huskerfan74

The only good news I heard today is the rumor that Frost might be Iowa’s offensive coordinator. That is one game we are sure to win next year if that happens.

Ouch, that was below the belt.

That is my favorite part too.

I am sorry that the truth hurts. Can you point to what exactly is incorrect from what I said? Did we not lose 4 games in a row and finish 5-7 or were we watching something different. Success breeds success. Look at what our volleyball team has done and why they continue to attract top talent. Players nowadays are impatient. They want to play for the best. We need a few success stories in our football program to start attracting good talent. We don’t have many success stories in football over the past decade. Or do we?

Why couldn’t we just win one more game? Why? Now, we have to listen to 1000000 reasons why good QBs don’t want to come here. We have not had a winning season for 6 years and we have not been relevant for over two decades. If you were a top QB, would you pick us? I would focus more on getting a better OL, a decent special teams coach, and a good QB coach and develop some talent to get us to win 8 or more games and then start competing for top talent. In many of our games this season, you could have had Tom Brady behind that OL and he would have sucked. I do not understand why we keep losing sight of what is important. With a decent OL and decent special teams we could have easily been 8-4. Iowa got to 10 wins with no QB and barely any talent on offense other than their OL. How did they do it? Also, if you were McCord and you hear that Raiola is considering coming to Nebraska and his uncle is an OL coach, would you come? It is not always about the money. The top QBs know that what you can get in the NFL is more than what you can get from NIL. What is important is to have the opportunity to play as a starter and prove yourself. Finally, does anyone on this board think that Dylan Raiola would even consider us if his uncle was not a coach here?

I do not believe it was just about the money.

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The timing of having Kyle McCord visit at the same time of Raiola potentially switching from Georgia to Nebraska was not good. Every QB in the portal wants to be the starter at the team they are transferring and they would rather not have much competition. The question remains as to our chances of actually landing a decent QB. Also, the potential of Raiola in college football is a question mark. Not proven until he plays his first game in college football. He might turn out to be a dud like his uncle’s coaching talent.

Why do I have the feeling that coach Riaola was told that if his nephew does not come to Nebraska, he should start looking for another job?

I guess adidas is limiting us from getting top talent. Damn adidas.

This is what happens when your team cannot win 6 games to go bowling. If we went bowling, these discussions would have been delayed by a month. Nothing else to do now but hope and dream that some elite QB is confident enough that he can come to Nebraska and return us to our long lost glory days.

We need more than a QB. We need some good TE as Fidone was overrated and underachieved. We need some good OL. We need some players on special teams as our special teams play was unspecial to say the least. We definitely need a good special teams coach. Many on this board ignore the importance of special teams. We would have had at least two more wins had our special teams done something special. The one time they did, we won the game convincingly. I am not sure what miracle Rhule is going to pull next year but he will need one if we are to go bowling. As I say that, I see how low our standards have dropped. From not being happy winning 9 games to hoping to get to 6-6 to go bowling.

So sad, Jeff Sims is leaving. What will we do now?

Dude, relax. It is just a poll. Either vote or don’t. No need to be condescending and pedantic. I honestly do not understand many on this board who enjoy acting like they are much smarter than others. Just be polite and understanding of others. If I do not like a topic, I simply do not comment on it. Simple as that. It is a simple question and I just wanted to get a feel for what people on this board think. I did not force you to read or vote. Stop being a child and grow up. BTW, your comment is not funny just in case you are wondering.

I am just curious to know how many of us truly believe that next year will be better than what we saw this year. When considering that the schedule next year will be much tougher and the fact that it is highly unlikely that coach Rhule will make any coaching changes, do we really believe that the results next year will be much better? Our special teams were awful. Our offense was atrocious. We were last in FBS in turnovers and among the bottom in total offense. We still committed undisciplined penalties at the most in opportune times, and our head coach has no experience in game time management. Given all these observations, I really wonder how many of us are hopeful for a breakout season or at least 8 wins.

