Recruiting Forum Talk XXXIX

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Face said:
Queue “ Tennessee hasn’t won 4 straight bowls against 4 different teams since World War Two” type of statement
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You got me curious. As far as I can tell, no UT coach has won 4 bowl games in 4 seasons. Majors won 5 in a row but didn't go to a bowl in the 1988 season (5-6).
 
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NMVol said:
So what was the gist of it? I got in there late.
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A couple "respected" posters got info today that they can't share but it appears positive. Something about Cindy Gruden's cousin sharing some info. And Peyton is involved in negotiations with Gruden.

Real whirlwind.
 
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NMVol said:
So what was the gist of it? I got in there late.
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Bunch of different things. The usual suspects are posting their usual cryptic messages but it basically was that an offer has been extended to Gruden that basically gives him whatever he wants. Evidently there's a poster on TOS that is claiming to be a cousin of Cindy Gruden. She is claiming that there is an offer in place and it's in Gruden's hands whether to take it to the next step. She claims that Peyton is involved.
 
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I got lost and posted this in a thread in the FF without realizing where I was but I found this article for you guys. I've done my homework on Gruden, Patterson, and Brohm, and have been working on Frost. My strategy is to follow the wisdom of "if you eliminate the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" to try to project who our next coach will be. Right now I've got Gruden at 10%, Patterson at 2%, Brohm at 12%, Frost at 20%. I'm looking to see if there's someone out there that would be in the 50/50 range based on my subjective assessment. I don't think any of us can do better than that at this point.

LINCOLN, Neb. — It’s a watercolor from hell, funereal, the shades of grey in Big Red Nation extending to the skies above. A windy, dreary Monday feels more like early December than the second week of October. The line of Big Ten flags hanging in front of Brewsky’s in the Haymarket district flap loudly and angrily, and the mood inside isn’t all that kinder.

“People are pretty down,” explains David Wacker, Brewsky’s general manager. “There’s a lot of people that are railing about how disappointed they are right now. They’re really down.”

Like most locals, Wacker is a lifelong Nebraska Cornhuskers football fan. And like most locals, the Huskers of present (3-3, 2-1 Big Ten) are driving him slowly up a brick wall.

Last Saturday saw the beloved Big Red snap a 20-game night-game winning streak at raucous Memorial Stadium with a 38-17 defeat to Big Ten West favorite Wisconsin. The 358th straight sellout crowd on Stadium Drive watched the No. 7 Badgers ramble for 353 yards and rush for 3 touchdowns.

“You can see it after the games,” Wacker says of his customers. “You can see it on Sundays. During Sunday is the biggest time that they’re talking about it.”

He’s worked in Lincoln for almost a decade now, watching Nebraska football endure better and worse, sickness and health.

“This is my third coach,” he laughs.

On Sunday, several Brewsky’s patrons posited whether Scott Frost, coach of No. 22 Central Florida and the quarterback of the Huskers’ 1997 national co-champions, ought to be Wacker’s fourth.

“Every week, someone brings it up,” he says.

“They bring up Frost and they bring up Bob Stoops, as if Bob would want to come here. And they bring up Les Miles, and how Les Miles’ kid [fullback Ben Miles] is here. These ridiculous names come up. But Frost is definitely the most [discussed].”

The tribe looks at Wisconsin and they see themselves, not that long ago. They look at Frost and they see hope — a bridge from the glorious past to a glorious future.

“All people talked about was Scott Frost, mostly,” Wacker muses, “and how they really want to see him come in and how he’s doing such a good job at Central Florida.”

With that, Wacker pauses.

“He also hasn’t played anybody.”

The more the Knights (4-0) keep winning and the more the Huskers keep getting kicked in the teeth, the longer Lincoln’s line for The Frost Bandwagon extends down the block.

And yet among Huskers faithful, it’s worth noting that the bandwagon isn’t completely full, either. At 42 years old and in just his second full season as a college head coach, some Nebraska fans say Frost is still too inexperienced to step up to a stage where the spotlight burns this hot and this bright.

Others counter that his bloodlines — the son of two coaches and a native of Wood River, Neb. — and firsthand knowledge of Huskers culture, Huskers history, the Huskers Way, is exactly the shot in the arm a proud but inconsistent program needs to fix what ails it.

On at least two points, though, Big Red fans almost universally agree. First, that watching the Badgers do to them what the Huskers did to everyone else for more than four decades — Wisconsin ran the ball 22 times without throwing a pass in the fourth quarter last Saturday, closing out the contest on a 14-0 run — is getting old.

And second, that some Power 5 program with gobs of money is probably ramping up to throw a bunch of it at Frost’s feet soon, assuming they haven’t thrown it already.

It’s the second part, really, that changes the stakes, to say nothing of the urgency. If Frost is your guy, your solution, you might have to bid — and then overbid — for him now, or risk not getting another shot for five years, six years, or forever.

“It’s going to be a bidding war for him,” says Splattstoesser, an IT professional who’s been coming to Huskers games since his grandparents first brought him with their season tickets back in 1992.

“It feels like the boosters are what’s driving a lot of this — the folks behind the scenes, they’re driving this. And so if they want Scott Frost, I feel they’ll put up the money and they’re the ones that are not going to want to give Riley another year. And I think he deserves another year.

“I’d like to keep Riley around, because this recruiting class is going to be pretty good. But at the same time, if Nebraska wants Scott Frost, they’re probably going to have to go out and get him this year. Tennessee, UCLA, Texas A&M, Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas are all going to have openings. Once he hits a major program, he’s going to stay there for a while. So I’m kind of waffling on it.”
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There's more to the article at this link:

Why not every Nebraska Cornhuskers fan in Lincoln is pining for Scott Frost
 
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vol494 said:
You think Manning had any involvement last time?
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He was playing in the NFL. He limited himself to business and his charities. He’s been heavily involved in his alma mater’s inner workings since his retirement. Expect a gradually increasing influence.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Bunch of different things. The usual suspects are posting their usual cryptic messages but it basically was that an offer has been extended to Gruden that basically gives him whatever he wants. Evidently there's a poster on TOS that is claiming to be a cousin of Cindy Gruden. She is claiming that there is an offer in place and it's in Gruden's hands whether to take it to the next step. She claims that Peyton is involved.
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I knew I couldn't of been the only one.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
I dont think they're trolling. I don't think they're the same person. I'm not sure how legit their info is. The info from tos intrigues me.
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I was very over the top but the cryptic messages on here have never come to fruition. I'd be very wealthy if I had a nickel for every "2 big fish" threads over the years.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
I dont think they're trolling. I don't think they're the same person. I'm not sure how legit their info is. The info from tos intrigues me.
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Same. I don’t think their info holds the water they think it does. I’m sure it’s real, but that means very little at the end of the day. they’re smart to not go overboard by getting ahead of themselves.... so far.
 
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