Huckleberry Muhammad

Against Gophers, Hoosiers, and Boilers. Scott Frost keeps telling us that he "needs to look at tape" because he's focused on the offense during the game. Well all right.

Two? Two more years of this? It's a 7 year contract at 5 million per (losing) year. We're rich, right? Nice that we can keep affording to release coaches (and an AD or two) and pay them to not be here. I know you're talking about two more years of crappy football, but the money and the "savior" hype is also digging away at Husker fans. Don't forget, Frost left for Sanford... um.. that keeps coming back.

Right. Because, as Moos himself said, "I think I saved the sellout streak by bringing him here."

We wiped them out, of course. It's Purdue; how can you even ask?

Just passing through and saw this disrespectful thread title. C'mon, people, how could we lose to Pur... ..oh s#!t.

lmao .. well, my wife still reads the Tiger Board. Good ole Mizzou misery.

Somebody needs to tell little Danny Martin that his cap gun is not effective, and that this is not The Blob, anyway. It's Purdue! Oh, wait, there was that Red Blob called Indiana, here at home, that little Danny Martin couldn't defend against. Never mind.

"...that is not what this is doing." Not yet.

It seems so simple.. especially when after each game we hear the head coach of Nebraska football say the same damned thing in slightly different verbiage when asked about the defensive performance: "I don't know, I concentrate on the offence. I'll have to look at film." It is said by others and I'll repeat it: If the defensive staff were entirely removed and replaced by starting with a proven defensive coordinator (likely from the SEC, but not necessarily), it would do a lot for this football program.

I'm keeping our season tix. But I do recall that back in the days Nebraska was perennially good, very good, the fact of this state's low population base and non-metropolitian/big city culture was washed out by the style of football being played then: just hard hitting run/option tough ball. That kind of football and the kind of coaching it required (throw a real block! you're not dancing with him! "hit him harder! hat to hat or put your helmet in his belly! drive him to the ground, hard!!" etc) morphed into something else entirely. Hell, there are girls starting on high school teams now, and a few colleges, as linebackers and quarterbacks, not just kickers. It's changing. Get ready for more; rules will eventually have to change (even more so) too.. think about it. Rules are already changing radically in efforts to protect players more. Rules that insurance lobbyists push through about everything from equipment to how a tackle can be made legally to which positions can be hit certain ways and which ones can't be hit that way. So, what's changing? Football itself. The "60 minutes of football and a half-hour halftime" game is twice as long now and more. Remember the hour and a half games of old? Reviews and consultations by officials and often questionable, strange "injury" time outs and commercials stretch the game to four and five hours now. Hello snoozers goodbye momentum. Nebraska thrived when it was about eleven guys and their assigned target, offence and defence and that was about it. Big guys on the line, fast guys at halfback, and a good quarterback. The programs that have adapted well and move along with the times have that ability because they have huge recruitment bases, and other reasons of course. Nebraska is still at a disadvantage even in this age of jet travelling to recruit: it ain't working.

It's just that we see and hear the sayings of the coach and the local sports writers right after each loss, then up to the next game about what needs to be corrected, etc. We keep seeing that pattern (for many many years now). The 6 game bowl eligible threshold comes and goes. Is it coming this time? The team seems to be collapsing again, as to fire on the field. Some are over there happily dancing to the stadium music on the sidelines after we've been scored on. I felt like SF should have slapped them all across the face Moe Howard style. Something is deeply deeply wrong with the Nebraska football program. A bowl? Would we even f*^%$#g really deserve it with somehow getting 6 wins?

Indiana 49 Nebraska 24 Nebraska Rushing Yardage: 212 Nebraska Passing Yardage: 235

lmao .. I wonder if they'll cover the spread. Meanwhile, Frost is reported to be actually rummaging through the freshmen and other non-starters for "players who want to play." We'll see how that works out. Hopefully no matter who's on the field for us they'll be on fire and for all four quarters.

None of them are called "living in the past." But the closest might be "denial." Of course, mixed in with just about all the other stages from time to time depending on the latest events.

In the 1958 movie, "The Blob," as the growing, evil monster is making its way toward the townspeople, chasing some of them out of a theater, the guns and cannons aimed at it are having little to no effect. At one point a little boy, still in his pyjamas, runs into the scene and aims his cap gun at the menace and fires several little shots. I remember my girlfriend sobbing a little cry at the whole notion of that little boy's sincerity and effort to save the day with his cap gun. Little Danny Martin might as well have been wearing Husker gear. Last night's game I watched incredulously as Husker "Blackshirts" were carried down the field by the ball carrier for huge after-hit gains. I don't know why I'm still surprised at seeing that. And then, of course, there is the O-line. Sipple's column this morning stated that one of the important concerns with this team is that the players are not responding to the coach's words. To me the question is, are they doing their very best but all they have is little Danny Martin's cap gun? Or are the players just not putting their whole effort on the field?

Yeah. The offensive line. And the defence? And special teams?

I don't blame you for feeling frustration after years upon years of Nebraska football being the Big Ten doormat. But there is improvement now. Sad thing is this improvement and the hope for a six win season and any bowl game used to be the hopes of Kansas, etc. NOT Nebraska. Our hopes have been gradually diminished down to this feeling that 6 or 7 wins is acceptable for a Husker football season. Coach Frost isn't going to settle in at this being what we're about, not one bit. I'm going with his vision of Nebraska being feared at home and on the road every season.

Huskers: 24 Golden Gophers: 35 Huskers rushing yards: 218 Huskers passing yards: 170

Nice observation and good on ya for posting it. I do see at least three more wins (almost said "guaranteed") on the schedule this season. AND A BOWL GAME FOR SURE.

Thiso is veryo goodo. I'm glado to seeo thata we've goto Spanisho Huskero gameos. Io speako fluento Spanisho, so Io haveo beeno waitingo. Oh c'mon, LOLo.

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Yeah. Closed eyes = Wrong hand placement.

Our kicker stated that each "icing" done by the 'Cats' coach caused him to lose his nervousness a bit more, until he finally was able to see straight and make a scoring kick. Kudos to the Northwestern coach!

I have hope, but I don't live on it wrt Nebraska football. Not any more. I'll get flamed for saying what I believe about Frost, so I'll just express that I do think we could have a better HC and co-ordinators. But I'm sick of changing coaches and have accepted that we're a 7 or 8 win maximum program and likely will never dominate much of anything any more. It ain't like it used to be.. that two coach 30 odd years of greatness is history. That's college football.

Yes. ^^^This. Twenty years of this and coaches explaining after losses how "we're not defined by this loss," and after one of six or four wins on the season, "we've turned a corner today."