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5 minutes ago, krc1995 said:

^ How to say you’re old without saying you’re old. 

If you don't want to get old just tell an old person.  Some of them would be delighted to help you with that, I'm sure.

9 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

Now there’s a visual nobody needed. 

Sorry.  I guess we could turn to his mincing around the sidelines as Knights coach for ten or twelve years.  

24 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

Craig Debacle in Boulder Bohl? The DC that made no adjustments for runs up the gut and exposed Nebraska as being merely mortal after all? Nobody in the country believed we could be beat until that day and Craig Bohl.

I could never stand Frank Solich ever since driver's ed at Southeast High when he'd play with his nads while "instructing."  Corner of the eye stuff that staring at the road ahead could not fully alleviate.  The guys laughed about it but all the gals could talk about was his "cute walk." 

1 hour ago, TGHusker said:

Or Bob Stoops

When was he an assistant or coordinator here?

1 minute ago, HuskerPriest said:

Tom Osborne is just as responsible for the program's current state as anyone. Hear me out: His hand picked successor didn't work. Then the dominos fell......

See my post above. 

We should have (somehow) had Craig Bohl as HC upon T.O.'s retirement and never Frank Solich. 

2 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

We're transitioning from crazy name speculation to complaining about the possible hire. Seems about right 2 weeks from the last game.

I have it on good authority that it's gong to be Kyle Whittingham. 

Let's get that rumor going.  Does Trev read in here?  Hey, Trev.  TREV! 

42 minutes ago, jager said:

If Bo would have gotten a real DC, he would probably still be here(maybe). People might have put up with his anger issues if he had performed better on D.

Well, there would have been just as many krazy kuotes of his making the sports pages, and just as many blue-hair's letters fired off to the AD.  So, he might have still been forced out.  I just think he's got a great D oriented attitude toward football and could have done very well here if he stayed in that position and worked for/with a good HC.

HC - Kyle Whittingham

OC - Kevin Wilson

DC - Bo Pelini

ST - Daniel Da Prato

Mickey looked so bad yesterday.  Sad.  He looked like a sad man, beaten and lost, especially after Methuselah Whipple got sacked by Henning.  This whole thing uncorked a headline in today's paper about "an inconvenient truth," being that we looked no more able to compete in the Big Ten than we did four years ago when we were last at The Big House.

Lousy team.  Lousy coaches.  My advocacy for MJ is now whittled down to just the (strange to be true) racial aspect of it as MJ being Black as being a plus for Nebraska in general.  Any conversation about that would at some point include a question as to whether or not we're willing to sacrifice the program to an apparently unfit coach in order to uplift our social sensibilities into the modern era of understanding that there is more to American sports leadership than white people.  Ugh... where are we?  I feel lost and I want a good coach on mission to make us relevant in this conference and the nation.  

Hell, all of this conversation in this and other threads full of posts about who should be our next football HC are so meandering and marbled with that mix of hope and despair that all the threads and words seem like a sort of kaleidoscopic mirror of the football program itself:  lost.  I guess the lists of possible candidates are interesting, but we hear nothing much at all from those on those lists, with a few notable exceptions. 

I learned that being angry about missed and half missed tackles gets offset at times by seeing how much time that D has to be out there due to 3 and outs by our anemic offense.  

Just now, HuskerInLostWages said:

Defense looks about done for, no time to rest and getting gassed now.

That pretty much describes this season.

1 minute ago, Cornbred said:

 

We're covering the spread BABY!!!

A bet on Nebraska may win if they hang in there.

We've got some guys on fire and some just lackluster.  I'd sure like to see the eager ones get in the faces of the others. 

On 11/10/2022 at 9:49 AM, nic said:

This week's take from the Mgoblog.

 

 

 

Michigan should worry about: Nebraska has gotten out to hot starts in several games; they led Minnesota this week 10-0, they led Illinois in the second quarter, they led Oklahoma 7-0, they led Northwestern 14-3. Michigan, as you may have noticed, has been a second half team. There’s a decent chance Nebraska will grab, like, an early 10-7 lead, causing Michigan’s inevitable multiple-score win to feel thoroughly unenjoyable for quite a while.

