Who should our next HC be?

[caveman99]

9 minutes ago, runningblind said:

Everyone knows it but you. Why is no one running that scheme in Power 5 if it's the answer?  You are living in 1994, you just don't want to admit it.

 

Blue chip kids want to go to the NFL, period. Everyone is on TV.

Good news is that Monken probably wouldn’t run Triple Option, even though it is more of a flex bone O, at NU. He would modify it quite a bit I think to more of a power spread with option elements. 

[559Husker]

Rhule has had a taste of the NFL....what's to stop him getting hired by any college and then bailing back to the NFL the first chance he gets?  Or has he said he wants to come back to college ball?

[huskerfan99]

Over under on how many “just hire Mickey” posts today? Lol

[runningblind]

1 minute ago, caveman99 said:

Good news is that Monken probably wouldn’t run Triple Option, even though it is more of a flex bone O, at NU. He would modify it quite a bit I think to more of a power spread with option elements. 

That makes much more sense in 2022, I agree with you.

[Stone Cold]

RUN Casey Run

[Guy Chamberlin]

50 minutes ago, Hayseed said:

That's a bunch of bull. We had ten times the number of players going to the NFL under that system compared to this pathetic crap we play now. Has there been even one pro QB from us in the last 20 years? How many of our vaunted receivers are playing pro, (no Pelini players because he was a total failure and loser)? Linemen? Running backs? Anybody? .....Punter?

 

Well that "system" was a winning program that prioritized linemen, over-powered weaker conference opponents, and took advantage of a very different era of national television exposure to recruit both in-state muscle and out-of-state skill positions. Nebraska gave great athletes who wanted to play quarterback a chance to play quarterback in a power option system unlike most college programs. The trade-off was the understanding that they would never play quarterback in the NFL and were unlikely to have a pro career at all. This extended to some of our great offensive linemen, including Dave Rimington, who were incredible at pulling and lateral plays, but didn't have the pass blocking experience necessary for the NFL. 

 

So yeah, if you're a recruit with an eye on the NFL, you may want to avoid any college-only offensive system.

 

But honestly, every offensive system is going to need good linemen, receivers, running backs and quarterbacks. The problem with Nebraska is across the board recruiting, depth, and development issues, not run/pass ratios. 

 

And those 25 years of Osborne teams are highlighted by a perfect storm of rock solid defenses and great option quarterbacks. Turner Gill, Tommie Frazier, Scott Frost and Eric Crouch could not have played quarterback at most college programs, and we wouldn't still be talking about them today if they had been backed by a recent Nebraska defense. 

 

If a new coach wants to install old-school option football, it won't cure anything overnight and would likely take a few years to get competitive. 

 

Good teams run and pass with equal skill and discipline because that's pretty much how the game is played. 

 

 

[Stone Cold]

LOL was that a dig by the announcers

[Huskerfollower4life]

6 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Well that "system" was a winning program that prioritized linemen, over-powered weaker conference opponents, and took advantage of a very different era of national television exposure to recruit both in-state muscle and out-of-state skill positions. Nebraska gave great athletes who wanted to play quarterback a chance to play quarterback in a power option system unlike most college programs. The trade-off was the understanding that they would never play quarterback in the NFL and were unlikely to have a pro career at all. This extended to some of our great offensive linemen, including Dave Rimington, who were incredible at pulling and lateral plays, but didn't have the pass blocking experience necessary for the NFL. 

 

So yeah, if you're a recruit with an eye on the NFL, you may want to avoid any college-only offensive system.

 

But honestly, every offensive system is going to need good linemen, receivers, running backs and quarterbacks. The problem with Nebraska is across the board recruiting, depth, and development issues, not run/pass ratios. 

 

And those 25 years of Osborne teams are highlighted by a perfect storm of rock solid defenses and great option quarterbacks. Turner Gill, Tommie Frazier, Scott Frost and Eric Crouch could not have played quarterback at most college programs, and we wouldn't still be talking about them today if they had been backed by a recent Nebraska defense. 

 

If a new coach wants to install old-school option football, it won't cure anything overnight and would likely take a few years to get competitive. 

 

Good teams run and pass with equal skill and discipline because that's pretty much how the game is played. 

 

 

I would add kids want to go to the NFL bc of how much money is in play there. The salaries of players have went up since 20 years ago so kids want to go to programs that prepare them for that. You don't hear of kids switching positions. Nebraska needs a coach that is going to do that.

 

[Born N Bled Red]

Offense finally does something good, now the d will take the series off and let them run it down our throats all the way to a tie game. 

[knapplc]

Hire Mickey!

[TGHusker]

2 hours ago, HuskerNation1 said:

 

If we go the academy route, I would choose Calhoun over Monken.  

Why

[Husker816]

Monken would be a disaster of a hire

[HuskerNation1]

6 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Why

 

Calhoun has a longer track record of success and a lower percentage of losing seasons relative to Monken. 

 

I hope it is not either of those tbh. 

[Huskerfollower4life]

Looks like Gus Malzahn is out of the running. UCF lost today to Navy.

[HuskerNation1]

24 minutes ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

Looks like Gus Malzahn is out of the running. UCF lost today to Navy.

 

Yeah and we took Kiffin off the list after his loss last week.