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  1. On 2/27/2018 at 1:34 PM, junior4949 said:

    One thing being overlooked here is the quality of players we'd be adding.  Back in Frost's time at NU, the cost to a walk-on for college was roughly 20-22 thousand.  I was in college during most of Frost's years, and I knew a lot of the walk-on players.  Almost all of them had scholarship offers to smaller schools but chose to walk-on because the cost wasn't really seen as that big of deal.  The starting salaries of their first job out of college was typically higher than their entire cost to attend college.  In todays day and age, I'd guess the cost to a walk-on for college would be quadruple or 80-88 thousand.  I can't think many/any of them would have a starting salary at their first job even remotely close to what it would cost to attend college.  I'd assume the players we'd target to walk-on would also have scholarship offers to smaller schools.  The economics from when Frost was on the team to today have changed drastically.  This would lead me to believe that the quality of players will have changed drastically as well.  A lot of kids these days are taking the scholarships from the smaller schools.  I'd venture to guess the pool of potential walk-on players today is either quite a bit smaller than when Frost played or quite a bit less talented than when Frost played. 

    That's exactly what I thought until Frost recruited one walk-on class.

  2. Title IX is a good thing.  It provides opportunities to women that the money generated from a football program can afford.  I dont think many would argue that.

     

    I just dont understand why we need to create more women scholarship athletes in order to add more men non-scholarship athletes.  I understand opportunities need to be created, but couldnt that be achieved by creating more women non-scholarship athletes.  There's got to be 10 women's programs that could add 2 walk-ons each.

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  3. 22 hours ago, NebraskaHarry said:

    We just need a system and identity that actually tries to run the ball. Didn't get that with Riley. At all. We did with Bo and won 9 to 10 games a year, but lacked in other areas, hence, no conference championship wins. Give Frost and his coaches a little time and I'm sure Nebraska will be back to competing and winning. Might take a little time is all.

    Why should it take a little time?

    I have always believed the right coach turns things around right away.

    According to any recruiting ranking NU has more talent than anyone in the division.

    Then I watch these guys play, and it seems unimaginable that these same guys could be a good football team.

    So, how long will it take?

  4. 4 hours ago, commando said:

    i think the biggest problem is that he seem enamored with the high star wr and qb recruits rather than the line recruits.      without protection the most talented players at qb/rb/wr won't be able to do their stuff.  make your line a priority and things will get better even if the star ranking at the skill positions drops.

    It wasnt MR who is enamored the the skill position recruits it was us the fans.  He did sign 4 stars Barnett, Rairdon, and Farniok.  And he reccruited many batter lineman pretty hard.

     

    It is like he listened to too many voices, and tried to manage everything instead of coaching.  He brought in too many coaches he wasnt familiar with and I wonder if they all got along real well, did they all share the same concepts?  Diaco was a disaster that was ultimately the back breaker.

  5. 8 hours ago, HuskermanMike said:

    Here is my Scott Frost Staff for 2018. 

    HC- Scott Frost-

    OC- Mark Helfrich- interesting turn of events, Scott trusts him and would not be a bad OC hire. If not Mark, I would go with Walters comes with him.

    DC Eric Chinander- Great defensive mind who Scott trusts, this guy will make the Blackshirts play hard with Effort, no more excuses. 

    Special Teams/Associate HC/LB Jovan Dewitt- really like this guy and would not be surprised if UCF tries to nab him as their next HC. 

    Wr- Keith Williams- Walters gets HC at UCf or takes over as interim at least. Would not be surprised to see Ted Gilmore return as WR coach here if KW is not retained. 

    OL- Greg Austin-Frost has high praise for him and loves his teaching style, if Frost is here Austin will return here too.

    TE-  I'm going to go with a Nebraska guy here, but I don't know who. 

    RB- Ryan Held- Nebraska guy who has his rb crew balling out.

    QB- Mario Verduzco- Brings a wealth of experience to the QB position and can back it up with Milton playing well this year. 

    DL- Mike Dawson (potentially Parella stays)- Coached at Oregon, Frost liked him to to bring him to UCF so he brings him to N as well. His D-Line plays tough, hard nosed football.

    LB- Jovan Dewitt- same guy as above

    DB- Donte Williams- might add recruiting coordinator to his name as well to bump his salary a bit. I think he and Chinander will work well together with their aggressive style. 

     

    Thoughts?

     

    I dont want D Williams around any more.  Nothing the DB's are doing is good enough.  And I dont want to hear about how great of a recuiter he is.  He cant teach DB's.

     

    Helfrich is interesting.  Over all I like it.

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  6. 35 minutes ago, moveitforward said:

    Matt Campbell will not leave the ISU program for Nebraska.

    I was thinking about Rhodes at ISU.  The guy was once mentioned for better jobs.  Things turned south for him and he got fired.

     

    Campbell makes 2.5 anually for 5 years at ISU.  He is guaranted about 12 million.

     

    If he could get 5 anually for 5 years.  A guaranteed 25 million why on earth would he turn it down?

  7. After watching the bowl game I have come to fully accept that NU lacks talent across the board. How many guys get drafted this year? 1 or 2, perhaps 3. How many get drafted next year? 1 or 2. This is not a Michigan or Florida job where instant success is possible. This is a total rebuild.

     

    How did Clemson get to where they are? Dabo was hired midseason and played Bo in the bowl game, both first year HC's. Dabo finished that year 6-7, followed that with 9-5 division champ, then 6-7, then 10-4 off and running.

     

    It takes that long to get the talent to the field. It sucks being patient.

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