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Nebraska football has shown that analysis is futile to a higher degree than most other football programs out there across the NCAA. And that is the problem.. and it's huge because reliability as to performance, bad or good or improving or degrading, is the life blood of sports analysis. As we move through this season we're pressed to understand the past several seasons downturn as superimposed over this season with possible detection of changes one way or the other. We can't predict a gash darned thing anymore except for the strong likelihood of a loss unless it's a Fordham or a Buffalo or a high school. That's Nebraska football right now.

Hmmm.... that this thread is in Husker Football section of this site, I thought it'd be all about debating whether or not we'd want to hire this guy. Not a good hire for us, in my opinion.

I am trying to understand the head space of some who are so high on this "progress" they say they're seeing. Help us with this. Look at stats from those two games and show me the progress: Nebraska at Illinois total yards: Neb 392 Ill 326 ... 1st downs: Neb 18 Ill 19 ... Score Neb 22 Ill 30 (8 points) Nebraska at Minny total yards: Neb 377 Min 396 .. 1st downs: Neb 19 Min 22 .Score Neb 23 Ill 30 (7 points) Our "progress" was losing by one less point to the Moles than to the Fighting Illini. Woo-hoo! And a few yards here and there. Aaaaaaand of course we were sleepy so at a disadvantage. Again, help us with this progress thing you see.

And that's the new brand of progress at Nebraska? Good gosh man that coach has been at the helm for 40 games and has handed us 15 wins. That's Kansas stuff.

Me, too. Do they have one here?

I agree with that and that the desire is among all of us. The point is that we're showing signs of truly not going in the right direction, plain and simple. We need coaches who've tasted success in a conference like this one.

ESPN could very well be mistaken about how Nebraska's season pans out. We have the most unreliable, unstable program in the West of the B1G, it seems.

But many of them just one more year.

I know what you mean. Many posts here seem to enjoy that dynamic.

So the water down in Tulsa is still not being filtered and treated properly I gather.

They've been laying eggs from the beginning with this Head Coach. Lightening and rain blew away Akron, not the Huskers: Perhaps God was showing us the future under this guy. Then the Buffs beat us and Frost may have begun to see that he had work to do other than posturing himself as The Second Coming (he reminded me a bit of Callahan with that crap). Now he's coached 40 games for us and won 15.

Eh.. I plead guilty to hyperbole there in that part you quoted. Should have stated it less adamant. I'll put it more accurately as stating that his salary is not being earned, in my opinion, and that he may have an inkling as to that after speaking with his boss week in and week out as he piles more poo on to the poo show he's given us (and his boss.. for that salary).

A short time ago one of the local writers stated that TA and SF "spend a lot of time together, usually on Sunday because SF has to settle down after the game." Perhaps it was a quote from one of them.. not sure. I was flummoxed/puzzled by that notion of the AD and the HC seeing each other every week the day after the game, and putting that together with what the HC has produced here at Nebraska. I'm imagining any of the bosses I've had in my long life of a few trades seeing me each week privately and me not working to produce the very best that the boss wants. I am hard pressed to see Scott Frost walking away from those meetings wanting to keep that job for anything other than the huge salary at this point.

The stated reasons for releasing Frost are most often about his W vs L record here. Then the "progress" is brought up, as stated by him and others. We're in a place now where the losses are adding up to absurd amounts; he looks like a third rate nobody going by that W vs L record here, "progress" be damned. I wish there was an "undecided" choice so some of us could explain that we feel either way at times: Keep him because maybe he's right about the progress and things will be good "next year." Or release him because this is it.. this is honestly all he's got and he does not have the ability to compete in a conference like this one (I keep remembering that conversation between a couple of the hiring entities at Florida after they talked to him.. they were in agreement that he was "not ready for this level of coaching" or some such wording). I'm leaning more to the get him to hell out of here and get a coach experienced in big time conferences with a winning record and ready for us and the B1G championship run.

I'm not so sure I'm criticizing the coaches. I think they are honestly doing their very best with the tools they have ("tools" as in experience and players and training facilities, etc). I do feel that this same crew would be on top of their game in the AAC or another smaller less formidable conference.

That's often about the coaching staff.

Progress is not the right term. It can be incremental, but for this team it's a roller coaster ride. They cannot be counted on to do well play by play, O or D or ST, in a game, and they cannot be counted on to do better from one game to the next. There are some signs of momentary improvement here and there, but to say that this program is making true progress is probably not correct at this point. I think coach Frost is in over his head in this conference.

Okay then, John Stiegelmeier.

I mean honestly that I have learned to not trust my enthusiasm after they do well, in a game or after a win. They trashed a great feeling I had during and after the Northwestern game. I thought we were on our way back.. or even back. Look at us: 3-5 with a multi-million dollar Head Coach that arrived with high expectations among (many of) us Husker fans.

‘So, a group a$$-pulling? What have we become.

We’re angrified about another loss with an expected win. He’s fighting like hell out there but sure does give it up in critical situations, it seems. Harsh topic title reflects exasperation among fans. Many such threads in here about him and the coaches.

We're taking up a collection to buy out Scott Frost's contract. Send the money to Nebraska Athletic Director Trevor Alberts. Please.

This awful topic title. ... So... unrealistic.. and .. um... so.... unfair.... .... ....................

And the hell of it is that he does those things in critical situations.

Damn. Running over the center of our D like it's The Pinkshirts, not the Blackshirts. What the hell.