dvdcrr

So let me get this straight,

A 6'2 230 lb kid comes into your house, leading his team to the state title game 2 years in a row doing it with both his arm and his feet, fights like a lion for 8 quarters, unleashes what has to be a record punt, when he is not even a kicker,  when your own college punter can't even do it,  and you are like ..."meh".

1 hour ago, Husker03 said:

Your criticism seems a bit Harsh.  

The news he was going to Wyo was Harsh to me.

9 minutes ago, HS_Coach_C said:

Laramie is also much closer to Scottsbluff than Lincoln is. I hope he has a great college career and earns a scholarship, but even if he does, I won't view this as a miss by Nebraska. Good luck to him.

This is a miss.  And how many good in-state kids can Nebraska afford to lose?

Harsh lead his team to back to back State Championship games in Class B from a Western school to boot.  He tied the single game playoff touchdown record (5) as a Jr.  He showed as much or more heart in that stadium than I have seen in awhile.  Perfect example of the kid you should be getting if you are NU.  But yes, good pick up for the Cowboys who now have Craig Bohl along with a half dozen or so good Neb. high school players.

And the 79 or 81 yd punt is just an example of the kid's overall athleticism.  How many 18 yr. olds can do that?

5 hours ago, desertshox said:

Wait, so NU should have offered a scholarship to a punter that is walking on at wyoming, with possible academic issues to boot?

 

Seems legit.

This post is so inaccurate and uninformed.  

1 minute ago, Mavric said:

 

Dude is a beast.  Would have been a good get.

 

Not ready to call this a miss yet.  Sounded like he has some academic issues to work out.  Also, is he getting a scholarship to Wyoming?  Pretty hard to call turning down a walk-on offer for a scholarship a miss.

No scholly.  He cites his relationship with the Wyo coaches.  

According to some reports, Sabastian Harsh has chosen to go to Wyoming.  If true, this is a significant miss for Nebraska in my view, and frankly NU has had way too many misses lately.  

Here is a 6'2 230 lb Nebraska kid who showed nothing but total heart in his appearances in Memorial.  Under pressure from his own end zone he punted a football  79 yds.   no kidding, watch the video.  

https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1199152136648642560

This kid represents exactly what Nebraska has been missing from its walk on program for too long.   Another NU swing and a miss.

If he showed that kind of heart with a Scottsbluff helmet on I think he would have shown the same with a Nebraska helmet on. 

I would have offered him a scholarship that day and never looked back.

2019 LSU would not have been able to drop the dimes on 1995 Nebraska like they did on Clemson.  The 1995 Nebraska offense would have put up about the same score that 94 Nebraska put on Mia.  It would have been a Nebraska win probably in the 27-24 range.  If playing in 2020 world with terrible refs and crazy rules, LSU wins.  If playing in 1995 world with decent refs and a pure set of rules, 95 Nebraska wins.

2019 LSU and 2001 Miami would have been a GAME

There should be a real time Madden screen up for every fan to select plays during the game and the team should have to run whatever play gets selected the most by Husker fans.

  And this should apply also defense, blitzes and the lineup.

The only problem will be getting those 46 Army guys and 71 Nebraska guys on the field.

1 hour ago, skersfan said:

Nothing pessimistic about it, top 10 to 15 would be an incredible jump for this program, and I truly think that is possible.  5-10 is highly unlikely on  a regular basis.  That is what would be required to return to the 90's I think.  Recruiting at the same rate.  It never happened before so the likely hood of happening now is even less.  Coach Osborne had highly ranked classes, but never back to back to back to back to back.  That is what is required now, or seems to have been for the last 20 years in general.

 

Running the old offense just isn't going to happen.  We don't have enough in state talent to develop the linemen to do it.

 

The reason Alabama returned is history and tradition and the population movement to the south.  They can go 200 miles and find talent to fill their roster, and they are living to get there because Bama gets them to the NFL.

 

College football is not about college, tradition, home state love and loyalty.  We are a feeder for the NFL and really nothing more.  The kids come here because they want to play in the NFL.  Few of our players have turned down the cream of the college ranks to play at Nebraska, unless there was a sure way to play right away.

 

I don't disagree that we can improve, but it won't be along the lines of working harder, or more than other programs that want to win.  It will be because we might happen to get that once in a generation QB and have the O and D lines to protect and destroy the competition.

 

I have never demanded NC's or even expected them.  Always wanted them, but never put that as the ultimate as to whether we have a good team or not.  We get another one or ten would be fantastic, expecting it is a path to total disappointment normally.

The 2 real reasons bama got back to the top:

1: They identified the best name in coaching and got him by ponying up the cash, and

2. By being in the geographic middle of the nations best talent pool.  M-A-G :  Miss, Ala, Georgia.  A prevalence of a certain type of athlete has always been there.  Less than 500 miles from every blue chip athlete they could want.

There are other things too (cash, recreational substances, companionship) being provided in spades by "friends of the program"

1 minute ago, dvdcrr said:

 

And lets get relevant all around.  I got done watching us get slogged by the Hoosiers in the punkin chuckin contest only to turn over to the wrastlin' to watch the beatdown by Iowa.  Fun times!

Bo used up this talent in 09' and 10'.  

Is that all a coach does is use up talent?  

Did Bo use up Demorrio Williams?  Lavonte David?  Or did he help make them?

