Not that he should have been in the discussion but his team is a hot mess today. Numerous stupid penalties and very poor play calling.

Probably varies by state but are there concussion protocols in high school football

At a game recently where the receiver hit the back of his head on the turf - appeared unconscious for a short time, had brief arm spasms and was wobbly needing help off the field - happened right near half

Was very surprised to see him playing the second half

I know it’s not happening for at least two more weeks, but I wish he would just do it already. We desperately need something to look forward to…like right now. At least I do. I love college football and I love my Huskers, but damn if the last 5 years (and more) hasn’t just felt like a kick in the nuts every fall Saturday. The joy of watching/following CFB has yet evaporated.

How many of you feel the hire has already been made and Trev is just waiting to announce?

Amazing that SF - a QB focused coach completely whiffed on QB recruiting during his reign:
AM
Luke
Haarberg
Smothers

The last three are not only not going to be productive but are FCS level players. It is almost inexplicable. LB, receivers,RB were not much better ..essentially recruiting was a total failure.

Thoughts on him in the booth? I enjoy his commentary!

... made positive changes to the Husker Football program by not firing Frost that could not have been made had he done so.

1. In the era of the portal, had he fired Frost, we would have lost 40-45 players including 1/2 of our returning starters, some we would want to lose, some not. Any new coach would not have been able to replace that.

2. Trev correctly analyzed the biggest problem with the coaching, which was an amateur staff on offense. He understood that while Frost still has good support from the fan base, that play calling and other offensive coaching needs to be done by true professionals.

3. Despite not making wholesale changes to the defensive staff, the fact that we are basically and finally returning to a 4 man front is evidence that Trev made his mark on the defense too. I'm more happy about this than I am about the new offensive coaches.

4. Trev positioned the staff to use the portal and NIL to narrow the talent gap with the 6-8 teams that get most of the 4-5 star talent out of high school. It's not exactly the same, but it's a page from TO's playbook, finding key players from unconventional sources.

I'm starting to believe that, while it's going to be a bumpy ride, that the return of Alberts may be the sign of the resurrection of the Nebraska athletic program.

We should have offered him. Much better than what we have starting! From right here in CB Iowa.

F them.

We could do a lot worse - although not a long track record coaching D1

I dont think any if us has asked the question “why would MJ want the job?”. There is a huge downside, of course there is the money. and every coach we are looking at would also understand that. So Mickey says he has a nice home in Louisiana and he could go there and chill. On the other hand there is a huge upside which someone not familiar with the culture of the state of Nebraska would not understand. John Cook has talked a lot about that culture and has said, as his players have said, “there is no place like Nebraska.” I think MJ understands that, Busch understands that, Trev understands that Rund no doubt understands that. I think Frost understood that but he clearly wasn’t ready to do the job. Would Aranda or (fill in the blank with one of the other candidates) take the job for the money or for the huge upside potential? If MJ was offered the job would he take it for the money or because he understands the huge upside side potential and he he understands the culture of Nebraska or “there is no place like Nebraska“? I havent lived in Nebraska since 1972. I am also a graduate of the University of Michigan, but my heart, my passion is for everything Nebraska. Our next coach needs to understand that or I am afraid he will just take the money and say ‘ win or lose, Ive got mine and I can retire.”

Was Aranda living off of Ruhle's players? He seems to be struggling this year now that his players are coming along...

HAVE FUN!!!

Even when we lose, I hate the end of the season.

Mickey has a lot of heart and I don't doubt the guy's work ethic. But he's absolutely not ready to be the head coach at Nebraska or any other P5 school for that matter. These last 3 weeks crystalized it. If Trev makes him the head coach - Nebraska football is officially dead.

It's over in Ann Arbor. Hit the link...

True frosh playing better and better

And eliminate Iowa from winning the west?

We always have discussions about recruiting, talent pool etc and go back and forth on importance of each area but clearly coaching is #1 by a wide margin. Hands down. Examples:
1. Obvious one - how many teams at even lower level schools with much less recruiting looked better, faster smarter than we did. (I know obvious and low hanging fruit)
2. Many teams in more talented, recruiting rich regions have been dumpster fires or at least mediocre at best depending on the coach.
Tennessee- was a shit show, may be coming now with Heupll
Miami, a lot of talent but been a shit show off and on for a while now and of course, just lost to Middle Tenn St.
Other Florida teams- FL State has been shit for a few years and not sure ready to say they are out of it as I need to see a little more from them and Norvel sp? and even the Gators have been going thru coaches and been shitty to mediocre. Plenty of talent here in FL and they have athletes no doubt.
USC and OU and Alabama have all had their hibernation periods of suck and had to go thru multiple coaches.
Lastly, watching perennial, mostly door mats - Wash St, Oregon St- no idea if they are for real but just watching them feels like their coaching is solid.
Kansas(not a coaching search comment) but 4-0 for Kansas in year two with maybe not a strong schedule yet but not patty cake either- was there a bigger dumpster fire out there beyond KU(maybe we have traded places with them, Thank you admin and SF)

Bottom line - Coaching Matters! And a good coach can find all the talent they need to turn Nebraska around, no ifs, ands or butts. I thing we will get there and hopefully Trev is on it and it is not too long and not a couple more coaches from now. My definition of "there" is competing for the west, winning our share of west titles and maybe beating an Ohio ST every 1 out of 3 or 4 tries.

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Eesh.

@Steve Marik wrote about Ty Robinson and the defensive line today:

“It starts with us”

South Florida.
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pretty good game so far

not the shootout most expected

heating up now

I don’t care what coach we hire at this point. People will be pissed no matter who it is. All I know is that guy has to have an identity that the kids understand and thrive in. Our offensive scheme is terrible. We try to throw intermediate passes with a shaky young qb who has an average arm at best. The o-line surprisingly played well today I thought but they have not been good enough this year for an offense predicated on giving the qb time to go through progressions.

Please get someone who at least moves in one direction as a program and everyone understands what you are trying to do. At least then if you fail we all know why. I watched KSU at a wedding here in KC earlier absolutely destroy a well coached Baylor team. I’m the schmuck Nebraska fan getting told they are sorry for me. God willing I’d love to see Nebraska win some games again.

Down go the ducks

Anyone know what he ran? How his recruiting was at Baylor?