I realize everyone thinks Urban can walk on Mirror Lake, but he is the HC and the buck stops with him. He's the one allowing all these things everyone is frustrated with to continue. The writing was on the wall last year with this schizophrenic offense and the same people charged with those results are still there. Maybe when everyone stops saying "Beck this and Warriner that" and starts letting Urban take some of the heat for once it will create some action. Shit rolls down hill.
You can think UM is a great HC and still call it how you see it. I tend to think he's given too much responsibility to people who aren't capable of handling it. But even with that said I still think something is different since the natty. It just seems like a little fire, or piss and vinegar, or whatever you want to call it is missing. The body language on the sidelines just seems more subdued, for better or worse. I don't say it be critical, but more to acknowledge it is possible and not unprecedented. The most elite at any given profession can become complacent, or lose their edge, or mental/physical energy or any other number of reasons that make it difficult to continue to be as good or better than the year before. If that wasn't the case nearly every coach would be in a rascal and on oxygen. But more to my point is I think he's given too much rope to some of the ACs than they could handle, and if he wants to get back to full scale domination it is going to be because he personally rights the ship.
The defense could have played better on a couple series no doubt, but they didn't cost us the game. ST screwed us, but even with that if we had some semblance of a solid offense we could have easily had another 3 TDs on the board. The offense is terrible more often than it is amazing, just like in 2015. They would do enough that you'd think you were just being paranoid about it but then when the wheels fully came off it was zero surprise.
I don't know, I just had to say it to shut these Member Berries up... they keep on with...
member when we could move the ball
member when we had tempo
member when we had receivers who could stretch the field and get separation
member zeke
member tom herman
PS: I feel like it is worth re-quoting that Husker fan about Beck when he was at Nebraska that I posted last year... if everyone else is seeing the same thing after he came here then it is a pattern, not anomaly. I think it went something like...
"If a play worked you could be certain you wouldn't see it again all game, but if it didn't you could bet it would be ran all game long"
At this point I would really like to just see what would happen if JT just called the plays. Effective or not at least we might see some continuity and flow out there. I swear that Beck came here and just had to piss in the secret sauce to make it his own instead of following the recipes that were handed down to him. No other explanation for why the same team that boot stomped CFB one year looked so confused and inept the next. This year I felt like we were building upon the correction from end of last year but then I keep seeing the trademark crap of 2015 seep in that you know it is a matter of time before the levy fucking breaks and here it is.
