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[Tyneb23]

What was said in it, My subscription was canceled but was it good

 

[Dell Husker]

Something is still deeply amiss with Nebraska football​

After Saturday's debacle of a defeat to Illinois, and the initial disgust and anger had dissipated, Husker Nation was mostly left befuddled and bewildered. Because, in season three after game four of Scott Frost's tenure in Lincoln, this Nebraska Cornhusker football team does not look appreciably better than it did when Mike Riley left.
There remains an inexplicable hollowness at the core of the program. It's all pretty self-evident for anyone with the eyes to see.
Nebraska football hasn't come close to regaining the edge they had in their heyday. They do not play with any confidence or swagger, and they continue to be out-physicaled by supposedly inferior talent. NU out-recruits everyone in the West division on paper, according to the rankings, but underdevelops that talent.
Getting beat up on the field for the second year in a row by a below average Illinois team does not bode well for the immediate trajectory of the program. And, once again, Cockeye will be licking their chops to give the Huskers another Black Friday beatdown on national television.
Who can honestly say that Nebraska currently develops their players as well as the coaching staffs at Wisconsin, Northwestern, Cockeye, Minnesota and Purdue do? At its base, this is not mostly a talent issue. It's coaching, plain and simple.
The Huskers remain an undisciplined and mistake-prone team, often comically so. You're almost just waiting for them to self-destruct in games with the next penalty or turnover.
When the Illinois punter practically walked for a first down in the first series of the second half, that may have been the most ludicrous example of special teams ineptitude by a Nebraska football team over the past 15 years.
This current version of a Cornhusker football team is good to go for approximately 30 minutes in a 60 minute game. Nebraska has outscored their opponents 64-61 in the first halves of the season, whereas they have been trounced 72-19 in the second halves.
Playing decent first halves against Ohio State, Northwestern and Penn State is not enough. We've seen very little creativity or consistency on offense, and the defense can't seem to stop anyone on a regular basis.
NU is a pedestrian 9th in defensive scoring average, and an even worse 13th in offensive scoring average. The Huskers are 10th in total offense and 12th in total defense. The Blackshirts should not have been given out, and we have yet to see anything resembling an offensive combination of "Oregon speed and old school Nebraska power" that was promised.
In quarterback passing efficiency, Adrian Martinez and Luke McCaffrey rank 12th and 13th respectively among the Big Ten's signal callers. That's just confirmation of the lack of development at quarterback in Lincoln the past couple seasons.
The Huskers are just not a well-coached team 28 [10-18] games into the Frost era. Teams usually reflect their head coaches and what Nebraska has been showing to their fans, and to the nation at large, does not reflect well on its head coach right now.
No one said this reclamation project in Lincoln was going to be easy, but there should be more proven progress and success by now than what we have witnessed to date.
As Urban Meyer said recently in diagnosing why college football programs struggle, trust issues, a dysfunctional environment and selfishness are the main causes of team strife and underperformance.
The lingering problems within the Nebraska Cornhusker football program remain structural. It's much more than which quarterback starts as this team continues to lack a basic belief in themselves and their coaches. They still have little mental or physical toughness, and they don't respond to adversity well. The collective "want-to" is just not evident.
You really have to feel bad for the Husker coaches and players, not to mention the fans, as no one seems to have any answers or remedies for what has been ailing the football program for nearly two decades.
It may be time to get former team psychologist Jack Stark on the "bat phone" because nothing currently seems to be working to get any traction in a demonstrably positive direction. There is a glaring disconnect somewhere between the coaches and the players that needs fixing and Stark could be invaluable in that respect.
Though the situation in the program is dispiriting for Husker football fans, I believe that Coach Frost deserves to have the full seven years of his contract to attempt to rectify the situation in Lincoln. Even if the Cornhuskers did not win another game this season.
Nebraska did not get here overnight and they will not get out of it by continuing a revolving door of new head coaches every couple of years.

 

[Tyneb23]

Brutally honest but true

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I like how they blame it on nebulous voodoo rather than shit tier coaching.

