We can’t lose jd.. can you imagine this team without jd? Williams has his baggage but players love him and he did a great job maximizing talent. Guy can coach. Guy can recruit. Guy can gain instant buy into what ever frost wants to happen. Bring him back.
Posted Dec 3, 2019, 12:12 AM UTC
I said the same thing today, his receivers blocked well, ran routes well. He was drunk 50% of the time, but hey imagine him coaching 100% sober. Our wideouts would be #1 each year.
You've got this all wrong, my friend. The man needs to be coaching 100% drunk to achieve greatness. The alcohol helps him see things clearly.
"sober enough to know what i'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it"
R.I.P Mr. Lahey
u good bro?
To be honest it’s been rough since the Iowa game. I’m ashamed to admit I’ve started to notice other teams. Even different sports. I’m really confused.
It’s ok we still love you
Gracias
This time of year a lot of people experiment with "Basketball" or even "hockey". It's okay to experiment.
Have you met our dear sweet friend volleyball? A real picker upper.
Nebraseball will be back in two and a half months.
Sir I’m going to need to see your license and registration.
I don’t think JD is leaving. We need to chill.
I’m all for Keith coaching at Nebraska again. He’s a very good coach. There’s a reason Tyreek Hill and Davante Adams have been working with him.
Keith Williams would get our receivers open for sure. Jds really close to breaking the receiving records. You’d think that would be important to him but maybe not.
Open receivers aren’t/weren’t the issue. When time to throw and throw was on target we were good. I can’t remember a game where our receivers lost us the game.
Disagree. Lack of receivers was a huge reason Adrian regressed. He didn’t have anyone he could could count on to be open like he did with Stan last year. How many receivers did we have put up a reasonable amount of numbers? Jd and noa? That’s not enough.
2AM dropped 5pts on his completion %. I’d argue that his locking on to specific targets (i.e. JD this year) is one of the reasons (also injury played a role). He regressed at his progressions. He spent so much time looking at JD he didn’t see the other receivers. Great receivers like JD make other receivers look better. It doesn’t work if the ball is coming to you every play regardless if you’re covered. It doesn’t work if the QB telegraphs where he’s going. It doesn’t work if the QB has to be constantly worried about pressure (line play did improve).
We can anyways use more talent, that’s a given. Having a great receiver or a diff coach isn’t going to improve those things over night. I wish it was that easy, but the problems are deeper.
Oh and 0 chance any of Riley’s staff is hired back.
2010 vs Texas as home. Niles Paul dropped 2 or 3 open touchdown passes and rex burkhead (granted he's an RB but he had some of the best pass catching hands out of the backfield Nebraska has had in a long time) dropped one in the end zone all alone. But that's the only time I can think of
I’m all for this, but I doubt Frost pulls the trigger this year. Especially since we have Betts committed to us and actively recruiting WRs that we need on the roster
He’s a great coach you can’t argue it. Make held if so we don’t lose him to a Hc job. Let Walters move on and hire Keith Williams.
I support it. However with 2 straight losing seasons, I don’t think many schools are looking to poach our assistants
Someone has to owe frost a solid.
I sure can argue that, he was a terrible role model who drank with recruits parents to the point where he was charged with his not first, not second, but 3rd DUI. Then didn't take responsibility for it, got the your a Nebraska coach treatment with no jail time. Just stop, the dude wasn't that good.
He wasn’t really that good of a recruiter, though. His biggest signee was Tyjon and we all know how that worked out.
He was definitely a good position coach though, I’ll give you that.
I seem to recall him being a point person for visitors such as Donovan Peoples-Jones, Joseph Lewis (felon but 5* at the time), Greg Johnson, Tyjon, amongst other ‘crootin hitters.
If I recall, he even got his DUI after a dinner hosting Lewis (5*) in downtown Lincoln.
Everyone gets a pretty big hard on about who is our next 5* recruit. You know what the first step is on getting them to commit? Get them on campus which I think he did pretty well.
Thats great and all but the good recruiters are closers - he was great at building relationships... closing was something else.
