You're exactly right, Crab and Thill. I'm not advocating a return to the wishbone or triple option. But I want a coach who isn't focused on being multiple and instead wants to instill an identity, whatever it is.
You really do have to start somewhere. It's not about one particular play, or a special formation, or anything like that. It's about being able to teach your system one step at a time. No matter what offense you run, you have to be an effective teacher. That doesn't mean you're the smartest guy in all of football. I know plenty of people that are brilliant minds in various fields, but they aren't automatically good teachers.
what nu ran in the 90s was nothing like what navy and GT run today. give me a between the tackles, power-based run game with some option sprinkled in and i'm cool.Your religious-like aversion to any type of option oriented attack is as baseless as some folks' aversion to a pro-style offense. But at least we've actually seen successwith one of those types...
what nu ran in the 90s was nothing like what navy and GT run today. give me a between the tackles, power-based run game with some option sprinkled in and i'm cool.
navy qbs ran the ball 36 times yesterday. thats a ridiculous offense to try to run and win any real hardware. fortunately Bill Moos probably understands that.
what nu ran in the 90s was nothing like what navy and GT run today. give me a between the tackles, power-based run game with some option sprinkled in and i'm cool.
navy qbs ran the ball 36 times yesterday. thats a ridiculous offense to try to run and win any real hardware. fortunately Bill Moos probably understands that.
No, no and no!Flexbone. I watched Georgia Tech run up and down the field against Miami who has superior talent. Only weakness was GT's defense, which is why I'm saying we absolutely have to have a great defense. Can't afford to get behind by a lot running this offense. And no I'm not promoting UNL hiring Paul Johnson. But watch Navy vs. UCF today and the guy coaching across from Scott Frost is the guy I'm saying would be a good fit.
Although living 4 miles from the UCF campus, I really want Scott to stay here, I completely agree.Yup. Frosty would meld the Oregon and NU offense and bring toughness back to both sides. No brainer.
I think some folks have been misinformed about Husker history and are thinking a return to the misconception is where we should head. You can't return to what never was. We never had a pipeline of Samoans, we had 2 decent ones in 50 years. We never ran a very unique offense, TO copied the I formations we used and then later adapted Oklahoma's option principles to his new option attack. Lots of teams were run stuff similar to both back when this was done. Other teams realized the speed of the defenses could negate our lol, "unique" option attack, before we did. That's because TO had us stocked with so much talent at I-back and QB that we were nearly unstoppable no matter the speed of the defense, teams with less talent than us, couldn't keep running option. We found ourselves in their boat when FS couldn't recruit QB's or RB's. So all this talk of being contrarian is just silly...you need talent on both sides of the ball to compete at highest levels. You need coaches that recruit mean, tough and yet disciplined players who prioritize football every day. You get that back here and it won't matter what offense or defense we run or where we get our players.
If there was a big advantage to running a contrarian offense...the best coaches (Saaban. Meyer, Sweeney) would do it, they don't. Instead, there is an advantage to running an attack that can hurt teams on the ground or in the air and having the best players you can get.
As much as i love me some Turmanator, he didn't beat anyone. He survived for a half with the most vanilla game plan ever, and then Berringer played the second half. The legend outpaces reality on that one. We won in spite of him playing a half, not because of it.
Please...we have a glorious past, but we were only dominant when we had the very best players. Outside our NC years, TO dominated all the teams with lesser talent and was dominated by those with greater talent. The big 8 teams saw us every year and were very familiar with our "unique" offense...we dominated most of them because we had better talent. But in the bowl games our "uniqueness" didn't help us much with teams who rarely ever saw us, but had better talent than we did.folks might be getting hung up on the term contrarian... playing NU used to be a unique experience for opponents.. matching up physically, intensity, as well as scheme. Depth was also a huge factor, allowing everyone's motor to be full throttle, all the time.
& when not in a fertile recruiting area, player development, walkon depth, and optimizing home grown talent are imperative to success.... this has waned for quite some time & needs to be corrected if DONU is to return to it's glorious past.
what nu ran in the 90s was nothing like what navy and GT run today. give me a between the tackles, power-based run game with some option sprinkled in and i'm cool.
navy qbs ran the ball 36 times yesterday. thats a ridiculous offense to try to run and win any real hardware. fortunately Bill Moos probably understands that.