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2 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

I mean .... he doesn't.  At all.  But it's fun to say.

It’s funny because I was thinking the opposite, that we are getting too cute too often, and that I can’t imagine it would be worse if we just straight up matched 5 on 5 with dbacks in man and rushed everyone else lmao

What was the crew that did our Illinois game?  Because that was the strangest and often poorest called game I’ve seen in a while.  This one was pretty similar.  Both of those games had refs missing false starts!  Something you just very rarely see usually.  Idk if the Big 10 needs to pay more and get better guys or have better training/accountability systems or what

2 hours ago, DefenderAO said:

There was a clear point where he lost something when he ran. It was when he fumbled too often and someone on the staff told him. To compensate, he would freeze, make no move, and get smashed.  
His running regressed in the ways it means something. Tommie Frazier wasn’t very fast; he was tough to tackle in tight spaces and was really strong. Taylor was way faster and lost much of his tight-space jukes. 
 

Adrian is off. I hope to be surprised by him at some point, but I don’t see it.  He looks like he’s regressed this year. 

 

 

I’m pretty sure Frazier ran a 4.5 40.  When healthy, he was fast.  Maybe not Iback fast as iirc Ahman  Green ran a 4.3 while here for example- but Compared to other QB’s Frazier would be up there with the fastest as I remember it.

This was a really smart move by the Illinois player.  It also is dumb that it rules that way.  It’s one of those things where the rules don’t align with common sense.  My question is, can a KR just play hot potato with the ball until he is out of bounds and then possess the ball and get the ball at the 35?

2 hours ago, jaws said:

As a fan of a long time Big10 team, I can honestly say that most people were happy with Nebraska joining our conference. I don't remember thinking the Big10 was validated because Nebraska has struggled. I think most people understood that what happened at Nebraska could happen at their school if they made the wrong moves when hiring a new AD and HCs. I do remember hearing many Nebraska fans, online and in person, that thought the Big10 would be a cake walk. Maybe it will be for Nebraska in the future but that isn't how it has played out so far.

 

As for OSU being down, we will see, but I think some of you have a short memories. There hasn't been anything in their recent history that I would base that prediction off of. Yes, they just lost one of the best coaches in college football, but that doesn't mean they will all of a sudden be a consistent 9 win or less team. OSU's AD has made some great hires and I assume at this point that Day will is ready to take on the challenge. Maybe they won't be as good as they were during the Meyer years,  I can understand that, but they won't be a shell of their former self.  

The big 10 was kind of down when we joined though, and we had just come off two seasons of nearly winning the big 12.  All the publications were picking us to win the conference, and we had no reason to think we would be worse in 2011 than 2010.  Ultimately that staff just couldn’t stop basic power running- it was the main reason we didn’t get a conference title in the Pelini years.  Not that it was the only problem but looking back if we could have just done that one basic thing we don’t have the Wisconsin results and have a title or two.  I agree about OSU though- the only real down year I can remember is when the tresses thing happened.  It’s the type of place that would have to get serious sanctions and hire someone colossally inept to really bad.  But I would be surprised if things don’t drop off a bit without Meyer, maybe just meaning not beating Michigan every year

man seeing our defense in those highlights looking worse than Eastern Washington is something else.

21 hours ago, Enhance said:

It's smart if you're trying to make money and build your brand. Spring games have turned into incredible revenue opportunities, especially with the high program interest and recruiting potential. They're also trying to satiate season ticket holders to provide more value for their investments.

 

It sucks a bit for everyone else, admittedly, but that's capitalism I guess.

Lol they aren’t making any more money on it though they are just trying to give season ticket holders a pat on the back for some reason, at the expense of people with young kids that would be going.  I’d be fine with increasing the price a bit more than them handling the sales this way.  Idk it’s not that big of a deal to me- but it just seems like this does nothing but potentially make a few bucks for season ticket holders

20 hours ago, GSG said:

 

 

 

It’s a pretty close one though really.  The call on the field was fumble. If I were a ref I’m not sure I would reverse that call.  Still 7 min left in that game too

On 1/22/2019 at 9:43 PM, southernoregonhusker said:

I thought it was the right call.  Had it not hit that damn handrail.

We got boned pretty hard in that game not even counting the time being put back on.  The main one being that Texas never scored a touchdown in that game.

14 hours ago, teachercd said:

Remember last year...people bitching about them on the secondary market for 100 dollars...only to be told time and time again to just wait and you will get them for face value.

