Tom Osborne had Brook Berringer in the wings. Whether Scott Frost has another "Brook Berringer" in the wings remains to be seen.
Coming to a Crossroads..
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This again? Sorry but posters on here have predicted Frost loses the team after every single loss for the last 2+ years. It is not going to happen. This team has a lot of flaws, but they have shown they aren’t going to quit.
I will quote you as saying "all the time" which is complete bull. Saban, who knows a little about football has openly stated for years he tries to avoid throwing a freshman in at QB.
So I guess our freshman last year was good enough as according to you they ALL are. Oh and they ALL didn't play at small Kearney as well. Got some more examples? Then throw in the fact we have a less than stellar O line, at least Adrian has some escapability and not to mention, we aren't exactly leading the nation in rushing as well.
For the record, when it wasn't fashionable, I was expressing concern on here that AM could not read a D. He never could and still cannot see the field well. We live with that. A true freshman would get killed in our O.
Edit: you lose all credibility when you compare Williams to Haarberg. Then, you have to ask yourself who is coaching each of them but let's go ahead and assume our QB coach can suddenly get a kid ready to play big boy FB.
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There were also years where Osborne had London, McCants, Grant, Haase, Clayton and others that weren't able to win all the games like Berringer did.
The thing is we've seen this show for 4 years now. Frost/Amart = a bad team. Losing is losing. At some point you cut bait. I have no idea why Frost does not seem to understand that winning football games is more important than whatever he thinks he is doing. So, why not try Haarberg?
And if he is:
1. The Fan Base will be smaller .
2. There will be fewer Season Ticket holders.
3. The recruiting class will be Scott’s worst.
However, even if Osborne had to play those guys, he would simply have them take snaps and hand the ball off to the running back or the fullback. He would still win 9 games per season even with a much simplified offense most likely. Remember 1994, both Frasier and Brook Berringer went down, Osborne had to play Matt Turman. He basically just had Turman take snaps and hand the ball off, and Nebraska still won all the games that Turman started in.
For sure I see the same kinds of things. I agree that he needs to do the things that shift the higher chance of winning to his favor regardless of his mantra or what he may eventuallywant to do until he can withwhat he's got.
Such as the snaps last year: I think he could have had two more wins last year just by switching to the end over end snap until Jurgens got the spiral down automatic.
I seen him do exactly that with the ST this year. When Nebraska kept screwing up trying to return when obviously the anxiety was too much for our returners then he switched over to just fair catches and touch backs. Which I think is great! That shows to me he's learning and adjusting to what he has right now.
But he needs to start winning these games. And that also means these players need to push themselves to do their absolute best. Get rid of any anxiety and selfishness and any animosity that may be there against whomever and play for the team, everything for the team.
Contrary to public opinion, Osborne's offense was not that simple. Almost every formation could run 11 different plays from each one.
halftime of the Minnesota game would have been perfect, Adrian was struggling playing hurt it was the perfect opportunity to go with smothers or haarberg. Looking back at that game I totally blame coach Lost for the loss, evidently he has no confidence in either of the backups or Adrian is frosts love child or Adrian has incriminating pictures of the coaches
Smothers not playing has NOTHING to do with not having confidence in him by Coach Frost. Smothers will have all the naysayers eating words next year. Coach will not present the opportunity for Smothers to come in while AM is playing poorly especially if the game is close. I 100% believe that. No matter what!
Ok, so I have to ask, why do you say this? Are you implying that HCSF is more committed to AM than he is to his own job? Or winning? Or does he just believe that AM give the team the best chance to win in that situation even if he's hurt?
Well maybe, but I'm actually looking for some context to the statement. If he is implying that Scott would play a player because he liked him over playing a player that could help him win (and retain his job) that is interesting. Furthermore, from previous posts I take it FamilyMan has some inside knowledge but maybe I'm off there.
What has Coach done to make the statement or belief not be made?
My opinion is that his job is not in jeopardy this season and he knows it. Therefore, he isn’t going to bench AM. Smothers will only play if AM can’t play or if the game is out of reach.
Heck, he leaves AM in to score the 49th point vs northwestern. That took the playbook away from Smothers and only made it a run the clock situation. But hey, at least AM got his stats up really high that night for getting to stay in that long. That doesn’t do anything for our program though- NOTHING!
Ok, so you're stating an opinion which is fine. I was thinking you knew something that others didn't. I took it that you had reason to believe HCSF wouldn't play Smothers even if it meant NU would win whereas sticking with AM would lose a game. Fair enough, I just don't agree.
thank you for your thoughts, I will pass them along to coahc frost. I think you are on tosomethin
I made the comment last week after the Minnesota game. Fast forward to now after seeing our Purdue game. I stand 100% behind what I think. Once again, Coach Frost proves me right!
I wish I would’ve been wrong though!!!! Smothers definitely needed to at least got in for 1 series. No matter what Coach says about playing who gives us the best chance to win. I agree!!! But when that guy is playing poorly and continues drive after drive YOU put in the next guy!
