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  1. The problem is that I think you will need to throw it in order to move the ball on us consistently. Our rushing defense doesn't tend to give up grinds. We will give up a 10-12 yard play but then we will stuff the next two and force a 3rd and long. The only thing you'll be stuffing is your crying faces with walking tacos and Maid-Rites! And this is why most people are smart enough to not try and have an intelligent conversation about a game on opposing fan boards and you end up with just the $%^&*( trolls from the other team for the most part. He's not a troll you just have no sense of humor. oh no - I laughed. I wasn't calling him a troll, I said this is why you end up with mostly trolls from the other team. If you haven't been here for years and just came over to talk about the game you could easily take that post the wrong way and since every message board has people that do stuff like that, most people that actually do want to have a conversation just stay away and you end up with the trolls. I am sure that after the Purdue game on Saturday there will be a ton of Iowa idiots coming over here just like we had several on the Iowa boards a few years ago when Nebraska was doing well and Iowa wasn't. It is just the way it is. I was merely pointing out that if you want to encourage actual conversation about the game with opposing fans you might want to let a conversation develop before starting to throw in stuff like that. I know that there are many on here that like having a good conversation with opposing fans and you might get one or two good Iowa fans over here amidst the many bad ones but the good ones won't stay if their attempt at actual conversation isn't also met with actual conversation.
  2. The problem is that I think you will need to throw it in order to move the ball on us consistently. Our rushing defense doesn't tend to give up grinds. We will give up a 10-12 yard play but then we will stuff the next two and force a 3rd and long. The only thing you'll be stuffing is your crying faces with walking tacos and Maid-Rites! And this is why most people are smart enough to not try and have an intelligent conversation about a game on opposing fan boards and you end up with just the $%^&*( trolls from the other team for the most part.
  3. The problem is that I think you will need to throw it in order to move the ball on us consistently. Our rushing defense doesn't tend to give up grinds. We will give up a 10-12 yard play but then we will stuff the next two and force a 3rd and long.
  4. You must talk to a bunch of idiot Iowa fans then because I would say about 90% of our fan base knows that we will need to play one of our best games of the year against you guys. This is a very scary game because you just don't know which Nebraska team you are going to get from week to week (or hell even quarter to quarter). I did see someone talking about running it up the gut on us and I would like to say - yes please do that. Where we have been very susceptible is on the edge on the right side of the defense and Nebraska has the speed to take advantage of that. Hopefully it is something that Iowa will have cleaned up in 10 days. I think the biggest determining factor in the game will be how well you can stop Beathard and our TEs on third downs to get our offense off the field. The last I saw, we have a 50% conversion rate on 3rd and long. Of course if TA decides to pad King's stats it could become ugly very quickly. I think this game will follow the same general pattern of the Minnesota game. A couple of traded scores early in the game as both offenses run their scripts and then some traded punts through the middle with scoring picking up again at the end of the game. The key to who wins will be which team scores TDs and which is held to FGs. I think Armstrong throws a costly pick just at the wrong time late in the game to seal the win for Iowa in a close hard fought game. Of course you all will think that costly pick will instead be a TD to finish a NE upset and we will find out in 10 days which of us is correct
  5. It seems like it's a big deal to beat Nebraska, whether Nebraska is 10-2 or 2-10. Is that an accurate perception? That would be an accurate perception yes. You have 4 of the best all time programs in the Big 10 and all have proven an ability to win games even when you think they are out of it. Go into the 4th quarter within 14 points against any of those teams and there will be a sense of unease. It is just what your history earns you. This can't be because history means nothing! amiright? Listen to some of the great fans we got on this board. We suck, our coaches suck and are old. Our players our media, our food, our weather, our uniforms, our admin, our seats, our stadium, they all suck! I am staying out of that part of the conversation - that is between all of you (hell I stay out of that kind of conversation on the Iowa boards as well). I will stick to giving my opinion on the question of what other teams and their fan bases perception of Nebraska football currently is!
  6. It seems like it's a big deal to beat Nebraska, whether Nebraska is 10-2 or 2-10. Is that an accurate perception? That would be an accurate perception yes. You have 4 of the best all time programs in the Big 10 and all have proven an ability to win games even when you think they are out of it. Go into the 4th quarter within 14 points against any of those teams and there will be a sense of unease. It is just what your history earns you.
  7. I can tell you that a lot of Iowa fans still look at Nebraska (yes even this year with all that has happened in the closing seconds of games) and see a team that can find a way to pull out the most ridiculous wins if given even the slightest seam to do so. In the past several years there have been a couple of games per season that most people would have left you for dead and yet your team found a way (Ohio State your first year, Iowa last year). Even this year you could argue that you were dead in the water against Miami and yet you found a way to come back and put the game into OT. The breaks haven't gone your way at the very end of games this year but until the clock hits 0 and the scoreboard says you lost, the game isn't over and you keep fighting. Maybe the bad breaks this year are an indication of where this new staff is leading you with regards to the mental toughness but I really don't think that is the case.
  8. For those that were asking about where to get the tickets that were still available - there are limited tickets scattered throughout the stadium for Northwestern still available through the Nebraska athletic ticket office website. All other games appear to be sold out for the season.
  9. Clearly. Thanks for visiting the board. You can be a jack%^&* to me as much as you want but I am not going anywhere. Way to completely ignore all of the relevant parts of my post and only cherry pick the thing that was a quote from you showing that you had no clue what you were talking about. Do you have season tickets? If so for how long? If we want to get into a %^&* measuring contest over who has actually spent more time going to Nebraska games and inside of Memorial Stadium then bring it (and yes I might be picking a losing battle on this because you might actually have season tickets - but if I remember correctly you are one of the forum warriors who doesn't actually go to the games).
