In the Pelini era I went to a lot of games. This is not a thread to bash Pelini. What I saw over that era and the MR era was a team that got pushed around. We had a soft defensive philosophy, we were weak in the trenches and we didn't tackle or block particularly well. We saw plenty of problems with discipline. Heck, half of Pelini's teams could not even line up correctly. When Frost came I thought the turn around would be fast. It kind of has been.
We now have a team that can compete with almost anyone. We are solid in the trenches, generally attack the ball and tackle well. Regardless of what anyone says, believe it or not we are sitting at a top 25 offense. Even given our warts we continue to amass yardage. Yes discipline is an issue. That has to be corrected. Yes, special teams is atrocious. That has to be corrected. But SF needs to be given more opportunities to correct the problems. We are a special teams improvement away from being a top 15 team right now, and sitting at 5-0. Instead, discipline and ST have us below .500. If you think SF is ok with this, you are kidding yourself.
After Illinois I had lost all faith in our coaches. Even after the loss yesterday, I realize we are a great team in some phases and a horrible team in others.
If you fire SF right now, you might get a better ST. But what the last 4 coaches have taught me is that there is not a guarantee the other phases will be better. Nebraska wanted to fire TO at some point. What would have happened had we done that? Frost is close to being a nationally competitive team again. That is not going to happen with 90% of the available hiring opportunities. In fact, only Chris Peterson would be an upgrade.
Everyone wants Chins to stay. Thus summer this forum was full of people claiming he was part of the problem. NOW he is sooooo good. Nope, he was always good but some posters are very short sighted. Alert, if we fire SF we lose Chins too. If we want this to work in the long run, we have to give him a chance to fix the ST. If he can't get it together, then I agree. He has to go. But the turnaround we have seen on Defense and in 2/3 of the phases of the game, has been remarkable.
We now have a team that can compete with almost anyone. We are solid in the trenches, generally attack the ball and tackle well. Regardless of what anyone says, believe it or not we are sitting at a top 25 offense. Even given our warts we continue to amass yardage. Yes discipline is an issue. That has to be corrected. Yes, special teams is atrocious. That has to be corrected. But SF needs to be given more opportunities to correct the problems. We are a special teams improvement away from being a top 15 team right now, and sitting at 5-0. Instead, discipline and ST have us below .500. If you think SF is ok with this, you are kidding yourself.
After Illinois I had lost all faith in our coaches. Even after the loss yesterday, I realize we are a great team in some phases and a horrible team in others.
If you fire SF right now, you might get a better ST. But what the last 4 coaches have taught me is that there is not a guarantee the other phases will be better. Nebraska wanted to fire TO at some point. What would have happened had we done that? Frost is close to being a nationally competitive team again. That is not going to happen with 90% of the available hiring opportunities. In fact, only Chris Peterson would be an upgrade.
Everyone wants Chins to stay. Thus summer this forum was full of people claiming he was part of the problem. NOW he is sooooo good. Nope, he was always good but some posters are very short sighted. Alert, if we fire SF we lose Chins too. If we want this to work in the long run, we have to give him a chance to fix the ST. If he can't get it together, then I agree. He has to go. But the turnaround we have seen on Defense and in 2/3 of the phases of the game, has been remarkable.