Nebraska Sucks Up-Front

[Red_Alert]

They have for years now.

Blame the line coaches if you will, I won't make excuses for them.

But up-front is where a team needs to be physically dominant and if they are not offensively or defensively than there is one common denominator.

The Strength and Conditioning program. Led by James Dobson. He's been onboard since 2008 (Bo's first year) and had never led a Strength and Conditioning program prior. He had always been an assistant. His Bio on the Husker page takes credit for developing players and it's enough to make me puke.

I don't see him taking responsibility for the O'lineman who could barely do 25 bench presses in the combine. I don't remember the specifics of the player or how many he did, I just remember how embarrasing it was to read aboout it.

NU had a freak of nature in Suh and it masked a real issue. The real issue is that James Dobson is a fraud IMO.

 

[chucksker]

the lineman did 14....i do believe that there were skinny assed slot receivers doing more

 

[Red_Alert]

the lineman did 14....i do believe that there were skinny assed slot receivers doing more

I knew it was an embarrasing #.

Just to lazy to look it up regarding who and how many.

The fact is he was a starter, ie...one of the best NU could field.

 

[it'sHuskers4me]

I listened to Damon Benning after midnight last night and he said the same as you. The strength and conditioning coach is the one person that needs the most scrutiny on the staff. During the immediate years following the firing of Solich, my daughters trained with former strength and conditioning assistants from the Huskers program. These guys new their shit (produced resuts) and anyone of them could do a better job then Dobson IMHO.

 

[Red_Alert]

Us old timers know damn good and well what controlling the line of scrimmage does in determining the outcome of a football game.

 

[AHFox]

Dobson needs to go. Yes! But I still believe Cotton also needs to go. The oline technique sucks on all phases pass block and even in the running game. It's more than strength when it comes to blocking and if the footwork sucks wich Nebraska oline does then the blocking is gonna suck. Cotton hasn't shown anywhere he's been at that he has the tools to coach up and create a dominate oline.

 

[Red_Alert]

Yeah

Like I said, I'm not gonna make excuses for the guys responsible for the O and D lines.

If they aren't getting players that are up to par strength and conditioning wise then they should speak up.

 

[huskers1217]

too bad jason isn't on the radio anymore....i think he has some f bombs he would drop

 

[HuskerPower52]

Honestly cotton is coaching like its 1950. Dobson needs to go I haven't liked cotton for a very very long time

 

[Red_Alert]

I guess it's hard to determine strength and conditioning in practice because you've got O and D linemen going at each other that are going through the same training program.

It's blatant as hell though when they get up against an average or better opponent.

Come September it's too late to fix tho.

 

[popeyecv64]

Us old timers know damn good and well what controlling the line of scrimmage does in determining the outcome of a football game.

this is a FACT !!

 

[popeyecv64]

Dobson needs to go. Yes! But I still believe Cotton also needs to go. The oline technique sucks on all phases pass block and even in the running game. It's more than strength when it comes to blocking and if the footwork sucks wich Nebraska oline does then the blocking is gonna suck. Cotton hasn't shown anywhere he's been at that he has the tools to coach up and create a dominate oline.

another --FACT !!

 

[Exorbitant]

Honestly cotton is coaching like its 1950. Dobson needs to go I haven't liked cotton for a very very long time

I got banned off of a site called bighuskerfan.com a couple of years ago because I said then that Cotton needed to go. The administrator {Solly was his name} for that crappy ass site banned me because Cotton evidently was a friend of his! lol

 

[popeyecv64]

I got banned off of a site called bighuskerfan.com a couple of years ago because I said then that Cotton needed to go. The administrator {Solly was his name} for that crappy ass site banned me because Cotton evidently was a friend of his! lol

I do remember you tellin me about this Zorbie --LOL !! @ the thin skinned