Husker Football 2020

[hskrfan4life]

6 hours ago, southernoregonhusker said:

Theeeeeeeee last five weeks?  We've lost to bad teams with their third string QB's.  Our last W came via a missed PI call.  A missed PI call that was almost as bad as the NFC Championship game last season. 

Question, does it hurt your life with how negative you are?

[UniversalMartin]

6 hours ago, southernoregonhusker said:

You and I agree.  Frost isn't going anytime soon and I'm certainly not calling for it.  I want to see Frosty succeed because I love NU football and I'm a big fan of Frost.  But with that said, if he goes 4-8 three years in a row there will no doubt be calls for his canning.  Especially if we continue with embarrassing losses.  

 

Let's say his record is 4-8 last year, 4-8 this year, 5-7 next year and 5-7 with a senior Martinez at QB.  Will Frost stil have the backing from fans and the administration as he does now?  What if Moos retires before Martinez's fourth season; does Frost survive with that record?  No knee jerk reactions.

We have to give Frost 4 years minimum even if results stay the same, or worse..we have churned out coaches to the point where we need to establish credibility in time 

[KCBuc]

Frost should get 6 years at the minimum. If you can’t see improvement by then, he will be doing something wrong or the people he surrounded himself suck. The excuses will have run out. 

 

A bowl game or two should not be too much to ask in that span of time. Right...? 

 

 

 

[HuskerNation1]

On 11/7/2019 at 10:32 AM, Redux said:

Looking over the 2020 schedule and I'm honestly just gut punched by it.  I'm so incredibly fearful that next year will be like Mike Riley's 2nd season.  We start hot and get to 7-0 only to get slammed back to reality.  That 2016 season was awful.  We were winning games, but it was clear we were skating by on a ton of luck.  We finished 9-4 that year, which by today's standards sounds like cause for celebration.  Take a gander at this pud schedule, then the gauntlet that follows:

 

 

Now I don't know about anyone else, but I see no current reason to be hopeful those last 5 games don't look like a giant goose egg.  At best we start 7-0 and then find out what we are made of.  Worst case, we go 3-3 in the first half and the second half feels like this year, wondering if we will ever play in a bowl again.

 

Right now we have plenty of QB depth, but it doesn't mean squat if the starter continues playing the most uninspiring football he possibly can.  RB should be a little more sorted out, but we don't have a brekaout rusher to head into next season with.  WR is still Spielman and whoever can step up that week, we need another consistent threat....but that comes back to QB play.  The Line may be improved just because they got smacked around for a full season so they will at least be battle scarred.  Defensively we can hope Frost fires Chinander or we can be realistic and accept this is who we are for another year.  We lose a lot of experience, I'm not excited about this unit next year.  Kicking...we can't get any worse so that'll improve by default.  The rest of ST are hot and cold week by week so I would expect that trend to continue.  And of course turnovers and 3 and outs were a plague this season, a smidge of improvement would go a long way.

 

Right now if I had to call it, I expect some of that year 2 jump to happen in year 3....hopefully.  But I wouldn't expect much more than 7-5 or 8-4.  I'm numb to this season, it can't end soon enough.  Just saying that makes me a little sad.  I'm tired of being terrible.  I'm tired of not being excited for Football.  I'm tired of saying "Next year".  Lets just hope something clicks between now and  September 5th 2020.

 

I see 7 teams on are 2020 schedule that are currently have better records than Nebraska this season.  We would really have to win the first 7 games which won't be easy and then hope to win 2 or 3 of the last 5 to meet what many fans would have expected in year 3...getting at least 9 wins.  

[LumberJackSker]

5 hours ago, KCBuc said:

Frost should get 6 years at the minimum. If you can’t see improvement by then, he will be doing something wrong or the people he surrounded himself suck. The excuses will have run out. 

 

A bowl game or two should not be too much to ask in that span of time. Right...? 

 

 

 

Wow slow down lets at least give him a chance to fire and hire some coaches after year 6. He'll need at least another 6 years after that. For the record i don't think it will take him that long.

[PoloWearingBeaver]

8 hours ago, LumberJackSker said:

Wow slow down lets at least give him a chance to fire and hire some coaches after year 6. He'll need at least another 6 years after that. For the record i don't think it will take him that long.

 

 

[thatguy]

On 11/7/2019 at 10:32 AM, Redux said:

Looking over the 2020 schedule and I'm honestly just gut punched by it.  I'm so incredibly fearful that next year will be like Mike Riley's 2nd season.  We start hot and get to 7-0 only to get slammed back to reality.  That 2016 season was awful.  We were winning games, but it was clear we were skating by on a ton of luck.  We finished 9-4 that year, which by today's standards sounds like cause for celebration.  Take a gander at this pud schedule, then the gauntlet that follows:

 

 

Now I don't know about anyone else, but I see no current reason to be hopeful those last 5 games don't look like a giant goose egg.  At best we start 7-0 and then find out what we are made of.  Worst case, we go 3-3 in the first half and the second half feels like this year, wondering if we will ever play in a bowl again.

 

Right now we have plenty of QB depth, but it doesn't mean squat if the starter continues playing the most uninspiring football he possibly can.  RB should be a little more sorted out, but we don't have a brekaout rusher to head into next season with.  WR is still Spielman and whoever can step up that week, we need another consistent threat....but that comes back to QB play.  The Line may be improved just because they got smacked around for a full season so they will at least be battle scarred.  Defensively we can hope Frost fires Chinander or we can be realistic and accept this is who we are for another year.  We lose a lot of experience, I'm not excited about this unit next year.  Kicking...we can't get any worse so that'll improve by default.  The rest of ST are hot and cold week by week so I would expect that trend to continue.  And of course turnovers and 3 and outs were a plague this season, a smidge of improvement would go a long way.

 

Right now if I had to call it, I expect some of that year 2 jump to happen in year 3....hopefully.  But I wouldn't expect much more than 7-5 or 8-4.  I'm numb to this season, it can't end soon enough.  Just saying that makes me a little sad.  I'm tired of being terrible.  I'm tired of not being excited for Football.  I'm tired of saying "Next year".  Lets just hope something clicks between now and  September 5th 2020.

if there’s anyone on that staff that looks at that 2020 schedule and thinks any part of that schedule will be easy for this team, they should be fired immediately, on the spot.