Football 2025 Fall Camp Thread

[turek420845]

If he can't get us back, no one can

Everyone in the B10 is going to have to adjust to Nebraska.

 

[Quint]

Everyone in the B10 is going to have to adjust to Nebraska.

The speed at which that happened speaks to the amazing level of coaching in the B1G back then.

 

[CornFed Gregger]

The speed at which that happened speaks to the amazing level of coaching in the B1G back then.

It wasn’t anything they hadn’t already seen before & Frost couldn’t scout/recruit the players to make em worried about it

 

[Kaladin]

That 2022 starting oline vs Northwestern;

LT - Teddy making 3rd career start
LG- Corcoran
C- Trent Hixon, 1st career start
RG- Broc Bando, 1st career start
RT- Benhart, back when he was terrible

Backups:

Ethan Piper
Brant Banks
Hunter Anthony

Once Teddy went down, that team played with only a 7 man rotation.

Of course they were puking. They only had walk ons or Freshman back ups.

Jesus that was a bad o line

 

[Quint]

It wasn’t anything they hadn’t already seen before & Frost couldn’t scout/recruit the players to make em worried about it

My comment was entirely ‘Tongue in cheek’.

Frost did more to stop Nebraska than any opposing coaching staff, and it’s not really close.

I’d add that what he ran in Lincoln offensively was some bastardized short bus conglomeration of his Oregon/UCF offense and what he thought was a power running game. I’m also not sure he couldn’t bring in talent, but I am sure he couldn’t do anything to develop it.

 

[Lionsfan93]

Jesus that was a bad o line

And we wanted Donnie gone, thinking it was his fault....

 

[Baron Winnebago]

And we wanted Donnie gone, thinking it was his fault....

Probably the only time in my life I was wrong about something

 

[Tonkasker]

That 2022 starting oline vs Northwestern;

LT - Teddy making 3rd career start
LG- Corcoran
C- Trent Hixon, 1st career start
RG- Broc Bando, 1st career start
RT- Benhart, back when he was terrible

Backups:

Ethan Piper
Brant Banks
Hunter Anthony

Once Teddy went down, that team played with only a 7 man rotation.

Of course they were puking. They only had walk ons or Freshman back ups.

Wild that two of those guys are backups now

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Wild that two of those guys are backups now

And that they're still on the team. That line was the true culmination of years of hard work by Cavanaugh and Stone Cold Greg Austin to not recruit enough linemen and throw dudes into the fire who were absolutely not ready to play

 

[BluesBucksNHuskers]

And we wanted Donnie gone, thinking it was his fault....

Example 893148793425278052 of it being more complicated than "Position play bad so position coach bad"

I really wish fans in general would be better about differentiating incapable players that are playing hard and improving technique (Good coaching bad recruiting)
vs.
Capable players that aren't playing hard and not improving technique (ahem, McGuire)

 

[nja13]

Backups:

Ethan Piper
Brant Banks
Hunter Anthony

Brant Banks? The basketball player?

 

[Goskers07]

Brant Banks? The basketball player?

Next they're gonna try and tell us one of the guards was our starting quarterback.

 

[Quint]

Example 893148793425278052 of it being more complicated than "Position play bad so position coach bad"

I really wish fans in general would be better about differentiating incapable players that are playing hard and improving technique (Good coaching bad recruiting)
vs.
Capable players that aren't playing hard and not improving technique (ahem, McGuire)

If we’re honest, an extremely high percentage of fans don’t know what a player at any position is supposed to do on any given play. They’re nothing but results based critics that yell at their TV sets when a desired outcome isn’t achieved, but have no real idea why it didn’t happen. If there’s a player involved that they like, it had to be bad coaching. If they don’t like the player, it’s their fault.

I’ve had some great conversations with Husker fans who are very knowledgeable about football X’s and O’s and have very valid opinions based in a real understanding of a play, series, game, season. They generally don’t seem to post a lot on message boards, which is a huge frustration for me.

To your point about our OL progression under Raiola, I don’t think anyone can argue that he hasn’t improved the unit, and that included some of the guys I thought were lost causes. Conversely with McGuire, kid knew kids and social media. That didn’t work out for shit.

I for one am thankful to have a guy like Holgorsen driving the offensive bus, as his experience and understanding of ALL facets of offensive football will be a big benefit to the entire offense. Coaches and players.

 

[Lionsfan93]

If we’re honest, an extremely high percentage of fans don’t know what a player at any position is supposed to do on any given play. They’re nothing but results based critics that yell at their TV sets when a desired outcome isn’t achieved, but have no real idea why it didn’t happen. If there’s a player involved that they like, it had to be bad coaching. If they don’t like the player, it’s their fault.

I’ve had some great conversations with Husker fans who are very knowledgeable about football X’s and O’s and have very valid opinions based in a real understanding of a play, series, game, season. They generally don’t seem to post a lot on message boards, which is a huge frustration for me.

To your point about our OL progression under Raiola, I don’t think anyone can argue that he hasn’t improved the unit, and that included some of the guys I thought were lost causes. Conversely with McGuire, kid knew kids and social media. That didn’t work out for shit.

I for one am thankful to have a guy like Holgorsen driving the offensive bus, as his experience and understanding of ALL facets of offensive football will be a big benefit to the entire offense. Coaches and players.

I agree with you.

That being said, and not to derail the thread, but I still believe that McGuire will end up being a good coach. He just wasn't ready to run a room at the P2 level. I think he knows his shit and comes from good coaching pedigree. He just should have been the WR coach at Directional St for a few years and worked his way up, learning how to be an effective coach at this level.

 

[vailhusker]

 

[vailhusker]

 

[vailhusker]

 

[SOHusker11]

 

[vailhusker]

 

[vailhusker]