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Gebbia blew out his hamstring on a QB sneak at the end of last year's Oregon game.  He had surgery in the offseason and still hasn't returned to game duty.  He has practiced, but the hammy hasn't fully healed.  My guess is he'll start again this season as the QB we got from Colorado was a dud against Purdue and Gebbia's backup from last year started against Hawaii this past Saturday.   

9 hours ago, Gage County said:

I checked out http://coacheshotseat.com/ , I thought it was ironic that Chip Kelly is on the list, but on second thought, that's not ironic.

Oregon State coach Johnathan Smith's seat is frozen.  I guess when you get down to #28, you just make things up.  

An easy win and some momentum.  

Fordham is working on a 1 man defensive front with their d-ends in a super, duper nine technique.  Fordham's d-line coach was overheard telling the head coach, "Frost's mind will be blown.  Boom!"

Frost said this on Saturday as well.  I'm sure not which is dumber.  Saying it in the first place or repeating it.  It feels like he wants to get fired.  

Just now, hskrfan4life said:

I was at the game and couldn't tell what went wrong on missed PATs, was it a long snapper/holder issue or did he just miss them?

He flat out missed the second one.  I didn't see the first one.  Assuming it was going to be made, I made a run for the refrigerator.  

The longsnapper and holder seemed well connected

1 hour ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

We have to be honest and admit that the problems with Nebraska Football are deeper than just Frost and his ineptitude. Yes, he and his staff should be fired immediately. But the issues with Nebraska Football run deep into the Athletic Department. There are a lot of clowns in North stadium, and frankly some boosters too. 

 

Nebraska needs to hit a total reset button, not just with the staff on the field. Fire and replace every single person not named Trev Alberts.

 

Excommunicate any and every booster who does anything other than write big checks. If they make so much as a suggestion about what Gatorade flavor we should use on the sideline, ban them for life.

 

The rot here runs deep. And unless they find it and get rid of it, it'll come back and plague the next staff.

The Diaco hiring comes to mind.  

I rewatched a big chunk of the game again last night.  Where are these track athletes we were supposed to be recruiting?  Our WR's and TE's are SLOW.  Our WR's didn't cause any problems on the D's backend and our TE's only got open when their linebackers were screened by the umpire.  Otherwise, they couldn't outrun a LB.  If you don't have the speed to take the top off of the defense, then everything else goes to hell passing-wise.  There's got to be a downfield threat and we either don't have any or Frost is keeping those guys on the bench again.  

8 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

They were open way more than you realize.  Having a step on someone is open.  Unfortunately AM doesn’t understand this. 

Having a step on the corner while running towards the safety or linebacker is not open.  I'm rewatching the game right now.  I am seeing a lot of bad, lazy routes and Martinez running for his life.  Obviously you saw things differently.  

3 minutes ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

They knew in March that they wouldn't be ready by week 4 in September?

The talent wasn't going to change.  

2 minutes ago, BoNeyard said:

I’d consider myself a die hard. Heck I still support Frost and for some reason have faith he will suddenly get things going.

 

but holy crap, this program needs some

sort of deep spiritual cleaning.

Based on what?  He's not changing anything and the results are the same.  I promise you that is not the Oregon offense we had hoped for.  Chip Kelly ran the ball.  

4 minutes ago, Nebgreen said:

This coaching staff has zero creativity, no willingness to try trick plays or anything other than your typical handoff to a guy who runs smack-dab into the defense.  

They can't recruit talent.  Martinez's legs were our offense today.  The receivers are slow and can't get open.  If they do get open which happened a few times, Martinez gets too excited and misses them.  And despite the hype of a few RB's, we have absolutely no talent in that room.  The o-line that was hyped as being big and strong got beat all day by ILLINOIS.  I'm glad that Oklahoma game is on so early here.  Hopefully I sleep through all of it.  

2 minutes ago, louisianared said:

Our 1 minute offense looks bad 

Did anybody run any routes towards the sidelines?  You'd think a guy who was a safety in the NFL could teach our kids how to run proper routes in the two minute offense.  Instead our guys are running out there aimlessly.  

We have less talent than Illinois.  The lack of speed popped out the most in this game to me.  I predicted four wins.  I was too optimistic.  

I'm not greedy.  I just want a W.  I feel a L could be catastrophic.  

2 hours ago, Toe said:

Another way to look at potential teams is to look at their athletic department revenues. An obvious caveat, though: a lot of that comes from a team's conference and its TV contracts, which would change if the school changed conferences. So it's only really an apples to apples comparison if you compare two teams from the same conference - you're looking more for potential revenue than anything.

 

https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances

 

Couple things that stand out from that: the Pac-12 only has one team in the top 25. Trying to run a network on their own (without partnering with one of the big networks) hasn't paid off. That alone should be enough incentive for teams to jump. Also, despite their football success, Clemson is only the third highest in ACC revenue.

One thing that has hurt the Pac 12 and their network is not being on Directv.  The former commissioner failed because he wanted all 7 channels on Directv and Directv only wanted the main channel.  What is strange is the commissioner allowed the Dish Network to carry only the main channel but didn't offer that to Directv.  So Directv said no and the commissioner was too proud to offer them the same deal.  Hopefully the new commissioner isn't as stupid.  

8 hours ago, lo country said:

Talk radio had some dude on from UT (talking head) talked about how UT never had support of their conferences.......wanted to belong.....complete BS.  Said UT and OU going to the SEC was like the creation of the Death Star. When asked about buy outs said there were rumors about ESPN assisting in the buy outs......

That is Baghdad Bob territory.  

26 minutes ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

 

I thought the 2011 plan was to form a PAC-16. 

Texas fans playing victim?   That's rich.

The plan was to form the Pac 16.  Texas got greedy wanted to keep the Bonghorn Network and were told to pound sand.  

On 7/23/2021 at 2:16 PM, BIG ERN said:

Pacific Conference

(Division 1)

Cal

Oregon 

Oregon State

Stanford

UCLA

Utah

Washington

Washington State

 

(Division 2)

Arizona
Arizona State 

Baylor

BYU

Colorado

Kansas St

Texas Tech

USC

Under normal circumstances, I would say "no freakin' way" we pick up two religious schools and/or four non-AAU schools.  But these aren't normal circumstances.  As for this, I would switch up UCLA and Colorado.  No way they separate the LA schools.  

Am I the only one feeling some schadenfreude toward the fans of Big 12 teams who claimed we cut and run from Texas? 

Kornheiser said something on PTI today that makes sense to me.  The NCAA will be shown the door and schools will do their own thing.  You'll see one conference with a North/South/West/East divisions and the top money producing schools will be the only ones included.  Schools like KSU, Oregon State, Vanderbilt, etc. will be on the outside looking in.  

13 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Ghosting their league?  That's harsh.

1 hour ago, Nebraska55fan said:

Missouri might very well say no to Texas. Seems like Texas got under their skin a bit also. 

 

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/12/27/16819774/texas-missouri-bowl-big-12-rivalry-deloss-dodds

I just saw somebody from Mizzou on SportsCenter speaking glowingly of UT and OU's jump to the SEC.  

24 minutes ago, GSG said:

Texas only cares about Texas.  Remember when they wanted us to sign a loyalty pledge to the Big 12?  Two faced, no good, mother......

46 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Recruiting success *follows* on-field success.  You have to over-achieve and get some good breaks to do a little better than people think you should then the bigger-fish recruits start to show up.

This.  Oregon State's basketball program has been garbage for a couple of decades,  A shocking Elite Eight run this year has brought in a few kids who wouldn't have looked at Oregon State otherwise.