Josh Mitchell is my new favorite player

Josh Mitchell obviously thinks the "leaders" on this team arent holding their own and arent calling out the new guys.

Sometimes you need a vocal guy to get in guys faces. T-mart is in Cali-- gotta wonder if that is a concern.. no more Rex.. This team lacks true leaders.. mainly on the D side.

I love the fact Josh isnt scared to call people out. You show up in the gym everday, and you hope your teammates do it too.

VV seems pissed, but at the end of the day, JM just wants the best out of him and thinks he can be good but needs to get in the gym.

 
I like it. Even if the leadership is taken in a not-so favorable direction, ie. Mitchell calling players out on Twitter....if it needs to be said, it needs to be said. Maybe Josh is using it try and embarrass or exploit VV over the net. I don't mind that. Light a fire under the guy and get him motivated...do what it takes. NEB needs a few hard-nosed bad asses on the team that will motivate their teammates.

 
I am not one to take things in the locker room or practice field to public, but maybe this is what needs to be done to get VV working hard. I have been waiting to see this guy play, but the longer I wait, the more uninterested I become. Especially after reading this. Mitchell might be getting tired of being average, but guess what, if you don't have a dominating D-Line, your going to be just that. Hopefully some of these Freshman can pick up where the slack is.

 
Minnesota_husker said:
VV seems pissed, but at the end of the day, JM just wants the best out of him and thinks he can be good but needs to get in the gym.
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Valentine can get pissed all he wants. When he's tearing up opponent O Lines then he can tell Mitchell to stuff it. But we've heard absolutely nothing encouraging about VV since he arrived on campus - in fact, we've heard the opposite.

When players are publicly calling you out, when the rumor on the street is your work ethic sucks, when even the coaches hint that you're not putting out your potential, that's a problem. Kinda like some of the posters who no longer grace this board - it's not everyone else complaining about you that's the problem, it's you.

We need Vincent Valentine. We don't need a warm body taking up space, we need a mauler in the middle of that line. That's what he was billed as, by himself and the recruiting services, and that's why he's here. If he's not going to be that guy, he needs to move on.

 
HuskerNationNick said:
I am not one to take things in the locker room or practice field to public, but maybe this is what needs to be done to get VV working hard. I have been waiting to see this guy play, but the longer I wait, the more uninterested I become. Especially after reading this. Mitchell might be getting tired of being average, but guess what, if you don't have a dominating D-Line, your going to be just that. Hopefully some of these Freshman can pick up where the slack is.
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I think how we feel about twitter, and how these kids view it are a little different. To them twitter is just their preferred line of communication. I'm with you, it's something you keep in house. But these kids live their lives through social media...not surprising to see some of the things that used to occur behind closed doors out in the public now.

 
I like the leadership being displayed, and that's the thing most people (including me) think it will take to get us to the next level. I just wish it was in the locker room instead of on the internet for everyone to see. It shows a little bit of disconnect in the locker room IMO.

 
What I've heard about Valentines performance in practice and scrimmages is that he seems to be a little soft until someone pisses him off and he goes on a mean streak and becomes completely unhandleable. Maybe these older guys are playing a little psychology here in trying to motivate that attitude into a more permanent basis.

 
knapplc said:
Valentine can get pissed all he wants. When he's tearing up opponent O Lines then he can tell Mitchell to stuff it. But we've heard absolutely nothing encouraging about VV since he arrived on campus - in fact, we've heard the opposite.

When players are publicly calling you out, when the rumor on the street is your work ethic sucks, when even the coaches hint that you're not putting out your potential, that's a problem. Kinda like some of the posters who no longer grace this board - it's not everyone else complaining about you that's the problem, it's you.

