Jeremy

BETTER not be O'Brien. If Mickey gets a good OC, I think he could make it work. The only problem is we aren't going to out-athlete Ohio State or Michigan. Ever.

Whether it's Mickey or not, there will be a huge overhaul on our sideline. 

Raiola - replaced

Dawson - replaced

Ruud - replaced

Does Busch continue as DC?

Whipple probably retires, and then what?

Purdy and Smothers are not effective passers. What kind of offense could we even install with the guys we have? Palmer is a 2nd-rounder at worst, so he's gone, too.

I like Mickey, but there are just too many variables. 

3 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Really?

 

NU had them down like 21-6 last year and it was one of the best teams that Iowa has ever had...it took basicallly two-three miracles for them to beat NU who was starting a back up QB.

Gawd, I forgot we were up 2 scores. Ugh.

You have a point, but they just seem like they're struggling a lot more this year. Their offensive line actually looks worse than ours if that's possible

4 minutes ago, Red Five said:

 

 

I'm sure it's in a separate thread, my point is that a new OC is a factor in keeping Mickey. What kind of offense does Mickey want? Who would he go for?

I hope we play well in all the games, but the Iowa game is the biggie. Hopefully we're healthy, and we roll into Iowa City and Mickey puts an end to this horrible streak they have on us. This is probably our best chance in a long time.

I'm hearing Whipple might be dealing with some health issues? I don't think Mickey is interested in play-calling, so he'd have to go out and find an OC. To me, that's a wildcard to consider if he's a legitimate contender. 

Thank God the scoring streak that started the game after ASU '96 wasn't ended by Rutgers, of all teams. 

Just now, ColoradoHusk said:

That’s the best case scenario in the short-term. I don’t think it would have been the best case scenario in the long-term. 

I can't argue with that. Given that Mickey's never been a head coach, there's no way to know how things would go long-term.

1 minute ago, 3gunhusker said:

Keep hearing players suck.  Also keep hearing MJ is an Uber recruiter.  Both can’t be true…think about it.

Mickey barely recruited any of these kids. Pretty sure he brought Palmer, arguable the most athletic kid on the roster, with him from LSU. Not on him.

1 minute ago, Hagg said:

Guy at our watch party said:  "I get the feeling Trev Alberts is breathing a sigh of relief as he watches MJ and the team fail.  I would not doubt if he wants to start fresh."  I hope he's wrong about that.

 

Well maybe I don't.  I don't know.  Everything is still very unsettled at Nebraska Football.

 

 

The best case scenario, albeit highly unlikely, would have been for Mickey to step in and somehow turn things around quickly. Compete for the West, make a bowl, and I think Trev would've announced pretty quickly that Mickey is the guy. 

Probably not gonna happen.

11 hours ago, VectorVictor said:

Let's be honest here--with Wisky in the mix, we're *not* going to get Liepold to Lincoln. 

 

If Mickey gets the job done (the job being to get this team to a bowl game...or better), he should get the position and we try to keep the current band together to improve (maybe find a full time DC if Busch wants to swing back to being Special Teams coordinator). 

 

I'm really hoping Mickey knocks this out of the park and not only gets us to a bowl game, but steals one we shouldn't win somewhere. He's doing the right things, saying the right things, he's a great recruiter, *and* he's a former Husker from our halcyon days. How could someone *not* want to root for Mickey to get the job done?*

 

Honestly, Mickey could potentially be what ScoFro *should* have been if he could have kept his nose out of the co-eds and party scene. 

 

 

*Central and Western NE excluded--we know why you're rooting against him. I've already heard it firsthand mixing with folks from GI and parts west. 

What in the HECK does that last line mean? Why make it smaller? Does your anecdote accurately describe EVERYONE in the western 2/3 of this state? Are we ALL like that? What a TRASH statement.

1 hour ago, huskerfan99 said:

It never was going to be. Some people will just have to be ok with that. 

Things better change quick, or it DEFINITELY won't be Mickey. 

The Indiana game is officially sold out. After that,  there will be tickets available, I believe. 

Fickell made the playoff with Cinci. I don't see why he'd consider Lincoln. Urban would bring enormous buzz to Lincoln the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time. If nothing else, Nebraska football would be a lot of fun to watch.

35 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

It's now the strategy of opposing coaches, and it's being spoken out loud: just hang in, play it safe and wait for Nebraska to self-destruct.

 

Don't point at any single player or play:  in the fourth quarter the Nebraska players and coaches stopped doing whatever they did well and lost as a team. 

 

New player from the portal? Coming from a more successful team? We're going to teach you how to lose. 

 

Do you know who might have tried that onside kick? Scott Frost's mentor, Chip Kelly. Except his would have been executed with speed and cunning and probably would have been successful, and had it failed Oregon would still have won by 17.

