Husker03

4 minutes ago, Ziebol said:

0-6 isn’t a scarce misfire here and there. This is the worst season in 129 years of Nebraska football.

Good point, but things are trending in the right direction. This is the first game this season we were in a position to win. We should have won. We didn’t, but we have never been closer. That’s how things go with a crap rebuild. Nobody, staff or players, has phoned in the season yet. Everybody remains hungry. Hungry and weak, but much better than complacent and weak which is where we were. If we can keep everybody hungry, losses like this stop happening. 

2 minutes ago, Ziebol said:

. This staff needs to accept the blame as it’s becoming evident that they may be over their heads.

There’s not a staff in the country that would not be in over thier heads. This was a massive undertaking.  Most legiti staffs wouldn’t have been willing to even take it on. Scott and Co are handling it perfectly in 95% of the situations. Surely they deserve a bit of a pass for a scarce misfire here and there?

5 minutes ago, Husker Richard said:

We were damned if we do, damned if we don't. When we rushed 3 or 4, the secondary couldn't cover to save their lives. When we brought the blitz, it never got home and Thorson found the open man. So I guess that makes me learn toward personnel. 

This. I actually thought chinander mixed it up quite a bit today. We are just two steps behind in the secondary or two steps slow on the blitz. We just need a fraction more athleticism and the D improves exponentially. 

11 hours ago, Big Red 40 said:

If he can go to another school , get the starting spot and see lots of playing time he stands a much better chance of being noticed though . ? 

I guess in theory, yes. I’m a pretty big believer that it takes a unique combination of attributes to make it to the NFL. Athletes that possess those attributes typically start to flash them early in thier college careers. A guy that has flashed them enough to earn a starting gig at a major Div 1 school but then, for whatever reason, regresses enough to lose a starting gig did not have enough of those attributes, (height, weight, speed, etc) to keep him heads and tails above the backup, (which, again, the NFL only takes the best of the best,) so he’s already at that point a long shot for the NFL.  On top of that, if the guy is unwilling to work hard to improve and reclaim that top spot at a major school, he also is probably lacking the unrelenting drive needed to land on a million dollar roster. I guess what I’m saying is, true NFL talent wouldn’t ride pine, especially after earning the starting gig out of the gates as an underclass man on that roster.  Getting passed up means there are holes in his profile that need worked on, transferring away, at its core, means hes not willing to work to fix the deficiencies and prefer an easier road away from the competition. Almost never is that a recipe for an NFL athlete. 

1 hour ago, Big Red 40 said:

If a player has any aspirations of getting to the NFL they won’t do it sitting on the bench . I don’t like them transferring but I understand it . Most teams  block players from going to division schools or rivals so I’m not sure I get the Oregon state thing since they are neither . Even IF all these players go to OSU, and win lots of games there,  I don’t see it having any effect on our program . 

 Any player losing his starting  spot and sitting the bench on an 0-5 college team due to productivity,  isn’t likely to have a bright future in the NFL .

20 minutes ago, Sker fer life said:

Why was Bootle giving him a hug on the way to the endzone ?

Wish he would have made the play but hes giving up 30 pounds to a future NFL running back who worked him over with a NASTY stiff arm. He started a bit out of position but sprinted his ass off to catch up and committed 100% to making that tackle. I’ll take that 1000 times over sir jogs a lot getting Kenny Bell’d at 25% effort.  

38 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Lindsey could over come his size with hard work, attention to details and concentrating on playing as daft as possible. 

Lindsey could over come his size by sticking to his rap career. 

4 minutes ago, Landlord said:

There are still 6 opportunities for people to make threads like these a day or two following the next loss

Listen, if being a fan is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

2 minutes ago, Head Coach Scott Frost said:

I was just thinking to myself if we beat northwestern how long would it take before someone posted that bowl game was still technically possible. I should have guessed this

Well make it happen, Coach!

