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5 minutes ago, funhusker said:

Do you prefer NFL?  The football is usually much better than any college teams.

The lack of passion takes the joy out of it. I prefer college ball, but just find it difficult to enjoy low stakes games between two bad teams.

1 hour ago, knapplc said:

 

 

I would watch two 1-5 teams play if it was all that was on. Because I'm a college football fan.

 

If you're only watching because your team is winning, that's a you problem.

Terrible football is not fun. I would not watch two loser teams. I watch Nebraska because I care about the program, but I do not watch loser teams I don’t care about.

I would be surprised if there are that many bowl spots available.

Winning is fun. Actually being competitive is fun too. Terrible football is not fun.

Would I watch? Probably. Because I’m insane. But while I get that point about most of the bowls not mattering because national title is out of the question, I only buy that to a degree. I mean if that were the case, why bother with any bowl outside the playoffs?

5 minutes ago, funhusker said:

RBs did improve in turnovers.  Actually Purdy was better too.  Penalties were much better this years than in previous.

 

But young/inexperienced players do tend to make more mistakes.

I will grant that penalties were better, which I was pleased to see.

So far, can’t complain. Creighton, even if they have been exposed, will be a great test to see if this team really is legit.

Just now, commando said:

go get yourself elected grand poohbah of college football and make it happen.   

I get I don’t have a say in it. I’m saying what I think should be, not what will be.

1 minute ago, commando said:

which bowls would you say shouldn't be played if there are not enough 6 win teams?

I’ll be frank I am of the mindset that there are way too many bowls right now anyways. So if there’s not enough, I’d say yes get rid of the Car Care Turd Bowl or Mowers.com Mediocrity Bowl.

2 minutes ago, PasstheDamnBallGuy said:

Anyone seriously saying we shouldn't go to a bowl doesn't actually care about this team getting better. 

I think that’s not fair. I get the thinking, but a bowl is a privilege, and I don’t think losing teams should have such a privilege. Six wins is all it takes now, and if you can’t even achieve that, you don’t deserve a bowl.

4 minutes ago, runningblind said:

Can't fix them immediately, but I would have hoped to see improvement as the year went on with turnovers and terrible mental breakdowns to end games. It felt the same, or worse, in November as early in the year. That is a bit concerning given our history. I'm not panicking, but it could total end up being a "we should have seen it earlier" moment come 2-3 years from now.

I’m certainly not going to panic, yes. If we fired Rhule, that would be madness, and there’s zero chance that happens anyways. But the honeymoon is well and truly over, and I feel it is very justified to be very concerned at what we saw.

edit: and absolutely, if we even saw some improvement, I would have been good with that. It seemed to get WORSE.

There is no excuse for any season where you have the worst turnover margin in the nation. That’s never excusable. It’s ridiculous to be hopeful in light of that. 

Just now, funhusker said:

How did they fix them?

I don’t know, but they clearly did something we didn’t. Again, the season one excuse only goes so far. Look if we just got beat in each of the final four losses, fine. I’ll grant Wisconsin, we didn’t turn it over. But Maryland, MSU, Iowa? Inexcusable. Inexcusable to lose like that, shooting ourselves in the foot. Those are not losses that happen with good coaching. Now maybe Rhule does turn it around. Great. But right now, my confidence isn’t there because I saw a team that made zero improvement in the mental department. Good our defense was good. That’s great. I wanted most of all to see a team that STOPS BEATING ITSELF EVERY GAME. Hell, win just one of MSU, MD, Iowa, Minnesota. It’s not even the losing season. It’s the way we lose. It’s been years of this. Decades of this.

Just now, funhusker said:

How would you fix those issues in one day?

 

Seriously.  What should the first practice of the year be structured like to fix those issues?

I have seen other programs quickly fix these issues so I don’t want to hear it. You would expect at least some improvement yes? Worst turnover margin in the country. That’s inexcusable.

2 hours ago, funhusker said:

Why is it when fans of other teams come here to bash the Huskers it’s called trolling.  But when “fans” do it, they want to act like they are somehow more dedicated fans???

I am serious on my opinion that a losing team shouldn’t go to a bowl. But really, I’m just exhausted by it. Every other team with any history of success in the past 50 years has been able to bounce back except us. Even Washington is back to being great. It’s absolutely demoralizing. And before you all say it’s just Rhule’s first year, it’s not the losses. It’s how it came about. Stupid mental mistakes. Turnovers. The same crap that should be fixed day one that hasn’t been fixed for 21 years. Why should that inspire any hope? I accepted that our QBs sucked. I accepted the weaknesses. That’s not the issue. The issue is that they keep beating themselves. Every season, every game that’s the story: they beat themselves. That is why I’m concerned. We’ve seen this before.

There’s not much bright spot when you have another losing season.

Even if we could, losers don’t deserve a bowl

D. This is a bad football program, with bad coaches. Defense was good. That’s about it.

Remember the schedule next year is far harder, we will lose the last 5 games for sure.

16 minutes ago, lo country said:

9-10 wins...Bowling every year....Playing for conference championships....being ranked.....That's not saying much?  This is the stuff that's crazy.  A Bo Pelini team would be undefeated against the Riley, Frost, Rhule Huskers.....We are an also run program on life support right now.  

It was all paper thin. Remember how they’d get annihilated in every game that matters?

Just now, Decoy73 said:

Our D, while clearly our best unit, isn’t as good as we thought they were.  When we needed them to step up and send us to overtime they suddenly got bad against the run.  This was Iowa’s offense.  Not Maryland.   
 

I attended my second game of the season and I’ve decided watching at home is the way to go for me.  
 

 

I am mad at the team but you really can’t attribute any of the points given up to the defense.

1 minute ago, PaulCrewe said:

I learned that I laugh even more at those who said a monkey could coach NU to 9 wins when Bo was here.

 

but I generally just laugh more on Saturdays based on stupidity witnessed

To be sure, Bo Pelini sucked too, he just benefitted from a stocked cupboard and then coasted on weak schedules. Yeah he’s the best since Solich but that ain’t saying much.

1 minute ago, WWG1_we_GBR said:

sure, not much difference between bad bowl games to me really, except the extra practices. [wrong thread, but] it's volleyball season anyway

 

No one else in the country cares about volleyball, can we stop with this?

6 minutes ago, PaulCrewe said:

Learned once again a coach in his first year has big time questionable choices/strategy in his first game and those “issues” continued throughout the year unfixed.  And yet here we are again arguing with each other that time is needed and not accountability to be held

No you see this time it will be different because he makes good speeches

2 minutes ago, gossamorharpy said:

It’s pretty embarrassing.

 

i hate using the word cursed because it insinuates this isn’t our fault. At the end of the day, it’s a systemic issue- we don’t have any difference makers on any side of the ball. Just below average to unready players forced in big time situations- typically when players r outmatched they rush and press and you get things like horrendous penalties and ridiculous turnovers. 
 

aka Nebraska football for 10 years now 

20 years