Husker66

back then Nebraska was way ahead of everyone. we practicially taught S and C to the rest of the college football world...they were one of 20 or so teams on TV and kids would leave florida to play here...and even TO had struggled back then until the 90's. ..we had damn nasty lines.. ....not the same today...most kids don't have to leave their state anymore to get on TV.

for me it would be easy...establish and identity as lineman U...Kinda like Penn state was/is LBer U. id have the best everything in here from lineman coaches, etc. id pay way over the top for them......make this the place lineman go to move on.....go offer the best line coaches 4X what they re making now . behind a great line Oz would look like Ron Dayne...

We need nasty lines on both sides of the ball and then need to build our team from there. We keep getting pushed around in those areas and to me that's your foundation as a team. We seem to get some decent skills players, but the lines just never work out for whatever reason. I don't get it..........

this^^

the game begins and ends with great line play period...

you fix this, we are a legit consistent top 10 program. If it were up to me...id pay out the a$$ for the best o and d line coaches and start from there....but its not up to me....

 

I have said before: I like Mike Riley and I definitely want him to win/succeed. But, after seeing our running game dwindle through the course of the season, I am losing faith in him.

 

Teams that struggle against the run look like Alabama when they play Nebraska. That's NOT talent.

 

That's coaching philosophy and focus.

 

Mike Riley is a passer. He comes from the Pac 10/12 where the running game is an after thought.

 

That is 100% fine and dandy for the Pac 12. But in the Big 10...not having a dominant running game gets you 5th place or lower in the conference standings.

 

Mike Riley seems incapable of learning that.

Riley had lots of 1,000 yard rushers at OSU. Jacquizz Rodgers 4 times. Yvenson Bernard 4 times. Ken Simonton once. "Mike Riley is a passer" and "Mike Riley seems incapable to leaning that" is total BS based on HIS HISTORY. His HISTORY has shown that when he has the horses, he uses them.

 

As for UNL's running backs, neither Newby nor Ozigbo would have started at OSU when Rodgers, Bernard or Simonton were there. In fact, neither of those guys would have started at OSU this season.

 

I'm sure some Stanford and Oregon fans would laugh at your assessment that rushing is an after thought in that league, not to again mention that Riley had 9 seasons where he had a 1,000 yard rusher.

 

idk, sure looks like he wants to build a West Cost offense here...it was discussed on tv yesterday as well...maybe because that's all he's got to work with?

 

Least talented Husker team I think I've ever seen on the field for one game.

 

That includes 2007.

Probably true. Those mid classes Bo got have turned out to be very Minnesota like and we haven't seen much excellence from the younger guys yet. Pretty tired of waiting it's next year for me young OL new QB yeah fine blah blah next year the team needs to be better IMO.

 

but the lines get better next year right?!?!?

 

I can smell the comeback...we are just letting them settle into a false sense of security and then we will get them, right? Right? Right?

 

Exactly! Riley quietly sucking Tennessee into the trap and then bam! He unleashes a blitzkrieg of crazy trick plays, 5 wide and so on. Proceeds to drop 40 on the volunteers. Cherry on top....Riley pimp walks into the post game presser and shouts "how you like my offense now f'ers!"

best post all day

best post all day

shall i start a new thread about what the huskers have to do to return to greatness??

maybe not...

3...2....1...

broken record...until nebraska.......yada yada yada,...

lemme know when anything happens.

On another note, Best Buy has Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 for Xbox $29.99 each, in case you're shopping for the kids.

From a New Year's Day bowl to the Weed eater Rommba Cracker Barrel bowl on dec 26th.

vs. Central Michigan

its a broken record since 2000...we probably shouldn't have been In the last NC but probably got in on name to some degree

No i didnt think we would run the table on the big 10, but losing 24-17 or something like that would have felt so much better...

we will probably do just fine, go to a nice little bowl, travel 12,500 fans and maybe even win...

I became resigned to the fact years ago that Nebraska wasn't willing to play in the new version of college football...so I don't get too high or too low anymore...

To me its all about leadership.

It starts at the top with the AD and President. When they decide being great on the football field is very important and are willing to pay, this will likely get fixed...alledgedly Phil Knight is willing to pay $10M for a Head coach at Oregon. kids want to play at the next level and will go to Alaska to get that coaching if they have to...we don't have that because we haven't been willing to do what it takes. That means the best coaches from HC down through all position coaches and S and C.

