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On 11/29/2019 at 6:23 PM, Jeremy said:

The 2nd half was the best defense I've seen Nebraska play since McBride. Until Iowa's last drive. 

2009 Whole year, look it up

should have played luke more.  but hate to get a freshman hurt though so use in good setups.  

13 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

Exactly. Lines, base of the pyramid. Most guys on these lines wouldn't have started on our 2009 team.

 

You have bad lines, you don't control the line of scrimmage. Lose that battle, you have to get super creative with your play calling. Only you don't have those pieces, so half of your creativity doesn't work.

 

Everything struggles, the armchair coaches get bent, and you have the threads we have tonight.

It is hard to win when your lines are getting handled.

On 11/24/2019 at 11:35 AM, Stone Cold said:

No bro, they hate us.  They hate what we had, they hate that we talk about what we had, they hate our fans, our team.  The are playing to make us end our season.  So yes they have alot to play for.

Does Iowa fan really hate Husker fan like that?  Cause straight up we dont care about them

14 hours ago, NUance said:

 

Yeah, makes you wonder where we'd be if we had stuck with Frank.  Props to Frank for reaching this milestone in the MAC.  

 Many coaches I can think of who have left Nebraska since 2003 have gone on to good success.

NU would be in a better place for sure if he had been retained.

On 11/18/2019 at 5:38 PM, April Wine said:

Here is what I hope whether we beat Maryland and iowa or not.  I hope Frost doesn't go around the country professing how good we are gonna be(what he said on gameday is only his 2nd most embarrassing moment, topped only by the day he was hired when he professed the b10 will have to adjust to him).  I also hope that whatever the media says in the off season about how good we might be that fans not believe it(myself included)  I hope Frost can just keep his mouth shut and concentrate on his football team. Don't want to hear about the best week of practice ever week after week after week and get outcoached by Bethune cookman or Colorado this year.  We as fans are not dumbasses that believe everything that comes out of his mouth..don't lie to us.    Lets move on to next year and hope it is somewhat better.

OK but just be warned that when Frost does get us "that good" again and the Big 10 IS having to adjust to us ,I am going to quote your crap right here and you are going to have to eat it.

On 11/6/2019 at 7:54 PM, HuskerNation1 said:

 

I work with trainers all the time and do not believe that some 20 and 21 year old lineman could have reached their ceiling in the 2018 season. There is always room for additional strength at that age unless they have some unique genetic condition.  There also should be room for growth from a technique perspective which is where the Oline coach comes into the picture. 

Truth.  A male collegiate athlete does not reach a ceiling at 21.

8 hours ago, Wistrom Disciple said:

 

Last thing we need right now is inconsistency with our coaching staff.

This.

Defense is under its 3rd DC in 4 yr.

Benhart, Farniok, Gaylord....with names like these, maybe they should drop football and start larping?

here ya go,  omg:-)

3 hours ago, GamingGlen said:

"

Passing Offense

completions per game: 37 to 30

completion percentage: 59 to 97

yards per attempt: 50 to 42

touchdowns per game: 10 to 14 

"

Wait... that last one: touchdowns per game?

Do you understand percentiles? ...asking for a friend.

On 11/8/2019 at 1:14 PM, tmfr15 said:

Nebraska "enjoys" a bye week this week and, meanwhile, Oregon State will be at home against Washington.

 

The Huskies are favored and should roll, but, here is the thing... Oregon State is coming off a record evening win on the road at Arizona, 56-38. Washington might come in hung over after they let one get away against Utah. Washington looked like it had it in the bag.

 

Here's what's sad, Oregon State doesn't have to beat Washington to do what Nebraska can't. They already have done that. And they could add more.

 

The Beavers have four games left, including the game Saturday. Assuming a loss to Washington (and I ask for this humbly as it would be a stinging wound to see otherwise) the Beavers would then play Arizona State and Washington State, two middle of the road teams, before closing with imposing Oregon in the Civil War game, which is dominated by the Ducks.

 

This is the second year of a new coach at Oregon State, and he appears to be doing slightly better than Nebraska. What a crock! This is why we are nervous around here. This should not be happening.

 

Oregon State has been a train wreck. Despite that fact OSU has won its last two on the road.... back-to-back no less. Nebraska has one road win in the Frost tenure. Just one.

