reading all this almost gets a person to say if you work in any way with the football team i.e. a coach, administration, or secratary your just fired. I am not advocating that I am just saying, it sounds like a complete mess up there.
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This reminds me of a high school I taught at. The FB coaches were all pretty tight with each other. The HC was a pass happy guy who grew up in California where he was a star passing QB. I would marvel in games how the O would get the ball and run three pass plays in a row and take like 10-15 seconds off the clock and send the D back on the field. By the end of the year, the D coordinator was ready to kill the HC, and for good reason.
We know it’s not fixed yet. We know there’s work to do.
It just gets old having you regurgitate it all the freaking time. And I didn’t read anywhere where he said everything is smooth sailing and fixed now. No one has said that.
No I get that, but the all caps “give it up!” b/c Perlman/Eichorst is now gone really seems like you’re shouting down criticism of the admin when we have no clue if things are fixed.
Forget Banker. Diaco just threw Riley under the bus. What coach is going to get tackling instructions from an AD who knew little about football? If someone told Oz or Bob how they had to tackle they would have said, "Get the f... out of here.". (Tom would have said flip and, well we all know what Bob would have said.)
I think Riley is seething about now.
I think Riley is seething about now.
Which specific people in the administration are being criticized? Do any of them have names?
If this happened and Riley went along with it, the only person he should be seething at is himself. Ridiculous
I feel a lot better about not forcing OSU to punt one time this year.
Can we get diaco to put his trophy in the booth window with him? Then we can focus on that and not have to watch the crap defense on the field. Yay!
But your crusade has largely been against Moos and we don’t even know for sure what we have there yet.
I just don’t get criticism before he has done anything yet. You already have him pegged as a colossal failure if Frost doesn’t come no matter what the reason. You criticized Moos right away because of his age (remember Metamucil?). You criticized him because he kept Wulff an extra year. You’re criticizing him at Nebraska before he has done a thing.
Maybe if you let it rest a little, and criticize when it is warranted and not preemptively, some of us would feel differently about your posts.
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Poor tackling has been a problem with our team since Callahan. It never improved with Pelini and it certainly hasn’t improved under Riley. Amazing that this is still a problem after 3 coaches.
So yeah, I believe there is a deeper issue here at work going on 13 years. This is an administrative problem telling coaches to just play pattycake during practice and hope we can tackle on Game Day. I mean when was the last time one of our teams really physically man-handled an opposing team? I seriously can’t recall after 2001 when we did. This BS has to change if we want to compete for Championships.
So yeah, I believe there is a deeper issue here at work going on 13 years. This is an administrative problem telling coaches to just play pattycake during practice and hope we can tackle on Game Day. I mean when was the last time one of our teams really physically man-handled an opposing team? I seriously can’t recall after 2001 when we did. This BS has to change if we want to compete for Championships.
Hope Diaco heads back to Iowa City on black Friday with the Hawkeyes. Their D looks pretty salty. Maybe he can help screw it up.
Didn't NU pretty much physically manhandle the UCLA team they played in the 2015 bowl game? I just remember everyone being shocked because we pounded the ball at them. Your overall point remains though. We've had an issue for the last 15 or so years though.
OK one, and that was a pretty close game. You’re correct we did run over them in the second half. But our physicality in games have been so few and far between.
The one good decision Riley made was telling Diaco that he didn’t have to give pressers (remember the **** storm after ark. State when he wasn’t available).
It’s pretty apparent, now, why Riley didn’t want Diaco in front of a mic. And it wasn’t in order to “free him up”
It’s pretty apparent, now, why Riley didn’t want Diaco in front of a mic. And it wasn’t in order to “free him up”
This was known right from the start I believe.
I remember listening to Sharp & Benning, TBL or Unsportsmanlike Conduct (1 of those 3) and they had some Notre Dame writers on and they were saying that Diaco is a weird dude and the more he talks the worse he gets. They weren't saying it was a bad thing, it's just the way Diaco is. The less he's in front of the mic the better.
He tried that once and got castrated by our local media and some fans.
Now we all know why UCONN fan couldn't stand him. It's bad enough he talks once in awhile as the Defensive Coordinator. Can you imagine him as the head coach? The sportswriters wouldn't have stories to write other than, "We have no idea what Bob Diaco said today. It was something about defense."
Its like a going out of business sale, "EVERYONE MUST GO"
I live with my wife and three teenage daughters and I have less drama in my house than Husker football
I live with my wife and three teenage daughters and I have less drama in my house than Husker football
We cant keep dancing around the issue - If one assistant is bad then replace the assistant if all of them suck then we need to look at the head coach which is happening. When people say Riley is failing because he is not winning games true - however the problems go deeper and changing assistant coaches is not going to fix this
This is starting to feel like pre Devaney without social media. Are we going to have to start over? Some of us remember those days.
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agreed but there have been some years better than others, 2006 , 2009,2010,2003 and a sprinkling of games since, 2014 even the offensive line took over late in the games
"Civil Conflict"
Lol
WTF does that even mean???
My bet is, Diaco thinks they have a "Conflict" aka strain with UCF, but want to be very "Civil" about how they engage in said conflict, in a Civil Conflict sort of way.
This guy is loony tunes.
I just have one question for Diaco. If rugby tackling was mandated from above (evidently by Devaney or Eichorst), then why were Riley and Banker forced into this type of tackling but Diaco could choose how he wanted to teach tackling? When Diaco showed up both Devaney and Eichorst were firmly in power.
Another interpretation of Diaco speak: “The blame for the current state of affairs of Husker football falls squarely on the shoulders of the previous administrations for not sticking with a coach long enough to produce championships. But, Bill Moos seems to be a different kind of administrator.”
While I may disagree with him on Pelini, he’s pretty much on target in some respects. The other stuff he said was just fluff.
While I may disagree with him on Pelini, he’s pretty much on target in some respects. The other stuff he said was just fluff.
I wrote about this earlier this fall on this Board. I met this summer at two different weddings in Seattle a young guy who played rugby at Division II Central Washington University. He works for a company that teaches teams how to "rugby" style tackle. They don't just teach tackling but are also contracted to review all games and report back to the team on what is working and what is not working. Nebraska was one of the schools they were working with last year, but Diaco ended the contract as soon as he got to Nebraska. I haven't seen any great improvement in the Husker tackling. The defensive backs as a group appear to me to be very poor tacklers.
Point taken, but on the other hand the admin/AD shouldn’t have the slate wiped clean just b/c Moos is now here.
That’s fair too... hopefully Admin got it right with the moos hire. We will see.
Better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.