The Maudfather

This team finishes between 2-10 and 4-8. 

Let's not forget that Northwestern was a putrid 3-9 team a season ago and they rang us up for 4.6 ypc on the ground. Most concerning, Northwestern's final drive that started on their own 8 yard line - a drive when there was no doubt what their intentions would be - they averaged 6.5 ypc. 

This thing is over. They win the next two games, and then maybe get two more in the stretch of Indiana, Rutgers, Purdue and Illinois. 

Something something there is no hope, f#&% everything, go big red. 

13 minutes ago, Undone said:

@Mavric: Fair point there.

 

I think Thompson's individual performance was enough to get us a win. The fumble inside their red zone was huge, and so was the blown PI call late in the game.

The blown PI call didn't impact the game. Grant scored a 46 yard TD the following play IIRC. 

Urban Meyer would be dreamy. Chris Peterson would be a home run. 
 

The best thing about getting kicked in the d!(k in week zero is getting a head start on the coaching carousel. 

6 minutes ago, BoNeyard said:

I think Frost hires Helfrich and here is why. I think Frost wants to still have control of the offense but at the same time have trust in someone that see's and thinks the way he does. If he goes out there and hires a proven offensive coordinator, well that means that person has likely not worked with Frost much because Frost is a young head coach and has yet to develop his coaching network. He has only coached with a limited number of offensive coordinators. It also means that new offensive coordinator may have completely different philosophies, may be a completely different style and he simply might not mesh with Frost. Now, Frost knowing he has maybe just one year to be successful here, does he run that risk and make that gamble on an unknown coaching partner to help save his job?

 

With Helfrich he gets a proven offensive coordinator and someone who has also been a head coach. Frost likely trusts Helfrich since they worked together for so many years and Helfrich proved to trust Frost by making him his offensive coordinator once. He also gets someone he can trust and someone he might feel comfortable with gambling his potentially last season at Nebraska and within the Power 5. 

 

Also if Helfrich is interested in getting back into coaching this may be an opportunity for him to step in and get his name back out there. If he feels he and Frost can get this to work, his name will start to be thrown out there as a head coach somewhere again. It may also be one of those things where Helfrich agrees to come work for less because the offensive duties will be split between he and Frost and that means Frost can invest the money into a top notch offensive line coach.

 

It may not be the higher many of us want, he doesn't necessarily excite me because I feel like Lubick is a poor mans Helfrich and I am done with this 2012 Oregon connection, but if you look at the situation Frost has himself in, he may look for a potential quick fix to save more time so he can make a long term fix later.

I wouldn't be upset if Helfrich was brought in to be the OC. 

It's going to be extremely interesting to see who fills these spots in the coming months. I hope that Frost is able to bring in an actual OC that will call the plays, moving forward. 

I hope Nebraska doesn't take this opportunity to skimp out either. Open up the checkbook and hire some quality coaches that can recruit at a high level. 

The helmets are cool. They'd pop a lot harder with a red facemask - seems like a missed opportunity just to tie in some wonky gray. 

You could make the argument that Frost should be fired for electing to wear white at home. 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nebraska again opts not to include a depth chart this week in its notes for Fordham. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Huskers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Huskers</a> released one weekly in 2019 but not since.</p>&mdash; Evan Bland (@EvanBlandOWH) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanBlandOWH/status/1432355937419935753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The sun seemed pretty bright?

Adrian sucks. That's not news to anyone that's watched him play the last 2 seasons. He sucks and it sucks that he sucks because he seems like a pretty good dude. 

He's just not a good QB. At all. Sadly, he's probably gives Nebraska the best chance to win though and that's on Frost. 

5 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

The sun came up this morning. Took a nice walk with the dog. Decided to look for bright spots from yesterday that can be nurtured into hope.

 

That didn't go so well.

 

I see people who want to give props to an improved defense. But I saw a team that came out of the locker room rested, recharged and just a touchdown behind immediately give up an 8 minute touchdown drive to the second-string quarterback of Illinois. Then give up another, so our already challenged offense had to play from 21 points behind. Those awesome QB sacks in the first quarter are way in the rearview mirror. That's because other teams adjust and do things better. 