 

RELAX PEOPLE

It was still a s#!t way of doing the spring game tickets and it still is the way they are doing it this year.  It’s just plain dumb in every way.  Just open the whole thing up on one date it had been fine that way for years.  

For me it was really tough between 2 and 3 but really just the turnover difference.  It’s still tough just from the stats bc you don’t see ypg and ypa, and is it fumbles or fumbles lost?

Hoping Brohm gets added to that list lol

Yes but we even if not we were a 8-4 every year team before that season

28 minutes ago, LumberJackSker said:

You're just trolling now right? So now the refs are alumni of school Nebraska used to beat up 20+ years ago and they are willing to put their jobs as refs on the line to screw over Nebraska. That is ridiculous.

I am not agreeing with him but I also think the notion of “job on the line” is ridiculous.  That’s the real problem Refs don’t seem to be held accountable for much.  Think of the worst officiating errors you have ever seen and what were the consequences?  First off, there shouldn’t be conference officials.  Secondly, it should be something that is highly scrutinized by a third party.

21 minutes ago, huskerfan333157 said:

I've been trying to tell our fanbase this but they don't understand 

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That’s fine for the plays where it’s not our guy getting outright tackled or held from behind when he’s beat.  Watching the Wisconsin Michigan game last night was interesting.  Refs weren’t calling much of anything in terms of holding and. PI on either team, and I saw lots of hits that I was expecting late hit/targetting calls and nothing.  

4 hours ago, krc1995 said:

Playing not to lose is not being aggressive- ultra conservitive playcalling, eating up the clock, not calling plays to get first downs or score but to secure the ball first and foremost. Often, it works but not with our undisciplined defense. 

 

 

I actually know what people mean when they say this, but I want to point out that in both cases you are playing to win, they are just different strategies that can fulfill the same goal.

38 minutes ago, LumberJackSker said:

Yeah I'm sure the big10 is telling officials to favor the huge money making powerhouse northwestern over Nebraska.

I am not propagating this theory but the motive would be playoffs not that the big 10 really wants to dump Nebraska but that we lost our noncon games and the big needs teams that do better in noncon to be the better teams in conference to game the Strenght of Schedule and ensure they aren’t seen as a laughing stock ( which happened back when we first joined). This matters more now with the committee and the playoff selections.  You don’t want to get stuck in that spot of being perceived as a lesser conference, getting left out of the playoff, and losing recruits bc of perceived weakness.

13 hours ago, Packerhuskerfan said:

Hasn't the recruiting classes in the last 4 years been top 30 each time? We should be doing better than 0-6.

Something like half of the players from the most highly rated class are not in Lincoln.

4 hours ago, huskerfan74 said:

Today’s game makes you question the coaches and their wisdom...that is all. They played not to lose rather than playing to win and their management of the last 5 minutes was questionable at best.

I’m going to make a comment that will likely be unpopular here, but playing to win and playing not to lose are exactly the same thing.

3 hours ago, Thanks_Tom RR said:

What is going on here? 21 is really struggling to play defense.

 

We would have gotten flagged for that block...

I thought this was considered doping in most sports

1 hour ago, default_28 said:

This seems like sour grapes. There is always extra stuff going on at the bottom of piles by both teams. Colorado didn’t seem more dirty than any other team we play, and their coach seemed gracious in victory. It’s too easy to punish a current team for the sins of the past.

If our players are caught on camera twisting knees I would expect some kind of disciplinary action.  I reaaaaalllly hate the whole “stuff happens in football.”  It happens only because we shrug It off with comments like that.  If players are held accountable for dirty actions like this it will stop or at least happen less.  Hell I think it already happens less than say 20 years ago just because of having access to every play and more cameras and whatnot.  Ultimately this is something th NCAA needs to start emphasizing since it puts players safety in limbo 

2 hours ago, zero_blitz said:

Is it just me, or does it look like #44 from CU unnecessarily rolls up into the back of AM's leg towards the end of the play?  Not in any way saying he was intentionally trying to hurt him, but it looks like he could have let his leg go once it was clear the tackle had been secured.  As a defender, maintaining the health of the player you're tackling isn't of any concern, you simply want to get them on the ground, but it just looks like there was a little "extra" on this play.

Yeah actually that looked kinda dirty

Imho people are overdramatic about that game.  It wasn’t some end of an era type thing.  It was just a game at Boulder against a talented team that we lost.  Wasn’t even over until pretty late bc our offense was doing well still too.

Tater (Martinez)