PSU - What Did We Learn?

FremontFred said:
I learned that we probably shouldn't force feed our "Heisman candidate" to try to juice his stats and hand off 4 times right up the middle on the goal line. Game probably feels a lot different if we punch it in there and get them on their heels. Instead they had momentum from the jump and it was all downhill from there.
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I am convinced that's the only run plan Dana knows.
 
Undone said:
I don’t know man…I think you can make the inverse argument:

We had them on their 2. Our defense could have shut them down there gotten the ball back for our offense…but our defense sucks.

But totally agree - short yardage running has been a deceptively bad area for us that has hurt us all year.
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I'm all on board for going for it on 4th down there. But it felt like we tried to force an EJ touchdown instead of calling the "right" play call on 3rd and 4th. OK pounding it once or twice, but to do it four times in a row is the definition of insanity.
 
I mean, as much as I dislike Frost, him with Ekler running ST, might would have a legit shot at 7-4 with this schedule. I truly don't see much difference with Rhule if you actually go look at the quality of teams we've beaten in conference this year. Four wins and those four teams are 8-23 (8-24 if UCLA loses tonight) in conference play.

I hear from folks that Rhule is different, that things have changed, but have they REALLY? Other than Ekler, that was an awesome hire. What else is truly that much better?
 
We have to stop with this. Frost barely beat the worst P4 team in decades by 3 today. If you truly think Rhule isn't a massive upgrade from Frost, you're delulu.

Now, would quite a few coaches be an upgrade? Yes. But Rhule is who we have.
 
Nebhawk said:
The cash has to be on hand, and we need something to make players believe they will make an impact here. They have to be supported and even promoted some. We do not have O line players to get great WR and even great RB's. EJ makes his own yardage and the wear and tear on his body is showing and showed some tonight. Dylan is over rated in my opinion, and will not be a 1st round draft pick or even an early draft pick. But again, may never know because we don't have NFL line or WR . It would be nice to see what Dylan could do with even an average line. I just don't know what the ceiling is anymore for a program like us. I watch a lot of football, and frankly other than SEC teams, the trenches are lacking in all other conferences. Quality of football is different in the trenches. I do not like the SEC, but they are a better brand of football and talent.
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I actually think this is one of the weakest SEC conferences I’ve seen. Not a team will hang with OSU, maybe Indiana. ND will also be tougher. a&M beat ND when CJ Carr was still in his second game. OSU will beat any SEC team by 14+. Tech may even beat A&M. This is not the year to tout SEC
 
SouthLincoln Husker said:
Nice jab. I just have a more realistic picture. You want to hang all the coaches, even though NIL has changed the game & we are too slow to adjust. Its bad when 75% of the schools in the Big 10 spend more than we do. That is not the coaches fault!
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NW, Iowa, UCLA all spend more money than we do? At some point fans need to hold coaches accountable. Rhule had two weeks to watch film but maybe he was filming a podcast or something. He hired Butler, retained Raiola, and rarely makes proper in-game adjustments. He didn’t beat a single team he should not have this or any season at Nebraska. So yes, this falls on the coach.
 
Crusader Husker said:
Scott Frost's record sucks in 1 score games. We flipped the script this year. Actually, what did Scott do well? We have made bowl games twice. Scott was a disaster as the Husker coach. MR spent the first season getting us out of the hole SF left us in. PSU is an excellent team that lost against Oregon and couldn't recover.
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They recovered against us..
 
runningblind said:
I mean, as much as I dislike Frost, him with Ekler running ST, might would have a legit shot at 7-4 with this schedule. I truly don't see much difference with Rhule if you actually go look at the quality of teams we've beaten in conference this year. Four wins and those four teams are 8-23 (8-24 if UCLA loses tonight) in conference play.

I hear from folks that Rhule is different, that things have changed, but have they REALLY? Other than Ekler, that was an awesome hire. What else is truly that much better?
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You might as well have just typed this:

"Scott Frost set the bar so low, the bar was laying on the ground."

Giving Scott the credit for even thinking special teams was important is total fantasy. It's one of the reasons he was a pure dumpster fire of a head coach.
 
EJ is the man, but on a couple short yardage situations where we only needed a yard or two, he jump cut into a tackle. if he just ran up the back of the ol blocking, he probably would have picked up the first. Rex burkhead was amazing at that. Getting 3 when we need two, two when we needed 1. Of course some of the amazing runs we have seen are those same cuts.

TJ looked really good on a couple of rollouts and throwing on run. For all the talk of trusting TJ, staff didn’t call plays that reflected it.

Special teams can have bad games. Even though they were the best unit on the field today.

I didn’t think a HC could screw up a penalty acceptance after a PAT, but I think MR did that…unless the rule changed. Of course even with more yards, maybe we still screw that one up also.
 
We weren't supposed to win this game. We were huge preseason underdogs in this one, and even after Franklin s*** the bed, they bounced back a little bit and were 7.5 point favorites to win this one.

That tells you all you need to know; they were 7.5 point favorites.

The excuses for Rhule will pour in over the course of the offseason.

But the bottom line is that the Minnesota loss was inexcusable. So, for next season you have to again lower your expectations to something in this basic area code:

"Hopefully we beat the teams we're supposed to beat."
 
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