Dogs In A Pile

Still no word on Special Teams coach or advisor from what I've seen? Although not surprising I guess since it seems HCSF still doesn't take ST seriously even though they cost us wins every year. Out of curiosity I looked up the aggregate ST rankings for the four years of Frost's tenure. https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaa/fei/overallst/2021 2018 - #109 - The high point of ST under Frost 2019 - #123 2020 - #115 2021 - #128

I'd actually be quite intrigued by what this staff could do with Smothers/Haarberg assuming we don't get a QB in the portal. Designing an offense that plays to their strengths and calling plays that will leverage their talent while keeping the opponents guessing compared to what we've seen the last 4 years. And it's not like we are really afraid of having a losing season if things don't work out. At this point another year without making a bowl really isn't going to make much of a difference.

The way they conduct the pressers have been joke for decades now. Guess they see no reason to change it.

I'd file a complaint directly with the guy that owns this website about people starthing threads in the wrong forum.

Hard to argue with this. Cerni - 2021 Punts - 16 Yards - 590 Avg - 36.88 Long - 47 50+ - 0

NU's two punters combined for 2021 Punts = 48 Averaged = 40.3 Longest = 84 Inside the 20 = 12 50+ = 10 FC = 14 Blocked = 1

After losing Toure, Allen & Falck we can certainly use them. Oh, and a QB too would come in handy.

Best wishes for him no matter where he ends up. He was a class act every step of the way here even when it would have been easy for things to get ugly.

True, while there was certainly many individual breakdowns and mistakes by the kickers/returners it doesn't address the systemic problems NU has had with its special teams (and other areas as well) all four years HCSF has been at the helm. If you are happy with the following with follow stats from 2021 then maybe we just keep doing what we've been doing. There is a reason the vast majority of D1 schools have a dedicated ST coach. Kickoff Return Defense - #116 Kickoff Returns = #125 Net Punting - #118 Punt Return Defense - #86 Punt Returns - #128

And considering we are losing our top 2 receivers plus Falck I think it is a bit of stretch.

I have no idea if this will work out but I'm fully behind the new staff and hoping for great success.

And after watching the first four years of his tenure that is a very distinct possibility.

While I truly hope this whole process works out and we can at least get to the point of .500 seasons, it more and more seems to me to be a move of desperation. I could see it turning into cluster%$@# rather easily.

Where is the choice for no concerns, none at all?

Bad news...We were 1-5 against those really horrible teams this year. And that was with best talent we've had since Frost has been here. Looks to be a big drop off in several positions next year.

Seems to be the consensus that this is all much to do about nothing. Maybe even fabrication to get clicks. So fake news it would appear.

Certainly all conjecture but I could see this happening. Interesting the meetings between HCSF & the player(s) turned contentious enough for Trev to cancel his trip. I'd guess he probably none to happy about this regardless of how it all actually went down.

As I just wrote in another thread. The hits just keep on coming.

And with the word just out that Trev had to cancel his trip to Indianapolis for meetings ahead of the B1G championship game to put out the fires in Lincoln between HCSF and departing player(s?) which apparently turned contentious. This is a very bad look from and about the last thing this program needs. And the hits just keep on coming.

From the portion of The Athletic article that is freely available online. Not a subscriber so don't know what else there is.

WTF??

We were 1-9 against P5 opponents in 2021. With the player losses we are seeing on both defense and offense I think Frost will need all the help he can get just trying to get to 6-6 and a bowl. Throw out the FCS & Sunbelt and replace them with strong P5 like suggested and Frost's future looks even grimmer that it already does.

Ain't it the truth. We have fans blaming the punter for the blocked punt Sat. even though he got the kick off in 1.8 seconds (anything below 2.0 is good) while the punt team lined up in the wrong formation, ran the blocking scheme for a right footed rugby style kicker even though Przystup is a left footed conventional style kicker and let the defender rush untouched to the kicker.

Smart move by Robinson and I'm happy for him. Seemed like a good kid that was a bad fit for NU. He gets to play receiver (not RB) on top #25 team with a winning record plus sets the school record.