Twitter And it begins (B1G media days)

[BIGSTICK67]

Bush was nimble AF to dodge that first shoe.

It was almost like a game to him.

As if he was saying - "bring it" you a-hole from Iran/Iraq.

 

[Alum-Ni]

https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/s...-Turd-alberts-big-ten-media-days/10089825002/

Spoiler: Cockeye article on Frost, NU at Media Days

Annual optimistic talk from Scott Frost, Nebraska football. Is this finally the year?
by Chad Leistikow, Hawk Central

INDIANAPOLIS - The math is almost hard to believe. Nebraska scored 239 points in Big Ten football games last fall and allowed 239. A season-long "push" on the scoreboard.

Yet the Cornhuskers' conference record was 1-8 in 2021.

Nebraska's 56-7 rout of Northwestern was the lone win; the eight losses were all by single digits. For good measure, the Huskers' lone non-conference loss at then-No. 3 Oklahoma was by a mere touchdown.

That evidence shows simultaneously that Nebraska might not be far away from a really good season....while highlighting the fact that there are other issues holding the Cornhuskers back.

Nebraska fifth-year coach Scott Frost -- given a reprieve and a pay cut by athletics director and fellow former Husker Turd Alberts -- leaned into both topics inside Lucas Oil Stadium on Tuesday, the first of a two-day session of Big Ten Media Days.

"The only thing you point to is a killer instinct and an ability to finish the game," Frost said. "It was kind of a different thing every week -- a punt here, PATs and field goals there. An interception here and tripping over own feet there.

"It just seemed like it was a different thing every week."

Cockeye fans don't have to strain their memory for the most recent example of a Nebraska meltdown. In the Black Friday season finale, the Cockeyes trailed 21-6 with 27 seconds left in the third quarter....but reeled off 22 straight points, highlighted by a blocked punt return touchdown that swung the momentum.

Now, for the first time in Frost's tenure, he's got a dedicated special teams coach in Bill Busch. That was overdue.

He's also yielding play-calling duties to new offensive coordinator Mark Whipple, who arrived from Pittsburgh and immediately became the highest-paid assistant coach in program history at $875,000 in Year 1.

"I'm not divorcing myself from (play-calling)," Frost said, but did not that he expects this will give him more time during games to interact with the defense and special teams.

Despite last year's 3-9 record, the betting markets indicate Nebraska is expected to have a resurgence. The Cornhuskers have the second-best odds (behind Wisconsin, above Cockeye) to win the Big Ten West. Their over/under total for regular-season wins is 7.5. However, they were picked fifth in the division in the preseason media poll -- a sign that skepticism and doubters remain for a program that desperately wants to return to its glory days.

But for now, the first winning season since 2016 would be a positive step forward for the Huskers.

Frost relayed that this is the closest team he's seen in five years at Nebraska; that this team will play with a "chip on its shoulder."

"I'm finally ready to have everybody stop trashing on my coach and my coaching staff and our team and us as players," defensive end Garrett Nelson said. "It's been going on for too long."

Senior tight end Travis Vokolek provided a window into player-led culture changes he's witnessed this offseason.

"In the past couple of years, one guy doesn't touch a line when we're running sprints in summer conditioning, no one's going to say anything," Vokolek said. "This year, we've got five or six guys calling them out."

Added Frost: "On the best teams, issues on the team don't even make it to the coaching staff."

Frost and his three players here left Indianapolis quickly. Because the Cornhuskers play a Week 0 game in Dublin, Ireland against Northwestern on Aug. 27, they open fall camp Wednesday. The season is here for them. And with it comes a Big Red spotlight.

Alberts game in a year ago to replace Bill Moos as AD. He spoke at last year's Big Ten Media Days about the need to stop talking about Nebraska's glory years of the 1980s and 1990s and the need for hard work to push the program forward.

One year in, Alberts said, "I'm really, really pleased where the relationship (with Frost) is right now. Pleased with where football is. We haven't won any games. But I'm pleased with how bold and strategic Scott and the staff have been to make the changes necessary."

Also at last year's Big Ten Media Days, Frost said this about his 2021 team: "Without a doubt, this is the most excited I've been about our team and the most confident."

Those words are laughable now.

Is it time for Frost to get the last laugh, at last? Is it time for a Husker breakthrough? The schedule seems more manageable than the past.

For the first time since 2016, Ohio State isn't included. They get Indiana at home, Rutgers and Michigan on the road for East Division crossover games. They host division rivals Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Dublin game is technically a road game, but it'll likely have more Husker red than Wildcat purple. Could a season-ending game at Cockeye have Big Ten West title implications for the Huskers?

We'll find out soon. If Frost fails, this might have been his last podium session at Big Ten Media Days. He is 15-29 at Nebraska to date; 21 of those losses are by single digits.

Alberts wasn't putting a win total on what it'll take for a successful season. Frost used one word to describe what a successful season looks like to him: "Winning."

