HuskerTex

Did anyone ask why we passed 31 times when it wasn't working and why we didn't run more when it was working?

Just for grins, a couple of locally famous radio show hosts here in Texas were talking about Nebraska considering Mac Brown. (I kept trying to hear the laughter in the background, but didn't hear any.) Also said Nebraska is not in the South so 16 year old recruits won't want to go play there; therefore, no top coaches would want to work there, either. Guess that's why they suggested Mac Brown.

"It's not the victory but the action. Not the goal, but the game, and in the deed the glory." As Churchill said, "Never give up. Never give up. Never, Never, Never give up!" Thanks for the encouragement.

I don't understand the keep Bo but get a new staff crowd. 1. We already did that once. Same result. 2. Bo admitted he doesn't know how to fix this, so who would he hire? Keep Bo and it's more of the same.

Did anyone notice Cotton's quote? "Anytime you play a talented group like Wisconsin, it's kind of hard to steal the momentum back." That shows that as soon as Wisconsin showed a little success this team captain was already mentally defeated. It showed on the field as our players quit. Our team still doesn't believe in itself and that's a coaching issue. One of those "big picture" items Pelini, head coach, paid huge $$, doesn't pay attention to by his own admission.

Conditioning, strength, and technique. All of these are coaching responsibility and they all reduce injuries. It's a cop out to say other teams suffer injuries like this because overall they don't. not to the extent we do every year. Georgia, Florida and Boomer Sooner, all second this post. Still would like to know what the proper technique is to survive having a 300 lb man roll up into your knee. Co signed, Spencer Long, Jake cotton, Jeremiah Shirles, Mike Moudy Pushing people of the line instead of getting pushed backward into the pile. No one rolls on your leg when they're already on their back or in the defense's backfield

Conditioning, strength, and technique. All of these are coaching responsibility and they all reduce injuries. It's a cop out to say other teams suffer injuries like this because overall they don't. not to the extent we do every year.

Every year it's the same thing: injuries at key positions are the reason we struggle in games. It's been the same thing every year since Callahan, only this year it's been ratcheted up several notches. Why is Nebraska the only team with a perennial injury problem. Every year it's the same thing: turnovers at key times keep us from winning games. It's been the same thing since Callahan, every year the same thing. Why are we the only team with a perennial turnover problem? Every year it's the same thing: lack of discipline leads us to poor production and killing of momentum. It's been the same thing since Callahan. Why are we the only team with a perennial penalty problem? (At least the team doesn't roll over and die anymore, but it's just not the way we should be.) If this year proves anything it's that we are not progressing.

Just like family. Family always treat each other worse than outsiders.

I just don't understand why Taylor was still in there after throwing three interceptions. Any other team would have gone to the backup quarterback after that. Why didn't we?

Oh no! I need my helping of steamed Block Choi!

Shouldn't we sandbag after we have a comfortable lead?

So instead of a close game where one fewer turnover could have made the difference between a championship or not you would rather just get beat. If I were Watson I would be running away from this fan base. Actually, yes. Getting outplayed by a team that is just hands down better than you is easier to swallow than several close losses where the team trips over itself. This is just dumb. I have to assume anyone that would think this way was either in the band, a cheerleader, or played video games instead of actually playing sports. No way would you want to just be inferior vs needing to make small adjustments to win. Anyone who thinks this way should be Iowa State fans. WTF are you talking about? Why is it so hard for you to understand that blowing a lead and having a team come back on you hurts worse than if you just lost it outright from the beginning and were never in it? You think Alabama fans feel better about the fact that Auburn came back from like 21 points down to beat them at the end? The fact that their fans sat back and thought, "We've got this one in the bag!" only to see it dissolve right before their eyes? I'd rather have a million-dollar prize go to someone else from the get go, rather than be told I won the money, call all my friends to celebrate, only to learn later that a mistake was made and that it must actually go to someone else. Are you even human? I remember November 3, 2007 : Nebraska 39 - Kansas 76 That hurt worse than last night, by far! I NEVER want to be a team that's "not good enough to win." That's not Nebraska.

Here's our record since 2000: 2010 10-3 #17 2009 10-4 #14 2008 9-4 NR 2007 5-7 NR 2006 9-5 NR 2005 8-4 #24 2004 5-6 NR 2003 10-3 #18 2002 7-7 NR 2001 11-2 #7 2000 10-2 #7 We haven't had two 10 win seasons in a row since 2001. We haven't been ranked in the top 25 two years in a row since 2001. Bo, as our head coach, has never won less than 9 games. With our record this year, we have elite status. It's been 9 looong years of humbling, embarrassing, struggle to get back to the top tier of football. What's with all the whining? Sure a Big 12 championship would have been icing on the cake, it would have been perfect to tell the Big 12 to kiss our a.. as we went out the door, but we still have a lot to be proud of. Remember our teams from 2004 to 2007? They QUIT in almost every game. They didn't play injured. They didn't CARE. We should have greeted our players coming back as heroes, not heels. I'd take our players over any other in the country right now. They play for us, and they play with pride. I'm proud of them. These players, OUR players, ALL of them, have lived up to: "Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory."

