Bruce Read, it's time

[GBRhuskers]

Special teams are worse in person than on TV. It's really bad. If Bruce is so important from an evaluation standpoint, which I don't doubt but we do have Billy Devaney, it's time to let Bruce know he's going to an administrative role. On top of that, his salary is cut so it's up to him to stick around or find someone else to work for.

Yes, I'm late to the "no more Read" group so hopefully some of you accept my membership.

 

[GRHusker]

I'm hoping he is a TA who has to grade a shit ton of papers throughout the week. It's the only explanation to why our special teams are hot garbage. If he is the talent evaluator, great. Time to actually work on special teams.

I'm not sure who the president of the no more Read club is, but I was willing to apply a while ago.

 

[resdog851]

Yeah that was pretty amazing tonight. Defense does their job to start the game, and somehow the special teams blows it by having 12 men in the huddle on the punt. I realize it was 4th and 2, but come on man. That is your job. That is your ONLY job. I dream of those VaTech teams that beat teams on a weekly basis just with their special teams. They were the Buddy Ryan of special teams. I would settle for pretty competent on a weekly basis. This guy SUCKS!

 

[little a]

Special teams are worse in person than on TV. It's really bad. If Bruce is so important from an evaluation standpoint, which I don't doubt but we do have Billy Devaney, it's time to let Bruce know he's going to an administrative role. On top of that, his salary is cut so it's up to him to stick around or find someone else to work for.

Yes, I'm late to the "no more Read" group so hopefully some of you accept my membership.

Welcome to the dark side my son-- just glad so many of you are seeing what we have seen. Like I said in previous post- this will test Riley's commitment to NU.

 

[zamzman]

I'd say this is just common internet griping, partially brought about by his salary which I don't think should have much of an impact on the discussion. However, the one thing that leads me to believe there's something to the Bruce Read leaving scenario is Tavita Thompson. He's a great candidate for a full-time coaching position, and Bruce Read is the most logical candidate to go.

 

[kaz36]

I'd say this is just common internet griping, partially brought about by his salary which I don't think should have much of an impact on the discussion. However, the one thing that leads me to believe there's something to the Bruce Read leaving scenario is Tavita Thompson. He's a great candidate for a full-time coaching position, and Bruce Read is the most logical candidate to go.

Like I said in another thread, it looks like the NCAA is going to allow teams to hire a 10th coach on their staff, so presumably it would go to him. That being said, Read should probably be kicked up stairs

 

[Palms]

Hire Tavita as #10 or replace Read with him

 

[rowdy roddy piper]

Neutral comment, would injuries have anything to do on special teams? We are limited to a degree on talent, correct?

 

[TwinsRRUs]

With the amount of money we can offer a new ST coach/coordinator, why wouldn't we go out and find a true expert instead of bumping up a current coach?

 

[little a]

I'm hoping he is a TA who has to grade a shit ton of papers throughout the week. It's the only explanation to why our special teams are hot garbage. If he is the talent evaluator, great. Time to actually work on special teams.

I'm not sure who the president of the no more Read club is, but I was willing to apply a while ago.

With the amount of money we can offer a new ST coach/coordinator, why wouldn't we go out and find a true expert instead of bumping up a current coach?

If your going the whole DEDICATED special teams coach route and pay him good money he better be one HELL of a recruiter, period

 

[anon_umk0ifu6vj6zi]

Neutral comment, would injuries have anything to do on special teams? We are limited to a degree on talent, correct?

I wish they could play more starters. Some of the guys out there on special teams have quite a ways to go to be on the field on offense or defense in division 1. But the roster is so thin that you can't ask starters to play that much and risk more injuries on special teams.

 

[dckchusker]

Neutral comment, would injuries have anything to do on special teams? We are limited to a degree on talent, correct?

Probably true, but you don't need a talented roster to have the correct number of guys on the field for any 4th down situation. I think that's what exasperated a lot of us. Riley's comment after the game was pretty harsh (something like "a jr. high team would have done better").

 

[donahues17]

I could see blaming the roster being so thin, but on punt return DPE is usually surrounded by 6 guys. We dont have 10 other guys that can block someone or not let someone run right past them to give one of the best return men in the country last year a few seconds to run the ball? on the kick returnn let DPE return a couple kicks in place of Bryant, he isnt getting anywhere on his returns. Teams only kick it to him as well (smart move by them).

 

[meo1960]

I could see blaming the roster being so thin, but on punt return DPE is usually surrounded by 6 guys. We dont have 10 other guys that can block someone or not let someone run right past them to give one of the best return men in the country last year a few seconds to run the ball? on the kick returnn let DPE return a couple kicks in place of Bryant, he isnt getting anywhere on his returns. Teams only kick it to him as well (smart move by them).

