Might not really help them. Even with Martinez, NE would not have much of a chance.
Indiana AD’s Statement On Nebraska...WOW
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I thought it was complaining that they were a 1 1/2 dog to Indiana. That they couldn't believe anyone could think that Indiana had a chance.
Iowa has 81 freshman & sophs on their 124 man roster.
Frost is an awful PR guy. Has a way with words that ends up being bulletin board material.
The D never leaves a d-bag.
I'm sure they will want to win, but wanting doesn't work all year in the weight room, puts in film session, and helps game plan. I am not impressed with the coaching staff nor the level of play at Nebraska in some time. I see a group of very undisciplined athletes that are getting pushed around by almost every team they play in the Big 10. They seem to want to chirp rather than work.
A very easy team and program to dislike. They've never done it the right way. Going to be fun making it 5 in a row. We'll be ready.
It was probably the wrong place to make the statement (at B1G media days about playing IU vs. OSU), but the cross-division scheduling is weird.
Last Saturday was only the second time Nebraska and Indiana have played since Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011 and it was IU's first trip to Lincoln whereas the Huskers and Buckeyes have met six times over the last eight years.
Last Saturday was only the second time Nebraska and Indiana have played since Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011 and it was IU's first trip to Lincoln whereas the Huskers and Buckeyes have met six times over the last eight years.
Yup. They give you a crossover you play 5 years in a row. Iowa has played Maryland and Rutgers only twice, but Penn St about every year.
That's why these super conferences are stupid.
That is weird. I figured it was a mathematical rotation. How do they do the cross over scheduling?
I feel no pity for Frost. He brought it on himself.
Chatelain: How could everyone be so wrong about the 2019 Huskers? Ask the coach
But as you’re trying to figure out how almost everyone could be SO wrong about Nebraska football in 2019, stop blaming the national media who picked NU for the Top 25. Stop blaming the Big Ten media who picked NU to win the West. Stop blaming the local media who gave you 19 stories to read every day in the offseason, almost all of them optimistic. Stop blaming Husker Kool-Aid drinkers who fall into the same trap every offseason, thinking that only their team lifted weights and recruited playmakers.
You know why everyone thought Nebraska had turned the corner in 2019? Because Frost said so!
I’m not rubbing his nose in it. I’m merely pointing out that outsiders got Nebraska wrong because the insiders got Nebraska wrong.
Frost, as it turned out, dramatically overstated his team’s prospects. He’s the homebuilder who promised he’d be painting your walls in six months and it turns out he’s still framing.
Chatelain: How could everyone be so wrong about the 2019 Huskers? Ask the coach
But as you’re trying to figure out how almost everyone could be SO wrong about Nebraska football in 2019, stop blaming the national media who picked NU for the Top 25. Stop blaming the Big Ten media who picked NU to win the West. Stop blaming the local media who gave you 19 stories to read every day in the offseason, almost all of them optimistic. Stop blaming Husker Kool-Aid drinkers who fall into the same trap every offseason, thinking that only their team lifted weights and recruited playmakers.
You know why everyone thought Nebraska had turned the corner in 2019? Because Frost said so!
I’m not rubbing his nose in it. I’m merely pointing out that outsiders got Nebraska wrong because the insiders got Nebraska wrong.
Frost, as it turned out, dramatically overstated his team’s prospects. He’s the homebuilder who promised he’d be painting your walls in six months and it turns out he’s still framing.
That's really a glorious stat.........great way to start the week, especially as
an Iowa Hawkeye fan, a team that currently ranks #19 in the USA !
GO HAWKS
I have been wondering this as well. He reminds me of John Calapari talking to the media when things don't go well.
He totally dissed his D Line after the game. When asked how he could generate more pass rush, instead of saying that the Coaching staff needs to come up with better schemes......he just simply said "we need to get guys in here who can do it at this level"
I wonder how hard these kids will continue to lay it on the line for a Coach who keeps telling the media they aren't good enough.
Would love some Husker fan perspective on this. Does it bother you guys?
The better parallel would be Glass letting Allen go after “evaluating where Nebraska was at as a program...”
'member when they were gonna come into the Big 10 and dominate every year? Good times...
I disagree for the most part that you can compare Alford to Frost.
