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steinek11

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The point is just what specifically does Sipple want Frost to do other than win games to get more fan support? Does Sipple think he should sign more autographs? Does Sipple want him to attend more charity events? Are those things going to fill the seats when the stadium is back open for business if we continue to lose games? Or does Sipple think Frost doesn't want to win games? There's no unique substance to Sipple's observation IMO - ie. nothing that anyone in Nebraska doesn't already know.
That's kind of my point too. Sipple's whole premise is dumb.
 

BuckysBoys1

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We aren't gonna have to wait much longer as next year the era of Smothers the Franchise begins as that kid is the absolute real deal and when the real QB battle begins between Smothers and Macaffrey, Logan will walk away with it hands down and there will be no or in between the QBs.

While Mac is very good, he is not good enough to beat Smothers as Smothers has him beat with a better arm, faster and quicker than luke as Smothers is a T-Mart clone when running the ball with almost the same insane top gear he had prior to injuries as well as decision making abilities (lightning fast blinkers). The only thing that is a wash between them is the competitiveness.

I got a chance back in Oct 2019 to LS play live down in Bama as I went down there with an ex gf to see here brother who lived in that area and we went to one of his games and this kid is for real and and what the staff is doing with him now, is getting his arm and body strength built up as LS already know the playbook like back of his hand.

Wait till you see him run as he looks like a cross between an RB and WR when he totes it and from what I actually witnessed he's a nighmare in the open field with ankle breaking shake and bake. LS also runs a laser timed 4.4 in the 40, and hand held 4.38 or so. I always said that the type of QB that would excel in Frost's O was a guy with an outstanding arm with TM speed behind it and nw we have it.

Same stupid post you’ve been copy and pasting for the last 6 months. We know your boyfriend coaches cross country in Alabama and you got a hard on for Smothers.

If he’s so dam good why isn’t he playing? LM and AM look like two middle school QBs but apparently we have freaking Russell Wilson riding the pine! Gtfoh
 
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This is good, because if they give up their seats, younger people can buy them and our home field advantage will get a lot more hostile. Win.

This assumes that the younger person has the ability (or desire) to make the annual contribution required to acquire said seats.
 

steinek11

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This assumes that the younger person has the ability (or desire) to make the annual contribution required to acquire said seats.
Wouldn't be surprised if that went away eventually. The world is a changing place.
 

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Same stupid post you’ve been copy and pasting for the last 6 months. We know your boyfriend coaches cross country in Alabama and you got a hard on for Smothers.

If he’s so dam good why isn’t he playing? LM and AM look like two middle school QBs but apparently we have freaking Russell Wilson riding the pine! Gtfoh
Not as stupid as your ***** *** existence!
 

phoenix4nu

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We aren't gonna have to wait much longer as next year the era of Smothers the Franchise begins as that kid is the absolute real deal and when the real QB battle begins between Smothers and Macaffrey, Logan will walk away with it hands down and there will be no or in between the QBs.

While Mac is very good, he is not good enough to beat Smothers as Smothers has him beat in almost every catagory with a better arm, faster and quicker than luke as Smothers is a T-Mart clone when running the ball with almost the same insane top gear he had prior to injuries as well as decision making abilities (lightning fast blinkers). The only thing that is a wash between them is the competitiveness.

I got a chance back in Oct 2019 to see LS play live down in Bama as I went down there with an ex gf to see her brother who lived in that area and we went to one of his games and it was against the 2nd rated team in Bama's largest class and this kid is for real. What the staff is doing with him now, is getting his arm and body strength built up and conditioned as that's all that's needed as LS already knows the playbook like back of his hand and has as strong as a grasp of it as Martinez.

Wait till you see him run as he looks like a cross between an RB and WR when he totes it and from what I actually witnessed he's a nighmare in the open field with ankle breaking shake and bake. LS also runs a laser timed 4.43 in the 40, which translates hand held 4.38 or so. I always said that the type of QB that would excel in Frost's O was a guy with an outstanding arm with TM speed behind it and now we have it.
Then why not play him this year if he's that good.
 

HominidHusker

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I don't see Frost taking a veteran transfer quarterback who would come in an compete to be the starter. I think he would see that as disloyal to his recruited quarterbacks and possibly bad for morale.
I agree Frost may not even consider it... but doesn’t mean he shouldn’t. Cus right now, bad QB play and losing are worse for morale.
 

steinek11

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You take a transfer quarterback if your quarterback room is complete garbage. I don't think it is
 

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We aren't gonna have to wait much longer as next year the era of Smothers the Franchise begins as that kid is the absolute real deal and when the real QB battle begins between Smothers and Macaffrey, Logan will walk away with it hands down and there will be no or in between the QBs.

