After the Colorado game, I think there's a lot more positive things to look forward to than negative. However I do have some concerns about the season moving forward and how Frost responds to adversity.
Penalties, drops, mistakes, etc. have been hashed out already, but I thought our tackling was God awful yesterday. Way too many times we had an opportunity to bring a guy down, but he escapes and gets more yards down the field. UCF had a lot of problems with this as well at times with Chinander's defense. Riley's defenses were out of position a lot, but when we were in position we actually tackled very well. Against Colorado, we had good position on the guy but just missed the tackle way too many times.
Our safeties and corners have come full circle since last year. Our corners actually looked pretty decent but our safeties looked bad against CU. Our safety play needs to improve drastically if we're going to have a chance at a decent season this year.
Frost has been getting baptized by fire the past few weeks. He's a very confident guy but sometimes those type of guys have trouble learning from mistakes. I hope he's learning a lot from his mistakes and will respond in the right way. Sometimes the best decision for the team goes against your own personal beliefs, and that's a hard lesson to learn. Going undefeated in only his second season as head coach might not have been the best thing to happen in terms of learning the hard lessons needed and bumps in the road in leading a blue blood program back to prominence.
I also think he needs to start forming his own identity more and continuing to move away from Chip Kelly. The organization of our practices, the offensive identity we have, strength and conditiong, recruiting, etc. doesn't and probably shouldn't look like what he was doing at Oregon or UCF, despite the success he had there. He needs to, and I think he will, form a new identity that works for Nebraska and will have a lot of success here.
Penalties, drops, mistakes, etc. have been hashed out already, but I thought our tackling was God awful yesterday. Way too many times we had an opportunity to bring a guy down, but he escapes and gets more yards down the field. UCF had a lot of problems with this as well at times with Chinander's defense. Riley's defenses were out of position a lot, but when we were in position we actually tackled very well. Against Colorado, we had good position on the guy but just missed the tackle way too many times.
Our safeties and corners have come full circle since last year. Our corners actually looked pretty decent but our safeties looked bad against CU. Our safety play needs to improve drastically if we're going to have a chance at a decent season this year.
Frost has been getting baptized by fire the past few weeks. He's a very confident guy but sometimes those type of guys have trouble learning from mistakes. I hope he's learning a lot from his mistakes and will respond in the right way. Sometimes the best decision for the team goes against your own personal beliefs, and that's a hard lesson to learn. Going undefeated in only his second season as head coach might not have been the best thing to happen in terms of learning the hard lessons needed and bumps in the road in leading a blue blood program back to prominence.
I also think he needs to start forming his own identity more and continuing to move away from Chip Kelly. The organization of our practices, the offensive identity we have, strength and conditiong, recruiting, etc. doesn't and probably shouldn't look like what he was doing at Oregon or UCF, despite the success he had there. He needs to, and I think he will, form a new identity that works for Nebraska and will have a lot of success here.