Yep, on his last punt reception, I counted 6.
The time before that, I counted 8 or 9. Definitely a WTF moment!

 

[JohnRossEwing]

Shoot, I would think he would be happy to get bumped upstairs and some new position. Easier schedule no pressure rate salary

 

[nebcountry]

Shoot, I would think he would be happy to get bumped upstairs and some new position. Easier schedule no pressure rate salary

"And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
We call it 'riding the gravy train'"

 

[little a]

I wish they could play more starters. Some of the guys out there on special teams have quite a ways to go to be on the field on offense or defense in division 1. But the roster is so thin that you can't ask starters to play that much and risk more injuries on special teams.

Meh- don't like excuses - typically in special teams u use young linebackers and secondary (redshirt frosh and soph). They've got plenty of those types(Joseph,berry,reed,Jackson,ferguson,etc)-- fact is u pay a coach specifically to coach em up and anyone can see the problems you don't even see at high school level.

 

[anon_umk0ifu6vj6zi]

Meh- don't like excuses - typically in special teams u use young linebackers and secondary (redshirt frosh and soph). They've got plenty of those types(Joseph,berry,reed,Jackson,ferguson,etc)-- fact is u pay a coach specifically to coach em up and anyone can see the problems you don't even see at high school level.

Thank God we don't dare hold the DL coach to the same standard.

 

[little a]

Thank God we don't dare hold the DL coach to the same standard.

Yea yea you are on record for firing EVERY coach... So you have a converted TE for one DE, a walk on for the other DE, the top 4!!! DT's leave the program and a D-Cordinator that doesn't like to blitz and you've been on the job for 8 months...GOOD LUCK

 

[PeliniTheCrutch]

Yea yea you are on record for firing EVERY coach... So you have a converted TE for one DE, a walk on for the other DE, the top 4!!! DT's leave the program and a D-Cordinator that doesn't like to blitz and you've been on the job for 8 months...GOOD LUCK

No, it's actually the opposite. He's still butthurt that some posters weren't happy that the staff wasn't given more credit and leeway for taking a 9-4 team all the way up to 6-7 last year. He's desperate to bring the point up in as many threads as humanly possible.

His Parrella "bashing" is his way of making fun of fans that expected better results last year from this staff.

 

[little a]

No, it's actually the opposite. He's still butthurt that some posters weren't happy that the staff wasn't given more credit and leeway for taking a 9-4 team all the way up to 6-7 last year. He's desperate to bring the point up in as many threads as humanly possible.

His Parrella "bashing" is his way of making fun of fans that expected better results last year from this staff.

I thought Parella might have bulldozed him back in middle school football.....

 

[nebcountry]

Thank God we don't dare hold the DL coach to the same standard.

Amen to that. If we did hold the DL coach to the same standard as Bruce Read, then Hughes would still be here.

 

[TwinsRRUs]

I could see blaming the roster being so thin, but on punt return DPE is usually surrounded by 6 guys. We dont have 10 other guys that can block someone or not let someone run right past them to give one of the best return men in the country last year a few seconds to run the ball? on the kick returnn let DPE return a couple kicks in place of Bryant, he isnt getting anywhere on his returns. Teams only kick it to him as well (smart move by them).

I hit rewind on one of the punts that DPE fair caught and watched it over and over with my brother.

The 'gunners' just juked the cornerbacks that were supposed to block them and the cornerbacks just ran down the field behind them, only way slower.

The LBers just made sure it was not a fake punt (Minn was inside their own 30 on this one I believe) and didn't block anyone else that was running down the field to tackle DPE.

There were 6 Minn players and DPE. The CBs and LBers were extremely slow to get back to block, almost like they were not in punt return mode.

My brother and I wondered, if the cornerbacks whiffed on the gunners, they should have helped block the next guys running down the field... or the LBers should have helped double team the gunners.

All it takes is to slow the gunners down for 1 second to let DPE have 10 yards of open space in front of him to catch and run.

Read must really be scared of fake punts and/or penalties. Maybe if it is a fake punt and the cornerback jams the gunner, it could be a defensive penalty for holding a receiver if the punter were to pass to them.

Maybe Read teaches them to block for punt return and they just suck at it. Who knows.

 

[Lincoln100]

He's got to go

 

[Nebraska Fan]

Like I said in another thread, it looks like the NCAA is going to allow teams to hire a 10th coach on their staff, so presumably it would go to him. That being said, Read should probably be kicked up stairs

Why would you kick him upstairs?

