The morning after
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Everyone keeps saying they want a disciplined team, but then question the coach when he disciplines said player.
as opposed to Callahan, Pelini, and Riley signature losses by 40+? I'll take it
Could not agree with you more. NU HAS to hire a high quality QB coach, regardless if AM returns or not. After almost 4 years in this system, AM should be able to set his feet, hit open receivers (unless someone is in his face), and make quicker decisions to throw the ball or tuck it and get yardage.
NU MUST hire a qualified OL coach. It has become apparent in the last 2 weeks that SF (or whoever it is) that is coaching the OL has made them a much improved OL. If SF has been involved in spending a LOT of time working with the OL, then NU cannot have the Head Coach babysitting a position because the coach is inept.
This bullshit of benching Yant, because he went the wrong way, is poison to a football team. You penalize the talent for making an assignment mistake, but plenty of other starters make assignment mistakes and continue to play.
After being a huge contributor last week, and now being pulled early in the game for a mistake has Yant wondering if he can afford to make another mistake for fear of getting benched.
A big dude like that, you gotta turn 'em loose. You gotta give 'em a chance to go full speed and make an occassional mistake. Maybe as a coach, you call plays that you know HE KNOWS.
I've heard Held say for 4 years that NU calls plays based on the skills and understanding of certain plays. Why did they have Yant in the game in a possible play that he was 100% for sure gonna complete his assignment?
(I seem to recall a penalty on Cam, and I think AM made more than one mistake).
I have been preaching since the first day I became a member here, SF plays favorites and overlooks their on the field mistakes. A great coach has true competition at all positions.
With benching Yant, SF hurt this team. I like Rahmir, but he doesn't administer the physical wallop on a 2 yard gain as Yant does. As we all know, those physical poundings take a toll as the game wears on, and MI was plenty tired on defense.
Agree or disagree, great coaches are great coaches for a lot of reasons.
I’m still pissed and I just don’t get how Martinez flips the switch to bad…. He had plenty of pressure on a few of those drives early in the 4th and did well, but man that last 3 minutes was bad.
Usually when a ball carrier gets stripped, it is in fact their fault.
That's Frost’s responsibility to recruit a QB that can take the position if the starter is so mistake prone. He's had 3 plus years to do so.
Maybe he was suggesting a bigger back for those dives.
There were a couple the outside was there as well
Clifford was far from ripping Iowa when he was knocked out of the game by a great defensive play, he was 15/25 for 146 yds, 2 INT, and 0 TD. Whether he remained in the game or not Iowa is well known for making 2nd half adjustments. The Iowa offense scored 20 pts in the second half against a stellar Penn St D.
Iowa beat Penn St in every measurable statistic on both sides of the ball.
Well the drop off from AM to Smothers is dramatic. We will never win a game with Smothers starting at QB. If Yant doesn’t play who cares? His backup is still decent.
After 4 years and you have only one QB you can count on after Vedral left is the other reason besides no ST coaching to detail is another reason why the future doesn’t look bright for this program and SF..
They need to figure out why several of our RB's can't figure out our playbook. Held needs to do a better job coaching imo.
I like what Smothers brings to this offense. It's like having Taylor Martinez running it. Both are just adequate passers, but really scare defenses with their legs. Also, I think with Smothers the option will be utilized a good deal more and become more refined. We could have a fun offense with him at the helm.
what a lazy take.
year 1, Frost got beaten by #14 Michigan 56-10. this year he almost beats #9 Michigan, along with 2 other top 10 teams. with the exception of Illinois, we've also blown out the teams we're supposed to beat, whereas the past 3 years we were playing tight/losing to the bottom-dwellers.
this Nebraska team would curb-stomp that Colorado team and is leagues above the previous teams. if we had Iowa's cupcake schedule where the only ranked team they play loses their QB we'd likely be undefeated too.
Not sure how the future doesn’t look bright for SF or this program. Toe to toe with three top 10 teams the last month, dam near the entire team back next year against a much easier schedule.
Good take. If you made a drinking game in the past 4 weeks with the phrase "we're so close" you'd be in the hospital with alcohol poisoning by now. The "close" losses are not a new SF phenomenon. 3+ years in and they simply have not shown the mental fortitude to finish a vast majority of the time. Records don't lie.
