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  1. Illinois has two wins already. So... no, we're not Illinois bad. Rutgers is awful, and they're 1-4... we're not going to be 1-4 either.
  2. Why did we look like we had four down linemen all day. I thought one of the advantages of a 3-4 is that you can change where that fourth pressure comes from. Maybe I missed it, but I don't remember seeing anything that would cause Purdue's O-line problems. Terrible defensive game plan.
  3. Learned that Purdue wasn't "beatable," last week wasn't "rock bottom," and Frost is still alluding that Riley is to blame. Pretty sad.
  4. Probably. This staff is demanding more of players. More work, less skipping workouts, less eating junk food, plus all the extra work of learning new systems, terminology, etc.,. Plus, there are higher expectations now. If you think about it, it's only natural that some people simply don't want to work extra hard. You probably see people like that every day of your life... I know I do. It's pretty easy to talk a good game. I'm sure all of the players would have said they were on board with things if asked. But the truth comes out when it's time to put in the work. Maybe they want to be on-board the new Frost train, but they didn't realize how much more would be expected of them. That's all fine and natural. But the onus is on the coaching staff to "help" them figure it out, one way or another. Right, the Huskers played pretty well against Colorado... and it wasn't enough. They lost. So all that extra work the players had been doing didn't pay off. For some guys, that will motivate them to work harder. But some guys may have been maxxed out on the effort they were willing to put in. Then as Knappic said, doubt creeps in and you get all sorts of additional problems. ----------- The bottom line is all this excitement from fans and media about the new coaching staff is fun for us, but it means a lot more work for the players. Not all of them are going to be willing to work even harder, but that's what is now evidently necessary.
  5. The stadium has the same "it" factor it always had... it just doesn't as often have as good of a team playing in it. When the team is playing well, such as they did against #7 Michigan State 2015, people point to it as a tough place to play.
  6. Well, since coach Frost said Purdue is a team we can beat and said that last Saturday's game was the low point, then you can almost be certain we'll lose to Purdue. We can only beat Purdue if the players make plays. Saturday was only the bottom if the players start making plays. Players thinking victories will happen just because Scott Frost and UCF's staff is here rather than as a result of hard work during the week and during games is why we saw a bunch of hapless spectators getting run off the field against Michigan. Until our players -- all eleven on the field, in all three phases of the game-- start kicking the asses of the guys lined up across from them we're in for more losses. Every team on our schedule is capable of beating us if our players don't show up ready to fight. In his post-game presser coach Frost said "if [he] had a team that didn't compete he would be really worried right now." It really worries me that he thinks his players were actually competing in that game because to me it looked like quite a few of them completely checked out in early in the game.
  7. Until all the players on the field are willing to sell-out on every play, every week, no matter the score or consequences, then no amount of S&C, nutrition, scheme, recruiting stars, or talk from the players or coaches is going to translate into wins.
  8. We've been seeing these collapses for a long time now. Yesterday's reminded me of the game against Wisconsin where Melvin Gordon set the single game rushing record against "defensive genius" Pelini's 2014 team. It also reminded me of the 62-3 beating Riley's 2016 team took against OSU and Callahan's 2007 beating at the hands of Okie State. If this were simply a talent issue we wouldn't have lost to Troy, nor would we have looked worse than SMU against Michigan. I agree 100% with what this Michigan player said in the clip: Players looked like they didn't want to be there. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone watching the game; it was OBVIOUS in the way many of them were playing. We could try to figure out why that is, and people have been trying to figure that out for a long time. Most people seem to come to the conclusion it's something called "culture," but that's about as far as it ever gets. Nobody seems to know how to change it, or at least, nobody in charge seems to be willing or able to change it. I suppose the NU Athletics Department is too concerned with their precious sell-out streak and all the other meaningless crap they churn out every week trying to keep the money rolling in to risk change. You see this all the time when the accountants (shareholders, etc.,) rather than experts start running businesses. But I digress. To me, I would stop trying to figure out why guys aren't playing hard (i.e. acting like they don't want to be there). I would demote every player who "gave up" against Michigan and I would keep trying different players until I had 22 that were going to sell out on every snap, every week. If that meant 22 fourth-string walk-ons, then that's who I'd play. Those other guys can figure out why they weren't playing hard on their own time. If they later become willing to consistently play like they're capable I would consider putting them back into the lineup. If that means we lose every game this year so be it. I would be inviting those on scholarship who didn't see the light to transfer at the end of the school year and I'd put a lot of energy into recruiting replacements. Eventually, you'll have a team full of guys who are willing to sell-out on every play. Only then will things like S&C, scheme, talent deficiencies become an issue worth addressing. Until we have 11 guys on the field going 100%, every week, nothing is even going to begin to change.
  9. This Michigan player was playing defense, so he was playing against the offense. Probably safe to assume he was primarily referring to the offense.
  10. I thought he showed promise the first couple years and was well-liked. Hasn't turned out too well in the long run, but none of our bball coaches have either. Hiring a coach is such a crap shoot- if there were a magic formula everybody would be using it.
  11. Yeah, it wasn't rage-nose's behavior was it; it was everybody else. Zero accountability, just like Bo. Point those thumbs at everybody else. Too bad you don't remember Osborne as coach of Nebraska football or you wouldn't make such ignorant comments about a coach showing a pulse. Riley was essentially fired after game three this year. I'm sorry you watched the whole season expecting to see a competitive team- it must have been maddening for you. I didn't even bother watching today. I have no embarrassment at all. Zero. If my choices were Bozo or Riley for 2018, I would choose Riley 100% of the time. If for some Pelini were re-hired I would not watch a single thing to do with Nebraska football.
  12. SE was a strange dude and terrible AD, no doubt. But don't try to pin Pelini's problems on SE. Pelini was a raging a-hole long before SE was hired. His first leaked profane rant was from 2011. Osborne's big failure as AD was that he didn't fire Bozo himself. If he had, maybe Perlman wouldn't have hired SE to do it.
  13. Learned that some people, despite 6 weeks of bashing the coaching staff and the team's record, like to pretend the team should still come out and storm Minnesota- as if the players don't read and hear all of it. I watched with very little interest and wasn't a bit surprised by any of it. Nor do I believe there's a single thing to be learned from dissecting the game.
  14. I thought he did it to let POB try to score since we were right down there and that was POB's first major game action. I didn't think anything of it at the time. Surprised some people are trying to make a big deal out of it, I mean: who cares?
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