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11 hours ago, MasterPulverizer said:

Lead sharpens lead… 

that's biblical I think

19 minutes ago, whateveritis1224 said:

You sure he's even going to bring in top talent at this point? None of his coaches left OSU and he helped cover up Zach Smiths crap. Then all the stuff he got into at Jacksonville. 

Don't forget he did a fine job nurturing Aaron Hernandez at Florida ........

On 8/30/2022 at 7:51 AM, captain_sasquatch said:

 

What an absolute shame we could have had Whittingham. We'd be in such a different situation right now! 

 

"I think you're overestimating the amount of money Baylor has. They can't compete with us now, let alone when the new media deal hits. Guys like Aranda and Campbell aren't all salary guys, meaning they don't need to be the highest paid coaches around. What they do want, however, is their assistants to be the highest paid coaches around. We can accomplish that better than their current schools can today and even more so in a few years. 

In November 2018 Baylor University introduced an initiative called "Give Light"  targeting their alumni and current student families.  February 2022 they had raised and received $ 1.1 billion.  Their endowment is over $2 Billion which is in the same neighborhood as Nebraskas.  As a side note Aranda signed a new contract earlier this year, I believe it is for 5 years but as you mentioned Aranda sees the world a bit differently that isn't money centric he takes a more cerebral approach, there was an article regarding him in ESPN which makes him probably better suited for under the radar Baylor where the alumni are happy with 8-4 year in and year out rather than the Briles approach of gifted athletes while turning a blind eye to the athletes character in hopes of being the wild card into the top 5 discussion.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34426714/why-baylor-dave-aranda-unlike-college-football-coach-know

BTW, my reference point comes from a Daughter on the Baylor campus from 2018 graduating this past May.

1 hour ago, MyBloodIsRed16 said:

Should hire the coach of the year from the USFL.... oh wait 

Historical data tells us that that is a 16% increase step in the right direction PLUS the losses wouldn't be single digit agonizers we would know by halftime  the inevitable outcome which is probably good for everyone's anxiety.  That being said ...... Nah, NEXT!

So his gift for being a native son is  an additional $7.5M in his pocket ..... wonder if Trev was afraid just like the UCF 2017 season the crazy lightning would strike again only this time in the form of beating OU?

2 hours ago, 84HuskerLaw said:

I have never understood Frost’s “No fear of failure” culture is at the very heart of some of it.   One thing you can say confidently about all 5 of Frost’s teams is they don’t fear failure.  As matter of fact, they seem to enjoy it as it’s practically a habit.  They find new ways to fail weekly.  Just baffling honestly. 

Perhaps Scott's real career future is as the Spokesmodel for "Ignorance is Bliss" .... it ain't at the NCAA or NFL level as the HC

59 minutes ago, funhusker said:

I can't remember what coach our commenter said it, but it went something like this, "Nebraska struggles to win games, because Nebraska expects to win games."

 

That is paraphrased, but I think there is truth to it.  The schools you mentioned (KSU, Iowa State, Iowa, etc) know that winning requires a whole lot of effort.  And for players to give that effort, they need to know that they need to work longer, harder, faster than the other teams if they want to win.  I think NU is a great job for any coach, but I also think because it is such a great job that players feel entitled and that winning just depends on who the coach is and whatever effort the players give should be "good enough".

 

Does that make sense?

 

I feel like I'm rambling...

 

Frost tells fans, and his players, that "the talent is there, we just need to execute"

Pelini said it too.

Callahan said it...

Riley probably made a comment like that also.

 

That doesn't make players hungry.  It allows the players to make excuses.  IMO.

"Frost tells fans, and his players, that "the talent is there, we just need to execute"

Pelini said it too.

Callahan said it...

Riley probably made a comment like that also"

From a credibility standpoint:

Pelini was correct 71% of the time

Callahan was correct 55% of the time

Riley was correct 50% of the time AND

Frost has been correct 34% of the time

It's the landscape of sports both professional and semi pro (NCAA), here is so much money to be had it has created a knee jerk over reach based on 1 good season.  Scott had a fluke year in 2017 at UCF with Jr's and Sr's that did not select UCF because of him.  Take out the 2017 season from his resume and look at the other 6 seasons his driving the bus stays on the road and out of the ditch 37% (22-38) of the time, not a bad percentage if he is going door to door selling aluminum siding but not as the face, leader and visionary for a team that generated revenue via wins with a reputation like Nebraska.

Georgia Southern - What did we Learn?

