@redriver....what's ridiculous is people claiming he shouldn't be fired after 'one bad year'. If you don't think last year there weren't some issues...you weren't paying attention. And it's not like he's had 15 good years and all the sudden one down year. That's the way you guys are making it sound. Not to mention...we have some serious competency issues here imo. If there is someone here who can explain some of the baffling decisions he makes, maybe you?...I'm all ears.
I don't care how the vote ended up. They still suck and always will.
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Pretty much all of the Nebraska fans wanted Tim Miles out after last season. He was able to turn that team around and should be considered for COY in the big ten this year.
Not saying Dave doesn't have faults or question marks but rather pointing out that the previous poster may be right about having a bad year, after 4 pretty solid ones.
Two consecutive seasons have ended in completed dumpster fire fashion.
The team is worse than the sum of its parts.
Coach is making crazy decisions on playing time.
Players are not consistently developing
Coach constantly talks culture, but team has poor unity
Good Players have left the program
X’s and O’s Are an area of concern for anyone watching
Fan support is significantly waning
Coach has shown little or no ability to change and adapt.
Talent level lowest since early 2000s, development a factor in that.
Seems like B.B. isn’t positive; it’s hard, arduous vs. positive and fun
I can’t think of much on the other side of the scale.
I do like some of the recruits coming in.
Fans want to get behind this team.
Coach isn’t a bad guy
Kory Brown - Hoffman Estates, Ill.
Lawrence Alexander - Peoria, Ill.
Taylor Braun - Newberg, Ore
TrayVonn Wright - Waterloo, Iowa
That is called recruiting a much larger area. And not only did we dig deep to find the players, we did a hell of a job developing them.
Speaking of player development...
You take a guy like Ben Woodside. The guy had a weak jump shot when he came here and by the time he was done, it was his strength. Same with Dex who was raw but developed some incredible footwork.
Seems like some of our players just never got a whole lot better and took their game to the next level, which is the only way we are going to be succesful
And I'm not saying to not recruit ND/SD/MN/WI... but I get this vibe like we're limiting ourselves to those states, even during the down years of talent. You don't see guys like Dex come out of ND every year. And if you can't get a Bjorkland or Winkelman, you can't just grab the next best guy because they are close to home.
On the positive side, Cameron Hunter and Tyson Ward have some great upside but they need to have an epic offseason.
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Fire him.....
Some of my concerns are just how bad he is against good non-conference teams, if we play a great team or even a very a solid team we are almost at a point where we aren't even competitive. I posted Richman's margin of defeat against top 100 teams and it was damn near 20 points, Saul's was just under 8 points. I'm at a point where I'm not sure if Dave's system is capable of beating a legit team. Any game against a great team basically involves us trying to get into a rock fight, if the other team is on we have zero chance.
His best team was carried by LA who was basically the team's James Harden. Since his teams have become steadily worse, as I posted before Dave is 9-17 against top 200 teams over the past two years. Since we upset SDSU in the Summit tournament the big wins are very lacking and like I said before are non-existent outside of conference play.
Now he is at the end of his deal, you can let him be a lame duck but that isn't a good place to recruit from. I guess my main point is I've watched the guy coach for four years and nothing at all really stands out, he seems like a guy that was cut out to be a good assistant at this level and that is about it.
NDSU to the FBS always. In all ways.