"Any year you're coaching at a school like Nebraska or any of these schools in the Big Ten, there's going to be pressure to win," Frost said. "We have certainly been playing catch-up with a lot of teams for a long time. I think we've done a good job closing the gap. Had our chances to win a lot more games than we have. It's our time to do it."

 

[kenyanfeline]

https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/s...-Turd-alberts-big-ten-media-days/10089825002/

Spoiler: Cockeyes article on Frost, NU at Media Days

Annual optimistic talk from Scott Frost, Nebraska football. Is this finally the year?
by Chad Leistikow, Hawk Central

INDIANAPOLIS - The math is almost hard to believe. Nebraska scored 239 points in Big Ten football games last fall and allowed 239. A season-long "push" on the scoreboard.

Yet the Cornhuskers' conference record was 1-8 in 2021.

Nebraska's 56-7 rout of Northwestern was the lone win; the eight losses were all by single digits. For good measure, the Huskers' lone non-conference loss at then-No. 3 Oklahoma was by a mere touchdown.

That evidence shows simultaneously that Nebraska might not be far away from a really good season....while highlighting the fact that there are other issues holding the Cornhuskers back.

Nebraska fifth-year coach Scott Frost -- given a reprieve and a pay cut by athletics director and fellow former Husker Turd Alberts -- leaned into both topics inside Lucas Oil Stadium on Tuesday, the first of a two-day session of Big Ten Media Days.

"The only thing you point to is a killer instinct and an ability to finish the game," Frost said. "It was kind of a different thing every week -- a punt here, PATs and field goals there. An interception here and tripping over own feet there.

"It just seemed like it was a different thing every week."

Cockeyes fans don't have to strain their memory for the most recent example of a Nebraska meltdown. In the Black Friday season finale, the Cockeyes trailed 21-6 with 27 seconds left in the third quarter....but reeled off 22 straight points, highlighted by a blocked punt return touchdown that swung the momentum.

Now, for the first time in Frost's tenure, he's got a dedicated special teams coach in Bill Busch. That was overdue.

He's also yielding play-calling duties to new offensive coordinator Mark Whipple, who arrived from Pittsburgh and immediately became the highest-paid assistant coach in program history at $875,000 in Year 1.

"I'm not divorcing myself from (play-calling)," Frost said, but did not that he expects this will give him more time during games to interact with the defense and special teams.

Despite last year's 3-9 record, the betting markets indicate Nebraska is expected to have a resurgence. The Cornhuskers have the second-best odds (behind Wisconsin, above Cockeyes) to win the Big Ten West. Their over/under total for regular-season wins is 7.5. However, they were picked fifth in the division in the preseason media poll -- a sign that skepticism and doubters remain for a program that desperately wants to return to its glory days.

But for now, the first winning season since 2016 would be a positive step forward for the Huskers.

Frost relayed that this is the closest team he's seen in five years at Nebraska; that this team will play with a "chip on its shoulder."

"I'm finally ready to have everybody stop trashing on my coach and my coaching staff and our team and us as players," defensive end Garrett Nelson said. "It's been going on for too long."

Senior tight end Travis Vokolek provided a window into player-led culture changes he's witnessed this offseason.

"In the past couple of years, one guy doesn't touch a line when we're running sprints in summer conditioning, no one's going to say anything," Vokolek said. "This year, we've got five or six guys calling them out."

Added Frost: "On the best teams, issues on the team don't even make it to the coaching staff."

Frost and his three players here left Indianapolis quickly. Because the Cornhuskers play a Week 0 game in Dublin, Ireland against Northwestern on Aug. 27, they open fall camp Wednesday. The season is here for them. And with it comes a Big Red spotlight.

Alberts game in a year ago to replace Bill Moos as AD. He spoke at last year's Big Ten Media Days about the need to stop talking about Nebraska's glory years of the 1980s and 1990s and the need for hard work to push the program forward.

One year in, Alberts said, "I'm really, really pleased where the relationship (with Frost) is right now. Pleased with where football is. We haven't won any games. But I'm pleased with how bold and strategic Scott and the staff have been to make the changes necessary."

Also at last year's Big Ten Media Days, Frost said this about his 2021 team: "Without a doubt, this is the most excited I've been about our team and the most confident."

Those words are laughable now.

Is it time for Frost to get the last laugh, at last? Is it time for a Husker breakthrough? The schedule seems more manageable than the past.

For the first time since 2016, Ohio State isn't included. They get Indiana at home, Rutgers and Michigan on the road for East Division crossover games. They host division rivals Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Dublin game is technically a road game, but it'll likely have more Husker red than Wildcat purple. Could a season-ending game at Cockeyes have Big Ten West title implications for the Huskers?

We'll find out soon. If Frost fails, this might have been his last podium session at Big Ten Media Days. He is 15-29 at Nebraska to date; 21 of those losses are by single digits.

Alberts wasn't putting a win total on what it'll take for a successful season. Frost used one word to describe what a successful season looks like to him: "Winning."

