Our only problem so far...

Army Husker

Army Husker

All-Conference
Ok, we're 3-3 winning against 3 "easier" teams and losing to 3 "harder" teams. Our overall stats according to huskers.com show that we beat out everyone so far except for one thing, yup, penalties. I know stats are controversial to say the least, but we get rid of penalties and we see a different outcome for the rest of the year?

TEAM STATISTICS NU OPP

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SCORING....................... 198 167

Points Per Game............. 33.0 27.8

FIRST DOWNS................... 135 118

Rushing..................... 46 42

Passing..................... 80 62

Penalty..................... 9 14

RUSHING YARDAGE............... 815 777

Yards gained rushing........ 931 897

Yards lost rushing.......... 116 120

Rushing Attempts............ 200 201

Average Per Rush............ 4.1 3.9

Average Per Game............ 135.8 129.5

TDs Rushing................. 10 12

PASSING YARDAGE............... 1709 1525

Att-Comp-Int................ 196-136-6 187-118-5

Average Per Pass............ 8.7 8.2

Average Per Catch........... 12.6 12.9

Average Per Game............ 284.8 254.2

TDs Passing................. 12 7

TOTAL OFFENSE................. 2524 2302

Total Plays................. 396 388

Average Per Play............ 6.4 5.9

Average Per Game............ 420.7 383.7

KICK RETURNS: #-Yards......... 27-665 22-537

PUNT RETURNS: #-Yards......... 10-159 8-89

INT RETURNS: #-Yards.......... 5-164 6-80

KICK RETURN AVERAGE........... 24.6 24.4

PUNT RETURN AVERAGE........... 15.9 11.1

INT RETURN AVERAGE............ 32.8 13.3

FUMBLES-LOST.................. 9-4 7-1

PENALTIES-Yards............... 54-429 26-207

Average Per Game............ 71.5 34.5

PUNTS-Yards................... 19-659 23-827

Average Per Punt............ 34.7 36.0

Net punt average............ 27.9 29.0

TIME OF POSSESSION/Game....... 31:45 28:15

3RD-DOWN Conversions.......... 35/76 36/82

3rd-Down Pct................ 46% 44%

4TH-DOWN Conversions.......... 2/6 3/7

4th-Down Pct................ 33% 43%

SACKS BY-Yards................ 11-69 9-50

MISC YARDS.................... 9 0

TOUCHDOWNS SCORED............. 25 20

FIELD GOALS-ATTEMPTS.......... 8-10 9-13

ON-SIDE KICKS................. 0-1 0-0

RED-ZONE SCORES............... 22-26 85% 22-28 79%

RED-ZONE TOUCHDOWNS........... 18-26 69% 15-28 54%

PAT-ATTEMPTS.................. 24-24 100% 18-20 90%

ATTENDANCE.................... 424655 53449

Games/Avg Per Game.......... 5/84931 1/53449

Neutral Site Games.......... 0/0

SCORE BY QUARTERS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Total

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Nebraska............ 49 47 34 68 0 - 198

Opponents........... 36 49 45 31 6 - 167

 
Army Husker said:
but we get rid of penalties and we see a different outcome for the rest of the year?
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maybe.

certainly worth trying.

lemme think....

ok, go for it, get rid of those penalties.

uh, you might want to share our decision with the players. :horns2

 
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Without the penalties, this team is maybe 5-1. Penalties being NU's only problem? Hmm. Might want to take a look at the defense.

 
Yeah, the penalties have pi$$ed the hell out of me this season. But I'm going to give that about 10% of why we are losing this season.

Execution: 20%

Scheme: 15%

Talent: 10%

Penalties: 10%

OTHER TEAMS BEATING OUR a$$ BECAUSE THEY ARE BETTER 45%

 
Oh yeah penalties have killed us and i belive i read some where that over the last three games that the huskers have played

Nebraska has 29 penalties and their Opponets have only 7 So if we can take the penalties away we could be alot better team

 
RedNLeader said:
Oh yeah penalties have killed us and i belive i read some where that over the last three games that the huskers have played

Nebraska has 29 penalties and their Opponets have only 7 So if we can take the penalties away we could be alot better team
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Hurry....change your post before 'clone' shoots himself for the lack of any puctuation and random capitalization!!!! (It hurt my head almost as bad!!!)

 
IMHO without the penalties, we might be 5-1, at least 4-2. Penalties are nothing more than a good indication that there are other problems though. We have had some penalties at really bad times that have killed drives and changed the momentum to the other team...but there have been a lot of other problems in all facets of the game with this team. Consistency has been totally lacking. I would love to see that turned around this week against Iowa State, we need to come out and dominate from start to finish, then I will believe that the consistency issue is being changed.

 
cmb23 said:
RedNLeader said:
Oh yeah penalties have killed us and i belive i read some where that over the last three games that the huskers have played

Nebraska has 29 penalties and their Opponets have only 7 So if we can take the penalties away we could be alot better team
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Hurry....change your post before 'clone' shoots himself for the lack of any puctuation and random capitalization!!!! (It hurt my head almost as bad!!!)
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:)

Naw, you haven't been paying attention. Punctuation and/or capitalization doesn't bother me at all.

It's the repeated spelling errors that drive me nuts and the incorrect useage of there/their, lose/loose and losing/loosing (among others). Everyone can typo, it's the repeated ones that drive me crazy.

Especially when someone lays down smack and can't even spell it right!

BTW- it's not puctuation it's punctuation. :rollin :rollin

 
hskrpwr13 said:
Without the penalties, this team is maybe 5-1. Penalties being NU's only problem? Hmm. Might want to take a look at the defense.
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I agree I have watched the last 4 games, and the only one I seen we couldnt have won was agaist MU, but VT and TT was lack of discipline. They didn't beat us we beat ourselves and if we didn't rack up a bunch of penalties then we would be sitting at 5-1. I believe the team knows this to and are kicking themselves for the losses they should of had. I agree with Bo's plan of action though. Mass punishment for all penalties in a game. Make the players feel bad that there friends are getting punished for something they did. Hopefully this will clean up the dumb penalties.

 
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The thing about being heavily penalized is that once a team gets that sort of reputation, it kind of becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The officials know which team(s) are racking up the penalty yardage and, whether conciously or not, tend to call things tighter against these teams. This could be an issue that haunts us the rest of the year.

 
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