Motivation by Mickey, simpler defense and a week of focus on individual technique will get the Huskers on track...IF there is any on-field leadership from the players.

Hope springs eternal...

Trying to remain optimistic.

With the shock of losing a head coach and DC behind them, they two weeks of refocus and reset will benefit this talented team and the Huskers will have new inspiration to win this next contest.

I believe in MJ enough that I do believe he will somehow have found a way to get this team ready to perform up to their capabilities. After the NW gm, SF said the guys needed something to believe in. They have to start with themselves. MJ will have em' believing!

Its the Huskers GO BIG RED

why not has to happen eventually

time to clean house

I didn't like his bend not break defense when he arrived 5 years ago in Lincoln. We didn't have the athletes they had at Central Florida

UCF's defense the two years they were there, says it all.

Nothing was changing on the defensive side of the ball. Something needed to change, put some fire under these guys!

Worst ranked def I ever seen

Defense was bad in every aspect.

128 out of 130

Overall 4 years...25% good vs 75% bad

Yep

The average ranking of our defense over the last 5 years has been very low.

No real changes. Gap issues every game. Slow and far away from lone of scrimmage.

Awful defense

The D is ranked 128th. So your saying we have the 128th most talented defensive team? Nope, therefore no excuse.

He was not getting results and he was Scott's DC. Need to get a DC that will follow Mickey's directions.

This was an easy call because the defense doesn't seem to understand even basic offensive schemes. Good talent perhaps, but very substandard coaching.

Coaching and being able to have an effective defensive scheme were not happening.

terrible defenses

No adjustments and little creativity.

He was never a good defensive coordinator. Even at UCF they just outscored the other team. He had a fair defense last year because of the super seniors. Why would he do anything to help the Huskers because he probably was going to be gone at years end. I am personally glad he's gone.

Even at UCF, his defense was not great. Winning games 62-55 showed that. Frost should have found better coordinators from the start and maybe he would still be here. Look how well Arkansas has down with great coordinators and good strength and conditioning coach.

Needed to be done

Defense so bad, blame is on the leader and that is Chins. If the offense was as bad as the defense wouldn't we expect a change of play caller? Yes, same with DC, team can't close an automatic door let alone close holes created by o-lines.

After seeing his salary (base salary $850,000) and what we were getting for it, I was going to send a ltr to Trev offering to do it for half of that. I'm sure the results would be the same but much cheaper.

On pace to b worst defense ever at Neb.....also he has loyalty to frost like no other.

The DC is responsible for the defensive performance. Additionally, he has the people he recruited playing for him and they are not disciplined.

Why so late?

UCF never had a better than average defense and we are near the bottom of the statistics in most categories with top 30 recruiting classes. The math doesn't add up.

I'm surprised this is even a question.

Very likeable guy but let's be honest, his only good defense was last year and they weren't great by statistical measures. This year has been a complete train wreck. Carricker could've coached em' up better than this debacle. These guys are woefully lacking in basic fundamentals. He had to go!

Chinander should have gone before Frost, as D is half if not more of the problem. The revolving door at NU is going to be a problem in getting any future coaches, in any specialty.

The firing of Erik Chinander is long overdue. Many of the games were lost due to poor defensive performance.

He didn't get the job done

It's a results oriented job and the results suck. That's big time coaching jobs for you and I agree with it.

It had to happen everyone has lost faith including the kids in the scheme. Remember we kept Crosgrove to end the year and that was disaster. We had no fits from the secondary and that was Chins responsibility this week. I hate to see it but it is for the best,

the defense has been abysmal and no reason for that

Should have happened at the end of last season. This will make it very hard to recruit!

NW 31, ND 17, Georgia S. 45, OK 49 Too many points, does not make any adjustments, defensive backs are playing too far off the line of scrimmage allowing the other teams offensive to get too many positive plays.

It should have happened a couple of years ago. I've never been a fan of his type of defense it's not aggressive enough.

part of coaching is anticipation and preparation of future situations. He knew he was pushing all the chips on his super senior d line and safeties and did little to prepare for this year. the linebacker falloff is surprising

We are dead last on D? What are we clinging to? Not the coaches and if players aren't giving effort we can let them out of their scholarship. UCLA had only hundreds of fans last Saturday. There are expectations with NU's level of commitment.

Bring back Pelini! Best defense we've had in 20 years!

The defense has to be fixed

Frost should never had brought his buddy with him from UCF. It was clear back then his defense didn’t work. Nobody seemed to question giving up 55 points to Memphis in 2017 because they won, but it was plain to see that Chinander was not a fit to coach blackshirts.

I didn't want him to come here in the first place.

What took so long?

Should have been done a lot sooner. Doesn't matter if it's mid-season or not. Don't postpone the inevitable and move on.

see defense statistics for this season to date

Yes, Busch may not have much time to improve things, but it sounds like there were no tackle drills the past four years. Two weeks of fundamentals might to the D some good.

going into year 5 you are supposed to have developed depth..problem is they left through the portal.

You can't keep giving up 600+ plus yards and expect good results

His side other than 1 year has seemed to underperform. He may have been limited by his HC or not. At the end of the day, even at UCF, he didn't get the job done. 2 years as a Def Coordinator before NU, is too inexperienced for the B1G. By all accounts he's a great guy, just rose too fast maybe.