Not shocking to me that a freshman dlineman would hit a wall in the middle of Big 10 play.
No one to take command attention but him, which is saying something for a freshman.
Don’t you dare talk that way about MY BUDDY!
I wouldn’t be surprised one bit what Dennen has planned but he is nuts if he quadruple the season ticket renewal.
Very good point. I hope when Ruhle and Dannen discussed the extension, that player development and evaluation of position coaches would have been discussed. How many supposed 4 star O line guys did we bring in, and how many have not been a total flop? Lutovsky is the only one I can think of who has been anywhere close to competent. There simply has been zero player development with the O Line. Is the position coach, the playbook, or is this the result of a poor S & C program? The idea that our O line would compete for the Joe Moore award is laughable. Many things are headed the right way in the program. But in the B1G you better have good line play on both sides of the ball. We need to really focus on that and changes needs to be made to staff and probably S & C for that the happen in IMHO.
Justin Evans started as a third year player and actually got a start as a RS freshman. Gottula got pressed into starting as a RS freshman and held his own. Pritchett's play has improved since the start of the season. I think the issue is really that NU didn't get serious about recruiting the Oline until Rhule showed up, and that first group is only in its third year. In the heyday of the Pipeline, only the most talented kids were able to play as RS Sophomores and even then they mostly didn't start.
Just the rumor I heard from a west stadium season ticket holder who is in the Lincoln booster cocktail clique.
I think we were serious about trying to recruit the O line, but Frost’s death spiral and Austin’s malaise crippled our efforts. Raiola’s first year he had a late start and no relationships to work from while he was trying to recruit to a sinking ship. Call it an excuse. Call it a reason. I view it as the factors leading to the hole we have in our junior and senior O line classes. Ideally it would have been nice to find another OT in the portal but it was tough to predict that Gottula would start the season battling leg injuries.
Its a lot easier to hire after a coach leaves than when a coach is fired.
When you take over rebuilding projects who play a lot of ranked teams, you’re going to lose to quite a few ranked teams.
Maybe. But easier does not mean that suddenly there's going to be an entirely different pool of candidates available either.
Well I personally wouldn’t have done it and I highly doubt Dannen did it all on his own.
Just because a L shows up for tonight you make this post. Nothing about the actual performance matters, just the result. We break a long TD run the last drive and win and you don’t say anything, even though it would’ve been a fluke play.
The problem is there are too many moral victory husker fans now.
