Thoughts on the season

[Jim14510]

Yikes. I knew it was bad but not south of Brosmer bad.

I mean it's one completion but yeah I expected him to be more top middle. I also didn't expect as many over 50% as there was.

As another comparison Adrian Martinez 4 out of 5 years was high 20s to 30s. His worst was at K St 6/22. His best (outlier year) was 2021 29/61 47.5%. Freshman year was basically the same as Raiola 19/53.

 

[ChocaEgg]

I mean it's one completion but yeah I expected him to be more top middle. I also didn't expect as many over 50% as there was.

As another comparison Adrian Martinez 4 out of 5 years was high 20s to 30s. His worst was at K St 6/22. His best (outlier year) was 2021 29/61 47.5%. Freshman year was basically the same as Raiola 19/53.

Damn so we got an Adrian Martinez clone without the running ability smh

 

[Jim14510]

Damn so we got an Adrian Martinez clone without the running ability smh

Yeah I don't think I'd jump to that conclusion. I think most people were happy with Martinez his freshman year. Crazy people were talking Heisman. Problem was he never got better and in ways got worse.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Yeah I don't think I'd jump to that conclusion. I think most people were happy with Martinez his freshman year. Crazy people were talking Heisman. Problem was he never got better and in ways got worse.

Before reaching the historic low point for any Husker QB in history of transferring to K State only to get benched

 

[ChocaEgg]

Yeah I don't think I'd jump to that conclusion. I think most people were happy with Martinez his freshman year. Crazy people were talking Heisman. Problem was he never got better and in ways got worse.

I should've thrown a wink emoji in there

 

[Jim14510]

I should've thrown a wink emoji in there

I should've known better.

 

[Herbie]

Yikes. Really bad

I’ve been told he’s actually really good

 

[Tonkasker]

I'm satisfied and encouraged going into the offseason. First time I can say that in years. This is the first year since 2018 we aren't having a deeply troubling existential discussion around the state of the program after it ends.

1. The seem to have a very clear direction on holes to fill and are executing a strategy toward filling them
2. Im really optimistic about the young core and it's spread evenly throughout the roster (almost every group!!)
3. Next years' schedule is pillow soft

If we can just avoid national blowhards pumping up the state of things and keep Dylan off the heisman odds I think we'll have a stew goin'

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

I probably put less emphasis on overall record than most given this is a small sample size and W/L is less important IMO than overall picture. Easily could and should have been an 8 or 9 win season with different bounces against USC, Cockeye, Ohio St., and Illinois. Indiana and, to a lesser extent, UCLA were only real black marks this year.

I think we were banking more on being able to execute the manball+good defense script and that really only worked against CU as far as decent opponents went. Between Corc's injury and Mazooka's dry pp, plus some mixed success w/ Dowdell w/ duo (which seemed to be our identity run play most of the year), we just never seemed to have a reliable run game.

In light of that, Raiola overplayed expectations IMO. I do not think that we necessarily expected him to be the main engine of the offense, and that was a big ask for a true freshman given some of our talent shortfalls. Needs to clean up some of the mechanics when the pocket breaks down and he's playing unscripted.

Dana plus portal should help next year, but we need to add OL in the portal if we're really going to make a run. Numbers say we were pretty efficient on offense, but lacked explosiveness. Shot plays were pretty much non-existent in B1G play and we had limited explosive run game. Cue Dana again.

Generally good defense, but not good enough to execute the full B1G west script, esp given offensive hiccups. 3rd & Tony was a problem all year, between limited success on third down pressure and consistent coverage lapses.

Special teams unfortunately speak for themselves.