In basketball did that tournament make us better as a team

Where will the Huskers end up for a Bowl game this year? Also how is recruiting going after the losses, hope we can close the deal on some of the bigger fish we still need to close on.

The big red needs some playmakers and need to establish the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. Who are some candidates for some playmakers? I am starting to have my doubts about Cavanaugh and this years o-line was very weak. Give me some reasons to be optimistic Sip. Thanks

Does the dismissal of Bruce Read give Riley a head start on the assistant search? Considering the NCAA is about to allow one more full timer there is about to be a rush on assistants IMO!

Sip, can we expect Mike to make more coaching changes? Maybe new OC? Offense has been really lethargic the past 8 weeks.

Sip, sometimes it just takes some closure to find some serenity. I got there when I read Mark Banker's post game quotes about Iowa. When the Defensive Coordinator for the University of Nebraska football team lauds a Midwest opponents physical play and marvels at how hard they must work at practice, Husker Football truly has broken from it's roots and fallen into an abyss. #RIP Husker Power. #RIP Blackshirt Tradition. Husker Nation will never forget.

The only question left for me is whether or not Eichorst is actually a genius, is he accomplishing his agenda.

It's time for Cornhusker football to re-evaluate the size of its walk-on program. Gone are the days of the last 15 years of the mostly 2 deep Big Eight Days(the last year of it did have 4 teams in the top 25 though). It's a different landscape for NE football since it joined the Big 12. I think that our head coach should be make the necessary adjustments here, especially since going back to coach Callahan NE has been able to recruit nationwide. A large walk on program maybe isn't warranted as much to make up for a lack of recruiting ability. There will still be Nebraskans on the roster on way or another, but not around 60%. Also, I agree our head coach should be able to hire and fire assistants freely. I am not quite sure why Callahan didn't. I understand why Pelini didn't and why Solich didn't until his last year. Osborne was against doing it every basically since the Devaney carryovers left his staff.

I'm with Matt on the new OC! Our offense is a mess.

I was for relieving the Special Team Coordinator long ago. Would have made absolutely no difference what so ever as to when he was let go. Hopefully, Coach Riley will now Strongly re-evaluate other coaches on his staff and relieving staff that are not producing. That is leadership. Nothing wrong with that. Certainly, the danger is letting a position coach go is that he leaves those players that he may have played a strong part in recruiting to a new coach who will probably bring a new order as to how to do things. Then all we listen to when things go poorly is that this is a transition year to which I say nonsense. No transition excuses when Harbaugh got to Mich, or Meyer to OSU, or Chryst to Wisconsin, or to a lesser degree USC, Washington, or Florida. Hopefully BIG RED wins the bowl, but I fear that a lot of comments regarding next year will be about transition. Just my thoughts. Thanks for letting me comment.

Say Nebraska goes 8-4 next year and losses big again to Iowa and Ohio State...do Mike and Shawn start worrying about their jobs?

Given his track record at Florida, I think Charlie Strong will be DC next year at a big name school. Not AT ALL LIKELY, here, I know, but would Banker ever move to position-only NU job to make room for a guy like Strong?

What a game but before I ask a question I have a comment

What difference do you see in cryst at WI and Riley at NU? NU has higher recruits but WI better system?
WI D wayyyyy more stout even with new coordinator

Hey Sip, weigh in on this one. Penn States beats Wisconsin in the BIG this Saturday. Given the committee's weight for head to head competition and winning a conference championship does Penn State make the playoff by virtue of beating OSU and OSU by winning in overtime against Wisconsin and OSU get knocked out of the playoff picture. There is no way two teams from the same conference make the playoffs.

Isn't the real question going forward whether Riley and his Oregon State assistants are capable of improving their game in coaching, recruiting, player development, etc. to the level of the upper echelon of B1G coaches and their programs? Or IS their level Corvallis-caliber? Riley was a 0.538 coach at Oregon State, and now at 0.600 at NU. After all, most people rise to the level of their incompetence. Are we at that level for Riley and his program?

I know almost nobody cares about the Big 10 Conference Championship game, given that it is a waste of time and purely a money making endeavor for Jim Delany and the Big 10, but I for one am looking forward to this week's build up to the Wisconsin - Penn state match.
Do you want to know why Mr Sipp?

Steven, I was just implying that maybe long held traditions, such as the walk on program and NE not firing its assistants very regularly, if at all, just lends to its program being built for 9 win seasons, unless the stars are aligned, and fans being upset more so in this age of the cable TV, internet, and smart phones.

Sure seems like this program is stuck in "groundhog day"..I know riley is safe for now but until we get a culture change and get back to solid fundamental football from a coach who is committed to that things won't change..thoughts?

Any word on who (supposedly) was throwing racial slurs at the Iowa DL? Seems really out of place for kids on the team to use racial slurs...but maybe I am wrong

Where do you rank Nebraska in the Big Ten West? Since we joined the conference there's no way we are a better program than Wisc or Iowa. In my mind we are 3rd maybe 4th

We need a center next year. Cole Conrad was the top backup at center, guard & tackle. Does he get a shot at starting center position?

SIp why do you think the whole team came out so flat? Iowa seemed jacked up to play football and Nebraska appeared like they felt they had better things to do Friday.

I agree special teams need help...but... what was hurting us the most??? On defense it seemed our secondary couldn't manage to go one on one. The rush ends looked more like down lineman. They had lead in their pants. NO SPEED, couldn't rush or run down the ball. For that matter our linebackers are slow as molasses Banderas was good inside stuffing holes but if the backers had to cover or stop a play from going wide they couldn't. Also too slow, NO SPEED. So is the special teams the problem? They didn't give up the long runs or the long passes. We wont be able to compete without more speed. Any opinions

I saw that Ed Orgeron made his first big move at LSU by firing his special teams coach. That brings up a couple questions for me.
1) How many schools have a dedicated special-teams coach? It's a position I never heard of until Riley came here.
2) Does having a dedicated special-teams coach actually hurt special teams? I'm wondering because if it's a group effort and every coach shares in it there might be less proprietary concern from a position coach about letting one of "his" players play on them.

I am very concerned that after two years we are still basically the same program that we were when Pelini was fired. Most successful coaches make great improvement by the second season. What do you think?