"We've got a chance to get reset next week," Frost said. "This is a really good (Michigan) team we played. We get a game that we can win next week.
If that's what qualifies as bulletin board material, we as a society need to get better at insulting people's mamas and the like. I'm not sure how saying you get a game you can win a game is supposed to trigger your opponent.Well, it's certainly not a huge slight... Purdue is 1-3 with a bad loss to EMU.
But it's clearly them saying that Purdue is "just Purdue". Michigan's a real football team. But Purdue is a half-step above the MAC, so Nebraska is just supposed to dominate?Ya your team should want it anyway it's just I can see Steve Spurrier somewhere thinking damn why didn't I think of that
I certainly agree, but not with the bold part
But it's clearly them saying that Purdue is "just Purdue". Michigan's a real football team. But Purdue is a half-step above the MAC, so Nebraska is just supposed to dominate?
I certainly agree, but not with the bold part
I think perhaps, "Nebraska is supposed to be able to compete"
and yet Frost didn't even say dominate, or whoop, or handle, or anything. He said they play an opponent and can win a football game. Others would be choosing to interpret that as a slight against Purdue. Perhaps Vegas is slighting Purdue with a -3 line?
"I think that obviously he was talking after a loss that he didn't like very much," Brohm said. "So I get it. But no, I think everything that's said is heard, and our team needs to respond and understand that we've got to show up ready to play and this team will be licking their chops trying to get us."He's basically saying we've gotta be ready to play, because we know they're going to be ready to play.
UNL has an Akron replacement scheduled.My mistake, sorry I hadn't seen that. That said, I'm not sure that it changes my prediction much. If they don't beat Purdue at home this weekend I think that 5-7 would be unlikely and 6-6 would be nearly impossible.
| Purdue Boilermakers (0-1, 1-3) at Nebraska Cornhuskers (0-1, 0-3) |
| 3:30 - Lincoln, NE - BTN |
| Purdue got that monkey off their back in a major way, with a decisive home win over what had been a red hot Boston College team. Winning the game, even by the margin they did, was surprising, but what was shocking was how well the defense, which had been struggling, was able to shut down the Eagles' offense, which was just rolling over teams. Granted, after seeing Wake Forest lay another egg on defense last week, leading to the firing of their defensive coordinator, maybe there was a little bit of fool's gold there. But the Boiler defense was smothering. They held BC to just 229 yards of total offense, forced 2 turnovers, and they only got to double digits in points with a garbage time touchdown against the backups in the final minute. Anthony Brown had as bad a stat line as you'll see all season, 13-27 for 96 yards, a touchdown, 4 interceptions, and -22 rushing yards. Purdue had a plan, stuff A.J. Dillon, and force Boston College to throw from behind. The plan was obvious enough, but executing it was a taller task, with Dillon as tough a back to stop as there is in the nation. They held him to just 59 yards on 19 carries, his worst game since his second game on campus, when he was still a backup. It's a different animal this week, trying to shut down the mobile Adrian Martinez. Michigan has the talent to make a lot of offensive lines look bad, but Nebraska's looks particularly undermanned right now. Between passes and rushes, Martinez's plays totaled 10 yards on 22 plays. The Huskers didn't top the 100 yard mark in total offense until there was 6:20 left in the game. Turning the tide starts with doing a much better job controlling the trenches. Martinez has the ability to turn a small hole into a big play, but he's not even getting that right now. Right now, Frost's offense can't work with this line, and for the moment Andrew Bunch, who looks to be a better passer right now, may be the better option to just try and let the wideouts make a couple of plays. But it's clear Nebraska isn't playing for the moment, and nobody is suggesting the prudent move is to pull Martinez. Whatever game reps he gets now will be more valuable towards competing for conference championships in 2020 and beyond, than picking up an extra win in 2018. But getting those extra bowl practices would do this team a world of good, and with trips remaining to Madison, Evanston, Columbus and Iowa City, it's clear that every home game is a must win to keep any such hopes alive. While the Purdue pass defense showed up last week, passing on them, has been the way to beat them. It wasn't just shutting down Dillon that announced their run defense was legit, they were already a top 5 run defense in the conference based on yards per carry. Weird stat, Purdue has yet to collect a road win against any of the Big Ten newbies. They are 1-7 in Happy Valley since Penn State joined the conference. They are also 0-4 in Minneapolis since TCF Bank Stadium opened. That makes them a combined 1-15 in the five newest conference venues. I think they are due for 2-15. |
| PURDUE 31, NEBRASKA 24 |
The great coaches can adapt their system to the players on the roster. UFM inherited a 6-7 Tressel ball team and won the next 24 games.UFM inherited
Were I a Nebraska fan, I'd find the square peg/round hole approach to be a tad concerning. He should at least be able to get as much out of this team as did Mike Riley.
