Dogs In A Pile

The question is can they actually win them? There wasn't a game in 2021 which they couldn't/shouldn't have won but they managed to find a way to lose all but NW, a G5 team and an FCS team. Will 2022 be different?

When you're tossing the ball around 50-60 plays per game like most think is going to happen not much need for a lot of RB's. Maybe he is an excellent pass protector out the backfield.

Kind of early since it is 7.5 months away for that. A lot can happen between now and then.

When Bennett missed that FG I felt just like I did when the 2 pt. conversion failed against Miami in the '84 OB. Whenever I see fans discounting kickers I always think of that missed FG that cost us another National Championship.

I don't know about that. In 1975 our opponents ran the ball 69.2% of the time so the teams we played must have been considered really pass happy if NU was a pass happy team.

75.3% in 1975 with Ferragamo at the helm.

3-9 & 15-29 tends to have a negative influence on people's outlook.

Nothing against the kid but with a 36.88 yd ave and none over 50 yd those aren't D1 numbers. # Punting NO YDS AVG LG TB FC i20 50+ BLK 40 Cerni, Daniel 16 590 36.88 47 2 7 6 0 0

Love it or hate it the portal sure makes things interesting. Since adoption of the early signing period normally this time of year would be extremely dead. Now, a day doesn't go by without at least one interesting move and usually more.

Now that's funny

Didn't seem to fit very well with HCSF's offense either since even when AM had a broken jaw and was hobbled by an ankle sprain he got zero snaps. That kind of tells me all I need to know about how much faith the staff has in him.

It would have been nice to have them both and an offense designed to utilize both +Allen +Manning +Betts

Did Frost really say that about the 2022 season? If so, I missed it. I know he made comments along those lines before previous seasons but rumor has it that we may be losing more than a few key players from this years squad on both sides of the ball. Hard to believe he is still saying that but talk is cheap. Wins, not so much. And I believe if he can manage 5 wins in 2022 that will be seen as an improvement and earn him another year or two. I don't think a winning season will be required, just improvement over 3-9. Trev can clearly see the outflow of talent off of this years team but luckily for HCSF he has a soft spot for a former Husker player and allowed him one more attempt. Frost should have be been dismissed after 4 years and 15-29. He would have been gone at almost any other school except maybe the permanent bottom of the barrel teams where they don't really expect to win regardless of who is coaching.

I could see us going 5-1. On the other hand I could see us going 1-5 just as easily. 2022 is basically a rebuilding year after losing so much talent. And after dumping almost half of the staff I think it is anybody's guess as to how this will all play out.

Great idea! Then you probably wouldn't have any more new facilities to worry about Cost increases are written into the contracts. Any company that guarantees the prices over a several year project probably won't be around long enough to see it through. Or they take so many shortcuts, cut so many corners and use such inferior materials you end up with a death trap instead of a crown jewel.

What, better to bury your head in the sand and pretend everything is A-OK in Huskerland? I appreciate someone trying to explain why in the hell, under HCSF's leadership, this program has sunk to one of the worst teams in the B1G that finished dead last in recruiting this year. We went from a pretty decent program under Bo, to a .500 program under Riley, to a bottom feeder under Frost. Yep, all is well.

I read it last night too. Quite disturbing between not being coached up, not recruiting within the state and complete inability to run a competent program from the head coach. With SSO's ties to the program I believe it is for the most part true. And looking at their record, play on the field, outflow of high school talent from the state and in general what a clusterf#$% the last 4 years have been it certainly bears out what a disaster this has been. It irks me even more that HCSF wasn't released after last season. 15-29 is all you need to know.

Everything I have read is he doesn't want to be a full time coach though. That is why he got out of it in the first place to pursue his other priorities. Can't hardly force the guy into a job he doesn't want.

Read on the other board he made $400k at NU. Last Oregon DL coach made $650k. Didn't check into so don't know if it's true or not but that is a lot of pocket change plus he's going to a perennial winning program instead of perennial bottom feeder.

I thought he was noted for being able to design and call plays that fit the players he had on the team? If he does end up calling plays instead Frost (that is a big IF) and is going to pass the ball 40 times per game as you indicate then we would probably be better off with HH instead of LS. Maybe that is his plan?

I have the same feeling. Much more favorable schedule but we are losing a ton of talent. Almost all new coaches on the O side but still same head man running the show. So many unknowns but the last 4 years have made me gun shy about expecting a winning season. Will we still find ways to lose games we should win or will things be different? Hard to believe they can continue to yank defeat from the jaws of victory forever but they keep coming up with new ways to lose. And the bye weeks this year didn't do much good this year as we lost to Purdue and Wisconsin anyway.

I get what you are saying and you maybe right. I haven't seen enough of anybody left in the room to really know. Maybe you have. But HCSF choose to not even give Smothers one snap and played AM when he had a broken jaw and was hobbled by an ankle sprain so he could even run or scramble. That doesn't give me much confidence that anybody we have is able to play at the D1 level.

I was going post the same thing. Hard to argue about the seeding when you have a 21-7 record and every team above us has between 0 and 6 losses. Maybe some feel we should be top seeded just because we are Nebraska and the whole world is out to get us? Anyway, Go Big Red.