Coaching Raises (Tim Beck $)
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flatwaterfan
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He's also assistant Head Coach and ran bowl practices while the other coaches were on the road. He seems to be satisfying Bo which is where the buck stops ultimately. So that's my guess as to why he got a raise. (sidebar: It's also my guess that our OL recruiting would be better if people weren't generating negative pub about their own coaches all the time.) And back to the topic on hand. Rant... All these coaches are way overpaid. Society is screwed up. Entertainment people get paid way too much as compared to teachers, fireman, ambulance drivers etc...etc... ESPN is evil. End of rant. p.s. I want a raise.
The Dude
Heisman Trophy Winner
Which got thoroughly exposed once we finally faced a team capable of throwing a forward pass.
I think our pass defense's success was slightly inflated, as well. We didn't face a great NFL-caliber QB all year until Murray; although, we did face NFL caliber receivers. From my memory of the bowl game, there were occasions we were in position to make plays and simply didn't. And it wasn't that Georgia out-talented. I think we had plenty of talent in the secondary to compete, we just had defensive breakdowns and didn't make plays.
I mean Wisconsin was not a team that was 40 points better than us this year. We had the talent to beat them, as we proved in September. We chose to play with poor fundamentals, didn't tackle well, got pathetically out-coached and made bad adjustments in the B1G championship game.
That's not to say we aren't lacking talent/playmakers at important positions, because we are, especially on the defensive line. But, when facing quality opponents throughout the season, we were just far too inconsistent, and we got exposed when it mattered.
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Blackshirt96
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My guess is UTEP was in the same ball park with an offer & NU matched it, plus a little.
Blackshirt96
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My guess is once Sam is gone, Barney will retire. I don't see him being fired as long as Pelini is at NU, but I could see him pushed into a office job. Barney will be 59 when Sam finishes football at NU.
knapplc
International Man of Mystery
Top-ten schedule according to straight wins/losses, not a true power ranking. Sagarin rated our schedule at 20th after Georgia. Prior to that I believe we were #32 in SOS. We played a decent schedule, not an elite schedule.
Examining our pass defense. We played zero top-ten passing offenses all year.
The highest-rated was Georgia (#30), and they torched us to the tune of 427 yards through the air.
The next-best passing offense we faced was UCLA (#34), who gained 309 yards.
The only conference foe ranked in the top 50 for passing was Penn State (#35) and they threw for 240 yards.
Next-best passing offense after that was Ark. State (#43), who simply didn't have the horses to compete with us, and we held them to 138 yards.
From there we're delving into the depths of D1 passing rankings to find the rest of our opponents:
Southern Miss - 108
Wisconsin - 111
Ohio State - 101
Northwestern - 106
Michigan - 94
Michigan State - 85
Minnesota - 105
Iowa - 99
The average ranking for these teams = 101st in the nation. More than half our schedule were in the bottom 1/4 in NCAA passing. Any time we played a decent to semi-decent passing team, we gave up yards, with the lone exception being a Sun Belt team.
I'm by no means "off the deep end" about our secondary. The myth that we had a "good" pass defense this year was founded largely on the fact that we played terrible passing teams.
Count 'Bility
Banned
It's the same myth as ABC and ESPN praising Texas's #1 rush defense leading up to the 2009 Big 12 championship game. Granted, our offense sucked that year and couldnt do anything against any defense with a pulse, but they acted like Texas had this incredible run defense, when they were playing in the Big 12 against teams that threw it all over the field 60 times/game. It's just one of them things that maybe should be judged by yards per attempt or completion as opposed to yards/game.
Undone
All-American
Those stats...they hurt. Bad.
To win our conference next year we need a drastic overhaul of our run defense, but still...those stats hurt.
QMany
All-American
From what I can gather, we would sit T14 in Fewest Passing Yards Allowed per Attempt (adjusted for opposition) at 6.0.
knapplc
International Man of Mystery
Even if we gauge it by Pass Efficiency, which is more of a QB rating as opposed to a straight ranking based on yards gained, our opponents aren't that impressive:
Southern Miss - 117
UCLA - 29
Arkansas St. - 11
Wisconsin - 61
Ohio State - 46
Northwestern - 87
Michigan - 69
Michigan State - 114
Penn State - 59
Minnesota - 92
Iowa - 112
Wisconsin - 61
Georgia - 2
One top-ten Pass Efficiency rating by a team who torched us, we held Sun Belt team Arkansas State down even though they were statistically good passing (albeit against the #98 schedule), we played only four teams in the top 50 in Pass Efficiency this year. When every team you play is terrible at the forward pass, it becomes a lot easier to be statistically good at stopping the pass.
Even with playing woeful passing opponents, we didn't even average one INT per game, ending the season with 13 total in 14 games.
All any of this means is, we had a sub-par defense - which isn't breaking any new ground for anyone. But it also shows that I wasn't off the deep end (in THIS instance
) when I said the reason we were the overall #2 or #3 team in the conference was solely due to the offense. The defense was not good. At all. And that's being kind.
Southern Miss - 117
UCLA - 29
Arkansas St. - 11
Wisconsin - 61
Ohio State - 46
Northwestern - 87
Michigan - 69
Michigan State - 114
Penn State - 59
Minnesota - 92
Iowa - 112
Wisconsin - 61
Georgia - 2
One top-ten Pass Efficiency rating by a team who torched us, we held Sun Belt team Arkansas State down even though they were statistically good passing (albeit against the #98 schedule), we played only four teams in the top 50 in Pass Efficiency this year. When every team you play is terrible at the forward pass, it becomes a lot easier to be statistically good at stopping the pass.
Even with playing woeful passing opponents, we didn't even average one INT per game, ending the season with 13 total in 14 games.
All any of this means is, we had a sub-par defense - which isn't breaking any new ground for anyone. But it also shows that I wasn't off the deep end (in THIS instance
) when I said the reason we were the overall #2 or #3 team in the conference was solely due to the offense. The defense was not good. At all. And that's being kind.
kchusker_chris
All-American
Combine all that with one of the worst rush defenses in D1 - and the pass yards are going to be reduced drastically. Why pass when you can rattle off 10 yards a carry? And it's not like we had teams playing from behind either. Four 4th quarter comebacks? Those were against teams with large leads in the second half. They weren't passing from behind, they were running to grind out the clock.
There's not a single Nebraska defender in the top 100 players for passes defended. And we had a #1 pass defense going into the bowl?
2009 Defense had 3 such players: Prince (16), O'Hanlon (11), Suh (11).
2010 Defense had 2: Prince (13), Dennard (11)
No one broke 10 this year. 56 total passes broken up. 78 in 2009.
There's not a single Nebraska defender in the top 100 players for passes defended. And we had a #1 pass defense going into the bowl?
2009 Defense had 3 such players: Prince (16), O'Hanlon (11), Suh (11).
2010 Defense had 2: Prince (13), Dennard (11)
No one broke 10 this year. 56 total passes broken up. 78 in 2009.
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