If I’m not mistaken Dabo elevated to HC at Clemson as the receivers coach after a firing. If I remember correctly he didn’t have any Coordinator experience either. Was considered an excellent recruiter too.

just food for thought. Have a great wknd y’all.

It's a slippery slope to post this on this board so keep comments simple and will support it when mods need to move it lol

I was curious how our vote was going in state and I found this page that updates a lot since our elections mean less nationally than the others no one is talking about them. So if you are interested this is a ne.gov page keeping up the totals

Nebraska election updates

Hey, everyone. Here’s this week’s edition of our Blackshirt Breakdown video series with @Foremanjay5655 and I. We take a look back at the Minnesota game.

If Thompson can’t go or is ineffective, who gets the reps? My reading of Whipple’s comments and his pass happy mentality is Purdy. I see that as a mistake. We need some possession time in a game like this. And the zone read with Smothers might give us the best chance for that. It also gives Grant a better chance to break free. Smothers was 16-22 against Iowa last year. So he can throw it in a real game. Purdy has limited expert and Mickey has said he is playing nervous.

Mickey needs to overrule his OC and get Smothers in the game. He might not have the supporting cast to be successful but I think he gives us the best shot. His lack of snaps last week in the second half was sit poor coaching

Felt like I was back at UNL the way John Cook conducted his press conference today. He gave some awesome stories about the program’s move to Devaney and how the sellout streak began as Nebraska prepares for its 300th consecutive sellout on Friday. More coming later when we speak to Lindsay Krause this afternoon.

I've heard quite a few people talk about the "drop" by Palmer at the end (tough catch, but you'd think he usually comes up with that). But THIS play had myself and everyone around me yelling at the TV...

The play before Palmer's "drop" Smothers had an acreage of green grass in front of him with a clear path to the first down and instead threw the ball away (and Palmer wide open over the middle)

I know you don't usually take off and run in the 2 minute drill, but at that point there was still plenty of time left.

My Oklahoma State friend says that Gundy has tanked the season because he is cleaning out his desk and packing up the house to move on to getting his new job as Head Coach of Nebraska. He is only going through the motions right now to finish out the season. I guess that explains the downturn of the season in Stillwater the last few weeks.

Happy Tuesday night, everyone.

The Huskers fell at home to Minnesota, 20-13, last weekend, and @Foremanjay5655 and I took a detailed look at a few of the plays from the game for our second Blackshirt Breakdown:



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Jay will be answering any questions you have until 9 p.m., and I'll hang around, too. What's on your mind?

I played at MN in the early 2000's and couldn't help but wonder why they weren't included in the In-state football tour?

Did coach Petito or someone else piss someone off? I think they've struggled a bit lately but I can't imagine there's not at least one future D1 kid on the team now.

Just wondering if anyone knows what the deal is?

GBR.

Clarification and Admission I was Wrong.

I had posted a couple of times recently about what Coaches are paid. I had read that NFL Coaches make less than College Coaches. And in some cases it was significantly less.

A friend called me on that, so we looked it up. And we found that is not exactly the case. We used NBC Sports as our source.

The Top 10 NFL Coaches for 2022 will earn from $8million up to Sean McVay shown at $15m-$18million. Belichick #2 at $12.5million and Carroll #3 at $11million.

The 2nd 10 ran from $3million to $7million. There were 13 Coaches with no data to compare. They were mostly the newer Coaches.

Zac Taylor showed in the 2nd group at $4.5million..

So this is a Correction to my previous posts. Compensation would appear to very similar in comparison.

Ruhle, Patterson and Monken

Out of those three, please let it be Ruhle

Hit the link:

Why are we judging MJ on personnel he inherited? Our O Line is terrible and underdeveloped. Our LB group is young and undersized.

CT threw 2 costly picks, but that’s what happens when you can’t establish the run.

Mickey is positive and composed. They make good adjustments at half. You can tell kids like him.

I hope it’s him.

Has nothing to do with on the field results and everything to do with Trev Alberts history as AD while at UNO. Towards the end of Dean Blias run as head coach of the hockey team, Trev brought in Mike Gabinet, who as you might guess, played for UNO in the early 2000’s. He was named… Wait for it… Associate Head Coach. When Dean Blais retired, take a guess who got the job… Yep, Mike Gabinet. Mike, as well as Mickey had no head coaching experience. So if history is any indication, Trev is not afraid to hire from within the organization. In all, Mikey’s tryout may be less about wins and losses (because nobody is saving this train wreck this year), and more about how he handles the day to day operations of job, which up to this point has been solid to good.

So take this as you will, but history shows Mickey is not out of the running here by a long shot.

I'd like to point out that Frost, who was supposed to be an offensive genius or at least a stellar offensive mind, didn't recruit quarterbacks who can throw. What sort of arrogance does it take to watch a kid with a weenie arm like McAfree or (sorry) Smothers and then gamble all of your chips on being able to transform them into a starting P5 QB? Maybe the sort of arrogance it takes to watch your offensive line recruits get humiliated in practice every day and then think you can make good players out of them. Frost fvcked this program worse than Riley. Maybe it wasn't arrogance, maybe he just isn't very bright.

When you consider the transfers that MJ brought in, how bad would this bunch be without them?

Below are five takeaways from today's press conference with Mickey Joseph, Marques Buford Jr., Ethan Piper and Travis Vokolek. But the two biggest things I noticed:

1: There was optimism that Casey Thompson would play against Minnesota. But even though more time will have passed for his injury to heal, it's apparent that the optimism is not as high this week. And Logan Smothers is not a shoo-in to start against Michigan.

2: Caleb Tannor made some glaring comments after the Minnesota loss about the defense's second-half effort and that they got "too comfortable." But Marques Buford Jr. on Tuesday pushed back against Tannor's comments about the defensive effort and energy.

Murderer: yes

Incredible Douchebag: yes

Great Football Coach: yes

Check out all the pressers from today to kick off Michigan week.

Really interesting that the combined wins of our two men’s programs may not be enough to qualify us for the CFB Playoffs. Not many other programs in the country can make that claim.

I have MBB getting to 7 wins this year.

There is an article on MSN about it.

I can only assume they don’t have access to any media whatsoever from his head coaching stint at Nebraska.

I can’t stand that guy. If he had given his all and failed with his original contract, fine. However, he knew our situation and history, and he made over 30 million creating a disaster, much of which was on his meritless, bullsh*t extension. It feels like we got swindled.

Currently ranking

113 total defense

73 total offense

have to imagine these number continue to trend down over the next few weeks also

yeesh

great read. some highlights:

Mickey's brother, Vance, when asked about Mickey's experience:
“Mickey’s had a chance to move up many times,” Vance says. “He’s never been in a job for the money. He could have been in the NFL seven or eight years ago. I’ve called him four or five times for jobs.

“He just coaches the game. He saves kids’ lives.”

Mickey on what he took over and where he sees the program:
“They were taking kids and rushing [the process]. That’s why the roster gets screwed up,” Joseph says. Critics often tell Joseph the only reason LSU won the 2019 national title is because they had really good players. His response: “Well, yeah, that’s what you need!”

“You got to recruit your ass off,” he continues. “We ain’t chasing Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We are chasing Ohio State.”

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“Everybody wants Nebraska to stay sleeping because we’ve got the resources, and they know I can get players,” Joseph says during a phone conversation from his office last week. “They don’t want this f---er to wake up.”

Going through Osceola right now!