We need Vincent Valentine. We don't need a warm body taking up space, we need a mauler in the middle of that line. That's what he was billed as, by himself and the recruiting services, and that's why he's here. If he's not going to be that guy, he needs to move on.
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I'm sure it happens everywhere, but it seems like Bo struggles with these prima-donna type players. Unfortunately, most of your drama queens are your best talent (which is why they are DQs in the first place). I'm talking guys like ARod, Peat, Moore, VV, A. Green, Rome, etc. Some ego's just need stoked. Whatever it takes to get the most out of the guy is what's best for the team.

I obviously know nothing about the inner workings of the team, but those hard nosed, hard workers that keep their mouth shut and go to work (Rex) type of guys are successful here. The guys with borderline character issues, that maybe lack the work ethic struggle to turn the corner. Problem is, a lot of recruits coming into the program have character issues...we just aren't going to sign 25 Rex's. They have egos. But they also have a ton of talent. Doesn't seem like we hear about a player very often who slacked his freshman year turn it around and all of a sudden become a better teammate. I'm talking about a guy like Jamal Turner...who admitted being aloof his freshman year and somehow really turned into a heck of a player/leader. Those are rare here.

 
Mr. Accountability said:
What I've heard about Valentines performance in practice and scrimmages is that he seems to be a little soft until someone pisses him off and he goes on a mean streak and becomes completely unhandleable. Maybe these older guys are playing a little psychology here in trying to motivate that attitude into a more permanent basis.
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I really hope that is the case, and I think Mitchell said something about that. The guy obviously needs motivation, and maybe he thinks saying it on Twitter will do just that. From what I have heard, is pretty much like what you heard, he is a monster. I just hope he isn't like William Gholston from MSU, where he is absent for some games, and plays hard when he wants to.

 
I love it! These guys need to hold each other accountable. If twitter would have been around in the 90's this is the kind of thing that Christian Peters and those guys would have done, but it wasnt so it stayed in the locker room. Being a team leader doesnt always mean that you have to be the nice guy that everyone likes, alot of the time it means you have to be the guy who calls the players out who arent giving it everything they got when the rest of the team is. This is just the mindset this team needs to have, everyone should be held accountable.

Didnt Bo put a ban on twitter once? Idk why I am thinking he did, and if he did could something like this cause another one?

 
HuskerNationNick said:
I really hope that is the case, and I think Mitchell said something about that. The guy obviously needs motivation, and maybe he thinks saying it on Twitter will do just that. From what I have heard, is pretty much like what you heard, he is a monster. I just hope he isn't like William Gholston from MSU, where he is absent for some games, and plays hard when he wants to.
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I'd take a Gholston any day over what the line was last year, or is shaping up to be this. I'm still in disbelief we've gone from having one of the most dominant lines in the game 2009/2010, to this in 2 year.

 
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kchusker_chris said:
I'd take a Gholston any day over what the line was last year, or is shaping up to be this. I'm still in disbelief we've gone from having one of the most dominant lines in the game 2009/2010, to this in 2 year.
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Gholston on his bad day, was just like the line we had last year. When the guy wanted to play, he was a monster, and at times a huge bully (AA situations last year).

I would be in disbelief if we weren't running right into Bo's first year of recruiting. This was an obstacle that many people tried not to see coming, but defensively, we couldn't recruit. Not because of the inability, it was because of the "no-name" assistants we had on defense, and Bo being a first time HC with no previous track record in that department. I told a lot of my buddies, before I joined this board, that we would be hurting on the DL more than ever, and have issues at safety. Two biggest issues on that side of the ball. I think we will be rocky at safety next year, but whoever gets the starting gig will be superior by mid season. As for the DL, my belief is somewhere in the negative side. Not because of this tweet, but because of the depth and noticing how out of shape VV was in. I was excited when we moved Nickens over and I hope he shines! Right now as it is, one player decides not to play, we are screwed, UNLESS one of these incoming Freshman end up being that diamond in the rough. Collins could just be that player too. If we become to soft in the middle, Bo has already stated of putting McMullen at DT. Supposedly he is going to be one of our hybrid players on DL.

 
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