I totally disagree. After 4 turnovers, I can't believe the score was only within a field goal. Our defense played with their heart and soul. The wheels came off with that interception and we never got them back on. This loss is on the offense, not the defense--at all. With that number of turnovers the Sooners should have been up on us by more than two touchdowns, but our defense prevailed. There's just too much talent on the Sooner side of the ball to keep giving them chances, I don't care how good our backs are. Eventually they'll get a good play in there given all those chances. I blame the offense as a whole, but I'm still a T-Mart fan. He's a freshman and he's playing with the intensity of a Bo Pelini. He did try to do too much himself and time will tell if that's a Freshman error, or a character flaw, but all the hate directed at him is very unbecoming. I'm not a frequent poster, but Taylor is OUR quarterback and we should be consoling him and encouraging him. You all sound like a bunch of Real Housewives. Worse, really. Sad. We still have one more game to play and then we're in a real conference. We need to build on a very successful year and move forward. We need to be positive and proud of what our team did this year. They struggled, but so did TO before he was a "genius." We had an extremely successful year. Don't forget what it was just a few years ago! And for those of you who don't know better: Welcom to NU vs. OU. So many times it looked like TO had the game wrapped up and OU found a way to come back and beat us. Oh well. We're still a great program. Suck up the loss. We can't change it. We can only move on from here. Let's move on and improve.

Beebe Calls Personal Foul on Pelini Claims Pelini Led With His Head When He Tripped Over His Security Detail, Falling On His A$$

You have to feel sorry for this guy... He's really "seeing red," and the more red he sees, the madder he gets. An endless, psychotic cycle. Can't be long before his head explodes. And he thinks Bo embarrassed himself. "Stupid is as stupid does."

Well, it just shows what happens when, in this day and age of shotgun offenses, the Big 12 conference is run by a Beebee.

Remember how OU did the same to us through the '70s and everyone wanted TO fired. Remember how Florida teams did it to us every year in the Orange Bowl, and everyone wanted TO fired. Remember where we were just 3 years ago and how far we've come already. Realize that it's ONLY one loss and we're still going to win the conference championship. Realize that next year, we're in the Big 10, Baby! (Wait, that's kind of scary right now) Remember how until TO won that NC against UF, NO ONE thought NU could win because we "couldn't pass." Know that through it all, WE are one of the most respected programs in the country and everyone wants to either be like us, or, when they realize they can't, hate us. It's just one game out of 12 or 13. So what if it's Texas. In about 2 years, it'll be the ONLY thing they can brag about because they'll in a loser conference and whining because they have no BCS relevance. AND I know that on any given day, it's better to be Husker than a neutered cow. GO BIG RED! HUSKERS FOREVER!

Yeah, but for the first time I see they have say pre-game starts at 5:00 (no game coverage). Makes me think there's no game coverage.

I don't get Fox PPV and Huskers.com is not streaming the game. This is so frustrating! What gives?

Anyone remember the last time Nebraska played Notre Dame in their stadium? Decision makers need to realize it's not about households in a state that count, it's televisions tuned to the game.

YES they CAN adjust the game clock, but only if something else is being reviewed... nowhere does it even hint (grey area) at reviewing only the game clock to be allowed... Nothing will come of it... but just another bullet for you conspiracy theorists... So, what would have happened if Bo and the team just continued to walk off the field and not participate in that illegal last play? We probably would have still lost (by forfeit), but the Big XII would have had to really bend hoops to explain why. It's pretty easy for them to cover it up now. I know Bo wasn't thinking like this at the time, of course, but it would have been interesting if we'd just claimed the game was over and we are the rightful winners and it's up to the Big XII to blatantly take it away from us. Just wondering why no reporters are all over this, especially ours.

Maybe we weren't watching the same game. Even the sportscasters were commenting on the Husker's almost bizarre lack of urgency in the second half. To go along with poor execution and mistakes you just shouldn't be making six games into the season. It was the offensive equivalent of a Callahan defense. I didn't see the players let down at all. They didn't quit. I was frustrated with the lack of sense of urgency, too, but that was a coaching/schema failing, not the players. The coaches should have called for the quick offense, but when the ball snapped, I saw the players doing their best. I didn't see anyone stop before the whistle and they kept trying. They didn't let down with Missouri. If this offense was the equivalent of a Callahan defense, we wouldn't have scored more than two or three FGs and we certainly wouldn't have come back to win that game in those miserable conditions. I think our current offense is set up around the quarterback reading the defense and then adjusting the play called. They kept in this scheme for too long because, I suspect, our coaches don't have a good quick-call offensive scheme. I just think that's where our program is right now. We don't have all the tools in place to be that top team that can totally adapt to any situation yet. It's only been two years! In our disappointment at lack of offensive production, we need to be careful to not project lack of character onto the players that isn't deserved. They played hard and they wanted to win. Look at their eyes compared to what we saw in players' eyes during Callahan. I hated the Callahan era when our players just quit at halftime or ealier. I don't see these players quitting. I see the program digging itself out of the shattered remains of the crater left by Pedersen and Callahan. Unlike Callahan, they're moving forward, not backward, and that's a good thing. WE, as fans, need to be part of the POSITIVE rebuilding of the program. Mr. Pelini is doing an awesome job with what he started with. Our players are OUR players. This is OUR team and by God, I'm going to the wall for them. Encourage the program, criticize the program, don't tear down our players, our team. (I don't consider Callahan's teams OUR teams.) Geeze, diarrhea of the board... Sorry. Started to get a little old-geezer passionate there. I'm bitterly disappointed in the loss. I'm frustrated and anxious. But, deep down, from what I've seen, compared to what's happened in the recent and ancient past, I'm encouraged and hopeful.

Well, I didn't mean to "establish my bonafides." There are many on here way more qualified to express observations and thoughts than I am. My intent was just as caveman said. We've been through down times and it always takes longer to come back than you want. I've experienced more than one of these down times and I'm encouraged by what I see in the past two years. Also, I didn't see a let down in our players last weekend. I saw a lot of that under Callahan. If our players let down like that we would have lost 70 - 0 to Missouri. Our players stayed in the game until the end and I think they're establishing a good . I'm sorely disappointed in the booing. I don't subscribe that these are "kids" playing, they're young men, but THEY are the ones playing, not us. We can be disappointed in their play, but booing is nothing but poor sportsmanship.