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gossamorharpy said:
I never said conf realignment doesnt affect progrum success.  I think you comparing missouri, colorado and our profile in the 08-2010 range to Oklahoma the past few years is ignorant at best.

Oklahoma= consistent top 5/top 10 in a down year, multiple playoff participant and conf champ most years.

Nebraska 09= Conf title contender? I mean sure, we made it to the big 12 title game but we were 10-4, let's not pretend we even came close to walking into conf title season with 1 or 2 losses at most.

Missouri has trended in the SEC to pretty much what they were in the big 12.  A middling progrum that is towards the bottom most years and happened to have one year where things came together coupled with a weak division.

Colorado- Was trending pretty abysmally towards the end of the big 12 run and, for the most part, has been an afterthought in CFB for a decade now.

Literally none of the 3 progrums u mentioned, including us, are remotely similar to the track record Oklahoma has brought to the table in the past 5-20 years.

Ah yes, because going 10-4 and playing in the weakest division at the time puts us on the same level as oklahoma being top 10 the past few years.  Take off your husker shaded glasses, please stop
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Dude, you’re creating the narrative you want to believe and that’s fine. Please don’t pass it on as fact. 
 

For the bolded… which conference has Oklahoma played in the past ten years? Could it be the same division and conference you belittled Nebraska for going 10-4 consistently? Oklahoma is a good program and wins consistently but, let’s not reduce conference realignment to having just a little “direct impact on program success.”

To do so would be wildly ill-advised without evidence to the contrary. No P5 program that changed conferences has won a title in their respective conference the past ten years. I believe that is enough of a sample size to emphasize a significant impact.

 
Let's only hire assistants with ties to the University of Nebraska.  If you did not previously play for, associate with, or work for / with the University of Nebraska football program, you need not apply.

Another notable program once took such a dim hiring view, Alabama perhaps?  Ray Perkins, Mike Dubose, and Mike Shula all had sterling years at the helm of that program (with sarcasm).  That said, even in consistent defeat, at least they all were Tide loyalists!

Time to open our minds to program outsiders.  The era of Devaney and Osborne, while rightfully still revered and honored, is over..

 
Wistrom Disciple said:
Dude, you’re creating the narrative you want to believe and that’s fine. Please don’t pass it on as fact. 
 

For the bolded… which conference has Oklahoma played in the past ten years? Could it be the same division and conference you belittled Nebraska for going 10-4 consistently? Oklahoma is a good program and wins consistently but, let’s not reduce conference realignment to having just a little “direct impact on program success.”

To do so would be wildly ill-advised without evidence to the contrary. No P5 program that changed conferences has won a title in their respective conference the past ten years. I believe that is enough of a sample size to emphasize a significant impact.
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I tend to agree that OU fans may be feeling pretty uneasy right now.  Coach quits. Players leaving.  New conference with atleast 3 or 4 super power type programs (Ala, Ga, LSU, Fl) and then rival Tx, Tenn, Auborn, A&M, and several more that are never less than pretty challenging teams for anybody).   The Big 12 offered about 5 easy games and maybe 3 challengers and one real toughie.  No more conference titles awaiting them unless they play great fb almost every week.  
Riley gets out at a good time imo.  USC could become royalty in the PAC 12.  Only one or two rivals.  Southern Cal is USC property with a big name coach for several years.  

 
84HuskerLaw said:
I tend to agree that OU fans may be feeling pretty uneasy right now.  Coach quits. Players leaving.  New conference with atleast 3 or 4 super power type programs (Ala, Ga, LSU, Fl) and then rival Tx, Tenn, Auborn, A&M, and several more that are never less than pretty challenging teams for anybody).   The Big 12 offered about 5 easy games and maybe 3 challengers and one real toughie.  No more conference titles awaiting them unless they play great fb almost every week.  
Riley gets out at a good time imo.  USC could become royalty in the PAC 12.  Only one or two rivals.  Southern Cal is USC property with a big name coach for several years.  
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I saw in one story (sorry I don't have a link at the moment) that said Riley was not a fan of the move the SEC and that was a contributor to him leaving OK.

 
84HuskerLaw said:
I tend to agree that OU fans may be feeling pretty uneasy right now.  Coach quits. Players leaving.  New conference with atleast 3 or 4 super power type programs (Ala, Ga, LSU, Fl) and then rival Tx, Tenn, Auborn, A&M, and several more that are never less than pretty challenging teams for anybody).   The Big 12 offered about 5 easy games and maybe 3 challengers and one real toughie.  No more conference titles awaiting them unless they play great fb almost every week.  
Riley gets out at a good time imo.  USC could become royalty in the PAC 12.  Only one or two rivals.  Southern Cal is USC property with a big name coach for several years.  
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Agreed 100%. Go from the top of the food chain to being among a handful of equals. I’d have to imagine Oklahoma and Texas will get a bit of a raw deal with scheduling for awhile too. 

 
Any word on defensive staff staying in tact? If Fisher gets pulled away to another school, the natural thing for us would be to slide Busch in as ST coordinator and secondary coach, no?

 
Can Ron Brown coach special teams? Joe Ganz?

 
Mavric said:
I don't necessarily think we HAVE to have a STC, but I'm not against it either.  I think we're set up really well to have Busch step into that role and fill in around it.  I hope it really helps.  But I don't think it will necessarily mean we're doing all that much differently, we might just get guys to make more plays.

Maybe more reps fix the kickoff return and the blocked punt, maybe not.  I'd buy it more if it was the first couple games of the season.  By the end of the season, I can't imagine they didn't have enough reps in.  They started out practices with special teams in spring and I think fall camp.  If we run 10 reps with 15 suddenly be the magic number? I have my doubts.  But maybe someone specifically watching a couple more details would let us call a timeout to get something fixed but, again, at some point the players have to be able to execute what they've worked on.

If we were just slightly above average in both kicking and punting, I don't think people would care (nearly as much) about the lack of returns.
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I'm sure I could probably look this up, but instead I'll defer to the more informed posters here....do we use our starters on our ST units (outside of returners)?  Would be a brute force way to improve ST play (Seahawks under Carroll, Beamerball at Va Tech late 90s/early 00s) and demonstrate a commitment to it.  Obviously it brings risk into play with injuries to key contributors, but it would be a pretty clear indicator to the team and incoming players that this unit is prioritized and holds as much accountability as any other phase of the game.

Maybe not a long term solution, but could improve things in the near term and establish a better approach.  As has been stated, I don't see how another hour of film session from a dedicated ST coach is going to fix things for next season.

If we already do this, I retroactively grant you the last 15 seconds of your life back.  30 seconds if you're a bad reader.

 
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