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That would be interesting. To be coaching that long, they must be respected in the business. Much unlike coaching 7 years in your first gig, being known as one of the only coaches in history to win 9 games a year every year, and then ending up at Youngstown St.

Bo Pelini was hired December 3, 2007. Mike Riley was hired December 4, 2014. Today's date is November 3, 2015. How hard is this? Well, you must admit that currently it is the wrong hire, right? That is all we have to go on...and the last 30 years of his coaching career. I'm not sure yet. We are 3-6. We've lost 5 of those games by a total of 13 points. We've been competitive and down to the wire with the same teams that have been competitive with us in the past aside from Purdue and Illinois. We destroyed a Minnesota team that has proven to be capable of beating us in the past. We went down to the wire with a Wisconsin team that has proven capable of destroying us in the past. I'm not over reacting to the win/loss record. I've watched the games. I've seen the same inconsistent team doing the same things they've always done. What I haven't seen is the couple of guys we used to have that could make something out of nothing and carry this team on their backs. I'd like to think the leaders in this program and the big money behind it, are smart enough not to overreact either. These guys deserve a chance to do their jobs. Just like anybody else in any profession. This is hardly "their" team yet.

Good teams/bad teams, I don't know. Teams we are pretty evenly matched with. Yep. Except on the offensive line. I can say with certainty we are more inconsistent than nearly every team we've played when it comes to the offensive line.

I've gotten tickets for a lot less than that on StubHub. During the magical 9 wins seasons of Bo Pelini nonetheless.

Bo Pelini was hired December 3, 2007. Mike Riley was hired December 4, 2014. Today's date is November 3, 2015. How hard is this?

To me, this is where he nails it. This has been one of the most inconsistent teams in football for a long damn time. Why would that have vanished in ten months? How could it? This same team has been in competitive games with the very same teams we've lost to this season. At no point have we shown to be clearly better than any of these teams aside from Purdue and Illinois. Illinois was inexcusable and ugly, I've always said that. Purdue didn't look like they were having trouble matching up with us anywhere on the field. You turn the ball over five times, you'll lose 9/10 times. Simple as that.

Wow. This is so refreshing to hear this stuff being said. McKewon absolutely is spot on with that.

I like when we recruit not only good football players, but smart kids as well.

That's what is shocking to me. I don't care about rotatin offensive linemen, that's a Husker fan thing, that's not a normal occurrence in football. Chemistry and familiarity are extremely important to an offensive lines success. If subbing a guy in completely destroys that chemistry and ruins any chance of success than that is disappointing. We need to get a few other guys going and we needed to a Lon time ago. I know it's easier said than done, but the way this group looks, it needs to be done. Get someone else in there and get them some reps. I don't expect these coaches to suddenly have everyone playing at a higher level than they ever have before, but the accountability and lack of change is somewhat frustrating. It's even more disappointing if the depth is just truly that horrible behind these starting five.

Yeah, this place has smelled for a while.

This seems foolish to say. Especially with all of our injuries... I mean, everyone's all on board now saying "They need to hit more in practice!" until we lose 2 guys before a big game. Then everyone would say "they need to be smart! Don't injure players DURING practice!" There's no right answer, but the best is what everyone is doing. And that is less contact during the practice week. Everyone does it for a reason... I said the same thing. With all the injuries the staff has to be leery of this. Damon comes from an era of Nebraska football that had depth to spare at every position for the most part.

We're volunteers, not university employees. We aren't subject to Eichorst's "Energy Vampires" mumbo jumbo BS. We're allowed to have free thought.

So should we ignore that we're dead last in pass defense? I've really got to know, when you read my comment, what specifically gave you the impression that I was saying we should "ignore that we're dead last in pass defense"? Seriously, I have to know because that is just unbelievable. What's truly unbelievable is how you continue to blindly defend these coaches like they are all knowing and can fix this. They can't. Banker has a history of putting up terrible defenses and we're seeing it again this year. Halfway through the season we should at least see SOME progress, we aren't at all. In fact the defense is only getting worse. We returned most of our secondary from last year, and suddenly went from 25th to 128th in pass defense. How is that not coaching? Not one post in this thread is criticizing the effort and talent level of our team, something you've been doing constantly in other threads. We are pointing out the obvious that Banker is a terrible defensive coordinator. So you didn't answer my question. Okay, anyways...... I've never once said this staff is all knowing or can fix this. I've said they deserve a chance at trying to. While in fact things have been ugly, unlike many of you I'm not sure how much of the ugliness I can attribute to the coaching staff yet. I constantly challenge people here to show me a play where a player was not in position to make the play. There are examples, sure. But for every one example you can show me, I can show you ten more that we do have a player in great position to make the play, and we just aren't doing it. Ten months into this hire, I just can't blame Banker for his players not executing his scheme. They aren't his players, and they obviously aren't comfortable in the scheme. While we all loved hearing that these coaches would come here and implement a scheme that "fit" the talent on hand, we need to realize that these guys didn't come here to coach Bo Pelini's and Tim Beck's schemes. They have their own ways of doing things too. It's hard to abandon everything you know in an attempt to force things to work. I'd really like to see them find a few pieces to plug into what they would actually like to do. They came in saying they wouldn't let schemes get in the way of wins.....that's exactly what they've done all season. Sorry, but I've had to deal with Riley and the gang once before as a Charger fan. I didn't like what I saw then, and I'm definitely not liking what I see now. Defense isn't THIS difficult to teach. There's no reason we should have a defense that ranks 108th especially with the offenses we've played. I don't think he's having a hard time teaching it. I think we are having a hard time executing it. Our blitzes do not get to the QB enough. We have some lane breakdowns in the front seven, and typically very bad timing for some breakdowns. Our defensive backs are used to being a bit spoiled and are now being challenged and while many Defensive Backs are of the mindset in which they love the challenge of being on an island, we actually had a DB coach in the past say that we very much lack that type of player in our backfield. Now, I realize the "get punched and punch back" comments were a little while back in our history, but just watching the games, it looks like when we get beat on a big play, we seem to fit that profile of not always fighting back.

