Blaming Mickey 😆😆😆

[nu2u]

I think the people that do rankings and their publications are rubbish. Evidently the rankings don’t take intangibles like work ethic, football IQ, film study into account.

For the most part, the commercial recruiting services do a pretty good job of identifying the top 3-4 players at each position. When the evaluation process reaches the last spots for the so-called 4-star ratings it becomes more speculative.

You might as well have a monkey throw darts when separating the hundreds of possible prospects into 5.7 or 5.6 ratings or below

In addition to the VIP personal intangibles that you mentioned, IMO there is also a strong regional bias (southern/coastal states) and another obvious bias that favors athletes who play for urban/sburban high schools programs over small town/rural schools.

 

[IowaHuskr]

Illinois actually had (and does have talent).

Most of it is on the defensive side of the ball with players he inherited from Lovey. He did rebuild the OL for this season.

 

[dinglefritz]

Bill Busch didn’t have a long history as a DC, coached safeties at LSU I guess.

Mickey should have stepped in on QB situation in hindsight.

The most damning thing for Mickey is he said in his press conference this week that Chubba was rattled out there last week. So Mickey recognized the problem last week and let it persist for 3 more quarters this week before making a change.

Cost us 2 wins and possibly himself the head coaching job ….

 

[dinglefritz]

Yeah - Mickey was placed in a situation where it was close to impossible to succeed. Ideally, he would have found some magic and the team would be 6-3 or 7-2 now.

This team desperately needs a seasoned head coach - one that will hire the best assistants he can get his hands on (and none of his drinking or golfing buddies).

Mickey has given away 2 Ws by being unable to recognize and act on what virtually every Husker fan could see. His QB was rattled and not able to find his receivers. He was backing up and causing sacks.

 

[HuskerLegion]

The millinials are such mental midgets. To blame a coach who only recruited our 3 best players in year one, takes over a dumpster fire after losing to Wayne St aka (Georgia Southern). Still has 3/4 of a leftover, so called coaching staff, and is expected to win? Would not blame Mickey for leaving even if he's offered the job with our fan base.

Not expected to win. But thats what he needed to do to make a case for him as our HC it isnt happening. Time to flush and rebuild with a good staff.

 

[Pete Malloy]

Mickey had them prepared to win that was evidenced by the 10 pt lead. I believe the players gave up on themselves.

Mickey still needs to be in or at the top of any conversation regarding the next Head Coach.