"A Chance To Be Real Good" - Scott Frost

This morning I had what some alcoholcs call a "moment of clarity", and realized that Bill Callahan and Mike Riley are both better head coaches than Scott Frost, and got a literal shiver down my spine. 
And it will remain that way until Scott has his moment of clarity.  If BC had changed his DC, we might be in a very different situation right now - not saying he would still be our coach still, but he probably would have lasted few  more years.  His offense was good and he had good recruits.  The dominos would have fallen differently once he did move on.  Perhaps no Bo and we end up with a better coach than Bo.  All speculative.   Frost head coaching winning % is 52%   Mike Riley college head coaching % is 53% (112-99)

Frost: 

 2021  0-1
2020 Nebraska Season 3-5 [SIZE=12.8px] [/SIZE]
2019 Nebraska Season 5-7
2018 Nebraska Season 4-8
2017 UCF Season 12-0
2016 UCF Season 6-7

 
Been off the board for a couple weeks (a) because I'm trying to move across the country for work and (b) was pissed about the loss, but I was able to get some time to put together a recap of the game looking at the offense and the defense, if anyone is interested. Looked at some of the key stats, why we might have used nickel so much, Adrian's play and the gameplan controversy and broke down one cool concept each from the offense and the defense. https://black41flashreverse.substack.com/p/illinois-recap-fumbled-opportunity
Where ya headed? 

 
Illinois is not a better team than we thought. It’s that we are a worse team than we thought. 
What stings for me isn't the loss, it's how it happened.  If you take the safety away and the scoop and score along with giving us the easy TD pass in the endszone, those three plays make this a fairly easy win.

That's frustrating.  Those three plays happened because of bad things WE did.  Not anything that the other team did.

 
What stings for me isn't the loss, it's how it happened.  If you take the safety away and the scoop and score along with giving us the easy TD pass in the endszone, those three plays make this a fairly easy win.

That's frustrating.  Those three plays happened because of bad things WE did.  Not anything that the other team did.
And it’s still Illinois.  Even with those those things cleaned up, we are at the same level as Illinois.  Bottom of the West.

 
What stings for me isn't the loss, it's how it happened.  If you take the safety away and the scoop and score along with giving us the easy TD pass in the endszone, those three plays make this a fairly easy win.

That's frustrating.  Those three plays happened because of bad things WE did.  Not anything that the other team did.
it's been this way for the past 3-4 years under Frost.  just frustrating and pitiful.  Frost needs some new coaches, that's the only way things will improve.

players play like they have been coached, it's true, just look at our play.

 
What stings for me isn't the loss, it's how it happened.  If you take the safety away and the scoop and score along with giving us the easy TD pass in the endszone, those three plays make this a fairly easy win.

That's frustrating.  Those three plays happened because of bad things WE did.  Not anything that the other team did.


The bolded is why there is little to no hope that this team will get better. If Frost can't fix this s*** in the three years he's been here, what makes people think he'll fix it this season in some sort of expedient fashion?

The team is beating itself is a record that's been on repeat for what is our fourth year now. That's why as soon as Nebraska is no longer bowl eligible (probably before Halloween at the current rate), Frost needs to be gone and a search needs to happen. 

 
It would also explain why the back up went 12-16 and 3 TD's. We had not prepared for him at all.  Once he came in, we had no plan on defense at all.  Simply couldn't adjust.
 Maybe just ask Fordham to put their QB in a green jersey and we promise not to take him to the ground- in return they promise to keep him in?

 
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Been off the board for a couple weeks (a) because I'm trying to move across the country for work and (b) was pissed about the loss, but I was able to get some time to put together a recap of the game looking at the offense and the defense, if anyone is interested. Looked at some of the key stats, why we might have used nickel so much, Adrian's play and the gameplan controversy and broke down one cool concept each from the offense and the defense. https://black41flashreverse.substack.com/p/illinois-recap-fumbled-opportunity


Appreciate this post. I know it wasn't all bad from everyone against Illinois, but a loss does slant the microscope. 

We'll be very interesting to see what happens against Fordham, and more importantly, Buffalo. 

 
You're telling me you would feel the same way with an 8 point win compared to an 8 point loss?

Not me.




If we would have somehow scored and got the two point conversion to send the game into overtime last Saturday, then won by a touchdown, I would feel maybe 1% better than I do right now, personally.

 
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