That the 2017 UCF season was a complete fluke 

On 9/26/2019 at 11:53 AM, BIG ERN said:

Imagine looking at South Stadium looking like this

 

The Berkshire Hathaway, Union Pacific, Kiewit etc. etc ...... signage seems I don't know,  a little lite 

Does 7-5 and a Bowl game regardless of the Bowl outcome bring him back and forgiven for the previous 5 years?  Of the 7 I see North Dakota, GA Southern, Indiana, Rutgers, Purdue, Illinois and Minnesota as the most likely getting him to 22-35 after 6 seasons thanks to what I would call a dream BIG schedule this year with only 3 preseason ranked teams, 2 of those games are at home.

On 8/27/2022 at 3:24 PM, BoNeyard said:

Don't know about Harsin, but what about Malzahn?

 

Gary Patterson would be interesting but I feel like he got burnt out at TCU and started to lose his step. How do you build a program like he did and suddenly have a 3-5 season and have the university agree to let you go?

TCU has a lot of Alumni-Boosters from multigenerational money that play AD at large with their checkbooks.  I get the sense in Patterson's case he was drained emotionally by dealing with the boosters that know more football than Gary's resume shows what he actually knows.  

12 minutes ago, MdStine said:

 

Meanwhile at the Frost household .....

1 hour ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

 

Not gonna work. A guy with no name value won't be able to recruit to Lincoln.

 

 

 

Meanwhile at the Frost household 

11 hours ago, HuskermanMike said:

If Frost is fired, he needs to go to the Nick Saban school of coaches who don't coach good. That would help him tremendously. Even if he were hired as a WR coach or co-OC. 

 

1 Big name guy- Kiffin is someone I would love to have and he was born here. (Aranda, Fickell, Campbell would be great too)

 

2 Former HC now OC- Bill O'brien- after the Saban schooling could get us back to winning. He also sees what a championship looking team looks like. 

 

3 The Solid hire- Lance Leipold- has won everywhere he went and would get us back to consistency. If he can get Kansas to 7-8 wins this year I would believe he can get us to those seasons and more. 

 

4 The in house hire- Mickey Joseph/ Whipple - keep almost all the staff intact, hire a few new coaches and see what we can do. After the onside kick, maybe Frost is holding this team back. 

What has Kiffin ever done professionally beyond making comments to draw attention to himself?  He completely got out coached and whipped by Baylor in the Sugar Bowl in every category with weeks to prepare.  Seems we already have someone that doesn't fully prepare yet brings attention to our school on all forms of social media platforms with 1 exception, Kiffin CAN recruit and doesn't worry about the athletes character.  Aranda is beginning his new contract this season and by all accounts his quiet personality (the anti-Kiffen personality) works well with for the most part under the radar Baylor.   

11 hours ago, HuskermanMike said:

If Frost is fired, he needs to go to the Nick Saban school of coaches who don't coach good. That would help him tremendously. Even if he were hired as a WR coach or co-OC. 

 

1 Big name guy- Kiffin is someone I would love to have and he was born here. (Aranda, Fickell, Campbell would be great too)

 

2 Former HC now OC- Bill O'brien- after the Saban schooling could get us back to winning. He also sees what a championship looking team looks like. 

 

3 The Solid hire- Lance Leipold- has won everywhere he went and would get us back to consistency. If he can get Kansas to 7-8 wins this year I would believe he can get us to those seasons and more. 

 

4 The in house hire- Mickey Joseph/ Whipple - keep almost all the staff intact, hire a few new coaches and see what we can do. After the onside kick, maybe Frost is holding this team back. 

What has Kiffin ever done professionally beyond making comments to draw attention to himself?  He completely got out coached and whipped by Baylor in the Sugar Bowl in every category with weeks to prepare.  Seems we already have someone that doesn't fully prepare yet brings attention to our school on all forms of social media platforms with 1 exception, Kiffin CAN recruit and doesn't worry about the athletes character.  Aranda is beginning his new contract this season and by all accounts his quiet personality (the anti-Kiffen personality) works well with for the most part under the radar Baylor.   

