Sipple Gaslighting?

[huskerj12]

Had a chance to listen to it. Sipple is pretty much writing the obituary.

I thought it was interesting at the end when Sharp said someone should write a book about this season and Benning said:

"Yeah, but it'd have to be a tell-all because you can't write it without admitting a few, or several things behind the scenes...because I'm sure people are listening right now and are like 'Why all of a sudde does Sip change course?'"

Ay yi yi, seems like tomorrow's EPP could be a banger.

 

[Irv]

Oct 1 is an interesting date for the buyout reduction. That was the first possible date for an 8 win season to be impossible before the season started (0-5 if we lost our first 5). Consistent with the idea 8 is the metric.

It's also consistent with the date at which Urb will start to get bored spending his Saturdays with Reggie Bush.

 

[Pipe Line]

The shitty thing is we have enough tools on this team that if I had any confidence in the coaching I’d be fully in the thinking of “Well it ain’t been pretty to this point but lets watch this thing develop and we could be pretty salty by the tough part of our schedule”.

But after the last 4 years I’d have to be crazy to have any hope of that happening.

That is why I lost hope after NW. Lost in the same way with new assistants and the same head man.

 

[Pipe Line]

There's no way. We heard a little bit of that about Riley (mostly how he had a photographic memory for that type of info about everyone, not necessarily that he had tight relationships with them) and one of Bo's main positive attributes was that he was famously close with his players and we heard tons of stories from guys who said he was like a father figure to them and they'd run through a brick wall for him.

Strangely enough, Frost did seem like a cool older-brother type of coach when he was at UCF, but we haven't really heard a single thing like that about him at NU. Some guys give the spiel about "we love our coach and we want to make him proud" but again, it doesn't really come across in anybody's actions or press conference anecdotes or even emotional offseason fluff pieces.

I think it's a combination of trying to be TO on the field, but Scott Frost off the field and in the media, that got him.

 

[Pipe Line]

I can't wrap my head around the FAST = SOFT argument

You'll get a different answer from everyone. But, to me, FAST is simply running around someone and avoiding them. Physical is knowing the defender is there, and simply running through them because you can. In the sense of Oregon Speed and West Coat offense and being faster than everyone and trying to out run them, that's a soft mentality.

 

[Pipe Line]

Me too. I am baffled at the consistent poor play of our O Line. Poor O Line play mucks up everything else since skill players don't have the time for the QB to make longer reads.

I think Thompson has done pretty well getting the ball out quicker. Not a strong arm, but short to mid throws he seems to make the right reads (and even check down to 2nd or 3rd options!) and has a strong command of being a quicker reading QB. Sure, he isn't much of a running threat, although I don't think he is slow, but as a game manager QB I think he's pretty good. Not a game changer, but we shouldn't have to rely on our QB being the main weapon running or passing. Doing that you can count on your QB running the ball a lot will always miss several games a year. And I like QB's who can run, but you have to have a proper balance of it. The threat to be able to take off does open things up and make a defense play honest though.

The only conclusion I can come up with is that it's really that Frost wants the offense to look one way, and the O-Line to look a different way, and those two ideas just haven't worked in reality compared to on paper.

 

[Alcaus]

You'll get a different answer from everyone. But, to me, FAST is simply running around someone and avoiding them. Physical is knowing the defender is there, and simply running through them because you can. In the sense of Oregon Speed and West Coat offense and being faster than everyone and trying to out run them, that's a soft mentality.

So style is your issue not speed.

Speed and power aren’t mutually exclusive. Plenty of physical teams are fast. I think you just want an I-formation running attack instead a spread-based one.

 

[Pipe Line]

So style is your issue not speed.

Speed and power aren’t mutually exclusive. Plenty of physical teams are fast. I think you just want an I-formation running attack instead a spread-based one.

Sure, style. Ehhhh unless a team has elite athletes, you don't really see both together. Atleast I don't. I'd like a combination of both that actually uses each concept and can execute when the time calls for it.

2018 Colorado- We had the lead, trying to go fast and use tempo and be warp speed instead of running the ball and wearing down the clock and playing the slow game. No need.

 

[slattimer]

Sure, style. Ehhhh unless a team has elite athletes, you don't really see both together. Atleast I don't. I'd like a combination of both that actually uses each concept and can execute when the time calls for it.

2018 Colorado- We had the lead, trying to go fast and use tempo and be warp speed instead of running the ball and wearing down the clock and playing the slow game. No need.

I'd rather just have an identity that you rely on regardless. Spread 11 personnel is my preference. Go fast, go slow, change tempos. Have a base that you run vs anything and dress it up vs defenses to get you and advantage. Use formation and personnel to gain advantages. Leverage, #'s, Grass is the name of the game.

 

[Alcaus]

I'd rather just have an identity that you rely on regardless. Spread 11 personnel is my preference. Go fast, go slow, change tempos. Have a base that you run vs anything and dress it up vs defenses to get you and advantage. Use formation and personnel to gain advantages. Leverage, #'s, Grass is the name of the game.

I'd prefer we come out in goal line formation every down.

Exert our will.

 

[slattimer]

I'd prefer we come out in goal line formation every down.

Exert our will.

If David Shaw was our corch...

 

[Baron Winnebago]

If David Shaw was our corch...

Talk about a guy whose star has faded

 

[slattimer]

Talk about a guy whose star has faded

Steady decline, I'd still take him over Scrotie McBoogerbawls

 

[dsbigred1]

Steady decline, I'd still take him over Scrotie McBoogerbawls

I would take a meatball over Scottie…

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Steady decline, I'd still take him over Scrotie McBoogerbawls

I'd take Big Tone after a 72 hour coke bender where he woke up with the hooker he hired missing a tube of lipstick only to be found 12 hours later in Tone's stool over Frost