LJS: Future (2018) Schedule Should Add Urgency

[Mavric]

Talk about treacherous. Colorado will come to town in early September. But it's the Big Ten road games that really grab your attention: Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Ohio State, Iowa. For good measure, throw in a home game against Michigan State.

 

So, if Nebraska fans are feeling a bit edgy, it's hard to blame them. They can read metrics. ESPN last week released a statistical analysis of prominent coaching hires and how they fared with respect to point differential in their first 24 games relative to their predecessor's last 24 games. Riley, through his first 24 regular-season games at NU, has a plus-103 point differential. In comparison, during Bo Pelini's last 24 games at the school, he had a differential of plus-238 (and a record of 18-7).

 

Thus, the point differential through the first 24 regular-season games of the Riley era is 135 worse than the final 24 of Pelini's run.

 

In contrast, Michigan's Jim Harbaugh was 538 points better through his first 24 games than predecessor Brady Hoke.

 

That's not to say Pelini should still be Nebraska's coach. Most folks seem to know better. But Riley's 15-10 record isn't quite what the faithful had in mind.

 

LJS

[Mavric]

Anyone seen the ESPN data referenced? I can't find it.

[HuskerNBigD]

Well, at least people won't be able to bitch about our strength of schedule. F'ing yikes.

[84HuskerLaw]

How the heck can we have to go to Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio State and NW all again next year. How can we have road games in the conference consecutively? I just get how this can happen. I believe we will have played Ohio State about 6 times and 4 or 5 were in Ohio. This is just not fair.

[Count 'Bility]

How the heck can we have to go to Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio State and NW all again next year. How can we have road games in the conference consecutively? I just get how this can happen. I believe we will have played Ohio State about 6 times and 4 or 5 were in Ohio. This is just not fair.

that's the 2018 sched

[Swiv3D]

How the heck can we have to go to Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio State and NW all again next year. How can we have road games in the conference consecutively? I just get how this can happen. I believe we will have played Ohio State about 6 times and 4 or 5 were in Ohio. This is just not fair.

wow dude

[BIGREDIOWAN]

How the heck can we have to go to Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio State and NW all again next year. How can we have road games in the conference consecutively? I just get how this can happen. I believe we will have played Ohio State about 6 times and 4 or 5 were in Ohio. This is just not fair.

I don't care, I don't want easy schedules, I want this damn team to step up to the plate, quit getting easy damn schedules and get better! The 2018 schedule makes me excited for the possibilities. We have next year to get much better, one way or the other the test is coming, time to study for it!