TemporarySaint

If he was going to fire him, he'd do it. You don't wait til after a bowl game.

The issue in terms of a 9-3 season is the same as it was in '03. Who do you get as a replacement? Urban Meyer openly bashed the firing of Solich and I'm sure many other coaches did in private. We obviously have our selling-points but from the outside folks will see a job where the expectations are very high and the nearby talent is low. If we don't lose any more games this season I'm not ready to commit the next several years on Frost and I'm not sure anyone proven will want the job. Now if we can go through channels to be totally sure we can get a first-rate hire I could understand a change.

 

Considering our O is depleted I don't see Bo being canned for 9-3. With just a healthy TM we're probably 11-1. Could well see staffing changes though. Now if we lose another regular season game a firing wouldn't surprise me.

True, but the criticism of Solich's firing also had a lot to do with the fact that Solich's successes. Dude won a BCS game, played in a national title, won a conference championship, and generally finished top 15.

Good thing we put in Kellogg. Just like a coach on the field.

If we hire a man that's defensive scheme is literally as effective as me standing on train tracks, putting my hand up to signal it to stop, and trying to hold my ground; I will be very upset. Next.

+1. Yeah, we already have that.

It's not Taylor, Papuchis, or Thad Randle; it's Bo.

Our team is getting outcoached by a team without one.

Since UCLA last year, every team throws jet stuff at us and every time we look like we're so confused we could just poop ourselves. JFC.

This qb rotation continues not to make any sense

Laramie is pretty awful for tailgating. I'd really like to second others recommendations of 3rd Street, Lovejoys, and the Library. Great Mexican food (burritos and tortas) at Rodolfos on 3rd.

We have some amazing freshmen playmakers. Abdullah looks to be shaping up to be the possibly the best of the bunch at RB. That was a helluva juke.

Our OL is still a liability.

Kinnie is not a playmaker.

Our LBs are a liability.

We need Dennard back.

Blatchford and Cassidy need to be taken off the field.

We still do not have the fire of 2009. This team needs a leader.

Martinez has all of the trajectory and finesse of the weinerschlinger.

We need to junk the power game and open things up and get the ball to all of our playmakers in open space.

Turner will be a helluva player. The adjustment he made on Martinez's pass was something that you don't usually see at of a true freshman.

Martinez is equally the most exciting and frustrating player in the country.

When did Cosgrove take back over?

Beck wasn't the answer. We are worse on O than we were last year.

This feels like 07

We are not a top 25 team.

Unless we really fix things the Wisky game is going to be painful.

Just awful. We look completely uninterested. No fire. Inexcusable.

3 runs accounted for 142 yards. The other 40 went for 86. I don't think that's exactly how Dr. Tom would have done it.

Beck needs to diversify his play calling, and get Bell, Turner, and the 3 young RBs more involved.

 

 

lol

 

People do realize that this was the first game, and that we were pretty vanilla, right? I mean, did we even run a playaction pass all day?

Every year it seems we wonder if we're purposefully being vanilla or holding things back, and while it can be true to some extent, usually we don't see that much more going forward. I think what we saw on offense today is what we've got. The only things I really see changing in the future are execution and tempo. Until we see someone else emerge as a secondary playmaker I'm not going to assume we have one that we are just secretly hiding. JMHO.

MBunch of random observations: Maher was very encouraging out there. He's not Henry, but he's about as a good of a replacement as you can hope for.

Stafford is a stud.

Fisher should not be starting. Guy still hasn't figured out how to tackle and will get absolutely eaten up come B1G play.

We either need to learn how to run the option properly or significantly reduce its use, ugly ugly stuff there. Not happy with o-line. We need to significantly improve our passing game. We have an awful lot of speed with Turner and the three freshmen backs. Abdullah is a big threat on punts and Turner should get as many touches as possible.

D will get much better when Dennard's back.

Offense is extremely underwhelming so far.

The roommates and I always get pumped for multiplayer dynasty, but this year we can't figure out how to get one going. It seems like they only have it set up for one player, but there are mentions of multiple users. Didn't they weed out multi dynasty or am I just retarded?

I take issue with this commit for a couple reasons ..

 

We have low scholarship numbers in this class. We are likely looking at less than 15 recruits in this class total, so why are we in a rush to offer a kid from Nebraska who would take an offer regardless of when we offered it? If it is based off of what we saw in camp, then with Drew Ott being more impressive than Sam Cotton during camp, why is Drew without an offer?

 

My biggest gripe - Sam can come to UNL regardless of an athletic scholarship. With his father as an employee of the university, he can attend school, play football, and pay next to nothing in tuition costs. This goes back to my original point - with our limited scholarship numbers in this class, why are we not taking full advantage of the fact his father is an employee and Sam can get through school at basically no cost to the family? It's win-win for the football team, and for the Cotton family.

 

And for the person who mentioned Mike Shoff - he isn't getting an offer anytime soon unless he has an absolutely amazing senior season. Very unimpressive at camp. Drew Ott is the next in-state kid in line for an offer, if/when we hand out one.

 

BigWillie . . . I very well could be wrong and you probably know better than I do but I think that he would count against the 85 scholarships no matter how they categorized it. I know that you can't get around the limit by giving a star QB an "academic" scholarship . . . it still counts against the total if they are playing football no matter where you say the money is coming from.

 

(If I'm wrong, imagine the fun that the SEC schools could have with that kind of loophole!)

That didn't seem to be the case with Watson's kid as a walk-on or Cassidy's kid as a walk-on.

The comparison between Zac Lee and Taylor really isn't appropriate. Zac tore his flexor tendon against Arkansas St. and has less effective from there on out. We didn't get a chance to see him play healthy against BCS competition. Taylor wasn't just ineffective aftern his injury. He was absolutely shut down against Texas and SDSU, well before his injury.

 

at myself for answering this, but....

 

 

Lee was also a Junior, in his third year in the program. Marty was a redshirt Freshman who had switched positions mere months before those games.

I think there certainly is something to be said for different levels of experience and comfortability to the offense, but is a tangential issue when I was just talking about the points in the season when each player's respective injuries occurred. Comparing Taylor and Lee's performance against BCS teams isn't altogether fair when we didn't see a healthy Lee against BCS competition. His point of injury coincides with the increase in the difficulty of opponents, which makes it difficult to say which was the bigger factor. We did see a a healthy Taylor against BCS competition and he was both effective and ineffective. I'm not saying he's a finished product by any means, but there are definite causes for concern that extend beyond his injury IMO.

The comparison between Zac Lee and Taylor really isn't appropriate. Zac tore his flexor tendon against Arkansas St. and has less effective from there on out. We didn't get a chance to see him play healthy against BCS competition. Taylor wasn't just ineffective aftern his injury. He was absolutely shut down against Texas and SDSU, well before his injury.

Caputo is definitely not a first two round pick. Guy needs to learn how to handle big NTs before he is anything but at best an undrafted FA.