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corncraze

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  1. Our OC handpicked the QB that lead the NCAA in turnovers. Our staff did very little in the portal or JUCOs to address the holes on offense. And our OL is still atrocious (the PFF rankings support that - look at Turner scoring 0s in pass protection for multiple games). In my mind, our turnovers correlate with our OL performance. Bad protection means more picks. Not the only factor clearly - decision making by all 3 QBs was also awful, and that would likely be an indicator of coaching. Three completely different players all produce unprecedented TOs. If this wasn’t our team, I’m pretty sure all of us would view Satt as an awful OC. We could recognize how back Brian Ferentz was.
  2. So we’re just supposed to believe that three separate QBs are all TO machines with horrid decision-making? Getting the same performance from three completely different players sure seems like a coaching issue to me.
  3. Another example of sunk-cost fallacy. That mindset has killed our program. Instead of seeing something for what it is (Satt, Frost, Raiola, Riley) we make excuses to keep terrible performances. “We’re already invested in XYZ, if we can just wait it out it longer it will turn around.” Meanwhile our program continues to crumble into disrepair. If something isn’t working, we need to get rid of it before it gets even worse. Satt has an atrocious history as an OC; get him out now before he causes more damage.
  4. Well hopefully we’ll see more urgency from this staff to address the talent deficiency this offseason. We didn’t last year. We talk about Rhule and crew’s talent evaluation as a strength , but frankly the talent evaluation at QB has been horrid. This staff chose to chase off CT for Sims. It chose to play Sims and then HH over Purdy for most of the season. It also chose to not address the OL - Rhule “liked the guys we have”. We’re reaping the effects of the staff’s awful decisions from last offseason.
  5. Like what Michigan did to us this year?
  6. BS… this is a loser mentality. $$$ and winning bring talent. We aren’t winning, so why aren’t we spending like crazy in NIL to get big names here? We were told for the last 5 years we have the resources to be very competitive in the NIL market. It blows my mind that we aren’t using it but then are taking on these unnecessary multi-hundred million dollar facilities projects.
  7. I still am struggling to understand why these renovations are necessary right now. Unless they aren’t telling us something about structural integrity - which is definitely possible - why are we shelling out $450m to decrease stadium size and lower potential ticket income? Again, if the money exists, why the heck aren’t we putting it towards staff and talent to improve on-field performance? What’s gonna keep people going to games and the sellout streak alive? Winning games and getting back to being a competitor to win the conference. Also to announce this before approval and before an absolute slacking doesn’t make sense to me either.
  8. Bad analogy. A bad date usually doesn’t lead to more dates… probably not a good idea to continue to invest in someone after 3 awful dates
  9. Ugh this makes my head hurt. So Deion inherits a significantly worse team, he pulls in more talent than us, beats us by 3 possessions, doubles CU’s Ws from last year in just 2 games while we’re 0-2, but somehow we have the better coach. I envy your optimism.
  10. This is the mentality we need to change. Could’ve said the same thing about CU and 5 star players. Deion pulled in Hunter + a number of other big names. The right coach + NIL can pull talent here.
  11. You’ve nailed it on the talent point. It’s not good enough. A development approach can get us to Iowa’s level if done right. I don’t think that’s acceptable. Our program was one of the few blue bloods in the sport. Accepting mediocrity is a slap in the face to decades of earned success. We were told we had one of the best NIL set-ups in the country - that it would be a real game-changer for us. Either we negligently aren’t using it to its full capability (if much at all) or we were lied to. I tend to think it’s the former given we can find $300-700m for stadium upgrades and $150m for new training facilities.
  12. And bye sellout streak. Keep losing, keep making excuses, keep putting blind faith into our staffs, and unfortunately it will happen. Look, none of us want to be here. I have two decades of family memories (especially with my dad) supporting this program while it crumbles away with excuses and poor prioritization (facilities over talent). I was in Ireland last year - as many of us were. The more we’re lower our standards and forfeit urgency, the more we turn into Kansas (who is significantly better than us now btw). None of us want that. But the more we lose, the more we lose our fan base (especially the younger fans). We need to start winning fast, otherwise we our only further etching our current and likely future identity of being a has-been, now perennial losing program.
