What Did We Learn? - Michigan

commando said:
i tip my hat to you. your superior angst, disgust, and venom for the Huskers makes you a better fan than me.
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lol, this program needs a heavy dose of hard love.

Michigan was beatable- underwood only going to get better as the season progresses and we had all the makings for a big home win to springboard into October. Instead, we get to sit here for 2 weeks asking how we’re gonna run the ball and stop the run in a league that epitomizes the run game lol, not a position I wanted to be in nor expected in “year 3 Matt Rhule”
 
gossamorharpy said:
And yet we still lost. Glad a good portion of this fan base falling back to moral victories, feels great!
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Touch some grass friend. We're not there yet, but we're hopefully on the way. And even if we're not, life moves on.


TGHusker said:
yes I saw that -- so why can't we win like Indiana???
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Not a direct answer to this question, but something I've been thinking about the last few days after seeing this type of sentiment a bit.

Indiana has (had?) absolutely zero expectations for football. The standard is being terrible, and anything better than that is bonus. That gives them plenty of disadvantages, but there's one huge advantage that people don't seem to realize.

The ability to gamble.

As much as I think Rhule was a great hire and is the best coach we've had in a long while, he was as safe a pick as you could imagine for Nebraska. With the money on the line, the alumni and booster network, the fishbowl of attention and expectations, a school like Nebraska isn't ever going to feel truly at liberty to take a flyer on someone (other than Mike Riley, which definitively didn't work and makes it even less likely to happen again) that almost everyone would have to google and say, "who?" if they were hired.
 
Red Five said:
I'd hate to see what "sky is falling" mode is if you are like this after a 3 point loss to a ranked team.
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lol well, tune in for the month of October. Because we should run the slate up until usc on 11/1. Hope I don’t get material to run with prior to that game, would love nothing more than to enter that showdown at 7-1!
 
Lorewarn said:
Touch some grass friend. We're not there yet, but we're hopefully on the way. And even if we're not, life moves on.
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I hear ya! I’ll not only touch grass but maybe smoke some later today too!

When can we stop using the word “hopefully” in front of “moving in the right direction”. That’s all I want, show me something measurable on the field- didn’t see it Saturday- that is all!
 
I thought back to what I thought after Cincinnati.

We are bad against the run.

We have to be able to run the ball to help DR out. If we did both well, we win the game. If we did it well the rest of the year? We are 11-1.

Can we fix it now? That is the question.

I thought Mekhi Nelson did well enough to get meaningful reps in the future to spell EJ.
 
gossamorharpy said:
I hear ya! I’ll not only touch grass but maybe smoke some later today too!

When can we stop using the word “hopefully” in front of “moving in the right direction”. That’s all I want, show me something measurable on the field- didn’t see it Saturday- that is all!
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The first next step isn't actually beating ranked teams. The next step is being the team that beats all the teams we're better than. The step after that is to get to the spot that we're better than more teams than we were before.

Michigan is better than us. They have been, they still are, they've got more talent, they've got more money, and they've got more success. We aren't at that level yet, and while it's frustrating to seem so close, that's a good benchmark, and now we've got a great four game stretch of teams we out-talent and out-spend that we should beat.
 
The transfer portal is just such a mind-frick. I look at it like this:
  • We gained guys like Spindler, Key, and Hunter on offense from the portal in the offseason.
  • But then we lost extremely key guys on defense like Princewill, Butler, and Gbayor.
Those three guys on defense would have been worth at least three points less given up, IMO.

...but then we wouldn't have the three other guys on offense.

It's a ridiculous game of musical chairs being played.
 
Red Five said:


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Guessing @gossamorharpy will crap on this as well, but this year looks much better than it did 2 years ago



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Undone said:
The transfer portal is just such a mind-frick. I look at it like this:
  • We gained guys like Spindler, Key, and Hunter on offense from the portal in the offseason.
  • But then we lost extremely key guys on defense like Princewill, Butler, and Gbayor.
Those three guys on defense would have been worth at least three points less given up, IMO.

...but then we wouldn't have the three other guys on offense.

It's a ridiculous game of musical chairs being played.
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I wouldn't say Princewill was a key guy last year. He didn't play a whole lot. Maybe would've played more this season but his development wasn't the best. They should've paid Butler.
 
Lorewarn said:
The first next step isn't actually beating ranked teams. The next step is being the team that beats all the teams we're better than. The step after that is to get to the spot that we're better than more teams than we were before.

Michigan is better than us. They have been, they still are, they've got more talent, they've got more money, and they've got more success. We aren't at that level yet, and while it's frustrating to seem so close, that's a good benchmark, and now we've got a great four game stretch of teams we out-talent and out-spend that we should beat.
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I’ll take exactly what you laid out. I’m expecting us to run the slate in October but it won’t happen if we keep fair catching punts within the 5, let opponents convert 3 3rd and long conversions on key drives and hit or miss offensive production when it comes to points on the board.

Would love to be 7-1 against USC
 
I'd be cautious on October, we should be favored in every game, but you look at the history and other considerations: We have not beaten Minnesota in goodness knows how long. Maryland is not horrible. Michigan State has a great QB. Only game I feel really secure about is Northwestern, and even there, they have been really annoying in the past. I think 7-1 is very possible, but could also see 5-3. I sure hope for 7-1, we will need that.
 
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Undone said:
The transfer portal is just such a mind-frick. I look at it like this:
  • We gained guys like Spindler, Key, and Hunter on offense from the portal in the offseason.
  • But then we lost extremely key guys on defense like Princewill, Butler, and Gbayor.
Those three guys on defense would have been worth at least three points less given up, IMO.

...but then we wouldn't have the three other guys on offense.

It's a ridiculous game of musical chairs being played.
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you forgot James Williams! Apparently he’s better running his mouth on social media about us missing him. JW being JW.
 
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