In my opinion I think the university needs to work more with local high schools in omaha and lincoln (and a few outlier schools) on teaching and developing more basics that we can recruit locally into the college level..
Excellent breakdown from start to finish, Connor. I feel like you are spot on with what qualities and traits Trev needs to look for in our next leader. Keep up the great work providing quality content and, as always, GO BIG RED!!!
IT IS i who thank you, Conner - your hard work and dedicatuin that keeps up the spirits of the Corn Crazes troops ( will be an Army soon - we are a brigade but new mwmbers aew growing) . Stay healthy
I will say that Jamey Chadwell's STYLE of offense fits the Big 10. His pistol-triple-option is so fun to watch. Its so creative. Now hear me... I am NOT "glory days" guy that thinks we just need to go back to the option because that's what Nebraska is... Im in favor of the triple option because in a college football world that is all spread, and slinging it all over the yard, we need to be unique and difficult to prepare for. Especially if we aren't getting top tier talent. The Veer, the Wing T, and other similar offenses that use motion on offense and unique blocking angles to level the playing field help teams like Nebraska that aren't as talented as OSU, Michigan, etc... Paul Johnson competed for ACC conference championships at GEORGIA TECH running the triple option. Strategically speaking, I think becoming experts at that style of offense again, would catapult NU to the top of the Big 10 West(as long as its around).
This Cornhusker team has no identity. It hasn't had an identity for a long time. Nebraska will never be able to contend with the likes of any team in the SEC or Big10 for that matter if they continue to try to do what every other winning championship team is doing. Nebraska needs a coach that will come in and develop players locally. The walk-on program is so different now than it was in the 90s, roster limits and scholarship limits have drastically changed. But Nebraska needs to build their lines and focus solely on that. Bring in those big local boys tossing around haybales on the farms and begin developing these young men into beasts that other teams cannot push through but instead do the pushing. Nebraska then should focus their recruiting efforts on a few key athletic positions, not the entire roster. Nebraska simply doesn't have the pull for recruits that can choose Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and other schools throughout the country. Nebraska needs to embrace NIL, there's a lot of money at UNL and recruits are looking for colleges that will help them build their brand. The next coach that comes in and does this will get Nebraska back to what we, the fans, remember of the winning years in the past. Until then, mediocrity is all we'll continue to get from our beloved Huskers. The fans need to wake up as well, it's not the 1990s anymore, football is a much different sport than it was in the 90s. Expectations are ridiculously high for a team that hasn't done anything since. I cannot believe the comments I was reading during Mickey Joseph's FIRST post-game press conference. The dude has had one week to prepare for the toughest game of the season, and was also coming off a terrible loss to a Sun Belt team less than a week after losing their coach. Did anyone really expect the Huskers to go into this game and hang with the 6th ranked team in the country. That defense picked out the holes in our defense and crushed their spirits even more. They shut down, they quit, they lost. All of which would have happened under Frost, as it has week in and week out over the past 4 years. I, for one, found the press conference refreshing, a coach that took ownership. Ownership of everything, he could have stood there and said he inherited this, but he didn't. He said, "This is my fault." These kids could very well rally around him, and I believe they will. But this season's games are the culmination of what's been bred into this program for years and years. Blame whichever coach you want of the past for starting it, it doesn't really matter. I'll always watch the Huskers, I'll always back whichever coach we have, because I LOVE HUSKER FOOTBALL. But until major changes are made to the program, I unfortunately believe we'll be settling for mediocrity and a broken culture for years to come. I'm not a coach, I'm not a football player. I can't claim to understand what it takes to win championships, but I remember what this team was when it was winning, and we've gone a far distance away from that. It's time to get back to the basics of Husker Football and what it means to play for the Cornhuskers. Hopefully, Trev Alberts, is thinking along the same lines and will bring someone in that has the same passion, love, and drive to pursue exactly what it takes to win games and championships. Go Big Red! - a Husker Nation Fan
passion and emotion sadly always trump the signs of obvious incompetence. it's why Michigan struggled so hard during our dark years, too. watching the rise and disgraceful fall of Frost felt like looking into a parallel universe. though i'm a Wolverine through and through, I became really interested in Nebraska in the last few years as they struggled with regaining their footing. I really hope you guys pull through and become the king of the West. Who isn't a fan of a redemption story? GBR
After doing a deeper dive into the facts, I need to set some of your detractors straightened out. If any of you truly listened to what Connor said, you’d realize he laid out the criteria used to support his opinion. 1. Championships 2. All-Time Wins 3. Bowl Appearances 4. All-Americans 5. Draft Success 6. Fan Base Strength I’d add “recent” success to the list. Even then, Nebraska belongs in Tier 2. They are Top 10 in every category he put out. The only other schools that can claim that are Alabama, Ohio State, and Oklahoma. In fact, Clemson and Georgia don’t make many of those top 10 lists. It’s solely based upon recent success that they’ve made the Tier 1 list. Keep up the good work my friend!
Hey, as a CFB fan, I understand what the needs are at Nebraska. People don’t realize is that they could win the B1G West and the B1G title at least once just like you mentioned. Honestly, I 💯% agree with you but it would take lot for a HC or coordinator from a power five conference like B1G or SEC who is having a high success and winning a conference title and compete for the national title to come to tier 2 team like Nebraska. But in my opinion, Nebraska should keep Mickey as their HC for next season or 2 while their AD looks for the potential long term HC who can turn the program around and be a good program and be ranked at least once in every 2/3 seasons which includes being a top 25 team in terms of recruiting, to be competitive in the B1G west against teams like Wisconsin, Iowa, Purdue or Minnesota .
Really good analysis my man! I keep pimping the channel to my friends and family because you break things down better than the national TV guys. Keep up the good work and GBR!
You said Nebraska had not landed a five-star recruit in almost 20 years. Tyjon Lindsey was a five-star recruit for Nebraska in 2017. The 5-star recruit, rated No. 5 nationally among players at the position in 247Sports' 2017 composite rankings.
I'm glad you touched upon this issue of national sports media, most notably ESPN, bagging on the Nebraska's head coaching search. Many celebrated critics actually went to the effort of creating bullet point arguments why it wasn't an attractive job for top tier coaches, including Urban Meyer. Then a domino effect ensued and the dog pilling began. You artfully eviscerated the nonsense. Rather than participating and falling into this thought stream I would encourage supporters of the program to take a cynical view of the sources. Nebraskans who have a historical perspective of the program know this is not a contemporary phenomena. There have always been sports opinion writers with newspaper columns devoted to denigrating the Husker program over decades. It evolved to talking heads in a variety of forums including radio, TV, and social media. The point is these pundits and national critics have motives and when you peal back the onion layer it reveals their prejudice. They have an agenda and their animus is transparent. Why they cling to this rancor and antagonism is nonsensical and a dead end. It's subterfuge and pig pen muck raking. We ignore these critics, move on, and heal. None of us who were at the Orange Bowl in Miami after crushing a Peyton Manning led Vol's team a quarter of a century ago expected the program to endure these hardships. However, none of it has deterred or detracted the most dedicated of us from abandoning the resiliency of our passion and devotion. Like the corn in the field, the wheat on the plains, and the hay in the meadows the hope of the harvest will always renew and sustain. The Huskers will rise again because the people and the fans will always endure and always have hope. GBR
I believe that any HC hire should be from a power 5 conference program that has a solid history of winning. Even if they rarely make it to a Natty. Whether it be a current or past HC, offensive coordinator, so on and so forth. One thing I know for sure is that we need a HC that knows how to motivate the players and coaches. I'm going to use one of our opponents' coaches as an example here... Fitzpatrick. I know you can practically count on Northwestern having up and down seasons consecutively. (A real contender one year and the next being near or at the bottom of the barrel). But if you dive deeper into their recruiting, they rarely get many 4 star recruits, NO 5 stars in current history and more often than not, develope these 3 and the few 4 stars into NFL talent. Just imagine for a minute how good Northwestern would be if they could consistently real in more 4 and some 5 star recruits. (IMO), they would be a yearly contender for the B1G west. That's the kind of leadership we need. Who knows. If Mickey Joseph can become that kind of coach, we need to keep him. If not, then we need to keep looking. As for the rumors about Frost, I agree with you. For the moment I'm can only assume that they are just that. ... Rumors. That is until we hear from an independent investigation into said rumors. I hate to think that these are true, but only time will tell. I'm going to do my best to catch your live show tonight, but if not, you can bet that I'll catch it afterwards. If you were wondering, my shoulder is doing much better now after my surgery. I've opted to go to physical therapy 3 times a week instead of just twice. In some areas of my recovery I'm right on track, but in others, mainly my "active" mobility I'm far ahead of the curve. According to my Torture Maiden, er, uh, I mean physical therapist I'm far beyond 85% of any others in my stage of recovery. Sorry for this being so long, but I figured you might be interested in that. (Hopefully), see you tonight and GO BIG RED!!!
