For me this all falls on Riley. If Stoops, Meyer, Miles, B Kelly, Saban, or many other good coaches were named coach here this year I believe we would have been much more sound, and successful. A good coach can find ways to win games. Our coach finds ways to lose. He's the little caboose that ALMOST could. The kind that many like to root for in life but are rarely extremely successful.
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I thought TA had been training with Favre in the offseason. What do you expect?
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Most realistic college football people know what he walked into. Guarantee more would hire him over 408.
USC and I think LSU...I think there is a chance Miami too but I am not sure what they "know" of him that far from OSU
Agreed! No one is calling 408.
I think 3 if not 4-5 schools call Riley. Don't you think?
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Yes, and that is not saying much. But to cry now and not realize the ****ing pathetic culture that these guys had to deal with is just sad. A whole culture made up of victim players believing imaginary fans want them to fail.
Maybe 50 year old Riley...not now. Eichorst has to be kicking himself. But, he had his say in things and it turned out ugly. It will end up costing him his job.
We all know that is BS...
Look, 4-5 schools (if not more) will be on the phone with Riley or his agent in the next 10 days or so...SE needs to make sure he stays...
0 schools will be calling 408
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Really? I am sure 408 will get tons of offers to move out of that absolute shithole
With a good QB, we have a lot more wins. POB, Gebbia, etc and we will be so much better.
I am sure Shawn's phone is ringing off
the hook for the .500 head coach he hired! .500 coach gets you .500 results.
I hope you're right. I heard the same thing about Beck, Carnes etc...amd I'm not 100% that Langsdorf and especially Banker are championship coordinators.
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Pelini is done at a major program due to his anger and maturity issues - Riley - you are kidding right? there will be no programs on the phone for Riley
So they don't make the decision who plays? They don't call those passing plays? Tell me what winning coach or program has ever put up with the QB play we've seen throughout the year? Your lack of understanding coaching leadership is about as ridiculous as your boy E's.
No thanks. Smiling Mike can hit the road as far as I'm concerned.
- The playcalling has been disappointing many times and the penalties have not seem to improved from last year.
- I thought the run defense was alright. Definitely better than last year.
- Tommy has progressed, but not as much as I thought he would. His mechanics and decision making are not where I thought they'd be.
- Just started a thread on your last point. I haven't liked the hire to begin with (got banned for two weeks for saying as much). There's no reason the other coaches can't pick up the slack in this area, and at this point I'd gladly welcome their input over BR's, because our kick returning is atrocious. Jordan didn't have a chance all game.
So many mistakes by this staff this season is what makes me so down on our future under Riley - from clock management issues to calling pass plays with a turnover prone QB with first and goal inside the 5 or on 4th and 1. If they are making these mistakes what about the others we do not know about - maybe we are playing the wrong RB. I think Riley did a good job of keeping the team together when it could have come apart but its his first year. These players want to believe same as the fans, if these mistakes continue then players will become disheartened as well as the fans.
These mistakes in judgment ( special teams coach) and his complete faith in Banker even though the defense sucked for most of the year lead me to believe Riley is just not a good coach. He puts his friends before his obligation to the fans and other good coaches and of course to the players.
He is not willing to make the tough decisions outside of game day and his decisions and his assistants decisions during game day are hurting this programs chances for winning football games
Unless something magically changes this whole thing ends badly again
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If they benched Armstrong, the bloners would be screaming even louder.
1) E is not my boy.
2) They make the decision who plays, do you recall how Fyfe looked at Purdue? As I said earlier, no depth behind TA. No one to push him. What did you want them to do?
3) They call the plays but are they supposed to eliminate all the routes where the receiver runs more than 15 yards down field so TA isn't tempted to just chuck it up?
4) A team that has no one better, clearly.
How was Fyfe vs. Purdue worse than Tommy yesterday? My 2 cents, then you answer: Purdue passed the ball and put up 55. Iowa's pu$$× coach ran conservative and made our D look better. My point is no difference in QB behind Tommy but to only give 2nd stringer 1 chance due to injury is idiotic.
Iowa is conservative in general, not just yesterday. Instead of playing an aggressive style on offense they use a more conservative and mistake free style.
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Yes it does. But if you think the culture and shitty image 408 left as a message to these kids was acceptable, feel free to be a YSU fan.
It wasn't, but Tommy hadn't hit the cellar until yesterday. Prior to that I would agree with the staff in thinking he represented something of value over the others. Yesterday was truly awful. I actually made my divorce with TA yesterday in the 3rd quarter, yelled it at the TV. I wish him the best, but I don't want to see him QB another down unless he somehow (?!?!?!) fixes his decision making and mechanics.
So I don't think it was idiotic to play him, and I also don't know how you support such a judgment based on one game where the backup was equally as bad and when you don't know what is going on in practice (neither do I, but I assume the coaches do). Purdue's and Iowa's offense are completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
Here`s the thing, how many all Big10 guys do we have right now? First team nobody, second team Foltz, third team Collins and Westy. Pretty hard to win when we have so few on all conference teams.
How many do Iowa and Northwestern have? Iowa went undefeated playing several kids we didn't think were good enough for Nebraska (like Fisher and Bazata), and with their best player (Ott) hurt most of the season.
I don't think Bo is fit to be a head coach, but it's hard to imagine any other programs wanting to hire Mike Riley at this point in his career either. Four losing seasons in his last six years, it's hard to sell hope to a fan base with that track record.
As you know Riley inherited this mess.Was he my top choice to lead us, of course not.
15+ and 9+ seasons as head coach makes a difference. Why didn't you stroke both schools last year? Oh, that's right, one went 7-6 while the other went 5-7.
WTF are you talking about?
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* We were told SnohomishRed posts insightful comments - NOT
* We were told SnohomishRed does not repeat the same point over and over and over again - NOT
This whole thing seems a bit stalkish to me. I have read your rubbish for years on here and not once called you out in fact not once have I called any one out - now because I dont like this staff I am this completely negative poster - go through my posts I am generally a positive guy
I realize some of you want to bury your head and hope it all comes out ok - but to call me negative after this staff turned one of the worst seasons in Husker history is a pretty big stretch
BTW Michhusker - I never called you over your love affair with Brady Hoke - how did that turn out?
Wrong poster, the one you're thinking of owes me a couple grand. Chicken shit hasn't posted in a couple years. Just add this to the list of wrongs you post.
Notice folks, homeslice conveniently glanced over my response.
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Why run when all a team had to was pass on us - Opposing teams ran the ball 363 times which is a ten year low I believe. Only one other D1 team had as few rushing attempts against them this year. Now the yards per carry was 3.75 which I believe is ok - I admit Pelini's scheme was bad against the rush but his numbers in 2013 were 3.77/rush and 2011 4.01/rush - I did not go back through his entire tenure but normally it was worse than that towards the end but better in 2009/2010
On top of this Bankers defense struggled against a running QB ( even if not very talented) and gave up big plays ion big games ( see Iowa) so do not be fooled here teams did not have to run on us so they didnt
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