 

Michigan can sleep soundly about: With Nebraska already struggling to stop the run, and facing a team that loves to screw with linebackers and safeties in run support, they really couldn’t afford to lose linebacker Nick Henrich for the year with a knee injury and safety Myles Farmer to a DUI.

 

When they play Michigan: Casey Thompson was averaging 9.0 yards per attempt. Chubba Purdy is averaging 2.5 yards per attempt with an 8.3% interception rate. Logan Smothers has thrown 11 passes this year. If Thompson can’t play… yeah.

 

 

Yeah?  Well, I see blackboard material for the Huskers:  "We get an extra day of practice this Saturday against Nebraska before our game next week with Illinois."  ~ Jim Harbaugh

I made that up.  But I bet he thunk it. 

6 hours ago, KCBuc said:

Perhaps Mickey likes the offense he runs but not the execution of it.

Try not to post for a few years;  you're at 666 at the moment.

a-HEM.. meanwhile.. yes, Mr. Whipple was admonishing shoppers to not squeeze the Charmin and yet he himself was in fact squeezing the Charmin.  So, yes he should have been released earlier on.

23 hours ago, Husker03 said:

Better not be. If we don’t trust a coach to have the expertise to understand what staff he needs and the connections to bring them in, then why would we trust them to have all of the rest of the tools necessary to lead the program. 

Coaches, Assistant Coaches, ADs and their staff, work together during transition periods.  I don't see it as a lack of expertise on MJ's part so much as Trev Alberts supporting him as he moves into the HC spot.  That last part is conjecture (and a bit of hope, I admit). 

16 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

If it's down to Campbell or MJ, I'll take MJ.

Gosh yes.  It's ugly right now as he works his way through this season with the same warts that Frost grew, but let's give him '23 and let him recruit etc.  I think he's aware that he not only needs to recruit and develop players, but also bring in staff and develop himself.  I think he's that kind of person.  I think he'd do very well for us in the long run.  Plus, and this should not be relevant but it is, he'd be the first African American Head Coach in any sport at Nebraska.

10 hours ago, M.A. said:

In that case, give me Mickey Joseph!

Well, at least we know he wants the job.  Not so sure about any of the others on the lists we've been seeing.   Heard some noises about Campbell saying so.. hope to hell not. 

1 hour ago, Nebhawk said:

If Mickey is retained......

"Retained" as in the only one willing, perhaps.  It may be that Mickey Joseph will be the "choice" by default. 

Yeah some players will slough off, but his recruiting may offset that in all the important ways.  We have to have that hope in the face of our twenty year nose dive into oblivion. 

21 minutes ago, HANC said:

Trev is a bridge AD anyway.  According to a number of people, they almost had to beg him to come in and "right the ship".  If is assumed that he will only be here for a handful of years anyway.  Apparently he has already built a retirement house and was ready for the next chapter.  This hire will probably be his only and his last regardless of the success of the team.  This hire will primarily secure and dictate his "legacy" as AD

That's reading an awful lot into things.  Unread it and we've got a young AD who is doing what all ADs do when a hired coach of a major program has failed:  look for another one that has a resume and desire.  That's about it. 

Mebbe we'll beat 'em up in the tunnel at halftime and they won't cover the spread:

Aw Shucksers 15

Gulo Gulos 31

Air Mail 118

Pony Express 123

11 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

Sadly, Callahan was probably also the best we could get at that time.

Thinking back I didn't care how good he might be because I just did not like him one bit.  Now that seems crazy, as we slowly sank in the (mid) West.

28 minutes ago, Spacer said:

It seems we are entering the 'acceptance' stage of our grief...

The suffering is almost over 

That can only be true if we receive no new fresh wounds.  The season ain't over 'til it's over.

Our next HC should not be Quag.. I mean Urban Meyer...

giggety-giggety,,.