No, it's when people post in a thread simply to suggest that the thread is pointless or tired. Is there anything more pointless than going into a pointless conversation to say how pointless it is?
And it's not losing, it getting destroyed and made to look like children. I actually wasn't upset about the game until I came here and saw how ready people are to blame the players while giving the coaches a pass. The denial and up-sucking is what drives me crazy. I never expected to win, I thought that 10 point line was even a little excessive. Friday night, I was on the road at about midnight and was listening to a national show on 590AM and the host made a somewhat joking comment about it being funny to turn on the game and see USC smacking NU down 41-10. I thought that guy was insane.
No, the #14 team should not, under normal circumstances, beat the #1 team if those rankings are at all accurate, but they should at least show up. And those 21 points in the 4th... yeah, suddenly there was a revelation to the coaching staff and players and they found the weakness of the USC defense but, alas, the enlightenment came tragically late.
USC could handle just about anyone outside of the top 5, definitely outside of the top 10, without much trouble... but 42-10? 35 unanswered points? There is something tragically wrong with our defense and that needs to be discussed in a real way. If people don't think it's important, then they don't need to involve themselves, that's fine. Enjoy not talking about it, have your coffee and whatever and move on. But why jump into a thread to pretend that the topic is so predictable and tired that it doesn't need to be discussed? Are we just supposed to think that Coz is the best choice for DC because he wears a red shirt with an N on it?
I love our stadium sell out record and I would hate to see that streak end, too (it's the only one we have left... now that we've lost to kansas), but there needs to be a way for the husker nation to voice its displeasure. But since they're, quite literally, the only game in town, anyone who gets rid of their season tickets will see them snatched up immediately. I don't know if I think a boycott is the answer... maybe someone could sell some "Fire Coz" shirts (or as an historical allusion Coz could market his own "I Hate The Coz" Ts) and see how well they do. An informal poll to be sure, but it would demonstrate something.
Sure, he might not have the BEST players, but he has a lot of decent ones, together they should be able to make up a unit that can do well against Wake Forest and give a ranked team a game worth playing. How long before *we're* the cupcake team that gets on the schedule early in the sea.... oh wait, that just happened with USC!
There is an attitude around here that creates an identity between fandom and blind acceptance that sickens me.
And fine, I'll just say it, I would like to have Solich back if he could have Bo with him. I think that coaching staff deserved at least another year because they were starting to turn the program around. Solich, I think, did finally see what he was doing to the program and brought in some good coaches. They took a team that was utterly destroyed by CU the year before and turned them into something with promise.
The clock can't be turned back, but we were able to see the effectiveness of a good coach on a previously poor-performing squad. I think lessons can be learned from that. No, don't fire the whole coaching staff because putting 17 legit points on USC at this point in the program's history is pretty admirable (though not ideal). But giving them 49? Stupid.