I mean even Hoke won 11 games in year one by running the Rich Rod offense.Look at RR’s sched that year though. Opened with 5 straight home games. Notre Dame, Nebraska and Ohio State at home. No Penn State, no Russell Wilson-led Wisconsin. Lost @ Sparty and Iowa.
Rich Rod tried the square peg/round hole thing and it was not quite this big of a mess, but it was close.
UFM inheritedI'm no recruitnik, but those numbers don't look all that impressive. Guys in the 200s? There was only like 120-some odd teams. OSU had to start their FB at MLB for most of the season, and the Defense was horrendous.
QB rated No. 29 player in his class with starting experience
RB who was a 4-star, No. 227 player in his class
WRs were No. 113 and 286 in their classes (Devin Smith the lower rated one)
TE who was the No. 78 prospect in his class, though he probably never played quite to that level
OL was Nos. 113, 82, 199, 114, 418
DL was 188, 324, 80, 231, backed up by 49, 19 and 5. (Some of those backups are freshmen Urbs brought in)
LB was 106, 786/272, 24
DB was 650 (Roby), 140, 102, 157
So the starting lineup included 18 top-300 kids. To have such a 6-7 team. (The real tressel ball limitation would've been the QB, and Miller kind of solved that)
Sure the schedule might have set up well, but that's not the reason that he won 11 games. He won 11 games because he ran the Rich Rod offense while shoring up the defense. He probably didn't love running that offense, but you play the cards you're dealt.Its probably more tempting to deal with running somebody else's offense with it scored 426 points the year before, and returned an all-conference candidate at QB. None of that applies to Frost.
Look at RR’s sched that year though. Opened with 5 straight home games. Notre Dame, Nebraska and Ohio State at home. No Penn State, no Russell Wilson-led Wisconsin. Lost @ Sparty and Iowa.RR went 3-9 that first year... Carr went 11-2 the year before. it took RR 3 years to have a winning record at Michigan. And really, that 4th year, his system worked very well. The change doesn't happen overnight.
The next year they go to Notre Dame, Nebraska and Ohio State…lost all three. Opened with Alabama at JerryWorld instead of Western Michigan at home. Finished 8-5.
Better than 0-4 for sure, but still.
I'm no recruitnik, but those numbers don't look all that impressive. Guys in the 200s? There was only like 120-some odd teams. OSU had to start their FB at MLB for most of the season, and the Defense was horrendous.In the 200s for the entire recruiting class, not for their position. I think generally the top 300 is usually considered to be the "4*" cutoff, so basically he had a team full of 4* players with probably the occasional 5* sprinkled in.
RR went 3-9 that first year... Carr went 11-2 the year before. it took RR 3 years to have a winning record at Michigan. And really, that 4th year, his system worked very well. The change doesn't happen overnight.That was supposed to be Hoke, not RR.
The great coaches can adapt their system to the players on the roster. UFM inherited a 6-7 Tressel ball team and won the next 24 games.I think it is important to put this in perspective. That 2011 Ohio State team lost seven games:
I'm no recruitnik, but those numbers don't look all that impressive. Guys in the 200s? There was only like 120-some odd teams. OSU had to start their FB at MLB for most of the season, and the Defense was horrendous.What bwarbiany said
I'm not suggesting that Nebraska would win ten games by playing the system that these guys were recruited for. But they might take a small step forward and flirt with a bowl game. Get those much needed extra practices.As entropy said, circumstances matter. Do you come into a job as the HC/OC with of one of the nation’s best offenses in your back pocket, and toss that all aside in favor of a clunky pro-style attack- that had done nothing but sputter for three years, and was short on personnel at key positions- on the hopes that you might make a bowl game? No.
Instead we have a gigantic step backwards that will likely result in record setting futility.
Where did "zero chance of being competitive against FBS competition" come from? That is silly hyperbole.have you met Brutus?
The Huskers beat Purdue last year. Got their butts kicked this year. (Speaking of Purdue, Brohm stepped into a much worse situation, with a lot more success.) Nebraska beat the Illini last year. Probably not gonna happen this year.The Huskers kicked their own butts last Saturday, weren't over matched by the Boilers. I think there's a better than decent chance the Huskers beat Illinois.
These players didn't pick Frost. Frost picked them. Running a system where they have no chance of having even a halfway decent season is not fair to the seniors that stuck with the program through thick and thin, imo.
No argument there.
Hiring Riley wasn't fair to the Seniors.
(Speaking of Purdue, Brohm stepped into a much worse situation, with a lot more success.)Brohm did step into a bad situation. But he had a few key areas of strength: