I believe that was the problem when Wagner was here. Wagner wanted power blocking... blowing guys off the ball, instead it was finesse cat fight blocking.
I think all of our offensive staff is doing things that are outside of their expertise. I don't know why we would waste our time asking coaches to go learn a new scheme and techniques when we could just go get a great, proven OC and let him put his own staff together!
Thanks for checking your facts you have good points. I'm out, thanks for all your opinions.
I think this is exactly what is wrong right now. I don't think you can point the finger at a single guy(except maybe Gilmore). I don't think Cotton is comfortable with the style of offense we're running, nor is Watson. Maybe switching one of these guys is enough, or maybe we just need to get rid of everyone and bring in a new staff. I'd hate to see Brown go though; his receivers always caught the ball back in the day and you can't argue that the best hands on the team this year belonged to the Tight Ends.
I don't think Barney is the real problem here. I think Nebraska's offense and play calling in particular situations in general is really the culprit. People forget just how predictable of an offense that we have. IMO it's made the offensive line look worse than they actually are and if anything you can blame a lousy offensive coordinator for that.
There are no excuse for Barney. His OL sucked under Frank and the only reason we won so many games in 2003 was the defense (sound familer?) and a very easy schedule. That year NU's defense set the NCAA record for turnovers forced. We were still whipped by the only two teams with a pulse (UT and KSU) and we even lost a game to Mizzou that was an average team at best.
You can also blame a crappy OL/Coach for putting an OC in a position of no matter what they call, it won't work because of very poor OL play.
Bo wants to run the Oregon offense and we don't have the coaches to run it. The offensive coaches went to Oregon in the past off season to try to learn it, but it wasn't enough time to learn all of it. And this is why there is a rumor going on that Frost will come and be the Co-OC for whoever replaces Watson since he's a former husker than knows Oregon's offense.
Bo inherited a team with MUCH more talent than BC inherited from Frank. The defense was obviously very poorly coached by Coz, but there was talent there which was proven once a good set of defensive coaches got ahold of them.
AMEN!!!! First thing I have read that makes sense. We have the talent but not for this offense. We need to keep it simple and line up. Cotton comes from a different mindset. I bet if we went back to power I, play action, vanilla offense. We would run folks out of the stadium.