The Whale

10 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

Under Frost, we have constantly had a QB room full of 2nd & 3rd stringers - no top tier QB's. Doubtful that any of our QB's would start for the top 50% of Big Ten teams and that's a problem. Frost's inability to evaluate, recruit, and have assistants who can coach-up QB's is a major contributor to us losing close games over the past four seasons.

I'm not at all impressed with Thompson. Once non-bottom-feeder conference play starts, his talent level will be exposed. One bright spot - we might actually beat Iowa this year.

7 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Frost never said he was going to be hands off. Fans who think that he ever would be aren’t living in reality. 

Maybe he should be "hands off" at this point (15-29 record in four seasons).

13 hours ago, Jason Sitoke said:

I’d be curious to know how many people actually care who called the plays?
 

(hand remains unraised)

Frost's play-calling got us a 15-29 record over the past four season. I'd like to see how Whipple does without Frost's input.

10 hours ago, ToThineOwnHuskBeTrue said:

Throwing a name out there: Dana Holgorsen. I think he's primed for another double-digit win season at Houston and would right the ship here. Offensive mind who could crack those B1G West defenses.

Decent option, but I hope we don't pursue anyone else until we make a strong run at acquiring Urban Meyer. If the Urban deal can't be worked out, then move to tier-2 coaches.

14 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Do you even follow college football? Two seasons removed from a winless season, Scott Frost lead "nothing" UCF to an undefeated season including a bowl win over the SEC's #2 team and a #6 national ranking. That year he become the hottest hire in college football, including an offer from Florida that probably outweighed Nebraska's.  He got the UCF job with a solid resume working with Chip Kelly at Oregon, and other stints with some of the best coaches in football. Nebraska hiring him was a no-brainer. 

 

There is zero argument that Scott isn't working out as planned, but you may want to ditch the silly hindsight and cherry picking if you want to be taken seriously. 

At the time of his hire here, Frost was not a “proven” head coach. He had one good season leading a nothing team from a nothing conference. Hiring him was a huge gamble.

We’re in the Big Ten now, not the Big Eight or Twelve — light years difference. Frost was the wrong hire from Day One.

4 minutes ago, Farms said:

Yes then when we go 6-6 we can say but look how young we are just think what these guys will do next year! That only works when players develop and improve which we have seemed to struggle with. The funny thing is to me this is a rebuilding year. Frost completely overhauled his staff and rebuilt his roster with a bunch of transfers except we’re telling him he has to win right now. It’s a rediculously tough task when you think about it. 

Agreed.

HCSF likely only needs another 3-4 more seasons to get us to a season with a .500 record or better.

1 minute ago, PasstheDamnBallGuy said:

 

So let me get this straight. The situation is the offense was floundering so Frost took a more active role and they scored 31 points compared to 7 in the first half and you are gonna still turn that into a bad thing. I guess he should have done nothing so there wont be imaginary turmoil that you made up

My understanding is that HCSF was supposed to transition into more of a hands-off, big picture, CEO-like role (like most major college football programs operate). Grabbing the playbook from your new OC in the 7th quarter of the new season would be the opposite of that.

2 minutes ago, Husker Richard said:

I know this fanbase (myself included) is delusional, but to think Urban Meyer is coming here is just next level madness. 

Maybe, but he’d right the ship in one season. One. And that is all I care about - his personal life is his business.

1 minute ago, Farms said:

Yet another position that we claim to have depth at yet refuse to rotate. We are so young across the board that I’m sure they’re wanting to get certain guys more reps but it’s also a bummer when you can’t put a team like ND away earlier to rest some of your starters and get some of the second and third sting more game reps. 

I think this is a rebuilding year. We’ll get ‘em in ‘27.

2 minutes ago, Dogs In A Pile said:

Much earned and deserved O player of the week. It's mind boggling (and not acceptable) that 2018 last time a Husker earned this award.

 

 

Best back we’ve had since Ahman Green. If only our OL was at least average in talent and effort.

3 minutes ago, Savage Husker said:

Not taking away from the rest of your post here, but thats what “great” backs do and will help eleviate stress on the OL from thinking they need to do more than what they can actually accomplish.
 

Optimistically speaking, that can slow down the game for the OL and improve the team overall.

