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They are all huge upgrades. The problem is that this is the caliber of coach he should have hired from the start. He should be upgrading over these guys at this point not just hiring them. Hiring a sunbelt staff instead of an actual big ten quality one in the first place means that even though he finally figured it out its likely too late. He's in the same spot Solich was. Frost is a significantly better coach than Frank was but it's gonna take a miracle for him to not end up with the same outcome.

2 years ago we were supposed to be getting escalators and some giant glass thing. What happened to that? A concourse around the upper endzone seats is really needed. There's no concessions or restrooms without having go down 80+ steps and back. Blocking everyone's view of the goal post along the way.

These guys must just be making stuff up then. https://saturdaytradition.com/nebraska-football/clay-begged-to-talk-to-him-kansas-state-legend-bill-snyder-explains-how-son-ended-up-coaching-at-usc-instead-of-nebraska/ Though this says that Helton just called Bill. I heard it was Stoops.

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When the news broke that Whipple was hired by Nebraska Coach Whipple was sitting at Brock Purdy's kitchen table. This was always the most likely guy who was going to be our new qb, the question was wether he would be the only one. I wouldn't be shocked in the least if they brought in both.

Snyder was coming to Nebraska when Frost first got hired. But Clay Helton called Bob Stoops and begged him to convince Snyder to go to USC instead. So Frost gave the 10th coaching spot to Ruud. It makes perfect sense to just reverse that now. Hire Snyder and move Ruud back to the analyst position he was originally supposed to have.

I remember a few years ago we had a special teams coach who had 30+ years of special teams coaching experience in college and the NFL and people were adamant that we didn't need a special teams coach. Now we do at the expense of not having a runningbacks coach no less. Simple fact is special teams is about team accountability and desire. You don't gain anything from a coach that an analyst can't do through film and technology. But the coaches have to care about that. You don't need a special teams coach to go over special teams in film review and prep. It's about the teams overall attention to detail not having a guy stand there with a whistle. Having Busch called a special teams coach vs. A special teams analyst makes zero difference. The only difference comes when Frost decides its worth actually emphasizing. A good start would be to make special teams non optional and to devote even a little time in film reviews highlighting guys doing well and guys doing poorly.

We got in the Redzone 53 times last season. That's pretty good. We scored a rushing touchdown 28 times. We passed for a touchdown 7 times and made just 6 field goals. Coming away with 0 points 12 times. Basically if we got into the Redzone we had about a 53% chance we were going to rush for a touchdown. If we weren't able to rush for a touchdown we had about a 47% chance we were going to get 0 points because the redzone passing game and our kickers were awful. 1. Find a qb who can throw the ball in the Redzone. (Maybe try to bring in a qb who at the minimum wouldn't constantly overthrow his 6'9 future all pro TE.) 2. Find someone who can kick a fieldgoals at better than 50% 3. Get a better online coach, or at least one the players will actually listen to. 4. Quit giving the other team points while the defense is on the bench. 5. Profit Scheme wasn't the problem, even play calling wasn't a problem for the most part. - with a few notable exceptions. Play calling improves dramatically if you have any confidence whatsoever that your players can execute it.

Regardless of what did or didn't happen one thing that has proven true over the last decade or so. There are those who are inside the program who do their best to denigrate the program they work for. Those people have needed to be outed and disposed of for far too long. And anyone who wants this program to succeed, a good start would be to quit supporting the "journalists' who continually seek out and post this kind of unsubstantiated drivel.

Why not hire Solich as special assistant to the head coach. Similar to what Sadler does in basketball except not as an active coaching position. He could be an advisor to Frost and also help with things like roster management, positional analysis, depth chart management and in game personnel oversight.

We learned that this coaching staff learned nothing from the Illinois game. They are going to just do the same things and win at best 2 more games this season.

Not a single player our QB coach has brought in has gone on to be a legitimate P5 QB here or anywhere else and he has passed over multiple guys who wanted to commit here who are top 25 guys. A couple have been NFL worthy. Most of the guys he has targeted aren't even D1 quality players. There is 1 really good coach, 3 maybe 4 ok D1 coaches and a bunch of D2 guys on this staff.

Insert League name here (28 teams) BIG TEN Conference (14 teams) EAST Division (7 teams) Indiana Maryland Michigan Michigan State Ohio State Penn State Rutgers NORTH Division (7 Teams) Illinois Iowa Minnesota Nebraska Northwestern Purdue Wisconsin PAC 12 Conference (14 teams) WEST Division (7 teams) California Oregon Oregon State San Diego State (or someone else) Stanford Washington Washington State SOUTH Division (7 Teams) Arizona Arizona State Colorado Texas Tech USC UCLA Utah Each team plays the other teams in their own division (6 games) 2 teams from the other division in their Conference. And 1 game against each division of the other Conference. Giving each team a 10 game regular season. Then the divisional winners play in a Conference championship game. EAST champ and NORTH champ play each other in the Big Ten title game. WEST champ and SOUTH champ play each other in the PAC 12 title game. Winners play in the Rose Bowl for the League Championship. Winner plays the SEC champion for the National Championship. OR you say fluff the SEC and name the RoseBowl champion the National Champion As the new Big Ten/Pac 12 league is the only league that goes coast to coast and Border to Border.

The Schedule. Other than Nebraska playing Michigan at home and they play them on the road the Big Ten schedule strength is fairly similar overall with one glaring exception. They don't Play OSU, we do. They play Rutgers in place of OSU and they have this 4 week schedule - Ohio, at Nebraska, bye, Rutgers. Giving them plenty of time to prep for us. Meanwhile not only does Nebraska play OSU, the schedule goes At OSU, MSU, Northwestern, Michigan .

