Vince R.

Max Duggan is someone you want to contact. Now.

Sorry for the late response. Our running backs have a bad feel for the game. If you watch full game tape of Greg Bell, Maurice Washington, Gabe Ervin, and Sevion Morrison, you will see many of the same mistakes. You see these guys running into the backs of offensive lineman or hitting the wrong hole. If Maurice wasn't making the spectacular, he was gaining almost next to nothing in the run game. Attributes like vision and patience can be taught somewhat, and that comes with knowing exactly how your play develops based on the looks you intend to run it against. Devine's development belongs to Riley and Duval. He got his body right and ran away with the job despite what Held saw. Devine was head and shoulders above Greg Bell and Mo Wash that year. How do you miss this? Greg Bell actually proved to be a good sign, but he was horribly developed in his short time here. The guy had a nice bounce back season for SDSU. Deidrick Mills was a horrible fit for our offense. Luckily, as he became comfortable he improved, but he was decent at best. I think we always felt like there was more out there for him but we never saw it. Rahmir Johnson was left for dead and Ryan Held told him to get it together or he's going to be left behind. You might be thinking, good on Held to say that and it obviously worked. What upsets me is that Rahmir is much better than Gabe Ervin at this time, and how did that not reveal itself? And what does that say about the other running backs? They do not seem to be taking in Ryan Held's coaching. Sevion Morrison needs to be better. His hips are horrible and he stumbles too much. He doesn't always look athletic out there. Be patient with Yant, and let him become comfortable even when he makes mistakes. He will make up for them. Marvin Scott should be playing. He's steady, tough, and plenty capable, but because he's not a burner or a pro body, they move on. Markese Stepp is the most complete out of all of them skill wise, but he was not coached up well at USC, and Ryan Held doesn't know what to do with him since he himself isn't a developer. Gabe Ervin is a sign of a major problem. He was not ready for college football, and should have never been the starter. But why was he? Gabe Ervin figured out how to "finesse" practice. There are players who know how to play in a structured environment where they are able to pick up on the opposition and the tendencies over time. Nebraska has a major practice problem where players have figured out how to look really good or reliable in a controlled environment. However, when it's gameday and it's chaos out there, they do not know what to do. The saying, "practice in a way that games become easier", well it looks like they practice in a way that makes the game seem foreign. Nothing reveals itself, at least on offense in practice. I have issues with Held's coaching style and I think his personality comes through in it. He seems incredibly impatient with his players and is looking for the game breaker. He's always looking to over recruit them to solve his issue. He quits on his players. Frost has a lot of blame too because this offense isn't patient. They're so reliant on the guy hitting a 40 yard run that they discard the running backs who don't run 4.5's. And yes, the O-line is garbage and Austin needs to go.

yeah our defense has limitations due to talent. Chins wish he has the caliber of talent Lubick and Frost have on their side.

The only thing I ask friends: When we discuss coaching replacements, let's all agree that we need to do a thorough coaching search. A proper interview process would benefit us. I don't care who we get, as long as he's the best fit in the end.

There were moments that reeked of quitting today. Pull the plug now.

I’m not overly upset or screaming towards the sky so I’m fairly rational right now. He needs to be fired. Let the mass exodus happen now. This team is done.

held and Austin need to go. There’s a rumor that verduzco is retiring.

sometimes I do…

I think he knows that what he had then, he doesn't have now, and that's ample time to hope these two coaches get it worked out. If anything, the four years have crystalized some pretty obvious issues. It would not hurt to replace them based on their performances. What we have seen from Piper and Benhart, or RB's going in the wrong direction, stumbling, and running into O-linemens' asses, it doesn't get any worse. Also, don't look now but O-line recruiting has been incredibly suspect. Our misses there have been woeful, and we are relying on a ton of Riley era guys.