I think that in coaching circles Nebraska is known for firing 9 win coaches. It was necessary to give Frost every possible opportunity to succeed if we wanted to get a decent coach. Plus the competition for coaches last year was fierce. I also think that good programs don’t leak negative info to media and fans. That was one of the things that got Pelini fired. Osborne was exceptional at keeping problems in house. To me the idea that Frost was dropping the ball and it never reached our insatiable media is promising. As it pertains to coaching hires I think Harvey Pearlman rooked this program for 2 decades. The 9 win fires were only made worse by the ignorant hires to replace them. These weren’t small misses but evidence of a complete misunderstanding of our programs strengths and weaknesses. Going forward Nebraska needs to get off its moral high horse and hire the best football coach that will accept the job. To me that is #1 Urban Meyer #2 Hugh Freeze. Exceptional coaches aren’t available unless they have some dirt on them. Why not forgive and rehab here? Wouldn’t that be the highest moral ground? There are some up and coming coaches but most of them don’t have a history of playing physical games week in and week out. Plus Frost was an up and coming coach and the Nebraska job was way too much for him to handle. Programs like Nebraska aren’t as simple to run as programs with lower expectations. A coach can only wow Nebraska’s media and fans with the speed of recovery and not by pushing through a predetermined ceiling. And a Nebraska coach has a PR nightmare on his hands win loose or draw. He has to talk to boosters, media and fans and everything he says and does is dissected under a microscope. That’s a lot of stress. I think Fickell, Campbell and Aranda have avoided big jobs because of the Eiffel Tower expectations and the matching stress. We need a coach that thrives in that world.
I’ve been thinking Hugh Freeze would be a great fit for Nebraska. Yes, he’s had his scandals, but if he could show Trev Alberts that he’s grown past that, it would be a great opportunity for redemption. Also, he has shown success at Ole Miss, and is doing well at Liberty right now. Let’s go from a Frost… to a Freeze.
I got the feeling when I heard that Joseph was coming in to be the WR coach that he was way above taking that job, and though he has not been a head coach at the top level, he was assistant head coach at LSU and has been a head coach at the NAIA level, so he's not going to be surprised by the job, and I figured he was getting close to taking a head coaching job somewhere, if not here. When I saw that Mickey had been named the assistant head coach under Frost, I thought that it made sense that he was brought in to replace Frost all along, unless of course Frost accepted the new help gracefully and the team succeeded. Yet, I think Trev knew that Scott was not likely to do that, and now I remember little comments from Frost that may have been clues to how things were actually going. Of course, Scott was saying that the marriage of the two offenses was going well, but then he made some comments to the press that made me think that possibly Mark and Mickey had given him some tough love about letting them run the offense, though of course they were careful to say that Scott was in charge. It all felt odd, but then, of course, he proved he was in charge by calling the on-side kick, which almost felt like a room full of grownups that were at the mercy of a child, like an episode of Twighlight Zone. I thought that I was imaging the whole thing until things continued to look bad, and it seemed that Scott was doing nothing about the defensive problems. Maybe if Scott had fired Chins, or told him to start tackling more in practice, he would have shown that he knew what needed to happen to fix things. Maybe that no-tackle policy was Scott's, not Chinander's. It doesn't matter now, but obviously that was a ridiculous way to build a physical team. I saw that the offense under Mark and Mickey was showing potential, despite the glaring problems in the trenches, but when they wanted a change-up, it was Logan who came in to run option, not Purdy, though Purdy was clearly the backup for Thompson in Whipple's offense. It felt like a power struggle, but overall, it looked like Whipple was winning control of the offense, though Scott had his guys that he wanted to see get time. The offensive issues were really minor things that, again, I could have been imagining, but the defense was clearly hapless, and Chins was just saying the same things he always said and seemed not to see the glaring problems, and nothing was being done to fix things. So, when Scott was fired and Mickey was named as the interim, it confirmed what I had been thinking, and I wondered if Chins had a chance of surviving the changeover. He lasted a week longer than I expected. Now, with Busch as the DC, it feels like a huge upgrade in coaching if only the team will buy-in to having to work much harder to catch up to where they ought to be. They probably don't have time to get a ton of improvement in the trenches, but there are schematic changes that they can make to help mitigate the fact that they are small on the defensive front and weak at the offensive tackles. In the long run, I believe that we already have a dream team of coaches, and I really hope that they can get enough improvement from these kids to win the jobs permanently. If they do, it will prove that Trev is the genius that I think he is. GBR!
Illini fan here. I don’t get all the hype about Urban Meyer. He’s a head case. He may turn the program around in a year or two, but then he’ll bail on you and you’re back to square one. Aranda seems like a great fit. I don’t see PJ or Fitz or even our coach, Bielema, leaving their BIG school for another. Another great fit that nobody talks about is Monken. He’s a Midwest guy who would develop a run first offense in Lincoln.
I'm from Brooklyn (this is Rutgers/Penn State/Syracuse country), but I've been a Huskers fan since 1977. Your breakdowns are absolutely on point! Thank you, sir!
It was a good chance that we could be totally defeated unless we start scheduling some people that are more in our legs such as Kearney state or maybe even Chadron state. Adrian Martinez was probably the greatest Cornhusker that has ever lived, in history. I don't know if we can win without him. We have to send Alberts down to Kansas to beg him to come back. Otherwise there is no Bowl in Nebraska's future this year
Have been forward to seeing this vid - well done and very well thought out . I have watched for my third time and would like to throw in my humble thoughts. In most of your highlighted points you used the word " develop " as nearly a "throw-away" term. I believe that player development is the absolute keystone for consistency -- nearly all players who go to play college football with dreams to go to the NFL........they were usually the best player at their high school and usually their conference so developing that POTENTIAL is at the utmost of importance - PJ Fleck is an example. Recruiting is easier when a young player can see the history of development in the players before them. Please don't limit your choices by discounting to "power 5" conference experience -- EVERY coach on the potential list is or has been a coach in the quite "lesser" unquote conferences ........what's important is how they did with what they had - " the cream rises to the top "..
Agreed! If a coach can win with what he has at Nebraska, that looks like 9 wins a year minimum as opposed to 7 or 8 at a lesser school. Thanks for the support Jim
I think another expectation that the next coach needs to have is embrace the walk-on program. Nebraska had one of, if not the greatest walk-on program when Tom Osborne was the coach. This also means improving the strength and conditioning program as well. If Nebraska wants to get back to that competitive team they want to be they have to make the strength and conditioning program a priority to improve.
Honestly Nebraska should aim for an assistant at Alabama because it seems like every nick saban assistant has been doing great with their new teams. Most recent success of course Kirby Smart. Nebraska can bring in recruits and it’s still an attractive program.
@@CornCrazed honestly I’d think he’d be pretty good unless Nebraska wants a defensive coach as head coach. But O’Brien would be an interesting coach and could bring recruits that want to buy in
Deserve? Nobody deserves anything in THE BIG 10... Wins and losses are earned... That is what makes The Big 10 so great unlike what The Big 8 was. So go earn it Nebraska. Ever think maybe you are curses for crying two winning coaches out of town in Frank and Bo?
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned the James Madison coach, Curt Cignetti. He has a great resume, could come cheaper than other vet coaches, and could be looking to find that final coaching spot. Have to keep watching what they do this year with the first year in fbs. Let me know what you think.
