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5 hours ago, Landlord said:

 

 

Oklahoma has made the playoffs four times, and has won 13 conference championships in 20 years.

Notre Dame has made  the national championship and playoff in the last 10 years.

Penn State has a conference championship and 3 NY6 bowl appearances in the last 5 years.

Georgia has made one national championship game, and won the SEC in the last 5 years.

Michigan won a national championship in 1997 lol

 

All of them outrecruit the hell out of us, none of them have had 20 year stretches like we've had, and your selective critique of the post you quoted misses the point.

No it doesn't. The POINT is that the fact that Nebraska hasn't won a championship since 97 is as irrelevant to Nebraska recruiting well as it is to those other programs. They recruit better than us now because they've been good. But they are good now because even when they were bad they put in the resources to keep investing in the players to be able to recruit well enough till they got a better coach who could win games and turn that into great recruiting.

Nebraska has done the same. Nebraska recruits well despite being awful BECAUSE the program invests in the players and programs that invest in players is where players want to play. 

Mike Riley's awful evaluation work aside, We still out-recruit everyone in our division and most of the other one. If this staff can COACH they will win games and the talent will go back up where those schools I mentioned above are because the infrastructure and support is still there. 

If they can't we'll move on to someone else who hopefully can. In the meantime we will still land top 25-30 classes because the program is set up to do so. - every coach since Osborne retired has done it more often than not and none of them were particularly great coaches. Win games and those top 25 classes become top 15 classes. Win more and they become top 10 classes.

On 6/24/2020 at 8:42 PM, LumberJackSker said:

I think its a miracle Nebraska still recruits as well as it does. These kids have never seen Nebraska win a conference title or play for a national title. Nebraska has been bad since these recruits were like 12.

Oklahoma hasn't won a National Title in 20 years.

Notre Dame hasn't won a National Title since 1988

Penn State hasn't won a National Title since 1989 - when they were still independant.

Georgia hasn't won a National Title since 1980

Michigan hasn't won a National Title since 1948. 

All of them were bad until they got a good coach and then they weren't.

Players go where the programs invest in them. Nebraska invests in the players as much as anyone. We will get talent. Gotta have a staff who can evaluate and coach it.

2 hours ago, Wunderkind said:

I know everyone is excited about Benhart, but there's a good chance he's not better than Farniok at this point. I expect growing pains. That said the combo of Farniok and Benhart is likely to be better than Wilson and Farniok. If Benhart is better than Farniok as a Freshman than our line is going to be vastly improved. Wilson and Hixson have had their struggles but should at least provide solid depth if they don't start.

Benhart is better than Farinok at tackle by the simple fact that he can actually move his hips like a tackle and this move actually gives us enough flexibility that we aren't hamstrung into running to one side or the other depending on the call simply because the backside doesn't have an effective puller.

One of the biggest issues the past 2 years is that a huge chunk of the Scott Frost run game relies on having multiple offensive linemen pull on the same play. Nearly 3/5'ths of Frost's run game playbook relies on at least 2 pulling linemen.  (generally pulling both guards when running power, pulling a tackle and a guard when running dart and actually pulling 3 linemen when running the pin and pull) and we simply haven't had enough guys that can do that well and with any consistency. Farinok struggled to do this well at Tackle but should do a lot better as a guard and Benhart just on film alone looks to be MUCH better at that then Farinok at the tackle position. 

Aside from anything else they bring to the table if those two can be good at that one aspect this season it opens up a significant part of the playbook that Frost simply hasn't been able to run at Nebraska effectively thus far. Not only opening up the run game but making the bubble screen not suck. That along with a deep threat WR will make this offense a REAL threat again and lead to big chunk plays.

9 hours ago, Huskers93-97 said:

I see they have done programming on 94 and 97 Nebraska. Usually from their series big ten elite. What’s more elite than 95 huskers. Surprised they have not done any programming on that year 

7 hours ago, Gorillahawk said:

Could have something with the fact that when it comes to drama from close games there really wasn’t any. The only drama was crap off the field and they don’t want to highlight or focus on that

Could be a rights issue? 

Oklahoma *I assume 2x

Washington

Penn State

Colorado

Ricky Williams

Barry Sanders

Raashan Saalam 

Billy Simms

- only other ones I can think of is Jason White or Sam Bradford but I think they were both in Norman. 

Purdue

San Diego State

Central Michigan

Northwestern

Illinois

Rutgers

Iowa

Minnesota

That's 8 games that if you don't go at minimum 6-2 against in year 3 at Nebraska, you have some serious problems as a coaching staff.

They're trying really hard to hire Vince Morrow. Considering how brazenly he was trying to cheat as soon as he got a chance when he was here and as much as he cheated at Kentucky this is a BAD move for MSU. That program simply cannot handle a recruiting scandal right now.

nope

4 hours ago, FearAmeer said:

Am I on Twitter right now? 

May as well be

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2 and 3 are completely irrelevant to a timeframe and apply to ever school in the country.

Take those two away and every one of those apply to pre-Saban Alabama except #1.

Hire an elite coach and you win. It isn't that complicated. Finding that elite coach first is the part that is hard.