 

If Oregon State wins against Arizona and Washington State, they'll go bowling. We likely won't.

 

These are the moments that I just have a hard time seeing what's happening with Nebraska and believing its going to get any better. I am NOT calling for jobs for two reasons.

 

1. What coach would do well here given that we have had three coaches in a five-year stretch? That's a major recruiting disruptor.

 

And...

 

2. I am so tired of the fire and hire cycle and the patience bull crap and so forth.

 

I am trying to work my head around the idea that the Husker program I have identified with for my entire lifetime... I was born in the 70s, is GONE and may NEVER come back.

It's not that we CAN'T .... it is that we WON'T.

You forgot an important category: 

Players on the team who really care: 23 to 98

13 hours ago, Waldo said:

If his 15 tackle career is considered decent in your mind, I’d hate to see what a good career looks like. Frost is and was a great athlete, but let’s not hype things up to prove a point. 
 
Also, according to you, 99.99% of us should keep our mouths closed and have no clue what a quality coaching staff looks like because we don’t have those credentials.

Decent means hanging in there long enough to qualify for their retirement program which he did.

And your second point:  Yep that is about it!  

I mean type away for fun, it is just a board.   People get what they paid for when they read it.

On 11/2/2019 at 6:14 PM, GamingGlen said:

 

Can we use it to keep Wisconsin's defense off our QB?

I mean at Nebraska we are just people helpers.  We are feeling good about all the  other running backs in the conference who we are helping have break out days!  You go, boy!

7 hours ago, Roundball Shaman said:

Here’s a hypothetical situation. Disclaimer:  Resemblance to any current situation is purely coincidental.

 

You’re the Head Coach. You’ve got a first-string QB with great potential but for whatever reason he’s been off his game all season. You have a fan base that’s choosing between revolting and giving up and a team that’s desperate for a win.

 

You have a national media that either shows pity or shows delight in your misery.

 

You have a conference that has not yet learned to show you any respect.

 

You know that if you bench the QB for reasons other than injury, you could stall his development and damage his confidence. Maybe permanently. Maybe recruiting, too.

 

You further know that if you don’t get a win soon, you may lose the rest of your team. And, many more of your fans.

 

The Questions You Now Face:

 

Do you change QBs in hopes for a quick win? Or do you keep playing the first QB and keep hoping that he find’s his game and you get that win in the process?

 

Or do you decide the problem is really somewhere else?

 

How do you ignite the “on” switch on a team that lacks energy and cohesiveness after you’re tried?

 

And do you ever look in the mirror and wonder why you decided to leave a good job you had before?

Maybe someone here could answer this competently if they had spent 5 years playing Div  1 ball, earning a NC as a player, going on to a decent career in the NFL as a defensive player, then serving on several highly successful coaching staffs, eventually becoming a HC and winning the AP Coach of the year award after having been undefeated.

Anybody with those credentials posting on here?  

I will wait.

If you've ever been a college athlete, you will understand that there is growth in strength from 18-23 years old.  That is why I do not favor throwing the young guys in against the wolves.  In practice if you are on the scout team you generally go hard in 1v1 against the second team on down, but there is a general rule that you don't mess with the first team guys in practice, and in turn they refrain from ripping your head off.  This arrangement allows you to survive until your sophomore year.

The new kids are playing younger bc they are better coached out of high school but you can't speed up that physical maturation.

SO I prefer to let a kid develop with healthy knees in order to see what they can really do when they are 21-22 year old.

On 11/2/2019 at 3:06 PM, Archy1221 said:

Martinez was awful this game and Frost was gonna let him ride it out no matter what.  Very disappointing and a pre-cursor for the next two years.  Martinez is a minimum of 2 seconds too late finding the correct receiver (if he ever even does find the open receiver) and very rarely hits him in stride.  We can’t win consistently with him, yet since he started last year, I’m afraid the coaches won’t make a change till graduation takes him out.

 

O-line sucks on most running plays, we have to lead the nation in offensive negative yardage plays.  

 

The Defensive line is god awful obviously, but they way they are awful is disappointing to see.  They never stay in their lanes so the o lineman just take them the way the D line tries to go and opens up huge running lanes for QB.  On running plays, our D-line constantly turns their shoulders instead of staying square and again, the oline at that point has leverage to push them out of the hole. 