 

[OO Snipes]

Yeah that was pretty amazing tonight. Defense does their job to start the game, and somehow the special teams blows it by having 12 men in the huddle on the punt. I realize it was 4th and 2, but come on man. That is your job. That is your ONLY job. I dream of those VaTech teams that beat teams on a weekly basis just with their special teams. They were the Buddy Ryan of special teams. I would settle for pretty competent on a weekly basis. This guy SUCKS!

They also played starters on ST, which is huge.. I miss the days when we were aggressive in all phases of the game

 

[Husker.Wed.]

During Riley's 28 minute PC today he spent about 4 talking about special teams. He said the right things about Read being a great coach and all, and said each unit has Read coordinating different coaches, so mistakes aren't only Read's fault. He said good things about the KO team, the FG team, and said the KO return team was pretty good. In coach speak he was disappointed in the punt teams. I don't recall him mentioning the PAT/FG defense team.

He went on about the punt teams being "50/50" and mentioned once the punt team being "below 50". He said he couldn't recall ever having two punts blocked in one year. I could expect two of the special teams being 50/50 if NU bumped one of the assistants up $20-30K for also being the special teams coach. I have a real problem with two of the special teams being 50/50 if they are being coached by one of the highest paid coaches in D1.

This is a big problem and something needs to be done before next season.

 

[kaz36]

Why would you kick him upstairs?

Sorry, I should have specified. I meant kicked upstairs into the recruiting department or an admin job.

 

[little a]

Why would you kick him upstairs?

Probably because he is a good friend of Riley and he doesn't want to ruin that relationship. I just hope Riley in every aspect does what is best for Nebraska football- not his friendship.

 

[little a]

During Riley's 28 minute PC today he spent about 4 talking about special teams. He said the right things about Read being a great coach and all, and said each unit has Read coordinating different coaches, so mistakes aren't only Read's fault. He said good things about the KO team, the FG team, and said the KO return team was pretty good. In coach speak he was disappointed in the punt teams. I don't recall him mentioning the PAT/FG defense team.

He went on about the punt teams being "50/50" and mentioned once the punt team being "below 50". He said he couldn't recall ever having two punts blocked in one year. I could expect two of the special teams being 50/50 if NU bumped one of the assistants up $20-30K for also being the special teams coach. I have a real problem with two of the special teams being 50/50 if they are being coached by one of the highest paid coaches in D1.

This is a big problem and something needs to be done before next season.

I've been saying this for over a year and a half (and been blasted)-- I was expecting an unbelievably well coached unit when I heard of his duties as full time ST coach (no mention of his "main talent evaluator" in his official job bio). I hope they turn it around and tear it up last three games. Priority number 1 is punt return-- you gotta allow DPE a chance to fly....

 

[GBRhuskers]

Blocked kick, successful fake punt, Read is atrocious.

 

[little a]

Blocked kick, successful fake punt, Read is atrocious.

It's just sooooo SAD at this point.... no brained at this point. Bring in someone young that is a dynamic recruiter

 

[huskerbaseball13]

Blocked kick, successful fake punt, Read is atrocious.

I was told we had 10 players on the field for both. Need to watch the film to confirm. Lol.

 

[GBRhuskers]

I was told we had 10 players on the field for both. Need to watch the film to confirm. Lol.

I already did when both happened; 11 on blocked field goal, 10 on fake punt.

 

[rrthusker]

I already did when both happened; 11 on blocked field goal, 10 on fake punt.

Read appears to fail at the most basic element of special teams, getting the correct number of players on the field.

 

[little a]

Read appears to fail at the most basic element of special teams, getting the correct number of players on the field.

Like I've said numerous times.... if he doesn't fire him or move him upstairs it shows Riley won't do what is best for Nebraska.... bros before hoes(Nebraska)

 

[spinner4]

Like I've said numerous times.... if he doesn't fire him or move him upstairs it shows Riley won't do what is best for Nebraska.... bros before hoes(Nebraska)

I'm just ready for a coach to put the program first. It's been so long since we had a coach willing to put together a great staff and not a staff of buddies.

Bruce received a million dollars for the last 2 years. Thats enough.

 

[Husker.Wed.]

I still don't "know" HCMR well enough to read between his lines, but he sure seemed exasperated about special teams in his PC today

 

[little a]

I still don't "know" HCMR well enough to read between his lines, but he sure seemed exasperated about special teams in his PC today

I'm sure their good friends.... and I'm sure it will be difficult but Read should have named his first born Mike for all Riley has paid and done for him.

 

[Charlie Marlow]

Congratulations Bruce on your promotion to administration