Prior to the last month when has anyone said Nebraska is close? I can only think of maybe the end of the 2018 season.
Bottom line is we need a more reliable QB that does lose the games but finds a way to win them..
Just saying and everyone agrees it’s all about QB that SF needs to find to win..
Yes sir! If he has even somewhat TMart's warp 7 speed......he'll be a terrific asset.
the people comparing that weak Nebraska team to this one.
This is a big mental mistake. I am not questioning benching a kid for not knowing the play.
We might be better on Defense next year.
DE: Thomas
NT: Danniels
DE: Robinson
OLB: Nelson
ILB: Heinrich
ILB: Reimer
OLB: Tannor
CB: Newsome
CB: CTB
S: Farmer
S: NPG
Saftey is a question mark, but that is a ton of returning experience and talent.
I think there are situations you let that slide since he let's others slide. This was the situation. You don't rum Johnson to the middle of Michigan's defense. You run Yant to the middle of the defense
If we get Daniels and CTB back, that would be huge. But they're both going to be draft picks, so I don't know why they would come back.
I worry about losing Daniels, CTB is a different story. Not positive his draft stock is any better than last year. Hope DD comes back, he is just now emerging would hate for him to be gone.
Good take. Can you kindly point me to the last time Nebraska was within 1 score or leading in the fourth quarter against 3 different top ten undefeated opponents in a matter of 4 weeks?
Thanks.
That has been the methodology of SF from Day 1.
Kids aren't stupid.
They know some can make mistake(s) and maintain their playing time.
Others make one mistake and off to the bench.
If, as a highly talented kid, come to NE from GA, FLA, etc, you didn't come to sit behind somebody for 3-4 years. Those kids come to play. Some really aren't as good as they think they are, but if they're gonna ride the pine, might as well do it closer to home.
If NU didn't have such an atrocious record of losing kids to the portal over the last 3+ years, I kinda wonder how GOOD NE could actually be at this point. It's hard to imagine we did not lose some potentially really good talent.
Some of those kids see the handwriting on the wall pretty early.
It's what happened. And continued to happen until Trev was hired and apparently set down some parameters with SF. As soon as SF may have felt his job could be in jeopardy, some changes began to be made.
Scott is a really smart guy. He's creative offensively. He's subpar as a game time coach. He puts a team on the field with his heart, and not his head.
He wanted Piper to be his LG. No question about it. It was a matter of friendship. It hurt the OL, it hurt the team.
Only with the oversight of Trev somehow applying pressure to show improvement in the team, did SF make the change to Hixson.
It didn't take long for SF to remove Hixson and install Nouilli. Nouilli was the best player for that position and it's been proven. I can't imagine anyone would argue that Piper is/was better than Nouilli at LG.
I've seen progress in SF in the last month or so since Trev. Until SF becomes committed to put team above his individual fondness of a player, he will only be an average coach.
If he develops that critical aspect that a coach needs and puts team above individual player, then he will have a chance to be a helluva coach.
Agree or disagree that is my opinion.
As far as SF saying that the players all love each other....That is not true, has never been true, and will never be true. Blowing smoke.
Iowa beat Penn State because Clifford left the game with an injury, just like Nebraska beat Ohio State in 2011 because Braxton Miller left with an injury. Most Nebraska fans are honest enough to admit the reason they beat Ohio State in 2011, but I doubt that any Iowa fans are honest enough to admit the reason they beat Penn State on Saturday.
I would imagine a fair amount of Iowans would admit it, just none with chief or turkey or scratch in their names…
Well that's one of the main reasons we've had discipline issues under Frost. I know for a fact the way guys like Washington and Manning were treated rubbed some guys the wrong way to the point they transferred out. It's stupid imo to give guys who don't give a crap about staying out of trouble to get on the field like Washington unlimited chances, while guys who are out there every day working their asses off get one chance, then they're in the doghouse. This type of attitude is the reason for our accountability problems where kids don't know the playbook either because they know they won't see much playing time or they're talented enough where they know they won't be taken out of the game for making mistake after mistake. You said you've coached for years, I'd expect you to know this stuff.
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