If the schedule is not set in stone then let's find different opponents than (2021) 5-6 FCS North Dakota and (2021)3-9 Sunbelt Conference Georgia Southern.  We have been told virtually every postgame "we are close" all season and have been trying to convince ourselves that single digit losses are somehow moral victories.  Instead of participation wins against the FCS and the Sunbelt lets see honestly and objectively what and where we are as a program (even if the truth hurts).  I for one say let's play someone more our size like someone out of the ACC such as NC State, Wake Forest or Clemson and/or an SEC school like Mississippi State, Arkansas or Tennessee.  If we are going to play against a lesser conference then bring on the best let's play Cincinnati.  We aren't going to be considered one of the top 5% of NCAA football programs nationally by beating smaller schools from lesser conferences.  We can get there by standing toe to toe with someone our own size. 

Convince me a 40 point win against the Sunbelts second to worst team Georgia Southern instantly makes us ranked 8th or higher nationally .... Change My Mind

9 hours ago, BoSolich said:

"like what's going to excite a recruit about the state of the program right now? "

"By signing this national letter of intent you will get to go to Dublin Ireland all expenses paid thanks to the Nebraska taxpayers AND there is a very strong likelihood you will run on to Camp Randall field for the first time led by your position coach that the Sunday prior became the Interim Head Coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers" .......  what Nebraska Wesleyan recruit wouldn't flip and sign with Scott?

2 hours ago, man eating mastodon said:

It's the head coaches job to pick his or her staff. If the AD or anyone else is doing it your head coach is worthless. 

To your point, if the AD is putting the staff together then the HC has been promoted beyond his professional capacity. 

The Scott Frost era has a parallel to the Lovie Smith "Flailing Illini" era with just a few caveats: (1) Lovie in his 5 years had one 6-6 season and got his team to a bowl game where they got on familiar subpar ground and finished the season at 6-7  (2) Frost has never lost a bowl game as HC of the Huskers for those that feel he needs patience and time .... 4 years with a 5th and we've basically got vanilla Lovie minus the buzz of traveling to Boise for the prestige of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

I believe we all agree Riley was nothing more than average his entire coaching career but to keep hearing the record skipping on Frost had a lot to fix, it creates a huge, noticeable hump swept under the rug with the reality Frost the "Fixer" is going to need a 5th season to tie the problematic 3 years of Riley on the all time Husker Coaching Win List ..... 

Thanks for posting these, it answers my decades old question .... "why is the only NCAA marching band with a Banjo section the Hawkeye Marching Band?"

11 hours ago, Born N Bled Red said:

Not going to lie. The first time I heard the "let's go hawkeyes," chant in person. It was a bunch of dudes outdoors yelling it. 

 

I swear it sounded like the were really yelling, "Let's go hot guys." 

No .... You heard them correctly

5 hours ago, skers83 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does anyone else think Smothers resembles Billy Bibbit from Cuckkos nest

 

 

 

 

Don't know if the kid can play at a high level but I do know Iowa doesn't have a head of hair that can compete with this

39 minutes ago, Stone Cold said:

Iowa Fan ?

Nope ..... My dislike for Iowa goes back to Hayden Fry

14 minutes ago, lo country said:

The laws of probability at 5-19 are like some crap in the Upside Down World in Stranger Things.  We keep it within 1 score (or blow them out) we finally beat Iowa.

I believe you are referring to the "blind squirrel vs. nut" thing ....... here's to that squirrel to this and all future endeavors 70F10E28-6472-4839-9293-4D4ECB388E14.heic

1 hour ago, lo country said:

Best 3-8 in the country.  Best 3-8 you've ever seen. Can you see the strain?  Going out on a limb. We beat their a$$ next week.  

"We're Close"  S.A. Frost

Dan Mullen is/was fired at University of Florida:

Record: 34-15 (2018-21)

Bowl Games: 2-1

Conference REcord: 21-13

Conference/Division Performance: 1-1st finish; 2-2nd finishes; 1-6th

Scott:

Record: 15-28 (2018-21)

Bowl Games: 0-0

Conference Record: 10-24

Conference/Division Performance: 3-5ths; Either 1-6th or Tied for 6th (optimistically with a slight-slight chance 7th all alone if NW pulls a KU at pathetic Illinois)  

SOOO, the takeaway is:

(A) Was Florida impatient and Mullen wasn't given enough time to change what the problems he inherited?

(B) Florida won't tolerate losing?

(C) Moos really screwed Husker Nation and set the program back for years?

(D) All the Above ..... And then some?

(E) Some of the Above .... And then some?

2 hours ago, RedDenver said:

Backup QB's have played in each of the last 3 seasons. It has gone poorly.

In your opinion did it go poorly based on the talent or preparation of the backup's or something else?  Regardless who on the payroll own's the poor results?