Hey Connor! Another great video and insightful analysis! I think you are spot on with the expectations. Some of these talking heads are either clueless or trolls. I tend think that Paul Finebaum is a troll because it drives up his numbers (though sometimes I wonder). We've had the 4th best recruiting class in the Big Ten in the majority of the last 10 years. All we have to do is live up to our recruiting rankings and we would outperform what most of these talking heads are expecting. We'd have no problem achieving the expectations you set out. I'd love to see a coach that builds the program from the inside out. Dave Aranda, Kalani Sitake and Kyle Whittingham are all examples of that type of coach. It doesn't need to be one of these coaches, but whoever takes over needs to be cut from the same cloth. I watched the BYU - Baylor game two weeks ago and it felt like I was watching a Big Ten game. Hard hitting action! I think there is this fascination with offensive and defensive schemes, but the fact of the matter is that a good team with good line play is going to win no matter the scheme. Nebraska won three national titles running the option out of the power I, and even back then pundits were saying it was out of style. With the transfer portal, I don't think it takes as long to rebuild programs as it did in the past. I would say three years is plenty of time to see if it will work.
If it ain’t URBAN MEYER I’m going back to SLEEP!!! The only reason he shouldn’t be the next HC is because he turns it down. He will immediately attract 4 and 5 stars. He’ll also develop the talent that is here and put them in positions to win.
Scott Frost didn't think that he could get the players that he needed for his system and doubted that he'd be successful? Yeah that sounds nuts right. It's closer than you might imagination. The objective simply wasn't taken all that seriously and was lacking commitment right out of the gate. Success at UCF carried over to another program was too much for an inferior coach in over his head. For most unimaginable. Goodbye Scott. We're more of a mess than when Mike Riley left. To think that NEBRASKA would decline to this level is beyond comprehension.
Nobody calls Nebraska a poverty program. For as SUCKY as the team is on the field it gets some amazing fan support that the University thanks very much $$$!
USC has recruited so much better than Nebraska, that comparing USC’s turn around with a future Nebraska turn around is the biggest stretch. Nebraska can’t even sniff a tier 3 schools jock right now.
I'm excited to see what mickey joseph can do. I don't think its going to be a miracle turnaround, but I'm interested to see the progress he can make over the course of the season.
I was skeptical when you said you were doing a vid on this topic because there already million plus out thete on this topic it's like s rabbit hole . But I really Enjoyed your breakdown. Thanks
Rumors about Frost didn’t start after he left. He had rumors going around about stuff like his marriage and family. All of them turned out to be complete crap, so again these newest rumors sound like crap too.
@@CornCrazed Thank you ! You seem like a nice person not because, you agree with me. Because you do want the best for Nebraska as I do and more. Nebraska needs to get it right this time for many reasons. A Good coach helps but, need than that like more good players and persons that care in the school and the AD that will help. SF and the team didn't win more because, of different reasons. I'm Sad about what happen now I try to stay positive that Nebraska football will win again. Coaches do want to to coach at Nebraska. You are from California, I'm from California, too from the South. The weather has got better. Keep up the good work on your videos. It is about caring first because, you need to care to have a change to win.
I'm tired of these media guy's bashing lower or less successful schools like Nebraska. Coaches or coordinators wanna go anywhere they can have a real shot to prove themselves. Yes Kansas I'm looking at you. If a coach or coordinator comes to a school like Nebraska and wins he's gonna be looked up to like a star
New subscriber from a Michigan fan ... Also Maybe it's just me but when legendary programs ( The Fsu/Tennessee/Michigan/Nebraska etc etc) are good or competent college football as a whole is better..
Excellent, detailed content as usual. Agree with your tier assessment. As for hiring options, the problem is, who out there possesses all of the qualities you laid out? I can’t honestly think of one. Looking forward to your next drop and heading to find your merch today!
Lord only knows how Nebraska can be considered a tier 2 program. Our coaches suck, our players suck, and we’re professionals at losing by a touchdown or less. I hate Iowa but there’s no way they’re a tier below Nebraska😂
Lol I gave you a full breakdown as to why they’re a tier 2 job. Right now they’re terrible, but this ranking isn’t about “how good is Nebraska now”, it’s about the potential for a good coach. And yes, Iowa is absolutely below Nebraska. They don’t have the recruiting base, they don’t have the brand, they don’t have the money or the same level of fan support. They’re only tier 3 because of their recent success, otherwise they’d be tier 4.
I think your expectations are a little low if you get a big time coach, in terms of frequency of championships and expectations on recruiting classes... Even Frost pops for a couple top 15ish classes. I think Bill O'Brien fits your criteria better than anybody and I bet you he would have Nebraska popping for an occasional top 10 class. And the key thing would be , he would pull in a top tier quarterback at least every other year . A Big Ten Championship once a decade is not enough in my opinion. I'd say play for four and win at least two in a 10-year time frame. That would put us in the playoff probably three times in a decade and I don't think it is unreasonable to expect a national championship once every 10 years. Given the resources.
Coach Joseph is our coach all we need is to hire 4 more assistance coach's that are great teachers and great recruiters and get back to power football " option " tad ca.
Paul Finebaum is almost a combination of Stephan A Smith, and Colin Cowherd when it comes to stupidity Also if by chance Mickey does not get the HC job, i hope whoever they bring in highly considers keeping him around as a receivers/OC position
I keep hearing about Nebraska not being able to recruit well.... If I'm not mistaken our recruitment classes have been in the top 25 at least last year. The year before I remember hearing about us being in the top 25 recruitment class as well. I don't think it's all about our recruitment classes and more about the player's regressing after playing here.
I kinda get tired of the sense entitlement, the delusion of of the Husker fans. They were super for 36 years because they had two hall of fame coaches back to back. I rank Devaney and Osborne in the top 10 alll time. The Husker program would do well to get back to the Pelini level, let alone the Solich level, because what are the odds of getting a coach as good? And the thing is, it has NOT been recruiting. Osborne won big with a bunch of Nebraska boys, including a lot of walk ons. There is nothing particular about the job that is going to attract a name FBS coach who is already successful, as far as I can tell. So you will probably have to take a chance on some unknown guy. And if you get one of these pass happy saps to come in and air it friggin' out? Well. Just look back at what a guy named Osborne did at his peak. Hint. He didn't pussyfoot. And by the way: Osborne had no head coaching experience when he was hired.
I just don't agree. If you're a coach at a mid level school looking to get to the NEXT level, you might need more resources and lucky for us, Nebraska can offer that. I do agree that some coaches won't care though, it's about finding the right one to your point 🤷♂️
Nebraska made its bones in the Big 8. From that time donors and fans kept things going for a few years. All that is long gone. Let me explain. Take Indiana 6 million people. When a kid thinks about where to play what they grew up with matters. Now Indiana has some comp from Purdue and N Dame but can organically get 7 or the 40 possible recruits. Nebraska produces 5 decent kids a year. Nick Henrich Garrett Nelson wouldnt be starting at Indiana. They just wouldnt. Frost probably didnt understand how hard it is to get decent players on the field in Lincoln. How did we do it in the Big 8? Running QB easier to find. We told a RB he was going to get 25 carries a game. A lighter load competition wise. All that is long lomg gone. We need to go to the Mountain West. The Big Ten doimg away with divisions and adding 2 LA schools just makes it worse
Great job, as always, Connor. Well researched and your presentation is always flawless. I like to think of myself as an early adopter of your Corn Crazed channel, among the first to subscribe and spread the word; however, I don’t know much about you. Think about doing a video introducing yourself. I guess you live in LA. What’s your connection to Nebraska? Your presentation speaks to a Communications degree, true? College? I’d be interested, maybe other subscribers would too. T
I'm right agree with me if want about coaches, players teams of Nebraska history, present and future. I want to see Nebraska WIN again. It hurts to see what they the persons that run the school, the ADs and the 2 coaches did to mess things up.
