4th and 1

singlet

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I'm getting to the point where we hire an OL coach, and if that means a QB change, so be it.
I don't even care about the particulars anymore. I'm wondering how we can have so much change in coaching, administration, players, etc. but the product doesn't change. Pelini put 3 10-win seasons together in a row, and it's been all downhill since then. We have won 39 games since 2017.
 

singlet

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Dec 2, 2004
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The CEO is.
I'm actually not even hung up about who the head coach is any more. It doesn't seem to matter. Not since about 2012 anyway. We started to fall off the bridge that season, and it feels like we just hit bottom.
 
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huskerdude88

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I'm actually not even hung up about who the head coach is any more. It doesn't seem to matter. Not since about 2012 anyway. We started to fall off the bridge that season, and it feels like we just hit bottom.
Agreed. I refuse to believe however if we have 30 million in NIL we can't buy the best lines in CFB. It's crazy that in this day and age we can't buy competent tackles.
 
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broken record

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I don't even care about the particulars anymore. I'm wondering how we can have so much change in coaching, administration, players, etc. but the product doesn't change. Pelini put 3 10-win seasons together in a row, and it's been all downhill since then. We have won 39 games since 2017.
We need to be a top notch program and that won't happen unless we start taking a harder line on performance. Donovan Raiola should be fired after the game. Period. We cannot be held hostage by the threat that Dylan will leave. Whatever happens, happens.
 

Zeke Husker

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We need to be a top notch program and that won't happen unless we start taking a harder line on performance. Donovan Raiola should be fired after the game. Period. We cannot be held hostage by the threat that Dylan will leave. Whatever happens, happens.
Absolutely correct….Donnie is the last remaining horrible hire from Rhule’s first staff here. Made changes at special teams, OC and
Improvement followed time to do OL
 

Hairliphenry

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I don't even care about the particulars anymore. I'm wondering how we can have so much change in coaching, administration, players, etc. but the product doesn't change. Pelini put 3 10-win seasons together in a row, and it's been all downhill since then. We have won 39 games since 2017.
Fooking pathetic
 

Charlie Marlow

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I mean we got stoned at the goal line repeatedly by Houston Christian I think it was? And we pretty much have failed all of our fourth and short attempts when we tried running the football.

so this was pretty much consistent with everything we’ve seen all year.

OL is trash, plain and simple.
 

singlet

Heisman
Dec 2, 2004
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We need to be a top notch program and that won't happen unless we start taking a harder line on performance. Donovan Raiola should be fired after the game. Period. We cannot be held hostage by the threat that Dylan will leave. Whatever happens, happens.
It's hard to argue that he shouldn't be fired. Me saying that replacing coaches won't change anything is more about me looking at the past 12 years and realizing that we're actually worse off even though we've changed a lot of parts in that time.
 

SatchSquatch

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I don't even care about the particulars anymore. I'm wondering how we can have so much change in coaching, administration, players, etc. but the product doesn't change. Pelini put 3 10-win seasons together in a row, and it's been all downhill since then. We have won 39 games since 2017.
You forget that Bo had a couple of these duds every season. We still have plenty of opportunities to get a few more unranked wins and hold up a whale trophy at the end of the season
 

HuskerNationOhio2

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Agreed. I refuse to believe however if we have 30 million in NIL we can't buy the best lines in CFB. It's crazy that in this day and age we can't buy competent tackles.
I’m not confident that if we had 30-40 Million to spend, we would buy the right players anyhow. I didn’t get a chance to see the whole game tonight but what I saw was embarrassing. I saw the 4th and 1 and said there is no way in hell we were going to make it. This did not even remotely resemble anything that we thought we would see year 3. Tough pill to swallow. GBR
 

Mack In Motion

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I mean we got stoned at the goal line repeatedly by Houston Christian I think it was? And we pretty much have failed all of our fourth and short attempts when we tried running the football.

so this was pretty much consistent with everything we’ve seen all year.

OL is trash, plain and simple.
And has been every year since Donnie has been here.

People "thought" the OL was serviceable last year.

No, if wasn't.

It was garbage. Just because it wasn't nuclear reactor grade garbage doesn't mean it was good or even decent.

Who in their right mind thinks you can compete in the BIG with an OL that can't pass block at all and can NEVER move anyone on third or fourth and short?
 

Zeke Husker

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And has been every year since Donnie has been here.

People "thought" the OL was serviceable last year.

No, if wasn't.

It was garbage. Just because it wasn't nuclear reactor grade garbage doesn't mean it was good or even decent.

Who in their right mind thinks you can compete in the BIG with an OL that can't pass block at all and can NEVER move anyone on third or fourth and short?
It’s time for another mid season coaching changes. Donnie has to be removed from coaching OL, his position group’s failures are on him.
 
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dinglefritz

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Agreed. I refuse to believe however if we have 30 million in NIL we can't buy the best lines in CFB. It's crazy that in this day and age we can't buy competent tackles.
The NFL often struggles to find competent tackles and then keep them healthy.