That’s getting a ton of run now that we lost the first game of year 4 against a team we were supposed to beat, and are now 12-21 with an uphill battle to get to a bowl game. There’s a ton of pros/cons, but let me lay out my thoughts. First, I don’t think it’sContinue reading “Should Frost have brought his entire staff with him from UCF?”
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Illinois Recap 2021
Well… here we go again. “Should be 3-0 heading to Oklahoma” and “it just feels different this year” are all things we said and we were duped again. I’m really regretting stating in my preview that if we can’t beat Illinois, probably time to start looking for a new staff. But I don’t think IContinue reading “Illinois Recap 2021”
Illinois Preview 2021
This one is pretty tough, not only am I not quite sure what’s going to be happening with us, our opponent has a new coach and new schemes everywhere. The spread has basically settled at -7 for this. Illinois has Peters back at QB that has given us some issues before, and they have aContinue reading “Illinois Preview 2021”
Season Preview 2021
Those comments really get me pumped for this year as it seems we really have things coming together. Oh, those are from previous years? They seem like the exact same thing i’m hearing for 2021? I’m not trying to be a dick with those tweets, but the internet is littered with them. Every year IContinue reading “Season Preview 2021”
Special Teams Preview 2021
Hate to start every paragraph the same, but whatever it’s a trend now. If you followed me on the other site, I had a couple pretty strong opinions about our special teams for 2020 heading into the season. The first was that it was a complete mishandling of duties to have your special teams coordinatorContinue reading “Special Teams Preview 2021”
Defensive Backs Preview 2021
Now for the fun one!!! When Frost and his staff got here in December of 2017, they identified two position groups that needed immediate upgrades not only in talent but in depth. Wide Receiver and Defensive Back were the two they circled. In fact, our head man would mock people saying we needed to keepContinue reading “Defensive Backs Preview 2021”
Outside Linebacker Preview 2021
My apologies for the delay getting this out. Weekend went off the rails and the Wine/Balloon Festival in Elkhorn completely ruined all of my plans as I must have too many samples. Now for an interesting position group. If you read my 3-4 vs 4-3 argument, this position is one that people always point toContinue reading “Outside Linebacker Preview 2021”
Second Half Struggles
I had wrote about this back in January or February on the other site, and I saw it brought up on another message board. So I think it’s important to talk about it now. So I grabbed my data from a few months back and want to dive into it. When the staff first gotContinue reading “Second Half Struggles”
Nebraska Moving Back to East Sideline
Not sure if many of you remember, but during the pandemic last year, Scott Frost and Nebraska moved for the first time to the West Sideline (where the coaches boxes are). Here’s a Journal Star article on it by a really good journalist, Parker Gabriel: https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/frost-explains-huskers-move-to-west-sideline-after-nearly-60-years-on-the-east-side/article_70c94887-005c-5f6d-8232-16bdbe30e2f7.html There’s a few things in that… but the longContinue reading “Nebraska Moving Back to East Sideline”
Inside Linebacker Preview 2021
ILB (and quite frankly all the LBs) always confuse me a bit. We basically have recruited every single LB and said “he can play inside or outside” and then we have to guess where they are going to play. It’s pretty obvious that heading into fall camp the top 4 were Honas, Reimer, Kolarevic, andContinue reading “Inside Linebacker Preview 2021”