Coach Tuz - - - Realistic Expectations

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Syzygyone

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Coach, please do not take this wrong. I am curious as to the number of championships you, in your years of playing and coaching, were involved in. Also, how many undefeated seasons?

I really am curious as to what the members of this forum expect when it comes to Husker football. I am not being judgmental at all. What fans expect is what they expect and it doesn't have to be realistic. I am, simply, just curious.

Go Big Red!

:bonez

 
Depends on the fan. Many don't understand why you can't have teams like 94-95 every year, others like to jump on the bandwagon of the hot coach, most are professional armchair coaches, quarterbacks, etc, etc.

I expect the Huskers to come out every week, play hard, get the all the players they can on their board and run a clean, well clean enough, program.

*waits for benard type guys to take that bait*

 
:yeah

I personally use a lazyboy professional model armchair during all games. With magic finger massage :)

 
I "want" an undefeated season that leads to a championship.

I "expect" an improvement in the W-L column from the previous season after losing 4-5 games.

I "hope" the Huskers return to a top 10 team year in and year out.

I "understand" more about the team as I watch them throughout the season.

Realistic: I dont pay any attention to hype created about recruits or transfers that I have yet to see play wearing that white helmet with the red "N" on it in an actual game. Preseason talk and hype and wishes and know-it-alls dont mean anything to me. A champion is proved on the field, not on paper.

I could not imagine being anything other than a Husker fan, win or lose.

GBR!!!

 
Realistic expectations can not be given until the staff has their players in the system.

Another two years for that to be the case.

If the staff continues to recruit top 10 classes with a few game breakers thrown in, we can begin to expect the team to return to the top 10 on a consistent basis.

We will never have the classes that SC or Texas have. We have to get the best we can and make them be the best they can be. This takes time to develop the system that works. We are not quite there yet, but I do believe this staff gets more out of the players we have than most staffs would.

I never expect undefeated seasons.

I never expect a National Championship team.

I demand a team that leaves it all on the field, no matter the competition.

I demand a clean program.

I demand the academics to be maintained.

My greatest dream is that we return to a top ten program, winning the division regularly, the conference 50% of the time and a BCS game every couple of years. Playing for the NC 2-3 times a decade. But those are only if we maintain the current staff, increase the facilities and play a better schedule.

I want to have my friends say that Nebraska does it the right way, no question. WE are very close in my mind.

 
I expect the coaches to prepare the players and make halftime adjustments. If we can outscore teams in the first half, then why can't I expect to at least stay even in the second half?

I can expect to have a defensive coordinator that is not afraid to use a nickel package instead of using linebackers to cover wide receivers. Even if the young guys are inexperienced, better to have an inexperienced d-back get burned once in a while, than to have a linebacker get burned all the time.

I expect the team to play well and be coached well for 60 minutes. I expect a 14-20 point lead to mean I can relax a little at halftime instead of wondering if the opponent will outscore us 14-0 or 21-0 in the second half. Maybe those expectations are too high.

Oh well, GO BIG RED!

Just an observation...Mayers doesn't have his recruits in place yet, and Florida was pathetic before he got there.

 
Florida was loaded. Most felt Zook would have won if he had been given the time.

Going from Zooks offense to Meyers was a short step.

Rebuilding from a QB left QB Right offense, to WCO requires a little more time and a lot more talent that we did not have. We did not have the talent to run the old offense. I know 10-3, just keep saying it over and over, Frankie is not coming back.

 
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skersfan said:
Realistic expectations can not be given until the staff has their players in the system.

Another two years for that to be the case.

If the staff continues to recruit top 10 classes with a few game breakers thrown in, we can begin to expect the team to return to the top 10 on a consistent basis.

We will never have the classes that SC or Texas have. We have to get the best we can and make them be the best they can be. This takes time to develop the system that works. We are not quite there yet, but I do believe this staff gets more out of the players we have than most staffs would.

