It is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about but many players DO need to be accountable. I’ve been saying this for a while.
I agree to some extent, however great coaching is that magic wand. Great coaching fixes tons of what you say is wrong. Maybe some of that great coaching is changing players or maybe you make them better. Great coaches don't have these issues this consistently.
All of these points are valid and there are definitely some coaches at Nebraska that don’t have magic wands. My point is there are also some players that just can never be reached.
Rhule said they were evaluating everything. That said, the offense is the most obvious problem. It gets pretty damned tough for your defense when your offense keeps stacking 3 and outs.
True but I understand it is a tightrope because the pressure is to win now.
Overall, top to bottom, this is just a bad coaching staff.
I think you are talking about smilin Mike and the rugby tackling deal.
You are correct. It was also related to a study helping to avoid injury / concussions so not totally a bad thing.
I’m not ready to say this is a bad staff top to bottom. There are obvious problems and having to can our DB coach late has really hurt us. The elephant in the room is Satterfield’s failure. IMO you start there and see what happens.
I think this is pretty accurate. You get to a certain point and you either ARE a good coach or you are not. I know there is experience factors and learning the ropes but this is not rocket science. If you have not "figured it out" at a certain point, you are probably not all of a sudden going to become a great coach.
Satterfield is the obvious “not a great coordinator” coach. Rhule apparently had to “suggest” to White that we needed to go to 4 man fronts during a game this year but at least I see in game adjustments from him that I believe he’s initiating. The offense has put tremendous pressure on our defense.
"Good" coaching staffs don't have teams shoot their wad the first half of the season against 4 out of 6 mostly pud teams, then go backwards the second half of the year for 2 straight years.
Players need to take accountability now also, they're getting to may $$$ to not take on some blame for lack luster performance. Time to earn those dollars!
Satt as OC---subpar;
We played really bad teams until we hit average teams in Illinois and Rutgers and a really good team in Indiana. I expressed concern about both sides of the ball early and often. I don’t think we’ve regressed. I think we are what we are. We actually played very well against a very good OSU team and ran into a WAY under valued UCLA team. UCLA has a legit front 7 on D and their coordinators are very good. We’re a mediocre team with a freshman QB who is banged up and shell shocked.
I might be the only guy who likes the job Barthel is doing. As an old RB I see improvement in our backs, their ball security, pass pro and how hard they run. He has a stud high schooler committed right now. I just think our offensive problems start and maybe end with Satterfield. It’s pretty damned tough to accurately assess the position coaches with such incompetent game planning and play calling from your OC. None of the offensive staff has worked with Satt before unless Thomas had a year of overlap sometime.
Would like to know whose salary is this coming out of if we need to pay extra eyes to tell these millionaires what they are doing wrong.
We should have started from the get go
How about this?
I remember Snow being discussed but people thought he was too old. Maybe he didn’t want full time job but he can sure be helpful the rest of this season which hopefully includes part of December.
Yeah, he is a bit long in the tooth and I didn’t hate the Tony hire, but seeing how the 3-3-5 works for us I’d prefer a 4-3
He’ll be forced whether he likes it or not with Ty and Nash gone next year. The days of running anything with a NT are done I’m afraid.
Most of the problem with the defense is being caused by the offense.
You are definitely right. It would thrive in the Big 12 and Conference USA. But not the big ten.
Those are easy first couple of drives are maddening though. Granted UCLA has good coordinators and had some time to scheme up some wrinkles but damn.
Mickey is never coming back to be a WR coach and I think Bill is very happy with his current situation.
I completely agree with you on these takes. Mickey is gone for good. Too many people like to look back, but we need to be looking ahead.
We need better players on the backend of our defense
I think the RBs we have would do well in different situations. I’m beating a dead horse but the way they are utilized no one even gets warmed up before they are sent back to the sidelines. Heck last week when Emmitt Johnson had a 6-7 yard gain he went to the sideline. I’d go right back to him until they stuffed him.
I think we have good DB talent but the injuries and losing our DB coach late have hurt. Our backers and edge players need a couple of upgrades.
Are you forgetting temple? Or is it just convenient that you’re ignoring that he bought around two bad programs not just one. Scott Frost proved that you can resuscitate one program and it may not carry forward.
Having a lawyer as an athletic Director is frequently not a good thing.
Something we used to do was have d tell the o this is how we're going to defend you and here's what I think your weakness is and how I plan to exploit it and vice-versa with the o telling the d.
