MasterPulverizer

No kidding. There are a lot of people taking victory laps based on one comment they made from three months ago.

Exactly. What's stopping the offense from putting up 400+ yards but giving it away three times? This team is so effing unpredictable that every play on offense and special teams, I have to remind myself to breathe. Honestly, the tension I feel watching the Huskers play is akin to binging the entire Breaking Bad series in one sitting.

Fitzgerald and the other B1G coaches have us figured out. Either blow us out, or hang close until the 4th quarter and wait for us to implode. As good as this game looks on paper for us, we can't discredit the fact that Fitzgerald is a good coach and their team will be ready to play.

I'm equally impressed with the 0 in the interceptions column. Adrian has thrown it well this year when he has time. What I learned from this Buffalo game is that AM is a hell of a football player. He does some stupid stuff, but so far he's the best thing we have going on offense!

I'd like to hit him with an oar.

Reading this post made me think about the environmental differences between Oregon, Orlando, and Nebraska. At Oregon and UCF, Frost was a relative nobody. He's made comments that when he was at UCF he could go grab fast food and no one would know him. In Nebraska, I imagine he can't go anywhere without people gawking at him. Fame does weird things to people and it makes me wonder if the golden-boy image we've put on him created an ego where in his mind he can do no wrong and cannot be held accountable. Being Scott Frost in Nebraska is dramatically different from being Scott Frost in Oregon or Orlando. All of this amounts to a massive distraction which explains why everyone is so out of sync.

I honestly thought Frost was going to lose his job on the way home from Illinois. As apathetic as he was in the press conference, it almost seemed as if he knew his fate. The larger issue, to me, is that if it doesn't work with Frost then whoever we hire next likely will be a coach on the rise working their credibility until they get the next elite opening. My fear is that we're so bad, and have been for so long, that this job turns into a stepping stone job and we're on the 3-5 year track with every new HC indefinitely. One of the draws from Frost was that he wasn't going to run from a challenge. At this point, the challenge seems his own making so I have no idea wtf to think anymore. Nothing makes sense, and everything is disappointing.

1. Clean offensive game plan. 2. Stout run defense without run blitzes 3. No penalties, fumbles, or bad snaps on the first drive of the game. If we can do #3 along with the first two, we've got a solid chance in every game we play this season. How many of us have watched a fumble or dumb penalty on the first drive and thought we've already lost this game? Discipline is such a predictor of success that it's impossible to think anything other than "this is over" when they do some dumb s#!t on the first drive of the game.

We've been using this phrase around our office recently that I think sums up the world: Nothing makes sense, and everything is disappointing.

Pure curiosity here, but what about MSU should be a lock?

There's another element to this that I think has gone unnoticed the last two years. If we have three legit receivers on the field, we don't have to rotate as many packages and the offense can finally go fast. They were able to do this to a certain extent at the end of year one when we had Morgan, Spielman, and Ozigbo on the field at the same time. Granted the play was sloppy, and the culture was weak because of how poorly they were coached under Riley, but at least they had talent on the field. They could run the entire offense out of that set without having to substitute packages in and out. In my opinion, that was our biggest problem the last two years on offense. We were consistently rotating players into packages which led to Wandale playing a ton of RB and replacing him in the slot with lesser talented receivers. If we can get Allen & Fidone on the field with a consistent stable of receivers for multiple plays in a row, we can start to stress defenses with the speed of the offense and actually create matchups that this offense requires to move the ball. This is obviously a false equivalent, but the other night on Davante Smith's last TD in the first half, he was lined up against Tuf Borland and they scored on a quick strike down the middle. They were able to do that because they had four legit threats at receiver and only one "free" safety. If it wasn't Smith, it was going to someone else. That's what I think the lack of talent at WR and RB has prevented the last two years. We can't get a matchup anywhere and the defense ques on our only good receiver. I might be alone in thinking this, but I really think the offense will look more like it did in year one simply because there's going to be more talent on the field which enables Frost & Co. to run their offense they way it was intended. I'm probably wrong, and the past few years have cemented my doubt, but there's at least a glimmer of optimism with some of these transfer portal opportunites.