1 to many Rumpeez
Plus he has to check in with his probation officer every time he hops on a plane...
I think he would do well recruiting for frost.
He’s the one of the best
Recruiting is just getting them to sign. That's what he was asked to do with Tyjon Lindsey and that's what he did. Developing players is a whole different ball game outside of recruiting. You can't really combine both and use that as a criticism against his recruiting.
KW was overrated and a sideshow with his DUI situation.
Kw was the sole brightspot in that coaching staff. And parella.
Three DUIs. A real leader of young men right there. JMO but he has no business being a coach at a public institution. Private coach, absolutely.
Plus for being such a great recruiter he left the cupboard really bare at WR.
Nah, he's the primary recruiter on Omar Manning, so let's not rock that boat.
I’ll take jd over manning.
Would love having Keith Williams back. There were some big time WR visitors he got onto campus during his time at DONU and clearly has a passion of getting the best out of his group.
And his IG videos working with Stan (and Tyreek Hill, Sammy Watkins, Kenny Stills... but mostly Stan) are fire.
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes nerds. You’re right, we should just fire everybody and start over AGAIN.
Players he coached still come back to him. That says everything. Imagine him teaching wandale how to run routes.
I’m trying to think of a worse idea, and my mind is a complete blank.
Subbing in Luke McCaffrey for one play because a helmet came off.
Ok. You got me.
Can he recruit? How many receivers did he recruit that have made an impact?
He recruited well the kjj class. Think it’s easier to recruit for frost than Riley. He developed.
How many of the receivers that he recruited were any good? There's a reason Nebraska has no receivers outside if speilman and robinson this season. He's very over rated.
He coached Stan, improved Reilly Moore and dpe, players still train with him. He didn’t get very long to coach the players he recruited. Our wide receivers made zero progress this season. There would be more guys open with Williams coaching.
I remember him always missing out on his big time targets on signing day. People loved giving the Riley coaches medals for just getting a guy to visit. Again how many of his guys are contributing now? How many big time schools are trying to hire him?
Keith Williams didn’t even want to offer JD. Riley was the one who made the offer.
Jd considered leaving when Williams left.
JD isn’t leaving stop being hysterical.
I don’t think he will come back unless Walters eventually leaves. but even then i think it would be a hard maybe. Of course I want him back because he’s an amazing recruiter and coach
Agree. Walters would need to leave or be moved.
The real question is if he could coach players within the cultural construct that Frost envisions and whether or not he would fit in and work well with the rest of the staff. It also depends on what he looks for in recruits vs what Frost wants in them.
He brought an intensity and passion about coaching the position that I think would mesh well.
I agree completely
I’ve got it figured out like this. Frost uses his contacts at northern Iowa to hire Walters as their head coach. From there the dominos fall.
Would love to have him back. Going to take Walters getting a head coaching offer for it to happen. Walters to g5, held to OC, KW to coach WR’s.
That's my thought. Talk was he was going to get taken for a hc spot anyways.
I think the notion that Coach Dub needs to come back to keep JD from leaving is nonsense. I agree In a perfect world that Walters moves on and Held goes to OC/RB and Dub goes to Wideouts. Hot take: JD is not a WR1. He is a good second guy but when he is the lead guy he is just good. I think if the chips fall with an Omar Manning or a transfer wideout that can be a Stan Morgan on Day 1 - then Wan'Dale would fill in just fine for JD if he were to leave.
Yeah, that's gonna be a no from me, dawg
Yeah there's a reason why he hasn't been coaching anywhere...
His daughter being in hs and not wanting to move her...
Are they still located in NE? I thought they already moved to Texas when he was with that alliance football league in San Antonio.
I know his daughter was at LSW she just signed her LOI to play at Jacksonville University. Thought when he was let go he made a comment about staying put so she could stay and finish school at SW. Not sure what he did during AAF most likely got an apartment or something short term.
He got results.
Time to let go of the past and move on, bro.
Agreed, but in all fairness, we are Nebraska and the past is all we have to go off of. The last 20 years have been rough.
Triggered
did he, though?
No no he didn't