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Most are not doing it the night before a game (because they are locked up) but I think we are just saying in general.
I think there was less of this behavior under Riley because the players knew there was a good chance of running into Keith Williams at the bars
Sounds like blackmail ammo to me. Of course the college kids are smart enough to use Uber or Lyft, maybe he should have invited them to come along.
I have a friend that played at Peru State...we were talking about practice one day and I was asking him if they hit up the bars there in season...he said "Well...the coaches all told us we couldn't...but we would still go...and sure enough all the coaches would be at the bars drinking too"
I like to party.
"I like beer. I still like beer."
I think you bring up the point perfectly. Some guys would make better small college players, or just join the millions of 18-22 year olds that work at the closest verizon and get blizted every night. Playing at one of the top 30 programs in the nation is akin to getting accepted to MIT, Harvard, Yale...the most talented can probably survive with bad habits...most have to do everything perfect to survive.
It is cheesy and amateurish IMO. This is the kind of stuff that goes on at high school games. I guess you could live with it if the team is winning and playing well. Its an embarrasing look for a 0-3 team down 2-3 TDs.
They chased me RELENTLESSLY. Tell you what though, I learned to be a lot more elusive.
team stays in a hotel Friday nights, at least the 2 deep for home games. past few years they used one on N 27th St, fwiw, I haven't bothered asking about this season, maybe they changed locations but it's been a thing since at least the 80's that I know of.
Yeah...I get it but I would argue that just like the brains that get into MIT...they CAN get away with it because they are freaks. You know what I mean?
"We're down 13 points and we got backups and reserves dancing on our sideline before kickoffs. It looks like they love losing and they look undisciplined"
~ Scott Frost (after a home loss to 1-3 Purdue, 9/29/18)
Sounds like Scott Frost doesn't want losers on his lawn.
That would mean they would have to slip out of their hotel room and somehow avoid bed checks. I don't know how many players are in the hotels the not before. Back in the 70 - 80 they players were housed in the Nebraska Center on East campus starting on Thursday night. Coaches checked bars to see who nay have escaped. Served Monte Kiffen about every Thursday for a couple years on home game weekends
That is awesome!
I bet coaches used to love it when they could actually go out and hit up the bars and be a normal person.
I have a serious question. I remember many of our players dancing on the sidelines and doing a mock “gator chop” while we were pummeling Florida in the Fiesta Bowl.
So here is my question: is it only unacceptable to dance on the sidelines if we are behind? Or just in general?
So here is my question: is it only unacceptable to dance on the sidelines if we are behind? Or just in general?
I think when you are losing...you find more things bother you. I think this is one of those cases. I have coached teams that kicked *** and nothing bothered me during those seasons...I have coached teams that were horrible and all of a sudden everything bothered me and the staff.
Example: Awesome team, we didn't care about the socks they wore to practice.
Horrible team: We freaked out about "short socks" and those were known as "country club socks" and we banned them. Well, "we" didn't ban them but the HC at the time did.
I am not saying Frost is doing this, but, as fans, when things don't go our way, we first attack the coach, unless we like him, then we go to the previous coach, after the previous coach, we go right for the players and their work ethic or intelligence. When we don't get the satisfaction we need there, we go to the sideline stuff and off the field stuff.
No offense, but dancing on the sideline isn't why the team is unable to stop anyone on defense.
Who are the players involved in the now famous sideline dancing?
No offense, but dancing on the sideline isn't why the team is unable to stop anyone on defense.
Who are the players involved in the now famous sideline dancing?
I agree with this 100%. I understand that coach Frost is upset with losing and thinks that a big reason for that is a lackadaisical attitude toward losing. But our problems are not being caused by some players dancing to the music on the sidelines. These are young guys and there is good music with a beat playing in the stadium. So they dance. I suppose instead they could be on the sideline with a long face and a scowl whooping and hollering for the guys on the field egging them on to play better. But come on....
Everybody is kind of just turning on everybody right now. That is what losing does. I think that it is important for the coaches to diagnose what is ailing this team. And if they think attitude is what is lacking then that is a legit thing to be addressed in a presser. But I think all of the public finger pointing is becoming a distraction in and of itself. I think we need less public recrimination (which just seems a little too self-justificatory) and more hard work in the bump and grind of practice and game prep.
And you all know how much I support coach Frost. But it is time to stop talking and blaming. It is time to see better results on the field through hard work
The head coach is the one who expressed digust for the sideline dancing while getting curb stomped. It had been happening in every game thus far. Why didn't he correct it if he didn't like it before 1/3 of the season had passed by. Don't tell me it's got to do with winning and losing because there hasn't been anything but losing thus far.
Our football team my sophomore year of high school was awful. God awful. Several games with a halftime score around 0-35 kind of awful.
The team was almost completely devoid of any upper-classmen difference makers and very little player leadership. We went 0-8. The only upside to the season was that several of us in our class got a lot of playing time the last half of the season.
The bus ride home was pretty quiet after the first *** kicking but after that the rides home were mostly a lot of grab ***, screwing off, and getting ready for the weekend. Like kids will do. That don't really care one way or the other what just happened.
Teams can get very numb to losing.
This group has been through a lot of change and been part of a lot of losing. The dancing on the sidelines during a time you're getting run out of your own stadium in front of 90,000 people by a cellar dweller is absolutely not a cause of the beatdowns. It's a symptom of one of the issues prevalent within the program. And it's not going to change quickly.
The team was almost completely devoid of any upper-classmen difference makers and very little player leadership. We went 0-8. The only upside to the season was that several of us in our class got a lot of playing time the last half of the season.
The bus ride home was pretty quiet after the first *** kicking but after that the rides home were mostly a lot of grab ***, screwing off, and getting ready for the weekend. Like kids will do. That don't really care one way or the other what just happened.
Teams can get very numb to losing.
This group has been through a lot of change and been part of a lot of losing. The dancing on the sidelines during a time you're getting run out of your own stadium in front of 90,000 people by a cellar dweller is absolutely not a cause of the beatdowns. It's a symptom of one of the issues prevalent within the program. And it's not going to change quickly.