Aaron Green

How can you say the tough schedule wears on a team throughout the season but it's not the toughness that led to our losses against teams we should beat? Maybe I wasn't clear. The schedule will affect a team's overall performance. Think back to TO's power teams. They could often sit their starters in the 4th quarter. Not having to play a full 4 quarters of intense football makes a big difference. As far as I'm concerned, TCU never had teams Nebraska couldn't beat. I just don't see how you could switch the schedule's and not have Nebraska ending up with the better record. TCU would almost certainly drop a game it wasn't supposed to.

That said. We do lose games we shouldn't but who doesn't? When was the last time Nebraska had a head coach that didn't? Even TO got beat by ISU right before they made their big run.

 
irafreak said:
How can you say the tough schedule wears on a team throughout the season but it's not the toughness that led to our losses against teams we should beat? Maybe I wasn't clear. The schedule will affect a team's overall performance. Think back to TO's power teams. They could often sit their starters in the 4th quarter. Not having to play a full 4 quarters of intense football makes a big difference. As far as I'm concerned, TCU never had teams Nebraska couldn't beat. I just don't see how you could switch the schedule's and not have Nebraska ending up with the better record. TCU would almost certainly drop a game it wasn't supposed to.

That said. We do lose games we shouldn't but who doesn't? When was the last time Nebraska had a head coach that didn't? Even TO got beat by ISU right before they made their big run.
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You're arguing the tough schedule causes wear and tear (which I agree w/ by year end), but the first 3 losses that I think we should have won came in games #4, #7, #6. Washington 2.0 came after 3 weeks off. And Northwestern came after a bye week, a Minnesota win, and another a big win where just like you said - our starters should have been sitting for the 4th quarter. Keep in mind the first 4 are usually creampuffs. TCU probably plays a tougher first set of games than Nebraska does. It's not like we're losing the 10th game.

So to say we're losing these games because we're nicked up, and we wouldn't be against lesser competition is wrong. We're losing early games, that follow us playing lesser competition than even TCU plays in the MWC.

 
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The Dude said:
kchusker_chris said:
The Dude said:
Deckedinblack said:
who cares about TCU
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People who are impressed by good intramural teams.
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Or people who watch the BCS bowls...
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I actually don't watch them if one of the participants only has to make it through an intramural schedule to get there.

That says a lot more about how sh**ty the bowl system is than it does about TCU.
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Exactly.

Walking though a creampuff schedules impresses some greatly. Me, not so much.

 
Then those same schools go down and beat the likes of Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, and a multitude of other schools that are supposedly on another level. Nothing impressive about that. Those are just the same teams that hand us our a$$ frequently. :P

 
kchusker_chris said:
Then those same schools go down and beat the likes of Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, and a multitude of other schools that are supposedly on another level. Nothing impressive about that. Those are just the same teams that hand us our a$$ frequently. :P
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It's impressive for what it is. It would be infinity more impressive if they had to play a gauntlet of teams like that to get there. Like those teams had to.

 
The Dude said:
kchusker_chris said:
Then those same schools go down and beat the likes of Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, and a multitude of other schools that are supposedly on another level. Nothing impressive about that. Those are just the same teams that hand us our a$$ frequently. :P
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It's impressive for what it is. It would be infinity more impressive if they had to play a gauntlet of teams like that to get there. Like those teams had to.
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I agree entirely. Unfortunately they didn't - and there isn't much they can do about it. Those teams have certainly won as many of these top-tier games as they've lost though. We'll get to learn a lot about TCU now. I don't think they are at the caliber they were in 2009/2010 though so they have that going against them. We saw what happened to Utah when they wandered into the Pac12 last year. Although they didn't do as bad as I thought they would. Big transition...and they finished similar to how Nebraska did in their first year after the transition.

 
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