a good kicking game. 

I’m still kinda confused on how this will work. Is the analyst going to have to coach a full time assistant on how to coach special teams? Or is he able to do some type of instruction with the athletes? 
 

I think if it’s the first one, that seems borderline inefficient and possibly could cause a lot of miscommunication and problems come  saturdays in the fall

This is good for NU bad for MSU. It’s good for the Huskers as it should help recruiting in Colorado, unless CU gets an ace recruiter/up and comer head coach that has a lot of hype around him like we got in Frost. It’s bad for MSU even though it’s a small sample size CUs defense drop something like 33 spots in total defense his first year. With the odd way their last coach left the day before signing day, and the loaded division the east is, I don’t feel like MSU is a very attractive job. I think they caught lightening in a bottle with Dantonio. The guy did a lot more than expected or their talent level might have suggested they should. It’s going to be very hard to find another coach that fits their program as well as he did

15 hours ago, HUSKER 37 said:

 

https://nebraska.forums.rivals.com/threads/marvin-scott-can-bench-press-over-400-lbs.260066/

 

 

 

Don't remember having weight lifting competitions when I was a high schooler...Is this happening in Nebraska now?

We have it in Kansas so I bet you do in Nebraska 

Pretty crappy time to resign, the day before NSD. They have any recruits we can steal in the 23rd hour? (Insert sarcasm...kind of)

My biggest worry is if colleges starry paying athletes, then they’ll have to pay all athletes. And if they have to pay all athletes then sports like baseball, softball and wrestling to name a few will get cut in order to keep the bottom line as close to what it was as possible. Sure due to title nine a lot of women’s sports will have to stay around, but for so many kids that aren’t football or basketball players their opportunity to get college paid for by competing in a sport they love and have spent years honing their craft in may get taken away. We really need to take a step back and look at the whole pie here. I understand and don’t necessarily disagree with the thought process behind paying athletes, but with as cut throat as the NCAA is and by proxy these schools are, I don’t think risking all these other kids opportunities in other sports are worth it. Remember just a short time ago how Nebraska Omaha lost there stellar wrestling program and competitive football program in order for the school to move up a classification. And that was D2 kids who weren’t on a full scholarship and we’re already paying for some of the costs of college. People were pissed about the situation, and a lot of kids suffered. I’d hate for the situation to become widespread across college athletics 

My head says 49ers but my heart wants the Chiefs to win

2 hours ago, Nebfanatic said:

Kinda crazy Mills is the returning leading rusher in the west. He should improve on his numbers a fair amount one would think. 

With the experience our OL gained, the way they were blocking at the end of the year against stiff competition, and the fact the offense really started to click with mills at the end of the year I think we’ll see a lot better of a year. All conference type of year maybe

i thought i had read that Snyder was going to Texas to be their ST coach. Any idea what happened there?

3 hours ago, C N Red said:

I agree to a point........but he was not exceptional last season. He had some really stupid play calling.

Idc what he called last year, between the oline sucking it up until the last couple weeks and AMarts inability to put touch on a pass, nothing he called was going to work. It’ll be better in 2020, no doubt about it 

Any chance Helfrich ends up as some kind of offensive analyst for Frost until he finds another OC job?

On 12/30/2019 at 3:07 PM, lo country said:

Watched that game and thought the same thing.  Why not bring the FB back....SF seems to have found a way to him I multiple positions with good results and don't "show their hand" while having him in the formation.

With the depth we have rb and the type of rb that mills is, he can be the FB/dive back guy we need if SF chooses to the I back set. Were in the I so little it'd be a wasted scholarship to have one on the team. Unless were able to get another walk on like Andy 

1 hour ago, Hans Gruber said:

I can get behind the Stormtrooper all whites. I do think they look slick. I've never liked red on red though. Too much red on a uniform looks bad, which is why I'm guessing someone designed Nebraska's uniforms the way they did decades ago. 

I agree, except that red on red can look good, but there has to be something to break it up I.e the chiefs all red uniforms 

1 hour ago, SFW said:

And if so what does that say about Chinander?  

That our defense improved but our offense regressed so much that our defensive improvements weren’t what they could have been do to the stupid amount of 3 & out drives our offense had

2 hours ago, lo country said:

I mentioned that in the thread yesterday.  Watching his throwing motion, IMHO, he has an impingement issue with the joint or a rotator cuff issue.  He short arms or "pushes" the ball not allowing his arm to rotate all the way through (picture it stopping at about parallel to the ground) which causes the ball to go high.  Throwing sidearm, which he did yesterday (or not have hand passing by ear) helps to take the pressure off the shoulder.....That's just my .02......I would not be surprised in the least if he has something going on.  I am sure that effects his running ie stiff arming, lower his shoulder etc....It gets in your head a little bit with that type of injury....

I’m not a D1 QB coach, but one thing I’ve noticed is Martinez tends to U the ball because keeps his hand in a U shape instead of getting his fingers on top the ball aka C the ball. This causes the ball to sail and float instead of the nose dropping and the ball falling into the WRs hands. I think his mechanics are off and that’s a big reason for his issues. It makes me wonder if Coach V is really all that great of a QB coach. I feel he knows his stuff but is having a hard time teaching to Martinez 

Youngstown State is really struggling, maybe we can get Bo back......

How many games has McCaffrey played in now? Is he over the four games, if not then maybe saving his redshirt is more important than wasting it to make a bowl game that is pretty much meaningless 

9 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

I do think this is part of it.  Even when we do blitz, it's rarely effective.  I'm not sure where all the blame lies on that but that's the way it is.

It’s hard to effectively blitz when your dline can’t demand double teams therefore you lbs don’t have open lanes to stunt through

I think hiring an  analysts for each side of would be a great idea, someone who can give an objective and as non biased input as possible would do nothing but help. And I know there’s people calling for Chins head, but I think continuity in the staff is extremely important, especially this early in our rebuild. If we are constantly changing DCs then our players will never fit the current system therefore we just repeat the cycle and never get out of our current predicament. Let the guys get to a few more years so our players on the field are extremely component in the system. That’s when success happens. Then with success comes better quality athletes we can recruit, which then allows us to replace a position coach or coordinator with more ease because are athletes can fit into a new system easier, because they’re better athletes. Nothing will ruin what Frost is trying to build more or faster then constant change and turmoil in the staff

4 hours ago, suh_fan93 said:

Kansas giving Texas a football game.

 

 

Looks like the ol mad hatter is at it again! Who knows maybe he’ll turn KU into a halfway respectable program instead of a laughing stock. 

I think the biggest take is that we aren’t where any of us want to be, however we lose this game last year. We are pretty young and inexperienced and we found a way to win an ugly game through adversity. I’m not trying to pump sunshine but I’m also not goi g to join the Debbie downer group. It’s obvious we have lots of problems that need to be fixed, and hopefully they will be. Just enjoy this win and get ready for Minnesota 

I think the biggest take is that we aren’t where any of us want to be, however we lose this game last year. We are pretty young and inexperienced and we found a way to win an ugly game through adversity. I’m not trying to pump sunshine but I’m also not goi g to join the Debbie downer group. It’s obvious we have lots of problems that need to be fixed, and hopefully they will be. Just enjoy this win and get ready for Minnesota 

I’ll be interested to see if we step up the tempo