Callahan was using up Suh, Bo unleashed him.

18 hours ago, ZMagers22 said:

Marcus Mariota was successful in Scott’s offense. Wait, I’m sorry, this is another one of those ignorant “yeah, but” hypothetical conversations where one side complains because they didn’t get their instant gratification, right? My apologies... I’ll stay out of it. 

 

 

99% of the internet

On 1/1/2020 at 2:25 PM, LumberJackSker said:

Yeah want to is whats holding Nebraska back. Thats the biggest difference i see when Nebraska plays the ohio state's. Not talent or coaching its just the lack of effort.

Hey look at the bright side, Nebraska hasn't lost a bowl game since 12/30/ 2016!

1 minute ago, Mavric said:

 

#FreezingColdTakes

Sorry Mav   

Happy New Year!

The Nebraska fan base is way more hungry for a championship than the players are.

8 hours ago, RedSavage said:

Oh boy.  If he does well there I'm pretty sure about 90% of Husker fan's heads will explode

A coach has to have some buy-in from his colleagues and his team.  Diaco was brought in after whats his name supposedly fired his friend of 20 yrs.  Yeah right.  Eichorst made Riley fire Banker or otherwise Eichorst did it himself and then they brought in Diaco.  Diaco had no chance here, the players and staff gave him no chance.  A D1 coordinator is kind of like a big time evangelical preacher.  You've got to know your bible a little, but you've got to get people believing you are speaking the truth.  THEN it is cash money time. 

Thing is, nobody at NU even gave him a shot.  No buy-in whatsoever even from the 15 people who actually knew who he was in the hallway, and didn't mistake him for a piss ant graduate asst. 

I have no doubt the guy can put together a decent defense at Purdue, if they just care enough to listen, and buy some of the BS and just go with it .  He will put in 4-6 yrs there, make cool mill and help the team get som 6-8 win seasons.  And no one will be any the more sad.  GO PURDUE boil-on! or something

On 12/13/2019 at 9:48 PM, skersfan said:

I think it is an honor to be in the top ten.  Coach Osborne accomplished a lot at Nebraska, no question.  Coach Saben has accomplished more and in a much tougher conference and on the National level.  I am not a Saben fan, but you have to give credit where credit is due.  Saben it the GOAT hands down and isn't finished yet.

Nope. 

Never understood this take, never will.  

TO was top 5 best offensive minds in football.  Ever.  OC or HC while winning 4 NC and 2 more NC came down to the last play. Calling the plays.  Offensively, Saban treats OC like rented mules.

Integrity and Scruples? Hands down TO.  Sabans treatment of Miami situation, recruits and 2nd team QBs.  Not great.

I think TO also has him beat on all time winning percentage.  

TO was adriving force behind the pioneering of the best weight program in football at a time when weight lifting was frowned upon.  Vision.

Could Saban do it in Lincoln?  (He wouldn't even try.)

Could TO do it in Bama?  Oh Yeah!!!

Saban many top 5 recruiting classes, TO probably none or 1 and YET:

Lombardi winners under TO: 4

Lombardi winners under Sab: 1

7 hours ago, DrinkinwitTerrellFarley said:

Even the Gators under Ron Zook, Will Muschamp, and Jim McElwain were very mediocre at times.

Muschamp only knows one side of the ball Zook couldn't cut it at Illinois either, McElwain is a good coordinator.

On 12/4/2019 at 3:21 PM, NUinID said:

 

I agree that having top talent at AD and having a President and Chancellor that understand things is probably most important.

 

  I don't agree that Alabama has remained on top for the past 50 years.   From the time Bear Bryant retired in 1981 until Sabin was hired in 2006 Alabama was pretty average most of the time and downright bad some of the time. They had about 4 good years under Gene Stallings but nothing else that was that great or sustained.  Alabama wondered in the wilderness for about 25 years waiting for a coach.  

It helps if the Chancellor can long snap as well

Mike Riley

4 hours ago, Red Five said:

Playing for a conference championship or going to a bowl game would be something he’s never experienced.  

If you play 3 yr. at NU and don't make it to a bowl it is your own darned fault.  44 dudes need to look in the mirror.

13 hours ago, NebraskaHarry said:

I can already tell this thread is gonna get out of control. 

don't they all?

2 hours ago, lo country said:

Preach......I can remember being mad when the only games we lost were bowl games.......

 

I find hope in that every team who fell has risen again.  Some like Bama and OU seem to have been able to continually stay in the national conversation.  

 

Watching the Clemson game, at least the announcers kept saying that Clemson was getting close to being one of only 3 teams to win a Natty 3 times in 4 years....Bama and NU being the only 2.........

And that was one missed kick from being 4 in 5 yr.

22 hours ago, Swiv3D said:

Also, to be clear, I dont expect chin to get fired, and will very happily eat crow next year if the defense finally becomes serviceable on a consistent basis under him, I'm just frustrated and as a 23 year old who's only ever seen this team be at it's best as a 10-4 team, I'm done believing hype and accepting moral victories until I see it happen

23?  Imagine being pissed if the preseason rankings had Nebraska at 5th.  Now imagine that being the case for 30 years.  Thats the NU us older guys know.  That red N on the helmet used to stand for "tough sumbitch" and you better know it.  Now not so much