What Season Would You Prefer?

husker_99 said:
StPaulHusker said:
husker_99 said:
StPaulHusker said:
I didn't know you didn't know how to read your own post. Or how to understand years by using only 2 numbers.
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You are comparing different coaches. I am just comparing one. First few year of Pelini i dont' hold against him, now that he is more seasoned there are less excuses.
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I guess I need to draw a picture. You said that since we joined the Big Ten we have been suffering blowout losses. I replied that the blowout losses have been happening since 01-02 except 06-07. So the "pattern" you speak of started LONG before we got to the Big Ten
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The 2009 season i wouldn't exactly call 31-10 a blowout loss. so you are wrong.
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We only lost to Ohio State by 27. Is that a blowout? What's another touchdown, anyways?

 
vin diesel said it best, "doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile." he said it even better, "i live life one quarter mile at a time."

 
We weren't nearly as good as Wisconsin at the end of the season. From their first few games to their last few they improved dramatically.

We stayed about the same, maybe regressed some.

 
The Dude said:
We weren't nearly as good as Wisconsin at the end of the season. From their first few games to their last few they improved dramatically.

We stayed about the same, maybe regressed some.
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I disagree. I don't think the team that played UCLA beats MSU on the road. We improved, my thing was we didn't show as much experience at positions we should have been experienced at. For example, LB and Safety.

You have to remember Wisconsin lost games 3?(maybe wrong have to look) games down the stretch before beating us??

 
I think it was hard to track our improvements. One game would show us that we've improved, the next game would show the exact opposite.

 
EZ-E said:
The Dude said:
We weren't nearly as good as Wisconsin at the end of the season. From their first few games to their last few they improved dramatically.

We stayed about the same, maybe regressed some.
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I disagree. I don't think the team that played UCLA beats MSU on the road. We improved, my thing was we didn't show as much experience at positions we should have been experienced at. For example, LB and Safety.

You have to remember Wisconsin lost games 3?(maybe wrong have to look) games down the stretch before beating us??
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Wisconsin lost 3 of their last 4. 2 of them at home.

The though that someone claims they expected that CCG to go as it did is probably the most ludicrous thing ever said on this board. A loss would not have shocked me. The way it actually happened did.

 
Michigan State is just a weird game to use as an example of improvement, since we played like crap for most of the game. And we made MSU's offense look better than they did in almost all their other games.

Wisconsin had a couple hard-fought OT losses to Ohio State and Penn State to end the season. But they were clearly playing better football in those games than they were at the beginning of the season. Ohio State and Penn State are quite a bit better than Northern Iowa or UTEP. And Penn State were playing out of their minds that night.

 
The Dude said:
Michigan State is just a weird game to use as an example of improvement, since we played like crap for most of the game. And we made MSU's offense look better than they did in almost all their other games.

Wisconsin had a couple hard-fought OT losses to Ohio State and Penn State to end the season. But they were clearly playing better football in those games than they were at the beginning of the season. Ohio State and Penn State are quite a bit better than Northern Iowa or UTEP. And Penn State were playing out of their minds that night.
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Any way you'd like to spin it, your other point was that we got worse. That's just simply not the case. Had we gotten worse than we were against UCLA we don't win many games in the BIG. So even if your opinion is that we didn't improve, you'll still have to show me how we got worse.

I'm missing the argument in the second paragraph. When did UTEP and UNI get into this? Didn't we beat PSU? I don't care how well they were playing that is no excuse to lose to them. We didn't, Wisconsin did.

 
Wisconsin came to play, and Nebraska decided to not make plays. That first TD was a prime example, Stafford is in position for a TFL or at least a minimal gain, Gordon slips him, and then slips Smith 20 yards downfield, TD. Plays that we had been making since OSU, we stopped making. it was a prefect storm that night, we'd just played our butts off 6 games straight with multiple draining comebacks, while Wisconsin had known about playing in the Championship game for 3-4 weeks. They could play their last couple games vanilla, and throw a couple of hours of game planning a week for us. And it didn't help that we lost Steinkuhler and Jackson the previous week either (though the outcome probably wouldn't have changed to much).

The bottom line though is we just got outplayed that night.

 
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