Quit with the excuses and admit that ISU is actually playing at an equal level now. Enough of the "the officials sucked" and "we had all our stars injured" crap. I'm tired of hearing excuse after excuse from certain people who cannot admit that Iowa State, with their tacky little stadium, their puny little athletic budget, their USCesque uniforms and their silly little mix of one-star and walk on players are capable of playing football at Husker level.
Boo hoo...your "star" QB didn't play today. Bull...he looked perfectly able to play when he got in for the play where Green got his bell rung. Bo just didn't want to "waste" him on a lowly team like Iowa State. Anyway...what does it matter what with all the amazing recruits the Huskers have. Why, ISU is so pathetic you should have been able to pull a fan out of the audience and still win by 30! Heck, all he had to do was hand off the Helu and if he could slash MU for 300 yards, he should be able to run from Ames back to Lincoln without anybody laying a hand on him! And even if the offense sputtered, that fantastic defense should be able to force at least 10 safeties and hold the retarded ISU team to negative 100 yards...
Face it...ISU left 6 points and a victory on the board with the two missed field goals. The Huskers didn't win because of anything they did but because of two missed kicks and a limp wristed pass from a punter. ISU beat ISU...Nebraska had nothing to do with it. Our offense gave you two touchdowns with an unforced fumble and an interception. You were outplayed on both sides of the ball by a team that was, on the particular Saturday, clearly your equal. Statisically, frankly speaking, ISU crushed you. Facts are fact...just like the fact that last year we beat you with our second string QB, HB and half the defense down with the flu.
Knock off the attitude that it was everybody's fault that Saturday almost ended with a resounding thud in Ames. This team is not that good and ISU is not that bad.
Thank you for attending today's sermon...please drop some money in the collect plate on your way out the door.
I'm sorry, but I just have to laugh at the first paragraph. Mentioning the fact that we lost not only our singular most potent offensive weapon, but also our best corner and arguably our best defender this season does not qualify as an 'excuse'. It's a thing called a reason. For example, breaking my leg in six places is not an excuse for why I can't walk very fast. It is a predictable hindrance that would make anyone's walking business harder, even if they walk fine every other day of the year.
Break down the game.
We start our third string QB in a hostile environment with both teams playing for all the marbles. Iowa State has their good days and their bad days like any team, but they're at home, and field position favored you most of the day. If Cody Green has one sure talent we've seen, it's that he has a big arm. It's not especially accurate, but he can fling it down the hashes. With a 20 MPH wind blowing in your face half the game, your offense is essentially made one-dimensional, and even with our PA game, no one seriously thinks we're going to let someone as mistake prone as Green throw thirty passes.
We get conservative. Talent should win the day. Talent almost did win the day. If David doesn't get knocked off the play on the first 4th Qt touchdown, probably we're still up ten. If Niles Fumble doesn't do the chicken dance of stupidity on the thirteen yard line, probably we win the game by 10 or 13.
No excuses necessary. We made dumb, stupid, moronic plays in the fourth, and let was should have been a victory lap offensive series become an overtime debacle. One interception off a boneheaded play call later, and the Huskers win on Luck 'n Talent in the secondary.
As far as ISU being on equal footing as Nebraska, dare to dream, but last I checked we're on a pathway to Dallas while ISU is still searching for a bowl game. Good luck with that, by the way, because whatever you think if Missouri, they ain't exactly pushovers. It's no trick to upset a good team once in awhile. Statistics demand it happens. Winners win a lot. Losers lose a lot. Mediocrity wins a few and loses a few others, wins big and gets blown out.
I congratulate the way ISU played yesterday. They did everything that was necessary to win, got the breaks when they needed them, but came up short. Excuse making is a waste of time.
