Why Nebraska Continues To Fail

[jcsbone15]

90% of the players who have entered the portal disappeared.

You asked, I was just answering. But yes, most don’t pan out.

 

[RedMyMind]

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that's why every "next year" is the year, because usually just one season of close losses is parlayed to future success. This must mean once we break the trend, to the moon.

 

[The_Man_Behind_The_Man]

our classes have been top 30. Our results have been far worse. We have kids that can play and when they go somewhere else, sometimes they look way better.

We have a shit culture and have been funding losers since Pelini. This new guy is a dud, too.

Our kids aren’t tough. That’s an attitude. We had smiling Mike, a drunk and now the current bozo. A good coach could win with this roster. Who are we kidding here?

We need a couple of graduating classes to help clear up the losing mentality stench that lingers from the drunk coach that was here

 

[oldjar07]

Want to know why we don’t make plays year after year when it matters? The big catch, the big stop, the big run. Besides being mental midgets, we just haven’t had the dudes…..almost anywhere on the field. I want to be very clear here, this is not a post excusing some of the play or coaching this season, but this programs struggle can be directly connected to its lack of talent over the last 7 years. Only 11 Huskers have been drafted since 2017…IN ANY FVCKING ROUND. Incredible. Scott Frost is the worst coach in Husker history for so many reasons, but his lack of identifying talent is really what has done this program in. This years roster is better, but still not where it needs to be. Recruit, recruit, recruit, spend, spend, spend. Rhule and Co have their own coaching hills to climb, but the talent deficit is priority 1.

Since recruits don't pop out of the womb headhunting for the ball from day one, I'd say at least part of it can be coached. No one on the team seems to have a real knack for the ball. That's why the ball keeps bouncing out of our guy's hands or off their face mask and lands directly in the other team's lap. Coaches at this level seem to skip this concept all the time, but it's fundamental. Your players should know where the ball is at all times.

 

[B1G RED RULES]

About three coaches ago, several on here said if we didn’t get the next coach right, Nebraska would fade into irrelevancy. My friends, we have been living that for several years and will continue to live it. We now know what it was like to be a fan of Iowa State, Kansas, Illinois, and Purdue - amongst other bottom feeders.

 

[RedMyMind]

We now know what it was like to be a fan of Iowa State, Kansas, Illinois, and Purdue - amongst other bottom feeders.

If they cared about their team in the same way, which I doubt most do. That is what makes Nebraska's pain much worse.

It would be the equivalent of KU only winning 10 regular season games and not making the NCAA tournament for 8 years. How many in Lawrence would off themselves in that time frame?

 

[Harry Caray]

As a gameday coach, what exactly does Rhule do well? He has been horrible at managing a game. Even Mickey Joseph was better in that regard, and he had no previous head coaching experience.

 

[cubsker]

As a gameday coach, what exactly does Rhule do well? He has been horrible at managing a game. Even Mickey Joseph was better in that regard, and he had no previous head coaching experience.

He's good at making weird faces. Other than that, he's awful.

 

[BigRedTed]

11 Huskers drafted since 2017. Anyone bored enough to pin that data up against the rest of the BIG? If it’s not on the bottom, it’s in the failure team picture.

God knows I extremely bored tonight, lol. So yeah anyways here it goes:

Total NFL Draft Picks by Big 10 Team from 2017-2024:

Michigan - 63
Ohio State - 59
Penn State - 46
Washington - 38
USC - 34
Iowa - 30
Oregon - 30
Wisconsin - 29
UCLA - 28
Maryland - 18
Minnesota - 17
Purdue - 16
Illinois - 15
Michigan State - 15
Nebraska - 11
Northwestern - 11
Rutgers - 8
Indiana - 7

Apologies in advance for any errors.

To rub a little more salt in the wound - Michigan had 13 players drafted this year alone. Perhaps not entirely unexpected for a national championship winning team. But it does illustrate the gap between them and us. In addition none of the 11 Nebraska players drafted in the examined time frame were first rounders.

 

[jteten]

God knows I extremely bored tonight, lol. So yeah anyways here it goes:

Total NFL Draft Picks by Big 10 Team from 2017-2024:

Michigan - 63
Ohio State - 59
Penn State - 46
Washington - 38
USC - 34
Iowa - 30
Oregon - 30
Wisconsin - 29
UCLA - 28
Maryland - 18
Minnesota - 17
Purdue - 16
Illinois - 15
Michigan State - 15
Nebraska - 11
Northwestern - 11
Rutgers - 8
Indiana - 7

Apologies in advance for any errors.

To rub a little more salt in the wound - Michigan had 13 players drafted this year alone. Perhaps not entirely unexpected for a national championship winning team. But it does illustrate the gap between them and us. In addition none of the 11 Nebraska players drafted in the examined time frame were first rounders.

