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I said going into the Nebraska game, so we are excluded. Yes, I think they are beating Wiscy in Iowa and Penn State, and losing to Michigan. Iowa is going to beat Wiscy? Have you SEEN any Hawkeye games this year? I..I can't stop laughing. Iowa will be lucky to get to 7 wins this year. As far as honesty, NU should be favored in every game left on the schedule except UW/OSU. There's no way Iowa is favored, even with it being at home. Yes. Yes Hope you're right. Okay. We'll know in 6 days...I think Iowa wins on Saturday. If I'm reading between the lines in your very subtle post, you think Wisconsin draws and quarters them. One of us will be wrong. Certainly might be me. I'm curious. What have you seen from iowa this year to think they will be capable of beating Wiscy? Or Penn State, or Illinois for that matter? That offense is a dumpster fire that has only been able to produce against PURDUE? I don't understand it. Ive watched most of thier games this year and that team is playing like a high school team from Alaska. As in the words of Charles Barkley - Turrible. Iowa has been laughable in moments this year, but I think Wisconsin is due for a letdown game, and Iowa could easily beat them. I would put it as a 50-50 game right now. The table is clearly set for Wisconsin. Win the next two games, Iowa and Nebraska, and they control their destiny going forward and will probably get another shot at Michigan or OSU in the CCG. They're legitimately strong. It took an act of will by JT Barrett to pull that game close enough to outlast them in OT. As has been mentioned, the Iowa offense is a pile of dog crap. Both Minnesota and Purdue played possibly the two worst games I've seen in College Football in the last several years to hand them their last two victories. Leidner was a zombie and they still almost won. Purdue couldn't stop slow, hobbled CJ Beathard from long repeated desperation runs of 10 yards+. I am confident this will not happen to Wisconsin. That Wisconsin -3 line that was out this week is for the gamblers, IMO. Wisconsin will beat Iowa by a comfortable 12 points or so and it won't, in reality, be that close. Michigan will beat them by more. Wisconsin, if they were to beat Nebraska, would still need another team to beat Nebraska as UW has two conference losses. So they don't control their own destiny, they still need help. I expect that OSU will prevail against us in Columbus, which makes my scenario right on. After that, we essentially play Wisconsin for the division title if all else goes right.

I said going into the Nebraska game, so we are excluded. Yes, I think they are beating Wiscy in Iowa and Penn State, and losing to Michigan. Iowa is going to beat Wiscy? Have you SEEN any Hawkeye games this year? I..I can't stop laughing. Iowa will be lucky to get to 7 wins this year. As far as honesty, NU should be favored in every game left on the schedule except UW/OSU. There's no way Iowa is favored, even with it being at home. Yes. Yes Hope you're right. Okay. We'll know in 6 days...I think Iowa wins on Saturday. If I'm reading between the lines in your very subtle post, you think Wisconsin draws and quarters them. One of us will be wrong. Certainly might be me. I'm curious. What have you seen from iowa this year to think they will be capable of beating Wiscy? Or Penn State, or Illinois for that matter? That offense is a dumpster fire that has only been able to produce against PURDUE? I don't understand it. Ive watched most of thier games this year and that team is playing like a high school team from Alaska. As in the words of Charles Barkley - Turrible. Iowa has been laughable in moments this year, but I think Wisconsin is due for a letdown game, and Iowa could easily beat them. I would put it as a 50-50 game right now. The table is clearly set for Wisconsin. Win the next two games, Iowa and Nebraska, and they control their destiny going forward and will probably get another shot at Michigan or OSU in the CCG. They're legitimately strong. It took an act of will by JT Barrett to pull that game close enough to outlast them in OT. As has been mentioned, the Iowa offense is a pile of dog crap. Both Minnesota and Purdue played possibly the two worst games I've seen in College Football in the last several years to hand them their last two victories. Leidner was a zombie and they still almost won. Purdue couldn't stop slow, hobbled CJ Beathard from long repeated desperation runs of 10 yards+. I am confident this will not happen to Wisconsin. That Wisconsin -3 line that was out this week is for the gamblers, IMO. Wisconsin will beat Iowa by a comfortable 12 points or so and it won't, in reality, be that close. Michigan will beat them by more.

Great link, OP! This is probably my favorite game this year. Running up against a guy like Smoot early, wearing down their defense which clearly has some monsters and adapting our offensive strategy as the game went on. Add in some aggressive plays that make it clear Riley wants to win more than he's afraid of losing, has the team all-in and helped get a few breaks to go our way. Good stuff for an under-the-radar trap game.

I think Ohio State plays every big 10 game as if it's do or die for the CFP playoffs. They have to! We'll get their best and they've got a top 15 squad beneath the first level guys who'll go lights out if they get on the field.

I'm beginning to think that the head coaching position could and should be automated. Riley's clock management at the end of the Illinois loss, and the subsequent rolling up into a ball during the Wisconsin loss are mistakes a well programmed computer would not make. Some of the easier aspects to program: -press conference AI -generalized motivational phraseology -X's and O's of game play -Rosters -Assistant coach hiring, performance tracking and accountability grid metrics More difficult items: -recruiting -Sounding excited about the future of the walk on program -AI for any dealings with Jim Harbaugh We have one of the best computer science departments in the world right here in Milford. I think this is doable.

My guess is random homes of volunteers in Lincoln.

It fits the narrative so people will push that agenda. Tom Osborne was around Pelini a lot. He had an opportunity to hire Gill and he had an opportunity to fire Pelini. Instead, he doubled down on him and also endorsed him for subsequent jobs. Why do some Husker fans insist believing they know more about Nebraska football success than Tom Osborne? What sort of arrogance does that require? Tom didn't have the perspective of watching the poison spread, the sensational videos that fed up players kept leaking and a host of other issues when he made that decision.

