Northwestern: What did we learn?

Guy Chamberlin said:
Frost's onside kick call was so ill-timed, poorly executed and bound to reflect badly on the coach it almost makes you wonder........

Is he just in f-it mode? 

I"m of the opinion that had Frost not made that call, Northwestern would still have found a way to win, and Nebraska a way to lose.

Scott may have thought the same thing. 
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He’s not in F-it mode.  His comment when hired that the B1G will change to fit his style was on full display.

He lacks vision.  He doesn’t see the problems. There is a culture and leadership problem in the program and it’s him.  He can sell a used car (we have talent that he got here), but the car he sold is a beater.

I also agree though that NW would have found a way to win.

 
It's really important to watch this game in the same context as the 3-9 season.

This team is capable of coming out with focus and discipline. They have good talent and good schemes and good results. They are never out of the game against supposedly better talent, and always have multiple opportunities to right the ship against lesser opponents.

Other teams always make better in-game adjustments than the Husker coaching staff, but there Nebraska is in the fourth quarter, still with a chance to win, still running plays that worked perfectly well a quarter or so ago. And they just fall apart. They know they're going to fall apart. By now we do, too. The body language says it all.

Can a single head coach change this overnight, or at least in a first season?

Yes, The good ones do it all the time. 

 
lo country said:
Bielima is a better coach than Frost.  So is Schiano......I thought Frost would have been let go last year.  I hoped/thought we'd be better in game 1 year 5......Not so much.  
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall when some of these opposing coaches talk about Nebraska.

The gloves are off.  The theme is not "Beat Nebraska", it's "Wait for Nebraska to beat themselves".

I always remember all the coaches saying "Mike Riley is such a nice guy".  I always heard, in my head, "Easy Win".

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Do you know who might have tried that onside kick? Scott Frost's mentor, Chip Kelly. Except his would have been executed with speed and cunning and probably would have been successful, and had it failed Oregon would still have won by 17.
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That is mostly where that little disaster nugget was conceptualized. Very insightful 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Frost's onside kick call was so ill-timed, poorly executed and bound to reflect badly on the coach it almost makes you wonder........

Is he just in f-it mode? 

I"m of the opinion that had Frost not made that call, Northwestern would still have found a way to win, and Nebraska a way to lose.

Scott may have thought the same thing. 
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He’s on the take I’m telling you! 

 
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