Eichorst Q and A..talent levels need raised....

[barney44]

This is his last game at UNL. Ready for the stat line to be long gone.

We'll just move on to whining about the next kid in line. If they don't get the OL running smoothly then Joe Montana would have a hard time looking good at Nebraska. There is no secret savior, games are won in the trenches and that we're apparently not capable of doing.

 

[TruHusker]

You lost me and your credibility with Sipple and tough questions.

I think you need to understand the role of an AD who is a professional and has a philosophy that he believes in and hires people to support. He isn't one to spend a bunch of time talking negatively or in a derogatory tone. He gets asked a question leading and looking for that response, he goes full Negan on it. There is no reason to air dirty laundry of the program. That is also one of the first rules of successful organizational management, celebrate the successes and positives with the team and the world, and handle the discipline and other less savory items behind a closed door in private.

Also, now I've read the full interview, by droning on it this long you have put on a tin foil hat.

This.

 

[19Football19]

We're sitting at 39th at the moment. I like the guys who have committed, but we need to fill the thing out.

Don't we say this every year? We listen to local beat writers and coaches. Granted, so does every other board. But, it's been 17 years since we've won a single conf champion.

 

[oldjar07]

I actually don't think he is all that. He is clearly better than the last guy.

You seem to believe that the success of one program is the responsibility of the AD. Which it isn't. He is a manager of leaders. He bares some responsibility but the AD doesn't recruit players, doesn't sit in the film room and break down tape nor does he call the plays. He doesn't likely know the specifics of every day to day operation. I know that I don't know every task that is going on at that level in my organization. That is why I have supervisors to keep track of issues and escalate them as needed.

That is what the AD job is. He has people who he hires to evaluate all aspects of the football program. He gets the fringe lunatics who contact him every time we throw an incomplete pass on third and short or every time we shank a punt. His job is not to worry about that level of detail. He has to concern himself with big picture and fixing the mess. His coach tells him that we need better recruits than he asks him how do we go about fixing it. Do you need a bigger budget? Do you need more support staff? He is responsible for

You are confusing the day to day operations of the AD job with the head coach. The job of the AD is not to be reactive to a bad game or a bad stretch but rather a number of seasons taking into account the health of the program. The interview is what it was, a hack job piece by Sipple looking for clicks. He knows that the AD is a hot topic.

The day to day operations of the AD don't really matter. His success is determined by only a few hiring or firing decisions.

 

[CatColumbia]

We need more talent on the Athletic Director Role...

 

[TruHusker]

We need more talent on the Athletic Director Role...

That should be an easy fix, just look at all of the brilliant candidates on this board.

 

[WestCoastCornhusker2]

I like Eichorst. He fired Pelini. He found us a solid coach in Riley.

Riley isn't a solid coach. Bo was below average Riley is average.

 

[sneptune]

Eichorst wants to win then bring in a coach who wants to be physical and get after it

 

[Harry Caray]

He bares some responsibility but the AD doesn't recruit players, doesn't sit in the film room and break down tape nor does he call the plays. He doesn't likely know the specifics of every day to day operation. I know that I don't know every task that is going on at that level in my organization. That is why I have supervisors to keep track of issues and escalate them as needed.

But he does become a cheerleader on the sidelines after he hires his own guy:

 

[jawbreakingsafetyplay]

But he does become a cheerleader on the sidelines after he hires his own guy:

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Dude was at the Final Four for the volleyball team and showed them his support as well. God forbid that the man support the athletes in the program he oversees. Spinning him as a negative is laughable.

