ActualCornHusker

3 minutes ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

Im confused why?

I'm joking and I have no idea what OOU is

This obviously means he's coming to Nebraska

Ole Miss getting creamed by Arkansas tonight good Lord... Maybe Kiffin is coming here.. or Auburn

This first drive out of half will tell us a lot. If Wisconsin is able to grind it right down the field, I won't feel good about the rest of the game. But if the D can force a punt, we're in good shape

This tweet sounds a little reflective. Not sure if I like that...

12 minutes ago, schriznoeder said:

 

If true, I'm placing more blame on our cheap-a$$ Regents, rather than the cheap-a$$ Panthers. Less than two months ago, we forked over an additional $7.5 to get rid of Frost three weeks early, but now all of a sudden we can't pony up the additional funds to finalize a deal with a top-tier hire? SMH.

My favorite part of this thread is people having highly emotional reactions to things that most likely aren't going on at all.

Good Lord... Safe to say everybody's uptight LOL

Mickey being a serious candidate at this point is probably not in the cards (rightfully), but I do believe that if Wisconsin were to lose this game, Jim Leonhard's chances of getting the HC gig there goes WAY down, if not sabotaging it altogether. He already has a bad loss against Michigan State, and this could do him in...

20 minutes ago, 1HuskerDad said:

Steve Taylor on the radio this morning is all in on MJ

If Mickey can lead this team to a win over Wisconsin tomorrow, he could simultaneously torpedo Leonhard's chances for the Wisconsin job, and put himself back in serious contention for the job at Nebraska.

This is assuming the media guys are correct that we don't in fact have a coach lined up right now

27 minutes ago, Husker816 said:

Forgot who reported it but they said Mickey would stay if Leipold was coach. I'm all on board I just hope his DC doesn't come their defense has been dog s#!t.

Leipold HC

Mickey recruiting coordinator

Gary Patterson DC

That would probably be a pipe dream but it would be amazing

1 hour ago, talaricohusker said:

If Rhule was indeed in town and someone spotted him why isn’t there any photos posted on Social media 

You think people just walk around with cameras in their pockets all the time?

29 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Newest OWH Podcast with Sam, Dirk, and Shatel.

 

Dirk think Trev has his guy (not Mickey) due to it being so quiet.  "If there were still 6 calls being made every day to different coaches, it would get out at some point"

Dirk thinks Leipold

Sam thinks Kleiman would be the best "fit" style-wise, but doesn't think he is interested in leaving KSU (NU would be too much of a fishbowl for him, he just wants to coach).

Sam think Rhule is not taking a job anywhere

Sam thinks Monken has a "very active agent"

 

 

 

Leipold or Rhule would be awesome IMO. Those 2 and Fickell would be the top tier of my coaching hot board (of realistic candidates at least).

4 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Eh ... people like to think they know better than the coach.  Often - basically all the time - it amounts to "that didn't work so they should have called something different."  That's pretty much what the criticisms of Beck amounted to when he was here.  People didn't care that we had a Top 10 rushing attack - i.e., what he called was working very well the vast majority of the time - because there was a certain play here or there that didn't work so he should have called something different.

 

There are a ton of things that go into what was called, most of which we don't really know about: what the defense was doing, what they had done earlier in the game, what packages they had worked on for different situations, what players were hurt/tired and weren't in the game, etc., etc., etc.

You're 100% correct that if plays are executed well, the OC will be lauded as a genius, and if the exact same play calls against the exact same defenses aren't executed, the OC gets criticized as an idiot that doesn't know what he's doing. And I think Tim Beck did a lot of really good things, and I'd take him back in a heartbeat over Whipple, Frost, and Langsdorf calling plays. But I vividly recall watching Ohio State the year Tim Beck was calling plays there, and I won't say he definitely cost them a title, but I certainly think it's arguable that he did. And I recall Zeke being fairly distraught at the play selection as well. There's a reason he only lasted a year or 2 there.