 

Linebackers suck!  Enough said. 

 

D ends/OLB seem to not grasp the concept of containment 9 games into the season.  

 

Many if these things are coachE but either

the players are tuning out the coaches (not good) or the coaches have no idea how to get through to the players ( also not good). 

 

Bottom line, this team sucks, is getting worse, and I don’t see next year being too much better.  

It will be better.  Things have a way of improving after riding out the tough times.  Martinez' greatness will shine through, he has tremendous talent.  Once the players who aren't buying in realize they are stuck with these guys they will come around.

It wouldn't hurt if we could make the program a little less Green somehow IMO

9 hours ago, SFW said:

 

 

 

Chinander gave up 124 points in this last 3 games at UCF!

 

And 55 of those were against a team they were playing for a second time that season whom they had previously held to 13 points.  It is always harder to slow a team down the second time.

8 minutes ago, SFW said:

Chinander got lucky his last 3 games a UCF.  

Auburn, Memphis, and USF, were driving to score at the end of each of those games.  
 

It was untimely turnovers that stopped them, not Chinander.  

 

Those teams at the end of those games were carving through his defense like a hot knife through butter.

 

SEEM FAMILIAR?  Except now the other teams aren’t beating themselves.

 

 

 

 

...said the team captains on their way to a 4-8 season.

On 11/2/2019 at 5:08 PM, lo country said:

Purdue WR Bell said on the last TD they had watched UCF film and new that Chin goes man in the red zone.  Knew we'd key on the QB and that he'd be good......

 

We are 109th in red zone D.....Maybe, just maybe Chin needs to realize that his D completely sucks in the B1G.

 

Indiana also attacked our D by getting mismatches with their WR/RB to get covered by a ILB.......Same think Purdue did...And Chin really didn't adjust.  IMHO, the staff is so young an inexperienced they do not have a deep well of knowledge/experience to draw from....They know "their system" and not much else.  And it shows.  On O and D...

Oh, I don't know about this... Have you ever wondered what the team might look like if the coaches had some real guys step up on the team and lead?  

For example, Chin didn't have any trouble handling Auburn who had previously beaten Alabama and Georgia.

But also, lets say you are an Algebra teacher but after a couple weeks the kids decide you suck because the last guy was so much easier, so they don't even move past long division.  Seeing that, how fast are you going to throw quadratic equations at them?  Maybe never. And everyone would say, that math teacher is in over his head.  The other guys are simplifying expressions, and we are just doing long division.

On 11/2/2019 at 4:12 PM, Huckleberry Muhammad said:

Against Gophers, Hoosiers, and Boilers.

 

Scott Frost keeps telling us that he "needs to look at tape" because he's focused on the offense during the game. 

 

Well all right. 

No offence, but in the USA it is "Defense"

1 hour ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

I think the point is that you need 11 guys on every play doing  a pretty good job more than one guy doing an incredible job.

 

Ideally you have both. 

 

Likewise you can have a team stacked with Jimmies and Joes, but if it's also loaded with primadonnas, fragile egos, little unity, and lazy schemes, they can get beat by average talent, motivation and strategy. Happens every Saturday and Sunday. 

I think we have a crew(players) led by a few cats (other players) on the team who don't believe and a sprinkling of young stars who do believe.

3 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

We started the year with a Heisman contention quarterback and a top 25 ranking, based on the combination of talent and coaching, and the culture change that supposedly clicked in last years strong finish, plus new frost recruits and proven transfers coming in.

 

im still looking for someone who recognized how bare the cupboard was 10 weeks ago and warned us to not even expect bowl worthiness. 

That person will we be found right along side all the people who thought 2005 Nebraska would beat Chad Henne and Michigan.

1 hour ago, Stone Cold said:

Thats where im at, if its such a bad culture and the season is already s#!t then bench the bad apples and play the young ones.  Get them the playing time and set yourself up for the future.

Find out who them bad apples are and sit there a$$

22 minutes ago, gorp512 said:

This same coaching staff so brilliantly gameplaned for Auburn in their bowl game before they came. How were they able to scout an SEC team so well, while working for two schools, when they seem genuinely surprised at every single B1G team they play. 

Good point...maybe the film staff or scouting staff structure is totally different?  Maybe Frost and co need to check this?