Huskers To Hire Tyler Yelk As Safties Coach

[Captkenny]

I’m glad Yelk is onboard and am confident he’ll outlast the previous guy.

Just trying to get this…

Me too. I hope he is not only good at X’s and O’s, but has the ability to motivate young men to get better and better; like an Ekeler, but with more commitment to improving this program. .

 

[Husker In Oklahoma]

Aw shucks. You’re making me blush. But there is no way I could be a coach at that level. I, unlike some folks, know my limitations. However, I do have a healthy respect for those who take on that challenge and then receive criticism from people who underestimate or simply can’t comprehend the magnitude of the task. I don’t know if MR will ultimately have the formula for taking Nebraska to the heights that fans want, but I do believe one has to look at the entire picture when evaluating his efforts. That includes evaluating players as well as coaches. I feel the players, including age and injuries, actually do play a significant role in the failure or success of a program.

Of course they play a role. The better question is, why is it Nebraska constantly preforms at a level far below its talent level? Name one other program in the power 4, that continuously preforms well below its metrics? Nebraska does less with more, better than anyone else out there. Why? All I ever read on here, is excuses for it. Teams all over the country, do far better than NU, with far less than NU. Why?

 

[Husker In Oklahoma]

You keep calling Dannen an idiot and should be fired for one single decision that you don’t even know if it’s a bad decision. Everything in Nebraska athletics has improved or continued to excel under him to INCLUDE Nebraska football. We have the best coach we have had in almost 15 years and he gave him an extension that you don’t agree with. You don’t even know if it’s a bad decision yet but as usual, you represent your opinion as being a fact. And you got nothing but zero results of any of your opinions working out as factual. You don’t even know if DR will spend the season on the bench but you are armed with that opinion as your “fact” to criticize and trying to be right. Well your track record is ZERO.

Didn’t NU just fire a coach at 19-19 recently? Seems they did. If you think it was cool to give an extension to a .500 coach with FIVE YEARS ALREADY REMAINING, you are a total dummy. It wasn’t necessary to set the program back even further. Why not let it play out? Why? He wasn’t going anywhere. His teams horrible play said as much. Seems to me it’s just good common sense. Yes, he is a total idiot. It was absolutely stupid, and I said so at the time.

 

[Husker In Oklahoma]

Apples and oranges. Of course we can expect to compete with Minnesota and every other team in the B1G. But that is a different question than whether we have the players ready and capable of doing so. Some say we do have all the talent we need and we just need to keep firing coaches to see the fruits of that talent. But people have said that so many times and we have tried it so many times, it does make one question that rationale.

Whose fault is it NU doesn’t have the players to compete? It’s year 3. Whose fault is that? Maybe NU should stop making bad hires? Maybe someone needs to think outside the box a bit? I admit, I thought Rhule was a better coach than this. However, watching this team on gameday has proved that notion wrong. He’s a great speaker though, I’ll give him that. The Eskimo’s just called and ordered 10 tons of ice from him. He’s damn good.

 

[Hville]

Double post

 

[Hville]

Didn’t NU just fire a coach at 19-19 recently? Seems they did. If you think it was cool to give an extension to a .500 coach with FIVE YEARS ALREADY REMAINING, you are a total dummy. It wasn’t necessary to set the program back even further. Why not let it play out? Why? He wasn’t going anywhere. His teams horrible play said as much. Seems to me it’s just good common sense. Yes, he is a total idiot. It was absolutely stupid, and I said so at the time.

You don’t know that it’s a bad decision. That’s the point that so many posters notice. You call everyone idiots and stupid because they don’t agree with your prediction. None of your coveted sure fire truthful predictions have come through yet. Only the opposite. So far everything Dannen has done has worked out. And you think he should be fired because you predict something else.

Adding two more years to a coach whom at the time was 6-2 and had us ranked for the first time in years wasn’t that big of a deal. It might end up being a great deal because we upped the buyout. The majority of the fans didn’t want to lose Matt Rhule to Penn State and blamed the rumors around his departure as the reason for the Minnesota loss.

A few days after the loss. We lose our starting quarterback in the third quarter against a ranked opponent with the lead. We are legitimately looking at 9-3.

But either way Rhule is showing progression over your last 19-19 coach that you want to compare to. Rhule didn’t digress going 4-8 in his last season.

 

[bigggbrutis]

so about the new coach, i like the fact that he has a lot of experience.. Should be beneficial for all of DC's staff to be on the same page..

 

[NorthwoodHusker]

Yep great Nebraska fan. You know only one thing criticism of players and coaches and any fans that don’t believe you. You aren’t even a Nebraska fan. Total fake. Just on here to troll and put your occasional Oklahoma State compliments. Heck you’ve thrown more compliments to them than you have to Nebraska. The entire board seems you as fake news.

He sounds like a Iowa fan

 

[Husker In Oklahoma]

You don’t know that it’s a bad decision. That’s the point that so many posters notice. You call everyone idiots and stupid because they don’t agree with your prediction. None of your coveted sure fire truthful predictions have come through yet. Only the opposite. So far everything Dannen has done has worked out. And you think he should be fired because you predict something else.

