speedtoburn

Navy and USF are rolling, they represent challenges 1 and 1A for Frost. I'm curious to see if, and how well his D can handle the Navy O. If they can, then my guess is they run the table heading into their final game against USF. If they beat USF, and finish an undefeated season, Frost likely becomes the #1 candidate for any P5 opening, at which point a Chess game of epic proportions begins for us.

You should be in sales, I'm sold. lol Seriously though, those are all valid points...metrics which should be taken into consideration to be sure. The thing is, it may be a moot point because there is a part of me which honestly wonders if we could even get anyone better than Frost to take this job considering the baggage of the last however many years (fired coaches, AD's, etc.) we aren't exactly bastion of stability.

Do you honestly think Scott Frost is the answer? I don't ask that to imply that he isn't, just curious to know your personal belief. I think a lot of people are putting their hopes on him, maybe I'm just more conservative than others, but I personally am not "sold" on the idea that he is the answer. I agree that early returns are awesome, and definitely encouraging, but he is only in year 2, right? I'm just uneasy at the thought of hiring Frost with a body of work that only spans two years. At the end of the day, what does that really tell us?

This sounds like Ann absolute load of crap.

This is not a damn 17-10 ballgame, what a fluke. Wisconsin is lucky.

Word.

Im a huge believer in speed, are you? I know you from Huskermax, and if I recall correctly, you are an older fan who was around for the Osborne era. If so, then you'll recall how the focus on recruiting speed across the board was a significant factor in helping the good Doctor get over the hump and start knocking off the teams from Florida. I am not suggesting that recruiting speed would be a silver bullet for us, but when I look at our team we look slow across the board. I think that if we went back to the drawing board with our recruiting philosophy and took a page out of the shift Osborne made, that it would pay immense dividends.

Yeah, that last paragraph....good point. That is probably an important distinction to be made.

I'm wondering how much of Frost's success can be attributed to the talent pool at UCF. From what I see, the conventional wisdom is that Frost could step in here and make an immediate impact, but if UCF has more raw talent than us, then how could similar results be expected of Frost?

It's a sound bite...all about optics my friend, lol.

I learned that there is now one game less that we have to wait until Riley is fired (hopefully).

Well, before the season I would said no...he finishes out the season no matter what; however, the Eichorst firing now leaves me not so sure anymore.

My feedback on your original list is in red. I would consider 9 of these folks, with 6 absolutes who I would take. Realistically, if the search were conducted at the end of the season, of those six, I see 3 who I believe would listen (Mullen, Brohm, and Fleck). It would be awkward for Brohm and Fleck to leave seeing as how both of them just got at their new gig, but hey, you never know. David Shaw would be an absolutely bad ass hire, but he isn't leaving the West Coast.

Does he have Dip in his mouth? lol

Mav, Sadly, I can't disagree with this statement, which is pretty awful to admit.

Exactly, and I agree that it would be an easier job to retool/recruit for a nasty OL. Why on earth can't we eventually be as good as Wisconsin is now? The notion that we can't is absurd.

I'll gladly take the job, and do it better than the buffoons who have been at the helm. How much are you willing to pay me?

Give me Wisconsin's offense which is everything we used to be. This is not Rocket Science. Assuming a new coach is eventually hired, we need to get back to our roots...build an offense that is built around controlling the clock via a punishing ground game, then use the run to setup the Playaction pass. Why the hell is this concept so difficult for our athletic leadership to grasp?

RoundbalShaman... Can I have some of whatever it is you're smoking? Are you honesty trying to compare Texas with Nebraska? Did you watch the Maryland game, and their follow-up game against SC? Clearly you didn't, the turnaround Herman orchestrated in the span of going from game 1 to game 2 was insane. This with an average roster full of players he didn't recruit, and starting a true freshman QB. Despite all of that they went into a top 5 venue and completely stuffed a loaded SC team with a punishing ground game fresh off a stomping of a PAC 12 foe who has traditionally given them loads of problems. The trajectories of our programs could not be more different. Herman is everything we need in a coach, and he will have the Texas machine churning within 3 years. Tom Herman, now 6-2 against Top 10 ranked teams, he is NOT Charlie Weiss...

Yeah, looks like I need to re-evaluate this. Riley has been worse than even I expected, then again..this is classic Riley stuff here. He loses to someone he shouldn't, holds it together for a period of time, and then usually beats someone he shouldn't. So I wouldn't be shocked if we still go 7-5 with a win over someone we have no business beating. to me it doesn't matter what the guy does at this point. We just need to excise him and SE from the program. One of the movies in the Lord of the rings trilogy has this character who is like a once legendary King. He ruled over this particular area of the world, and then became decrepit and feeble. At one point Gandalf goes to visit him because he wants his help, and in this particular scene, it shows the king he looks sickly and awful slumped over in his chair, no interest in Gandalf, barely responding, everything in total disarray. As it turns out, the King was possessed by the evil mage, Gandalf expelled the make from the king, and the King returned to prominence, helped Gandalf fight his war etc. that whole element of the movie is so representative of the state of our program for the last however many years. I fell like Nebraska is that former king who is now decrepit...possessed by horrible leadership:individuals who have held it back. Our "Gandalf" will eventually come (probably SE's replacement), and excise the demons which currently possesses/hamper the program.

Clay Helton would like to have a word with you. Herman is going to have that program firing on all pistons by the end of the year, mark my words. Next year they will be a force to be reckoned with. Herman is the second best coach in the NCAA in my opinion, only Saban gets the nod over him, and I shudder to think what Herman could do with a talent pool as deep as Bama's.

Uncover the identies of Hiskerboard users "Whistlepig" and "TheDude", broker a sit down between the two and begin a debate on the importance (or lack thereof) of Vocabulary...proper use, sophistication, etc, etc. and intervene if a brawl breaks out. Tape the entire thing, call a meeting with the team captains, show them the recording, and use it as motivation to show them how passionate the fan base is for them...this will get the captains fired up and translate to success on the field.

This. We need to move on, period. Rikey is not, and never will be the answer. How quickly the NU power brokers see this truth, and more importantly, accept it, is the key.

Read the rest here.

Good god, here we go again. Turner Gill is NOT the answer, hiring him would be asinine. Neither is Mogila. Posters like you who believe in thiose guys scare me, you truly do.