I never expect undefeated seasons.

I never expect a National Championship team.

I demand a team that leaves it all on the field, no matter the competition.

I demand a clean program.

I demand the academics to be maintained.

My greatest dream is that we return to a top ten program, winning the division regularly, the conference 50% of the time and a BCS game every couple of years. Playing for the NC 2-3 times a decade. But those are only if we maintain the current staff, increase the facilities and play a better schedule.

I want to have my friends say that Nebraska does it the right way, no question. WE are very close in my mind.
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I couldnt agree more. People need to calm down, and stop drawing comparisions that are like apples and watermelons.

 
skersfan said:
Florida was loaded. Most felt Zook would have won if he had been given the time.

Going from Zooks offense to Meyers was a short step.

Rebuilding from a QB left QB Right offense, to WCO requires a little more time and a lot more talent that we did not have. We did not have the talent to run the old offense. I know 10-3, just keep saying it over and over, Frankie is not coming back.
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LOADED? WTH? They have an inexperienced, undersized, offensive line, no running back, and Leak at QB. They had a solid defense but they won the national championship because Meyers took what he had and designed gameplans around the weaknesses.

I agree that NU was not recruiting well under Solich, and I have NEVER, EVER said I want Fearless Frankie back. I would rather remember him for his play and coaching the running backs. In fact, I never even said I have a problem with BC. I can be patient and wait for his system to take affect. However, he does need to start to step up. If we can outscore teams by 2 to 3 TDs in the first half of the game then we obviously have talent. So why the second half problems? My point is, after half time is when coaching really starts to show. That's when all of the adjustments really come in to play. That fat pile of crap in Kansas outcoached our staff, Pete Carroll out coached our staff, we were outcoached in the OSU game, the Texas game, the Texas A&M game...all games where we played pathetic in the second half (even though we hung on and barely beat aTm and KU by the skin of our a$$). That is coaching. And most of the problem is on the defensive side of the ball. I think BC will be fine once he really gets a handle on the college game. BUT...Coz has been in the college game and is pathetic. And it can't be the lack of talent. If it was lack of talent we would have gotten beat from start to finish. It was after our opponents made adjustments that our defenses looked really bad. It they had the talent to hang for half of the game, they should have had the talent to hang for the whole game.

Realistic expectations? I think NU is a big time program, and I think I can expect to have a defensive coordinator that doesn't constantly mealt down in the second half. Can that really be too much to ask?

 
I'm not a football analyst but it wasn't just that the D melted down in the 2nd half. The O was also unproductive in the 2nd half too often. I'm not sure what the issue is but the coaches need to figure it out or we ain't goin' nowhere. [i know that's a double neg so no need to point it out ] We lost some games we could of/should of won and we just barely won some because we don't seem to be able to close the deal.

 
Syzygyone said:
Coach, please do not take this wrong. I am curious as to the number of championships you, in your years of playing and coaching, were involved in. Also, how many undefeated seasons?

I really am curious as to what the members of this forum expect when it comes to Husker football. I am not being judgmental at all. What fans expect is what they expect and it doesn't have to be realistic. I am, simply, just curious.

Go Big Red!

:bonez
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The high school I played for in 1983 was ranked #23 when I played in Omaha, Nebraska. We didn't end up so well in the playoffs, but we enjoyed a once in lifetime experience when no one else expected much of us. I have played for very well-coached teams, coached very good teams, and listened to outstanding coaches at clinics, but never enjoyed that elusive championship at the end.

My heart has bled Husker football since I could walk and all I want is what we tasted in the 90's. I do not believe that the longstanding records we once held for victories in a season, consecutive bowls, and many others went by the wayside during this transition. I do not know everything there is to know about football, but I've played, coached, and watched more football than most in my 41 years and that my friend is why I believer in observing some of the better programs in college football that we are not close to achieving the status we once held or at least competing for it.

 
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