Minnesota: What Did We Learn?

6. I think the most probably scenario for the rest of the season is to finish 2-3 which puts Nebraska at 7-5. If that is the case, Rhule needs to be on the hot seat. That would put him at 19-18 at Nebraska over 3 years...and again hovering around .500 just like MIke Riley. I am loving the success of Curt Cignetti as he has proven with the right coach and mentality any program can get turned around quickly. Gone are the days where a program must hold onto a meandering coach for fear of how long it would take a new guy to show improvement.
Yep, he was toiling away in the shadows until he was 50 and took a HC gig at a small school ...as brain-damaged Superbigfan would say, "a poverty program" ... only in this case, that's what it actually was.
The moral to the story, great coaches are out there, the AD's job is to find them. And AD's need to have a leash as short as those of the head coaches they hire.
 
Same thing I learn every game, especially when we lose, Husker fans are wildly unrealistic and overreact to everything.

I'm excited to see if we can bounce back from this loss and beat NW, or if we'll impode like PSU did. We're 5-2 with a chance to do better than we've done in a decade.
I am sorry, but if expecting to beat a down Minnesota as a 7 point favorite, top 25 team is unrealistic, what is the point? How is that remotely acceptable at this point?
 
It really just is another proof of what we’ve known all along:

Bad line, good skills players: bad team
Good line, bad skills players: good team
Good line, good skills players: great team

It’s a simple as that. The game is fundamentally decided in the trenches. That should be the priority of every team. You will not succeed with bad line play. It has to be the utmost priority in college football. The pros is a little different, qb is the lynchpin there. But in CFB, it’s the line.

This is what Nebraska was always built on. Skills players would vary in talent, the line was always great. You don’t get 8 Outland trophies by not caring about the line. This is what we used to understand.
I'd add one more component which is discipline. Without discipline you're going to have a mess in all three team scenarios. A disciplined team with good lines and bad skill players can be a very solid team in the B1G.
 
If I was a top OL transfer target, why would I come to Nebraska when it’s obvious that Donnie can’t develop talent? We can bid all we want but you still need to be able to help guys get to the next level and we can’t.
So much this. Guys that want to go to the next level are looking at teams that put them in the next level. NU, as a team, is not doing this. Let alone showing improved OL play.
Yep, he was toiling away in the shadows until he was 50 and took a HC gig at a small school ...as brain-damaged Superbigfan would say, "a poverty program" ... only in this case, that's what it actually was.
The moral to the story, great coaches are out there, the AD's job is to find them. And AD's need to have a leash as short as those of the head coaches they hire.
Prior to Indy he was 147-37 as a HC. A LONG track record of success. He was a risk, as success was at smaller schools, but winning is winning. Rhule was 47-43 prior to coming to NU. "Better schools", but just 6 years vs 13 years for Cig. Can never tell. Rhule was a "program builder", but showed no long term success anywhere and Gig just wins.
 
I'd equate disciple to penalties as a measurable. 1994 Huskers 12 that season (not counting bowl game). 1995 Husker had 47. 1997 huskers had 57 (13 games). 2024 Huskers had 130 and 2025 currently sit at 35 through 7 averaging 4.8 (call it 5/game). I know rules have changed, but just a snap shot of past seasons when we were wining.
 
My thoughts:

1- I turned it off just before 3rd quarter ended. Actually helps that I didn't subject myself to it.

2- O Line is garbage. Dylan's Uncle needs to go and NIL needs to open up checkbook ASAP for some talent. DR getting sacked by dudes being blocked and held.

3- Yes Lateef looked good a month ago against nobody teams. No, benching mini Mahomes is not the answer. Lateef could come in, Coast against NW, win, and then the seals would clap like it was the obvious choice. Just stop.

4- Short week and 2 straight road games after getting basically 6 straight home games is a big factor in this. Not a good excuse but, it definitely aided in this.

5- Complain for the standard 24hrs, then come back to reality. Rhule leaving would not actually be good for us. Amazes me how quickly some forget how poorly the last 2 coaches did, and the available pool of hires is not exactly strong.

6- We'll bounce back next week, still have plenty of season left. gbr
 
My thoughts:

1- I turned it off just before 3rd quarter ended. Actually helps that I didn't subject myself to it.