 

[Dell Husker]

Mike wrote it. I’m surprised Dean let him come out with something like that

 

[nscottie]

What was said in it, My subscription was canceled but was it good

Just finished reading. Mike Matya did an honest assessment

 

[Tyneb23]

 

[BIGSTICK67]

I concur with most everything in MM's post. Who starts at QB really doesn't matter all that much. They have much to fix that goes beyond football only.

 

[dsbigred1]

Something is still deeply amiss with Nebraska football​

After Saturday's debacle of a defeat to Illinois, and the initial disgust and anger had dissipated, Husker Nation was mostly left befuddled and bewildered. Because, in season three after game four of Scott Frost's tenure in Lincoln, this Nebraska Cornhusker football team does not look appreciably better than it did when Mike Riley left.
There remains an inexplicable hollowness at the core of the program. It's all pretty self-evident for anyone with the eyes to see.
Nebraska football hasn't come close to regaining the edge they had in their heyday. They do not play with any confidence or swagger, and they continue to be out-physicaled by supposedly inferior talent. NU out-recruits everyone in the West division on paper, according to the rankings, but underdevelops that talent.
Getting beat up on the field for the second year in a row by a below average Illinois team does not bode well for the immediate trajectory of the program. And, once again, Cockeyes will be licking their chops to give the Huskers another Black Friday beatdown on national television.
Who can honestly say that Nebraska currently develops their players as well as the coaching staffs at Wisconsin, Northwestern, Cockeyes, Minnesota and Purdue do? At its base, this is not mostly a talent issue. It's coaching, plain and simple.
The Huskers remain an undisciplined and mistake-prone team, often comically so. You're almost just waiting for them to self-destruct in games with the next penalty or turnover.
When the Illinois punter practically walked for a first down in the first series of the second half, that may have been the most ludicrous example of special teams ineptitude by a Nebraska football team over the past 15 years.
This current version of a Cornhusker football team is good to go for approximately 30 minutes in a 60 minute game. Nebraska has outscored their opponents 64-61 in the first halves of the season, whereas they have been trounced 72-19 in the second halves.
Playing decent first halves against Ohio State, Northwestern and Penn State is not enough. We've seen very little creativity or consistency on offense, and the defense can't seem to stop anyone on a regular basis.
NU is a pedestrian 9th in defensive scoring average, and an even worse 13th in offensive scoring average. The Huskers are 10th in total offense and 12th in total defense. The Blackshirts should not have been given out, and we have yet to see anything resembling an offensive combination of "Oregon speed and old school Nebraska power" that was promised.
In quarterback passing efficiency, Adrian Martinez and Luke McCaffrey rank 12th and 13th respectively among the Big Ten's signal callers. That's just confirmation of the lack of development at quarterback in Lincoln the past couple seasons.
The Huskers are just not a well-coached team 28 [10-18] games into the Frost era. Teams usually reflect their head coaches and what Nebraska has been showing to their fans, and to the nation at large, does not reflect well on its head coach right now.
No one said this reclamation project in Lincoln was going to be easy, but there should be more proven progress and success by now than what we have witnessed to date.
As Urban Meyer said recently in diagnosing why college football programs struggle, trust issues, a dysfunctional environment and selfishness are the main causes of team strife and underperformance.
The lingering problems within the Nebraska Cornhusker football program remain structural. It's much more than which quarterback starts as this team continues to lack a basic belief in themselves and their coaches. They still have little mental or physical toughness, and they don't respond to adversity well. The collective "want-to" is just not evident.
You really have to feel bad for the Husker coaches and players, not to mention the fans, as no one seems to have any answers or remedies for what has been ailing the football program for nearly two decades.
It may be time to get former team psychologist Jack Stark on the "bat phone" because nothing currently seems to be working to get any traction in a demonstrably positive direction. There is a glaring disconnect somewhere between the coaches and the players that needs fixing and Stark could be invaluable in that respect.
Though the situation in the program is dispiriting for Husker football fans, I believe that Coach Frost deserves to have the full seven years of his contract to attempt to rectify the situation in Lincoln. Even if the Cornhuskers did not win another game this season.
Nebraska did not get here overnight and they will not get out of it by continuing a revolving door of new head coaches every couple of years.

Are you Travis or Rusty?

 

[Driveway Jordan]

Matya was breathing fire this morning...not like his colleague who was complaining about how difficult it was to do that chat every week.