"Any year you're coaching at a school like Nebraska or any of these schools in the Big Ten, there's going to be pressure to win," Frost said. "We have certainly been playing catch-up with a lot of teams for a long time. I think we've done a good job closing the gap. Had our chances to win a lot more games than we have. It's our time to do it."

Fair

Edit: but still written by a fucking Cockeye douche

 

[Cash68847]

I know a lot of NU fans will never forgive Warren for COVID, but this TV/expansion set of issues is right in his wheelhouse. He was really asserting the B1G's leadership position today. The conference is going to be served well by him on the $$$ front and positioned well amid all of the change.

I’m pretty sure Gene Smith has a lot of influence on what Kevin Warren has been doing.

 

[Toe]

 

[MtnHusker]

 

[22*43*51]

Glad Turd is our guy.

I think you’re very fortunate.

I don’t think Turd is going to follow a Dr. Tom formula. I think he is currently following a Barry Alvarez approach, where he is keeping a knucklehead coach(ala Bert Bielema) on a leash, and surrounding him with great coordinators.(Paul Christ/Dave Aranda)

We’ll see if it works.

 

[Cash68847]

I think you’re very fortunate.

I don’t think Turd is going to follow a Dr. Tom formula. I think he is currently following a Barry Alvarez approach, where he is keeping a knucklehead coach(ala Bert Bielema) on a leash, and surrounding him with great coordinators.(Paul Christ/Dave Aranda)

We’ll see if it works.

I kind of see what you’re saying but Bielema is a much better coach than Frost.

 

[22*43*51]

Only watched three coaches speak. 2 of the three had Gin Blossoms on noses and ears.(Christ/Beilema)

 

[turek420845]

Kevin Warren said that UCLA and USC will be coming in as full members right off the bat. How many years did it take till Nebraska was a full member?

 

[MtnHusker]

Only watched three coaches speak. 2 of the three had Gin Blossoms on noses and ears.(Christ/Beilema)

I went to our first game in the B1G when we played Wisconsin in Madison. Ran into Bert Beilema in the lobby of the hotel the night before. It was 7 at night and he was housed. Beet Red with a dumb ass grin on his face wearing a suit schmoozing with boosters and fans. He was all glazed over but he outcoached Bo something fierce the next day, even with what had to have been a nasty ass hangover. A buddy is a booster for Wisc and told me that Barry Alvarez had a car service retained for Beilema to drive hima round so that he wouldn't get a DUI. Sounds like the guy is quite the boozer. Big dude too and didn't look healthy. Could be the years of heavy partying taking it's toll on him.

 

[Kaladin]

I went to our first game in the B1G when we played Wisconsin in Madison. Ran into Bert Beilema in the lobby of the hotel the night before. It was 7 at night and he was housed. Beet Red with a dumb ass grin on his face wearing a suit schmoozing with boosters and fans. He was all glazed over but he outcoached Bo something fierce the next day, even with what had to have been a nasty ass hangover. A buddy is a booster for Wisc and told me that Barry Alvarez had a car service retained for Beilema to drive hima round so that he wouldn't get a DUI. Sounds like the guy is quite the boozer. Big dude too and didn't look healthy. Could be the years of heavy partying taking it's toll on him.

I was reading an Arkansas forum a while back and they were talking about all of the shit Bielma did while there. Basically a total drunk frat boy

 

[Toe]

 

[Baron Winnebago]

And then going to the bar the next 8 Saturdays and not bothering to ask whether she has a boyfriend only to have it happen 8 more times

 

[Cash68847]

I was reading an Arkansas forum a while back and they were talking about all of the shit Bielma did while there. Basically a total drunk frat boy

Fat boy still had 3 winning seasons at Arkansas. Husker fans would jizz all over with 7 win seasons from Frost.

 

[Kaladin]

Fat boy still had 3 winning seasons at Arkansas. Husker fans would jizz all over with 7 win seasons from Frost.

I didn’t say he was a bad coach, I said that at Arkansas he acted like a drunken frat boy

Some of you have an unhealthy obsession with Scott Frost

I could say I like waffles and 2 or 3 of you guys would write 4 page essays about frosts eating habits

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I didn’t say he was a bad coach, I said that at Arkansas he acted like a drunken frat boy

Some of you have an unhealthy obsession with Scott Frost

I could say I like waffles and 2 or 3 of you guys would write 4 page essays about frosts eating habits

Frost has been eating way too many carbs. Looked kinda doughy at media days, iyam

 

[Cash68847]

I didn’t say he was a bad coach, I said that at Arkansas he acted like a drunken frat boy

Some of you have an unhealthy obsession with Scott Frost

I could say I like waffles and 2 or 3 of you guys would write 4 page essays about frosts eating habits

Well it is a Nebraska board. I thought the obsession with bashing Pelini over 9 wins was unhealthy, but Frost is a much easier target for being one of the worst coaches in Nebraska history.