I want Nebraska back to contending for Natty's ...

[catch54]

by running the ball

by using a FB more than occasionally

and I want Nebraska churning out Academic All Americans regularly

Nebraska Football Academic All-Americans - University of Nebraska - Official Athletics Website

 

[suffocation_]

what a unique wish

 

[RedMyMind2.0]

 

[BugsAreQualityProtein]

What’s funny is I believe fans would be more patient if they ran an offense like what you described.

 

[Bigred2467]

Interesting comments from Nick Saban today.

“I think (offenses) are gonna come back to saying, ‘OK, you’re smaller, you’re faster, you’re quicker, you’re going to use this speed to pressure me and play in space — I’m gonna run downhill at you and see if you can take on blockers and defend the run,” Saban said Wednesday on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning from the Regions Tradition Pro-Am in Birmingham. “Everything sort of goes through a cycle, and I think you’re going to see some of football cycle back to that.

“There’s a lot of things that have progressed through the way people are trying to defend spread out teams,” Saban continued. “Now, what’s going to happen in my opinion? You’re going to start seeing the squeeze come back, tighter formations, run the ball, get a hat on a hat, so that you can minimize people’s ability to pressure. It’s obviously easiest to pressure when they’re spread out, and harder to pressure when they’re closed in.”


Nick Saban predicts major shift in college football offenses: 'I'm gonna run downhill at you'

 

[catch54]

what a unique wish

I'm sure most Husker fans take pride in our tradition of outstanding student athletes. Pretty much all of our traditions are already out the window. Dare I say it, the sellout streak could be next.

 

[catch54]

What’s funny is I believe fans would be more patient if they ran an offense like what you described.

Post of the day. I have always known that!

 

[featherivered]

I went thru football purgatory for years: bad coaches, culture, players, and so forth. I'm a Broncos fan and a Husker fan. Could it get any worse? Sean Payton changed it all. It took years. Have some faith. It is hard. Give this guy another year, and then you pay the buyout, okay?

 

[suffocation_]

I went thru football purgatory for years: bad coaches, culture, players, and so forth. I'm a Broncos fan and a Husker fan. Could it get any worse? Sean Payton changed it all. It took years. Have some faith. It is hard. Give this guy another year, and then you pay the buyout, okay?

Reminder this admin was too pusssy to just throw an offer at Meyer he couldn't refuse

 

[o_Balfor]

Interesting comments from Nick Saban today.

“I think (offenses) are gonna come back to saying, ‘OK, you’re smaller, you’re faster, you’re quicker, you’re going to use this speed to pressure me and play in space — I’m gonna run downhill at you and see if you can take on blockers and defend the run,” Saban said Wednesday on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning from the Regions Tradition Pro-Am in Birmingham. “Everything sort of goes through a cycle, and I think you’re going to see some of football cycle back to that.

“There’s a lot of things that have progressed through the way people are trying to defend spread out teams,” Saban continued. “Now, what’s going to happen in my opinion? You’re going to start seeing the squeeze come back, tighter formations, run the ball, get a hat on a hat, so that you can minimize people’s ability to pressure. It’s obviously easiest to pressure when they’re spread out, and harder to pressure when they’re closed in.”


Nick Saban predicts major shift in college football offenses: 'I'm gonna run downhill at you'

Meh, it's no secret Saban doesn't like the shift that occurred. The reasons he moved away from power football have not gone away.

 

[Pennsyhuskers]

Meh, it's no secret Saban doesn't like the shift that occurred. The reasons he moved away from power football have not gone away.

How are you defining “power football”? Osborne’s offenses, for example, had power features but it also incorporated, ingeniously, spread formation concepts within a run first mentality. I think most Nebraska fans would readily get on board any attempt to reignite a version of that today.

The key here is that Osborne, with rare exception, had dominant offensive lines. The downfall of NU football, already evident by 2001 in the Solich era, began when we lost the “pipeline” and the tradition of excellence and dominance it had developed and maintained.

NU football was known to be dominant in the trenches on both sides of the ball. That is still today how you win games. And if that is “power football” then sign me up for it.

 

[Man Woman & Child]

Reminder this admin was too pusssy to just throw an offer at Meyer he couldn't refuse

Ugh, don't remind me.

 

[K Rod]

How are you defining “power football”? Osborne’s offenses, for example, had power features but it also incorporated, ingeniously, spread formation concepts within a run first mentality. I think most Nebraska fans would readily get on board any attempt to reignite a version of that today.

The key here is that Osborne, with rare exception, had dominant offensive lines. The downfall of NU football, already evident by 2001 in the Solich era, began when we lost the “pipeline” and the tradition of excellence and dominance it had developed and maintained.

NU football was known to be dominant in the trenches on both sides of the ball. That is still today how you win games. And if that is “power football” then sign me up for it.

One other change the NCAA made that specifically targeted NU was reducing the limit of players you could "warehouse". NU was famous for being 3 deep everywhere. Of course, back then, we had a program and S & C that could develop players. No portal. Transfers meant sitting out a year and rarely happened. Tom was also excellent at finding JUCO guys like Rozier who could play. Today, if you can outspend ( we can't ) then you have to develop recruits ( we clearly can not ) and also a culture that makes players want to stay. That is a tuff ask, but it is the only way to compete. To give you an idea of just how deep we were in the 1990's, Jay Sims was a 4th string RB who ran a 4.4 and would have started at 90% of the other programs at that time.