About as bad as I anticipated. Horrendous. Thanks for doing what I was too lazy to do, 😁

 

[BugsAreQualityProtein]

God knows I extremely bored tonight, lol. So yeah anyways here it goes:

Total NFL Draft Picks by Big 10 Team from 2017-2024:

Michigan - 63
Ohio State - 59
Penn State - 46
Washington - 38
USC - 34
Iowa - 30
Oregon - 30
Wisconsin - 29
UCLA - 28
Maryland - 18
Minnesota - 17
Purdue - 16
Illinois - 15
Michigan State - 15
Nebraska - 11
Northwestern - 11
Rutgers - 8
Indiana - 7

Apologies in advance for any errors.

To rub a little more salt in the wound - Michigan had 13 players drafted this year alone. Perhaps not entirely unexpected for a national championship winning team. But it does illustrate the gap between them and us. In addition none of the 11 Nebraska players drafted in the examined time frame were first rounders.

Yep, very little development going on the last 8 years or so.

 

[big red22]

Not enough is said about the talent. The facts are right in front of us, It's the base of the why we suck. You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit......As we heard before " Somebody has to make a play ".

Yeah... well when Fox shows a replay of Raiola looking at a wide open Banks at the 2 for at least a couple seconds and then chose to hit the safety net on the opposite side of the field. That makes me wonder if our talent is really that bad?

I think our players do not have great decision making skills. I mean the first catch Fidone made in the 4th. If he just run straight with the flow of the catch he gets the 1st easily. Instead he acts like he has good footwork and tries to cut to the side and leaves us 4 yards short. Someone needs to tell him he isn't Barry Sanders!

I am just so tired of seeing our player make bad choices. While I agree our talent isn't up to par with USC and Ohio State. I promise you it is up to par with Indiana and Illinois. The play calling and decision making of our team falls on the coaching staff and their prep work. Rhule's clock management is also a HUGE problem.

 

[BigRedTed]

About as bad as I anticipated. Horrendous. Thanks for doing what I was too lazy to do, 😁

No worries - statistics and football are two things I immensely enjoy. Add them together along with my boredom and well... it's no chore at all lol.

The numbers aren't all too surprising. But I must admit they are rather depressing

 

[jkeb]

God knows I extremely bored tonight, lol. So yeah anyways here it goes:

Total NFL Draft Picks by Big 10 Team from 2017-2024:

Michigan - 63
Ohio State - 59
Penn State - 46
Washington - 38
USC - 34
Iowa - 30
Oregon - 30
Wisconsin - 29
UCLA - 28
Maryland - 18
Minnesota - 17
Purdue - 16
Illinois - 15
Michigan State - 15
Nebraska - 11
Northwestern - 11
Rutgers - 8
Indiana - 7

Apologies in advance for any errors.

To rub a little more salt in the wound - Michigan had 13 players drafted this year alone. Perhaps not entirely unexpected for a national championship winning team. But it does illustrate the gap between them and us. In addition none of the 11 Nebraska players drafted in the examined time frame were first rounders.

This is how it's going. We need the "this is how it started" for the full picture. Our recruiting classes were ranked higher but players didn't develop. Also when you lose tons of games the players don't get as much of a look by the NFL. NFL scouts know taking players from winning teams is less of a gamble because even if they don't pan out nobody will blame them. You put your career on the line taking players from losing teams.

 

[king_kong_]

with just 2 games to go, 12 of the 18 B1G teams have 6 wins or less this season

LOL

 

[phoenix4nu]

Yeah... well when Fox shows a replay of Raiola looking at a wide open Banks at the 2 for at least a couple seconds and then chose to hit the safety net on the opposite side of the field. That makes me wonder if our talent is really that bad?

I think our players do not have great decision making skills. I mean the first catch Fidone made in the 4th. If he just run straight with the flow of the catch he gets the 1st easily. Instead he acts like he has good footwork and tries to cut to the side and leaves us 4 yards short. Someone needs to tell him he isn't Barry Sanders!

I am just so tired of seeing our player make bad choices. While I agree our talent isn't up to par with USC and Ohio State. I promise you it is up to par with Indiana and Illinois. The play calling and decision making of our team falls on the coaching staff and their prep work. Rhule's clock management is also a HUGE problem.

Don't forget about catching a punt at the 4 yard line.

 

[dinglefritz]

Anyone have any doubt we'd be at least 8-2 if we had a top tier head coach with this exact same roster? We keep hiring guys that are absolute morons on game day and it kills us over and over. We get outschemed regularly. With TO, this basically never happened. When we got beat, it was almost always because we were playing more talented teams. We have to hire an actual smart coach and until we do, we will continue to blow.

I think we have a smart coach who is paralyzed on game days and his OC has been awful. IF I’m Rhule I turn over clock management decisions to Dana when we’re on offense if he hasn’t already. Dana was able to scheme things open Saturday after less than 2 weeks with Satt’s playbook. Our freshman QB failed to pull the trigger to 2 wide open WRs who would have scored…..