Spot on.

I do feel for Grant. If he played for Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Iowa, or Michigan State, he’d probably be 1st Team All Big-Ten this season.

I just hope his offensive line doesn’t end up getting him hurt this year.

7 minutes ago, blinky said:

It was clear in the stadium that frost was more involved in the sideline huddles at the beginning of every new drive. More than once Whip was on the sideline while Frost sent the offense in during the second half. 

That’s called Desperation. Not a good look and will cause turmoil in the locker room. Can this guy do anything right?

3 hours ago, C-4 said:

Ur stupid

Really? (BTW, I love the personal attacks, keep showing who you are)

Trev Alberts was AD at tiny UNO, AND he played for TO, so OF COURSE he’s qualified to lead a Big Ten athletic department. (No other Big Ten school would have hired him).

Scott Frost was Head Coach at nothing UCF, AND he played for TO, so OF COURSE he’s qualified to lead a Big Ten football program. (Maybe 2-3 of the Big Ten bottom dwellers would have hired him, but none in the top 70% of the conference would have).

We might actually have the dumbest f***ing fanbase, donor class, and regents in the nation (on a relative basis) if people still don’t get that both Frost and Alberts are COMPLETELY out of their respective elements. Nebraska is a big time school in a big time conference with a football program history that is STILL revered by most who follow college football.

Bottom line, we deserve the best for our state’s #1 entertainment export — and stewards who understand and embrace this.

2 hours ago, Hilltop said:

I haven't seen a single thing you have posted that is remotely worth discussing.   Go piss up a rope.

And yet you posted in this thread. Have a great day, big guy.

7 minutes ago, M.A. said:

There’s different interpretations of what that statement means. The critical part of me says what he’s essentially saying is “I’m smart. I should be contributing and I’m to be cooperated with”. Or, he’s suggesting that all members of the staff have things to contribute and it should be a collaborative effort. 
 

The first spells trouble. The other is entirely reasonable and constructive. Anger makes smart people dumb, destructive and certainly not creative. We can hope that what’s meant is the second. 
 

Despite criticisms, I don’t hate Scott and I’ll take him at his word. At least for now.

Since we all know Frost is a narcissist, it is most likely the first of the two scenarios you shared.

Trev should have fired him after last season, and because of that poor decision, both Trev and Frost should be replaced after this season.

1 hour ago, twofittyonred said:

And if true that HCSF took over play calling in the second half, what does that mean moving forward..??

I don't know, but if true, it looks like HCSF hired the wrong guy as OC...Oops! And if true, it's bound to cause some discontent in the locker room - players crave consistency and structure and IF HCSF did take over play calling on Saturday, he likely wrecked both of those things in the minds of many of the offensive players.

Huskers were much more effective in moving the ball in the 2nd half. Maybe Frost and Whipple should swap jobs?

Urban is our answer: https://mbird.com/family/the-sad-hopeful-ballad-of-urban-meyer/

Since Georgia Southern is a predominately passing team, this should bode well for the Huskers next Saturday as our biggest weakness on D is against the running game.

2 hours ago, Red Five said:

Didn't really seem to miss a step with a new coaching staff and QB.  Won 45-13 over UTEP (went 7-6 last year).

 

Passed for 230, ran for 260, and looks like they basically shut it down in the 4Q. 

 

 

Oklahoma 70

Huskers 10

On 5/28/2022 at 8:51 PM, Head Coach Scott Frost said:

Alright twist my arm. We can meet in a bowl game and we can stomp them like it's 2010 

In what imaginary world will we be playing in a bowl game after this season? K-State would FUBAR this year's Husker team.

I learned that next Saturday is the last probable win on this season's schedule, and Frost will likely be fired on Oct. 2nd or 3rd.

North Dakota is going to win this by 3 points.

18 minutes ago, Nebhawk said:

WE are so far from having a Big 10 O -lline or D-line.  For that matters Power 5.  Right now, I don't know if we win a Big 10 game all year!

38% chance we win one

26% chance we win two

11% chance we win three

Less than 1% chance we win four

0% chance we win five or more

I punched stats into our department's super computer to get those results.

58 minutes ago, SECHusker said:

If Urbs is the guy, think the contract is over $8M?

$10 million even.