I would venture to say that no team in the history of college football has taken a bigger fall than Nebraska has, even more than Tennessee. Has it even hit you that the Huskers haven't won a single CONFERENCE championship THIS millennium! Yes the Huskers got to the 2001 title game after getting blown out by Colorado in the Big 12 title game, but the Huskers should have stayed home that night. So anyways, Nebraska has had six losing seasons in a seven year period, or seven in an eight year period if they have a losing season in 2022. Husker nation just needs to sit down, relax and let the next coach have a 5+ year period to COMPLETELY demolish EVERYTHING about the current program and rebuild EVERYTHING new. The fans just need to keep quiet and let the process play out as there is A LOT of work that needs to be done. If the fans can stay out of the way and have zero expectations over the first five years, then the new coach can get a long term plan in place. Well isn't that what happened with Scott Frost? No, it's not. Frost was a coach who had short term success. Who knows what would have happened had he stayed at UCF, but had the Huskers not been so impulsive to hire one of their folk heroes and realized that he was WAY in over his head to coach a broken Husker program. He took an already dead program and drove it six feet under. Nebraska needs to hire the best coach they can get who has a resume of rebuilding programs, and no, Lance Leipold isn't leaving Kansas for Nebraska. You need to hire someone that was never associated with the Husker program because if you do, all you are doing will hiring a coach with the same tainted mindset that's caused unrealistic expectations in Lincoln. It could be ANOTHER rough 5 to 10 years for the Huskers. But then again, Kansas turned it around in less than a season after hiring Leipold, so in theory, the Huskers could do it too, they they have to get out of their own way. And remember that Nebraska isn't the attractive place to coach at like it was 21+ years ago. Get national titles, conference championships, division titles and even winning games out of your list of expectations. The Huskers have to start by dominating the line of scrimmage and then work their way up to winning the series, the halves and then the games. Unrealistic expectations are scaring potential coaches away, so STOP talking about National titles and "Is Nebraska back?".
Putting Nebraska in "Tier 2" may be a bit of a stretch sadly. It could be, but hasn't been lately. The reason ole miss or usc turned it around so quickly is because they can pull players from the transfer portal and jump recruiting ranks at the same time. Doing that allows talented coaches to turn over their roster very quickly. I don't see a 1 or 2 year turn around at nebraska as being possible. I think you can get to 7 or 8 wins after 2 or 3 years, but more than that is wishful thinking.
@@CornCrazed If you say so. If they attract a good coach who can both recruit and attract talent in the transfer portal I'll be happy to agree with you. The longer this malaise continues to more the brand degrades. Good luck.
Im hard on Nebraska I want more, league titles and National titles and I know they can't do it. They need to clean house again by firing the president' of the school and the AD and all the new coaches after the season or before, the season and put coach Brown to run the team. He should get a real change. Now I'm for the persons I mention for what they did for Nebraska went they play for them.
I think Leipold would be a flop. Yea he's off to a good start this year, but hasn't played anyone. He also went 2-10 last year. Too much risk. Matt Campbell is decent if you want 7-9 wins a year. Solid coach and Iowa is the same situation recruiting wise that nebraska is. (State wise not school) Urban Meyer brings a great track record with him, but also as much baggage. Bill O'Brien idk..Can't count his NFL career. His only exp as head coach was interim at Penn st. Probably top pick tbh, but can he build a program? Gary Patterson? Older, but might be an solid outside shot.
I think your expectations are on point. Nebraska has every to win Who would of thought Scott would sandbag the hole damn thing. Like alway Conor dig your content. GO BIG RED NNNN
Expectations are what they should be. Once things get back to what they should be then you can raise them. The next coach has to be a developer of talent regardless of what the recruiting rankings are. Get the right guys who fit what the coach wants to do and emphasize both lines instead of bringing in skill guys hoping the line will be good enough.
lets be honest our nebraska cornhuskers have not been relevant since 1999 under frank solich ....unless u a husker fan with blinders on u know this is true!!.....now that our team is a complete bag of shit...yes bag of shit!!...and add in we have not been relevant in 23 years that will be a red flag for any big name reputable coach to come to lincoln....they dont want to touch this disaster and ruin their rep....on the flip other husker fans will say they would cement their legacy by turning our huskers into a power house like they once were.....problem with that is we are 2-3 years away with GOOD recruiting from being even average football team again....and thats only with GOOD recruiting!!.....so u looking at 4-5 years to put a GOOD football team on the field again....so my point is no big name coach is going to waste 5 years on this team like that.....so what will happen is mickey will get the job after this season and i pray he can recruit...i pray!!....if not we stuck in quicksand people
Repeat after me…NEPOTISM. Frost snd trev are homies. Trev didn’t want to fire his bro. And that’s why he let him go before the contract declined like a sry I have to fire you buddy here’s an extra 7 million to say I’m sry, see you at the fishing hole next Saturday. Nebraska football is just one giant 90s reunion and that’s the problem. The program has been stripped to its frame and needs to be rebuilt on a new foundation and forget about all the legends and greats and trophies it needs to get a new identity
Connor, we have a chance to hire a rockstar… every legendary coach was, at one time, an unknown commodity… we have the resources to make it happen! In Trev we trust!
What's your #1 Expectation for this next Coaching Staff??
Big10 success
8-4 or 9-3 average wins per season along with getting into the playoff twice every 10 years.
Player recruitment/retention/development
Let's start simply, be better than the past two coaching staffs!
In my opinion I think the university needs to work more with local high schools in omaha and lincoln (and a few outlier schools) on teaching and developing more basics that we can recruit locally into the college level..
Love the videos man you and Sam are how I've stayed informed this season. Appreciate the work man
Nice, glad to have you!
That idiot Sam predicted Nebraska to win The West with that trash Big 12 type defense they have... LOL! Dude is a clown.
Zach Smith..... Awesome Guest! I'll be watching
He killed it!
Excellent breakdown from start to finish, Connor. I feel like you are spot on with what qualities and traits Trev needs to look for in our next leader. Keep up the great work providing quality content and, as always, GO BIG RED!!!
Thanks Ron, GBR!
IT IS i who thank you, Conner - your hard work and dedicatuin that keeps up the spirits of the Corn Crazes troops ( will be an Army soon - we are a brigade but new mwmbers aew growing) . Stay healthy
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I always appreciate how well you break things down, Connor. Looking forward to your next videos!
Appreciate it! More on the way brother
Good guest in tonuight's live show ................ I agree with him on Bill O'Brien TOTAL WRECK ( worst OC at Alabama in a decade
Just remember it could always be worse! We could be Hawkeye fans! GBR!!
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Urban Meyer is definitely not the answer for Nebraska. Stay away from him.
I will say that Jamey Chadwell's STYLE of offense fits the Big 10. His pistol-triple-option is so fun to watch. Its so creative.
Now hear me... I am NOT "glory days" guy that thinks we just need to go back to the option because that's what Nebraska is...
Im in favor of the triple option because in a college football world that is all spread, and slinging it all over the yard, we need to be unique and difficult to prepare for. Especially if we aren't getting top tier talent. The Veer, the Wing T, and other similar offenses that use motion on offense and unique blocking angles to level the playing field help teams like Nebraska that aren't as talented as OSU, Michigan, etc...
Paul Johnson competed for ACC conference championships at GEORGIA TECH running the triple option. Strategically speaking, I think becoming experts at that style of offense again, would catapult NU to the top of the Big 10 West(as long as its around).
But can Monkens offense succeed in the Big Ten?? I feel like they B1G could shut that down
That was the best analysis of the coaching situation I've heard.
Thanks Alan!
This Cornhusker team has no identity. It hasn't had an identity for a long time. Nebraska will never be able to contend with the likes of any team in the SEC or Big10 for that matter if they continue to try to do what every other winning championship team is doing.
Nebraska needs a coach that will come in and develop players locally. The walk-on program is so different now than it was in the 90s, roster limits and scholarship limits have drastically changed. But Nebraska needs to build their lines and focus solely on that. Bring in those big local boys tossing around haybales on the farms and begin developing these young men into beasts that other teams cannot push through but instead do the pushing.
Nebraska then should focus their recruiting efforts on a few key athletic positions, not the entire roster. Nebraska simply doesn't have the pull for recruits that can choose Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and other schools throughout the country. Nebraska needs to embrace NIL, there's a lot of money at UNL and recruits are looking for colleges that will help them build their brand.
The next coach that comes in and does this will get Nebraska back to what we, the fans, remember of the winning years in the past. Until then, mediocrity is all we'll continue to get from our beloved Huskers.
The fans need to wake up as well, it's not the 1990s anymore, football is a much different sport than it was in the 90s. Expectations are ridiculously high for a team that hasn't done anything since.
I cannot believe the comments I was reading during Mickey Joseph's FIRST post-game press conference. The dude has had one week to prepare for the toughest game of the season, and was also coming off a terrible loss to a Sun Belt team less than a week after losing their coach. Did anyone really expect the Huskers to go into this game and hang with the 6th ranked team in the country. That defense picked out the holes in our defense and crushed their spirits even more. They shut down, they quit, they lost. All of which would have happened under Frost, as it has week in and week out over the past 4 years.