Mike Riley gets $2.7M annual salary. mathematically he is valued a little under 1/3 of what Harbaugh is. he's probably done 1/3 of what Harbaugh has done... Had Harbaugh been a husker, we wouldn't have offered him what Michigan did.

Michigan is probably paying $10-15M more than us on football...and Ill bet they are recouping every penny and more...you gotta build it and they will come.

this is a business

Just paying high doesn't get you performance, .paying high for high quality does.

like in so many things, it all comes down to a few inches..they are all over but ya got a gettem

TA Jr is a straight up warrior. simple as that

Penalties per team

 

 

NU 7-55

 

OR 13-126

 

Made a big difference. Their offense is very dynamic, but their team penalties are horrific.

not bad as penalties have been a stat we have led in as of late...hopefully this means the quality of play is increasing

There were a few bad calls. The pi called on oregon on 3rd down was bogus (that led to a nebraska touchdown. The illegal substitute on 3rd down against oregon was bogus which made it 3rd and 1 instead of 3rd and 6 (the defense has the right to make a substitution when the offense does, the refs are supposed to stand on the ball) there were also a few more that went our way. If we had some of those calls against us then there would be complaining on these boards. We can't exactly call them whiners when we would be doing the same thing.

that call on the sub was bad and I thought that final holding call against Oregon was real questionable..

 

Finally we were on the good end of bad decision making. 45 years of watching football, Positive I haven't witnessed that before. he kicks, they get the Dub.

 

If he kicks them all they get a tie. Or, like the announcers, are we only going to criticize the plays that didn't work, and not the same ones that did?

 

they win if the kick the rest, they scored 5 td's , got 1 2 pointer, left 4 points if they kick the rest. they win 36-35 if my math is correct

Finally we were on the good end of bad decision making. 45 years of watching football, Positive I haven't witnessed that before. he kicks, they get the Dub.

That is cool, I am finally getting back to NE this weekend to take my son to his 1st Husker game. Pretty cool that it is also the 350th sell out.

and Oregon, not SW fill in the blank d1AA school needing to expose their kids to physical annihilation for a million $ check.

it has a much differnet feel when the film is of the previous year kicking someones ass in the NC, being the most dominant team in the land...

 

 

So other than Phillips and Christian Peters, what other topics do you suspect they'll cover?

I hope they cover how awesome Grant Winstrom, Tommy Fraziers, And Terrell Finley were.

 

 

who were wiNstrom, FraziersZ and Finley again?

 

I would be happy to perennially finish in the top 10-15 while being in the playoff conversation late in the year. Maybe make the playoff 1 out of 5 years.

 

Some people have mentioned the advantages we have. Other than "history", what are those advantages?

 

 

 

A LOT of money and the most fervent fan support of any school in the country, to start. Elite facilities and a fantastic academic support system as well.

 

And no other schools have this? most of the SEC would bag to differ for instance...well maybe not the academic part.

plenty of money? check

fervent fans? check(maybe more fervent)

Elite facilities? check

fantastic academic support...maybe not in all places...and these top tier kids don't care much about that unless its in the way of them being eligible ..

i'd hire a sick coach, crazy best available strength and conditioning staff, put another 10K seats in but keep the old school look and feel, hire a marketer Phil Knight good.

very sad. one of the great wasted talents I can remember in Football.

Voted NO

back in the day, we were just so far ahead of most everyone in the country in so many ways on and off the field. we were one of a few dozen consistently on TV, schools came to study our strength and conditioning program, kids came far and wide to play here because It was a better option than closer to home and close to the beach, TO was probably a genius(maybe more organizationally) compared to many (although he had some rough times as well winning at times.remember the Bluebonnet bowl? he was going to be fired if he lost)and on an on. I think we proportionally took football more seriously than most programs at the time...I'm not sure if you scaled that effort up against todays environment, it would be possible to put that much space between us and the rest of the country.

Now? we don't lead in any of these areas and are not even on the radar in most, if any.

I think its going to start with the right leader, from there everything will flow...if that doesn't get done, it wont get much better than hovering in the 8-9 win range. I don't care about mid 90's, id take being like Wisconsin, MI state etc. of late. just very competitive and run our brand of power football(like Stanford if I had my way).

the center of the football universe has dramatically moved away from Nebraska, it will take the right guy to get it closer again.