I'm just incredibly torn. I think what's transpired over the last few years is inexcusable, and that includes the PR blunders. A good coach comes to Nebraska and turns it around in year one or two. Nebraska has everything in place to do that. These dumb articles by Sip or the quotes by McMilan are so farce that once I see them, I just exit out. When you have top 25 recruiting classes annually, decent coaching should always yield decent to good results. 7-9 wins annually. Where I am torn is what Nebraska seems to be currently. In my opinion, they are tweaks away from being a ranked team annually, and a true competitor to win the division every year. As they stand currently, they have three good things to build off of going forward. 1. Rockstar D-coordinator and scheme. They will always have a good defense that doesn't lose them games. 2. Talent in the cupboard. Nebraska doesn't have any holes and what's needed is certain positions to be developed properly (O-line and RB). 3. A pretty damn good S&C staff. Nebraska looks so much better than they did even in Bo's last years. 4.(Cheating here because I said 3). Really good TE play. The problem is the offense. It has always been the offense. Aside from Beckton, everyone is below average. It's a testament to the talent that they even have gaudy numbers nationally. To me, the O-line isn't even the biggest problem, although it is right there. What is happening at running back completely blows my mind. Every single year there is a problem identifying who is the best player at that position. Why was Marvin Scott the guy all year leading up to fall camp, and now he's nowhere to be found? Why was Gabe Ervin the starter when he looked the worst out of the five who played? Good, developed running backs can help a young O-line. Ryan Held has been saved by the moxie of players like Devine and Rahmir who seem to do well in spite of their coach. I have zero knowledge as to why guys like Piper and Benhart regressed so much. Although I do have a guess. The change in schemes or styles stunted their development a bit, which then hurt their confidence. The nail in the coffin was going against our front 7. Sometimes getting your a$$ handed to you for two camps makes you not want to play. Remember that clip of Tannor obliterating Piper in practice? I think he's been shook ever since. Scott is going to have to figure out not only how to get major coaching upgrades on those two positions, but he is going to have to find a much better way to see the truth in practice on that side of the ball. No more guess work. Do you want a team that doesn't have mental blunders week in and week out? Develop an Offense with a pulse in the first half so you don't have to be tentative, and thus a reactionary team. You can just win the game for executing well in the second quarter a few times... Last thing, if I could give him advice, I would tell him that he needs to take over the WR room or consider Beckton for it. The mismanagement of Betts and Brown are a travesty to this program. Treat them better and watch what happens. Those two could easily set the league on fire alone.

We have a lot more than most.

It's the offense. The defense is incredibly resilient and level headed. They couldn't be more polar opposites and the offense has the better talent. Until Scott settles down on a true direction for that side, and hires a RB coach that isn't a scatter brain, or an O-line coach with some fire, then it will continue. Scheme identity is very overrated. Nebraska needs a mentality identity. Scott also needs to take part in WR development. If they just got that fixed, a lot of the offensive woes would be solved.

Hard to argue with you Fru.

Idk Jeremy, money talks man. Also, Trev is legit. Nebraska is in a much better position now than when Frost first got hired.

Possibly higher pay, better players to work with, and a really good name on your resume. Unless the coach comes from a top ten program. Nebraska isn’t a dumpster fire on the field. They’re a really good team that cannot close games out. A 10 to 15 percent improvement on offense would put Nebraska in the top 10-20 easily. Our imperfections wouldn’t be so magnified if we could just punch it in once more a game. This staff is polarizing because despite of what I just said, these results might just be apart of their dna. I do think they need serious developers at RB and O-line. There’s too much talent there.

I think the issue here is that it’s reasonable to expect Nebraska to be apart of that .931 if we were looking at another teams optics, by this point at least. We shouldn’t be looking at things as if we have the talent or history of a Purdue, Rutgers, Indiana, etc. At some point, you have to become the big bad wolf of the schedule with wins to show it. By year four, all we have proved is that we play great football for a quarter and a half.

I signed up for 247 a few years back and I’m thinking of canceling. The tone of that board is really bad and there are so many fans there who have their heads in the sand. And every thread ends in a fight.

Husker fans are no better than other fans. It's all an act, and all the program has left.

This team is going to lose out. I don’t know how you recover from that.

I became a huge fan of his after the first year. I thought he had the least to work with and he adjusted everything seamlessly. Whether that was finding the best positions for players or his recruiting prowess. His defense then was pretty good but the offense is what messed the numbers up because they would turn the ball over on their side of the field. The guy had a Nebraska tattoo artist cover up his Hawkeye tattoo on this left arm lol. I think he's a lifetime, elite D coordinator. Give him a 200k raise and pay up on the assistants also. They are doing a great job.

He definitely did after the first two years and I never understood it. He hasn't proven much at all in D1 to suggest a jump like that. JUCO HC is not the same.

its not so much about whether he got it or not for me. I think it’s close and debatable, but it’s the principal of what he did that bothers me. It’s a judgement call and his was half a yard short which is reasonable because that’s where the ball was when he stepped out. The issue is what happens after his initial spot. You don’t move it twice like that. That looks fishy and egregious. He also didn’t have our view from that angle so to me it looks even more fishy. It didn’t decide the game or anything like that. I just think it looks horrible, and with a bad officiating outing, it’s more than reasonable to question intent.

If you watch the muffed punt, phalen fell on top of it and had possession. The last clip before they went to break showed it. Not a review, nothing.

And it is close right, if he initially would’ve given him a first down, I wouldn’t have argued it. But it’s the fact that his judgement saw it was short by half a yard and he starts moving it up not once, but twice, and it’s on their sideline. Some people are arguing about this with me on Reddit lol but if you apply this same situation near the goal line, that’s the difference in someone scoring or not. And that’s fixing the game. Every play is reviewed so it’s not like the line judge can’t be helped out if they made a bad call.

Is he sure he wants any more attention paid to the officiating?... Many in the program have suggested that there is a possible fix and they have been sending tapes for years. Now as fans, we have something tangible for everyone to see. It was done on their sideline as well so no Nebraska coach or player could see.