8 hours ago, Cy the Cyclone said:

Lets be realistic...he's okay but a work in progress.  Think about it...we started a QB true freshman today who had only gotten two actual game snaps in his career against a top 25 team and he went off for 318 yards with four TDs and 84 yards rushing and another TD...and he might not even be starting next week.  Same thing happened last year when our walk on 3rd string QB got stuffed into a playing situation and proceeded to run off wins against three top 25 teams and a trip to a bowl.  

 

My point?  Life's a crapshoot...and they still have Hamms beer in little town bars....and Iowa is full of little towns.

 

 

 

 

Listen, as nicely as I can I will ask that you let us have something nice around here. The kid looks great to our eyes. For 15 years we’ve watched Sr’s with far worse field presence and decision making abilities throwing off thier heels into triple coverage. We’ve talked ourselves into bing ok with that because they are good runners, or they can avoid sacks well, or they are “fighters” that never give up.  This kid can actually do it all. He reads defenses, he waits in the pocket, he can make all of the passes, he can avoid the rush and he can run too!  For the first time EVER we feel we have a legitimate QB that has very few shortcomings, as opposed to making do with an athlete who chucks balls around sometimes. The kid represents the last sliver of hope for our program. He’s better than “okay” already, and he’s got 3.5 years to improve. I know you’re bi-team somehow, which is fine, but there’s a time and a place to try to talk sense into us, and it’s not here in a thread about how good our true frosh

QB looks. 

I’m just mad over the loss of the dream of best case scenario from when he signed. I had hopes that we would watch him do well as a freshman, then grow and develop to all conference type player as a jr/sr and watch him tear up our opponents. Now that is officially not in the cards, which is tough.  Maybe he’ll never be that type of a player, a true bust, which is heartbreaking for all. Maybe he will be good in a year or two but somewhere else, which is great for him, heartbreaking for us.  Maybe Warner steps up and becomes all conference in his place, heartbreaking for him, great for us. In the end, the whys don’t matter.  We lost a player who we had hoped would be great and really we are all just bitter that greatness did not pan out. 

7 hours ago, LaunchCode said:

Reading the board after the Purdue loss I learned losses this year are due to our subpar talent whereas last year losses were due to all the great talent on our roster not being developed by the coaches. 

 

I also learned with the "right" coach on the sideline, losing to Purdue at home creates less uproar than beating them in dramatic fashion on the road. 

 

 

Subpar talent and undeveloped talent are the same thing, and at play in both situations, nothing has changed.  If you don’t think a different reaction is justified between a 3rd year coach going backwards in quality wins, and responsible completely for the underdeveloped sub par talent,  and the coach 1/4 season in, so far down he can’t even think about “quality” wins yet, then you’ll probably always complain about your cold ice cream. 

Reporter asked since he’s turned a program around before, when this one starts to turn around, will Frost be able to recognize it when it does. Frost said, “I won’t have to, you will.”

9 minutes ago, Hunter94 said:

I am tired of what ifs.  Play the hand you are dealt. 

 

It’s not what if’s though. It’s reality. And he’s playing it. 

It’s become more clear to me than ever that Frost has basically been tasked as the new CEO of a failing company with a cut rate work force full of horrible employee attitudes. That would be a difficult task, but to make it worse there are 85 workers in the company and you are not allowed to hire any additional employees. Also, you are not allowed to fire any of them and they are welcome to stay until early retirement kicks in. Finally, they average 21 years of age and many have the maturity and judgement to match AND many of them have spent their entire careers lauded as the best in thier departments. As somebody that runs a small business, it seems to me that maybe instead of judging him too harshly a month into the season, it may be more appropriate to consider him for sainthood for having the patience to keep plugging along. Decks are stacked pretty deep at the moment. 

Took responsibility for what?!? Trying to turn around a dumpster fire of a program in a dignified way that doesn’t involve tearing the kids down?  Officiating that could.  Not.  Be.  More moronic if it had pre-planned a method?The 3rd scheme change many of these 4 year players have seen?  True freshman QB making true freshman mistakes?!?! The only thing the man needs to apologize for is that he doesn’t own a magic wand. 