2- O Line is garbage. Dylan's Uncle needs to go and NIL needs to open up checkbook ASAP for some talent. DR getting sacked by dudes being blocked and held.

3- Yes Lateef looked good a month ago against nobody teams. No, benching mini Mahomes is not the answer. Lateef could come in, Coast against NW, win, and then the seals would clap like it was the obvious choice. Just stop.

4- Short week and 2 straight road games after getting basically 6 straight home games is a big factor in this. Not a good excuse but, it definitely aided in this.

5- Complain for the standard 24hrs, then come back to reality. Rhule leaving would not actually be good for us. Amazes me how quickly some forget how poorly the last 2 coaches did, and the available pool of hires is not exactly strong.

6- We'll bounce back next week, still have plenty of season left. gbr
This is Huskerboard. How dare you come on here and try to have a rational discussion!!!!! :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Some great points for sure.

OL is rough and has been. Common denominator is Donnie.
At NU for a long time the 2nd string QB is the fave player. I remember all the McCaffrey drama. After a bad game I might have been part of it :D
I really think that Rhule not knocking down the PSU rumors didn't help. Hoping he can close that noise out ASAP. Throw in the request to wear the "surrender whites", 0-5 vs Minny, now back to back road wins since 2006 was a lot of added on noise.
As Saban famously said years ago at Bama, all the accolades was like rat poison for the team. I think it was easier for them to focus when dealing with the failures than when dealing with success.
Be an opportunity to see how Rhule and Co respond.
End of season I would review every position coach and coordinators. Dana did the O no favors yesterday.
 
If there isn’t a mid season change of OL coach then we know who really runs this team - Dylan’s Dad. Well at this point he can take the show with him to another team if we continue with these results. He can take his brother and his 2 QB sons and all of the strings they have wrapped around the program.
At this point I really question Dylan’s 5 star rating- outside of the occasional great pass, it isn’t translating to P4 level. Much of his stats are based off of the short passing game. But again it may not be translating due to his uncle’s coaching.
If I was Dom, I'd like Dylan to leave. Someplace that could showcase his talent and minimize and "short comings". I think his ceiling his high, but unfortunately the current OL and OC is keeping him in the basement.
 
If I was Dom, I'd like Dylan to leave. Someplace that could showcase his talent and minimize and "short comings". I think his ceiling his high, but unfortunately the current OL and OC is keeping him in the basement.
Dylan at a place with a good OL would be nice to see.

I am sort of "sad" that Husker fans are starting to turn on him. (I don't mean you)
 
Dylan at a place with a good OL would be nice to see.

I am sort of "sad" that Husker fans are starting to turn on him. (I don't mean you)
All good. I prefer a mobile QB, but when he shines he shines bright. OSU, Bama, etc I think he'd be in the Heisman talk. Here? No such luck. I think he is better than he appears. I do think he processes slow, is not the most athletic and doesn't throw with urgency. But poor line play and play calling could be a factor. Be interesting to see how much of these go away with a legit OL. Hard to scramble where anywhere you look an unblocked or half a$$ed block defender is still coming in the passing lanes or a faster backer or DB comes down hill....I mean on the opposite side look at what he IS DOING with one of the less talented OL I have seen at NU in quite some time. We have a lot of issues currently, but imho, he is further down the list of hose concerns.
 
If I was a top OL transfer target, why would I come to Nebraska when it’s obvious that Donnie can’t develop talent? We can bid all we want but you still need to be able to help guys get to the next level and we can’t.
It is not the x and o it’s the jimmy and the joes and we have not landed a top lineman in a long time we need big time lineman recruits every year like Jaxson cantwell just another miss how many times in the last four years have we had the number 1 offensive tackle in the country on campus and not land him because we get out bid even Rhule was hinting about it in his press conference that we are 10 to 20 million dollars behind other schools
 
Dylan at a place with a good OL would be nice to see.

I am sort of "sad" that Husker fans are starting to turn on him. (I don't mean you)
I think he’s a 7 v 7 QB, but I’d be curious to see him perform with lock down blocking too. His lack of mobility is a serious problem. There are no current elite QBs that I can think of that are not a danger to get 10-15 yards if the defense doesn’t account for them.
 
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