WyoHusker56

I get a couple things from this. 1. Frost has been really close to getting this team into the win column and competing. In a rebuild you usually lose close before you start to win close and so on. 2. At some point you have to turn the corner and not only win these games, but win the games you're supposed to. If you never do that, number one doesn't really matter.

Would love to have Domann back for another year, but if he continues his play for a few more games I bet he could go into the combine and find himself as a mid round pick. Jaimes would honestly be good to have back, but I imagine he heads for the NFL and I don't blame him. I think our younger talent in the backfield and at TE will likely step up to the level of or exceed the existing players there.

A great example of what Milton coming to NU would do is how Joe Burrow got the Bengals into playoff contention this year.

Bringing in Milton affects AM and at least one of Luke and Milton. Maybe in your best case you convince Luke to stay and switch positions, but I just don't know if that happens. However, people seem to be assuming that Milton can come back and be even 70%, 80%, 90% plus of his former self. While maybe he has recovered physically the mental side is a whole different game. There is a laundry list of players who have major injuries that aren't even as bad as his and never return to even a shadow of their former self. The kid had to seriously face potential amputation, you don't just get over that. The list of players who come back and play at a high level again is small. Your worst case is Milton comes, you lose two existing QBs and Milton can't play at his former level. Now you have a depleted room and you're still losing games.

He had some really solid looking runs on Friday so I hope they give him more touches this weekend. Honestly we are so beat up at that position we need someone to emerge and he has looked the closest so far.

The Northwestern game is really the outlier for AM and the reason he was benched, but NW is the 10th ranked defense right now and the loss to MSU is probably more about the 4 turnovers than the defense being bad. Wish we'd seen AM sooner in the Illinois game for sure.

High ankle sprains are notorious for lingering too. Lots of seemingly mild stuff that can keep players out especially if he doesn't know the playbook great yet. Betts doesn't know the playbook well, but he's obviously explosive so you get him out there. If Manning is slowed by an injury and playbook issues no reason to dress him.

Was he a Frost recruit or just a holdover from Riley recruiting him and Frost honored the commitment?

Pretty sure the rule is that live ball fouls are offsetting. So, let's say you have offensive holding and defensive PI, they are both live ball fouls and they offset. Same if you have 2 offensive and 1 defenseive penalty etc. In the examples you mention, those aren't penalties causing another penalty. They are some sort of not illegal action, blocking for example, causing the penalty. I can't think of any case where a penalty that causes another penalty would negate the second penalty.

Rahmir had some good looking runs on Friday. I hope he builds on that this week against a weaker defense and hopefully Thompkins comes back healthy too and we build a strong run game. If that happens this offense could really get moving.

I don't think anyone would argue that Williams didn't commit PI on that. The point is it's a pretty obvious OPI and it doesn't matter if Williams was already fouling him or not it should have been called on both and been offsetting.

@Mavric thanks for posting these from Chaz! I follow him on Twitter, but I miss a lot of these. It's nice to get a breakdown on these in here.

Weren't a lot of people predicting this? Kids were committing early and trying to make sure they had spots and then it was expected there would be lots of decommitments and kids moving around later.

There's definitely validity to that, but I think we've all seen at least one or two just blatant holds on TV. I can't see how the refs miss all of those.

If Luke decides to leave and wants a shot at QB I don't think he goes P5. NU was one of if not the only team that was giving him a legit shot at being a QB anyway. Some team might say they'd give him a shot and then just try to move him to another position.

Ha fair enough on the timing. I'm ready to start winning too, but I want to see how this year finishes out and I've seen enough things that suggest NU is moving in the right direction to stay the course. Frost was given a 7 year contract for a reason and firing him 3 years in doesn't get you anywhere. Who is the coach you are going to go out and hire now? No big name or up and coming coach is coming here after we fire Frost because there are better jobs that pay the same or more. Nebraska is not some coveted job anymore. They can see the same deficiencies and more that we see. Who wants that? So, you have to find some diamond in the rough, good luck. Also, the new coach isn't getting some huge budget to hire great assistants so he's bringing in up and coming assistants learning on the fly. Then you have a team whose biggest play makers are young guys who big name teams would taken in an instant. You fire Frost and our QBs are probably gone, Wan'Dale is gone, and lots of other young talent too. They'll get waivers to play immediately because a coach was fired. Guys who can grad transfer will likely do so too and others head for the NFL. So, now you have a coach with no upperclassmen talent and the youngest stars gone. Don't forget the recruits are likely gone as well this late in the stage. Fidone probably goes to a staff he feels more comfortable with. The new coach has to put together some sort of class with no visits or in person contact. Now you've got a team with even more talent issues and years of recruiting needed to rebuild it. So, you see this new coach going out and winning in 2021, 2022? The losing continues and the rebuild starts over so you're hoping maybe 5 years from now the team is competitive, but how do you get any talent to come now? You stick with Frost because you hope he turns this around and becomes the coach and team many expect he can. The alternative is an NU team that isn't competitive anytime in the near future or maybe ever again. You stick it out because this scenario plays out regardless of the year you fire Frost. You hope Frost turns it around in the next two years because the alternative of a new coach is not some quick fix.

If he didn't you have to think there's some bias in what he's looking at.

Honestly a smart PI by Williams too. If he just goes down and his guy catches that ball he only has the deep safety to beat for a TD and the way NU tackles... I was screaming at the TV that they didn't call offsetting PI on that though that's a perfect OPI case.

These are some of the holes that I think guys like Mills and Scott miss. Thompkins was finding them, but he's out. We really need one of our backs to start finding these holes because they aren't big, but that's really well blocked against a defense like Iowa's.

Gebbia was 7 of 15 at one point, that's a 46% completion rate. He finished with a 71.6 QBR. Adrian's was 79.4. Adrian had a higher completion rate and higher average pass per yard. Plus Iowa is the 31st ranked pass defense not including today's game. I watched Gebbia last night too and I'd have stuck with AM.

Yup this year is hurting everyone's mental health, but being a first year college kid halfway across the country and then not even getting to play the sport you came for is brutal. That shouldn't be the only excuse, but we can't act like this hasn't impacted kids.

Dude just stop watching the pressers. It's 95% coach speak and then a little bit of reality. He's never gonna say what you want to hear whether he believes it or not so just don't watch them.

Gray was a huge piece of holding all that together I think. He left for legitimate family issues and I think him leaving probably started the avalanche. If he stays who knows.

He was sub 50% passing at one point, but the second half has been better. He's at 58% now. Ultimately probably not a step up from where we are now.

I'm sure plenty disagree with me, but there are a lot of things about this team that show how close they are to changing their fortunes. When Frost says they are close to turning a corner I really think he's right. However, obviously they have to finally turn the corner and that is yet to be seen. This team isn't as far away from being good as some think though.