While Mac is very good, he is not good enough to beat Smothers as Smothers has him beat in almost every catagory with a better arm, faster and quicker than luke as Smothers is a T-Mart clone when running the ball with almost the same insane top gear he had prior to injuries as well as decision making abilities (lightning fast blinkers). The only thing that is a wash between them is the competitiveness.

I got a chance back in Oct 2019 to see LS play live down in Bama as I went down there with an ex gf to see her brother who lived in that area and we went to one of his games and it was against the 2nd rated team in Bama's largest class and this kid is for real. What the staff is doing with him now, is getting his arm and body strength built up and conditioned as that's all that's needed as LS already knows the playbook like back of his hand.

So in other words, he’s like Taylor Martinez who came from nowhere in fall to win the starting spot.
 

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Everyone has different standards. Yours are lower, no problem. Just like everyone typically finds somebody to marry. Some have certain qualities for their future spouse, some settle for the bar hag. Neither is right or wrong - just different standards.
I'm not apathetic, still watch every game, go to a couple in Lincoln and one on the road every year. It will never change for me even if NU never wins another game. That being said, I think last Saturday after the false start and holding killed the first promising drive, I probably would have been better off going to a tavern and finding a bar hag to chat up, it would have been a lot more fun than watching the rest of the game.
 

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I’m with you Pennsy. As soon as Northwestern took the lead in the second half and then we couldn’t come back and move it on them in the next position I knew it was over. Scott’s teams are mentally soft, undisciplined and straight up dumb. It’s so easy to pin point their breaking point in each game. Have been this way for 3 years. Bo’s worst team would boat race any of the teams from the past 3 years. I hate to say it but the 4 star guys that we get are the 4 stars that the big schools don’t really want, in other words we get the left overs that are overrated and then they come to Lincoln thinking they are rock stars and they don’t want to put in the work. They then don’t pan out or they transfer.

My biggest fear is that Scott’s ceiling will be 9-4 seasons, that of Bo’s. So in essence we’re giving Frost half a decade to get to the magical 9 win game, a number that wasn’t good enough for us just just 6 seasons ago. Our standards have plummeted. My question is, how the hell did Scott go undefeated at UCF? It’s mind blowing.
Frost caught lightning in a bottle at UCF. That team actually had significantly more talent than the Husker teams he's had. Milton also was really good. Martinez not so much.
 

RednWash

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Pennsy gives a **** he just frustrated like everyone else..
I’m in the same boat I’ve seen the very best Husker teams from the Devaney and Osborn era’s and yesterday was so frustrating watching a team that makes stupid mistakes and the head coach calling head scratching calls in the red zone..

I’m giving the benefit of doubt that some of it is we didn’t have any spring football and this season is our time to fix what we need fixing for next year which will be the telling tale moving forward...
Been a Husker fan for over 50 years. My biggest frustration is we look no better fundamentally that when Frost walked in the door. Play calling hard to judge from the couch when guys don't execute but has seemed pretty questionable at times. Frost's game management has been pretty bad at times. Another thread pointed out we have had 4 delay of game penalties after a possession change or other extended timeout in the last 14 games. That's a huge WTF in my book.
 

RednWash

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We aren't gonna have to wait much longer as next year the era of Smothers the Franchise begins as that kid is the absolute real deal and when the real QB battle begins between Smothers and Macaffrey, Logan will walk away with it hands down and there will be no or in between the QBs.

While Mac is very good, he is not good enough to beat Smothers as Smothers has him beat in almost every catagory with a better arm, faster and quicker than luke as Smothers is a T-Mart clone when running the ball with almost the same insane top gear he had prior to injuries as well as decision making abilities (lightning fast blinkers). The only thing that is a wash between them is the competitiveness.

I got a chance back in Oct 2019 to see LS play live down in Bama as I went down there with an ex gf to see her brother who lived in that area and we went to one of his games and it was against the 2nd rated team in Bama's largest class and this kid is for real. What the staff is doing with him now, is getting his arm and body strength built up and conditioned as that's all that's needed as LS already knows the playbook like back of his hand.
Yay!! Wait till next year!! Sadly I'll believe it when I see it at this point. I'll keep hoping tho.
 

oldjar07

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You take a transfer quarterback if your quarterback room is complete garbage. I don't think it is
No you take a transfer if you think it makes the qb room better. And although I don't think it's garbage either, there is definitely room for improvement.
 

BigNUFan51

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the Nebraska job has gotten increasingly more difficult for every new coach since Solich.

That’s because every year the memories of Eric Crouch and the last great Husker teams become more distant.
 
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Took me a while to get in on this but Pennsy, IMO you are spot on. I will give another example that is small, but to me speaks volumes.

My mother is 89 years old. She graduated from NU in '52. She has lived in Lincoln most of her adult life and she loves the Huskers. Talks about how she would sit through blow out losses to support he team, as well as stay to very end of the blow out wins to watch every single 6th stringer play. Once the kids were out of the house she went to every Big 8/Big 12 road game. She still understands football better than many younger, male fans, although it was always funny to watch her stand at Memorial Stadium when she was in her 60's and shout out cheers from her era.