I, for one, found the press conference refreshing, a coach that took ownership. Ownership of everything, he could have stood there and said he inherited this, but he didn't. He said, "This is my fault." These kids could very well rally around him, and I believe they will. But this season's games are the culmination of what's been bred into this program for years and years. Blame whichever coach you want of the past for starting it, it doesn't really matter.
I'll always watch the Huskers, I'll always back whichever coach we have, because I LOVE HUSKER FOOTBALL. But until major changes are made to the program, I unfortunately believe we'll be settling for mediocrity and a broken culture for years to come.
I'm not a coach, I'm not a football player. I can't claim to understand what it takes to win championships, but I remember what this team was when it was winning, and we've gone a far distance away from that. It's time to get back to the basics of Husker Football and what it means to play for the Cornhuskers.
Hopefully, Trev Alberts, is thinking along the same lines and will bring someone in that has the same passion, love, and drive to pursue exactly what it takes to win games and championships.
Go Big Red!
- a Husker Nation Fan
Do we need to find a different Strength and Conditioning coach?
Seems like we’re consistently getting punked on both lines, despite the endless acclaim the strength programs garners.
unfortunately, it sounds like we might
So when are you taking the job of associate athletic director? You have put more thought into this than the last 4 ADs
Trev better be watching these videos 🤣
passion and emotion sadly always trump the signs of obvious incompetence. it's why Michigan struggled so hard during our dark years, too. watching the rise and disgraceful fall of Frost felt like looking into a parallel universe. though i'm a Wolverine through and through, I became really interested in Nebraska in the last few years as they struggled with regaining their footing. I really hope you guys pull through and become the king of the West. Who isn't a fan of a redemption story? GBR
It’ll be a huge story 🤣 GBR Matt !
I need a hat like yours.
It starts with the ad not the coach
Great analysis of the job expectations and break down of what job requires.
Thanks Shawn! Lot of effort went into this one
After doing a deeper dive into the facts, I need to set some of your detractors straightened out.
If any of you truly listened to what Connor said, you’d realize he laid out the criteria used to support his opinion.
1. Championships
2. All-Time Wins
3. Bowl Appearances
4. All-Americans
5. Draft Success
6. Fan Base Strength
I’d add “recent” success to the list. Even then, Nebraska belongs in Tier 2.
They are Top 10 in every category he put out. The only other schools that can claim that are Alabama, Ohio State, and Oklahoma.
In fact, Clemson and Georgia don’t make many of those top 10 lists. It’s solely based upon recent success that they’ve made the Tier 1 list.
Keep up the good work my friend!
Thanks for that outline Greg!!
Great show!!!!
Thanks Charles!
Does anybody have a link to the scott frost lake story 👀?
Oh you bet I’m buying some merch
haha hell yea Andrew, appreciate you!
Hey, as a CFB fan, I understand what the needs are at Nebraska. People don’t realize is that they could win the B1G West and the B1G title at least once just like you mentioned.
Honestly, I 💯% agree with you but it would take lot for a HC or coordinator from a power five conference like B1G or SEC who is having a high success and winning a conference title and compete for the national title to come to tier 2 team like Nebraska.
But in my opinion, Nebraska should keep Mickey as their HC for next season or 2 while their AD looks for the potential long term HC who can turn the program around and be a good program and be ranked at least once in every 2/3 seasons which includes being a top 25 team in terms of recruiting, to be competitive in the B1G west against teams like Wisconsin, Iowa, Purdue or Minnesota .
we'll see if he can earn the job! Lot of coaches would want these resources
@@CornCrazed true
Really good analysis my man! I keep pimping the channel to my friends and family because you break things down better than the national TV guys. Keep up the good work and GBR!
You’re the man haha, I appreciate you Aaron! 🏴☠️
You said Nebraska had not landed a five-star recruit in almost 20 years. Tyjon Lindsey was a five-star recruit for Nebraska in 2017. The 5-star recruit, rated No. 5 nationally among players at the position in 247Sports' 2017 composite rankings.
He was 4 star composite, I don’t go off one recruiting service because most gave him a 4
I'm glad you touched upon this issue of national sports media, most notably ESPN, bagging on the Nebraska's head coaching search. Many celebrated critics actually went to the effort of creating bullet point arguments why it wasn't an attractive job for top tier coaches, including Urban Meyer. Then a domino effect ensued and the dog pilling began. You artfully eviscerated the nonsense. Rather than participating and falling into this thought stream I would encourage supporters of the program to take a cynical view of the sources. Nebraskans who have a historical perspective of the program know this is not a contemporary phenomena. There have always been sports opinion writers with newspaper columns devoted to denigrating the Husker program over decades. It evolved to talking heads in a variety of forums including radio, TV, and social media. The point is these pundits and national critics have motives and when you peal back the onion layer it reveals their prejudice. They have an agenda and their animus is transparent. Why they cling to this rancor and antagonism is nonsensical and a dead end. It's subterfuge and pig pen muck raking. We ignore these critics, move on, and heal. None of us who were at the Orange Bowl in Miami after crushing a Peyton Manning led Vol's team a quarter of a century ago expected the program to endure these hardships. However, none of it has deterred or detracted the most dedicated of us from abandoning the resiliency of our passion and devotion. Like the corn in the field, the wheat on the plains, and the hay in the meadows the hope of the harvest will always renew and sustain. The Huskers will rise again because the people and the fans will always endure and always have hope. GBR
I sure hope you're right! Tired of these national people too haha
Wisconsin has finished outside the top 25, 3 out of the last 4 years though.
true!
Connor your the man always positive you definitely give me hope !!!! 🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘
haha I got you Charlie!
I believe that any HC hire should be from a power 5 conference program that has a solid history of winning. Even if they rarely make it to a Natty. Whether it be a current or past HC, offensive coordinator, so on and so forth. One thing I know for sure is that we need a HC that knows how to motivate the players and coaches. I'm going to use one of our opponents' coaches as an example here... Fitzpatrick. I know you can practically count on Northwestern having up and down seasons consecutively. (A real contender one year and the next being near or at the bottom of the barrel). But if you dive deeper into their recruiting, they rarely get many 4 star recruits, NO 5 stars in current history and more often than not, develope these 3 and the few 4 stars into NFL talent. Just imagine for a minute how good Northwestern would be if they could consistently real in more 4 and some 5 star recruits. (IMO), they would be a yearly contender for the B1G west.
That's the kind of leadership we need. Who knows. If Mickey Joseph can become that kind of coach, we need to keep him. If not, then we need to keep looking.
As for the rumors about Frost, I agree with you. For the moment I'm can only assume that they are just that. ... Rumors. That is until we hear from an independent investigation into said rumors. I hate to think that these are true, but only time will tell.
I'm going to do my best to catch your live show tonight, but if not, you can bet that I'll catch it afterwards.
If you were wondering, my shoulder is doing much better now after my surgery. I've opted to go to physical therapy 3 times a week instead of just twice. In some areas of my recovery I'm right on track, but in others, mainly my "active" mobility I'm far ahead of the curve. According to my Torture Maiden, er, uh, I mean physical therapist I'm far beyond 85% of any others in my stage of recovery.
Sorry for this being so long, but I figured you might be interested in that.
(Hopefully), see you tonight and GO BIG RED!!!
I think that in coaching circles Nebraska is known for firing 9 win coaches. It was necessary to give Frost every possible opportunity to succeed if we wanted to get a decent coach. Plus the competition for coaches last year was fierce. I also think that good programs don’t leak negative info to media and fans. That was one of the things that got Pelini fired. Osborne was exceptional at keeping problems in house. To me the idea that Frost was dropping the ball and it never reached our insatiable media is promising.
