Lack of talent

In some very important areas Nebraska does lack talent.  

Nebraska lacks talent at RB.  They have decent backs, but they don't have anyone on their roster that looks like Barkley,  Johnathan Taylor, Watley or any of the backs at OSU.  We haven't had a back that can just run away from people for a long time.  Even Ameer Abdullah didn't have that speed.  Look at Johnathan Taylor that kid is a freshman and is the 4th leading rusher in the nation right now.  Yeah he has a great line to run behind, but Ozigbo, Bryant, or Wilbon is not breaking through the LOS and running 75 yards for a TD like he did.  

Nebraska lacks talent at TE.  I am not even talking about catching footballs.  I am talking about blocking.  I lot of what NU wants to do in the run game is very dependent on good TE blocking and we don't get that a lot of the time.  Troy Fumagali is not just a great pass catching TE he is also a great blocking TE.  Iowa, Michigan, MSU, PSU, OSU, Wisconsin, all have great TE.  Nebraska could benefit greatly from an Aaron Golladay or Mark Gilman type TE right now that could block first and then catch.  

Nebraska Lacks talent at the offensive tackle spot.  Everyone they have playing would make a great guard.  They are short on true tackles.  That is why you have a true freshman playing at RT right now.  Unlike most of you guys I think the O-line is very steadily getting better.  They played way better against Wisconsin than I expected.  

NU lacks talent at the OLB spot.  I think Gifford is good and will be even better next year.  I think Ben Stille will be pretty good, but he is a RS frosh that just switched positions.  But after that they are lacking badly.  I have never thought Marcus Newby was ever that good.  Sedrick King?,  Adams?  

They lack talent at CB which is a surprise.  They have missed on guys.  Eric Lee and Avery Anderson were both 4* guys that were suppose to be real good.  Lee is playing out of a lack of anyone else were is Anderson?  Haven't heard a peep out of them.  

The talent at these positions is nothing better than average for a team like Nebraska. 

Part of the problem is the overall lack of talent at these spots from the state of Nebraska.  Nebraska always used to have at least 1 good RB from Nebraska on the roster.  Forever Central out of Omaha produced a great back.  Heck Damon Benning, Clinton Childs, and Ahman Green were all from Nebraska and all on the roster at the same time.  Calvin Jones, Kieth Jones, Leodis Flowers, Ken Clark all these guys were from Nebraska.  Who is the last great back from Nebraska?  

Nebraska has some good talent at spots they have good talent at QB, inside backer, D-line, safety,  and WR they just need more.  

 
So I guess we have some guys like Abdullah, Suh, David, and others on this team. I call BS. We don’t have one player on this team worthy of being drafted inside round 6. How many of our players start at Clemson, Ohio State, Alabama? I’d hope maybe 1. 

 
dvdcrr said:
I have never seen this board as a whole, in such a wreck.  Every thread, a disaster, every post a speculation.  As mere fans of football, the sensible among us must admit, that we know little about how to right this ship.  We are amateurs after all.    Nor do we know when or if it will be righted.  

All we know is that we live to fight another day.  And though the outcome is in doubt, fight we must!
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It's the same damn thing post after post

 
We have enough talent to turn Arkansas State and Northern Illinois into paste on the field.  We struggled with one and lost to the other; both at home.

I don't think our talent level is equal to or below Sun Belt and MAC talent levels.  If it is, that's still Riley's fault.

 
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And, and for the the "where's the Suh on this team" argument?

This was Suh in 2007, with bad coaching:

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This was suh in 2009 with good coaching:

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I rest my case.

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I'm good with guys like:

POB, Gebbia

Morgan, Lindsey, Spielman, Pierson-El, McQuitty

Ozigbo, Bryant, Bradley, Mazour(if he ever sees the field)

Jaimes, Farmer, Foster, Gates, Farniok, Raridon, Decker

Thomas, Davis, Davis, Neal, Jackson, Stoltenberg (kinda)

Roberts, Gifford, Alexander, Stille, Barry, Ferguson & Weber

Reed, Bootle, Williams, Dismuke, Domann, Anderson, Jackson, Lee, Jones, Kalu, Williams & Jackson

Drew Brown, Lightbourn, Ober

Give a good coaching staff that team and they'll beat most teams on our schedule this year. 

It's not a lack of talent. It's coaching.  We need a better system on both sides of the ball and we need a better mentality from both staff & players.

 
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I'm good with guys like:

POB, Gebbia

Morgan, Lindsey, Spielman, Pierson-El, McQuitty

Ozigbo, Bryant, Bradley, Mazour(if he ever sees the field)

Jaimes, Farmer, Foster, Gates, Farniok, Raridon, Decker

Thomas, Davis, Davis, Neal, Jackson, Stoltenberg (kinda)

Roberts, Gifford, Alexander, Stille, Barry, Ferguson & Weber

Reed, Bootle, Williams, Dismuke, Domann, Anderson, Jackson, Lee, Jones, Kalu, Williams & Jackson

Drew Brown, Lightbourn, Ober

Give a good coaching staff that team and they'll beat most teams on our schedule this year. 

It's not a lack of talent. It's coaching.  We need a better system on both sides of the ball and we need a better mentality from both staff & players.
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Bingo. Everybody wants more talent. Hell, even Bama has had holes that they needed to fill with transfers and Juco's.

 
I have said for a long time that Nebraska has enough talent on this team to dominate smaller programs and be competitive with the best programs.  The mentality of the team is not right.  Ultimately, that needs to be instilled in younger players from older players.  This is exactly what players from the 90s have been talking about for a long time.  Now, the problem is, the older players don't have that mentality either.....so.....it needs to be instilled in them from the staff.  And...they are failing at doing that.

I'm still haunted by a quote from one of our players last week, prior to the Wisconsin game.  Paraphrasing, they said, "Now is the time to step up our game because we are playing Wisconsin this week".

My reaction was....WTF????  You should have stepped up your game about June 1st preparing for this season and had a take no prisoners mentality in the first 5 games.  If you had, we wouldn't have been sitting here with two losses and barely beating teams like Arkansas State.

Lots of fans get tired of hearing people like Jason Peter talk about their whole attitude towards practice and games back in the 90s.  BUT....that's exactly what has been missing for a very long time.

 
I really enjoyed reading this whole thread today.  Good stuff and perspective.

Whether you believe it's coaching or recruiting ... :bigredn:  is the guy laying on the ground on his back.  :-(
 



 
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