I'm making this an actual thread because I feel like there can be a constructive conversation out of this instead of stupid bitching and moaning about things a current 4 win program is doing....
Alright, here is my complete and total opinion on everything that is Nebraska Football right now. Frost signed a 7 year deal. I don't think he should be seriously judged AT ALL until the end of year 5. I don't think any of his assistants should be judged AT ALL until the end of next year, and then serious evaluations can be made. I also believe that Frost will be here as long as he wants to be here. I believe there are two standards to Nebraska Football: 1. Tom Osborne/Scott Frost standard of excellence here at Nebraska. and 2. Every other coach that has been here in the mean time. I believe that the upper classmen that we have playing, basically the majority of the starters everywhere, are mentally soft because they were recruited by a mentally soft and low standard for Nebraska coach in Mike Riley. Say what you want about that, it's just my opinion. I don't think those players will ever be able to able to compete at the level that Frost wants because of how high he holds his Nebraska standards. They're just soft and don't have "it". I also believe that's where the "culture" and "buy-in" problem there in lies. They're just too soft. And that's okay, just not here.
We've all seen the blueprint for how this is supposed to/will work. It's going to be Tom Osborne's Nebraska program, mixed with Oregon speed. On and off the field, that's what it is. I believe Frost is a very honest person and tells it like it is. Some people don't want to hear that though because they're pissed off about the product on the field so they want to find anything and everything to ***** at, even if there's nothing there. I believe that the older generation on here have seen this thing at its absolute best and that's most likely why they're the most critical. But keep in mind that Frost is also in that same boat so he's probably just as mad, if not more mad, than that population on here. I think the younger generation, myself has more patience because average to below average Nebraska Football is all we really know and can remember clearly. I understand the point of this board is to be able to talk freely and express their opinions and that's completely okay. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I don't think 85% of this board has the mental football capacity to even be able to have the honor to hold Frost's 20 year old jock strap, yet think they have the answers to make us title contenders right now.
For recruiting: If everyone is being completely honest with themselves right now, it doesn't matter that we're Nebraska and we were great once, we have the talent, attitude, and mental capacity to win 4-6 games right now. And realistically, we're a few plays away and one game of hesitant OT play calling away from being 7-2 and the narrative being completely different. Sorry guys, but tough to pull a bunch of 4-5 star kids away from the SEC if you're only winning 4 games a year right now. Not hard math to do. But that's where execution from current players comes into play there. Execute the way we're supposed to on a handful of plays, and recruiting is going much better. Big picture. There tiers of recruiting/players we have to go through to keep making progress. And right now, we're at the 3-4 star player and 4-6, maybe 7 win type of recruit tier right now. But guess what, Frost isn't walking on the field as a player anymore. So he can give Adrian the best possible play there is in the playbook, and if Adrian doesn't execute, fumbles, throws a pick, hesitant, whatever, who cares who the coach is? That's simply him not executing.
Last, we all know what we want. Realistic or not, we want Frost to bring back the 90s. We do. It's fine, I'll say what everyone else is thinking. And, sadly, we expect it. Because that's where he's from, that's what he did. And it'll happen, but it'll take time. People keep bringing up Minnesota and a change in DC and what not, but guess what? Minnesota didn't win 3/4 titles and didn't win almost 4/5. They didn't do what we did. Who gives a flying **** what Minnesota does. Minnesota will be an after thought in a few years.
That's my opinion.
Alright, here is my complete and total opinion on everything that is Nebraska Football right now. Frost signed a 7 year deal. I don't think he should be seriously judged AT ALL until the end of year 5. I don't think any of his assistants should be judged AT ALL until the end of next year, and then serious evaluations can be made. I also believe that Frost will be here as long as he wants to be here. I believe there are two standards to Nebraska Football: 1. Tom Osborne/Scott Frost standard of excellence here at Nebraska. and 2. Every other coach that has been here in the mean time. I believe that the upper classmen that we have playing, basically the majority of the starters everywhere, are mentally soft because they were recruited by a mentally soft and low standard for Nebraska coach in Mike Riley. Say what you want about that, it's just my opinion. I don't think those players will ever be able to able to compete at the level that Frost wants because of how high he holds his Nebraska standards. They're just soft and don't have "it". I also believe that's where the "culture" and "buy-in" problem there in lies. They're just too soft. And that's okay, just not here.
We've all seen the blueprint for how this is supposed to/will work. It's going to be Tom Osborne's Nebraska program, mixed with Oregon speed. On and off the field, that's what it is. I believe Frost is a very honest person and tells it like it is. Some people don't want to hear that though because they're pissed off about the product on the field so they want to find anything and everything to ***** at, even if there's nothing there. I believe that the older generation on here have seen this thing at its absolute best and that's most likely why they're the most critical. But keep in mind that Frost is also in that same boat so he's probably just as mad, if not more mad, than that population on here. I think the younger generation, myself has more patience because average to below average Nebraska Football is all we really know and can remember clearly. I understand the point of this board is to be able to talk freely and express their opinions and that's completely okay. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I don't think 85% of this board has the mental football capacity to even be able to have the honor to hold Frost's 20 year old jock strap, yet think they have the answers to make us title contenders right now.
For recruiting: If everyone is being completely honest with themselves right now, it doesn't matter that we're Nebraska and we were great once, we have the talent, attitude, and mental capacity to win 4-6 games right now. And realistically, we're a few plays away and one game of hesitant OT play calling away from being 7-2 and the narrative being completely different. Sorry guys, but tough to pull a bunch of 4-5 star kids away from the SEC if you're only winning 4 games a year right now. Not hard math to do. But that's where execution from current players comes into play there. Execute the way we're supposed to on a handful of plays, and recruiting is going much better. Big picture. There tiers of recruiting/players we have to go through to keep making progress. And right now, we're at the 3-4 star player and 4-6, maybe 7 win type of recruit tier right now. But guess what, Frost isn't walking on the field as a player anymore. So he can give Adrian the best possible play there is in the playbook, and if Adrian doesn't execute, fumbles, throws a pick, hesitant, whatever, who cares who the coach is? That's simply him not executing.
Last, we all know what we want. Realistic or not, we want Frost to bring back the 90s. We do. It's fine, I'll say what everyone else is thinking. And, sadly, we expect it. Because that's where he's from, that's what he did. And it'll happen, but it'll take time. People keep bringing up Minnesota and a change in DC and what not, but guess what? Minnesota didn't win 3/4 titles and didn't win almost 4/5. They didn't do what we did. Who gives a flying **** what Minnesota does. Minnesota will be an after thought in a few years.
That's my opinion.