  13. We assumed we were turning around things with Frost for 4 years - we needed a long rebuild then too. It’s a very risky strategy given the sake of our program. Seriously ask yourself, would you be having more fun experiencing the start of a season Deion is leading at CU or what we’re experiencing with Rhule? What about the 8 or 12-win first year season Urban had at every university he’s coached at? Regardless of if you like their personalities, those sound more fun to me.
  14. Move the goalposts and add extra stipulations to try and discredit a clear point that Deion has drastically improved a worse program than Rhule. But sure, I’ll bite - Kalen DeBoer just did it last year. He got his qb from the portal. It happened in our program history too with Bob Devaney. Before him we had 6 losing seasons. His first year we won 9 games. We want results, not excuses.
  15. We’re reacting to their poor performance on the field. Losing is a miserable experience - you’re right. Winning is the cure. Urgently improving our roster should be the prescription - you know, like what Deion did and how he just beat us. You deliver bad results, you get a bad reaction. That goes for any place - it’s even worse in the SEC.
  16. We’re all frustrated and unhappy. Direct that at me and fans like me if you want, brush off our opinions, ignore the results you saw yesterday, ignore the differences we’ve seen between us and CU, pretend things are ok. Unless things change, all of us are going to continue to be miserable from the poor results we see on the field - assuming we even keep watching.
  17. Obviously we can’t fire Trev right now. Obviously we can’t fire Rhule right now. The optics would be disastrous. We’re stuck with both for years. That doesn’t mean we should be happy with poor results in that time. A number of us think Trev got the hire wrong here, and if he did, he will pay the price and lose his job eventually. The unfortunate part is this might have been the last chance to get this HC hire right. We have a right to be angry that our program is on the brink of flat-lining and that Trev gambled with a slow build strategy that’s currently not looking good. And you’re right on one thing - it is pretty miserable being a Husker fan.
  18. Haha you’re not wrong. I think a large number of us are going to need a new hobby outside of Husker football - especially with this athletic administration in charge.
  19. Some of us don’t want to just sit down and take it any more. Why do we continue to accept awful results?! Hold people accountable, criticize their mistakes, stop going to the stadium - maybe our actions can drive change and cause the wake up call we need. As much of a sh** show the Tennessee Schiano situation was - their fans’ refusal to accept him WORKED for them. We NEED to start spending more on talent and we need to do it immediately. Sitting, waiting and wishing while justifying bad football along the way is killing us (or may have already killed us). Trev, Rhule and crew need a fire lit under their a**es.
  20. Go on… Elaborate more on why you disagree.
  21. All of which have been significantly better than us these last 8-9 years. Clemson has won multiple CFPs in the last decade - I’d kill to be in their position. How many CFP teams have gotten there through talent development? Cincinnati and maybe you could argue TCU. That’s 2 in the entire existence of the CFP.
  22. Also I’m sure they do “have fire in their bellies.” Doesn’t basically every coach want to win? We heard this same line with Frost. Just because they want something to happen doesn’t mean they have the capability to execute it. And right now they damn sure aren’t executing. But Deion is… Why do they deserve a long leash? Why shouldn’t they be held accountable when they are under-performing? Do you have performance reviews in your work? What would the reaction be if you were performing below expectations?
  23. I’d argue they have what they need and are failing… NIL resources - not being used Financial backing for top talent coaching staff - Rhule hires mostly his no-name buddies Brand new state-of-the-art facilities
  24. Yep I definitely did. I wanted an elite recruiter. That’s how you get into the top 10 these days. We have a major talent problem.
  25. Also what about Rhule tenure at Temple was so great? You could argue Al Golden built that program to consistent 9-win seasons, then after one Addazzio (not sure if I spelled his name right but am too lazy to google), Rhule came in, wrecked the program for two years and then brought it back to where it was with Golden (granted with 1-2 more wins a season). And his year at Baylor seems like a flash-in-pan. One good year in a bad conference. Baylor didn’t beat a ranked team that whole year. Then he cashed in his chips at the most opportune time, got a huge NFL deal and failed there.
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