Bledred
Five-Star Recruit
When did this happen? I am behind on such things. Have not been paying a whole lot of attention being a retired fan.
New AD or Head Coach
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junior4949
All-American
Which part? I think it was reported this last weekend that Texas was proceeding with Herman because Meyer had turned them down.
Husker in WI
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Again, using yardage is bizarre because (unless you are a terrible passing team), you will average more per pass than per run. North Carolina and Ohio State are perfect examples of what our offense hopes to be.
North Carolina is running the ball 41 times per game at 6 yards per carry (best in P5), compared to 29 passes per game. That's an elite running offense, and they're running it almost 59% of the time. They are still averaging 50 more passing yards per game than rushing yards.
Ohio State is even more run heavy, 45 rush attempts (at a very good 5.5 per carry) to 27 pass attempts per game. Another elite rushing offense, running the ball 62+% of the time. They average 30 more passing yards per game than rushing yards.
If you want to tell me you don't consider those rushing offense and would not be happy unless we ran the ball closer to 70% of the time just so rushing yards outpaced passing yards, I just flat out don't agree with you. Those are balanced offenses leaning much more to the run game.
Bledred
Five-Star Recruit
Seeing now that it was reported they offered him 10 million a year. Dang. Urbs citing 'health problems' and turned it down.
Now onto my second pick... A 30$ million IBM super computer. We will have a team of programmers in the sky box inputting plays through out the game by both teams and their relative success. Then the computer will relay the most viable plays to be successful out to a display screen (kinda like the picture cards with 4 pictures) that will tell the team what series of plays to go with next. Time for Nebraska to start thinking outside the box. Or inside the box as in this case it is a gigantic boxed computer.
Bledred
Five-Star Recruit
So I suppose we have to go with yards per carry and yards per pass then for the tie breaker?
Husker in WI
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I mean that's why I went with the ranking in yards per game. A great rushing YPC is still going to be less than a mediocre passing YPA. So I'm trying to control for things like the difference in passing and rushing efficiency, and for run/pass split by saying: how many yards per game are we getting rushing and passing, and how does that compare to other teams? There are probably better advanced stats for this.
But my point is Frost has always run the ball more than passed it, usually by a decent margin. And if we normalize for the difference in passing and rushing efficiency by just saying how do your passing and rushing yards per game compare to everyone else's rushing and passing yards per game, he's usually much higher in the rushing category. I can see an argument that he's too pass heavy for someone's personal preference (if we want to be like Buffalo this year, or try the 90's despite the game changing a lot since then), but not an argument that he's at all pass heavy in general.
desertshox
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Wait a second, if a balanced offense means rushing and passing yards are equal then this explains all the swing passes behind the line of scrimmage. Frost is just making sure the passing yards dont exceed the rushing yards.
krc1995
Heisman Trophy Winner
Doesn’t matter how anyone feels about Frost, he’s ours for awhile. Hopefully, he’s successful and it’s a long while...but.
I think we’re seeing what we want to see with him. For some reason we’ve put him on a pedestal since his Wood River days, but if you look at each stage of his football career it’s pretty ugly. Not his play or talent, but his sense of entitlement. He will literally cut his nose to spite his face. So when he said the BIG has to adjust to us, I think he will double down rather than re-adjust and re-define how we can be successful in the conference. I would not look to him to change anything- offense or defense.
I think we’re seeing what we want to see with him. For some reason we’ve put him on a pedestal since his Wood River days, but if you look at each stage of his football career it’s pretty ugly. Not his play or talent, but his sense of entitlement. He will literally cut his nose to spite his face. So when he said the BIG has to adjust to us, I think he will double down rather than re-adjust and re-define how we can be successful in the conference. I would not look to him to change anything- offense or defense.
I would hope he wouldn't until he has a chance to see guys that he feels are the best shot at running what he wants to do on offense and defense get a chance to mature and run it. If, at that point, it doesn't work, I have no reason to believe he will be unwilling to change. He changed from Stanford to NU when he realized going West was a mistake for him. He changed from QB to safety when asked to in order to improve his chance at success there. He's made large changes each and every year that he has been here in order to better position his team for success. Hell, he changed from "his guy" in Adrian mid season with the hope that it would lead to a better product on the field. He has actually never shown he is unwilling to change when he is pretty sure he needs too. I wouldn't expect him to change up his entire philosophy until its had a legitimate chance to shine.
Can we not make major character assumptions based on such minute evidence? This criticism being thrown around with this evidence needs to stop. It’s no way to evaluate people.
krc1995
Heisman Trophy Winner
Hissie fit- to stanford- mad at Tom O
sucked at Stanford- Nebraska- mad at Bill Walsh
The whole Kate Middelton fiasco. Changed the course of two people’s lives.
Bad business deal in Omaha in 00’s.- soured with partners, including ex-teammates.
Constant whining as head coach at Nebraska. Multiple players ostracized and leave the program. Changed little culturally in three years inspite of saying that’s what needed to change.
I did lose interest in him for about 10 years, but I bet he never stayed anywhere long.
and he managed to get a raise in all this.
A pattern is starting to emerge
DefenderAO
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Husker_Bohunk said:
Their coaches are higher tier. What set of players have you seen really improve under this staff? Ziggy? Would you say that was pure coaching? Who else? Cam Taylor Britt? Maybe. Last Saturday he tackled a Minny kid who fell over him for two more yards. Cam stood up and flexed. It set up 3rd and 3. Then a 4th and 1`. Minny ran right up the middle and scored. Flexing.
OSU and Bama get great players, but their staff also knows how to develop them into that potential. Frankly, Wan'Dale is my favorite player on the team. And looking at his body of work, I expected more at this point. Not his fault. He's a WARRIOR. It's the staff. I think many of them can't develop talent, can't scheme, don't understand situations.
It's bad right now.
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DefenderAO
All-Conference
When you combine an inaccurate QB duo with a, frankly, poor O-Line, it sets up bad situations. Now add stupid penalties and head-scratching play calls...
Now you're kicking with one of the most ineffectual ST teams in the land. Then it's Chin's time to "shine." D has been marginally better this year I think, but I don't see him as the answer. Problem is he's Scott's best friend, and the coach has a a bit of an ego challenge right now.
Lastly, end of game pressers and Scott has only really focused on the offense. He's not managing the entire team. If I'm a CEO and get to only focus on sales, or operations, or procurement...it had better be the best part of the company and still will be an abdication of my role.
This is NU football right now. Bad at three phases. A prideful coach riding or dying with many of his coaches and schemes, not detailed in every aspect of the game, and confounded when the post-game pressure comes ("we just need to see good things happen." Scott, you beat PSU and Purdue respectively this year and get trashed by Illinois and Minnesota's JV team, at home, the following games. Were the prior wins not good enough?)
DefenderAO
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