Should we fire Satterfield??

RedDenver said:
This is wrong. Satterfield changed his offense to adapt to using running QBs. He ran the option and some option passes too. It was when the opponents stacked the box and stopped the running game that he was forced to try throwing to win.

I have no care if Satterfield is kept or fired, but let's try to at least be somewhat accurate on the situation.
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I think both Rhule and Satterfield can take some heat for hanging their first season at Nebraska on the shoulders of hand-picked portal transfer Jeff Sims. They did manage to get a tick better when they pivoted to average dual threat QB Heinrich Haarberg, and by the end of the season you started to wonder if marginally better passer Chubba Purdy might have worked better all along. The whole season felt improvised while the coaches waited for defining talent to emerge, and that never happened. I expected one RB to break out of the pack this year, but that hasn't happened. Satterfield's offense still runs more than it passes, even as Raiola is getting 8 yards per attempt to the 4.0 of our running backs.

Still, it's a bit galling to see Brian Buschini completing 100% of his passes with an average of 30 yards per attempt, and Stubborn Satt sticking with Raiola as QB. 

 
Husker in WI said:
I'd still say the majority of our late game meltdowns came down to players making mistakes, not bad calls. I definitely don't like every call he's ever made, but most of the time when rewatching it's clear why he called it and how it should have worked. The players not executing still comes back to the coaches, and they essentially recruited over every skill position and QB we had from last year.

It's still far from a great offense, but it's a lot better and I expect it to continue to improve. It would not bother me in the lsightest if Satterfield left, but I don't see any reason to fire him. And finding an OC in alignment with the HC's game management style is important to Rhule, it's not like we'd go out and try to hire the OC from the top scoring G5 team. 
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I agree with most of this. I have expressed previously that I believe there is room for Satterfield in some capacity, just not running the offense. I believe there is an upgrade out there who can do more than just draw up and call plays.

 
Husker in WI said:
I'd still say the majority of our late game meltdowns came down to players making mistakes, not bad calls. I definitely don't like every call he's ever made, but most of the time when rewatching it's clear why he called it and how it should have worked. The players not executing still comes back to the coaches, and they essentially recruited over every skill position and QB we had from last year.

It's still far from a great offense, but it's a lot better and I expect it to continue to improve. It would not bother me in the lsightest if Satterfield left, but I don't see any reason to fire him. And finding an OC in alignment with the HC's game management style is important to Rhule, it's not like we'd go out and try to hire the OC from the top scoring G5 team. 
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players not executing is always going to be an issue.  That being said, in 5 of our 6 games we've been borderline lifeless offensively in the 2nd half.  We get too vanilla and play it safe.

Luckily we are 5-1 right now but as it stands today, I don't see us beating indiana and certainly not ohio state if we're only going to play one half of sound football offensively.  Fans seem to be ok with it but i think that's due to the fact we're comparing it to last years team which had the worst offense in progrum history.  We have way too many playmakers at our disposal to be getting shutout consistently in the 2nd half.  Good coaches make adjustments at half- we are a s#!tty 2nd half team

 
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Savage Husker said:
I beg to differ.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/323282294
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Congratulations on finding one case where it actually happened! I stand corrected. Nebraska ran a bunch of wildcat with Rex Burkhead and did end up running the ball on 79% of plays.

Let's dig into this further. So could Satterfield have done this last year? Of course he could have. But would it have worked like it did in Burkhead wildcat game? Nope. Burkhead was WAY better than any RB that Sat had available to him. Not to mention Ameer Abdullah. Two backs who were much better than anyone Sat had last year or this year. So who is Sat going to use in that wildcat role? Haarberg is actually the best choice, which is essentially what did happen.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
I think both Rhule and Satterfield can take some heat for hanging their first season at Nebraska on the shoulders of hand-picked portal transfer Jeff Sims.
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I agree. There's a debate on how much of that falls on Satterfield. But I'm responding to Satterfield is a bad play caller, which is a separate issue.

 
gossamorharpy said:
players not executing is always going to be an issue.  That being said, in 5 of our 6 games we've been borderline lifeless offensively in the 2nd half.  We get too vanilla and play it safe.
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He was calling plays that got primary receivers open and Raiola wasn't throwing it to them.

I'm not saying there aren't things that can be better.  But when you have to ignore obvious things that have been pointed out to reach your conclusion, it doesn't carry much weight.

 
Mavric said:
He was calling plays that got primary receivers open and Raiola wasn't throwing it to them.

I'm not saying there aren't things that can be better.  But when you have to ignore obvious things that have been pointed out to reach your conclusion, it doesn't carry much weight.
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Im not sure what the bolded means or what you're referring to, kinda reads like a borderline passive aggressive response for zero reason but i digress.  Kudos to you for once again being a shining example on the innocent and healthy exchange we're trying to have on this board  :blink:

QBs miss open guys all the time- even if its truly just DR missing wide open guys, why does it seem to be occurring a lot more in the 2nd half than the 1st.  

 
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RedDenver said:
Congratulations on finding one case where it actually happened! I stand corrected. Nebraska ran a bunch of wildcat with Rex Burkhead and did end up running the ball on 79% of plays.

Let's dig into this further. So could Satterfield have done this last year? Of course he could have. But would it have worked like it did in Burkhead wildcat game? Nope. Burkhead was WAY better than any RB that Sat had available to him. Not to mention Ameer Abdullah. Two backs who were much better than anyone Sat had last year or this year. So who is Sat going to use in that wildcat role? Haarberg is actually the best choice, which is essentially what did happen.
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It highlights that *some* coaches can coach outside their strength to win a game. I do not believe Satterfield knows how to do that. 
 

He had 4 chances to win 1 game, against mediocre or worse teams, and it was directly his coaching for why they lost. 
 

I’m sorry if that’s too much to understand. 

 
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Savage Husker said:
It highlights that *some* coaches can coach outside their strength to win a game. I do not believe Satterfield knows how to do that. 
 

He had 4 chances to win 1 game, against mediocre or worse teams, and it was directly his coaching for why they lost. 
 

I’m sorry if that’s too much to understand. 
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Are you talking about last year?

 
Savage Husker said:
It highlights that *some* coaches can coach outside their strength to win a game. I do not believe Satterfield knows how to do that. 
 

He had 4 chances to win 1 game, against mediocre or worse teams, and it was directly his coaching for why they lost. 
 

I’m sorry if that’s too much to understand. 
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So Satterfield should have run wildcat with some mediocre RBs since it worked over a decade ago with 2 NFL RBs. Not quite the convincing argument you seem to think it is. And this is not hard to understand - you want there to be a quick fix for Nebraska to be good again, and it's simply not that easy. 

There were a bunch of reasons for the losses last year including special teams miscues and the defense not getting stops late in games. Sat's play calling won't change either of those things. The bolded part tells me you're not serious about a discussion and just want to rant about something, so I'll stop posting reasonable takes and let you continue your rant..

 
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