Kiyoat Husker Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 I hope we're much better next year, because the schedule is going to be tough: Fresno State Wyoming Oregon @Northwestern Illinois -bye- @Indiana Purdue @Wisconsin @Ohio State Minnesota Maryland @Iowa meanwhile, the Gophers get a turn with the cherry schedule: non-con: Oregon State Indiana State -bye- Colorado State East Teams: @ Penn State @Maryland Rutgers Quote Link to comment
AFhusker Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Coach Riley better hope 2016 is our break out year because if it's not, and we lose 4 or 5 games, I could see him gone by the end of the season. Really??? If he loses 4 games he is going to be fired in his second year??? That would mean we are back to winning 9-10 games which most are predicting will be a decent improvement over this year where we have already lost 3. So....you really think that Riley is going to be fired after his second year while showing an improvement? "back to winning 9-10 games"...LMFAO...You mean like we were under Bo? Are you expecting NCs next year or bust? 9-10 wins could have us in the CCG and maybe we win that game. Are you saying that if we don't win an NC then FIRE RILEY!!!!!??? Are we going to fire every coach that doesn't win a championship within 2 years? I believe we will go 3-9 or 4-8 this year and due to the inevitable uproar from the fanbase, both the A.D and Riley will be fired in mid-December (this year). I wonder if TO has one more stint in him to sit in the A.D. chair until HP retires...I'll bet he would if he was asked...all that guy knows is give, give, give (he should have been our governor years ago too). TO is the last person we need to hire a HC. Ok second to last to Pedy. 1 Quote Link to comment
AFhusker Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 While dropping BYU and Miami, we add Oregon and Ohio State in 2016. Gross. Yeah, but we also drop Michigan State and still don't play Penn State or Michigan. For a 9-game conference schedule it could/will be worse. Plus we finally play Indiana. GREAT! Now that they could beat us... I don't know if I should laugh or cry at that comment. Quote Link to comment
C N Red Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Next year is always the break out season As a Cubs fan I can confirm this. Quote Link to comment
AFhusker Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Next year is always the break out season As a Cubs fan I can confirm this. Hopefully it is at least one more year for ya....Go Royals!!! Quote Link to comment
74Hunter Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 I hope we're much better next year, because the schedule is going to be tough: Fresno State Wyoming Oregon @Northwestern Illinois -bye- @Indiana Purdue @Wisconsin @Ohio State Minnesota Maryland @Iowa Doesn't look much tougher than 2013. There are still 9 easy wins built into it. Quote Link to comment
Sargon Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Hi guys, first time poster here but wanted to chime in on the potential for this team as it relates to the 2016 season: I really think next year has all the makings of a breakout year...... Welcome. Great post. We'll be a lot better in 2016. I suppose a top 10 final rank would be a breakout year to me and while that is always possible I don't expect it. A great step forward would be a teens ranking and that does seem doable. We'd need 10-3 to achieve that. 2 Quote Link to comment
seaofred92 Posted October 7, 2015 Author Share Posted October 7, 2015 Hi guys, first time poster here but wanted to chime in on the potential for this team as it relates to the 2016 season: I really think next year has all the makings of a breakout year...... Welcome. Great post. We'll be a lot better in 2016. I suppose a top 10 final rank would be a breakout year to me and while that is always possible I don't expect it. A great step forward would be a teens ranking and that does seem doable. We'd need 10-3 to achieve that. Thank you for the kind welcome! It's obviously difficult to define a "breakout season" because everyone's definition of that is different. Some people think it won't be a breakout unless we win a CCG, some people more and some less. Honestly for 2016 to be a breakout season for me, it would mean not only what our record is, but how we do it. I think a lot of these silly penalties and tendencies, i.e. illegal formation, false start, misalignments, breaking the huddle late, etc will wane tremendously once the offense and defense understand what they are doing. I am NOT bringing up the previous regime to start an argument in this thread- but one of the biggest reasons people got upset with the previous regime was that these issues never went away. The schemes were so complex that people who had been in them for 5 years still didn't know where to line up. That is no longer the case, which should lead to less mistakes as time wears on and this staff settles in. If we are 10-2/3 before bowl season in 2016 and are a clean football team, I believe 90% (or higher?) would qualify that as a breakout year. My point of this post was to highlight what is coming back and the fact that it is extremely attainable next season. Nebraska might finish 6-6 or 7-5 this year, which honestly would be good for the program. Get us the extra practices that come with a bowl, put us in a lower tier bowl and give us a good chance to win it. If Nebraska finishes 8-5 this year after a bowl win, there will be a lot of positive momentum to work with as we head into the offseason. You saw it at Michigan State early in Dantonio's career, and there are examples of it all over the country. Heck look at Temple and Memphis the past 2-3 years. Sometimes it takes a couple of years for things to get set into place and I really believe that things for the Huskers will be extremely positive in 2016, no matter how frustrating 2015 is as we all want and aspire for more. 1 Quote Link to comment
