Here's one for you. I'm two states east (Illinois), played frosh ball at N in 72, and try to get back once a year for a game. Four years ago I bought a Yorkie pup (thinks he's a Rottweiler - I knock him around a bit, he loves to play ruff) and named him Bo Pelini Blackshirt Husker cuz I believed we were on our way back. I'm not delusional any longer. My question to you is "What more do we need to see?". Don't you get tired of constantly playing from behind? The game I came back for this year was the UCLA. 21 to 3 game, hey, finally an early lead against a decent foe; then came the 38 unanswered.
Don't you get fed up with the excuses? "Nobody mentions our injuries." "Frentz wouldn't have been flagged for that if he had done what I did." "All of this talk about my job has hurt our play."....
Don't you get tired of the turnovers (far more than any other team in this weak conference); the returners taking it out of the EZ only to get hammered at the 15 and then backed up half the distance cuz of penalties; the pre-snap disarray on both sides of the ball, the non fair catching at the 19 only to have it downed at the 1 then fair catching the next at the 3, etc.? All this speaks to a lack of quality coaching.
You want pure examples of being out-coached? We beat Washington at their place in 2010 56 to 21 then lost to them 19 to 7 on a neutral field in the bowl game. Our guys man-handled Wisconsin on both sides of the ball in the 2nd half of last year's regular season game to overcome a huge first half deficit, and then lost 70 (ya, you read that right) to 31 to them in the conference title game. Oh, by the way, THE Ohio St. hung 63 on us earlier in the year. And this guy is a defensive minded coach? Don't you remember getting excited before that Wisc. title game? Boy I do! Then it was over in like 5 minutes even with the 85 yard Martinez magic trick. NO TEAM should ever put up 50 on us.
I read those sugar-coaters and their arguments of 9 win seasons. How about mentioning the 4 losses and the none rankings. Nine wins, let me see: Wyoming, So. Miss, South Dakota St. (We're lucky we got the right Dakota St. there cuz we wouldn't beat the other), Illinois, Purdue - that's an auto 5 for you, yet we almost lost to Wyoming. Wyoming? Aren't they the team that took what should have been our hire? Yep! We beat them in Lincoln 37-34. Didn't you google up their record from last year? I did. Wow, not very good. Maybe vastly improved this year? NOPE! Finished 5 and 7. Well who did they play? Well they lost to Texas St. (ever hear of them? Me either.) 42-21, Colorado St. 52-22, San Jose St. 51-44, Fresno St. 48-10, Boise St. 48-7, and Utah St. 35-7, but they did beat Hawaii 59-56. OUCH! Maybe they got injured like us?
Put all that in and shake it up, stir in a little dissing of an iconic QB with an F bomb description of what arguably could be the best and most knowledgeable fan base in all of sport (nothing like pissing in your own nest to get you booted from it), and what do you have? Sounds like a twisted version of an exit strategy to me.
Actually, I thought he was better than this. Much better. Oh, by the way, I don't read the Omaha paper here.
And my dog, well, we just call him Husker now