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Kind of makes you wonder what kinds of conversations were being had between Riley and Osborne, or parella and Osborne.

I'm fine with it as long as it's 4 consecutive games. I don't like the idea of a coach being able to cherry pick games to add depth to.

4 and 5 star players have a larger disparity over lower ranked players for the first couple of years than they do in years 3, 4, and 5. That's probably the impetus of husker fans saying you don't "need" highly rated players, but that is less true today than it was in the 80s and 90s. We don't have the freshman team anymore and with the reduced scholarship numbers it's more important to be able to get underclassmen on the field. Yes, a team full of senior 3 stars should be better than a team full of 4 star freshman due to physical development but it just isn't possible anymore, particularly when you're on the coaching carousel.

1990 and 1992 were considered top 10 classes and emfinger had the 92 class ranked 5th.

Tom lemming and parade also did recruiting ratings in the 80s and 90s. Lemming was more thorough.

It was a little different prior to around 1999. Back then it was basically just max emfinger, superprep, and usatoday doing high school player analysis. I believe that emfinger had our 1984 or 1985 class rated at the top of the heap and we were generally bringing in highly regarded classes. 1990 was in that same vicinity but I don't recall it being #1. Superprep was pretty much the authority back then but they just had a blanket rating of "all american" for all of what what would be called 3, 4, and 5 star players today.

Joe ganz over KSU. The most bizarre game in our history and what's even more bizarre is the narrative that Callahan did something different there. He didn't all of a sudden change his attitude, his play calling, his desire, or his game prep. I never liked him but it isnt like he hid something in his back pocket and then all of a sudden decided to field a great offense. That was all Ganz with a little bit of Shawn Watson going against his employer as an FU statement That was a "WE don't suck, YOU suck! and we want to keep our jobs" moment. Wags did the same thing that game and I LOVED it.

Agreed completely. It wasn't even just a matter of being well coached, it goes to all of the positions being on the same page and having the understanding of what we are doing as a team. Last year, just having Bryant healthy would have made a huge difference, not because he is so much better than ozigbo or Wilbon, but because he could read gaps on the fly. Next year it won't be anywhere near as important because the gaps will be known going into the play allowing all of the backs to go full speed from the snap. We have far more talent than UCF did, but they had an understanding of what they were doing and went at it at a much faster pace. There will be a premium on frosts ability to call designed plays for at least the first half of the season next year but that will transition to qb reads as the season goes on and the RPO will be more prevalent. As time goes by, we will be able to expand our blocking schemes and complicate the offense even more. It may not look a whole lot different from game 1 to game 8, but it will be, and that will put added pressure on defenses to play sound ball and be able to beat people in 1 on 1 action. To go a step further, the narrative of having a great qb talent is fun but it won't really matter as much in the scheme of things because the rest of the players around him will have to have that level of understanding of the game. Martinez could come in and know the offense top to bottom but it won't make much difference until the line understands it as well. IMO, he, POB, and Gebbia will probably all be pretty comparable in the system until the rest of the offense catches up and then the athleticism and understanding will separate the 3.

1 recruiting cycle as in 5 classes.

I think in year one there will be at least one game against a top 10 opponent that we win. Being able to do it week after week after week is going to take at least 3 years, but remember that no team is ever more than 1 recruiting cycle away from being the best team in the country.

Dabo is better than Chip Kelly. The only thing Chip has ever done with his life is make a hot daughter. Thats IT! THAT IS IT!!!!!!

Taylor is THE epitome of what the pipeline was about. Nobody wanted him out of high school because he wasn't tall enough, and then he worked his tail off and became one of the most decorated players of his time. Plus, he had the NASTIEST looking mustache I have ever seen so the dude gets major props for that.

Not to nitpick, but Tom didn't use the option to get players in space. He used it to get numbers, which is why we always ran it to the short side. He did it with the playaction, but what really made him be as ahead of the game as he was is that he did both concurrently. Fraziers senior season gave us the most deadly attack that college football has ever seen because they were able to introduce an RPO into the option, making it in fact a quadruple option play. Only a couple of quarterbacks since then have had the ability to reproduce it (Vick being the only one who was as efficient). What many people don't realize is how much Tom actually did adjust his system for the quarterback he had running it. The offenses that Joseph, McCant, Frazier, and Frost ran were night and day difference in many ways.

From an objective standpoint I don't see any coach being on the level of Meyer outside of saban at this moment. That being said, there are a few coaches who can reach his level of success in the next 5 years and frost is definitely one of them. Harbaugh is what he is and has shown signs of being a good college football coach but as of now, frost is the more impressive of the 2.

It isn't totally out of the realm of possibility that we would have won 3 straight titles from 82 to 84.

The mid 90s were awesome. 90-91-92 were pretty forgettable other than Tommie in 1992 and the we-backs. Pretty comparable to the Pelini years. The thing about our mid-nineties run is that nobody realized how good the team was until the season was over. 93 had a lot of close games and it didn't look like we stood a chance against FSU. 94 was probably the most fun during the year. 95 was a weird deal, nobody realized how good we were in reality because of the distractions. 96 had some down moments and distractions like 95 did. 97 had moments of greatness and moments of feeling like it was only a matter of time before someone bested us. I don't want to say any of what we think about that run is revisionist history, because it's not. It's just that in each season there was still the feeling that it wasn't going to end in a title.

I could see it. Couldn't you see It?

I have it on good authority that diaco was brought in as a motivational speaker. He talked about building tables, making soup and have all of the ingredients, shucking oysters, and the love for children. It was followed by a dramatic spike in calls to the suicide hotline.

He signed 8 players who visited in 2 weeks time, 7 of which weren't previously committed with the high possibility of adding another from that time period. I'd say that should give us a ton of confidence in his ability to recruit.

Agreed. While Morgan is a good receiver by Nebraska standards, he isn't exceptional from the standpoint of the national level. If he wants to move on and be successful at the next level he is going to have to up his game in every aspect. That shouldn't be taken as a criticism of him in any way because I think he is very good.

True enough. Gates was definitely a victim of the recently changed blocking scheme that cav and langs implemented in the running game. That doesn't excuse his pass blocking though. Lord knows we have seen our fair share of linemen who were marginally successful here go on to have good NFL careers. I just don't think that Gates is in that group.

Maybe a bear in an Eichorst suit.

I'm not saying that in order to be strong, you have to look strong. I'm saying that his performance in general is consistent with that of a player who ISN'T strong. He has poor footwork, unimpressive backward mobility, seemingly a lack of understanding of the blocking schemes he had to work with this year, and allegedly a poor work ethic. If he has any hopes of being an NFL lineman it's going to be at the guard position, but even at that rate he brings nothing to the table that an experienced guard would have. If I were a betting man, I'd say his days of playing football at a major level are over.

I'm friends with a guy who used to be a lineman for the Vikings. About 10 years later, he has a better physique than Gates by far, and this guy was a marginal NFL player. Gates has a tough road ahead of him if he thinks that being an NFL lineman is anything close to being a college lineman.

The beauty of the spread is that a receiver doesn't have to possess elite level speed to get into space. Morgan's biggest issue is holding on to the ball so if he can resolve that he could ring up some serious yards next year, even if they aren't YAC.