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Wow...

Honestly, Riley lovers...what say you?

I would love to see what Riley could do with 22 senior starters that all took a redshirt and were all 4 star ranked or higher.

2 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Here, let me give you a recap without every reading one word.

KU has been cheating...for about the last 35 years.

2 minutes ago, Nebfanatic said:

It's been said the difference between recruiting 50th and 20th isn't as big of a difference as 19th to 1st is. 

Yeah, there is some truth to that...

2 minutes ago, Isle of View said:

 

He's not a great coach.  But he ran the Alvaraska blueprint.  A trained monkey probably could win 9 games at Wisconsin with Alvarez as AD.

No...that is only possible at NU...ooopppps

3 minutes ago, Fru said:

I've a feeling this'll be the 2017 version of 2007 Oklahoma St

 

I have heard others mention that as well...would that means he has lost the team?  That sort of happened in 07, didn't it?

3 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Gonna try cracking down on Basketball!  I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to try and clean up the mess.  I am not sure where you begin...

2 minutes ago, skers44 said:

But really, we arent even mentioned in bowl projections currently

So it really is like a typical Riley coached team!

Yeah, but Bobby D played in the Big Ten and coached at ND which basically plays a Big Ten schedule.  I would think he knows what he needs to do.

Just now, BIG ERN said:

I'm betting Nebraska to cover. That doesn't mean I have hope in the season or anything just putting my money on odds that I think are in our favor some:

1. Not getting blown out 2 weeks at home in a row 
2. They beat us by 59 points last year. Could take us lightly 
3. Defense redeems itself
4. Offense finishes drives
5. JT is due for a letdown 

 

Now I could be in the 4th quarter telling myself I'm an idiot, but just have a betting hunch we can make this a football game. 

I could see it being closer than the 24.  Losing 38-21 or something like that

Just now, VectorVictor said:

 

Does anyone truly, actually have hope this week? I'm just hoping we keep it under the spread. 

I mean, I HOPE that NU wins...but I bet on OSU at -14.5 about 3 months ago and I am thrilled about that.

I might put more on OSU at -24...but I think I will wait for the OSU overs.  I think that will be around 34 points.

I wish I had this talent and I am jealous of people who can do things like this, in my tiny brain it just doesn't make sense but I wish that it did.

11 hours ago, ZRod said:

It's like what GSG originally said,  it's not people being jealous, it's a critique on the lack of architectural principle that please the eye. It's basic concepts, that we don't think about for homes, but anyone who remembers composition from art class should be familiar with. Symmetry, balance, flow, things like that.

 

I couldn't sleep one night and stumbled on the mcmansion subreddit and read through a lot of it. I thought it was pompous at first, but it makes a lot of sense from an artistic standpoint. Older homes from the early 20th century and earlier seem to have more balance than moder ones, and be more appealing to the eye.

If you ever watch House Hunters there are tons of people that agree with you and look for those older homes that they can fix up because of the look.

14 hours ago, Crusader Husker said:

You are right, my perspective is a little different.  I saw a girl, who now plays D-1, treat our HS badly.  She missed at least 1 big game a year for different reasons.  One was a concert.  Excuse was, it isn't my club team.  She was on a national team and played 12 months a year.  We had 5 girls recruited to college last year.  Only 2 are playing the rest are burned out.  This is also a bunch of girls who only play 1 sport a year.  The other issue is the kids who get cut.  "We spent $ 2,000 last year for club.  How did she get cut?"  I hear this stuff every year.  It has caused our coaches to keep way more kids than they should.  We have had similar issues with girls in club soccer.  We don't see it in girl's BB or any boys sports.

I could show you some emails that would make you roll your eyes from parents that "spent thousands on club VB and soccer" and they want to know why lil Amanda isn't starting on the HS team.

Also, AAU basketball is bad in terms of the recruiting but as far as high school goes, very few times does it interfere.  Like you, I looked at it from that point of view.

12 hours ago, The Dude said:

At least Americans can skip fake caring about soccer this time around.

This is so true.  I went with some friends to a bar to party for the USA/Germany game a few years back...It was tons of fun but it was clear that it was all about the party and not the game.

In the end...you can always use more talent.

27 minutes ago, lo country said:

We have the talent. We do not have the staff to maximize said talent.......Recruiting service are not perfect, but when one looks at the totality of the composites, NU is higher than any team in the West and generally would be considered the 4th best in the East......That's coaching.  Look at the play calling by Langs, the defensive fronts of Diaco....That's poor coaching.  Look at the improvements on OL due to replacements because of injuries...That's coaching.