But despite making a short story long, the point of this is that I called her after the game yesterday and she said that she'd had the game on but hadn't watched much of it. This from someone who sat glued to her TV every second for every game she didn't attend in person. That my mother has reached the point that when NU is on she doesn't watch much of the game speaks volumes. Very sad volumes.
Exactly my point. You start losing bread and butter fans like this and you are in trouble as a program.
 
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I’m with you Pennsy. As soon as Northwestern took the lead in the second half and then we couldn’t come back and move it on them in the next position I knew it was over. Scott’s teams are mentally soft, undisciplined and straight up dumb. It’s so easy to pin point their breaking point in each game. Have been this way for 3 years. Bo’s worst team would boat race any of the teams from the past 3 years. I hate to say it but the 4 star guys that we get are the 4 stars that the big schools don’t really want, in other words we get the left overs that are overrated and then they come to Lincoln thinking they are rock stars and they don’t want to put in the work. They then don’t pan out or they transfer.

My biggest fear is that Scott’s ceiling will be 9-4 seasons, that of Bo’s. So in essence we’re giving Frost half a decade to get to the magical 9 win game, a number that wasn’t good enough for us just just 6 seasons ago. Our standards have plummeted. My question is, how the hell did Scott go undefeated at UCF? It’s mind blowing.

Bo had an "identity" and coached to it. He wanted a physically tough team. Run first, run second, and then pass if necessary. May not agree with his sideline demeaner, but he was not afraid to be himself and the players fed off that. These coaches today have no clue what their identity is, and keep doing mental exercises that produce zero results. This is not the PAC12 or Conf USA where you don't have defenses that are not worth a hoot. Time for Frost to find his identity and run the damn ball first and second... your time is running out.
 

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If the switch is made and LM is the starter does AM stick around? If not, we need another QB recruit to go with Haarberg.
 

SkerInCo

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Bo had an "identity" and coached to it. He wanted a physically tough team. Run first, run second, and then pass if necessary. May not agree with his sideline demeaner, but he was not afraid to be himself and the players fed off that. These coaches today have no clue what their identity is, and keep doing mental exercises that produce zero results. This is not the PAC12 or Conf USA where you don't have defenses that are not worth a hoot. Time for Frost to find his identity and run the damn ball first and second... your time is running out.
Bo's identity was beating Kansas and Illinois and getting his *** whipped by Oklahoma and Wisconsin. That and pissing himself.
 

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Like I told my brother, Frost might be the worst hire for Nebraska. We're turning in to Minnesota. I don't care what you did as a player. What are you going to do as a head coach?!
 
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Bo's identity was beating Kansas and Illinois and getting his *** whipped by Oklahoma and Wisconsin. That and pissing himself.

Never said he was perfect, but he stuck to his guns for good or bad. But, he had an identity. He still got past the Sisters of Charity and the likes, not sure this staff can.
 

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When you are 1-7 in the last 8 games it’s time to play the young guys. It would give me hope. McCaffrey made a few mistakes but it’s ok when you don’t have a ton of experience. He looked great to me. Fast, elusive, decisive, and threw some nice balls.

When we are trotting our turnover prone 3rd year starter at QB that is 1-7 in the last 8 games, it’s demoralizing.

Give me Omar on the edge putting pressure on the safeties. I don’t care if he isn’t a good blocker yet or messes up a play here or there. His is a better athlete and can learn on the job. I want to see him taking a DB to school. Just once. Just one 25-yard completion would make me smile.

We lose almost every game we play at this point. Time to start building for the future instead of pretending we can win now.

Play the young guys and give me hope. Win or lose. I don’t care. I just want some hope.
 

steinek11

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No you take a transfer if you think it makes the qb room better. And although I don't think it's garbage either, there is definitely room for improvement.
You bring in a ringer and you risk one of your developmental guys bailing out. You want that?
 

steinek11

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When we are trotting our turnover prone 3rd year starter at QB that is 1-7 in the last 8 games, it’s demoralizing.

Quite a few fans came to that realization on Saturday. We've seen enough bad QB play. It's time to move on.
 

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I think it would benefit the program to encourage that kid to transfer. Sounds harsh, but I really want no part of that stink left in the QB room.. and certainly not for a 5th year. People freaked out at me last year when I said he was the cancer, but I really dislike that lack of confidence.
 

techtim72

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An observation. The Nebraska players have expectations for the entire State on their shoulders plus a coaching staff that is wound tighter than a drum. Perhaps that's one reason they are prone to mistakes at critical times. The coaches' challenge may be to convince the team and State to love winning more than fearing losing. One win at a time.