 

The two big errors and 9 point giveaways from senior captains Adrian Martinez and Cam Taylor-Britt were bad at face value, but they also lose massively on style points: Martinez wasn't fighting for yards, he looked stumbling and helpless. It wasn't just Cam's blatant strategic error fielding the ball, it was that panicky attempt to throw the ball ahead -- something a 10 year old might do.

 

This is a team that gets punched in the mouth and doesn't punch back. They wander around in a daze. 

 

Although there was plenty of time on the clock and an Illinois team perfectly capable of collapsing, I never for a moment expected Nebraska to win. 

 

And just to show me I wasn't being overly cynical, Connor Culp misses his second PAT of the game.

 

The most fervent optimists on HuskerBoard are claiming that had 12 plays gone a little differently, Nebraska could have won. 

 

These televised games are absolute poison for recruiting. 

 

The only bright spot?  Nobody in the rest of college football really cares about Nebraska vs. Illinois. 

 

Jesus.

 

 

 

 

This is the best post in this thread and, I'd imagine, where most rational Husker fans landed today. 

This thing is so over. 

Scott Frost. 

Then fire Ryan Held into the sun for not being able to deliver a single good runningback. Then hire Frost back, so we can fire him again. 

It's over. Yesterday was the worst case scenario for this season and it happened. 

1 minute ago, Mavric said:

 

Let alone pre-announced THREE TIMES!!!

 

 

I'd never heard of Dan Lust before today, but this guy sucks. 

He seems pretty thirsty. 

Time to bring back Rumor-ville?

7 minutes ago, RedSavage said:

1 minute ago, Mavric said:

No idea if this has any validity or not but...

 

 

That is really going to go over like a pregnant pole vaulter if this all turns into a huge hoax but who knows...

 

I don't think our Athletic Department is competent enough to pull that off. 

Best of Big Red is selling these too. Wonder if we're going to try to wear white at home on 9/11? I hope not. 

13 minutes ago, Micheal said:

I'm okay with alternate uniforms with schools colors. 

 

My problem is that the alternate uniform games usually don't end well on the scoreboard. If those games ended in victory I probably would feel better about them. 

My problem with the "My problem with the alternate uniform games usually don't end well on the scoreboard." crowd is that we're completely ignoring the fact that most of our games do not and have not ended well in the last 7 years, regardless of uniform. 

Mike Riley was 19-19 and Frost is 12-20. This team hasn't played in a bowl game in 5 years. It's not the uniforms, my guy. 

On 6/22/2021 at 9:44 PM, lo country said:

Any idea on which players are headed there?

Probably Adrian, CTB and Deontae. That'd be my guess, but wouldn't be surprised to see that last spot be Jojo/Austin Allen/Stille.

3 hours ago, TGHusker said:

We have a pizza place in Tulsa that is owned by "native Chicagoians".  The best hot dogs and deep, deep dish pizza. The pizzas are named after some Chicago places or event. They have Chicago stuff on the walls  So they have Cubs games on all TV the time and also the Bears and Bulls.  It is where I like to go to watch the road to the final 4 on big screen while eating something and drinking something good.

 

http://www.savastanospizzeria.com/gallery.php#!prettyPhoto

Next time I'm in the Jenks area, I may give this place a look! 

3 hours ago, Warrior10 said:

On campus visiting. 

Things you like to see: this. 

I think I like Torres more. 

Frost and Moos discovering on Huskerboard that they should just recruit better: 

6 minutes ago, Decoy73 said:

Wouldn’t be surprised to see another RB join him in the portal soon.   Best of luck to Ronald.  

Lowkey hope Rhamir Johnson ends up doing the same thing tbh. Pretty apparent at this point that neither one of those dudes were going to be a factor in the backfield. 

The jury is still out on Sevvy, but we need quality depth at the position - something we have haven't had since 2018 with Ozigbo and Mo Washington.

Good to see Nebraska in the top 5 again. #Blessed