As it pertains to coaching hires I think Harvey Pearlman rooked this program for 2 decades. The 9 win fires were only made worse by the ignorant hires to replace them. These weren’t small misses but evidence of a complete misunderstanding of our programs strengths and weaknesses. Going forward Nebraska needs to get off its moral high horse and hire the best football coach that will accept the job. To me that is #1 Urban Meyer #2 Hugh Freeze. Exceptional coaches aren’t available unless they have some dirt on them. Why not forgive and rehab here? Wouldn’t that be the highest moral ground? There are some up and coming coaches but most of them don’t have a history of playing physical games week in and week out. Plus Frost was an up and coming coach and the Nebraska job was way too much for him to handle. Programs like Nebraska aren’t as simple to run as programs with lower expectations. A coach can only wow Nebraska’s media and fans with the speed of recovery and not by pushing through a predetermined ceiling. And a Nebraska coach has a PR nightmare on his hands win loose or draw. He has to talk to boosters, media and fans and everything he says and does is dissected under a microscope. That’s a lot of stress. I think Fickell, Campbell and Aranda have avoided big jobs because of the Eiffel Tower expectations and the matching stress. We need a coach that thrives in that world.
I’ve been thinking Hugh Freeze would be a great fit for Nebraska. Yes, he’s had his scandals, but if he could show Trev Alberts that he’s grown past that, it would be a great opportunity for redemption. Also, he has shown success at Ole Miss, and is doing well at Liberty right now.
Let’s go from a Frost… to a Freeze.
I got the feeling when I heard that Joseph was coming in to be the WR coach that he was way above taking that job, and though he has not been a head coach at the top level, he was assistant head coach at LSU and has been a head coach at the NAIA level, so he's not going to be surprised by the job, and I figured he was getting close to taking a head coaching job somewhere, if not here.
When I saw that Mickey had been named the assistant head coach under Frost, I thought that it made sense that he was brought in to replace Frost all along, unless of course Frost accepted the new help gracefully and the team succeeded.
Yet, I think Trev knew that Scott was not likely to do that, and now I remember little comments from Frost that may have been clues to how things were actually going.
Of course, Scott was saying that the marriage of the two offenses was going well, but then he made some comments to the press that made me think that possibly Mark and Mickey had given him some tough love about letting them run the offense, though of course they were careful to say that Scott was in charge.
It all felt odd, but then, of course, he proved he was in charge by calling the on-side kick, which almost felt like a room full of grownups that were at the mercy of a child, like an episode of Twighlight Zone.
I thought that I was imaging the whole thing until things continued to look bad, and it seemed that Scott was doing nothing about the defensive problems. Maybe if Scott had fired Chins, or told him to start tackling more in practice, he would have shown that he knew what needed to happen to fix things. Maybe that no-tackle policy was Scott's, not Chinander's. It doesn't matter now, but obviously that was a ridiculous way to build a physical team.
I saw that the offense under Mark and Mickey was showing potential, despite the glaring problems in the trenches, but when they wanted a change-up, it was Logan who came in to run option, not Purdy, though Purdy was clearly the backup for Thompson in Whipple's offense. It felt like a power struggle, but overall, it looked like Whipple was winning control of the offense, though Scott had his guys that he wanted to see get time.
The offensive issues were really minor things that, again, I could have been imagining, but the defense was clearly hapless, and Chins was just saying the same things he always said and seemed not to see the glaring problems, and nothing was being done to fix things.
So, when Scott was fired and Mickey was named as the interim, it confirmed what I had been thinking, and I wondered if Chins had a chance of surviving the changeover. He lasted a week longer than I expected.
Now, with Busch as the DC, it feels like a huge upgrade in coaching if only the team will buy-in to having to work much harder to catch up to where they ought to be.
They probably don't have time to get a ton of improvement in the trenches, but there are schematic changes that they can make to help mitigate the fact that they are small on the defensive front and weak at the offensive tackles.
In the long run, I believe that we already have a dream team of coaches, and I really hope that they can get enough improvement from these kids to win the jobs permanently. If they do, it will prove that Trev is the genius that I think he is.
GBR!
Illini fan here. I don’t get all the hype about Urban Meyer. He’s a head case. He may turn the program around in a year or two, but then he’ll bail on you and you’re back to square one. Aranda seems like a great fit. I don’t see PJ or Fitz or even our coach, Bielema, leaving their BIG school for another.
Another great fit that nobody talks about is Monken. He’s a Midwest guy who would develop a run first offense in Lincoln.
I'm from Brooklyn (this is Rutgers/Penn State/Syracuse country), but I've been a Huskers fan since 1977. Your breakdowns are absolutely on point! Thank you, sir!
Thanks for watching in New York Owen!
It was a good chance that we could be totally defeated unless we start scheduling some people that are more in our legs such as Kearney state or maybe even Chadron state. Adrian Martinez was probably the greatest Cornhusker that has ever lived, in history. I don't know if we can win without him. We have to send Alberts down to Kansas to beg him to come back. Otherwise there is no Bowl in Nebraska's future this year
Have been forward to seeing this vid - well done and very well thought out . I have watched for my third time and would like to throw in my humble thoughts. In most of your highlighted points you used the word " develop " as nearly a "throw-away" term. I believe that player development is the absolute keystone for consistency -- nearly all players who go to play college football with dreams to go to the NFL........they were usually the best player at their high school and usually their conference so developing that POTENTIAL is at the utmost of importance - PJ Fleck is an example. Recruiting is easier when a young player can see the history of development in the players before them. Please don't limit your choices by discounting to "power 5" conference experience -- EVERY coach on the potential list is or has been a coach in the quite "lesser" unquote conferences ........what's important is how they did with what they had - " the cream rises to the top "..
Agreed! If a coach can win with what he has at Nebraska, that looks like 9 wins a year minimum as opposed to 7 or 8 at a lesser school. Thanks for the support Jim
I think another expectation that the next coach needs to have is embrace the walk-on program. Nebraska had one of, if not the greatest walk-on program when Tom Osborne was the coach. This also means improving the strength and conditioning program as well. If Nebraska wants to get back to that competitive team they want to be they have to make the strength and conditioning program a priority to improve.
Kansas beast Texas last year with a walk on receiver
Honestly Nebraska should aim for an assistant at Alabama because it seems like every nick saban assistant has been doing great with their new teams. Most recent success of course Kirby Smart. Nebraska can bring in recruits and it’s still an attractive program.
Well that option right now is O’Brien’
@@CornCrazed honestly I’d think he’d be pretty good unless Nebraska wants a defensive coach as head coach. But O’Brien would be an interesting coach and could bring recruits that want to buy in
Look at Dave Clawson's resume. Dumpster fire to 10 wins at every stop.
Yep, he’s a builder!
Expectations are 100% fair and what we need and deserve, great content as always brotha!
thanks Joshua!
Deserve? Nobody deserves anything in THE BIG 10... Wins and losses are earned... That is what makes The Big 10 so great unlike what The Big 8 was. So go earn it Nebraska. Ever think maybe you are curses for crying two winning coaches out of town in Frank and Bo?
@@beebers99 I'm saying deserve and need a splash hire coach, not wins
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned the James Madison coach, Curt Cignetti. He has a great resume, could come cheaper than other vet coaches, and could be looking to find that final coaching spot. Have to keep watching what they do this year with the first year in fbs. Let me know what you think.
He’s a great fit for a tier 3 school who can afford the risk, but we need a sure thing I think!
Hey Connor! Another great video and insightful analysis! I think you are spot on with the expectations. Some of these talking heads are either clueless or trolls. I tend think that Paul Finebaum is a troll because it drives up his numbers (though sometimes I wonder). We've had the 4th best recruiting class in the Big Ten in the majority of the last 10 years. All we have to do is live up to our recruiting rankings and we would outperform what most of these talking heads are expecting. We'd have no problem achieving the expectations you set out. I'd love to see a coach that builds the program from the inside out. Dave Aranda, Kalani Sitake and Kyle Whittingham are all examples of that type of coach. It doesn't need to be one of these coaches, but whoever takes over needs to be cut from the same cloth. I watched the BYU - Baylor game two weeks ago and it felt like I was watching a Big Ten game. Hard hitting action! I think there is this fascination with offensive and defensive schemes, but the fact of the matter is that a good team with good line play is going to win no matter the scheme. Nebraska won three national titles running the option out of the power I, and even back then pundits were saying it was out of style. With the transfer portal, I don't think it takes as long to rebuild programs as it did in the past. I would say three years is plenty of time to see if it will work.
