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Yeah, I really think Adrians game was due to a vanilla game plan, zone defense, and the high snaps. Half seconds are important in this offense and high snaps cost precious time.

I think the largest improvement comes between the first and second game. 

AND...no major injuries.

And...a win is a win. We didn't win until October last year, so it's nice to start off 1-0, even when we didn't give our best shot and received a better than average shot from our opponent. 

on to Colorado, let's hope we see a different offense.

A surprisingly frustrating game, but that may be a good thing. I trust the coaches and players will take a good look at this game and work to fix what went on.

Mainly concerned with the offensive line. The run game didn't get going and I think that gave So Alabama some momentum and belief. A lot of reasons for that, the high snaps, personnel available (Mills isn't a run side to side guy). I'm not as concerned with Adrian, he looked tense like he was over thinking things. He should just go out and play. Football is fun, and he didn't look like he was having fun. 

defense played really well. So Alabama's scores came from short fields. Everything else was mostly snuffed out. Tackling can improve, but I thought it was a good start.

Offense gets points here and I'm good. Not extremely impressed. Lot of work that I know theyll do.

What typically takes longer to settle: offense or defense?

There's a lot of new parts on offense, or at least it feels like there is. Its been putrid today, but the D has stepped up. 

Well we were only 4-8 last year.

Wonder whats up with Adrian. He looks way indecisive back there. Not being at the game, I'm wondering if it's on him or are the WRs not getting separation.

It just looks off. 

Anyone else getting bottom screen ads on mobile? They're kind of annoying.

Obligatory...

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1820163660

The guy drove from Dallas, TX, to El Paso presumably because El Paso is closer to the border and probably has a higher Hispanic population. 

Go shove your thoughts and prayers up your a$$. 

On 6/28/2019 at 3:17 PM, Ulty said:

 

Swalwell was a bit of a jackass.

Swalwell is a bit of a jackass. When Jon Stewart showed up at Congress to talk about the 9/11 First Responders Bill, Swalwell was nowhere to be seen. 

Listen - I'm willing to bet 99% of managers/coaches would have made the same decision Erstad made to pitch Gomes. That's his role so that's who's going to pitch - matchup possibly be damned. 

I think the real error wasn't in pitching Gomes, but in throwing nothing but fastballs. Who that's on? I dunno. 

On 5/30/2019 at 11:23 AM, knapplc said:

Loving most of those times. The S. Alabama game is not surprisingly at 11am, but the rest - great times.

 

Northern Illinois at 7pm is gonna be a bloodbath. Nobody has forgotten that loss.

 

 

I hope they win 55+ - 0

11 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said:

 

Last season we missed the postseason This season we played for a championship and won a regional game.

 

You do lose games sometimes in baseball, Landlord.

 

 

Yeah kind of got away from us there at the end. What are you gonna do?

And in 2017 they made the post season and lost 2 games. 

Maybe in 2021 they'll play for a championship and win 2 games in the regional. 

Honestly, it's probably the bats that he needs to find a way to get going. It seems like they have some pretty good plate discipline (perhaps too much - not swinging at good pitches). 

I'm not surprised with today's result. They were essentially eliminated last night. You don't recover from blowing a 5-0 lead or a 5-2 lead just needing 3 outs. The Red Sox didn't recover after losing Game 6 when they had a 5-3 lead just needing 3 outs. The Rangers didn't recover after losing Game 6 to the Cardinals after having a 7-5 lead needing 3 outs, then a 9-7 lead needing 3 outs. 

Mentally, it's so hard to recover from that sort of gut punch. Just unfortunate that the end of last night's game was mishandled and maybe mismanaged. 17 straight fastballs to one of the better power hitting teams in the country. 

Yes, Gomes's ERA was the lowest in the pen, he's our closer - all the traditional reasons why he should've closed out the game last night are fine. We weren't facing a traditional team last night. Oklahoma State was the best HR hitting team we've faced all season, by far. The next closest power hitting team we faced was Ohio State, who had hit 20 fewer HRs on the year and we were never in a save position in that game. The next closest HR hitting teams we've faced were Creighton and Michigan, both whom had hit 24 fewer HRs than Oklahoma State. 

But - it's baseball! So what're you gonna do? Things just happen. No need to try to learn from them!

Let's see how these guys bounce back. Crushing collapse last night, can't let that loss beat them again. 

Win, and get a bit of revenge over the Pokes later tonight.

Overall, this is a 6 of one, half dozen of the other type deal.

We don't know what would have happened in the other situations because they didn't play out. Take the starter out early and the bullpen could've imploded. Keep him in and he could have imploded. Pitch Gomes and he could've sent them down 1-2-3. Pitch Schanaman and he could have given up the 4 runs.

All that is known is that Nebraska lost after being up 3 with 3 outs left. The odds of winning at that point are high and they failed. Why they failed is anyone's opinion. 

1 minute ago, hskrfan4life said:

Not worth it, puts go ahead runner on base instead of him being at the plate for a potential out.

Guess for me it'd be more about who was next up. They just needed 1 more out at that point. I know a HR is less likely but the dude is their best HR hitter, you just felt some nonsense was gonna happen.

What are your thoughts on walking Boone instead of pitching to him?

3 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

I still fail to see how giving up 4 runs by the closer (who had been very good all season) and losing on the first homer given up is the fault of the coaching staff. Are Erstad and Silva pitching in that last inning?

Good thing he didn't face OkSt all season!

Just now, hskrfan4life said:

Did anyone see the graphic they showed multiple times tonight? Saying Oklahoma State has won 49% of there games after trailing? This is going to hurt for Waldron, he had a hell of a game, but we knew OSU had those power bats. Going to need someone to go deep tomorrow.

We knew OSU had those power bats and yet we still turned to a fastball-only pitcher. But that's baseball!

I understand it's hard to break from roles (this is our closer he needs to close), but he was such a mismatch for them. 

1 minute ago, VectorVictor said:

 

Go one step back—those two runs on Waldren shouldn’t have happened, but they did because Erstad mismanaged things there. 

 

I get that some folks want to be apologists for Erstad (like Mavric

 

So is being an apologist for a coach that mismanaged their pitching, it appears. 

 

You can make excuses for Erstad all you want, but he ultimately mismanaged a 5-0 lead into a 6-5 loss. 

If I'm allowed an opinion that's not MMQBing, I'm more okay with keeping Waldren in. He was pitching well and getting out of jams when he got in them. I think they would have been better off not putting Gomes in at all. Dude can only throw a fastball and that's something I don't think you want against one of the better power hitting teams.

Not calling for them to lose, just saying they have a lot to overcome tomorrow and they just made that mountain harder to climb by shooting themselves in their own feet.

Just now, hskrfan4life said:

And what do good teams do? The find the way to win games. First time Nebraska got an opening day won since 2014. We talk about the football team needing to learn how to win but the baseball team needs to as well. Can't have it both ways guys. 

No.

They should have won. Period. Up 5-2 with 2 outs. Losing shouldn't happen, and it takes incredible man mismanagement to happen.