What Did We Learn? - Michigan

krc1995 said:
Turning the page on this game. Nothing new was learned today. The two major weaknesses we’ve all talked about since fall camp, played into the strengths of Michigan. We will probably not face another d-line this good until Penn State. Really needed our D-Line to step up against the run- but a miracle didn’t happen

If anything I’m warming toward DR a bit. I’ve never been as hyped about him as anyone else. I thought he couldn’t really have done much else and he’s resilient to the end. We need to design plays to compensate for the bad line play.

Archie’s the real deal. Love Barney as the sparkplug. EJ too. Good ball security as well. Onward
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Would be nice if we had someone that could break a tackle. Barney had his shin clipped and fell like he hit an IED.
 
Learned absolutely nothing. This team doesn’t capitalize when it has the moment to do so and we lack the ability to shut a team down in key moments.

No difference makers offensively, no difference makers defensively, you get what we saw today which is a loss at home to probably an 8-4 fringe top 25 team. Yawn
 
huskerfan74 said:
Firing Bo was a mistake. We have suffered since. Now, we are begging to get back to Bo’s 9 win seasons. I have nothing against Rhule. He is a nice guy and his heart is in the right place but he will not get Nebraska to any championships. The best he can do is get us to a 9 win season.
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No firing Bo was not a mistake. Bo Pelini was a foul mouthed version of Kirk Ferentz. Win some, lose anything important. How many conference championships? Just relevent enough, but forgetable none the less, other than his temper. Wisconsin might have scored on him again this week. 2009 was his best year and still 4 losses.

Stop living in the past. Literally a decade ago. Bo never brought any trophies home beyond some irrelevant bowl games. Yeah....we were slightly less irrelevant to college football back then when we lost to the Texas Techs and got stomped by running teams setting NCAA records.

Our mistake was hiring Callahan, Pelini, Riley and not firing Frost for cause to save the program millions we could have used to buy linemen. You win in the trenches. If you have the right big bodies on both sides of the line coaching is secondary. DR is great, but a great line makes a 3 star QB/RB look 5*. Him behind a great line and EJ we roll teams.

A Bo isn't needed. No big programs hire our old coaches. Recruiting the lines should be priority one. That will make a coach look smart.
 
SouthLincoln Husker said:
Riola needs to be fired, our o-line was embarrassing!
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Our offensive line sucks. Point blank.
They ran around our tackles like a video game.
There were some bright spots in the run game, but you could tell that Michigan had their ears pinned back and said “just go.”

They were willing to give up some big plays, knowing that on certain passing plays we had nothing. We had no answer for their straight rush. Where is a draw, a trap, or quick hitter when they rushing upfield so much?
We shoiulda taken the 3 points. I get the “we ride or die” type at crap at home but damn. In a game like this, just kick it for an easy 3. Then he missed when we needed one, cuz we didn’t take the chip shot.
We got out coached v their offense for big big chunks. We have a long way to go.

We showed some moxie, but overall we were out coached and made bad decisions on the coaching side.
 
InOmaha said:
No firing Bo was not a mistake. Bo Pelini was a foul mouthed version of Kirk Ferentz. Win some, lose anything important. How many conference championships? Just relevent enough, but forgetable none the less, other than his temper. Wisconsin might have scored on him again this week. 2009 was his best year and still 4 losses.

Stop living in the past. Literally a decade ago. Bo never brought any trophies home beyond some irrelevant bowl games. Yeah....we were slightly less irrelevant to college football back then when we lost to the Texas Techs and got stomped by running teams setting NCAA records.

Our mistake was hiring Callahan, Pelini, Riley and not firing Frost for cause to save the program millions we could have used to buy linemen. You win in the trenches. If you have the right big bodies on both sides of the line coaching is secondary. DR is great, but a great line makes a 3 star QB/RB look 5*. Him behind a great line and EJ we roll teams.

A Bo isn't needed. No big programs hire our old coaches. Recruiting the lines should be priority one. That will make a coach look smart.
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I never said hire Bo back. That would be ridiculous. However, we keep hiring the wrong coaches and we keep giving them more time than needed because we still assume a coach needs 3-4 years to turn a program around. That might have been the case in the past but not anymore. Good coaches show immediate results in year 1. We are in year 3 and today’s game was no different than what we have seen in the past two years. At the very least, pay structure should take into account results on the field. Rhule definitely says the right things, but the results on the field are the same against teams with a pulse. In every case, we find new creative ways to lose a close game. I am hoping the Michigan loss will motivate the team to prove critics wrong but we all know very well which games we are going to lose this season. Until Rhule shows us he can coach this team to beat ranked opponents, talk is cheap.
 
InOmaha said:
No firing Bo was not a mistake. Bo Pelini was a foul mouthed version of Kirk Ferentz. Win some, lose anything important. How many conference championships? Just relevent enough, but forgetable none the less, other than his temper. Wisconsin might have scored on him again this week. 2009 was his best year and still 4 losses.

Stop living in the past. Literally a decade ago. Bo never brought any trophies home beyond some irrelevant bowl games. Yeah....we were slightly less irrelevant to college football back then when we lost to the Texas Techs and got stomped by running teams setting NCAA records.

Our mistake was hiring Callahan, Pelini, Riley and not firing Frost for cause to save the program millions we could have used to buy linemen. You win in the trenches. If you have the right big bodies on both sides of the line coaching is secondary. DR is great, but a great line makes a 3 star QB/RB look 5*. Him behind a great line and EJ we roll teams.

A Bo isn't needed. No big programs hire our old coaches. Recruiting the lines should be priority one. That will make a coach look smart.
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Found another fan with hurt feelings from Bo!

He can't hurt you anymore.
 
huskerfan74 said:
I never said hire Bo back. That would be ridiculous. However, we keep hiring the wrong coaches and we keep giving them more time than needed because we still assume a coach needs 3-4 years to turn a program around. That might have been the case in the past but not anymore. Good coaches show immediate results in year 1. We are in year 3 and today’s game was no different than what we have seen in the past two years. At the very least, pay structure should take into account results on the field. Rhule definitely says the right things, but the results on the field are the same against teams with a pulse. In every case, we find new creative ways to lose a close game. I am hoping the Michigan loss will motivate the team to prove critics wrong but we all know very well which games we are going to lose this season. Until Rhule shows us he can coach this team to beat ranked opponents, talk is cheap.
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Trev did a great sales job to the fans that NU needed a "program builder" which is the lamest thing I have heard.

Your roster, if you are taking over a lame team, should be flipped immediately.

I can only imagine what it must be like on the Indiana campus right now. Even though a lot of our fans that are still scared of Bo would hate Cigs, clearly that was the hire and not Rhule and that is not saying Rhule can't coach, but Cigs wins...Rhule "builds", whatever that means.
 
I learned it is time to accept what I have thought is true for a while. Nebraska football will never be at the top of college football again. In reality it will always be mid league in the big ten. Nebraska does not have both the name and money of Ohio st, Michigan, Oregon, USC. Then throw in Washington,Iowa,UCLA as well. The top 3-4 teams will always be there. They get the elite kids. We are then getting kids that are somewhat talented and paying them a bunch of money but they are not hungry. They really don’t care in the end about winning and representing a university and fan base that lives for them. Then there are the indianas, Illinois, and Wisconsin. They get that kid that is hungry and want the glory for their school. They want to play their hearts out therefore those schools are in a better place than Nebraska.
In the end will we ever experience the high glory we did 40 years ago. NO! But is that ok YES once we accept that we have a team that we love and need to support and be like most other school’s fan base in the country Celebrating the wins and moving on from the loses.
 
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