Portal and NIL has made the process, MUCH FASTER. Need 1 or 2 years now
If it ain’t URBAN MEYER I’m going back to SLEEP!!! The only reason he shouldn’t be the next HC is because he turns it down. He will immediately attract 4 and 5 stars. He’ll also develop the talent that is here and put them in positions to win.
Scott frost and company weren't able to develop players. The biggest mistake he made was bringing all of his assistant coaches from Florida.
Scott Frost didn't think that he could get the players that he needed for his system and doubted that he'd be successful? Yeah that sounds nuts right. It's closer than you might imagination. The objective simply wasn't taken all that seriously and was lacking commitment right out of the gate. Success at UCF carried over to another program was too much for an inferior coach in over his head. For most unimaginable. Goodbye Scott. We're more of a mess than when Mike Riley left. To think that NEBRASKA would decline to this level is beyond comprehension.
A lot for this next coach to clean up. 7 wins and he’s a hero lol
Nobody calls Nebraska a poverty program. For as SUCKY as the team is on the field it gets some amazing fan support that the University thanks very much $$$!
You are definitely on point
Thanks Darrell
I would think a win over Troy would look mighty impressive to Nebraska fans...
lmao
Finebaum, makes his show work by being contentious. It's not like he is held to his past positions so he only benefits from being like that
USC has recruited so much better than Nebraska, that comparing USC’s turn around with a future Nebraska turn around is the biggest stretch. Nebraska can’t even sniff a tier 3 schools jock right now.
Not comparing them. Just saying to make Nebraska a 7 win team in 2 years is not a stretch. Look at Kansas and look at Baylor.
That is BC,MR because you never trade FS,BP for the coaches above Winners for Loses.
I'm excited to see what mickey joseph can do. I don't think its going to be a miracle turnaround, but I'm interested to see the progress he can make over the course of the season.
They’ll get better forsure
Paul F, knows nothing except SEC
Simple UNL should have kept Bo.
Yep….. bet 9 win seasons would be greatly appreciated
I was skeptical when you said you were doing a vid on this topic because there already million plus out thete on this topic it's like s rabbit hole . But I really Enjoyed your breakdown. Thanks
Brian, you know mine will always be unique and worth the watch ;)
Rumors about Frost didn’t start after he left. He had rumors going around about stuff like his marriage and family. All of them turned out to be complete crap, so again these newest rumors sound like crap too.
Says who?
@@philspear73 Which part?
Something has to be true at this point since the rumors are coming from inside. maybe not all, but some.
Nebraska has a Great history and can WIN !
Agree with you Arthur!
@@CornCrazed Thank you ! You seem like a nice person not because, you agree with me. Because you do want the best for Nebraska as I do and more. Nebraska needs to get it right this time for many reasons. A Good coach helps but, need than that like more good players and persons that care in the school and the AD that will help. SF and the team didn't win more because, of different reasons. I'm Sad about what happen now I try to stay positive that Nebraska football will win again. Coaches do want to to coach at Nebraska. You are from California, I'm from California, too from the South. The weather has got better. Keep up the good work on your videos. It is about caring first because, you need to care to have a change to win.
@@CornCrazed WIn in life not just in football.
I'm tired of these media guy's bashing lower or less successful schools like Nebraska. Coaches or coordinators wanna go anywhere they can have a real shot to prove themselves. Yes Kansas I'm looking at you. If a coach or coordinator comes to a school like Nebraska and wins he's gonna be looked up to like a star
very true
Oh…… like everyone loves to rip on Maryland, Rutgers Kansas and Vanderbilt.
Face it, thsts nebraska, a punchline
GRAMMAR POLICE ALERT - "Alumni" is plural. I think you meant "alumnus" - which is singular. Even the shortened "alum" is now acceptable
Get this man on CBS 24/7
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New subscriber from a Michigan fan ... Also Maybe it's just me but when legendary programs ( The Fsu/Tennessee/Michigan/Nebraska etc etc) are good or competent college football as a whole is better..
Thanks for bein here! We need these powers to get back! It’s been a rough few years for everybody lol
Thanks for bein here! We need these powers to get back! It’s been a rough few years for everybody lol
Get the players on the field who won't get pushed off the line.
need 10 guys ready to hold it down
No limiting ourselves. No thinking small. It doesn’t hurt to talk to EVERYONE!!!!!!!
Paul Finebaum hates everything that isn't SEC.
Excellent, detailed content as usual. Agree with your tier assessment. As for hiring options, the problem is, who out there possesses all of the qualities you laid out? I can’t honestly think of one. Looking forward to your next drop and heading to find your merch today!
It's hard to find someone who posses all, just hoping we get someone with a few of them! Thanks for the support Greg!
I did a great video on this topic. You should check it out on Outlaw of College Football
I think you made an excellent point and I agree the next coach ideally would have SEC or BIG experience. Those two conferences set the standard.
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let Mickey do his job and see where they end up.
Six wins is a good start.
Lord only knows how Nebraska can be considered a tier 2 program. Our coaches suck, our players suck, and we’re professionals at losing by a touchdown or less. I hate Iowa but there’s no way they’re a tier below Nebraska😂
Lol I gave you a full breakdown as to why they’re a tier 2 job. Right now they’re terrible, but this ranking isn’t about “how good is Nebraska now”, it’s about the potential for a good coach. And yes, Iowa is absolutely below Nebraska. They don’t have the recruiting base, they don’t have the brand, they don’t have the money or the same level of fan support. They’re only tier 3 because of their recent success, otherwise they’d be tier 4.
I think your expectations are a little low if you get a big time coach, in terms of frequency of championships and expectations on recruiting classes... Even Frost pops for a couple top 15ish classes. I think Bill O'Brien fits your criteria better than anybody and I bet you he would have Nebraska popping for an occasional top 10 class. And the key thing would be , he would pull in a top tier quarterback at least every other year . A Big Ten Championship once a decade is not enough in my opinion. I'd say play for four and win at least two in a 10-year time frame. That would put us in the playoff probably three times in a decade and I don't think it is unreasonable to expect a national championship once every 10 years. Given the resources.
I agree, these are the bare minimum expectations for the new coach
Don't hire Matt Campbell. The big 12 sucks and they don't play defense.
You really don't know football in 2022
Haha Big 12 sucks, but Campbell doesn’t haha
Alot of good points. GBR!!
Thanks Chad!
Great analysis!
What’s with the bed in the background?
Thanks & I'm not sure, it was just there so I didn't move it!
Pat Fitz would be AWESOME wouldn’t happen but what if?
That would be crazy. He'd have way more talent haha
Not a chance in hell, he’s never leaving northwestern
Nebraska football will rise again!
Coach Joseph is our coach all we need is to hire 4 more assistance coach's that are great teachers and great recruiters and get back to power football " option " tad ca.
Paul Finebaum is almost a combination of Stephan A Smith, and Colin Cowherd when it comes to stupidity
Also if by chance Mickey does not get the HC job, i hope whoever they bring in highly considers keeping him around as a receivers/OC position
I think the odds are looking good for Mickey! I hope so at least lol
Smartest thing any new coach could do is keep Joseph as a Ace recruiter and WR coach..
The current coach is enough
I keep hearing about Nebraska not being able to recruit well.... If I'm not mistaken our recruitment classes have been in the top 25 at least last year. The year before I remember hearing about us being in the top 25 recruitment class as well. I don't think it's all about our recruitment classes and more about the player's regressing after playing here.
You are mistaken…they just have average and not even top 30 classes these days
last year 32 I believe, usually top 25!
FS, BP were winners and had Good team
I think Mickey Joseph deserves a look for the next few weeks as well. Don't you think?
Nope, get him out too. I’m tired of Nebraska hiring because they are former players of Nebraska, or the fact that they are nice guys.
No
I do believe he deserves a look forsure!
Man I hate saying it but we closer to tier 3 than you think. Based on Nebraska just in the big ten history.
the program is still carrying a ton of weight and the financials are saving them.
@@CornCrazed lot easier to be saved collecting Wins. It's the cure. Great content 👍
I kinda get tired of the sense entitlement, the delusion of of the Husker fans. They were super for 36 years because they had two hall of fame coaches back to back. I rank Devaney and Osborne in the top 10 alll time. The Husker program would do well to get back to the Pelini level, let alone the Solich level, because what are the odds of getting a coach as good? And the thing is, it has NOT been recruiting. Osborne won big with a bunch of Nebraska boys, including a lot of walk ons. There is nothing particular about the job that is going to attract a name FBS coach who is already successful, as far as I can tell. So you will probably have to take a chance on some unknown guy. And if you get one of these pass happy saps to come in and air it friggin' out? Well. Just look back at what a guy named Osborne did at his peak. Hint. He didn't pussyfoot. And by the way: Osborne had no head coaching experience when he was hired.
