What is the single most apparent thing that could be pointed at? Win/loss record? UNI? Some of the boat races? Lack of improvement? New AD? To me it was the thousands of tickets on sale on the internet and downtown for less than $20. That went unsold and unused. Add to that the emptiness of the stadium. While some of the other things led to the attendance situation I believe that is the straw that broke the camels back. The fans spoke. Not big money......little money.... but a lot of them.
If Mike Riley is Fired.
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Combination of a lot of things I think. But maybe the biggest thing of all was that he was never really a very popular hire from the get go. Sure people warmed up to him a bit over time, but there was never a passion for him in our fan base. We were willing to give him some slack but not much. Therefore, he needed to hit the ground running by having a serious staff and plan in place but didn't. He brought his OSU cronies with him and also, inexplicably, Hank Hughes, and that was his undoing.
Basically it can all be traced back to the fact that NU sucks at the game of football right now.
You got that right
There is no upward trajectory on the field.
We don't block very well, we don't run the ball well, we are not very good in the passing game, we can't stop the run, we are not very good at defending the pass. Other than that, we're a good football team.
Lack of defense, lack of offense, under performing special teams, and poor game management.
But mostly his teams are soft.
But mostly his teams are soft.
Bo Pelini's recruiting. Same thing that did in Callahan ten years ago. Poor recruiting led to a weak (RS)junior/senior class of players that should be the leaders of the team. Bo thought he was going to be fired a year earlier than he actually was. So you have two classes of weak recruiting that should be the backbone of your team.
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Actually the only thing I think has been decent is special teams. But everything else is pretty poopy. Line play is horrid on both sides, and it's impossible to play good football with crap lines.
I think the key moment was not implementing his system in year one and, in addition, hiring some of his OSU assistants. I think by now, we would see a better football team. But that was a decision he made and he will probably have to live with it in east Texas or Corvallis.
But if the team can get their s&*t together he may be back. I will say this, I really like the guy and respect him.
But if the team can get their s&*t together he may be back. I will say this, I really like the guy and respect him.
Coaching sucks all the way around, except for DLine. There it is the players and the scheme because JP is a Husker. ;-)
The most apparent thing is we need to bring back steroids and be bullies again
Yep. As I said above, I think his undoing is that he thought he could bring his OSU clown act here and it would work better than it did there. He found out otherwise and it is going to cost him his job. I am beyond the "I like him and he is a nice guy" stuff. Enough already. I just want him gone.
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Or just "bleed" at practice.. or something to that extent.
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How is this difficult. An average coach was hired and we are getting average results. Again, we all knew this when he was hired, we all posted about it, then we all pretended like it was going to be okay. This is the opposite of the Sixth Sense...this ending isn't a shock.
He will be let go because what Nebraska is putting on the field during his regime “doesn’t look like football”...especially in year 3. Winking
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Sounds like my golf game. I can't get off the tee. My long game sucks. I can't chip and I can't putt. Other than that, I'm pretty good.
I believe that Riley is a good guy and will resign rather than be forced out. Fans are leaving at half time and the energy is at an all-time low, he's got let that pride go and do what's right for the university. He was given a contract with expectations and he has not met them.
He morphed us into the Nebraska Cornbeavers.
They are who we thought they were, but by believing that this would somehow be different, we let them off the hook.
Sure. Not even having a pulse is still Bo's fault. Bo sucked and needed to go. True story. Riley is just not a very good football coach. True story.
We couldn’t do diddly poo offensively, we couldn’t make a first down, we couldn’t run the ball, we didn’t try to run the ball, we couldn’t complete a pass. We couldn’t stop the run. Every time they got the ball, they went down and got points. that’s what it boiled down to. It was a horseshit performance. I'm totally embarrassed and totally ashamed. Coaching did a horrible job. The players did a horrible job. We got our *** kicked we sucked. We stunk.
Applying pro football coaching to college players. When coaching pros you assume they are all in great shape, have mastered the fundamentals, and know less than maximum effort means getting cut (no Rolexes, no Escalades, and no crusading about "inequality"). Coaches are free to spend all day teaching complicated schemes.
College players have a couple hours a day so need less scheme, more fundamentals, more repetition of identity plays, and more motivation. Having eight different screen schemes means none can be run well. Lack of fundamentals means every game is an adventure. No repetition on identity plays means players operate tentatively. Failure to motivate leads to blah first halves at times and let downs in second halves at other times.
College players have a couple hours a day so need less scheme, more fundamentals, more repetition of identity plays, and more motivation. Having eight different screen schemes means none can be run well. Lack of fundamentals means every game is an adventure. No repetition on identity plays means players operate tentatively. Failure to motivate leads to blah first halves at times and let downs in second halves at other times.
Cool. We should golf together sometime. It will take us 68 beers and 47 lost balls to finish the front 9. Should be a great match.
Nebraska football has been a pristine example of great marketing and bad product. All we hear is "how much we want to beat Wisconsin this year" and how "I'm a completely different and better (cornerback) than last year."
We don't have much accountability among our older players on down, but we make up for it by not having an identity.
This pretty much sums up what goes on in my head whenever I discuss the current state of Nebraska football.
We don't have much accountability among our older players on down, but we make up for it by not having an identity.
This pretty much sums up what goes on in my head whenever I discuss the current state of Nebraska football.
Most apparent thing in all honesty is the validation that he should have never been hired in the first place. He was a .500 coach coming in and he's maintained that status. Aside from that, 2 out of 3 years he will have a losing record (assuming he loses a few more in which I think we will) and in his tenure, his teams have been soft. I never thought I'd see the day we would lose 56-14 at home. I know BoBo lost to Mizzou pretty badly back in '08 but still, last Saturday was as bad as it gets.
I like Jimmy Carter, but he was the third worse President in my life time (Nixon being the second) and I never voted for him. So, I agree with you but what’s Punxsutawney Phil’s opinion?
Punxsutawney Phil's opinion is that if Riley sees his shadow it isn't his. It is Osborne's. And it means there are only six weeks of winter left.
I thought Riley was going to kill it here. I was wrooo.....wrooonnnnn.....wrong.
It's the record. I get where people talk about being soft, running a complicated pro-style offense, don't hit in practice, and the like. I believe those are all symptoms of the poor record we have. However, if we somehow could be the St. Louis Rams and be "the greatest show on turf" nobody would care. (I don't think that flies in college football but, if somehow we won doing it, people wouldn't care.) It's always the record.
If we had a bunch of freshmen and sophomores starting and playing, you might get a pause out of me. No way Riley gets a pass when his young players can't hit the field in even the same way that OSU and Wisky hit the field..or even Illinois.
When the other team doesn't need a punter you may have a problem.
Huston we have a problem! Or should I say Orlando we have a problem?
Huston we have a problem! Or should I say Orlando we have a problem?