Practice report: NU receivers look to bounce back

If, after 6 games, none of the young WR's are ready to play a lot more and contribute then NU really does have a problem at the position. If we see only Paul and Kinnie 90% of the time versus Ok St then I think we have to assume the younger WR are not what we hoped. There has never been a bigger reason to give some of these guys a chance than what happened in last weeks game. I'll be very interested to see who plays and how much this weekend.

 
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junior4949 said:
Huskerzoo said:
Little surprised I haven't seen or heard more calls for getting rid of Gilmore and going after Scott Frost.
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OK, I gotta ask. Why would Scott Frost make a great WR coach? I know coaching is in his background, but he never played the position.
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I don't know if he would make a "great" wr coach, but I can't say that we are doing very well in that area. In the very least he is smart, maybe he would use Ron Brown as his mentor because we rarely had drops when Coach Brown coached the WR's. That, and there is no denying Frost's connections and influences: his parents were coaches, he played for Tom Osborne, Bill Walsh, Bilotti, and Turner Gill, he may have played for Bo at Green Bay. He has been around some great coaches.

I hope that this "bouncing back" doesn't mean ball bouncing off of hands like they have been. :hmmph

 
Niles, come on man. I'm not going to rag on you personally, because that's not okay (I heard the guy had to take down his Facebook and tried taking his family out to eat and was incessantly harassed and belittled), but you bring your failure upon yourself. Gilmore said it himself, the guy is prideful. Since when is that a GOOD quality, especially when you're not backing it up? To top it off, when things don't go great for him, he sits on the sidelines and pouts, putting his head down and feeling sorry for himself. I saw this with over a quarter and a half of football left to go! You can not be a successful football player with the kind of attitude you exhibit, Niles, despite how great your work ethic is.

 
74Hunter said:
junior4949 said:
Huskerzoo said:
Little surprised I haven't seen or heard more calls for getting rid of Gilmore and going after Scott Frost.
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OK, I gotta ask. Why would Scott Frost make a great WR coach? I know coaching is in his background, but he never played the position.
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I don't know if he would make a "great" wr coach, but I can't say that we are doing very well in that area. In the very least he is smart, maybe he would use Ron Brown as his mentor because we rarely had drops when Coach Brown coached the WR's. That, and there is no denying Frost's connections and influences: his parents were coaches, he played for Tom Osborne, Bill Walsh, Bilotti, and Turner Gill, he may have played for Bo at Green Bay. He has been around some great coaches.

I hope that this "bouncing back" doesn't mean ball bouncing off of hands like they have been. :hmmph
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I've just been hearing he's done a really good job at Oregon (as their WR coach). I don't know where he picked up the skills.

 
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