 

Do people really think a coach who can't even manage the clock after 40 years of coaching is really going to be able to maximize talent.....Remember when people said he would be able to do so much more with more talent, facilities, etc.......Well the proof is currently in the pudding that he hasn't and isn't going to get NU where it wants to be.  That's coaching....

Agreed!

It is not a slam to call a coach average.  They keep records and it is easy to see who is average and that is what Riley is.  The real issue is not that Riley is average as a coach it is that for the longest time "experts" wanted to jock him up as this coach that was average due to his environment but that really wasn't the case.  People also liked to pretend that the 45 pound plates in Corvallis were not 45 pounds...and that they only had one squat rack...Riley isn't a bad coach he is just average.  

3 minutes ago, Saunders said:

How many times are we going to bring up this narrative?

 

We are getting more raw talent than anyone else in our division. We aren't developing and coaching it, and that's why we're losing.

 

The end.

I am thinking this is the new "toxins" right?

I guess this means that there are not many excuses left, right?  If Riley wasn't nice and friendly and personable these excuses would all be gone by now.  We have used up the...

New offense

Wait for the statue qb

New defense

Toxins

Texts from former coaches (or was that under toxins)

Now it is recruiting rankings

By my count...that is all of them!

Could it be that a guy who has coached like 150 games and is around .500 is just that...

13 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

Clearly you didn't see my man Tanner Lee scamper against Wisconsin.

Ha...I was on my feet the entire time...all 4 yards!

4 hours ago, knapplc said:

Nebraska has as much chance of beating Ohio State as they did beating Michigan State in 2015.

Plus that 2015 had a decent QB that could run.

4 hours ago, Saunders said:

To not be embarrassed.

Could you imagine this thread...about 4 season ago?

1 hour ago, Saunders said:

I've been banging this drum since last year. Some people like to ignore it, but it's an incontrovertible truth.

 

Do you know which part of the podcast it was?

I think Severe had it and I think it was from two days ago?  Sorry, I am not sure.

Also, (not directed at you) but so many fans wanted change because things would be better...now we are told how all this change is hard.  You know who made it hard?  Riley, because he is an average coach.  

21 minutes ago, Crusader Husker said:

This is happening in many sports.  As,I see it, too many games and not enough skill development and training.  The life span that kids do sports has not changed in the last 40 years.  The difference is that kids start much earlier, so now they quit much earlier.

 

my two daughters have never played club sports.  Played 3 sports in HS.  Now play one of those sports in college.  We did rec leagues, but never club.

Smart move!

Club sports have ruined soccer (I don't care about it at all), volleyball (you should see the s#!t the coach at my school puts up with and she has the best team in the state and maybe the midwest), and to some extent baseball.

Basketball seems like the only one that has come out okay with it and I am not sure why but for some reason it doesn't seem to ruin kids and/or high school teams.

While I think the streak has "ended" a few times I also think that the streak will keep going for the same reasons.  For a lot of the fans it is not about THE game...it is about hanging out with friends, tailgating, catching up, bringing the kids, it is about family and friends for 6-7 Saturday's.  

8 hours ago, HuskerInLostWages said:

We need to get youth teams up to par and this pay to play bs put down.  When I played and made ODP for Nevada after the 3rd week it was literally 4k a month to continue on.  My family could not afford that so olympic development was pretty much over for me.  Good players and their families cant afford this so kids with talent tend to go elsewhere or never get the training to move forward in US soccer.  Landon Donovan, rich kid, played ODP, how many have we lost out on due to our soccer governing body not building up the youth squads to compete?  Gulati has been the head for over a decade and has not pushed forwards to get talent trained, we are screwed in soccer for a long time.

Yep!

Select sports or whatever you want to call it has ruined soccer.  I have friends that are out of town every other weekend for 10 year old soccer games...by the time the kid hits 12 the parents are done with it and the kid is done with it.

14 minutes ago, desertshox said:

 

you dont have to be a great salesman if you have a great product.

I think there is some truth to that.  

I would rather have both though, a great salesmen and a great product.

The only issue I can see right now, with Frost, would be recruiting.  I think when it comes to recruiting you are do have "it" or you don't.  Recruiting is sales and a great salesmen is rare.  If he is a great salesmen then he checks all the boxes.