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Fine. That's where they date.

Hmm.... Perhaps AD Alberts has a Mavs like plan for the Huskers.

It's been twenty years. Every cycle we've been saying what you just said. We need a great coach who can recruit and develop great players.

Frost was also showing signs of being a bit clueless with regard to clock management. Mickey et al seem to not have that issue, along with many other issues Frost suffers from. But... the interim coach is not showing signs of improvement. Neither are the players very much. I'm of the opinion that those two things are for the same reason: They are doing their best with what they have, Mickey has players who have their capabilities and are straining to do their very best the same as Mickey is straining to do his very best. We are likely getting the best they can do, and we're seeing the result. It's so simple, and it's being repeated in here and everywhere ad infinitum: we need a great coach who can recruit great players.

Not much of consequence has changed. This game exemplified why we’re not relevant nationally, in our conference, or even in our division.

That roller coaster would have been preferable to the steady downturn we've seen. I'm thinking he would have survived and improved the program immensely. At 9 per season as an average? Probably not. Probably 7 or 8. We can't know for sure any of this, but I'm thinking that we could have built off him being here, especially recruiting.

Red Five sed: "Tell me which head coach will give up their current success, happiness, and paycheck, and whatever they built for their current program, and walk away for the opportunity to coach at Nebraska." Not a soul, the way you put it, "..success, happiness.." But, happiness is the biggy. Perhaps we could try to think about how many successful coaches out there who are not happy in their circumstances but say they are. I can't name any.. but Nebraska coaching searches have that right at the center, wrapped in layers of dollars and promises of something more than generic happiness.

Incognito never entered my mind as to coaching here. Now that I see his name there it made me think about it, and I find myself worried that he'd alienate so many fans that.. well, it'd be distracting. I loved his play, but his problems loom large.

That and the understanding that we need: 1. A Head Coach who can develop his own skills. 2. A Head Coach who can recruit strongly, and 3. Develop his recruits using 4. His hand picked staff.. all with the mission in mind to reset the culture back to expecting to win every damned game. Then we'll have something.

Plus they want you to join for money to finish reading some articles. Ads aren't enough.

Yes. But the lead-up, media generated once a solid source is involved, can happen long before that. Unless it's MJ staying on, then it may be "weaker" news. <---- That I'm not so sure of, though. Weaker only because it does not involve another program's coach.

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Fighting An Eye Stye: 42 Shorn Hard Luckers: 24 Tossing It: 211 Hugging It: 168

I wonder what a non-true fan is. Somebody here goes on about being a better fan than other Husker fans, apparently donning judgement glasses based on something about this or that. As if. I have noticed that all Husker fans are great fans of a great school's sports programs, group-think types or not, critical of the coaches (and/or ADs) or not. Husker. The only exception to that I've seen is one person (you know who you are) who wore Husker gear into the stadium several years ago and rooted for every good play Mizzou made. Pretty soon it became apparent after a bit of convo that he was a sort of Husker fan (born in Nebraska) but lived and worked in Sedalia for decades. We beat the Tigers that day and his seat was empty but ours weren't.

There you are. My point showcased right there: "That's not me and I do not consider these fans as being true Husker." You were fine talking about your loyalties, but once you put on your judgement glasses looking at other Husker fans you may be making a case for those who are disgusted with blind loyalties (and again, we see it in politics and other venues around the world). Some of us want to win as badly as any other Husker fan, but we sure don't consider other Husker fans lesser fans out of those considerations you use. Also, some of us were Huskers in the Devaney era, too.

Well, most of the fan base has been up in arms about various decisions by entities on high, which may have been a factor when a certain AD was removed some time ago. This football program has been trashed by ADs and coaches for over 20 years now. Dissent abounds. Lock-step allegiance is not needed but may be a contributing factor in Nebraska failings over time. It's very difficult to sort, but it appears we're making the same mistake(s) over and over again.

No I'm talking about the Husker Nation as a whole, if we accept wholesale what's going on. That remark I quoted of ".. because you're a true Husker.." in response to a member saying they accept who it is once they're hired. That smacks of group think, which does get those groups in trouble. Look at us, where we are. The "true Husker" is a thinking person, not just a fan of the boss's decisions. IMO.

I do not subscribe to that mindset at all. It gets large groups of people (fans, clubs, countries) into big trouble, long term (and the Husker football program has been in big trouble long term, if you haven't noticed ). "If you're not a true (fill in the blank) you're not with us and you're part of the problem." In sports it's watered down a bit, but it's the same thing. I think we can be true Husker fans by advocating for who we want and also advocating for the removal of who we don't want. When Bill Callahan was hired he came in here swishing his hand around and wrecking Nebraska football culture, intentionally and bragging about it. We're still suffering the results of that to this day. "True Huskers" of the past were barred from the team's facilities. Some of us, a large percentage of us Husker fans, do not support all of the final decisions at all. And that is healthy, in my opinion.

That last bit there is a nice dose of reality, hopes aside. The first part irks me a bit because Nebraska is devoid of Black head coaches in any sport. MJ is the first and he’s just the interim. I do agree it should not matter. It does, though.

Well, if UM were to be brought on here (or any coaching job) I keep thinking that his indiscretions would be a sort of fall back story to bring up from time to time. Perhaps that's why he would rather remain at Fox.

Not being a Christian doesn't exempt us from the pitfalls of meting out judgements of a religious nature of any kind.

Mathew 7:1

Tough crowd tough crowd. It's called a joke, you pathetic pile of .. oh, we're nice to our enemies: a-HEM.. I was kidding about the percentage thing being played as so very important. There you go.

You left out Leipold's 51% losting percentage, and Sanders' 20% losing percentage?