zoogs Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Indeed, welcome! Losses and ugly starts tend to bring the most miserable or upset out to vent, but it's refreshing to know it isn't all misery in Husker nation. These next two seasons should be extremely exciting, and I am looking forward to watching them! Quote Link to comment
speedtoburn Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Hi guys, first time poster here but wanted to chime in on the potential for this team as it relates to the 2016 season: I really think next year has all the makings of a breakout year. Tommy, despite the one play at Illinois, clearly has progressed as a passer and decision maker this season. A lot of the 50/50 type balls that you would have seen in the past are no longer being thrown. Running a multitude of screens and timing routes will help Armstrong develop even more next season, including another offseason with Langsdorf. I think it is extremely reasonable to expect Tommy to be around 63-65% completion percentage as a Senior next season, who would've thunk that after the 2014 season? Not only will Armstrong be better, but you're bringing back every play-maker on offense sans Jamal Turner. I would expect for Ozigbo, Wilbon, and Stevenson to make jumps as RB's both running and catching the ball. WR's will still be led by Westerkamp, DPE, Morgan, Reilly, and then add in guys like Alston, and we will more than likely see Grimm on the field as a freshman. This is some of the best overall talent we've had on offense in a long long time. Looking to the defensive side of the ball, Who do we lose that we will really miss? The biggest challenge Riley faces in his first full season is convincing Maleik Collins that he should stay for his Senior season, something that I think we may actually see as he becomes an even more complete player than he currently is. Watching Kevin Maurice last week really excited me to see what he can do as a Senior and we will need to see some growth from guys like Stoltenberg, Davis, etc. Freedom looks like a player that has an extremely bright future and I really think that you'll see an emphasis to move McMullen inside full time after this season. There isn't a Sr. Linebacker on the entire roster, and we start a true freshman in Dedrick Young. These guys could go from being a question mark before this 2015 season to the strongest point of the defense in 2016. It really comes down to the secondary to how the Huskers will fare in 2016 in my opinion. Bringing Gerry back obviously helps but we lose both Davie and Rose this offseason. Will Kalu be the #1 corner? Will we see guys like Mosley, Lee, or Anderson step up and have a large role on the team next year? Specialists look to remain strong as well. Foltz will be a senior (and fully healthy, something he isn't right now) DPE will be fully acclimated and healthy again, and Drew Brown will be an upper classman. If you look at that roster from top to bottom, it is really set up for a big year next year. Suffering through these learning curves and setbacks now helps bring a team closer together and should motivate them to be great during the offseason. The non -conference schedule next year looks to be much more manageable, as even Oregon doesn't look to be as daunting as we maybe thought when we scheduled them. I was livid after the Illinois game like everyone else but lets have some patience with this new staff. Adjusting from Oregon State to Nebraska is a completely different ball game, especially when the personnel in place isn't meant for what the coaches want to do. I think we could be in store for some big things next season in a division that should be fairly wide open. Let's finish 2015 strong and ride a wave of momentum into 2016, GBR! Hope springs eternal as they say; problem is we've been "hoping" for a breakout year for many years now and it's never materialized. Imho, there is no reason to think that next year will be any different. With being said, I do "hope" you're right. Quote Link to comment
Blackshirt_Revival Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Next year is always the break out season Indeed. Usually we start talking about it in the off-season, or in December before the bowl game at the soonest. Now we are talking about it in the first week of October. Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 If it's not even the sixth game of the season, and we're talking about next year, we're f*cked, and I do mean proper f*cked... 1 Quote Link to comment
Joe_5700 Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 What year was it that was supposed to be big for Bo? Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 What year was it that was supposed to be big for Bo? Doesn't really matter that much, because he's in Ohio now... Quote Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 If it's not even the sixth game of the season, and we're talking about next year, we're f*cked, and I do mean proper f*cked... Why??? We already had people talking about firing the coach after one game. What is being discussed on this board has absolutely no affect on if the program is f*cked or not. Quote Link to comment
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