Mavric Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Nebraska hasn’t done much full-team work this spring on punts or kickoffs, special teams coordinator Bruce Read said Tuesday. Instead, by head coach Mike Riley’s design, the focus has been on individual details and assignments. “We haven’t covered a kickoff and we really haven’t covered a punt yet, since we only had punt the first couple days,” Read said. “It’s really all been drills. It’s been good. It’s been kind of interesting. We’re really focusing on technique and ‘how-to’ rather than ‘here’s the whole scheme everybody needs to know.’ It’s been kind of fun, really — and challenging. We haven’t really gone through a spring like that.” Riley, he said, wants the Huskers to be good technicians. “He wants us to be sound at what we do,” Read said. “He wants a guy to have a smaller picture of what he does in a play rather than the whole big picture.” OWH Quote Link to comment
Saunders Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 On kickoff return, Morgan, Brandon Reilly and Joshua Kalu are the top options. Read has long wanted to give Reilly a shot at returning kickoffs, while Morgan broke a few toward the end of last season. NU had the least-productive kickoff return unit in the Big Ten based on average and one of the worst in college football. That can't continue with a dedicated coach making half a million. 5 Quote Link to comment
Sargon Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/feist NU was 28/128 in overall special teams performance last year according to Football Outsiders. So maybe he should just get a pay cut not a pink slip? Seriously if there's one thing I suggest we fans do NOT worry about is if someone is overpaid. I'd prefer they bumped all salaries 100k as that helps us to retain and attract the best. 2 Quote Link to comment
Sargon Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Great scene from a great movie. This should be in the department review thread if it's not already. The Bobs! Quote Link to comment
Decked Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/feist NU was 28/128 in overall special teams performance last year according to Football Outsiders. So maybe he should just get a pay cut not a pink slip? Seriously if there's one thing I suggest we fans do NOT worry about is if someone is overpaid. I'd prefer they bumped all salaries 100k as that helps us to retain and attract the best. if somebody took Bruce read I'd thank them. lol Quote Link to comment
Sargon Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Well I wouldn't cuss em. Honestly I think Mike knows he needs to create a recruiting ninja machine and if he can't have that with the staff today he'll revisit the yank a Hank technique. Read may be on a 2 man list there. Just guessing. Quote Link to comment
Hunter94 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 holy sh#t! welcome to virtual practice for special teams..........chalk boards and diagrams. no need to go full speed because of injuries, but i hope there has been serious walk thrus at least! Quote Link to comment
MasterPulverizer Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Well I wouldn't cuss em. Honestly I think Mike knows he needs to create a recruiting ninja machine and if he can't have that with the staff today he'll revisit the yank a Hank technique. Read may be on a 2 man list there. Just guessing. Who is the second on that list? Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/feist NU was 28/128 in overall special teams performance last year according to Football Outsiders. So maybe he should just get a pay cut not a pink slip? Seriously if there's one thing I suggest we fans do NOT worry about is if someone is overpaid. I'd prefer they bumped all salaries 100k as that helps us to retain and attract the best. Yes and no. We apparently weren't as bad as it seemed - though really it was only a couple units that seemed poor. But that's part of the point - some of the units are more affected by scheme than others. And it's not like he had a lot of work to do. By the same ratings, we were #8 in the country the year before. So we got noticeably worse to be #28. Not that he had total control over that either: Field Goal Efficiency - Improved from #91 to #20 - I give Reed some credit as it does sound like he worked on some mechanical issues. But it was also going from a true Freshman kicker to a sophomore. Punt Return Efficiency - Went from #1 to #50 - Losing DPE didn't help but we simply didn't have many opportunities to return punts, even if DPE was back there. Some of that is our opponents scheme but it didn't seem like we were giving Westy (and whoever else)much of a chance. Kick Return Efficiency - Went from #20 to #86 - Probably the one most directly affected by scheme and we got a lot worse. Punt Efficiency - Improved from #66 to #29 - Probably the least affected by scheme and mostly to do with how well your punter is doing - we had the best punter in the conference. Kick Efficiency - Improved from #99 to #78 - Small improvement, probably split about evenly between scheme and skill of the kicker So in what I would argue is the areas most affected by scheme we got a lot worse and in the area least affected by scheme we got a lot better. I don't think that's a ringing endorsement. He may have done some work to improve Brown and, to a lesser extent, Foltz but that's harder to know for sure. 3 Quote Link to comment
Sargon Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Mav you may have missed that I was not actually arguing in favor of said coach, at all. All of your analysis here is solid IMO. I'm trying to be patient with all the Skers (as much as I can which is not as much as many others can). If I were forced to conclude at this moment I'd prolly go negative due to recruiting. I understand (maybe incorrectly) that Read is some sort of special assistant that goes beyond normal position and recruiting duties. This may be adequately addressed from an admin not a coach spot. He did sign a killer punter and Mr. Brown got his stuff together pretty good after a rough start. With ALL the coaching and position recruit count required from positions like OL and DL and WR and DB's we cannot imo afford to have any coaches only pull in one guy/yr IMO. I would say in defense of most of the coaches that the roster sort of set up most of them for trouble...all but WR. Who is the second on that list? RB coach. Recruitniks might have more names. Quote Link to comment
ScottyIce Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 No hate towards Davis from me. Guy has landed one good back (zigbo), landed one who might be better (Bryant) and helped get the FB back into Husker football. What's to be mad about? Just because he hasn't landed a Stud in 2017 yet? Give it a minute. Read would be the next to go, and I'm not even saying anything against him. Just doesn't recruit much as far as we can see and Riley or someone could perhaps take over ST. GA type job perhaps? Riley doesn't run the O or D so that's a logical choice honestly. 1 Quote Link to comment
TITANIC VS LUSITANIA Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Davis has helped with the fumbling Quote Link to comment
bisonwiches Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/feist NU was 28/128 in overall special teams performance last year according to Football Outsiders. So maybe he should just get a pay cut not a pink slip? Seriously if there's one thing I suggest we fans do NOT worry about is if someone is overpaid. I'd prefer they bumped all salaries 100k as that helps us to retain and attract the best. if somebody took Bruce read I'd thank them. lol Going by that Florida International was 17th overall. Their ST coach was Shannon Moore, he is from my hometown (Gordon, NE up in the panhandle). He just signed on at East Carolina... His last year at FIU he made like $122,000, imagine he's around $150k now, but he'd be a guy I'd like to see coaching at UNL someday Quote Link to comment
Red Five Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 So in what I would argue is the areas most affected by scheme we got a lot worse and in the area least affected by scheme we got a lot better. Not sure I agree here. There is plenty of "scheme" on the coverage units. Each guy has his responsibility and all it takes is one or two guys to be out of position to give up a long return. 2 Quote Link to comment
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