Stupidest thread I’ve ever witnessed and I’ve seen some doozies. 

57 minutes ago, desertshox said:

weird, wasnt even the first name i was thinking about with all the bad puns.

First, last, doesn't matter, I'm sure the puns will be constant.

This soul crushing heartache and yearning, it’s going to be so worth it as this thing starts to turn around and then takes off. It’s going to be every bit as exhilarating as the mid 90’s. It might not ever be as flat out successful, but being in the wagon as it starts to ascend will be something we will be able to be unbelievably proud of. Our boys, our state, our coach, our team. It’ll start slow, and there will be moments of happiness combined with setbacks and more heartbreaks.  But the good moments will start happening more and more and the heartaches less and less.  And eventually, we will look out at the field again and find ourselves waiting to see what our team will do next instead of worrying about how many ways they can choke it away. Being a fan right now kind of sucks, it’s been a long decade, but maybe it’s the best time to be a fan? This is going to be fun. 

I will apologize for my tone less than 24 hours after the worst D-1 o line performance I have ever seen. I do care about Miles Jones, I was more saying I don’t much care about a 3rd-5th string running back when our 1-3rd stringers averaged a half a yard per tote. I read it as a call for another guy that may be the answer and I overreacted. Y’all are right. He may be hurt. He may be having school troubles.  He may be holding onto a redshirt? But I will say.  I’m sorry for what I said when I was sad. 

40 minutes ago, Jeepy said:

 

Likely true, but I keep thinking of how our expectations have morphed downward since the late 90s.  Remember?  From Solich to Callahan to Pelini to Riley our anger went from national championship anxiety to conference contender anxiety to just making it to any bowl game anxiety to just a winning season PLEASE to now:  Can we win a game?  Two games?

 

What the hell?

They’ll morph right back up as we ascend again.  It’s not a reflection of a defeated fan base in a negative way, it’s just we have to deal with the reality as it is right now. We can expect to be in the title game this year all we want but it doesn’t make a clown stomp at the big house hurt any less. 

Watched the replay, will disagree with this sentiment. Most of the defense did not give up the first half. A few slackers, (looking at you, D Young), but no wholesale towel throwing in. The o-line gave up all game but that’s nothing new. Outside of that, they had played hard and had chances to get things back under control until several of the killer mistakes and breakdowns,(Lindsey’s muff) allow things to get so out of control so quick that even the coaches phone it in after half. 

1 hour ago, junior4949 said:

This is a four to five year rebuild.  I knew this when Frost was hired.  However, I'm seeing something I never thought I'd see.  Our best played game thus far was against CU which was also our first game.  Our worst played game thus far was against Michigan which was our last game.  I really thought we'd get better as the season progressed.  There is still plenty of time for this to happen, but thus far it's not happening.  Is there any way our OL play could possibly get any worse?  What really is dumbfounding about all of this is how great I've been told practices were leading up to this game.  If practices are really going that well, why isn't this translating to better play during the games? 

Because you are just practicing against the same culture and talent.  It isn’t until they get out there against players that are heads and tails more dominant than them that they crap thier pants when they see it.  So they can either take that, admit they are poor at this time and aim toward improving toward that level. Or they can make excuses, try to take shortcuts, continue to half ass it, look slightly better against the Purdue’s of the world, convince themselves it’s not really that bad, and the find themselves wearing the same poop stained pants on the field Wisconsin week. 

10 minutes ago, DILLY said:

So you think they sat Washington so he wouldnt get hurt? And Miles Jones?

No.  I think there were 15 total carries yesterday by our 1st-3rd string running backs that averaged across the board  0.6 ypc. They rode Mazzour in the second half because they gave up. Miles jones?  I don’t know where he is nor do I care, as he hasn’t cracked the 4 deep.