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I think it is more of a case of Adrian being off.  Maybe Verduzco confused him, but the rest of V's QB's have done well.

Agreed, but then why did Mario play the one that was off?

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Sorry, but there were far worse problems than QB last year!

Agreed.  Pass rush and pass coverage on crossing routes were worse, but I don't know if I would say far worse.  To be honest, some of the disappointment in QB play might have been the Heisman hype descending into subpar, making it feel worse than it was.

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Because it's a lazy hot take

Same could be said for Coach V's results this year.  But only one of us got paid for such  feeble showings.

1 hour ago, Swiv3D said:

Is it really that hard to google Mario Verduzco's name so that you don't sound like you have no idea what you're talking about by saying "last year's quarterback coach"?

I knew it was an Italian sounding "V" name.  But quite frankly, he and his quarterback production is something I am striving to forget, not remember and so not worth the effort.

But more importantly, if you knew who I was talking about, then where is there a problem for you?

16 hours ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

Can only have some many coaches and we are full!

I would be willing to get rid of last year's quarterback coach to make room for Snyder.

2 hours ago, Saunders said:

They had the Rivals KSU guy on the HOL podcast this week talking about it, so it seems like this move is all but official at this point.

This would be a great upgrade for Nebraska.  Kudos to Frost if he gets him here!

My last word on the subject:  One can pick any or every reason for not liking Bo Pelini.  That's a choice, and one can't argue choices.  However, one can't argue that he wasn't successful here at Nebraska...especially after the last five seasons Nebraska has went through.

Call me back into this thread when we have a coach who is averaging TEN WINS a season through the course of his career here at Nebraska and tell me how bad Pelini is THEN AND ONLY THEN.  Because until that time, you are arguing against season records, not me...and those don't leave any room for "yeah, but".

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I have no idea why you would think that's the only Pelini game I want to remember.  My top two theories are:  1) You are not a smart man.  And 2) You are trying to create an argument. 

You are far too brittle to engage any further.

10 hours ago, knapplc said:

The problem, some fans have is that Pelini's defense isn't playing very well. The team has also lost four of their last five, after starting the 2019 season 4-0.

Yeah...I know the feeling.  I mean, not starting out 4-0, but the rest of it I can relate to...

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408.  Never forget. 

If that is the only game you want to remember from Pelini's time here, then I'm afraid that says more about you than it does him.

Right now, Nebraska hasn't climbed back high enough in football to look down on the likes of Pelini.  His biggest sin, (if many Nebraska fans were big enough to admit it), was he never was that in to the fan base after they booed the team at halftime during his comeback win at Ohio State.  After that game, he vented on the leaked tape and the honeymoon was over with a lot of Nebraska fans because they couldn't stand the idea of somebody...ANYBODY... not thinking they were the nicest, greatest, bestest fans of all of college football, let alone it being their own coach.  Not everybody, but a lot of people.

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BTW, I would think an elite defensive mind could figure out how to stop the jet sweep.  Why do I say that?  Because average to below avg defensive minds have figured out how to defend it, with lesser players.

So...how do you think Bo's WORST season compared to Nebraska's last season, defense wise? Maybe let's not trash Bo too much until we hit better sailing without him and get to a bowl game, perhaps.  Okay?

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Remember how Pelini's name used to come up every time a D1 head coaching job opened?  This happened for two or three years after he got canned from NU.  But he never got hired for any of those open HC jobs.  There's a reason for that

Yeah, but it might not be the one you are espousing.  It may have been because he was earning big time Nebraska money while head coaching in his hometown and allowing his kids to attend the high school he most wanted them to attend.  He was content to stay at Youngstown, cash NU checks and be back in the old neighborhood.  I think Pelini was looking for a way out of Nebraska without giving up his contract money.  He saw Carl resign at FAU and lose his money by not waiting to be fired, so it is my speculation he did his best to get fired so he could go back to Youngstown and get his kids enrolled in Carl Mooney High School and still get paid a pretty penny.

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7. Lincoln is, face it, boring

There are no boring places, only boring people who become bored because they count on somebody else for a place to go and something to do.

I'm beginning to feel the strain.  Can't you feel the strain?

Luke McCaffrey as.....................

The obvious answer is he didn't get his chance to try  kicking field goals and extra points this last season.

My last word on this is that people are truly grasping at straws if they think coaches need to concentrate on the last three or four players on the roster to turn around Nebraska football.  I think most of the team's playing problems last year manifested themselves in those that actually saw the field, but I don't claim to understand all the nuances of big time championship football that led us down this rabbit hole.

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I don’t know if you are one of those small town Nebraskans who simply don’t like Martinez because of his last name or skin-tone, but you make it easy to make that assumption. 

I can't be the only one who sees the irony in this statement, can I?  Someone lumping a group of people together and saying they don't like them because said people supposedly lump a group of people together and don't like them? 

How small a town in Nebraska does it have to be to qualify for this stigma, by the way?

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Plus Ozigbo was overweight under Riley. He got in shape and was a different player under Frost.

Exactly. 

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 DO (Devine Ozigbo) was one of our better backs...

Yeah, everybody says that now, don't they?    In 2017, not so much.  Same as all of the NFL scouts and coaches and front office types now know Kurt Warner had NFL Hall of Famer talent rather than just a great stock boy at the Cedar Rapids Hy-Vee, where they would have been content to leave him.

My point is that Devine Ozigbo improved IMMENSELY his last year here.  So could some of those  players some of you are calling dead wood.  Who knows the future?  All I am saying is be VERY careful about wanting to throw away the next late bloomer for the next unknown quantity.

I believe we have all seen those threads where people debate endlessly on which running back or quarterback should be where and why.  In the end, it is oft times decided by who is left and healthy enough to play snaps.  The Big 10 really is a meat grinder when it comes to injuries, more so than (I believe) any other conference.  Then there is the suspension wild card that can happen, whether grades or shenanigans.  I don't care who starts the season as long as we have somebody left who is healthy enough to finish the season without any drop off.  Who they are, I don't care.

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(Ozigbo) was widely considered the best back we had by a lot of the fan base

Go back to the threads in 2017 and the first part of 2018.  In the thread I just revisited her on Huskerboard, most of the prevailing comments about Ozigbo were like this:

"Nothing against Oz, but he doesn't have the big play ability that I prefer. Oz could be a good back to bring in for the 4th quarter to grind out the clock, but I like the most versatile backs in Bryant and Wilbon."

"If he cut his weight back down and has stepped up, he could compete easily for 2nd string."

"lol no"

Ozigbo gets a lot of love now, but most of it wasn't there until  a few games into last year.

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 I’m sure you think you won all those championships with kids 22 walkons starting.

How did my mentioning 5th year seniors oft starting turn into 22 walkons starting?  Walk me through that thought progression, please.  In fact, since we are talking about scholarships, how do walk on players even enter the discussion? 

Also, Devine Ozigbo was considered my more than a few to be a "bust" until his Senior year...and then he bloomed last year, looking nothing like the old, familiar "non-contributing" Devine Ozigbo.  How soon we forget.

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3 yrs, hasn’t seen the field in any measurable amount

It used to be that nobody on the Nebraska offensive line was expected to start unless they were 5th year seniors.  We would have thrown away a lot of good players using this new plan, right?

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Wanna see how many you remember from our list of lowest rated recruits? I'm guessing fewer. 

Show it to me and we will see.