malachi coleman

Guy Chamberlin said:
Eh, not screwing up. Maybe just being too cautious. It's not like the product on the field has clearly distinguished itself, especially at WR and RB. Our best chance to win might emerge from utter newbies. Happens all the time. 

Agree there's a lot of doghouse stuff that plays out at practice that we never see, and it's not a Rhule thing at all. Just saying this weird transition season presents a perfect opportunity to take the risk with unproven players who were recruited for good reason.

We also have a history of great practice players disappearing on game day, and that long predates Rhule. 
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People have no idea why a certain player isn’t seeing the field.  Rhule clearly has no problem playing young players his first year. He did it at Temple, Baylor and is doing here on defense. 
 

It sure seems like people are upset with Rhule for not playing Colman more before now. 

 
I'm not sure why it even matters.  Who can even get him or anyone else for that matter the ball on a consistent basis anyway. 

No one on our team currently that's who.

 
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ColoradoHusk said:
You seem like a good guy, but you’re exhausting. 
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Thank you.  You are absolutely right tho, because I was exhausting. 

Just needed to vent and get it out of my system :) .  So I am now back to good.  

If I read the room, I definitely don't want to upset the masses here, because this is the only place where I have Husker friends to talk with (or vent like I have been doing :dumdum  ).  Which is why I feel good about everything I said and can move on now without any worries.  

I have nothing else to add lol.  All is good - GBR  :cheers

 
BigRedBuster said:
People have no idea why a certain player isn’t seeing the field.  Rhule clearly has no problem playing young players his first year. He did it at Temple, Baylor and is doing here on defense. 
 

It sure seems like people are upset with Rhule for not playing Colman more before now. 
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Upset would be way too strong a term for me. Can't speak for Admo. 

It's not the craziest take, nor a slam on Rhule, that a fan might want to see more meaningful snaps for the younger players, given a season already pegged as a learning experience with low expectations. It's working on defense, and on offense we might not have much choice. For me it's not just Coleman, it's every WR and RB who was good enough to make the team. We are lacking a breakout offensive player at the moment, and history suggests there's probably one waiting in the wings. And nobody's talking about supplanting that hard-working starter --- just giving the youngsters a little more time, rhythm and play design. 

A player who is permanently scarred by a humbling freshman experience isn't likely to make the cut further down the line. 

I mean, if we accept that coaches always know more than the fans, HuskerBoard itself will cease to exist. 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Upset would be way too strong a term for me. Can't speak for Admo. 

It's not the craziest take, nor a slam on Rhule, that a fan might want to see more meaningful snaps for the younger players, given a season already pegged as a learning experience with low expectations. It's working on defense, and on offense we might not have much choice. For me it's not just Coleman, it's every WR and RB who was good enough to make the team. We are lacking a breakout offensive player at the moment, and history suggests there's probably one waiting in the wings. And nobody's talking about supplanting that hard-working starter --- just giving the youngsters a little more time, rhythm and play design. 

A player who is permanently scarred by a humbling freshman experience isn't likely to make the cut further down the line. 

I mean, if we accept that coaches always know more than the fans, HuskerBoard itself will cease to exist. 
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I think everyone would love to have our hough WRs and RBs out tearing it up.  But...they have to be doing what it takes to earn those snaps.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
It's not the craziest take, nor a slam on Rhule, that a fan might want to see more meaningful snaps for the younger players, given a season already pegged as a learning experience with low expectations. It's working on defense, and on offense we might not have much choice. For me it's not just Coleman, it's every WR and RB who was good enough to make the team. We are lacking a breakout offensive player at the moment, and history suggests there's probably one waiting in the wings. And nobody's talking about supplanting that hard-working starter --- just giving the youngsters a little more time, rhythm and play design. 
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I gotta be careful not to read too much into press conference comments, but I do think Rhule is pushing for this more than has happened. Position coaches (and the playcaller) have control over who is in on a given snap, and Rhule has brought up guys he "wants to see more of in games" a few times. Just mentioned today that he's been on Knighton about getting Van Poppel more snaps. 

But there is a lot to balance - I do think the position coaches feel more pressure to show loyalty to the guys doing everything right, even if their ceiling is lower. And there's absolutely a CYA element, if the freshman messes up Rhule is going to be on them about why the player wasn't able to handle it. It's also easy for a playcaller to draw up a handful of plays designed for the young guys. But then they run out there and the defense is doing something they didn't show on film, or the QB has to scramble, or we've only had 6 plays in a quarter and need to drain some clock, and it just doesn't get called. They had a play specifically for Doss this week but checked out of it due to the defense showing a corner blitz. 

I'm with you in general on this - at the end of the day, if it matters to the coaches (which it should) they need to find a way to make it happen. It's gonna happen now no matter what though, Bullock and Hahn can't play every snap of every remaining game.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
I mean, if we accept that coaches always know more than the fans, HuskerBoard itself will cease to exist. 
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I don't necessarily think the narrative around Coleman is hinged upon accepting the coaches are always right. I think it's more about setting the tone of how we want to think about or critique it.

There's been quite a lot of insinuation (and maybe this is just me thinking there's insinuation :)  ) that the coaches somehow aren't doing their jobs good enough because they're putting some young guys in. I just think it's a slippery slope. Plus, we don't really know if any of these young guys are part of the Nebraska future with how the transfer portal is, and there are other guys on the roster who have also earned snaps.

I think it's fair to ask the questions and posit for more playing time but not if it comes with the suggestion that there's some disservice happening towards the young guys or towards the future. I think the latter goes a bit overboard.

 
Enhance said:
I don't necessarily think the narrative around Coleman is hinged upon accepting the coaches are always right. I think it's more about setting the tone of how we want to think about or critique it.
 
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I was trying to be funny. It's basically impossible to express criticism of any team without throwing a little shade on the coach, and without criticism there are no fansites. 

 
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