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Vikings need help at safety?

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cruelhalo said:

Let this sink in for a minute. Garrett McGuire, the wide receivers coach, has approximately 4 years of coaching experience - period. Two years at Carolina and is finishing his second year at Nebraska. He had little to no experience coaching wide receivers prior to be named the WR coach at Nebraska. McGuire gets paid $285,000 a year which is a travesty.

Ron Brown, is currently the Director of Player Support & Outreach. He has 30+ years of coaching experience. More specifically, he was the one responsible for teaching wingbacks, wide receivers and tight ends how to block under Coach Osborne. Brown gets paid $186,000.

I would prefer to see Ron Brown coaching tight ends and wide receivers.



He's only a couple of years older than the wide receivers on the team. Respect is earned. Also, McGuire is a nepotism hire by Rhule because his dad coached at Baylor with Rhule.

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This here is a major red flag and NOT a recipe for ‘championship football’. Completely unacceptable.

kakdawg said:

All of those stats against the same teams go out the windows in this game. It's a rivalry and Iowa will likely play harder than than they have against anyone on their schedule. My guess is Nebraska will play as hard as they have anyone on their schedule this year. Similar to the Colorado type intensity if that's possible on the road (probably not).

All that said the team who turns it over less and makes least amount of mistakes likely wins. We won't stop Johnson but we can't let him beat us either. At some point Nebraska has to make Iowa take the ball out of his hands and make the QB make 2-3 big passes this game in order to win.

For Iowa at some point they will have to make Raiola throw 2-3 big time spaces under pressure. It's imperative Nebraska has some kind of a run game. They won't win it on the ground (Iowa defense too good) But they need the balance to be at their best. Iowa doesn't need to be balanced to win it. If we can't slow Johnson we lose.

Lot of that to say I have no clue who will win it lol. Can Nebraska be balanced on offense and slow Johnson? Can Iowa run it down Nebraska throats without needing the QB to make a few plays?


That'll decide it ...


Holla

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Turnovers will be key. Raiola will probably throw a pick or two. How bad will they hurt? I’d think Iowa will keep Stratton to quick throws. Can Nebraska get pressure on him and get a strip sack or force an INT? KJ has put the ball on the ground a couple times after the end of plays. Moulton fumbled last week.

Iowa leads the country in fewest penalties. Will that continue? I’ve got to think Nebraska is gonna test the bigger WRs against Iowa’s CB’s. A PI or two will probably happen.

I just can’t help but think Raiola will has some difficulty with grip on the football. Probably Stratton too but Iowa won’t be as reliant on throwing as Nebraska. Passing game depends on when the winds subside.

Iowa’s FG kicker has been excellent. Nebraska’s is really coming along. How will both do kicking a brick?

My concern is not having the same home field advantage as earlier in the year. Cold weather and an underachieving team could keep attendance down. Plus, Nebraska fans travel well. Will the student section be 75% full?

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itseasyas1-2-3 said:

How can anybody look at that goofy little ear to ear grin and think he's a serious football coach?
He belongs as a coach on a middle school team. Running around patting guys on the ass and saying "Let's go guys", isn't exactly coaching. That's what cheerleaders are for.

Garrett's probably a smart, really nice young man. But, can you see any serious football coach like Saban, Meyer, Smart having this kid working with such an important position group?

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Not in a million years. That was so Nebraska to hire him.

But those days seem over thankfully. If we keep him going forward, I’ll know we still aren’t serious about winning.

scarletred said:

I get the impression that he isn’t as interested in being a head coach and would rather be the offensive coordinator..

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Most certainly as of today. Both of his HC gigs were difficult. I could see not wanting the headache especially when the program that fired you is basically going to get paid the salary that your school would be paying you.

HuskerDana said:

If you havent caught the end of the PC, I think he certainly would love to stsy....uner the right conditions.

Holgerson PC

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If the Wisconsin game is indicative of what he can do with our current talent he already has the right conditions. If he is able to go move the ball up and down the field against Iowa and in a bowl game then see below.

-He has a QB with first round arm talent, million dollar head that loves to play football (probably the most important condition)
-He has a HC that will turn that side of the ball completely over to him and get the hell out of the effing way
-He is at a school that loves football, has resources and a great salesman in Rhule that will be able to sell DR/DH combination to ensure he has enough supplemental talent around (particularly if we look good on offense rest of season)

If he thinks an assistant (not related to our QB) is holding things back I think that is about an 8 second conversation with him and Rhule. He has also seen this group of assistants execute his game plan very well in less than three weeks which indicates to me that Satterfield was 95% the problem not anything the assistant where doing at the position group level.

If the rest of the season plays out with Raiola looking like he did last Saturday then I think we are good. With what he would have returning and what the preacher Rhule will be able to bring in selling DH/DR for two years he would have as much or more talent than he has ever had including the year at Okie Lite where they lead NCAA in total yardage.

No way he folds this hand if DR is here as things he can do at NU could be legacy changing for him.

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MargotDeeper said:

At least I trained @SkulzNBonz to just STFU with his word salads.

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I'm still working on getting the dumbass to use paragraphs.

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cruelhalo said:

Let this sink in for a minute. Garrett McGuire, the wide receivers coach, has approximately 4 years of coaching experience - period. Two years at Carolina and is finishing his second year at Nebraska. He had little to no experience coaching wide receivers prior to be named the WR coach at Nebraska. McGuire gets paid $285,000 a year which is a travesty.

Ron Brown, is currently the Director of Player Support & Outreach. He has 30+ years of coaching experience. More specifically, he was the one responsible for teaching wingbacks, wide receivers and tight ends how to block under Coach Osborne. Brown gets paid $186,000.

I would prefer to see Ron Brown coaching tight ends and wide receivers.



He's only a couple of years older than the wide receivers on the team. Respect is earned. Also, McGuire is a nepotism hire by Rhule because his dad coached at Baylor with Rhule.

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Serious head coaches have serious assistants. Look no farther than Matt trying to fit square pegs into round holes. i.e. Satt and McGuire.

Just look at the difference in the NU offense in a 2 week period. Dana has shown to be a gigantic upgrade over Satt, its clear, if Ron Brown wanted that job, NU would be greatly enhanced overall with just the intensity, experience and expectations Brown coaches with.

Tom Osborne always said, "You don't get long runs, especially long touchdown runs without great downfield blocking by your receivers." Case in point, NU hasn't had decent long touchdown runs against even poor defenses. As a coach in any sport, if you don't demand great effort from your players, you won't get great efforts. Kids are gonna be kids.

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inWV said:

Until Houston completes his buyout payments, teams competing for his services would simply be negotiating how much money they pay Houston. Holgerson will be where he wants to be in 2025. We hope that place is Lincoln. His buyout runs for three years after this. By the time the end of the 2027 season comes around he may have already signed a head-coaching contract somewhere. Nebraska only needs to pay him an amount that won’t draw attention of the lawyers for the University of Houston athletic department.
I take what Holgerson said at face value. He’s really enjoying calling plays, he has agreed to be at NU through the bowl game and he hasn’t thought about things much past that.

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I get the impression that he isn’t as interested in being a head coach and would rather be the offensive coordinator..