13 hours ago, knapplc said:

Ticket sales lag behind last year's pace. Which is understandable, since everyone's confidence in the Frost Era has taken a tumble (whether big or small varies).

 

 

 

It's kinda surprising that we've sold 53,500 tickets already. Nebraska led the nation in Spring Game attendance in each of Frost's first two years of coaching, and the tickets sold so far would put Nebraska in the top ten of last year's games nationwide.

 

 

Ya, the bloom is off the rose, fan excitement will have to be earned back. Plus the teams aren't set-up to be competitive, I'd like to see some good-on-good for at least a half.

On ‎2‎/‎1‎/‎2020 at 9:44 PM, NUance said:

 

I was trying to be kind.  

To be fair they played a lot better in the last five games.  With everyone back they should be able to build on that, plus hopefully Benhart  is ready to Farniok can move to his more natural position.

On ‎1‎/‎28‎/‎2020 at 4:56 PM, SouthLincoln Husker said:

Can only have some many coaches and we are full!

I'm fine with bringing him in as an analyst, but they generally come and go. Is he going to get our staff prepped to handle ST's well on their own?  Are we bribing him with on-field assistant money to get him to stay? Is Snyder in-line to get an on-field coaching spot? We need a long-term plan for improving our ST's. 

10 hours ago, Undone said:

 

Being paid $700,000 / year means you're a multi-millionaire if you ride your contract out. As such, "greener pastures" in this context isn't likely.

 

Translation: He was fired.

Pretty obvious now that he and DeWitt had been fired unofficially for a while but we held-off on making things public in hopes of both finding a soft landing. Walters didn't find one and we had to pull the plug to get Lubick on-board.

A question worth asking is do we have the coaching to compensate for Frost putting so much of his attention in the O that he really doesn't know much about the D and ST's?

43 minutes ago, FearAmeer said:

Lamar Jackson is 100% a lock to be drafted this year at some point somewhere. Anyone else being picked up will be a surprise. Khalil Davis, Darrion Daniels, and Mo Barry will all get looks and might get lucky going in round 6 or 7

I wouldn't underestimate Khalil's value. He had a hell of a year for a guy that is a much better fit playing DT in a 4-3 and he turned a lot of heads at the Shrine Bowl.

15 hours ago, runningblind said:

A buddy of mine brought up Beckton last night.  If the smoke around him were true,  that would free up one more FT spot and Snyder could coach TE and be ST coordinator as well.  He interviewed for that same spot at Texas this week.  That would make me feel excited about the staff moving into 2020.   I am not sold on an analyst covering ST in practice but someone else having to make calls on Saturday.  That is a recipe for mistakes in games in my eyes no matter how good the teaching during the week has been.

Ya if he doesn't get the Texas gig and Beckton bolts I would be good with bringing in Snyder as our TE/ST's guy.

Appears Frost gave him and DeWitt some time to get another job but Walters didn't get any bites, not for any OC/HC jobs anyway. Not sure what to believe in terms of Joseph and Lubick but I'm happy with this hire either way.

On 1/15/2020 at 2:35 PM, BIG ERN said:

This is the only game that matters. Cannot start 0-1 (0-1)

 

Saturday Sep. 5

Purdue Boilermakers Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE

We have everyone back on O plus some nice additions, Purdue will be in their first game of a new, much different defensive scheme. Should move the ball all over them, unfortunately I can also seem them moving the ball all over us. Will be surprised if this one doesn't go down to the wire. Hopefully our ST's are fixed, could be the difference. 

10 hours ago, flatwaterfan said:

Maybe Frost got tired of Walters shopping around for a HC job?  Just guessing. 

When a coach that is doing a meh-at-best job in the first place has one foot out the door it's time to help him with that other foot. 

9 hours ago, HANC said:

Regardless of how you interpret the moves, SF has parted ways with 2 guys he initially brought with him. In turn, basically saying that his initial plan didn't work as planned. Swallowed pride and pulled trigger.  This is where some past HCs have failed miserably.  I was hoping SF ego wouldn't get in the way, and apparently it hasn't! Good for him. Makes me even more optimistic for the future. 

I think he felt he owed his staff the same opportunity he was getting. He publicly stated he didn't like HC's moving-up but telling a chunk of their staff they aren't good enough to move-up as well. I'd say it's a distasteful necessity in order to staff optimally, but that's water under the bridge. Now that guys have had their opportunity he's starting to separate the wheat from the chaff. We made two nice moves to get better this week and we're looking to make a third with the ST's analyst. I like it. 

