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I watched the totality of the National Title game last night. There were things that I realized even halfway through the game. I'm going to do my best to not ramble or rant, so I'll put it in bullet points
1. Scott Frost's offense will not work here to the level he wants it/we wanted it because he won't be able to get the same athletes to come here and stick like he had at Oregon and UCF. That window is gone. We needed a kickass 8-9 win year in Year 2 and it didn't happen. At the latest, it had to happen last year. Had to show some life and win 5+ games. We didn't. We had to convince those top level recruits to come and stay and develop and win and we didn't.
2. I want to make it clear that I think his offense does work fine with those elite level athletes. It's already shown it works and it shows it every Saturday in the SEC. Spread is the spread in my opinion. But you have to have those elite level athletes that go somewhere and stick and are there for 3-4 years and build quality depth. With where we're at in the program, it just won't happen. That's the truth
3. What does work here and seems to be the only thing that works here, is TO's offense or a style very similar. The offense that Scott QBd. Giant lineman, uner-recruited receivers with a chip on their shoulder, tough ass QB, and tough RBs. Put a neckroll on Garrett Nelson and let him go to work. That's what works HERE.
4. I know people say it wouldn't work and that it can't work anymore. People say that if it did, more people would run it. I think that's false. I think the reason people don't run it is because it isn't sexy and it isn't full of high scoring highlights. Since when do Nebraskans care about high scoring highlights? Realistically we could recruit that if we really wanted to. It's not like there isn't still throwing involved in those offenses and obviously QBs like to run and show off their abilities there too.
5. Truth of the matter is that old school style of football is the way back to some form of relevancy for US. I'm not saying national relevancy or anything like that. But enough to look respectable and not look embarrassing.
Run the damn ball Scott and put in a fullback in the Red Zone.
I watched the totality of the National Title game last night. There were things that I realized even halfway through the game. I'm going to do my best to not ramble or rant, so I'll put it in bullet points
1. Scott Frost's offense will not work here to the level he wants it/we wanted it because he won't be able to get the same athletes to come here and stick like he had at Oregon and UCF. That window is gone. We needed a kickass 8-9 win year in Year 2 and it didn't happen. At the latest, it had to happen last year. Had to show some life and win 5+ games. We didn't. We had to convince those top level recruits to come and stay and develop and win and we didn't.
2. I want to make it clear that I think his offense does work fine with those elite level athletes. It's already shown it works and it shows it every Saturday in the SEC. Spread is the spread in my opinion. But you have to have those elite level athletes that go somewhere and stick and are there for 3-4 years and build quality depth. With where we're at in the program, it just won't happen. That's the truth
3. What does work here and seems to be the only thing that works here, is TO's offense or a style very similar. The offense that Scott QBd. Giant lineman, uner-recruited receivers with a chip on their shoulder, tough ass QB, and tough RBs. Put a neckroll on Garrett Nelson and let him go to work. That's what works HERE.
4. I know people say it wouldn't work and that it can't work anymore. People say that if it did, more people would run it. I think that's false. I think the reason people don't run it is because it isn't sexy and it isn't full of high scoring highlights. Since when do Nebraskans care about high scoring highlights? Realistically we could recruit that if we really wanted to. It's not like there isn't still throwing involved in those offenses and obviously QBs like to run and show off their abilities there too.
5. Truth of the matter is that old school style of football is the way back to some form of relevancy for US. I'm not saying national relevancy or anything like that. But enough to look respectable and not look embarrassing.
Run the damn ball Scott and put in a fullback in the Red Zone.