56 minutes ago, bugeater17 said:

 

I'm confused, is he (Grinch) a really good defensive coach or not? In fact, Grinch may be the next coach at WASU.

 

He's a really good defensive coach. I think what you are asking is if he a really good Coordinator?

He took an awful defense to being not awful. But he's never put together an elite defense even against weaker conpetition at WSU or with elite talent at OSU or OU. He's also never been anywhere for more than 3 years. I would say no he's not a great DC but he's above average.

My question back would be do you think Chins is a really good defensive coordinator? Statistically he's on par (if not better) than Grinch.

Personally I think it's close, but I would say if Nebraska's defense is better this year than last year Chins is better than Grinch. 

17 hours ago, bugeater17 said:

Hmmm... it has everything to do with your post about Mike Leach not prioritizing recruiting assistants or any idea about defense. He had a pretty dang good defensive coordinator in Alex Grinch from 2015-17.

So you are going to take a guy who has been a head coach for 20 years and because he had a fairly good defensive coordinator for 2 years a couple seasons ago, he cares about defense all of a sudden? Please.

Especially considering the way Grinch got the job with Leach in the first place. Grinch had never been more than a defensive backs coach before then, and was hired by Leach almost completely on the recommendation of/as a favor to his buddy Gary Pinkel, Grinch's uncle.  

Also a part of the reason Grinch was seen as such a good DC was because of how bad Leach's Defenses usually are. Under Grinch they still were 74th, 50th and 58th in defensive points against in his 3 seasons there. He's a really good Defensive coach, but look at him compared to someone else. Namely our Defensive Coordinator.

Grinch took the 117th worst defense and got them to 74th his first year. Against a Strength of Schedule of 74th

Chin took the 116th worst defense and got them to 88th in his first year. Against a Strength of Schedule of 26th

Grinch got WSU down to 50th in his 2nd year. Against a Strength of Schedule of 34th

Chin got Nebraska down to 66th in his 2nd year. Against a Strength of Schedule of 25th

Grinch in his 3rd year regressed. WSU finished 58th in ppg against a Strength of Schedule of 56th.

Chin is going into his 3rd year. If next year Nebraska's Defense regresses and Scott Frost fires Chin and gives the Defensive Coordinator job to Barrett Ruud and told him to run the defense and call plays, would you say Frost is showing he cares about turning around his defense?

Last year after Clayes resigned with the 107th ranked defense in the country, Leach instead of going out and hiring an actual replacement gave the job to co-defensive coordinators:

CO-DC A had a single year as a quality control intern at North Texas, a single year as a quality control coach at WSU and a single year of actual coaching experience as a DB coach before getting the WSU Coordinator job. 

CO-DC B had 25+ years of coaching experience and had been a pretty good Defensive Coordinator at 3 different schools while moving up the coaching ladder from D2 to CUSA and then the MAC before getting the WSU Linebacker/co-dc job. 

Leach gave the primary DC title and play-calling duties to C0-DC A. 

Think about that. His Defensive Coordinator was so ashamed he resigned after blowing a 49-17 lead at home to UCLA in a game where the UCLA QB threw a record 9 touchdowns, and Leach's brilliant decision to fix his defense was to turn that unit over to a guy who had literally a single year of coaching experience at any level.  Ruud has more than double the coaching experience right now than the guy Leach gave that job to last season.

16 minutes ago, bugeater17 said:

 

Alex Grinch says hello. I know OU's D wasn't great this year but Grinch is widely thought of as one of the best young D coordinators. 

What does this have to do with Mississippi State? 

37 minutes ago, Wordek said:

Mike Leach to Mississippi State. Probably a big enough hire to keep their recruiting class together. 

Is he? He was innovative 15 years ago but he doesn't prioritize recruiting when he hires assistants, he doesn't do much to help his players be ready for the NFL off the field and has no idea defense is even a thing you should try to be good at.

If I'm a WR or RB maybe, If I'm a QB absolutely, but if I'm a defensive player I'm looking for a way out of town.

51 minutes ago, Husker in WI said:

I think he means Farmer, i assume why it was only 4 games and special teams was because he was hurt. 

Well Deantai started the season as the starting safety and got hurt in the first half of the first game.

When was Farmer hurt? He played against NIU, OSU, Wisconsin and Iowa * so basically one game per "quarter" throughout the entire season, and was on every travel roster except one.

1 hour ago, EZ-E said:

 

Jojo shouldn't be on the field in nickel or dime. Taylor-Britt should be our nickel. 

 

Farmer would have played at safety this year had he not gotten hurt 

You mean Deontai Williams. Farmer played special teams in 4 games and red-shirted.

1 hour ago, Landlord said:

 

 

If you combine "warm weather" and dome stadiums, that would be:

 

 

Arizona

Atlanta

Carolina

Dallas

Detroit

Indianapolis

Jacksonville
Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Miami

Minnesota

New Orleans

Oakland/Vegas

San Francisco

Seattle (it gets cold in the PNW but the winters are very very mild so this is borderline imo)

Tampa Bay

Tennessee

Washington (another borderline one)

 

Which is a little over half. idk that it's much of a selling point, most players aren't going to the NFL and even including the ones that are, most would probably enjoy some sort of paradise for 4-6 years before the potential of living/playing in green bay, but I also don't think weather is just that big of a deciding factor for most kids. Certainly not for the ones that we want on our team, obviously.

