Huskers93-97
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Does a RB break 200 this weekend?
1,000 Yard Rusher Watch
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No, they won't get enough attempts to do it.
Unless they break off a couple 70-ish yarders.
Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
Professional scouts love to rescue good QBs from bad schemes, but every indication from his post-Husker experience is that Tanner Lee remains a turnover machine.
Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
Let's hope so. Because that's what we're running.
Scott Frost's big playbook could have been Bill Walsh's. High percentage passes to either sideline to open up the middle. Use your RBs like wide receivers and visa versa. Second down deep passes to stretch out the secondary. Run heavy or pass heavy, depending on what the defense gives you. WCO isn't necessarily complicated or pass-heavy. Nobody really calls it that anymore, either, but every offense we want to be has pulled from the WCO.
Tom Osborne's power option game actually required more particular pieces and abilities. And for a dual threat offense to work great requires a great dual threat QB. I think we have one now.
While Mich St and Iowa look statistically very good, IIRC, when we played Minnie they were 26th against the run......I’d like to see Oz, he really epitomizes hard work. I just want to see the 1000 yard rushing drought end. I’d really love to see a 1000 yard receiver for the first time ever at NU....Pretty amazing stats considering we are sitting at 1-6.
Making Chimichangas
Banned
To be clear, Mike Riley's WCO is a version where running the ball is an after-thought at best.
Landlord
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Totally agree. But Osborne didn't always run that offense, and when he did, he benefitted from A) bigger scholarship numbers, B) a more dominant TV presence to aid in recruiting, C) a much better in-state talent pool, D) partial qualifiers, E) a much smaller amount of other midwest schools with the commitment and resources to offer full rides to players who would otherwise walk on at Nebraska, and F) some other stuff I'm probably forgetting about.
Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
To be fair, when Mike Riley had good running backs at Oregon State, they put up career rushing numbers as good as any Husker.
And since Mike Riley's first two Husker teams ran more than they passed — even more than Scott Frost's UCF team — it certainly wasn't an after-thought at best.
Riley's gone. We have Frost. It's kinda weird to keep playing this narrative.
To be clear, Scott Frost is not returning Nebraska to smash-mouth football, he's transforming it into a modern Chip Kelly, no-huddle, risk-taking, big playbook, take-what-the-defense-gives- you, multiple offense. I think it's exciting as hell myself, but I do recall a lot of folks on this board saying that kinda s#!t doesn't play at Nebraska.
Old Nebraska Guy
Four-Star Recruit
Not to argue...just a comment and a question.
A) True, but during Osborne's entire head coaching tenure there were some degree of scholarship limits in place. The initial number was bigger than the current 85, I think it was around 105, in the 80's it dropped to around 95, and finally in the early 90's it was cut to 85. The entire magical run from 94-97 was under the 85 limit. So the days of Devaney giving out 45 scholarships a year were long gone and of course Nebraska wasn't the only school that had to comply with the "new" rules.
D) Are stupid/lazy/those with learning disabilities inherently better football players?
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Just like most current offenses are heavily influenced by the run-n-shoot, though I see no one attempting to call them that the way the West Coast moniker has stuck around. That's mostly due to NFL announcers over the years.
Frost's offense has heavy roots in the West Coast, as it does in other primary offensive archetypes. He loves switch concepts, for instance, that's RNS 101. This offense, like most modern schemes, has pulled great parts from a lot of schemes and found a way to make them gel.
Run/pass ratios, unless they're extreme, don't tell you diddly about what a team wants to do. Be nice if they did, wouldn't have to watch all that tape. Whether a team runs or passes is too contextual for that, but when you want to know what a team wants to do, watch what they lean on when things are going badly. That's what they trust in, that's what they practice. For Riley, this was definitely the passing game, without hesitation. That's ok, too.
SouthLincoln Husker
All-American
Both will have big days against Bethune & Illinois, with the other 3 games belonging to Martinez. Both will get there as the offense is getting better and Martinez is learning to throw the ball instead of getting a sack!
huskersrule95
All-Conference
Needs to average 72.5 yards per game the last 4 games to reach 1,000
Hayseed
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Three of our remaining games could look like the Michigan game with Martinez holding the ball while dodging rushers in the pocket, which don't bode well for Ziggy...…..or they could look like that snappy quick passing spread game that we've seen called from time to time and he could end up with 150 a game.
It is a complete mystery to me what it will be.
It is a complete mystery to me what it will be.