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Getting clobbered doesn’t mean you don’t want to be there.  We have other reasons for the outcome. 

Winovich is FOS. 

I’d be going to the bar. Frost however, is probably disappointed, but not going to deviate from the course. He believes in the process.  If he was freaking out after the game I would be concerned.  But he is confident in what he’s doing. He didn’t suddenly forget how to coach.  

No. We are marginally better this year now. I think we’ll show slow, but steady improvement by the end of the season and beat Iowa.  We won’t give up like we did last year. Frost won’t allow it.  I promise you that. 

Maybe one qb said to the other “someday, we won’t be running for our lives on every freaking play,  that’s going to be awesome “ and this hope happened to draw a smile.  

Seriously, though. What else can we find to complain about?

I wish I knew the answers too. Nothing is wrong with those questions.  I never  said there is. I was offering my interpretation of what I thought the OP meant by “throwing under the bus “.  

7 minutes ago, Landlord said:

Why are we arguing against hypothetical people? 

 

Is there anyone here who wants to throw Frost under the bus? Has anyone outed themselves as having that opinion? If not, no need to make a thread preemptively telling these imaginary people that their imaginary beliefs are wrong in an effort to keep everyone level headed when nobody wasn't to begin with. 

Throwing under the bus as in get rid of him?  Nobody is saying that, but I've been reading a lot of criticism on this board today.  "overrated", "lost his team?", "poor play calling?", "why is ___ player playing?", and  basically a lot of why do we suck? comments.  I think that is what the OP is getting at.

1 minute ago, NoKoolAidForME said:

Would any of the last three coaches have been able to say the game was over at half time? It maybe true, but our last three coaches would have been killed for saying that. 

Frost is a different animal.  Straight shooter.  Not going to sugar coat.  Maybe he needs a little of a bit of a filter sometimes, maybe not.  His frankness is appreciated, but yes, tough to hear sometimes.  We just can't dissect everything he says (not saying you are).  

3 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

 

No team that is properly coached comes out looking this ill-prepared every week.

I get what you're saying, but I think it's a little early to be calling the coaches overrated.  This was ugly today.  Coaches, players, everything.  I still believe in this staff, but its going to take a while for sure.  Longer than I originally thought.

15 minutes ago, OmahaPlaya said:

Just imagine how bad it will be when we go to Wisconsin.

Bad, but not this bad. Michigan >>Wisconsin. 

3 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

There is simply no excuse for this. Frost and Co. are lookijg incredibly overrated at this point.

It’s not the coaches. 

I guess Colorado and Troy aren’t very good after all.  

1 hour ago, Gage County said:

The first down play is just as hard to watch as the INT. 

 

Yep. Bunch should have recognized the Blitz before the snap. On the interception he missed a wide open Stanley Morgan and forced a throw into coverage instead.   Experience will help with those things.  These sorts of things happened all game and can’t be minimized when evaluating why we are 0-2. 

Getting back on topic—this is turning into a Why the O line struggled thread—I think 2AM plays Saturday. They would only keep him out if the training staff thought he is at risk for making the injury worse per what Frost said Monday. If that was the case, he probably wouldn’t be practicing either.  The last thing the team’s confidence needs now is a beat down to start Big Ten play. If 2AM doesn’t play, I’m afraid that’s where we could be headed. 

I think the Heat and being gassed talk is just an excuse. We struggled with Troy ‘s quickness and d line movement more than anything. 

Bunch didn’t have a good day by any stretch of the imagination.  Remember he’s a third string walk on who was starting his first college game in a new system.  Considering all of that, we shouldn’t be surprised.  He learn from this and will improve and we hopefully will get AM back soon.  I still think six wins is doable.  

11 minutes ago, Mavric said:

Per Sean Callahan, he was told Bunch was having a hard time reading the zone read correctly.  Not sure how many times we actually ran that play wrong or if that means we quit running it because he was struggling with it but that would definitely put a damper on the offense.

I was at the game and I agree 100% with this. 

Kurt Rafdal has had some nice catches.  The future is looking bright for the tight end position.

It's been two days since Troy and all the negative comments are not doing anyone any good.  Negativity is contagious and leads to false perception, which eventually becomes reality if left unchecked.  I'm just as guilty as anyone after a loss at grabbing a beer and sulking or otherwise spreading negativity about what the Huskers are doing wrong.  

So with the commencement of conference play upon us, I thought maybe a little positivity might do us all some good.  There is another thread about how things aren't so bad and there is a lot of good stuff in there, but also some very long comments.  I was thinking something a little more brief.

List ONE positive thing about the Husker Team, Program, etc and give a brief reason if you'd like.  Let's see how far we can take this.  You may be surprised.

I'll start.

Mohammed Barry.  This dude is a Big Ten linebacker.  He's going to do some great things for us this year.

Chip Kelly being called out on Twitter by his QBs Dad. Not good. Glad we aren’t dealing with crap like that. 

3 minutes ago, Nebfanatic said:

I don't understand?? We were pushing the tempo at times against Troy especially in the second half. There were multiple plays Troy was not set on defense and we were snapping the ball. Thats tempo folks, and we were seeing it against Troy. Can we eventually go faster? I'm sure, but we were moving pretty quick at times Saturday.

There has been some tempo, for sure. But I don’t recall it being effective against Troy.  Anybody can run tempo, but if it’s only some of the time and you end up with a 1-2 yard running play, then it isn’t doing what it is designed to do. The point of this thread is we need to realize that until we’re able to run tempo the way Frost wants to and with the right personnel to do so, we won’t see anything close to what his offense can do. Brighter days are ahead. 

I know It's probably way too early for this topic, but has anyone else noticed our tempo isn''t even close to what Frost did at UCF.  No big surprise here as the team clearly isn't quite ready for WOT just yet, especially with the QB situation.  Speed however is an area that is an absolute must for this offense and IMO we are somewhat deficient there.  Not counting QBs, I only see 2 or 3 current skill position players who have the speed and skillset needed to optimize what this offense can do.  Maybe it can be chalked up to the newness of the offense or players still playing tentative, but I noticed this as a glaring issue against Troy.  

I'm not worried because these will come with time, experience and the right recruits, but until then, the potential of this offense and therefore Frost's ability to show his true play calling talents will be quite limited.  

What say you?

Love your confidence.  I just don't think we're there yet mentally to pull that off.  I hope I'm wrong though.

22 minutes ago, Whistlepig said:

I heard that Farmer was "benched" in the 4th Qtr and left the field as a result of being benched- it was also assumed that what SF said about players buying in or leaving was sort of aimed at him- all hear-say and speculation, but I'm wondering if Farmer did leave the field as a result of being benched 

Pretty disappointing if true.  I've had high expectations for Farmer this year.  That may explain Coache's comments post game.  Come on Farmer.  We need you to do better.