It has been a week and it still hurts and sucks that we couldn’t get bowl eligible after going 5-3. It will be another long year before we have another shot at this but now with a much tougher schedule and competition. I just hope that Rhule can pull a magic rabbit out of the hat or we will be the only power 5 team not to go bowling in a decade.

So, you actually believe that our offense did ok this year. We barely scored 17 points on Michigan state who was lit up by Ohio state, Michigan, Maryland, and Penn state. In fact, every team scored more than 20 points on Michigan state other than us, CMU and Richmond. It never ceases to amaze me how you spin mediocre into positive. You must have koolaid on tap. Our defense was solid most of the time and always gave us a chance to win. As for our offense, I cannot see how you can defend their performance.

Just learned that we finished the season with the worst offensive production in 50 years. That is a testament to the wonderful work of coach satterfield under the great leadership of coach Rhule. Imagine how bad our offense would have been had we actually played some good teams. I am sure satterfield will fix our offense next year. After all, Rhule believes in him.

Unfortunately, I have had the displeasure of dealing with the new generation of students. Reflection on what they have done wrong is not in their vocabulary. They think they can do no wrong. Having them practice and get more reps might help them more than sitting and playing Nintendo or Xbox at home. God knows they are not going to study. I agree with everyone that says that these players should earn a bowl bid and should not be rewarded for the multitude of mistakes they made but at this point, we just want them to get the extra practices, especially for a young team like what we have. However, there is no point beating a dead horse. We are not getting a bowl invitation.

So, you are saying we do not have a snowball in hell chance. Good to know. Another offseason of should’ve could’ve would’ve.

The truth of the matter is that we all love our Huskers and want them to be competitive regardless of our whining. I, for one, never expected us to win 8 or more games this season but I was hoping that we would at least get 6 wins and make the postseason for the first time in what seems like a century. We are the ONLY power 5 team not to get to a bowl game in 7 years. So, yes, if we are invited to one, we should jump to that opportunity regardless of whether anyone feels we have earned it or not. It is a chance to have our young players experience a bowl game and maybe shoot for a better result next season. Having said that, I am extremely disappointed with Rhule’s first year and I do not buy any of his excuses. If an interim coach at northwestern can get to 7 wins in his first year with little head coaching experience in the same division as ours, Rhule should have no excuse not to get at least 6 wins. You can blame the players all you want. Some of the losses are on him and his coaches. His failure to fix the turnovers, penalties, and piss poor play on offense and special teams are not something new. With his experience, he should have had some fixes. I have not seen any evidence that next year will be any better. However, the husker in me always wants to believe that sometime this century, we might become semi-relevant. After all, if Kansas, Kansas state, Missouri, Iowa state, Iowa, and so many other teams can get to 8 wins or more, why can’t we? We have not had a single signature win forever.

Seriously, after Minnesota and Illinois losing, do we have any sliver of hope of getting invited to a bowl game? If we are, regardless of whether we deserve it or not, we need to accept and work our tails off in the additional practices. We really need to take advantage of every possible chance to improve. It will also be nice to see how we fair against competition outside the big ten.

It is sad when you realize that over the span of two decades we went from kings of the big 12 to doormats of the big ten. This happens when we learn to settle for mediocre and give piss poor performance excuses. It is the QB, no it is the refs, no it is the injuries, no it is the coaches first year here, no it is that previous coach left cupboard empty, no it is the OC, no it is the special teams, no it is recruiting, no it’s adidas. No matter what, it is always something we can point at to excuse the fact that we have become a get rich scheme for incompetent coaches who give nice speeches but never do anything to fix the issues. For a decade now, we have had the worst special teams play, worst penalty record, worst turnover record, yet every coach we hired have not been able to fix these glaring issues. Instead, we give excuses, wait for another year full of hope, only to be back here again watching so many other teams with worst talent than us get bowl eligible and we end our season listening to more BS of how next year things will be better. If that is not a football equivalent of a hell loop, I don’t know what is.

I learned that being a husker fan is like being in football purgatory with a constant hell loop on repeat where we lose close games and no coach can fix anything.

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