Nebraska gives Scott Frost much deserved extension to only fire him.
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What I find fascinating are people that want Adrian Martinez to come back for a 5th season to prove all the doubters wrong. Scott Frost included.
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There's also the longtime Nebraska beat reporter: Lee Barfknecht
Something about the Huskers attracts dudes with dumbass names.
I never understood the Martinez love. IIRC, there were Iowa posters on here even a year ago saying he was better than Purdy.
So I've heard of similar discrepancies over the years, and they seem almost hard to believe. Can someone explain how this is defensible? I assume the conference members agreed to some sort of scheduling system that is considered competitively balanced, but what exactly is that "system?!"
Every year the big ten is basically daring Iowa to find a way NOT to win the west. They are nothing, if not consistent.
I love how this recent SEC Shorts clip tolls Scott Frost and Nebraska football:
Choose Your Head Coach Wisely
Choose Your Head Coach Wisely
Is this true? Nebraska has had to play OSU in the cross division game, while Iowa has only played them only twice in ten years?
IIRC Nebraska threw out a caveat when joining that they wanted the opportunity to kick OSU’s ass every season.
OMG!!!!
omaha.com
"Even the optimistic scenarios, like Mark Stoops or Dave Aranda, wouldn’t juice this fan base. (Forget about Luke Fickell or Matt Campbell.)"
Chatelain: After four years of hope for Scott Frost, only despair remains for Husker football
You can not spin the devastation. On a spirit-shaking, confidence-breaking afternoon, the Scott Frost era crashed. In such a way that almost certainly can’t be salvaged, writes Dirk Chatelain.
"Even the optimistic scenarios, like Mark Stoops or Dave Aranda, wouldn’t juice this fan base. (Forget about Luke Fickell or Matt Campbell.)"
In the "cross-overs" Nebraska got OSU for five and gets Michigan State for the next four seasons. Iowa does have OSU twice in the next four years. Next four seasons Iowa gets ******* Rutgers for four years while the rest of the division plays ranked teams. Minnesota gets MSU, Wisc get Ohio State and Huskers get Michigan while Iowa gets to pound footballs up Rutgers ass. Over that nine year period the Huskers arguably get the worst of the cross-over scheduling for the West. Over the next four years Iowa clearly gets a big break.
Not to pick bits but I think Rutgers is getting better bc they have Schiano back. They improved this year and are bringing in some really good recruits. Also who knows how long MSU remains this good. Tucker could be gone or his all in on transfers might not work every year. Also looking at the schedules Iowa has Mich and OSU in the same year twice, MSU and PSU in another.
I get the feeling from sports talk callers in Omaha is that they don't want him back. Which sucks to say about a college aged athlete.
Had Frost not played at Nebraska, I would have been 100% against him coaching there.
When a coach has a good thing going at school X, I just don't feel like a its a good option to look for greener pastures. Granted, many coaches have ambitions to move up the ladder to be at a blue blood, or move up from G5 or a non traditional P5. Seems that the success they achieve rarely matches the lure, but the pay day rises drastically.
Boxster already explained what the schedule is, but the reason why that’s the schedule is that Purdue and Indiana are in separate divisions and have a protected crossover game. In order to do that then, every team has one “protected” game for five years and then it moves on to the next team. So, for example, Wisconsin’s protected game has been Michigan and will change. If this schedule holds, there will be a point in time when Iowa plays Ohio State every year for four years
As for why nebraska played Ohio State right out of the gate, it was probably a mix of Nebraska arrogance, people thinking Nebraska would be better than they were, and maybe the big 10 wanting to bring them down a peg.
