TheBreeze521

Same sh_ _, different year.

There is definitely a psychology thing going on and it starts at the top. Instead of building on success, success is always followed by failure of equal magnitude. Coaching and playing with a chip on your shoulder is begging for a massive letdown. Or 2 or 3. I'm glad for six straight wins but if you don't get better in the process, look out below. Not enough focus on getting better.

What can you say? Still not a championship coach. I hope the staff is taking notes because they are getting SCHOOLED.

We need to be waaay better on special teams. Punk/kick returns and coverage. Remember the good old days when it was a strength?

So you wouldn't care about winning the game? You go in with no game plan, and not caring, your going to get blown out by Penn State, and be a laughing stock of the conference. They beat PSU, and come out strong, that will give them the momentum for us. Wisconsin will probably do what they have been doing all year long, make big plays on Special Teams, and run that ball down the opponents throat. Get Ball that TD to own the his record, and focus on NU starting Sunday. There will be film to watch, but they have played us already. That gives them and us the advantage. That is correct, I wouldn't care about winning a meaningless conference game. I'd take it if it fell in my lap of course. 100% of my game plan would be toward winning a meaningful conference championship. If you're not playing to win a championship this year, next year, some other year, what the hell are you doing in athletics?

How many chances will you get to have bad record and still win the whole B1G? If I were coaching Wiscy, I wouldn't even remember who I was playing (Penn who?), everything would be geared toward keeping guys healthy and showing NU a bunch of crazy stuff to prepare for.

When Bo said "win out" I thought it was sad and delusional. Never so happy to be wrong!!

Rex could help us catching punts. He makes better decisions than anyone we have doing it now. Surely we have a possession receiver could put back there with him.

Badgers have their hands full trying to win AND stay healthy at PSU--a pretty good and physical team that would love to send their seniors out with a bang.

He'd have to be out of his mind to take on Arkansas. Good luck going to Auburn and beating Alabama, on the field or on the recruiting trail. Tennessee is the only one out of the SEC that would make any sense at all, and that is another multiple year project. Texas is a good gig if you can get it. Maybe they'd like to poke us by taking our coach. Changing coaches again after 5 years would be bad for NU, wouldn't make sense for Bo, but also wouldn't surprise me.

I don't see the point in having the game at Indy if they aren't going to close the dome. I'm pretty sure it was closed last year. Concur--and closed dome helps NU which is definitely in B1G's interest (11-2 NU or qa 4 or 5 loss B1G representative).

Do we know for sure if the roof will be closed? For an 8:17 PM game on Dec. 1st I would hope so.

I don't like this game at all. PSU ball control offense, opportunistic defense. If we dig a hole with bonehead mistakes they won't return the favor and let us out. Home field will help but won't necessarily save us. Smells to me like Northwestern last year.

Defensive breakdown, players only meeting. Saturday is the last, best chance to break this 2007 trajectory.

Defensive front rarely takes a good angle or is in an athletic position as they break down to make a play on the QB. This just in--you might have to change directions before impact so stay balanced and ANTICIPATE it. Heck, I can remember a bunch of times DB's who are good athletes blitzed and ran right past the QB. Shouldn't happen. One thing about running QBs--they can't get hit like a RB. Not even Braxton Miller. Cut off his break angle, get a lot of people around him (dime defense on mid/long yardage), and then treat him rudely.