2 minutes ago, The Dude said:

3% chance.  

 

SE appears to be on the move to save his own keister, so Riley might not survive the season.

Agreed, but Eichorst will be fired before Riley. Boosters, the BOR etc. won't let the guy that hired Mike Riley screw up another football hire.

I don't want to definitively say yes or no, and I reserve the right to change my mind later based on results. It looks like he's going to be fired though. If you can't beat NIU at home when they play their backup QB, how are you going to beat Minnesota, Iowa or Northwestern, let alone the really good teams on the schedule.

5 minutes ago, Wild Savage Beast said:

 

Yeah...that's pretty good.

I'm not disputing that. You said potential. I'm just saying we say Nebraska at its absolute best under Bo. Potential implies it could be even better.

I don't want Bo or Riley. I want someone that consistently wins 9-10 games like Bo, but also has years better than that occasionally.  I'm fine with a few 7-8 win seasons if they are balanced out by 11 or 12 win seasons.

4 minutes ago, Wild Savage Beast said:

 

I was wholeheartedly against firing Pelini at the time he was fired.  Yes, the guy was less than perfect, but had a ton of potential.

To be fair, I think we saw the ceiling with Bo at Nebraska. It was 9-10 wins per season.

Realistically? Nothing.

If they won 9 or 10 games this year with no blowouts, that would put Riley in my good graces. But there's absolutely zero evidence that will happen. I don't think they could win more than 6-7 games and that seems like a stretch at this point. They excel at nothing and are boring to watch. Those two factors combined are tough to overcome.

2 minutes ago, Hayseed said:

How about Bo Pelini?

Welp, since he's dealing with a whole bunch of heat for having a convicted rapist on his team, that would seem like a bad hire.

The most important question on who Nebraska should hire next is not at head coach, but at athletic director. I don't have an answer for who the next AD should be, I wish I did.

I know this though, Les Miles would be a terrible hire for Nebraska. After initial success, he screwed up a great situation at LSU. He won't do better at Nebraska when he isn't getting top 5 recruiting classes each year.

Just now, ColoradoHusk said:

The problem with a "pro-style" offense, especially the way Riley and Langsdorf run it is that it doesn't have an identity.  When there is a tough game where the offense needs to step back and say "we are going to do what we do best", there isn't a specific thing that they can go to.

 

Wisconsin does have an identity, where they are going to rely on running the ball and being physical with their o-line.  They let NU back in the game last year when they let their QB try to make a couple plays and he threw 2 INT's.

Agreed. Plenty of teams run "pro style" but takes elements from the "spread" or "air raid." Nebraska seems to be running the 1999 New York Giants offense but doesn't have the right pieces. That's why they continue to run screens to the running back, even though it's worked about three times since Riley got here.

A lot of people seem to want Mike Riley fired. The first step though would be firing Shawn Eichorst. Nebraska won't fire Riley without also firing Eichorst. So if you're looking for the dominoes to fall, that would be the first one.

ADs rarely get to replace more than one fired football coach.

I think it can work, but you need more pieces and more things to go right for it to be successful. Like you mentioned, that's why only teams like USC, Michigan and Florida State run it.

On 9/7/2017 at 5:32 PM, GSG5545 said:

The Best Christmas Movie of All Time Is Being Turned Into a Must-Have Children's Book

 

Hopefully the books ends better for me ...

The funniest thing is that it barely means anything. Virtually every FBS head coach is on a 4-5 year contract, or longer. It's just so coaches can tell recruits they'll be there for a kid's whole career. If a coach does get fired, their buyout is more. That's the only other difference.

To summarize: If you love Riley, it doesn't really mean he will be at Nebraska any longer. If you hate Riley, it doesn't really mean he will be at Nebraska any shorter.

Incoming hot take: I get the sense that Micah Parsons is a very good football player and would make Nebraska's defense better if he signed with the Huskers.

10 hours ago, Whs from cb said:

I think we need to spend some money and go after a proven winner to get the program revenant again.

Revenant? Now seems like an inopportune time for a bear attack.

14 minutes ago, commando said:

based on reading all the insights provided by so many experts here on huskerboard  i would guess oregon favored by at least a hundred.

103.5. Don't forget to factor in home-field advantage. 

I'm not a gambling man, but I'm more interested in what the over/under is. 

5 minutes ago, southernoregonhusker said:

Buuuuuuut, they're playing with a new coaching staff.  

That's also true. A coaching staff that frequently struggles in its first year. Willie Taggart went 2-10 in his first season as the head coach at both Western Kentucky and South Florida. It seems to be the whole take one step back to take three steps forward idea.

Either way, I expect next week to be a high-scoring affair. 

3 hours ago, brophog said:

 

I don't think last year is a good comparison. That was a quite poor Oregon team last year. They were likely to bounce back this year, at least to some degree. While we don't know by how much, early expectations were much higher.

True. Oregon is also playing at home this year instead of on the road. Plus, their sophomore QB now is way better than the transfer QB that played in Lincoln last year. 

I think this is a bit overblown. Sure, I would prefer that he talk to reporters after the game. It isn't a big deal to me though. Some head coaches don't allow the coordinators to ever speak to the media.

If it was the head coach refusing to do media I would have a completely different opinion. 

1 hour ago, asuato said:

Just cheer for us next week when the Miami Hurricanes come to Jonesboro. We will need all the help we can get. 

You'll never have a problem getting Nebraska fans to cheer against Miami.

40 minutes ago, brophog said:

I've said it before, and it bears saying again:

 

Too much is made of what you call your defense.

 

Fronts

Alignments

Coverages

 

That's what it's about. Generics like 3-4, 4-3, etc are outdated static terminologies that dont really apply to modern football.

Agreed. I don't know what kind of offense everyone on Nebraska's schedule plays, but it's possible they only line up in a 3-4 against Wisconsin and Iowa. There's a strong chance they don't play a single snap of 3-4 against Oregon or Purdue.

12 hours ago, Elaida said:

 

NO.  Not Larry, Nebraska's prodigal son.  Show some respect for the creator of the College Football Playoffs.  

I'm taking out a large life insurance policy on Larry, hiring someone to "make it look like an accident", then celebrating the death of an awful fictional character by purchasing something from Armani. 

Bob Diaco doesn't use the 3-4 at all against Arkansas State.

Tennessee has almost 500 yards of total offense ... and still loses to Georgia Tech.

LSU beats BYU on a Hail Mary.

Dr. Pepper fires Larry Culpepper at halftime of the Alabama vs. Florida State game.

36 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

You build models (like model airplanes or statistical models?) and you like Alan Rickman.

 

I think I'm in love.

Early in Die Hard, Hans Gruber sees a mockup of a building or bridge and mentions that he loved building models as a boy.

Work:
What is your current occupation?

I'm a thief.

What has been your best job ever?

The summer I worked at Burlington Coat Factory before university.

Worst job?

McDonald's

Dream job?

Successfully pulling off a heist where I convince the LAPD and FBI I'm a terrorist, then blow up the building and make them think I'm dead. I’ll blow up the roof, they’ll spend a month sifting through rubble, and by the time they work out what went wrong, I’ll be sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent.

Hobbies:
What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

Watch American Westerns, build models and read Time Magazine.

Strangest/most interesting hobby, skill or personal anecdote?

Paintball.