A lot of guys got better and turned a corner. Too bad none of them play offense.

Yes and no. He replaced games with Miami and Cal with games against WMU and EMU then and beat Iowa State, Northwestern and Minnesota. 3 teams that won a combined 4 conference games that year. If Frost had replaced Colorado with a sunbelt team and somehow traded OSU for Rutgers on the schedule. He'd have done significantly better than his predecessor last year too.

Except literally the guy who followed this exact blueprint Frost is following. And that guy built his program doing the the same things Frost is doing because that guy was taught by the same guy that taught Frost. Barry Alverez took the Wisconsin Job in 1990. More than 50 players left the program over the next three years while he spent interview after interview talking about culture and pointing to what worked where he came from as he rebuilt the program from the ground up. In year 1 he went 1-10 In year 2 he went 5-6 In year 3 he went 5-6 In year 4 he went 10-1-1 and won the Rose Bowl. The Big Ten is a tougher league now than when Barry took over at Wisconsin and Covid has messed this season up for everyone, but otherwise Frost's tenure so far is following that same blueprint, its just going to take an extra year or two. The biggest question is does Frost have the right guys around him to do it. Alvarez had guys like Russ Jacques, Brad Childress and Dan McCarney on his staff. Jacques and then Childress both had years of experience coaching at Big Ten level jobs and McCarney was at least the DL coach at Iowa. Frost's guys were not nearly as accomplished going into their time here and a few haven't yet proven they belong at this level.

There isn't a single team in the country that is giving up less than 200 yards per game. There are only 2 that are even giving up less than 250 this season. Wisconsin - who has played 2 games against Illinois and Michigan. San Diego State who has played Utah State and UNLV. Two teams that currently rank 124 and 119 in total offense this season good for 3rd and 8th worst in the country.) Both will rise as they actually play more games against literally anyone. Last year Ohio State was the best defense in the nation in terms of yards given up. They gave up 260 yards a game. Which is the lowest number any team has given up in 5 years. Even they were only able to hold 5 teams under 250. Heck Nebraska put up 231 and we were barely even functional. We gave up 501 yards to Penn State over 91 plays. That's 5.5 yards per play - extrapolate that over a season and that's a top 50 defense in yards given up per play compared to teams over the last 5 years. Not great still, but better than it's been in a while. We should absolutely expect to end this season around that mark. If we can get to 5.4 yards per play we'd tie our best mark since 2014. Improving to 5.0 yards per play would be a top 25 defense, they are not making that big of a jump this year but they are definitely trending towards that. Considering the year before Frost got here we gave up 6.4 yards per play that's a pretty massive jump.

Finally getting Manning on the field after missing him against OSU is a major help. 34-24 Nebraska.

JD was running away with receiving records because he was the first WR that played his entire Husker career in an offense that threw the ball 35+ times a game and every offense he played in featured the slot receiver as a primary target. JD had seasons of 55 66 and 49 catches. He totaled 2546 yards but had just 15 Touchdowns. His best receiving yardage year was 898 yards in 2019. His best touchdown year was 8 Touchdowns in 2018. Jordan Westerkamp as a comparison had 1 season with 66 catches. His other seasons were 20 catches, 44 catches and 38 catches. He ended with 2474 yards and 18 Touchdowns. That 1 season with 66 catches (2014) he put up 919 yards and 7 touchdowns. Basically on par with Spielman's career bests. Spielman essentially had the same number of touches over 3 years as Westerkamp got in 4 strictly due to the different offenses the team ran when they played. Spielman ended up with 100 more yards and 3 fewer Touchdowns than Westerkamp. Give Westerkamp the number of targets as Spielman and it isn't even a discussion. Both players were very similar but Westerkamp had FAR better hands than Spielman. Spielman, like Westerkamp will be an undrafted free agent/scout team level player in the NFL. Spielman sits as the 2nd best slot receiver in Nebraska history behind Westerkamp and ahead of Todd Peterson. But on most teams that didn't spend most of the 20th century running power I with 2 TE's and a fullback he isn't anywhere near the top 10.

Noone is buying what you are selling.

He likely wasn't going to play here regardless if the Big Ten was playing this season. He wasn't willing to do the work needed to be part of the team.

No. The draw was Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan against each other. They put those 4 teams against each other as often as possible to maximize ther tv contract negotiation. For example, Michigan was in our division and they played @ Ohio State and @Penn State in 2013 as cross division games and had Nebraska at home. They would have had the inverse the next year if the divisions didn't change in 2014.

Money. Nebraska's brand draws national attention and ratings so the Big Ten wanted to completely maximize the amount of drawing power they could put out in Nebraska's first 5-10 years in the conference. - especially considering doing so is one of the reasons the last TV contract was so lucrative.

Penn State is likely a top 10 team this year, Leaving Ohio State aside for a second Penn State (as of now) gets Iowa, Northwestern, Michigan State and Maryland at home and their road games are @ Michigan, @ Nebraska @ Rutgers and @ Indiana. That is a very, very winnable home schedule and they should be favored in every road game except maybe Michigan. It's not as much of an easy schedule as Ohio State has but it's not extremely treacherous either. Of course it all would come down to that head to head with Ohio State, but that game is in Happy Valley and given that it's quite possible both Ohio State and Penn State go undefeated outside of their head to head, Penn State does have a good shot at winning the division assuming they don't drop a game they shouldn't and can pull off that win at home against the Buckeyes. Even if OSU stomps everyone else.