I just don't agree. If you're a coach at a mid level school looking to get to the NEXT level, you might need more resources and lucky for us, Nebraska can offer that. I do agree that some coaches won't care though, it's about finding the right one to your point 🤷♂️
Good deal on the merch I’m bout to buy some
Thanks bro!
Nebraska made its bones in the Big 8. From that time donors and fans kept things going for a few years. All that is long gone. Let me explain. Take Indiana 6 million people. When a kid thinks about where to play what they grew up with matters. Now Indiana has some comp from Purdue and N Dame but can organically get 7 or the 40 possible recruits. Nebraska produces 5 decent kids a year. Nick Henrich Garrett Nelson wouldnt be starting at Indiana. They just wouldnt. Frost probably didnt understand how hard it is to get decent players on the field in Lincoln. How did we do it in the Big 8? Running QB easier to find. We told a RB he was going to get 25 carries a game. A lighter load competition wise. All that is long lomg gone. We need to go to the Mountain West. The Big Ten doimg away with divisions and adding 2 LA schools just makes it worse
Great job, as always, Connor. Well researched and your presentation is always flawless.
I like to think of myself as an early adopter of your Corn Crazed channel, among the first to subscribe and spread the word; however, I don’t know much about you. Think about doing a video introducing yourself. I guess you live in LA. What’s your connection to Nebraska? Your presentation speaks to a Communications degree, true? College? I’d be interested, maybe other subscribers would too.
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Ok, I think that would be a good idea. You're right, no one knows much about me haha/ And thanks for bein here from the start!
I'm right agree with me if want about coaches, players teams of Nebraska history, present and future. I want to see Nebraska WIN again. It hurts to see what they the persons that run the school, the ADs and the 2 coaches did to mess things up.
Keep Mickey
We must stop salivating over coaches who turned programs around in one year or two. Frost did that, and look where we are.
It’s tough because those are the coaches who are poachable and who’ve proven they can do what we need
I would venture to say that no team in the history of college football has taken a bigger fall than Nebraska has, even more than Tennessee. Has it even hit you that the Huskers haven't won a single CONFERENCE championship THIS millennium! Yes the Huskers got to the 2001 title game after getting blown out by Colorado in the Big 12 title game, but the Huskers should have stayed home that night.
So anyways, Nebraska has had six losing seasons in a seven year period, or seven in an eight year period if they have a losing season in 2022. Husker nation just needs to sit down, relax and let the next coach have a 5+ year period to COMPLETELY demolish EVERYTHING about the current program and rebuild EVERYTHING new. The fans just need to keep quiet and let the process play out as there is A LOT of work that needs to be done. If the fans can stay out of the way and have zero expectations over the first five years, then the new coach can get a long term plan in place.
Well isn't that what happened with Scott Frost? No, it's not. Frost was a coach who had short term success. Who knows what would have happened had he stayed at UCF, but had the Huskers not been so impulsive to hire one of their folk heroes and realized that he was WAY in over his head to coach a broken Husker program. He took an already dead program and drove it six feet under.
Nebraska needs to hire the best coach they can get who has a resume of rebuilding programs, and no, Lance Leipold isn't leaving Kansas for Nebraska. You need to hire someone that was never associated with the Husker program because if you do, all you are doing will hiring a coach with the same tainted mindset that's caused unrealistic expectations in Lincoln.
It could be ANOTHER rough 5 to 10 years for the Huskers. But then again, Kansas turned it around in less than a season after hiring Leipold, so in theory, the Huskers could do it too, they they have to get out of their own way. And remember that Nebraska isn't the attractive place to coach at like it was 21+ years ago.
Get national titles, conference championships, division titles and even winning games out of your list of expectations. The Huskers have to start by dominating the line of scrimmage and then work their way up to winning the series, the halves and then the games. Unrealistic expectations are scaring potential coaches away, so STOP talking about National titles and "Is Nebraska back?".
Has anyone fallen further?
If you want to go back….. way back……. Army / navy
Putting Nebraska in "Tier 2" may be a bit of a stretch sadly. It could be, but hasn't been lately. The reason ole miss or usc turned it around so quickly is because they can pull players from the transfer portal and jump recruiting ranks at the same time. Doing that allows talented coaches to turn over their roster very quickly. I don't see a 1 or 2 year turn around at nebraska as being possible. I think you can get to 7 or 8 wins after 2 or 3 years, but more than that is wishful thinking.
I strongly disagree with all of this haha, Nebraska's no different than any Tier 2 school outside of bad coaching for 8+ years
@@CornCrazed If you say so. If they attract a good coach who can both recruit and attract talent in the transfer portal I'll be happy to agree with you. The longer this malaise continues to more the brand degrades. Good luck.
Im hard on Nebraska I want more, league titles and National titles and I know they can't do it. They need to clean house again by firing the president' of the school and the AD and all the new coaches after the season or before, the season and put coach Brown to run the team. He should get a real change. Now I'm for the persons I mention for what they did for Nebraska went they play for them.
Connor, developing players has been the biggest problem. Why has it been a developmental Bermuda Triangle?
good question, I guess these coaches are just off with culture
I think Leipold would be a flop. Yea he's off to a good start this year, but hasn't played anyone. He also went 2-10 last year. Too much risk.
Matt Campbell is decent if you want 7-9 wins a year. Solid coach and Iowa is the same situation recruiting wise that nebraska is. (State wise not school)
Urban Meyer brings a great track record with him, but also as much baggage.
Bill O'Brien idk..Can't count his NFL career. His only exp as head coach was interim at Penn st. Probably top pick tbh, but can he build a program?
Gary Patterson? Older, but might be an solid outside shot.
Right now Matt sounds the best
@@CornCrazed yea, I just don't know if the school can get enough boosters behind him..also doesn't help that he typically loses to Iowa
I know my favorite team Nebraska
I think your expectations are on point. Nebraska has every to win Who would of thought Scott would sandbag the hole damn thing. Like alway Conor dig your content. GO BIG RED NNNN
We’re Nebraska ranks as a program ahhhh The Mountain West. ☹
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Expectations are what they should be. Once things get back to what they should be then you can raise them. The next coach has to be a developer of talent regardless of what the recruiting rankings are. Get the right guys who fit what the coach wants to do and emphasize both lines instead of bringing in skill guys hoping the line will be good enough.
lets be honest our nebraska cornhuskers have not been relevant since 1999 under frank solich ....unless u a husker fan with blinders on u know this is true!!.....now that our team is a complete bag of shit...yes bag of shit!!...and add in we have not been relevant in 23 years that will be a red flag for any big name reputable coach to come to lincoln....they dont want to touch this disaster and ruin their rep....on the flip other husker fans will say they would cement their legacy by turning our huskers into a power house like they once were.....problem with that is we are 2-3 years away with GOOD recruiting from being even average football team again....and thats only with GOOD recruiting!!.....so u looking at 4-5 years to put a GOOD football team on the field again....so my point is no big name coach is going to waste 5 years on this team like that.....so what will happen is mickey will get the job after this season and i pray he can recruit...i pray!!....if not we stuck in quicksand people
Walk ons old tradition! Reduce it to other programs size! Send them to a JUCO first! The OLD no longer working!
Repeat after me…NEPOTISM. Frost snd trev are homies. Trev didn’t want to fire his bro. And that’s why he let him go before the contract declined like a sry I have to fire you buddy here’s an extra 7 million to say I’m sry, see you at the fishing hole next Saturday. Nebraska football is just one giant 90s reunion and that’s the problem. The program has been stripped to its frame and needs to be rebuilt on a new foundation and forget about all the legends and greats and trophies it needs to get a new identity
It’s possible but frost rescheduled his contract last year to take less money…
Connor, we have a chance to hire a rockstar… every legendary coach was, at one time, an unknown commodity… we have the resources to make it happen! In Trev we trust!
Hopefully he makes the right move!