Hondo Carpenter (MSU Media) goes on "rational rant" on 1620Zone

[funhusker]

https://soundcloud.com/unsportsmanlike-conduct-1/nov-4-seg-12-hondo-carpenter-again-his-thoughts-on-coach-riley

 

Start listening at about the 1:20 mark.

[PaulCrewe]

Hondo will be in town Friday. Will be at Rosie's Sports Bar doing the show with the Ticket crew. The guy is a riot.

[Kiyoat Husker]

I was hoping someone would post this. I streamed it at work. Good stuff! Sometimes we need a little outside perspective.

[Count 'Bility]

Lol. Lots a folks on this very board should really listen to that.

[T_GBR_FAN]

That was pretty good. Thank you for posting. I forwarded the link to friends and family.

[DomiNUs]

I understand that this is Riley's first year as a head coach, and he should be given some time to adjust. That doesn't mean the fans and media have to accept what's going on and pretend all is well.

 

I don't understand why some guy would go on the radio and try to defend the coaching that has taken place here this year. Coaching alone has lost this team at least 3 games. The decisions on third and short, which for some reason is almost always a passing down, is mind boggling. I also don't know about the part where Mike Riley was universally thought of as a good coach. Maybe at one point in time this was true. It's certainly not true now. Just go ask some Beaver fans.

[commando]

a steel cage match hondo vs GBRedneck would be fun.

[teachercd]

Hondo is kind of funny...he is sort of a Husker homer but he also hated Bo.

 

The best guy they have on is Charles Davis

[NebraskaHarry]

Tommy Armstrong is a totally different QB? A better one? Haha, go look at the stats. This Hondo guy doesn't know what he's talking about. He's the same passer, but runs less. Which has hurt this team and it's not Tommy's fault. The coaches have failed all year long to put him in a position to be successful. Do you think Tom Osborne would have forced Tommie Frazier to throw 35-40 times a game. NO. There has been no reason what so ever why this coaching staff hasn't been able to implement an offense around the best players on this team. Yet, they think they can bring their west coast offense wisdom to Lincoln and plug it in first year and win games. It's crazy.

 

AD Peterson fires 9 win coach, hires a WC offensive coach. He fails. AD Eichorst fires 9 win coach, hires a WC offensive coach. He's failing!

 

What am I missing here?

 

Twice, the reigns of this program have been given to an AD who doesn't understand what it takes to win games at Nebraska. In the cold, windy Big Ten.

 

History is repeating itself ladies and gentlemen. Buckle up. It's gonna get bumpy.

[URSS]

Hondo is correct. But I am still upset at the defense having such a poor pass defense record for the year. I just can't believe the talent is that bad. They lack experience and I doubt the coaching has been as good as it needs to be for them. Phillp Dillard called in to a talk show and stated that Banker's defenses are not disguised and anyone can read them. That may not be Riley but Banker is on the iine for that.

[Kiyoat Husker]

I understand that this is Riley's first year as a head coach, and he should be given some time to adjust. That doesn't mean the fans and media have to accept what's going on and pretend all is well.

 

I don't understand why some guy would go on the radio and try to defend the coaching that has taken place here this year. Coaching alone has lost this team at least 3 games. The decisions on third and short, which for some reason is almost always a passing down, is mind boggling. I also don't know about the part where Mike Riley was universally thought of as a good coach. Maybe at one point in time this was true. It's certainly not true now. Just go ask some Beaver fans.

He literally did not say most of what you just posted. Listen to it again. He says 2 or 3 times that husker fans have a right to be upset at the results, just not to go overboard and act like hate-spewing idiots.

[brophog]

Somebody write some bad things about me so I can be universally liked, too.

[NU5XChamps]

I thought he was spot on. The Zone did a poll today and the afternoon show today. Wanting people rank the 4 items in percentages as to what they thought was the reason for the record this year.

 

Talent

Mental

Coaching

Uncontrollable things

 

I think they forgot one very important factor, the fans.

 

I would rank it this way:

 

Mental - 40%

Uncontrollable things (injuries) - 20%

Coaching - 15%

Fans - 15%

Talent - 10%

 

Until the fan base stops calling for a 1st year coaches job, they will be a factor in the play of team.

[DomiNUs]

 

I understand that this is Riley's first year as a head coach, and he should be given some time to adjust. That doesn't mean the fans and media have to accept what's going on and pretend all is well.

 

I don't understand why some guy would go on the radio and try to defend the coaching that has taken place here this year. Coaching alone has lost this team at least 3 games. The decisions on third and short, which for some reason is almost always a passing down, is mind boggling. I also don't know about the part where Mike Riley was universally thought of as a good coach. Maybe at one point in time this was true. It's certainly not true now. Just go ask some Beaver fans.

He literally did not say most of what you just posted. Listen to it again. He says 2 or 3 times that husker fans have a right to be upset at the results, just not to go overboard and act like hate-spewing idiots.

 

 

He does go on a rant about the negativity coming from the message boards and then turns around and says we have a right to be upset. Which makes no sense.

He spends time defending Riley's coaching, and says we should be impressed by what he did at OSU.

He does say that Mike Riley was "Universally" thought of as a good coach.

 

I was commenting on the above. He literally did not say what I posted, because it is my commentary. But hey, let's all take advice from the MSU radio guy. He's obviously got our best interests in mind when he speaks.

[huskerfan92]

Okay, Riley is a nice guy and he embraces the fans. There's no denying that, and sure it is a welcome change. But, that doesn't mean he's a great fit at Nebraska. Sorry, but his teams have always had a reputation of not playing tough, and he leans on the passing game. That's not Nebraska football. Also I would say the opposite of Hondo, when he claimed Riley is a great coach, I would say he's an okay coach. Just because he was a head coach in the NFL, doesn't make him great. The NFL has had guys like Brad Childress, Jim Tomsula (yes he's already a bad coach), and Rich Kotite, I don't think anyone would confuse those guys as being great coaches.

 

The media is trying to spin our program as some kind of rebuilding project because that's the only way they can rationalize how bad of a season we're having. I'm sorry, but going into this year no one thought this would be a rebuilding project. Were people saying it was a rebuilding project when Langsdorf decided to throw it 30 times on a windy day against Illinois? No. Were people saying it was a rebuilding project when Banker's defense allowed Wisconsin, Southern Miss, BYU, Northwestern and even Minnesota to drive down the field with ease in the 4th quarter? No.

 

People can spin it any way they want, but I'm not buying this is was a rebuilding year. Transition year? Yes, but this was far from a rebuilding project.