We could have easily been 8-4 last year if a fee more things fell into place. This years team appears to be much improved on both sides of the ball.
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This team has turned the corner
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We could have easily been 8-4 last year if a fee more things fell into place. This years team appears to be much improved on both sides of the ball.
I do agree with your assessment that the team seems to have turned the corner in terms of culture. It seems that the team is on board with Frost's plan (with the possible exception of the recent "extracurricular activities"). However, they just don't have the physical experience or "muscle memory", if you will, of winning at a high level. I think the "want to" is there, but the actual results haven't been realized yet. We certainly don't have the depth of a championship level team.
On the other hand, this is certainly NOT a 4-8 team. The way they finished 2018, I imagine they were the best 4-8 team in history. Keep in mind that the teams that finished with losing records 3 out of the last 4 years, had basically the same talent levels as the teams that won 9 or more games under Pelini in 2011-2014.
So, to make a long post just a little bit longer, things are not as bad as the Debbie Downers are saying, but it's not as great as the Kool-aid drinkers are saying either.
Most fans of losing teams say the same thing. Sure, the Huskers could have, but they didn't. They also won a game against Bethune Cookman.The games the Huskers lost easily could have been worse defeats, too. Some of the coaching decisions, turnovers, etc...were maddening. But facts are facts. There is no evidence yet, in training camp, that leads me to believe the Huskers are "much improved". It's all speculation at this point. We would like to think that being a year into both offense and defensive schemes should be better. I'm going to reserve judgement until the huskers actually play some of the B1G teams. Let's see how we do against them first before proclaiming "much improvement",
As Bill Parcells always said, "You are what your record says you are."
And I'm a firm believer in that. There are REASONS they lost those games folks think they should have won. NU was a 4-8 team last year. Period.
"Appears" is a scary word. Before last season started, our team was lifting a billion pounds and were so much bigger, stronger and faster....and the kids were buying in, and they were so improved...etc. Then we lost the first six games of the season.
As I stated, get through the first 4 games. We will have a better feel for how improved they are.
There are a lot of reasons we were 4-8 last year and most of them are gone. We have had the talent over the last 4 years to be a .700 team but instead we were losers. That culture and development are gone. Some fans are looking past last 4 years and some are hanging on to it. Nobody is wrong......I'm just expressing where I'm at on it.
Imo...development under Frost's staff is still something we dont really know about.
Agree! We’ll know better in year three and absolutely in year four!
I disagree that we don't really know anything. There are some key things that we do know.
1. He has a history of being able to develop talent. It is a short history but a very successful one at that.
2. He has publicly recognized the status of our past development so we KNOW what he is trying to do.
3. All reports from anyone close to the S&C situation have acknowledged the development that has taken place.
4. The overall confidence projected by the players is their comfort level has greatly increased.
Now I agree at this point much of some of this is subjective not withstanding 1 and 2. Those are proven. What we don't know is what the results of this development and the timetable for it will be in the short term.
I disagree, Scott's staff does not have a long history of developing an entire football feam. They had the talent in place (for that conference) at UCF when they took over. They simply needed the right quarterback for the job and a serious attitude adjustment. Coming to NU...and Scott has even admitted it, that this entire program needed an overhaul...and that starts with bringing in the right players. Next step is developing them for B1G play. In my honest opinion, that is a big TBD.
Not trying to be a downer...I'm just trying to look at this objectively, sans the rose colored glasses.
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I didn't know koolaid could be made any other way....
No longitudinal data for sure, but placing all those UCF guys in The League was no small thing at the end of the 2017 season. We also know that Scott develops QB's...his track record in that regard is well established.