Adding two more years to a coach whom at the time was 6-2 and had us ranked for the first time in years wasn’t that big of a deal. It might end up being a great deal because we upped the buyout. The majority of the fans didn’t want to lose Matt Rhule to Penn State and blamed the rumors around his departure as the reason for the Minnesota loss.

A few days after the loss. We lose our starting quarterback in the third quarter against a ranked opponent with the lead. We are legitimately looking at 9-3.

But either way Rhule is showing progression over your last 19-19 coach that you want to compare to. Rhule didn’t digress going 4-8 in his last season.

One thing I agree with you on is I hope you’re right. I’m tired of losing. I’m not seeing legit progress. I’m glad you are. We are far apart. Fair enough.

 

[Captkenny]

Of course they play a role. The better question is, why is it Nebraska constantly preforms at a level far below its talent level? Name one other program in the power 4, that continuously preforms well below its metrics? Nebraska does less with more, better than anyone else out there. Why? All I ever read on here, is excuses for it. Teams all over the country, do far better than NU, with far less than NU. Why?

I haven’t seen data on that. I refuse to draw conclusions based on your feelings about how well all other power 4 programs do in comparison to their “talent”.

Having said that, I remember debunking this argument during the Pelini era. I went though average recruiting rankings for his tenure and compared it to end of season rankings. His teams over performed the class rank metric. Even during SF’s era, the class rank metric was flawed since 40% of his first several classes left without providing any meaningful input to the program. What good is a top 15 class if almost half of the class leaves?

Fast forward to today and recruiting class metrics are even less meaningful. There is so much movement in and out of programs that using recruiting class rankings as a yardstick of expectation is nonsensical.

Does DR really count in our calculation now that he is at Oregon?

 

[Captkenny]

Whose fault is it NU doesn’t have the players to compete? It’s year 3. Whose fault is that? Maybe NU should stop making bad hires? Maybe someone needs to think outside the box a bit? I admit, I thought Rhule was a better coach than this. However, watching this team on gameday has proved that notion wrong. He’s a great speaker though, I’ll give him that. The Eskimo’s just called and ordered 10 tons of ice from him. He’s damn good.

I’m chalking this up as a win. You are conceding that we may not have the Jimmy’s and the Joe’s right now. I would clarify that we may have many of them, but age in college football is a real thing. An 18 year old may not be the same as a 23 year old, no matter how much potential talent they have.

But to answer your question, the coaches are responsible for every aspect of the program, whether something is their fault or not. But some things are within the control of coaches and some things are not. What i expect from coaches is that they learn from their mistakes and correct them. If there is anything Nebraska fans should have learned is the solution to every problem may not be firing coaches. Sometimes that MIGHT be the solution, as it seemed to be with SF. At some point, the situation becomes so toxic that it will impact potential recruiting. But firing can’t be seen as a substitute for actual program evaluation. It is counter productive to signal to the world that your coach is on the way out the door.

 

[Hville]

One thing I agree with you on is I hope you’re right. I’m tired of losing. I’m not seeing legit progress. I’m glad you are. We are far apart. Fair enough

You are a keyboard warrior. You are looking for self-justification. I’m just a Nebraska fan. I will turn on a guy like Matt Rhule if the facts support it. I did it with Scott Frost. But you are just providing untruths to support your negative keyboard warrior position.
Reality is……if Nebraska won the national championship next year you wouldn’t even be around t know it. You would move on to your next troll board.

 

[PasadenaHusker]

You should be a coach. you’re so smart. All you ever do, is make excuses to fit your BS.

 

[Husker In Oklahoma]

I’m chalking this up as a win. You are conceding that we may not have the Jimmy’s and the Joe’s right now. I would clarify that we may have many of them, but age in college football is a real thing. An 18 year old may not be the same as a 23 year old, no matter how much potential talent they have.

But to answer your question, the coaches are responsible for every aspect of the program, whether something is their fault or not. But some things are within the control of coaches and some things are not. What i expect from coaches is that they learn from their mistakes and correct them. If there is anything Nebraska fans should have learned is the solution to every problem may not be firing coaches. Sometimes that MIGHT be the solution, as it seemed to be with SF. At some point, the situation becomes so toxic that it will impact potential recruiting. But firing can’t be seen as a substitute for actual program evaluation. It is counter productive to signal to the world that your coach is on the way out the door.

Indeed guess we will see if they learn, or not.

 

[Husker In Oklahoma]

You are a keyboard warrior. You are looking for self-justification. I’m just a Nebraska fan. I will turn on a guy like Matt Rhule if the facts support it. I did it with Scott Frost. But you are just providing untruths to support your negative keyboard warrior position.
Reality is……if Nebraska won the national championship next year you wouldn’t even be around t know it. You would move on to your next troll board.

I’d be right here. NU football has been in my blood for 54 years now. So dont tell me what a fan is, or isn’t. It’s been my entire life. I just don’t sugarcoat things like you, and others do. NU isn’t winning even the BIG next year. Rhule is probably in the 12-18 range of coaches in the BIG. Can he get better? I suppose it’s possible, but seeing his gameday buffoons, I’m not expecting it. Call it whatever you want, but to think Matt Rhule is a great coach, is nonsense as of now.