 

[6thtimesacharm]

I'm going to start this post by stating I lived in Lincoln for 12 years (nwu undergrad, Doane masters after then a couple years extra) so I know how much football means to Nebraska. I would just like to offer this perspective as an outsider. Your issue is not Talent. You guys get more 4*s than most of, I actually think it's all, of the west and you spend much more money recruiting that talent than anyone in the west by far. Your issue is not horsepower (read; talent) your issue is the ability to transfer that horsepower into fast track times. You are the guy with a 1000 horsepower motor and no idea how to drive it and instead of coaching"driving" your answer is "we need more horsepower" read:talent. An example of a guy that has way less "horsepower" but generally puts up equal records "track times" would be bill Snyder at k state. You can keep throwing money at recruits, and good on ya it's amazing how many 4* and 5* guys have an N recruiting them but you'll get more out of learning how to better use what you have than getting more talent. Just my 2 cents take it for what it's worth.

 

[cecilB]

I'm going to start this post by stating I lived in Lincoln for 12 years (nwu undergrad, Doane masters after then a couple years extra) so I know how much football means to Nebraska. I would just like to offer this perspective as an outsider. Your issue is not Talent. You guys get more 4*s than most of, I actually think it's all, of the west and you spend much more money recruiting that talent than anyone in the west by far. Your issue is not horsepower (read; talent) your issue is the ability to transfer that horsepower into fast track times. You are the guy with a 1000 horsepower motor and no idea how to drive it and instead of coaching"driving" your answer is "we need more horsepower" read:talent. An example of a guy that has way less "horsepower" but generally puts up equal records "track times" would be bill Snyder at k state. You can keep throwing money at recruits, and good on ya it's amazing how many 4* and 5* guys have an N recruiting them but you'll get more out of learning how to better use what you have than getting more talent. Just my 2 cents take it for what it's worth.

Some merit to this. However I would caution against putting too much credit in star rankings from pay for click sites. From Iowa #83, a walk on, and #26 a 2 star, #43 last ditch fall back, then the *ranked kids from Tennessee all looked a bit more fleet and savvy than our guys. Either end of the * spectrum, big red needs better players and better coaching

 

[Suhrreal]

I'm going to start this post by stating I lived in Lincoln for 12 years (nwu undergrad, Doane masters after then a couple years extra) so I know how much football means to Nebraska. I would just like to offer this perspective as an outsider. Your issue is not Talent. You guys get more 4*s than most of, I actually think it's all, of the west and you spend much more money recruiting that talent than anyone in the west by far. Your issue is not horsepower (read; talent) your issue is the ability to transfer that horsepower into fast track times. You are the guy with a 1000 horsepower motor and no idea how to drive it and instead of coaching"driving" your answer is "we need more horsepower" read:talent. An example of a guy that has way less "horsepower" but generally puts up equal records "track times" would be bill Snyder at k state. You can keep throwing money at recruits, and good on ya it's amazing how many 4* and 5* guys have an N recruiting them but you'll get more out of learning how to better use what you have than getting more talent. Just my 2 cents take it for what it's worth.

The stars and rankings don't mean ****! You can take one good look at the players and tell what the deal is. Compare our "4-star" LBs to Wisconsin's guys...there is no comparison. They are big, fast, and physical. I look at our LBs and NONE of them fit that bill that we saw on the field this year. Newby is the only guy I want to see again next year.

We just moved some more of Bo's guys out of the program and that will help more than anything next year.

 

[Harry Caray]

Dude was at the Final Four for the volleyball team and showed them his support as well. God forbid that the man support the athletes in the program he oversees. Spinning him as a negative is laughable.

Not a negative. Just funny how he only does that with coaches he hired or teams that are very successful. Let me know when he's in the baseball dugout or on the women's golf course slapping athletes on the back.

 

[9and4]

I lay this one squarely at the feet of Fyfe and Dzuris. Why on earth couldn't they just do what Dobbs and Barnett did, for goodness sake?

 

[Rick.Flare]

Eichorst is a moron. Desperate to support his guy and will likely be flushed with the rest of them in two or three more years! Steve Pedersen part 2!

