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And I wish more people were realistic in the universality of such things. Data has been posted about year 2 tendencies of coaches at large as well as many examples from multiple eras in this thread. I'm not reposting it redundantly. It's pretty clear. I'm certainly for Frost getting heavy consideration and I'm also for firing him after 3 years if the results aren't there that lead to the conclusion he can get over this 9 win hump. I also have to seriously question anyone who thinks he needs longer on if they've actually read the supplied data.

I may agree that Riley is lost, but mostly because I don't agree/understand what he's doing on either side of the ball. There's reason to question practice routines, personnel choices, things like that. Operationally, yeah, it can seem to me like he's a bit lost, but I can only judge things based on games, so that picture is incomplete. i can't agree he's lost the team, at least in the sense that statement implies he ever had them to begin with. The intensity is sometimes not what I'd like, especially on defense, but I could say that about his entire tenure. In fact, if I had one universal gripe it's how similar Nebraska looks in this regard between 2015 BYU and 2017 Ohio St.

Read the Husker chalk talk article linked a few times this weekend in this thread, that's a good start.

If you don't do it that way then things will appear to have so much hybridization that they become indistinct. What most people end up doing by using a word like "spread" is describing every car as having 4 wheels. I can list the play types and passing concepts a specific coach runs. If you want to fit entire modern offenses into categories, though, I'm afraid I can't answer that. That's why these debates get messy.

I have proposed an alternative, many times. Call it what it is, and avoid categorizing them. It's formation, sets, personnel groups, and plays. They run weak side counter primarily out of trips, with 10 personnel from the shotgun. That tells me what it is. They run "spread" doesn't.

The projected line was in that 6-7 range before they lost to Rutgers. The loss to Rutgers won't have any impact on the smart money.

I'd like to at least see where the line closes before I mail him his trophy.

The question is, can Riley get his team to win three extremely winnable games in a row heading into a very difficult matchup? Purdue will come down to whether Nebraska wants to win, and that includes the coaches. This is an easy exam if you studied for it, but you may not pass if you were out partying instead.

Lets call it what it is, indeed, by not calling it a spread offense, or pro style, or even "power". These are just dumb descriptors that have no place in an actual football conversation, and because they are poor descriptors, when people try to debate them it just gets messy like this because nobody bothered to properly define them in the first place.

If they're stupid, they fire him soon.

53 1/3. He pitches him.

So did everyone else. Congrats on discovering Google.

They did smoke Memphis. Navy was a hard fought game that either team could have won well into the 4th quarter.

Thats how bad BTN was. They had Purdue overrated, so when Purdue loses a game Purdue otherwise dominates, they over correct based on a flawed expectation level. Their new 10th place team, that jumps up 3 spots, was held to 8 first downs last week.

I suppose it does depend on who you are. For our purposes, though, it was good, and it's better than if this was just another thumping. UCF can return to normal operations next week.

They really should have, though. That's not a bad pick just because it didn't happen.

Gold star status: confirmed.

Bo had some underrated offenses, but some that were not very good. None of them were great offenses, though a few were definitely good enough to have won more games than they did. The biggest problem Pelini had was getting a good offense and defense at the same time. He never had a team in the top 30 in scoring offense and scoring defense, even though he had multiple teams that achieved one or the other.

People will now under rate Purdue based on this game. Rutgers only generated 217 yards and 8 first downs. It's like the football gods were correcting a mistake.

All of them.

We didn't exactly blow them out and we were at home.

Good to see UCF face a challenge for once this year.

We talked about how they're overrated in the Purdue night thread. Still, it's Rutgers, huge upset if this holds.

I cant find it on tv.

Noah Vedral is the backup QB