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Nebraska coaching search: Wisconsin DC Jim Leonhard calls early-season firings 'worst situation' for players

"I think it is unfortunate," Leonhard told reporters Tuesday. "I think it needs to change. I mean what are you doing? I hate for what it does for the kids at Nebraska. I hate what it does for the players. You think of all these situations that you are asking guys to do so much and buy in and be a team. Then you make these decisions. What are you telling them? Then when kids make decisions to leave, you jump on their backs. I think it puts the kids in the worst situation. Because how are they supposed to feel when they are getting preached to do things the right way and be committed to things and all of a sudden then there are drastic changes two or three weeks into the season? It just looks bad. I think that needs to be changed more than anything because it puts off the wrong message on what is really important."

Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...irings-worst-situation-for-players-193380116/

Corn just got criticized by a coach they apparently have interest in....:lol:
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Playing hard to get…or did Nebraska make a lowball offer?
 
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$: https://theathletic.com/3593206/2022/09/14/nebraska-scott-frost-transfer-portal-attrition/

Scott Frost’s Nebraska and how not to build a developmental Midwestern contender
By Max Olson
Sep 14, 2022

There’s a mantra that is often recited by college football coaches during the stressful early days of a job: When I get my players in here, we’ll be good.

At Nebraska, Scott Frost got the players he wanted for his brand of football. He and his staff worked hard to flip the roster and load up on their guys early in their tenure. And year after year, the record was not good.

You can choose to dissect any number of problems that contributed to a 16-31 run and a can’t-miss hire failing to work out. It’s never just one thing. But when a program recruits at a top-20 level and wins games at a bottom-20 level, it eventually becomes clear that something important is missing. Nebraska is struggling in the areas that define successful Midwestern programs: talent evaluation, development and retention.

That third one is becoming more essential every year. The Huskers have experienced too much attrition over the past four years and are paying the price for it this season. During the Frost era, Nebraska has lost 56 scholarship players to the transfer portal, second-most in the Big Ten. But here’s the real issue: 40 of those departures came from players in the staff’s first three recruiting classes.

Among those 56 scholarship players who transferred out, 45 stayed in the program for two years or less. Nineteen were gone by the end of their first year in the program.

Just as troubling was how many of these signees failed to make an on-field impact at Nebraska. Of the 56 transfers, 43 played less than 100 career snaps on offense or defense for the Huskers, according to data from Pro Football Focus. There were 19 who played zero snaps.

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As more and more details slow drip out of Lincoln I’m left with very strong USC/Sark vibes that Frost must have filled the fishbowl with alcohol to cope with the problems. Good coaches don’t go that bad that fast - and showing up at the facilities routinely (allegedly) late would be a big red flag - unless there are other factors at play.

Urban ultimately confessed to needing two beers and some Ambien just to get a solid seven or eight hours sleep at the end of his Florida run. Can only wonder if the Nebraska job became too big for Frost when what looked like early success slipped from his grasp.

The entire line of thinking, ‘We’re going to be great, players are vomiting now more than ever before during practice,’ just screams substance abuse-related rationalization. There’s some severe brain chemistry disconnect going on there.

Also note: Why fire a coach now when you know you can fire him in three weeks for half the buyout? Because you have evidence you’re never going to pay a cent of that buyout.
 
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Dryden said:
Also note: Why fire a coach now when you know you can fire him in three weeks for half the buyout? Because you have evidence you’re never going to pay a cent of that buyout.
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Didn’t someone here suggest that firing him early was potentially a way of taking care of one of their own? I guess either are legit alternate explanations.

We’ll, I’m sure, find out shortly how much of that payout gets contested.
 
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Bob Stoops comments on Nebraska head coaching position, whether he'd be interested

Stoops will be back on the sidelines in 2023, though, as he’ll lead the Dallas Renegades in the resurrected XFL, a team he coached in 2020 before the league’s shutdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Scott Frost’s recent firing at Nebraska have some wondering if the 62-year-old would be keen to a return to the college game.

According to Stoops, that’s not happening.

“That is not a job that I’m going to be interested in,” he said on his YouTube channel, according to 247Sports. “I think it’s a heck of a job, great job. They’ve got an incredible following. So, someone will be lucky, you know, to have that great job, but that won’t be me.”

Entire article: https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/s...-coaching-position-whether-hed-be-interested/

No surprise there.
 
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What's the best case for the Huskers? Be in the mix for the division/conference ever few years like Wisconsin or MSU? They need to find a young hungry coach that can build a program with the players they can get to go to college in BFE. If they do find that they will lose him to a bigger fish after a few years. If the Sooners can't keep a coach the Huskers have no chance. TOSU is probably the only current B10 school with enough draw to keep a prime coach from bolting for a better opportunity. Maybe scUM has the reputation and resources if they ever find that kind of coach.
 
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exhawg said:
What's the best case for the Huskers? Be in the mix for the division/conference ever few years like Wisconsin or MSU? They need to find a young hungry coach that can build a program with the players they can get to go to college in BFE. If they do find that they will lose him to a bigger fish after a few years. If the Sooners can't keep a coach the Huskers have no chance. TOSU is probably the only current B10 school with enough draw to keep a prime coach from bolting for a better opportunity. Maybe scUM has the reputation and resources if they ever find that kind of coach.
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Probably be what Wisconsin has been for the better part of the Decade win your division but lose mostly to the East Champ. But with a 12 team CFP that probably puts them in the contention to get in most years
 
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Jake said:
It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the Big Noon kickoff show being there tomorrow. :lol:

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Could just be "fake news"; "high ranking sources" could be anybody or nobody. But if the meeting is actually happening....(Especially if it is a one on one meeting), it is not uncommon for an AD to ask other ADs and/or other successful/knowledgeable/respected former head coaches who they would recommend for their vacant head coaching position position, etc.
 
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