But once again, I think overall he did a really good job for us so I don't want that to be misconstrued.

1 hour ago, Mavric said:

 

Beck is a much better OC than most gave him credit while he was here.  He was routinely cranking out Top 20 - if not Top 10 - rushing offenses and several guys who ended up as Top 10 all-time Husker rushers.

 

But people didn't like the overall results and needed a scapegoat so he got a ton of unwarranted criticism.

I agree with you, but to play devil's advocate a little bit: Tim Beck arguably cost Ohio State a chance at a national title with his play calling

3 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

You do realize that @Dr. Strangelove was correct in his post about the issues you raised, right?

You do realize he wasn't, right?

And you also realize that your fetish for this Filipowski guy is pretty strange, right?

4 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

This is pretty much the median Republican voter at this point, which is why it's going to be impossible for Democrats to win elections.

 

Are drag queens in schools? No. Is there some mass mutilation of genitals? No. Is "abortion on demand"? No. All of these "issues" exist exclusively in the deranged imaginations of the American electorate, all so Republicans can cut taxes for the wealthy. 

If you choose to not pay attention and then chalk it up to "deranged Republicans" then you do you. 

52 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Here ya go

 

 

As it turns out, drag queens in every school, genital mutilation of minors, and abortion on demand isn't a winning campaign platform...

Who'da thunk it...

17 minutes ago, Undone said:

 

 

But here are some thoughts on Rhule: Does the guy really give a s*** about trying hard at anything at this point, given that the Panthers owe him $40M still? So we're talking about what they still owe him...and that's on top of what he's accrued from his previous two gigs.

 

 

I think for the average person who works to make a living, that's the thought process. But let's be real here. Once coaches get to the head coach level at the power 5 or NFL (or even FCS level for that matter), they could work for a couple years and then be set for life. You just don't see many if any doing that. Which points to a different motivation than sustenance. For some coaches, I think their motivation is money (making as much as they possibly can). But I'd bet the intrinsic motivation for a vast majority of coaches is to win at a high level - whatever that looks like to each individual coach - and/or to lead and mould young men.

2 hours ago, Undone said:

 

But here's the thing with that: I'm going to say that we did try to "get back to running the ball" this season. We actually brought in a good running back and scheme-wise, we did try.

 

I just always read these statements as people being upset with the play call mix.

 

Really what we need is a recruiting staff that prioritizes the offensive line, IMO.

Except when you look specifically at the Minn game, the 1st 2 drives AG had I think over 70 yards rushing. Those 1st 2 drives consisted of primarily 12 personnel and hard play action bootlegs when we mixed in the pass.

Then the 2nd quarter on, we saw basically zero of the formations and plays that actually showed success early in the game. Instead, we saw almost exclusively shotgun, very little play action on pass plays, and the only attempts to run the ball were either draws or silly counter plays, most of which were lucky to get back to the line of scrimmage.

Statistics definitely do not tell the story. If Mickey wants the HC job (which may be out of his reach already), then he needs to force Whipple to call run plays that actually work and stick to them for an entire game. I appreciate Mickey's honesty about that in the presser, but we've got to see it come to fruition on Saturday.

51 minutes ago, MyBloodIsRed16 said:

My question is,  of all the schools looking for head coaches why does it seem like Nebraska is getting the worst publicity.  Like they are getting s#!t because they are "wondering around".  Have any other schools, that fired their coaches shortly after Nebraska, hired new coaches?  Not that I am aware of because the damn season isn't over.  Why the hate on Nebraska?

I think that even the people close to the program don't know anything so this has all been nothing but wild, baseless speculation

36 minutes ago, Cdog923 said:

 

I hope you're ok with "f#&% it, we're blitzing". 