You have a very...Soviet view of this topic.

So should we ignore that we're dead last in pass defense? I've really got to know, when you read my comment, what specifically gave you the impression that I was saying we should "ignore that we're dead last in pass defense"? Seriously, I have to know because that is just unbelievable. What's truly unbelievable is how you continue to blindly defend these coaches like they are all knowing and can fix this. They can't. Banker has a history of putting up terrible defenses and we're seeing it again this year. Halfway through the season we should at least see SOME progress, we aren't at all. In fact the defense is only getting worse. We returned most of our secondary from last year, and suddenly went from 25th to 128th in pass defense. How is that not coaching? Not one post in this thread is criticizing the effort and talent level of our team, something you've been doing constantly in other threads. We are pointing out the obvious that Banker is a terrible defensive coordinator. So you didn't answer my question. Okay, anyways...... I've never once said this staff is all knowing or can fix this. I've said they deserve a chance at trying to. While in fact things have been ugly, unlike many of you I'm not sure how much of the ugliness I can attribute to the coaching staff yet. I constantly challenge people here to show me a play where a player was not in position to make the play. There are examples, sure. But for every one example you can show me, I can show you ten more that we do have a player in great position to make the play, and we just aren't doing it. Ten months into this hire, I just can't blame Banker for his players not executing his scheme. They aren't his players, and they obviously aren't comfortable in the scheme. While we all loved hearing that these coaches would come here and implement a scheme that "fit" the talent on hand, we need to realize that these guys didn't come here to coach Bo Pelini's and Tim Beck's schemes. They have their own ways of doing things too. It's hard to abandon everything you know in an attempt to force things to work. I'd really like to see them find a few pieces to plug into what they would actually like to do.

So should we ignore that we're dead last in pass defense? I've really got to know, when you read my comment, what specifically gave you the impression that I was saying we should "ignore that we're dead last in pass defense"? Seriously, I have to know because that is just unbelievable.

No wonder message boarders get such a crap reputation. We're no better than these clucking hens....

To be honest, I don't see how you guys can seem to hate the man so much. It appears a lot of you genuinely hate the guy though, and I do think it's kind of sad. While I didn't expect this team to have such a horrible season in the win/loss category, I've seen a lot bad breaks suffered by this team in the game of football and in the injury department. I don't run around saying I like the guy because he's a nice guy either, that seems to be something most of you haters say. I think the guy is a nice guy and a good coach. I think Husker nation has grown too comfortable with the idea of firing coaches when you see so many people wanting a change after just ten months of hiring these guys. There used to be a time when firing people was kind of the last resort. Now too many of you seem to think it's the answer. All because you've seen some success stories this season. All the while ignoring all the stories that aren't so successful, both this season and in history. This situation is unique in the fact that our former coach won 9 games each year. What you've chosen to ignore is how truly close many of those games were to being losses. You've ignored how closely matched many Big Ten teams have actually been to us. We have not separated ourselves as a program since joining the Big Ten. We've actually shown to be right on par with the group for the most part. Capable of winning or losing big on any given Saturday. Speaking of coaches turning programs around immediately, how's things going at Oregon State and Youngstown?

Sounds like we should give him some time to figure things out then if he's got all these things going for him.

Came to the thread wondering which opponents trolling fan created this thread. It was a "Husker fan" and a Huskerboard Moderator nonetheless...... Remember, when you created a thread called Bo Pelini's QB graveyard, you were applauding his players in their effort and execution of his scheme in destroying an opponents statistics. When you create a Banker QB valhalla thread, you get to point out how incredibly sh**ty the Blackshirts look. So some of you same guys, don't be going around the board in other threads crying when people are questioning the effort and talent of the players on this team. This thread is dedicated to showing the lack of both. Unless of course you believe that football is all coaching and nothing else. I hope sometime down the road Banker and the Blackshirts are able to get the desired results and we can end the days of celebrating an opponents successes against our own defense because it validates our agenda against a coaching staff.

Didn't Bo Pelini cry about the Administration not showing their faces much or not at all? I thought that was the issue? I think Gordon ran for 408 yards on Bo's defense, because Eichorst or Perlman didn't visit practice that week.

It scares me that this staff does not see any other options. Riley says they are not "saving" anybody, or holding someone off the field in an attempt to build for the future. He says the best players are playing and we are doing what we can to win NOW.

I can see every aspect of that. Illinois and Purdue both stand out as brutal examples of a poor game plan. The practices do need to get tougher in my opinion. We've got too many guys taking bad pursuit angles and playing a bit un-aggressively. Maybe more game-like practices could help this, but with all the injuries on the team, I can see why the coaches are leery about anybody else getting hurt. The effort thing has been pretty obvious and easy to spot. It's not everyone, but it is some. We are a very inconsistent team, have been for a long time. We have been in almost all aspects of the game, but Bo used to at least get a pretty consistent effort. It appears Riley does not get that same respect from the players, and I don't know if that should be all that surprising. I still look at the talent of this team as probably better than Illinois and Purdue for sure, but if those talented players aren't executing, making plays or giving consistent effort, then it's not gonna matter. We've not been able to overcome our inconsistency with a huge play here or there like we did in the past. We've been an inconsistent team for a really long time, but we used to have that couple of guys that made up for it here or there with a few big plays per game. Abdullah's absence is huge for this team. I'd sure like a Randy Gregory at DE right now as well.