 

 

Kelly would have done some film study as well, and known not to kick it right at a 5th year senior running back, too.

That was the dumbest call I've seen from a Husker staff since Callahan kept calling chuck and duck passes for Beau Davis down 56-10 in Lubbock.

3 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

Lane Kiffin?

 

Forget the Nebraska connection --- he's pissed off people at every stop, thrown folks under the bus, and bailed as soon as things got inconvenient. 

 

But he still gets a lot of interest for a guy who has burned that many bridges.

 

On the other side: does Scott Frost get a HC offer anywhere else?  I just don't see it. His best shot is a Bill Callahan move as a position coach or possibly coordinator under a strong HC willing to let him rehabilitate himself at a low risk to the team. 

Agreed. I'm a solid no on both Kiffin and O'Brien. I do wonder, though, if ole Urban has enough in the tank to make one last run, maybe redeem his NFL stint?

20 minutes ago, C-4 said:

Nebraska football doesn't exist after the Frost era. This was it. (And in hindsight, it isn't existed outside of pain for ten years.)

Whoever we hire, it doesn't matter. We have a clear and undeniably low ceiling.

Respectfully disagree. The right staff with the right system could at least make us respectable, compete for the West 2 out of 3 years. Every now and then make a run at the B1G and playoff. We just need the right people calling the shots. 

1 minute ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

Come on now im upset with how they played but there is still a season to play. Let the season play out before we start naming coaches to replace him. Yes I can understand everybody's frustrations with the onside kick and the defense but this is the very crap that the kids have to come back and listen too. 

You're right, but I'm just starting the same campaign I've had since Callahan was axed.

40 minutes ago, gobiggergoredder said:

Not sure what you put after this.  It doesn’t really matter.

Every team they play is vastly more talented than they are, and they win. Air Force nearly won their division last year. They won their bowl game against Louisville. 

I provide proof that it works. All the doubters have is conjecture. 

1 hour ago, Decked said:

Option football as a base offense is dead. Also no recruit who is a half decent QB/WR would come here ever again. No need to go back to one extreme because it used to work. Tom just happened to run the option and have success with it not Tom ran the option so he had success. Tom won because he was a great coach, system aside 

Army and Air Force win 9+ games every year with it. They don't really recruit. Navy has a couple 11 win seasons recently.

Why does everyone think any coach (outside of Urban Meyer) in Lincoln would get kids to come here instead of Columbus, Ann Arbor, or Madison? Ohio State beats us for recruits 9 times out of 10, and it shows on Saturdays. We will NEVER out-recruit, out-spread, out-pass, or be more athletic than them.

We need to be different and unique.  Hard to prepare for. Right now we don't look much different than most of the B1G. We wouldn't have to worry about wasting recruiting time going against the rest of the B1G for 4/5 star QBs and WR, and we could focus on building a legitimate defense that doesn't give up 550 yards to Northwestern. 

12 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Rhule would KILL to get back to CFB by all accounts.

 

I Love Lane, I just know how most Husker fans are and they would explode.

 

Urban

Rhule

Aranda (Who would leave Baylor in a second)

Lane

Urban would bring a lot of hype to Lincoln for sure. I'd want him just for the ensuing craziness. 

2 hours ago, gorp512 said:

 

 

Exactly. The job he did at Temple is closer to what is will be in Lincoln. Built from the ground up, quickly, and not by identifying scheme fits, either. They put tremendous players in the NFL. And he uses a fullback, so your uncle in Western Nebraska will be happy. 

 

A lot of uncles in Lincoln and Omaha would be happy to see a fullback, too.

1 minute ago, BoNeyard said:

Frost's stuff was fun to watch and he too came from a G5 school. 

 

But I agree, both Stoops and Petersen are likely done, although between the two I could see Petersen trying it one more time. He seems like he would fit Nebraska perfectly. 

There are some comparisons to be made between Frost and Chadwell, but a key difference is that Chadwell has proven himself at multiple levels and for a good while out at Coastal. Frost maybe just caught lightning in a bottle for one crazy year, and we bought in. It's clear that the results Frost got in Orlando will never be repeated in Lincoln. 

Petersen is an interesting candidate. I don't know what he does or how he does it. Somehow, he seems to just turn things around wherever he goes. Could Husker fans get behind him as a coach? Hard to say.

Just now, BoNeyard said:

Chris Petersen.

 

Bob Stoops.

 

Those are your swing for the fences hires. Talk to them and see if you can get either of them. If not, who the hell knows these days. On paper Frost was a grand slam hire.

Those would be ideal, but I doubt either are head coaches again. Chadwell's stuff is fun to watch.