How much actual practice have they seen? And second, nobody knows if the OL is strong or is our D-line just that weak?
They got a 20 min session last week, I believe that's been the only media access this spring.
So their opinion is based on 20 minutes that they observed plus reading between the lines on quotes that have been made at press conferences.
We have no talent
Right you are. Spot on. You think recruits, and portal players do not notice the lack of players we send to the NFL combine, or have drafted? You think other schools do not use this against us? Just look at what happened to Key and Spindler. Both were 2nd to early 3rd round guys in the mock drafts last Sept-Oct. Now they are off the radar completely. NU is where NFL carriers go to die now. All this leads back to what I have been saying, that we need to take a long hard look at our S & C program. Better position coaches, which I think we now have, will also help. Unless and until we get better, WAY BETTER at player development this is where we will be. Just spending NIL funds, hoping to buy a team is not sustainable here. We do not have a Cuban, Phil Knight, or rich oil men to dump loads of cash on us.
The two coaches aren't anything alike. And pause for a second to realize what you are saying ... you are hoping that Rhule can catch mojo in order to get to grand total of 8 wins.
Nebraska was never successful doing what 'everyone else did'.. it seems we have only been successful when we do something unique to get an edge. I want to see running back u again, but whatever the heck it is, someone needs a vision and ability to start stacking up a few edges here.
Coleandra seems to be a true dual threat QB. He could be an exciting player. He is also, however, prone to turnovers. Hard to believe that will magically change in his senior year. My thinking therefore is that he will both thrill us and kill us this year. And given our pathetic running back room and our sad lack of talent on the defensive line, I expect this to be a rinse, cycle, and repeat failure of a season.
agree about the turnovers.. hope that doesn't become a big issue, but the fan base has lived with a lot of turnovers before.. when we were successful, we were also very turnover prone.. I'm expecting something similar to Taylor Martinez.
8 wins with this years schedule would be a good year. Yes my expectations are low historically for the program but IMO that is where we are at. Ruhle better catch something fast to avoid the trainwreck that this year's schedule might dole out.
Ummm. Devaney did what everybody else did and it worked. He just did it better. The new and unique offense of that day was OU’s wishbone. Even Tom took a number of years to morph our limited option game in to what he did in the 90s. A lot of what Tom did early on was WCO based with I formation option sprinkled in.
8 wins with our schedule would be a very good year. I don’t see it happening. I’m guessing it’s a 6 win season.
