BigPeterJ

I like the hire. The improvement at every single place he has been is impressive. As impressive as it gets tbh. Maybe in a couple years he can be our special teams coach. He is so young that we don't know how good he is yet, but everyone starts somewhere. Looking at the little we have to judge him on, it's nothing but impressive.

Ill admit I've actually never seen Brody Belt play as far as i can remember. So I can't really choose a side to this, but if he is anything close to Rex, that would be a great walkon to have. Edit: film does look good, but it could have just been a few plays. Just he is so much smaller than Rex, with the same speed.

I honestly believe we will win at least 7 games. If we don't i will be the most disappointed person on here, and will have lost faith in Frost.

We are a long way... no doubt. But not in terms of time. We have been terrible, but it only takes a couple years to turn it around. If a coach doesn't show signs of it by year 3 , it probably will never happen. This year is huge. Not that we have to be great this year, but we have to show signs of turning the program. We need to go at least 7-5.

I think our offense will be really good too, if our QB is good. Bad QB play can ruin this offense. Good QB play can make this offense, like it did at UCF with Milton. Between Martinez and McCaffrey chances are one of them will be good. As long as we play whoever is, i like our offense for next year. Defensively, we will be a completely different team. Not sure it will be better or worse than last year....but it will be different. Last year we had a great DL, terrible LBs, and an average secondary. This year our DL probably will be much weaker, but our LBs will be way faster, and our secondary probably about the same. Where as last year teams really struggled running the ball against us inside, but could pass all over us in the middle of the field. Next year our pass defense should be much better with improved LB speed, but teams probably wont struggle as much running up the middle on us for 3-5 yards. Our defense will be very young. Probably alot better at the end of the year, than at the beginning. This year could go either way. I could see us anywhere between 5-7 and 9-3. If we lose games early , the wheels could fall off. If we win early, our young defense may be good enough by the end of the year to win some of those tough games. If things go like i hope, next year will be like Minnesota was this year. We barely get by beating average teams early in the year in some close games, build confidence and experience with our newcomers, and beat some really good teams at the end of the year. It's not like Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Iowa are OSU. We can beat all 3 of them if we improve the way we potentially could.

I'm not @84HuskerLaw, but Cincinnati is a team we would have easily lost to last year, and a few of our other early games are decent teams. If we start 6-1 or 7-0 that would show significant improvement over last year. And if we really improve the way we should, then Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Penn State don't look so daunting. The fact we are scared of 3 of those teams is a result of how aweful we have been. Sure they are solid teams, but there is no reason we shouldn't have a coinflip against Iowa or Minnesota, and a chance against Wisconsin and Penn State. If we start the season looking good, then there is a great chance we can win 2 or 3 of our last 5 games. If your a decent team, there is only 1 team in this conference that you can't beat. The rest are dog fights.

Don't mean to get off topic, but this is the attitude we need.

Im with you brother. Imo Frost isn't yet the best Gameday coach, but what he has that even Saban doesnt have is the intangibles. Frost connects to people, hell he connects to me through a screen. You can see it in his eyes and feel it in his presence. He is real, and has the heart of a lion, whereas many coaches have the brain of a genius or a competitive heart, but not the same heart as frost. Imo it has some to do with his faith and Jesus within him. Jesus can give you the spirit and heart, that nothing else can. Its just my opinion from afar. But if uve ever been filled in the spirit you understand what i be sayin. Frost has that warrior in him that was in David from the Bible. I could be a KAF...but thats what i really believe. KAF is a kool aid fool.

Lebron has the best argument after Michael. Kobe was a great scorer, but Lebron makes the entire team better on offense.

Was that just a completely made up rumor?

Well someone has to bring it to the people of Louisiana. These guys selflessly drove all the way across the country for their kin folk. They practically hand it out for free in northern california.

After losing Demorrio , we lacked speed in the secondary and Bookie is pretty good. Tyjon is doing well too, and we needed a receiver.

If they would have just not gone to a border CHECKPOINT they would have made it. Not that i support what they did, but these arent the type of people that need to be locked up. Now the people of Louisiana are gonna have to get their weed from the cartel, where as if tbese guys would have made it , the whole state of Louisiana could have put the cartel out of business in their state for a month.

It would have been nice if we could have kept Bookie and Tyjon, and Avery Roberts. If those 3 guys dont leave with Mike's firing, last year would have been a completely different story. Exactly what we needed was the holes filled from where those guys would have been playing. Why our recruiting rankings from 2016 and 2017 mean nothing, we lost most of our best players from those years.

I can tell the koolaid is already making its sly entrance into many of us. But this is a good post. Other than on the Interior of the DL, I'd take speed anyday over size/strength. Even more so in todays more spread out game, and even more so for the way we want to play defense. We want to attack, and create big plays. Like you pointed out nicely, this type of defense will make mistakes, and if your not fast, then when you overpursuit your gonna give up a big play. But if your fast than you can still make mistakes or overpursuit without giving up a huge play. Strength and size mean absolutely nothing if your not fast enough to lay hands on someone. And we got some very fast LBs , i dont believe you necessarily have to be big to be an ILB. Id be perfectly fine playing 4 OLBs , instead of 2 and 2.

If we can the type of QB play we all expect from a Frost team, we could be in the top 10 offensively. Heck, if we had the type of QB play we thought we would have , we could have been in the top 25 offensively even last year....despite our poor OL play.

Thats cause those fans that say that still think its 1998. And if Nebraska isn't thought of in the national media as being one of the top tier programs in the country, than we are being disrespected in comparison to their beliefs on where we stand. If i wasn't a Nebraska fan i would say Nebraska is one of the most over-rated programs in the country. But because i live here and know who we were for so many decades, i say the national media is about right on us. The 40 and over population of this country actually wants Nebraska back and respects Nebraska. The under 40 crowd, or any Iowa fan probably mostly think of Nebraska in the same way they think of Iowa or Tennessee. Who here still thinks Tennessee is a stud program?

This season is HUGE. If we perform like we have so far under Frost, we won't be getting many of these guys. If we could just play solid Bo Pelini level football , we could start getting recruiting classes in the top 10-15 with this staff.

You really hit the hammer on the bolt...perfecto

People on the surface, are often not who they are at heart, sometimes better, sometimes worse. So i get your point. But not sure we really know Mike well enough to know. But just cause Mike portrayed a nice image and Bo portayed a d!(k image, doesn't mean Mike is a good dude, or Bo is a bad dude at heart. Anyways.....now we have Frost and i like him the mostest.

It's understandable Husk. Actually I'm still trying to figure out what time zone I'm in tbh.....but it seems that whenever I look at the clock it's between 4:20 and 5:00......... Judging by your taste in music at least there is someone out there worse off than me though.

Wtf lol

Nothing really. Just feel the guy meant well. I don't hate Mike. My point was our senior and most of our junior class is weak...... Doesn't mean Riley is evil, just means i wish people understood how little Frost had when he got here. Point is , if we suck over the next 2 years slap me in the face and call me your dog. But if we are great by 21' than let me slap you and call you my dog. Fair enough?

The last couple Riley classes really messed us up. Im not trying to blame Riley, i am just saying our current junior and senior classes are pretty poor because of it.

Agree with most of your post. But i do believe that preseason hype/expectations have an effect on more than just fans. I believe there is a mental/emotional advantage to being an underdog, and to having low expectations from the outside (not low expectations of yourself). For one, teams and players often play to their competition to some degree. If your rated and the world thinks your good, the opponent is more likely to be focused and ready to give it their all. 2nd of all, if your not supposed to win, there is less pressure on yourself. In sports like football and basketball this slight edge can make a huge difference. And plays into how their can be such big upsets in both basketball and football. It's an advantage for SDSU against us, or Appalachian State against Michigan. Its also why Dabo always , literally always, tries to reinforce how Clemson is just lil old Clemson, and an underdog. And why he is always talking about how noone expects them to win , when literally most people expect them to win. Also, i'm not sure @84HuskerLaw was saying Frost would be gone if he doesn't do well this year or next. I believe he was just saying that if Frost doesnt do much better next year, it is likely that he wont ever do as well as we hoped. As having another season with no improvement would be an indicator that Frost just isn't the guy right now, and wont all of a sudden turn into that guy within 5 more years. I think we agree that this season will say quite a bit about Frost and where this is going.