9 hours ago, Hedley Lamarr said:

Just like we only officially offered the HC position to Bill Callahan 

Ya it's just a game of semantics. They go by the official offer, but by the time one of those is out it means they've already worked-out a handshake deal.  Technically speaking Pedey was telling the truth but practically speaking multiple guys could have had the gig and passed. 

2 hours ago, FearAmeer said:

Any guesses on the last player who will be processed/transfer? McQuitty and Pickering come to mind for me 

I'd say Jaylin Bradley. He was a reach in the first place and has ridden pine the past two years while a walk-on got considerable reps. Now we should actually have some depth. Think he'll head someplace like Northern Iowa. 

Coming off an injury-plagued season where he did next to nothing I would think demand for Pickering is down considerably. If I'm him I wait and see how our ST's shake-up works out. 

McQuitty wouldn't be a surprise, he'd make a clean-sweep of 4*'s from our 2017 class leaving.  But here we have another coaching shake-up. I would guess that he rides-out spring ball and then sees where he stands. 

I'm great with bringing in a ST's analyst in but he needs to be getting designated full-time staff up to speed on ST's so that they can run things effectively on their own when Snyder move-on to a regular gig. 

2 hours ago, FrantzHardySwag said:

Still think you need someone on the full time staff at least have the title of special teams coach. An analyst + a GA is fine in theory, but what happens when an opposing staff starts to tweak things in game? Then we respond by our analyst telling our GA to tell the players how to adjust? There’s a reason Iowa, Minny, Wisconsin all have full time (no split duty) special teams coordinators - in some games it’s the difference between winning and losing. 

Plus even if this combo of a GA and Snyder does manage to work this season it's just a bandaid.  The GA will be gone and Snyder probably will be too, We need a good on-the-field coach to be in charge of ST's that will have us doing well from year-to-year. 

The thing that stands-out with the 1995 team is that nobody gave them a game. We finished EVERY game with our back-ups in. The Florida team we blew off the field was undefeated and had been dominant. LSU was played close by multiple teams.

Thing with bringing in Helfrich as OC is that if he's in then somebody has to be out and we have two guys that specialize in qb's. Can either coach another position at this level to make a reshuffling work?  If neither can it would be questionable use of spots to have two qb guys potentially stepping on each-other's toes while somebody else has to pull double-duty. to cover wr's. Do you move Mario to analyst then hire a wr-coach? 

1 hour ago, southernoregonhusker said:

Apparently you misread what I wrote.  He can have his opinion, but using his place of employment to bolster his viewpoint and sway opinion would turn me off and I'd be against his hiring.  

It was pretty obvious from comments by both Moos and Frost that Brown had to STFU about certain things to stay employed with the program. If he were to go back to coaching here. it would be controversial obviously but I don't see him stirring-up further controversy.

2 hours ago, San Diego Husker said:

Sounds like an SEC head coach, cut throat...

Moving-along a non-contributor before he gets his degree is cut-throat. Doing it after he graduates is just common-sense roster management. 

I imagine PSU wishes Moorhead got booted before they made a new OC hire. 

On 1/1/2020 at 10:29 AM, gorp512 said:

 

Walters (understandably) won't go for that. 

 

Being that Walters hasn't proven squat here as a coach I don't really care if he wouldn't go for it. Helfrich is a top-notch OC and Walters can definitely be replaced as a wr-coach.  With a real OC Frost could be much more involved in the team as a whole. 

2 minutes ago, EZ-E said:

Analyst role 

He'd be a good get as an analyst but would likely be snatched-up soon. I'd make him the OC. Move Verduzco to an analyst role and have Walters focus all his efforts on the WR's. 

On ‎12‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 1:41 PM, Cdog923 said:

 

It takes place inbetween Civil War and Infinity War. I doubt there will be a sequel, but if there are, there's plenty of territory with the character to be mined in the past. 

Yes it's set in the past, but it's still stupid to kill-off a character you introduced way back in Iron Man 2 THEN make a movie about her.

Not surprised Iowa won but am shocked they put-up so many points. They didn't even light-up Rutgers during the season.

17 hours ago, GSG said:

 

 

Wouldn't want him as a DC again but for what FSU has him doing Papuchis is a solid get.