Alford had a winning record and took Iowa to multiple NCAA Tournaments. Frost hasn’t even gotten his team bowl eligible. And I don’t think Alford ever lost a game by 40+ points (Frost has, twice).
Pierre Pierce is the only legal issue Alford had and if I recall, Pierce was suspended for the year upon allegations and prior to charges. He was then charged with a misdemeanor (where the charge was later expunged) and was only then allowed to return. Even then, this was a big reason Alford was forced out.
This. Nebraska comes off as whiners, like the conference office is out to get them. It's designed that way to put the top teams in the East against the top in the West against each other in order to bolster the SOS. We have had Penn State as our crossover, they've gotten OSU, and Wisco has had Michigan.
We got UM and PSU this season. We've played OSU recently (and won). Huskers should quit complaining about how unfair the schedule is and just play the games in front of you.
Notice how they don't mention how unfair it is that prior to their arrival Iowa would have to play OSU, UM, PSU, UW, etc, etc almost every single year. Yeah, the Big Ten isn't just a two team conference, it has some depth, as they are finding out.
Maybe we shouldn't consider Nebraska as one of the top teams in the West and give Minnesota or Northwestern the big crossover game against one of the top 3 in the East.
According to a Indianapolis radio show the guy asked Don Fisher what this was about and his reply was that he heard last year in a news conference someone asked Frost about Nebraska struggles and his reply was well we aren't playing Indiana every weekend.
Frost made several references to his players need to buy into the program and put team first (paraphrasing) during the post-game interview. Just kept thinking to myself about his recruiting style....not exactly selective. How can you recruit players with a history breaking team rules and expect that pattern to change once you don a Husker uniform? Mills was booted from his former team for constantly breaking rules and Robinson was smoking on campus before ever stepping on the field. And wasn't Washington removed from his CA football team?
Nebraska is the Miami of the Big Ten. Lots of trash talk and they were a lot better in the 90's than they have been in recent decades.
Nebraska ... I absolutely love that they've become the punch line of the B10. Nebraska fan right now: "Hey, at least we're not Rutgers!"
lol, nice. Actually, I think Nebraska is looking up at Miami at this point. I bet UNL wishes they were in the ACC this year--hell, every year!
The only reason they chose the Rutgers is because they don’t have to play them this year so it’s a sure fire non-loss.
Watched a few minutes of Frosty's presser just now. BTN scrolled a couple of stats that show what a cluster frick it is in Lincoln. Saturday was the 4th time in Frosty's tenure that they have gained 500+ yards and lost, and it was the 5th time this year that they have given up 34 or more points. Also, Saturday they were 20-23 for 294 yards in the pass game but chose to run the ball 50 times at 4ypc in a losing cause. If that isn't great coaching I don't know what it is!
Here is another interesting tidbit from Mr. Frosty (from husker online)
***Frost also pointed to the Minnesota game where guys were wearing hoodies and long sleeves because they thought it was too cold.
“You got ridiculed or beat up for doing stuff like that when I played,” Frost said. To him, that said: just OK is good enough. “There’s a difference between doing it because we tell them to do it and doing it because they want to be here.”
You ain't in Florida anymore.
***Frost also pointed to the Minnesota game where guys were wearing hoodies and long sleeves because they thought it was too cold.
“You got ridiculed or beat up for doing stuff like that when I played,” Frost said. To him, that said: just OK is good enough. “There’s a difference between doing it because we tell them to do it and doing it because they want to be here.”
You ain't in Florida anymore.
I think that is the thing with winning the recruiting title of the West each year. Frost (and Nebraska in general) recruits players with stars to be Players. Iowa and Wisconsin recruit players with fewer stars to be TEAMMATES. The Nebraska players have talent but no vision of the team and it drags them down. The Iowa and Wisconsin players maximize their talent within the team and it pulls them up collectively.
Two different approaches and I think we have seen which approach produces better results on the field and more players advancing to the NFL.
Two different approaches and I think we have seen which approach produces better results on the field and more players advancing to the NFL.
I love reading this reporter blame Frost for unrealistic expectations as if Frost brought unrealistic expectations to Lincoln. That’s some fake news.
They also pretty much said colorado was lucky they won last year and there was no way braska was gonna lose that game. They like talking a lot more than hitting.