I'm sure there's some connection here I'm just not getting, but the way I see it is you compared her to a tent. If there's another meaning, it will not be as funny as saying someone looks like a tent, even if that tent might be more appropriately classified as a yurt.

I'm glad someone finally pointed this out.

The inevitability of this situation is one of the most difficult pills to swallow. As a fan base, we got what we wanted (except for Riley) when Solich was hired, then fired, and on and on until the golden son returned. We applauded hire and cheered to the return to dominance. Hell, as fans we look at the end of the first season as the tipping point and went full steam ahead with the media hype and then were reminded, bluntly, that Nebraska has been a mid, to low tier program for the past decade or better. I remember people saying "If Frost can't turn this around, who can?" and we as fans cemented that as our reality and are struggling to accept our mediocrity (or lack thereof) as fact. I've been a season ticket holder my entire adult life and I decided that I would buy them next year, but if this doesn't turn around then I'm not making the financial and emotional commitment to the program in 2022. I feel that a lot of fans are thinking that same thing. Until the Rutgers game got moved back, was anyone going to take the afternoon off to watch the game? It's terrible, but it is what it is at this point.

Wait...who added Ty Robinson to this list?

How dare an outsider come in here and use reality to destroy our delusion?!?!?!? Please leave, sir.

I think the youth on the offensive line is the most problematic part of the large percentage of young players on the team. I think they can all progress, but three of the five are redshirt freshmen or sophomores. The more experience they get in the trenches, the better the team will be in the future.

Northwestern and Iowa are not mediocre teams. They always play the game they want to play and most times it works out because they know their identity and don't beat themselves. No one is saying it's delusional to expect to beat mediocre teams, but our team is below average and one cannot expect a team with no identity and a problem with aiming at their feet to come in and win any game, despite how mediocre that team might appear. It's a sad state of affairs and trust me, I level with your frustration. These games are so predictable and boring that it's hard to justify the time and money to keep supporting this program. Unfortunately, like you, I still cling to the past and hope for a day where this program returns to glory. I'm doubtful it will anytime soon and I think middle of the pack mediocrity is now our future.

If he doesn't play in more than four games, does he have a redshirt to use?

Fair enough.

If there is a signature to this team that is without doubt it's that they are always lame coming out of half. Regardless of having the lead or not, they always come out flat in the 3rd quarter. I think teams know this and that's why they're able to turn up the pressure. That said, with the exception of the long run for a TD and the long pass that set up a TD, the defense played really well and I'm doubtful that the game would have been much closer without those two mistakes.

Does anyone have any concerns about arm strength and the quality of the balls when they're in the air? There was one play down in the red zone where he was throwing to an open TE and barely got the ball to the goal line. Granted, he was rolling out, but it was to his right and I don't recall there being any pressure. Also, the one that Warner dropped in the end zone was a poorly thrown ball. He should have caught it, but it was really wobbly, as was the pass to Allen on the 2nd or 3rd play of the game. Not complaining about the win, or how the team played, just curious as to what everyone else thinks about these two areas.

That's largely because Nebraska fans can't digest the fact that Nebraska is at best a mediocre team. It's disappointing, but that's the state of husker football right now. I'm sick of losing to Northwestern, too, but that is our reality as fans for the next 1 to 3 years. I hope I'm wrong, but until we're consistently getting top 10 recruiting classes, or developing underrated guys like Wisconsin, our future is a mediocre team that will gladly take an 8 win season.

The players in the locker room know where this thing is going. Dedrick Mills said it best himself: "“Luke was a good spark because Luke is more, to me, when it comes to tempo, he can move the ball more productive and faster,” Mills said. “He looks to the sideline, gets back, everybody is set up and he snaps the ball quick, so it’s just all about getting the defense on their toes and making them tired, and that’s what Luke brought to the game.”" I thought this offense was supposed to be lightening quick. I've not seen anything over the last two years that would indicate this offense can move much faster than they do currently.

I love how Minnesota is feeling the same way that the Huskers felt last year when the reality did not measure up to the hype. I play golf with a Minnesota fan and his customized ProV1's say "34-7." He's been pretty quite as of late and I love it.