Condescension, check. Call for 5 years of patience, check. Desires censorship, check. I give it 6.6/10

Yep. All right up the middle. Our predictability will wear them down.

Third and Ten against us this year is like a magical, almost desirable situation to be in, especially if it's late and we should be about to put you away. Throw like the wind!

5/10

Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois fans, have endured what we're just now experiencing, for years now. Yet, I'm pretty sure they weren't whining about it on the level we are, calling for mid-season firing, etc. We would have kicked Ferentz out, YEARS ago. They were. The boards have been brutal to Ferentz for years and it's eerily similar.

Another situation where he did the opposite of the correct strategy that any 13 year old playing Madden could tell you how to do. A little over a minute left on the clock and Wisconsin has all their timeouts, so you need a first down or you're giving them the ball back with over a minute left to get in FG range. Apparently, he remembered back to last week when 13 year old Madden players all over America let him know he should've called a simple play up the middle to run clock instead of the infamous bootleg pass option without pass option . So that's what he did 3 times in a row. Simple handoff up the middle. No misdirection, no sweeps, no reverse, No effort whatsoever to try and get the first down. Afterwards they said they were trying to get Wisconsin to use their timeouts. smh We have the dumbest coaches in America. Was is incompetence or was Langsahan giving us the middle finger? I agree with HuskerMan's summary. As far as your question, that's a tough one. I can't imagine anyone throwing a game away to inflict misery on a million or so people at the expense of their career and resume. Incompetence is the only logical answer. If there is another reason, then Incompetence is still the answer IMO.

You ridicule other fan bases? I don't....unless they're throwing piss bombs. Maybe that is a word you don't understand. Read the board. We (in general) constantly praise ourselves for being better than other fan bases because we don't _____ (fill in the blank, boo, they can't touch our sellout streak, whatever...the list is so long I can't even do it justice). Other fans work hard to buy tickets, gear or whatever to show support for their team. We only truly support winners. It makes us the same. Sorry you can't see that. You're the guy who just threw an entire fan base under the bus because people who traveled to Indy from Lincoln leave a blowout early. You did exempt people undergoing medical emergencies which is very new age and humanitarian of you.

Last game, runs would have killed most of the clock. This game, with the TO situation, three uninspired runs only served to give WI the ball as quickly as possible. We needed a first down to kill any significant clock and we should have been playing for that instead of purposefully getting them the ball. That wasn't the case last game where our two panicky, poorly executed passes called their time outs for them.

This is an excellent opportunity to avenge some earlier losses to Wisconsin. Ripe for the picking. To answer the OP, I'd say keep the run defense strong and try to get Stave rattled. Remember that our record doesn't reflect our potential in any realistic evaluation.

I bet Northwestern is happy they didn't follow your thought process when hiring Fitzgerald. Yep cause NW has the same standards as we do. And yet... his team is ranked #13 and 5-0 with a win over #21 Stanford. And we can't even beat Illinois. The sun can shine on a dog's ass anyday. I'm starting to realize why fans from other teams seem to have an irrational hate for Nebraska fans. We kind of deserve it.

I'm starting to think this. When there are 8 guys defending two WR's, I'm guessing the defensive guys get in each others way. Also, in situations where the only possible play is a bomb or the game will shortly be over, but there is more than 1 second on the clock- say like 30 seconds or so- I'm thinking that falling for the obvious and defending the bomb is too simple. It seems like doing this would make it too easy for a much shorter pass to be a completion. So, we're doing the right things when it comes to late game bombs that aren't specifically the last play- by not defending them specifically- but our bomb defense with 5 seconds or less on the clock should be leaned out significantly. Does this sound about right?

Please Riley, prove me wrong. Seriously. I would love to be wrong. No sarcasm, I really don't want to be right about him being an average coach. But he's right. Making the judgment after one game IS idiotic. Only time, ie., a season or so, can give us the full picture. Pelini was a wild card that brought us a win loss record that hid our weaknesses, put us through humiliating blowouts with some regularity, spat fire and bile whenever things turned out badly, acted unprofessionally in the extreme at the end of his tenure and, of course, never brought us a CC or many signature wins in the last several years. He was a liability and will almost certainly never coach in the P5 again. Proving you wrong is a useless, redundant gesture at this point.

Very excited about the new coach. I suspect that the emotional, surly Bo was not bringing out the best in the Husker players, even if he was popular with most of them. A B1G team has Alabama, Auburn and the rest of them still wobbly on their legs wondering what the hell happened last year. It was no fluke- the national title games score made the game seem closer than it was. Now the rest of us have to slowly build up to approach that standard- except Iowa.

That would make perfect sense if Bill Callahan had enslaved Husker Fans and forced us to interbreed for his entertainment, both physically and mentally. I wasn't living in Nebraska during the era but that didn't happen, right?

It's all cyclical. Can't believe you compared Nebraska to Vandy... even indirectly. I'm happy as hell for OSU, Wisconsin, and MSU. Balls of steel! Oh, and we played a very tough team all the way to the end. Go B1G!!!!

They certainly were targeting AA. Even so, I'd still have preferred the game be put in his or Armstrong's hands. This has a lot of the Minnesota game ending feel to it but it took an amazing tackle to upend DPE on that last play.

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After reading 90 percent of the rant, I'm forced to agree- that the change was timely. Pelini seemed to have a mentality more on the level of an angry, but loyal, player than a professional charged with the guidance of young men. I can see why the players related to him, but I can also see exactly why he needed to move on. Bring on the Riley era~!