SBNation: Scott Frost is perfect for a possible Nebraska opening, but here’s who should be No. 2 on the list

[Enhance]

Eh, I'm not so sure.  Frost will be able to sell them on being the next Mariota.

Even Mariota wasn't a huge runner.  Only his senior year did he average more than 10 carries per game.  Before him, Darron Thomas averaged just over 4 carries per game his last year.  It's mostly been 8-10 carries per game for the QB.  I think Gebbia could handle 1-2 carries per quarter.

But does he have the skill set and interest in doing that? I don't know the answer and I don't think anyone could really say one way or the other, but my inclination is no, at least in the current way Frost is operating that offense. Perhaps he could tweak it to better suit a more pure passer.

 

[brophog]

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[brophog]

A large component of Frost's offense is that zone read option

Not really.  Tom Brady could run that offense. In fact, a lot of what the Patriots do is not that dissimilar. The number one thing both offenses want out of the QB is quick and decisive decision making. 

 

[irafreak]

There is no reason why we need to completely change once again the types of offensive players we need which would see yet another couple years of transition.

There is no reason why we can't run a power running offense similar to Wisconsin, MSU, Stanford...etc. here.  That would utilize many of the players we already have in the system. It would allow us to actually be able to have a passing game and not trying to use an RB as a 

...editing on this is too hard for me. 

 

[Enhance]

Not really.  Tom Brady could run that offense. In fact, a lot of what the Patriots do is not that dissimilar. The number one thing both offenses want out of the QB is quick and decisive decision making. 

Is this not zone read? Asking out of genuine curiosity. Maybe there's a different word for when they look like zone read and it's a pass play, but almost every single highlight from UCF this past weekend comes off of what looks like zone read or an option play. I also watched a quarter of the game live and they didn't run a lot of pure pass/run plays.

 

[Mavric]

I only see one play that is actually zone read there (at about the 2:00 mark).  The rest are supposed to look like zone read but they're not leaving anyone unblocked to read so it's a called handoff the whole way.  Even the one play that is a zone read is only barely a zone read - they don't block the DE on the left but they aren't really threatening him.  It looks to me like it's about a 95% chance that it's going to be a handoff - the only thing that would change it is if the DE chased hard at the snap but he'd have to run all the way across the formation in the backfield so it's not likely to happen.

 

[Enhance]

Ah. See, from a personal standpoint, if it looks like they're operating out of a lot of zone read (whether they're actually calling a design handoff or pass) I just refer to it that way. Perhaps there's a better way to phrase it.

 

[Mavric]

Ah. See, from a personal standpoint, if it looks like they're operating out of a lot of zone read (whether they're actually calling a design handoff or pass) I just refer to it that way. Perhaps there's a better way to phrase it.

I don't think it's that big of a deal.  The major difference is if you're not running the QB as much you don't really need that much of a running threat to run the offense.  Still have to have someone who can get some yards here and there so the defense still has to worry about it but they don't have to carry the offense with their legs.

 

[Dansker]

The Power Spread Option offense is where it's at now. I've seen teams run variations: Ohio State, Miss St., Penn St, Houston when Tom Herman was there.

Osborne I believe once said if he was coaching today he'd run something similar to what Urban Meyer had with Tim Tebow at Florida, Alex Smith at Utah.

Dan Mullen the HC at Miss St. was Meyer's OC @ Florida when they won NC's and was QB coach @ Utah with Meyer. Mullen favors the run over pass. He has got to be on our short list. Obviously he has a talent for finding good dual threat QB's if you've ever heard of Dak Prescott.

 

[BigRedBuster]

There is no reason why we need to completely change once again the types of offensive players we need which would see yet another couple years of transition.

There is no reason why we can't run a power running offense similar to Wisconsin, MSU, Stanford...etc. here.  That would utilize many of the players we already have in the system. It would allow us to actually be able to have a passing game and not trying to use an RB as a 

...editing on this is too hard for me. 

Not sure I understand this post. 

 

[irafreak]

Not sure I understand this post. 

I had a comment to your post. Then reread what you wrote and realized I read it wrong. Tried to edit it and it ended up deleting some of your quote too and I gave up trying to fix it. 

 

[Branno]

Not a big fan of the new mobile interface. Ended up making a new comment instead of editing. Sorry

 

[Branno]

Ignore this post. I read the splits wrong. 

 

[Saunders]

On Thursday, Nebraska fired athletic director Shawn Eichorst. The school didn’t bother making up reasons related to the university’s vision or the athletic department’s long-term goals — it basically just said “We’re tired of not being awesome at football.”

Eichorst’s lone hire in a major sport came when he fired Bo Pelini and replaced him with Mike Riley. He seemed to make a mistake of scope by honing in on the guy who was most unlike the last guy, not the one who might have the highest ceiling:


If Pelini's firing wasn't a surprise, Nebraska's replacement certainly was.

In Mike Riley, Nebraska elected to bring in a guy who a) is the opposite of Pelini in demeanor and b) only won more than nine games once in 14 years at Oregon State. The minuses (he won only 29 games in the last five years) and pluses (he won 70 games in 10 years at Oregon State ... just think of what he could do at a bigger program) of his hire were evident, and honestly, that makes it difficult to know what to expect. His friendly grandpa carriage means he will earn a level of goodwill that Pelini never did, and perhaps that means that on-the-field bar won't be as high.

Then again, Solich was a super-nice guy. He got dumped after averaging 9.7 wins. So forget that part.



Under Eichorst, Nebraska took interesting steps toward innovation. Perhaps most notably, NU became the first school to hire a full-time, full-department analytics director in Tucker Zeleny, who has slowly seen his role increase. But innovation only means so much if you bomb your lone football hire.

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/9/22/16346606/nebraska-football-coach-scott-frost-ken-damn-niumatalolo

 

[The Dude]

You shouldn't hire an inexperienced coach.  You shouldn't hire a .500 coach.

Unless they're both of those things because they cancel each other out.