We’ve got 8 damn games left. Absolutely right GnT!!
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Has there ever been a Power 5 program with a more massive burden to bear?
Penn St.
A moral burden for sure
O'Brien at Penn St. for sure. Some other coaches that have inherited bad/difficult situations in the last few years include Tucker (CU, then Michigan St.), Schiano (Rutgers), Bielema (Illinois), and Fleck (Minnesota). That's just in the Big Ten, and most of those coaches (too soon to tell with Bielema) have shown improvement and returned the programs to respectability by year 2.
Nebraska should have won the game. OU was fortunate NU couldn’t kick.
Do you have a problem with the truth. Fact is they dropped a spot because they played Nebraska. Take the blinders off.
why?
2nd worst win percentage in Nebraska football history.
NCAA Investigation under his watch
Undisciplined Teams
Recruiting misses
Poor Roster management
Terrible Special Team Play
Poor Scheme.
This is a tough one to call. Not sure 5wins will be convincing enough. Even for the fans. We seem to be on a high right now based on a close games with OU and winning 2 of 3 against our 3 easiest opponents of the year. This thrill and feeling of progress will disappear if we don’t win half of our next 8 to become bowl eligible. Since we already lost to Illinois…..only winning 3 conference games is likely to put us near the very bottom in the west standings.
I don't disagree but the optics are probably bad for TA to be firing SF his first year as AD. I just think SF will get another year regardless of results this season. Having said that if however there is entire implosion and we don't win another game (unlikely imo) then yea it could force the administrations hand. I've been very unhappy (along with many fans) at HCSF's progress but there is a glimmer of hope at the moment. Going to try and remain positive and let the season play out without dive bombing coach Frost. GBR
The eye test says more than than any analysis. This team the last three games has looked better than ANY game and ANY team I have seen since Frost got here. The defense has the ultimate bend-don't-break system, where we give up yards, but ultimately don't let the other team score. Our offense is starting to pick it up, and as the OL improves, so will the offense as a whole. We aren't going to start winning those close games overnight, but we are showing improvement in areas that have cost us games down the stretch, just a few more adjustments and a little bit more discipline will put us on the winning side of many of those games
OK what? You agree with him or snarky ok (I assume the latter as that is your MO). What items on his list are not accurate? When all of that is going on, then a coach is going to be on the hot seat even one named Scott Frost. The winning percentage alone is enough to put any coach on the hot seat.
I'm sure there's plenty. But I guess I'd ask you how you are defining a burden? And what makes Nebraska more extreme in your eyes?
Living in Austin, I can promise you the "burden" is tremendous here. UT has gone through four coaches since 2013 -- compared to NU's three. Herman was fired with 7-10 wins in each of his seasons, a bowl game every season, and finished ranked his last three.
If "burden" is defined as expectations/pressure to "win now," Nebraska is nowhere near the top.
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His performance during the first three years were terrible and he could justifiably have been fired. But he wasn't, so he's safe for the rest of the year.
NU was put in a bind on firing him, however, by the quick extension given to him for no discernible reason. I've never understood that. That much money does in fact talk.
And it says, hopefully, please get us to a bowl game this year and we can fake it from there.
So we'll see. If we can have an entirely different looking and acting team than we have had for his first three years, maybe we can get a break here and there and get to 6. And that will keep him in his chair, I think.
Sad, but it will. Getting to 6 wins with three gimmees is a fairly low bar, but the fan base will see great things in that. And the administration can reduce that big payout a bit.
So I'm not sure how hot the seat is under him. That's a lot of money to pay out. I suspect that we are still paying other coaches we fired, and we are not a rich school.
NU was put in a bind on firing him, however, by the quick extension given to him for no discernible reason. I've never understood that. That much money does in fact talk.
And it says, hopefully, please get us to a bowl game this year and we can fake it from there.
So we'll see. If we can have an entirely different looking and acting team than we have had for his first three years, maybe we can get a break here and there and get to 6. And that will keep him in his chair, I think.
Sad, but it will. Getting to 6 wins with three gimmees is a fairly low bar, but the fan base will see great things in that. And the administration can reduce that big payout a bit.
So I'm not sure how hot the seat is under him. That's a lot of money to pay out. I suspect that we are still paying other coaches we fired, and we are not a rich school.