  10. Caven

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    The problem is that Illinois has been just as streaky in their play as Nebraska has been - and like Nebraska it hasn't always been game to game but quarter to quarter. Nebraska wins this easily if they come to play for 4 quarters but they haven't shown that yet. I think this game will go to whichever team actually comes out and plays all 4 quarters. Nebraska comes out fast but then loses defensive secondary focus through the middle of the game making it much closer than it should be but ultimately wins by 10.
  11. Beat Illinois, Rutgers, Purdue and Minnesota Pull off one of NW, Wiscy and Iowa (hope not Iowa...) 5-3 I think there is a better chance of pulling off 2 of the toss ups and going 6-2 than of going 4-4. Nebraska has more talent than they have shown on pass D and that is the biggest weakness so if they can get scheme and talent on the same page I think they will be OK.
  12. LOL - I don't know what those seats are. Yes I am an Iowa fan - I even have season tickets to the Iowa games. Guess what. I live in Lincoln and my family also has season tickets to Nebraska. I know it is a strange concept but you can be a fan of multiple teams. Am I a die hard Nebraska fan - no. Did I say the sellout streak would end this week? No. I fully expected that those tickets would be gone before Saturday. But to tell me that I can't come on here and post a fact and try to have a reasonable conversation about Nebraska football just because they are my second team and not my first is BS. No I don't post a lot on this board - I also don't post a lot on the Hawkeye boards because I just don't post much, but I will certainly defend myself against crap like "You don't know what those seats are. You're an Iowegian Fan. You have no idea what you're talking about." I would guess I have been to more Nebraska games in Memorial Stadium than anyone on this board who doesn't have season tickets.I have been going to almost every game that didn't conflict with an Iowa home game since I moved here in 2000. (yeah I moved to Nebraska right after the glory years were over). I even take a car load of Nebraska fans to Iowa City every other year and take them to the game on my season tickets over there and I spend way more time during football season talking Nebraska football with my friend than Iowa football because it is the Nebraska fans that I am around every day, so please don't try to paint me as someone who doesn't know about Nebraska football and Memorial Stadium. That is what is nonsense. To the people claiming I am jealous and butthurt about the sellout streak. Nope - don't care. Hell I wouldn't even call 3 seasons of sellouts a streak. That is just bandwagon fans jumping in for the ride, so of course they are going to bail as soon as the fun ride is over. Honestly I am not sure why Knappic is coming after me. I wasn't the one claiming businesses are buying any unsold tickets in this thread. I simply posted the link to the Nebraska Athletic Department ticket sales where as of last Monday there were still tickets available for purchase to the game and then defended myself against an accusation that I had no idea what those tickets are. I find the same amusement in Nebraska fans worrying about your coaches and the sellout streak as I find in Iowa fans and how much money we pay our coach in the years that we aren't doing well (which yes is more often than the years we do well). "If not, you stop piping on about this. Fair?" Sorry if this seems like I am still piping on about this but on home game weekends I am not usually on the message boards so just now getting around to catching up on posts from over the weekend. How about if you stop attacking me and then I can stop needing to defend myself and then we can both stop wasting time on this silly thing?
  13. It was in response to this statement: "For god's sake, there's been a wait list for season tickets for every seat that's counted for the purposes of a "sellout streak" for four decades." so I was pointing out that there were seats currently available for the game on Saturday that would indeed count. 1 of them is within a couple of rows of my families season tickets where I know they aren't returned visiting team allotment tickets which are the tickets that don't count against the streak.
  14. There are still tickets available for the Southern Mississippi game. I went to the official University of Nebraska website to find available tickets and through there I was sent to this link: https://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventInfo?linkID=huskers&ticketCode=GS:IBM:F15:03:&groupCode=FBHG&shopperContext=&pc=&caller=&appCode=&cgc=&prc=&ppc=&psc=&sm=1 These are NOT returned tickets from Southern Mississippi either. These are tickets that if not purchased will indeed end the sellout streak. West stand sections 21-24 have a few scattered throughout as well as both endzones. Now I can't say with certainty that all of the tickets are not from the visiting school allotment but I do know that many of the tickets available are in sections that will end the streak if they aren't sold.
  15. Things like this make me glad that Ferentz bans twitter during football season. You can't do anything about stupid fans and you can't expect the kids to not defend themselves so just remove the enabler before it becomes an issue.
  16. I just got a sick feeling So if it comes down to the Iowa/Nebraska game with absolutely nothing on the line for either team - but a Nebraska win means Iowa will actually fire Ferentz and all indications are pointing to Biels as the next Iowa coach, who do you cheer for?
  17. I thought it was funny when Wisky had a coach with a TigerHawk tattoo but for some reason it would be even funnier for Nebraska to have one.
  18. Wow - Nebraska is lucky that they whistled that dead after the recovery or MSU would have had a D TD there.
  19. Best crowd I have seen in that stadium in 15 years - granted I don't get to many games there but at least a couple of the big ones each year. It was a lot of fun to be at! Keep that kind of fun up and you might convert me to having the Huskers as my 2nd favorite team eventually
  20. Someone forgot to tell our offense that getting inside the 20 isn't good enough. 5 trips and we had 3 points until the last 5 minutes of the game.
  21. Man I hate it when our media department does something that monumentally stupid.
  22. Rutgers is certainly making a game of it. Can they hold on though with their horrible pass defense? ETA: Wow they pulled it off. B10 is 1-0 against other major conferences!!! (yeah yeah, I know it won't last)
  23. Fat guy wearing the bright yellow Iowa shirt at the Miami game cheering for the Huskers?
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