At Large wrote:
Next year will be the telling year.
I really felt going in that this was the telling year. I might be willing to forestall that opinion if we were getting Keller as an incoming freshman, but he will be a fifth year senior. If, as a fanbase, we are pointing to a one and done transfer as the piece of the puzzle that is going to get us over the hump, I would posit that we are fucked. There are alot of things that are not working - I don't know if two or three players is the answer.
The play of the O line is the big one with me. The standard fan response that I have seen is "Well, we can excuse Wagner for poor line play because there is not alot of talent there". Uh, fuck that. Zac Taylor gets his ass kicked on a weekly basis thanks to Wagner's crew. Do you see some of the hits he takes? We might as well still run the I power option shit for all the "protection" we give the QB. So there's the lack of coaching. Now, the talent leve issue. For years Nebraska had walkons at OL that were better than these guys. I know that blocking in the old offense and pass pro in the new offense are different animals and that this requires better players, but fuck. This is year three of the Callahan experiment - and big part of which is predicated on his ability to recruit - and the bottom line is that the talent isn't being brought in or the coaching isn't developing the talent that is there or both. But it doesn't show any signs of getting better.
To be perfectly honest, it is starting to look like Texas was our season. I don't have enough faith in Callahan as a motivator to believe he can keep the guys from giving up on this season. Mizzou/A&M/Colorado to go. I hate to say it, but 0-5 to finish the season is possible. Especially if the Mizzou game goes wrong - and it very well could. I'm sure they taste blood in the water.
From the moment we leave the forest, Dan, it's all a givin' up and adjustin'.