Possible names for coach next year

tampa husker

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Zac Taylor is #1. Far and away. Almost no chance we can pull him right now, but if Trev has any sense he will reach out to Zac first.
Please NO ex Nebraska player ….and Taylor is criticized for his poor play calling….NO Zac Taylor
 

dand84

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Has to have been a head coach at a P5 school. I’m tired of taking fliers on coaches with no experience at this level. Even given our Riley history.
 

BHeinDaHuskers

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In No Order - Just google search them. Most of these people will be Power 5 Head Coaches this year if they want.

Oklahoma DC - Grinch
Georgia DC - Lanning
Toledo HC - Candle
Coastal Carolina HC - Chadwell
Charlotte HC - Healy

Lanning & Grinch are very interesting but I doubt Lanning comes up north. Grinch has Big Ten roots as an Ohio State assistant.

Chadwell, will stay in the southeast, IMO.

Healy might have to go to the MAC or Mountain West first but he is a name that has a turned around program as a good recruiter too. He is very young.
 

obobbo

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Zac Taylor is #1. Far and away. Almost no chance we can pull him right now, but if Trev has any sense he will reach out to Zac first.
Really.. I hope they dont listen to any fan favorites and get a proven head coach!
 

54T

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Not his first few years. Kentucky stuck with him during tough times and let him build. Their patience has paid off.
Yes. He was 2-10, 5-7, 5-7 his first three years. Year 4 produced 7 wins and a bowl game. Now the streak is 5 straight bowl games and this year will be 6.
Year 4 under Frost doesn’t look like it’s going to be as successful as year 4 was for Stoops.
 

phoenix4nu

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I fully expect Frost will be head coach next year along with some staff changes.
It depends on how the rest of the season plays out. If we lose the rest of our games and end up 3-9, which is definitely a possibility, I don't see how he can come back.
 

oldjar07

All-Conference
Oct 25, 2009
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In No Order - Just google search them. Most of these people will be Power 5 Head Coaches this year if they want.

Oklahoma DC - Grinch
Georgia DC - Lanning
Toledo HC - Candle
Coastal Carolina HC - Chadwell
Charlotte HC - Healy

Lanning & Grinch are very interesting but I doubt Lanning comes up north. Grinch has Big Ten roots as an Ohio State assistant.

Chadwell, will stay in the southeast, IMO.

Healy might have to go to the MAC or Mountain West first but he is a name that has a turned around program as a good recruiter too. He is very young.
Lanning at Georgia is interesting. Grinch at Oklahoma has produced middling results with good defensive talent. Not sure he'd be a good fit.
 

Scat_Back

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Ya’ll still think this **** ain’t rigged? (Yea I’m still on that) watch the second Minnesota drive and watch Martinez the whole game. Prove me wrong. Watch him vs. northwestern and then vs Michigan state and then watch him today. Prove to me that you’re a real Husker fan and tell me he just had a bad
 
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Headcard

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Feb 2, 2005
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If Scott's head rolls, which I doubt, Hugh Freeze I think would be an effective head coach.

93 - 39 if you include the 27 wins vacated by the NCAA for violations his assistants committed.

He's was 39 - 25 at Ole Miss including a win over Alabama.

Post Ole Miss he is 23 - 7 at Liberty.

You doubt Frost is fired?
 

Headcard

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Feb 2, 2005
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In No Order - Just google search them. Most of these people will be Power 5 Head Coaches this year if they want.

Oklahoma DC - Grinch
Georgia DC - Lanning
Toledo HC - Candle
Coastal Carolina HC - Chadwell
Charlotte HC - Healy

Lanning & Grinch are very interesting but I doubt Lanning comes up north. Grinch has Big Ten roots as an Ohio State assistant.

Chadwell, will stay in the southeast, IMO.

Healy might have to go to the MAC or Mountain West first but he is a name that has a turned around program as a good recruiter too. He is very young.

If you are going the DC route give me Venables or Marcus Freeman.
 

antirowboat

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I'm going to remain quite on this message board about if Frost should be fired or not if he doesn't win more games the rest of this season. I'll just piss people off on either side anyways. Trev might have a difficult choice coming up.
 

Sinomatic

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You doubt Frost is fired?
Yeah I doubt it. I think he can win 2 more. It would not surprise me if he did not, but it's definitely possible. Wisconsin and Purdue seem the most likely right?

Iowa and OSU look almost impossible after today.
 