Cold weather teams have won nearly double the number of Superbowls as warm weather teams and almost half the warm weather Superbowls are by 2 teams, Dallas and San Francisco.

For at least the 4th time this year another pathetic coaching failure loss.

How can a coach preach this to their players when on your most pivotal offensive drives you call plays that are full of charmin soft fear?

5 hours ago, huskerfan74 said:

From the number of posts you have so far, it seems like you are the one that just started watching the Huskers yesterday. I have been a devoted fan all my life and I witnessed the entire Tom Osborne era. The state of Nebraska football over the past two decades has been nothing short of a horrible nightmare. When Frost was hired, I was the happiest man on earth as I am sure many fans were. I thought he will be able to change the culture. That is on me. I should not have had such high expectations given the past seasons but when Frost took this job, he promised the fans that he will right this ship. That means, at least, every year we should see some measurable progress. So, please tell me if anyone is seeing any progress. If they are then I must be blind and I will go and have my eyes checked. I am tired of koolaid drinkers who keep making excuses for the bad performances week in, week out. At what point do we admit that we are getting beat by much lesser talent? Does anyone think that we can beat Illinois if we played them this week? That should tell you where we are right now.

This is the least talented team we've had since the late 60's

19 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

I don't think there's any reason why they *couldn't* enclose it.  I just don't know if that's what they're thinking.

 

I'm sure it possible to move whatever is in that building to another place on campus.  Then they could do whatever underneath the existing seating.  

 

I just don't see them doing anything with the stadium itself.  Add/remodel/whatever underneath to give better access to the seating plus better access to restrooms and concessions.  But I doubt there will be any extensive work to reconfigure the seating.

 

The difference from North Stadium (iirc) is that they left the existing stadium as it was and added on to the "back" of it so all the new seating was "behind" the existing seating.

 

From Google Earth.  I think you can see where North Stadium used to end and where they added on the extra rows of regular seating plus the suites behind them.

The problem with doing major renovations in South Stadium is 2 fold.

1. the current foundations there aren't strong enough to support any more significant weight than currently exists without completely removing most of what is in the space and starting over as you would have to remove the current pilings and dig new ones (likely deep enough that they reach bedrock) and as you can see in the picture would need to go right through the middle of that building.

2. That building is the Schorr Center. The basement of the Schorr Center is a climate controlled, state of the art facility which houses the universities 5 supercomputers. Moving those to a new location would be incredibly expensive and difficult, just the act of shutting them down for any extended amount of time would likely be extremely cost and resource prohibitive.

Pickering is serviceable if he's healthy. Not much use worrying about it unless he's out for good. Punting is actually more of a concern to me for next year.

Armstrong is averaging 43.10 yards per punt which is 45th in the country. We also can't kick the ball in the endzone on kickoffs without a stiff wind at our back and are extremely flat.

Either those both need to improve or we need to look at bringing in someone new.

The One and Done rule is an NBA rule not a college basketball rule.

As long as the NFL wants a 3 year post graduation rule It doesn't matter what Jim Harbaugh is in favor of or even the NCAA for that matter.

3 hours ago, ColoradoHusk said:

I didn’t have an issue with the play calling at all against Northwestern. If NU gets too aggressive and gets a turnover, the fans would have rioted. To me, the game plan was obvious. Make Northwestern go long fields, Nebraska pick its spots when getting aggressive and finding chunk plays and scoring points. Shoot, NU did it decently in the first half and scored 10 points. A 3rd quarter drive could have had a TD if Wandale catches a screen pass with blockers in front of him, and then the kicker missed a short FG. After Martinez got injured it’s tough to do anything else but play it safe with Vedral. 

I didn't mind it with Vedral in this game, But they've done it multiple times with Martinez this year against a stacked box and I don't know why. He has yet to get more than 3 yards when that is called as a designed run. 

In this game the QB draw was replaced by  Mo Washington's 5 carries all being inside runs in a phone booth where he ended up with 1 rushing yard and a .2 ypc average and that 3rd and 12 draw for Mazour that had no hope of doing a thing

Our WR's are absolute garbage at getting off their breaks at the LOS. That along with the snap issues mean that even when they are open, they usually aren't open in the place or time where the QB expects them to be. That's "ok" if your QB has time to stand in the pocket and assess the field, not so much when your QB is chasing snaps and running for his life 2 seconds into his clock. 

Also I've noticed a lot of the times they are running terrible routes across the field. You need to run a flat route to give the QB a good target to throw to. To often our WR's run rounded routes meaning the QB is much more likely to throw behind or over the top of the WR. - one notable instance of this is the first INT of the OSU game. Wandale was rounding his route badly and the ball ended up being behind him where the defender could jump the route. If he's flat on that route he gets the ball in his hands and the defender can't do anything about it.