It is hilarious how some pornhuskers really think there is some big conspiracy by the b1g to make them bad. They actually think the b1g brought them in just to turn them into a losing program! TOO FUNNY!!
What happened with Martinez? Pulled or hurt? I caught a few minutes of their game and McCaffrey was in at QB.
https://journalstar.com/sports/husk...cle_8cef210f-bdec-5d6e-92e2-3574c1cfdb06.html
I kind of hope they let him play. I don't like seeing someone get injured but he is such a lippy effer that I could stand it in his case, especially if he gets chippy...
That is an admission that Nebraska was only good in the past because they played in a weak conference. That’s been what non Nebraska fans have been pointing out for decades, but it’s nice to hear them admit it.
Thanks. I missed that, which is strange for this board. Generally I make it a rule not to click on Husker threads, but this one is a Hoosier thread.
True, I didn’t think any sportswriter could possibly have more unrealistic expectations about Husker football than Tom Shatel, until Dirk Chatelain came along and said “hold my beer...”
After getting trounced by Ohio State, Frosty said it was a contest between two college football blue bloods.
This is a really good article from the Crimson Quarry.
Some excerpts:
Per a couple of sources around the conference, Frost had allegedly raised complaints that Nebraska’s schedule was too difficult — and that they should play Indiana more.
Details aren’t uber-specific about the context of the remarks, but multiple sources around the conference confirmed to Crimson Quarry that Frost had raised complaints in discussions privately and publicly that Nebraska had been saddled with a difficult of a cross-divisional Big Ten schedule in future seasons. His specific complaint? His team needs more games against historically weaker programs, citing Indiana specifically by name. Of course, that became bulletin board material for Tom Allen’s Hoosiers in the lead up to Saturday’s contest in Lincoln — and was at least part of the motivation behind some of the comments from the Indiana side after the game.
From 2017-2021, Frost’s team will only play four of a possible 15 cross-divisional games against Indiana (1), Maryland (1), or Rutgers (2). The other 11 games will either come against Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, or Penn State.
Nebraska’s annual interdivisional opponent through 2021 is Ohio State, then shifts to Michigan until 2025.
The richness here, of course, comes from the fact that the Big Ten West is already consistently the weaker of the Big Ten divisions — with Indiana already sharing a division with Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan State, and Michigan. Yet it was Frost, at Nebraska, complaining about scheduling and using Indiana as the cupcake program example he should get to play.
Frost played dumb on what the cause could be on Monday at his press conference, denying that he knew where any of Allen or Fred Glass’ consternation came from.
The Full Story:
https://www.crimsonquarry.com/2019/...en-schedule-wanted-more-games-against-indiana
Some excerpts:
Per a couple of sources around the conference, Frost had allegedly raised complaints that Nebraska’s schedule was too difficult — and that they should play Indiana more.
Details aren’t uber-specific about the context of the remarks, but multiple sources around the conference confirmed to Crimson Quarry that Frost had raised complaints in discussions privately and publicly that Nebraska had been saddled with a difficult of a cross-divisional Big Ten schedule in future seasons. His specific complaint? His team needs more games against historically weaker programs, citing Indiana specifically by name. Of course, that became bulletin board material for Tom Allen’s Hoosiers in the lead up to Saturday’s contest in Lincoln — and was at least part of the motivation behind some of the comments from the Indiana side after the game.
From 2017-2021, Frost’s team will only play four of a possible 15 cross-divisional games against Indiana (1), Maryland (1), or Rutgers (2). The other 11 games will either come against Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, or Penn State.
Nebraska’s annual interdivisional opponent through 2021 is Ohio State, then shifts to Michigan until 2025.
The richness here, of course, comes from the fact that the Big Ten West is already consistently the weaker of the Big Ten divisions — with Indiana already sharing a division with Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan State, and Michigan. Yet it was Frost, at Nebraska, complaining about scheduling and using Indiana as the cupcake program example he should get to play.
Frost played dumb on what the cause could be on Monday at his press conference, denying that he knew where any of Allen or Fred Glass’ consternation came from.
The Full Story:
https://www.crimsonquarry.com/2019/...en-schedule-wanted-more-games-against-indiana
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