Harry Caray

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Feb 28, 2002
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In No Order - Just google search them. Most of these people will be Power 5 Head Coaches this year if they want.

Oklahoma DC - Grinch
Georgia DC - Lanning
Toledo HC - Candle
Coastal Carolina HC - Chadwell
Charlotte HC - Healy

Lanning & Grinch are very interesting but I doubt Lanning comes up north. Grinch has Big Ten roots as an Ohio State assistant.

Chadwell, will stay in the southeast, IMO.

Healy might have to go to the MAC or Mountain West first but he is a name that has a turned around program as a good recruiter too. He is very young.

Lanning is from Kansas City, so I think he'd consider coming back to the Midwest. He could look at what Mel Tucker is doing at Michigan State, and realize Nebraska is in a much easier division than Michigan State.
 

phoenix4nu

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I'm going to remain quite on this message board about if Frost should be fired or not if he doesn't win more games the rest of this season. I'll just piss people off on either side anyways. Trev might have a difficult choice coming up.
You should have ended with the first nine words.
 
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Harry Caray

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From top 10 to unranked in 5 weeks

No thanks. Matt campbell is trash

Campbell has beaten 9 ranked teams at ISU with mostly 2 and 3 star recruits, and won the regular season Big 12 last year. He would do well here. I don't think he would even consider coming here, though.
 

Sinomatic

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What Hugh Freeze got in trouble for is legal now, so he really should be in consideration. Tough to argue his results.
Well...Freeze was fired for calling escorts using a university cell phone I think. Morals clause violation in his contract w the university.

But the NCAA vacated the wins due to his assistants and Houston Nutts staff paying players.
 

Husker88

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I'd keep Frost.

The daily "we need to fire our coach" posts are about as fun as a root canal.

Another 3 years of transition to only see a more **** awful team is tiring.

First coach we've had since TO in which we've seen a better team on the field than the 1st two years that they coached.
 

Sinomatic

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Campbell has beaten 9 ranked teams at ISU with mostly 2 and 3 star recruits, and won the regular season Big 12 last year. He would do well here. I don't think he would even consider coming here, though.
Thank goodness. Gus Mahlzan has a better record and I think would do better recruiting here and his style of offense I think a ton of people would like to see here.
 

Skerz81

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Trev seems to have bought in to what Frost is selling. I think we could lose out and he’d still get another year.
 

Husker88

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Thank goodness. Gus Mahlzan has a better record and I think would do better recruiting here and his style of offense I think a ton of people would like to see here.
We run the ball more than UCF. Or even Gus' best team at Auburn with Cam Newton at QB.

Are you saying a ton of people would enjoy us throwing the ball more?
 

Headcard

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Yeah I doubt it. I think he can win 2 more. It would not surprise me if he did not, but it's definitely possible. Wisconsin and Purdue seem the most likely right?

Iowa and OSU look almost impossible after today.

That still wouldn’t even get us to a Bowl. Not sure where Trev stands with this, but it’s hard to see keeping him with another losing season.
 

Sinomatic

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We run the ball more than UCF. Or even Gus' best team at Auburn with Cam Newton at QB.

Are you saying a ton of people would enjoy us throwing the ball more?
I didn't say anything about run to pass ratio however, I think his offense would do well. No huddle and power run sounds good to me. You can do some great play action off power. He does run the ball.

UCF seemed to have had the most pass happy coach since Leach and I assume that is possibly why Gus throws the ball more than us at UCF right now. Just a thought.
 

phoenix4nu

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That still wouldn’t even get us to a Bowl. Not sure where Trev stands with this, but it’s hard to see keeping him with another losing season.
Where are you at on whether we should keep Frost if he has another losing season?
 

Husker88

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I didn't say anything about run to pass ratio however, I think his offense would do well. No huddle and power run sounds good to me. You can do some great play action off power. He does run the ball.

UCF seemed to have had the most pass happy coach since Leach and I assume that is possibly why Gus throws the ball more than us at UCF right now. Just a thought.
We currently run almost the exact same offense that Malzhan runs.

You need a QB that can run an RPO scheme that stresses defenses. 90% of college football runs the same thing unless you are Iowa and Wisconsin.

Could he recruit better? Doubtful. That would be the only variant.
 

Harry Caray

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Trev seems to have bought in to what Frost is selling. I think we could lose out and he’d still get another year.

If we lose out and finish 3-9, with 2 of those wins to Fordham and Buffalo, and a terrible recruiting class coming in....how could Trev still buy into what Frost is selling? How could anyone buy it?