OWH's Chatelain: As snow falls, so does the Huskers' image

Eric the Red said:
http://www.omaha.com/huskers/chatelain-as-snow-falls-so-does-the-huskers-image/article_ad6de678-8e4f-5039-8512-04610c392158.html

Bo Pelini’s team didn’t just lose the biggest game of the season by 35 points. It didn’t just lose any realistic shot at a Big Ten West title. It lost all credibility and dignity. Friday the Huskers were still considered a candidate for the college football playoff. Saturday they were a laughingstock.
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As a fan for 30+ years, that hurts. Even worse than the Cally years. And watching the "new" NU beat us yesterday with our old style of football made it even worse........

LT got his yards on 43 carries against Texas El-Paso. MG on 25 against NU................

 
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Eric the Red said:
http://www.omaha.com/huskers/chatelain-as-snow-falls-so-does-the-huskers-image/article_ad6de678-8e4f-5039-8512-04610c392158.html

Bo Pelini’s team didn’t just lose the biggest game of the season by 35 points. It didn’t just lose any realistic shot at a Big Ten West title. It lost all credibility and dignity. Friday the Huskers were still considered a candidate for the college football playoff. Saturday they were a laughingstock.
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****................that really stings to read!

 
And Dirk just loves it doesn't he..... The shortselling bear who gets to gloat the most because he works for a newspaper. I'm sure the next coach will be all-world for a little while, then the cycle will start over again.

 
People have always been hard on Dirk because he has been no Bo fan. But Dirk has always been that guy that will tell you what you need to hear, rather than what you want to hear.

As opposed to a guy like Sipple who befriends coaches and writes stories based off those friendships, Dirk shoots straight from the hip. Whether you agree or disagree, you at least have to respect it.

 
BigWillie said:
People have always been hard on Dirk because he has been no Bo fan. But Dirk has always been that guy that will tell you what you need to hear, rather than what you want to hear.

As opposed to a guy like Sipple who befriends coaches and writes stories based off those friendships, Dirk shoots straight from the hip. Whether you agree or disagree, you at least have to respect it.
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Comparing Sipple to any person who writes....be it a best-selling author, a sports writer, a guy that writes instruction brochures for airlines, a toddler who scribbles on walls with a marker....is just not fair to him.

 
BigWillie said:
People have always been hard on Dirk because he has been no Bo fan. But Dirk has always been that guy that will tell you what you need to hear, rather than what you want to hear.

As opposed to a guy like Sipple who befriends coaches and writes stories based off those friendships, Dirk shoots straight from the hip. Whether you agree or disagree, you at least have to respect it.
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+1

I never thought any of the controversies surrounding him––especially in retrospect––turned out to be radically off base (I'm thinking of the undying glory Taylor Martinez now lives with, specifically).

What Dirk wrote here is a skeptic's honest assessment of what this loss meant. The part the OP quoted is an objective fact. With Melvin Gordon breaking the NCAA rushing record on that defense's a$$, this probably is the single worst loss in the Pelini era, and arguably Nebraska history. Pelini has made a habit of collecting these kind of trophies.

I especially liked this bit of the column:

“At the end of the day, in this world, in this profession, I point the thumb,” Pelini said. “I take responsibility for this football team and how we played. It wasn’t good enough.”

That explanation, which Pelini has delivered almost verbatim after big losses, plays well with the accountability crowd. But it doesn’t actually fix anything. Pelini doesn’t seem to know how.
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He nailed it it.

"This is not even close to being a Top-10 program. If NU had played in the Big 12 or SEC or Pac-12 the past three seasons, there’s no way its record would be 27-10. The Big Ten has hidden Husker weaknesses and watered down Husker standards."

Couldn't have been more correct.

 
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