Direction of the Program

How Confident are you in the Direction of the Program?

  • Very Confident - we will be a Playoff team within 4 years

    Votes: 11 10.0%
  • Somewhat Confident - We will compete in the CCG & maybe win one within 4 years

    Votes: 77 70.0%
  • Status Quo - Past results are predictors of future performance

    Votes: 10 9.1%
  • Very Unconfident: There is nothing that gives me hope that we will ever be a top 30 team much less t

    Votes: 12 10.9%

  • Total voters
    110
Voted: Yes and competing/winning the Big 10 in 4 years.

Pros:

-Coaches talked about rugby style tackling change and it showed in the Spring Game.

-Staff has been creative in using social media to recruit and so far it appears to be paying off.

-Mike Riley seems candid in interviews about what when wrong last year and what they need to change this year; in other words, no generic coach speech.

-We have an up in coming coach at WR Coach.

-Cautiously optimistic about the direction of our O-line

Concerns:

-Who the hell is going to step up at DE?

-I'm still not sure about Banker yet.

-Bruce Reed still boggles my mind at that salary.

-Solid production from the TEs, paging Mr. Carter.

-Can Tommy trade boom or bust for solid quarterly production?

-Will the staff get 8 wins this regular season and a bowl victory? We don't need it for absolute success, but anything less would kill the momentum alive via recruiting right now.

 
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How was cm husker able to vote 3 times already?
Aaaaaand there it is....
So RDR has finally admitted he is cm's best bud/doppelganger.
I've known that for quite a while.
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A losing season was tough too take, especially given losses to bottom dwellers like Purdue. Last year was a major step back. Maybe we are in the right direction now, but we traveled a great distance in the wrong direction last year.

Reasons for hope:

The coaches talk like TA will run more

DPE will be back

New DL coach

Reasons for despair:

Two DL drafted

Lost most of the OL

Lost the best FB in a generation, and maybe of all time

 
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A losing season was tough too take, especially given losses to bottom dwellers like Purdue. Last year was a major step back. Maybe we are in the right direction now, but we traveled a great distance in the wrong direction last year.

Reasons for hope:

The coaches talk like TA will run more

DPE will be back

New DL coach

Reasons for despair:

Two DL drafted

Lost most of the OL

Lost the best FB in a generation, and maybe of all time
Took a big step back? We didnt win our division which isnt much of a difference from most years since the 90s

 
A losing season was tough too take, especially given losses to bottom dwellers like Purdue. Last year was a major step back. Maybe we are in the right direction now, but we traveled a great distance in the wrong direction last year.

Reasons for hope:

The coaches talk like TA will run more

DPE will be back

New DL coach

Reasons for despair:

Two DL drafted

Lost most of the OL

Lost the best FB in a generation, and maybe of all time
Took a big step back? We didnt win our division which isnt much of a difference from most years since the 90s
We didn't win a national championship last year either, which isn't different from any season since 1997, so I guess everything else has been the same since then too?
By that reasoning, if we had gone winless last year, that is merely equivalent to not winning our division, so no difference, eh?

 
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If being "very confident" in the direction of the program means a playoff team within four seasons, then we just don't want to be not disappointed.

 
I voted very confident. The reason is simple, I like the direction our recruiting is going. I'd be ecstatic if we made the playoffs in four years.

 
A losing season was tough too take, especially given losses to bottom dwellers like Purdue. Last year was a major step back. Maybe we are in the right direction now, but we traveled a great distance in the wrong direction last year.

Reasons for hope:

The coaches talk like TA will run more

DPE will be back

New DL coach

Reasons for despair:

Two DL drafted

Lost most of the OL

Lost the best FB in a generation, and maybe of all time
Took a big step back? We didnt win our division which isnt much of a difference from most years since the 90s
We didn't win a national championship last year either, which isn't different from any season since 1997, so I guess everything else has been the same since then too?
By that reasoning, if we had gone winless last year, that is merely equivalent to not winning our division, so no difference, eh?
I love the take it to the extreme to attempt to discredit a post logic. You know exactly what i was saying ya dingle berry

 
1-5 in division. Setting up for another trainwreck of a season.

Riley is a career .500 coach for a reason.
wouldn't a .500 coach get 3-3?

i have a lot more confidence in our guys than you have. last years transition from Bo to Mike was a lot rougher than expected....but it sure looked like it was coming together at the end of the season. add in what seems like great recruiting and it seems to me that we are heading in the right direction. how well this year? i am not sure...but i will say easily much better than your prediction.

 
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