 

[jawbreakingsafetyplay]

I'm going to start this post by stating I lived in Lincoln for 12 years (nwu undergrad, Doane masters after then a couple years extra) so I know how much football means to Nebraska. I would just like to offer this perspective as an outsider. Your issue is not Talent. You guys get more 4*s than most of, I actually think it's all, of the west and you spend much more money recruiting that talent than anyone in the west by far. Your issue is not horsepower (read; talent) your issue is the ability to transfer that horsepower into fast track times. You are the guy with a 1000 horsepower motor and no idea how to drive it and instead of coaching"driving" your answer is "we need more horsepower" read:talent. An example of a guy that has way less "horsepower" but generally puts up equal records "track times" would be bill Snyder at k state. You can keep throwing money at recruits, and good on ya it's amazing how many 4* and 5* guys have an N recruiting them but you'll get more out of learning how to better use what you have than getting more talent. Just my 2 cents take it for what it's worth.

Next time, try hitting the enter key to separate your stream of consciousness into subsets of those ideas that we all paragraphs. You aren't right, but you aren't entirely wrong either. Coaching is about getting the guys in position to make plays. The bowl game is exhibit X in that regard. The coaches put their guys in great situations and they lost 80% of the one on one battles they needed to win in order for NU to be successful. That is what we call talent. Of the regular 22 guys for both NU and Tennessee (not counting kicker and punter), I don't believe you could name more than 2 Huskers who were better than their Volunteer counterpart.

 

[huskerfan1414]

The stars and rankings don't mean ****! You can take one good look at the players and tell what the deal is. Compare our "4-star" LBs to Wisconsin's guys...there is no comparison. They are big, fast, and physical. I look at our LBs and NONE of them fit that bill that we saw on the field this year. Newby is the only guy I want to see again next year.

We just moved some more of Bo's guys out of the program and that will help more than anything next year.

The diffence between those players could have nothing to do with coaching or scheme?
Seriously, hearing you guys talk makes me wonder why we even have a fall practice or weekly oractice. Just recruit, throw them out there, if they dont play good it means they have no talent.
You. Have. To. Coach. Properly.
Im not saying the problem is all coaching here, but you are saying that our guys had higher star rankings but didnt deserve them. How do you know that they wouldnt be studs at wisky, and wiskys lbs would be average here?

 

[GBRhuskers]

Husker fans struggle with reality. If anyone watched the MSB and doesn't understand what Eichorst means, you should quit watching football. This is the least talented Nebraska team I've ever watched. It's beyond motivation, it's beyond schemes, it's all about the players in uniform. Flip the rosters, coaches stay the same and Riley wins this game by 30 [exaggerated]. Why? It's simple, Tennessee is filled with athletes.

So far, we haven't picked up enough talent in the 2016 or 2017 class. That can change come the first Wednesday of February, but it won't be enough.

Sorry folks, but this trip gave me a dose of reality. Badly.

 

[c2o]

We need fat and nasty.
I want to see fat and nasty putting the belly on them.

 

[jawbreakingsafetyplay]

Husker fans struggle with reality. If anyone watched the MSB and doesn't understand what Eichorst means, you should quit watching football. This is the least talented Nebraska team I've ever watched. It's beyond motivation, it's beyond schemes, it's all about the players in uniform. Flip the rosters, coaches stay the same and Riley wins this game by 30 [exaggerated]. Why? It's simple, Tennessee is filled with athletes.

So far, we haven't picked up enough talent in the 2016 or 2017 class. That can change come the first Wednesday of February, but it won't be enough.

Sorry folks, but this trip gave me a dose of reality. Badly.

The AD was right. You can come out and say it. The lack of talent and athleticism was so evident it makes you want to vomit. The fact that they got to 24 points and were competitive in the fourth quarter is a testament to their coaches

 

[GBRhuskers]

The AD was right. You can come out and say it. The lack of talent and athleticism was so evident it makes you want to vomit. The fact that they got to 24 points and were competitive in the fourth quarter is a testament to their coaches

We're lacking with [some] coaches too.

 

[phoenix4nu]

We're lacking with [some] coaches too.

That part is on Riley.