Better than sitting in a soft zone with DBs 8+ yards off the receivers and zero gap integrity up front 

1 hour ago, lo country said:

I'd name sooner than later.  The state of NU football needs a huge shot of positivity.  Then again if it's some google name, talk about despair sitting in.  We are currently, and have been, a bottom feeder of the P5 schools.  Started with Riley and went into a head on collision with the sh!t truck under Frost.

It all depends who the new coach is. If it's not announced either in the next few days or beginning of next week, my bet is that it's not Rhule, Urban, or Peterson

19 minutes ago, Red Silk Smoking Jacket said:

 

Nah, man. Just hire Leipold. Good enough to get Kansas bowl eligible...good enough to get us bowl eligible.

I'd personally trust him to do much better than bowl eligibility. 

I think this week could tell us if last week's rumors have any weight to them. If Rhule is the guy, there's no reason to delay any longer. But if it's a guy like Leipold or Aranda or Stoops, it'll have to wait 3 more weeks

16 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

This is some odd trivia, but I thought it would be fun to do, while in the midst of a coaching search.

 

In the fall of 1997, other than the coaching staff, AD, families, etc. who was the first person to know that Tom Osborne was going to retire and Frank Solich was going to be named the head coach?

I wanna say it was McBride.

Edit: my reading comprehension tonight is garbage so nvm LOL 

21 minutes ago, admo said:

Yeah I am getting quite used to ducking the jabs and body blows anymore lol.

 

There seems to be something very uncomfortable about Nebraska football to me as time goes by, and it doesn't have everything to do with wins and losses.  Hard to articulate or put my thumb on it.  Maybe it's some Husker tenants or the Husker landlord.  Who knows...

 

I will say my passion for Nebraska football has weathered the storms over the decades, so I shall keep my chin up.  I do agree we need to rebuild it and start all over from scratch.  This doesn't feel like a plug-n-play situation or just an opportunity for a replacement.  

I think the brand and the jerseys will look a lot more shiny once the team starts winning again.

I'd absolutely love to see red on red just with our traditional unis, but I'd rather just see the team start winning first and then worry about what they're wearing.

48 minutes ago, admo said:

@ColoradoHusk  Excellent 

 

I agree that we need a football program rebuild.  If we do, we need to start all over, from scratch.  Throw in the towel.  Have a bon fire, toss in the uniforms and the past fuzzy feelings and burn it to the ground. 

 

That being said...

 

We have the new AD.  Great first step.  

 

The new AD fired a beloved coach that was unsuccessful.  It was tough to do.  The right thing to do.

 

What are the next steps though, to reinvent Nebraska's future?

 

Coaching for sure, including Strength and Conditioning.

 

But I would also change up the look of Nebraska in order to get us out of the past, and into a modern new look Nebraska.

 

White N with Red Helmet, all read uniforms, sea of red at home...... all white on road... incorporate some black.  

 

Point is that if we are going to rebuild Nebraska football and its image, we need to rebuild everything.  

 

I know it's ridiculous, but I just feel like we need to go in a completely new direction. 

48 minutes ago, admo said:

@ColoradoHusk  Excellent 

 

I agree that we need a football program rebuild.  If we do, we need to start all over, from scratch.  Throw in the towel.  Have a bon fire, toss in the uniforms and the past fuzzy feelings and burn it to the ground. 

 

That being said...

 

We have the new AD.  Great first step.  

 

The new AD fired a beloved coach that was unsuccessful.  It was tough to do.  The right thing to do.

 

What are the next steps though, to reinvent Nebraska's future?

 

Coaching for sure, including Strength and Conditioning.

 

But I would also change up the look of Nebraska in order to get us out of the past, and into a modern new look Nebraska.

 

White N with Red Helmet, all read uniforms, sea of red at home...... all white on road... incorporate some black.  

 

Point is that if we are going to rebuild Nebraska football and its image, we need to rebuild everything.  

 

I know it's ridiculous, but I just feel like we need to go in a completely new direction.  

Saying this stuff only a few years ago would get a guy punched LOL. blockquote widget