ColoradoHusk

D needs a 3 and out or turnover to flip the field. Get the O in good field position.

Alante Brown. Former Husker and QB in high school.

Michigan State has coaches too. They found ways to exploit what we do on D.

You are wrong if you are expecting MSU to fold. It’s gonna be a 4-quarter game.

Used our aggressiveness against us.

That’s not on Buford.

Buford with a sure tackle in his first action back this season. 12 is at QB this drive.

That TD play shows why that WR motion is important to the success of that play. Timing was way off under Sims early in the season.

Wonder if they told HH that was going to be open. Set up by gives to the RB early in the series. Fidone had a great seal block too.

I think it was Clint Finley who had the pick 6 early in the game, and then it was a defensive battle the rest of the way. My friends were joking in the stands when Finley was returning the INT, saying "watch out, he used to play high school quarterback!!!" You may be correct in the 1998 game not being wet, but it was definitely cold. The 1996 game was very similar. Jay Foreman had a pick-6 in the first quarter, but the offense couldn't get much going the rest of the game.

My friend and I were talking about Jay Sims to my son during last week’s Purdue game (I can never remember our current players in their numbers, so we said Jay Sims was NU’s 31) and we brought up the NU-Michigan State game in 1995. Sims had a late, 80 yard TD run. After the game Saban was commenting how much talent NU had, and Saban thought NU’s best I-back was our 5th stringer. That always made me laugh.

1992 was the Halloween Night Massacre when NU beat CU 52-7. It was a night game, but wasn’t raining. 1994 NU-CU was an 11 AM kickoff at home. 1996 was a dreary 2:30 kickoff on the day after Thanksgiving. CU replaced OU for that date when the Big 12 was formed. It was cold and wet day. Very close game. Neither team could get much going offensively. 1998 was very much the same as 1996. Cold and wet. 2:30 kickoff that ended in the darkness of the early evening. Another close, hard fought defensive battle.

Tanner Lee shouldn’t be liked based on his Northern Illinois game alone.

I’ve been lucky enough to attend a lot of NU football games in my life. A few of them stick out as my favorites. 1990 Colorado (even though it was a loss the game was memorable, especially the crowd giving the sign language “clap” to Kenny Walker) 1991 Oklahoma (stormed the field and found my best friend and gave him a huge hug) 1994 Colorado 1996 Colorado 2009 Oklahoma The four games I have taken my son to, including last week against Purdue.

Prime is going to have his kickoff returner kneel at the 5 yard line and have his offense take penalties to have first and 15’s so Shedeur can have more yards passing while going down the field.

Prime is running his team like a 12 year old playing NCAA College Football.

Supposedly he has a stud QB for the 2025 class committed, but I don’t follow recruiting enough to know what he’s doing for 2024. I think he’s not bothering much with high school recruiting and is going to try the transfer portal route each year. I still think his over/under for seasons at Colorado is 2.

The offense really struggled against UCLA, but most of that seemed to be due to poor o-line play. I’m not sure what changing the play caller is going to do at this point. Deion won’t be able to attract real assistant coaches if he keeps this act up. Of course, I have questioned how long he’s interested in staying at CU or in coaching anyway. Once Shedeur is gone, what is going to keep him interested in coaching?

Who is Deion demoting to account for this move? Does Deion even realize that there are limits on full-time assistant coaches?

Rhule wouldn’t be doing his job if he was going to accept Haarberg as the only option at starting QB next year. Rhule knows the team will need more offense next year. This is because the schedule isn’t filled with weak Big Ten West offenses, but it’s also not realistic for the defense to be as strong as it is this year.

I understand HH is trying to get every yard he can, and it’s a tough balance to knowing when to plow/dive through defenders and when to just slide/go down. It was a great run when HH dove towards the end zone on NU’s first TD drive against Purdue, and he absorbed a big hit while setting up first and goal. But, later in the game I was just saying out loud for HH to “get down” when he’s hesitating against defenders and he ends up getting stripped by a big d-lineman. I guess we will just have to live with the good and bad this year, and hope the team can survive and still get wins.

I appreciate Haarberg for coming in, righting the ship, and managing the offense the best he can. He definitely plays tough and has earned the respect of his teammates. I hope that Satt is able to lean on Johnson and Fleeks to run the ball more, and rely less on Haarberg. Unless, HH has wide open field in front on him, he’s not a great runner. On speed options, he needs to pitch the ball sooner to give the RB some space to get to the corner. Finally, on a couple of the sacks and big hits he took against Purdue, that was due to him holding onto the ball too long. I realize the WR group isn’t great right now and may not getting open for him, but HH needs to develop that internal clock in his head.

I just don’t get all the whining and b!^@hing about this game being shown on Peacock. Is it the inconvenience of getting the app? Is it the extra cost? What exactly is this “principle of it” that people are complaining about? Three months ago, people were doing backflips about all the cash the new media rights was going to provide NU and the rest of the Big Ten. Now they complain because a game is going to be televised by one of the agreed upon broadcast partners? Would they like to see how much the Disney Corp. forced cable and satellite providers to pony up so they had could include ESPN and other channels on their cable/satellite TV package? It certainly was a lot more than $6 a month than what Peacock costs.

I wonder how many people complaining about the game being on Peacock are also old enough to remember that most games WEREN’T TELEVISED AT ALL, even into the early 1990’s.

On his podcast this week, Rob Zatechka explains that it’s tough to change something like turnovers which has been a glaring problem for many years and multiple coaches. That turnover problem is a program issue, which is tough to change for a first year coach. I would also say that the injuries and the lack of depth are also having an impact on turnovers for NU this year. We are starting an inexperienced QB in Haarberg, who is getting beat up physically. His backup is even more turnover prone. The RB room has been riddled with injuries and now relying on a 4th string I-back. The punt returner against Purdue was replacing Kemp, who has never had issues fielding punts. The fumbled kickoff was almost a fluke play, caused by Purdue going after an up back fielding a kickoff. Teams are also going to be more likely to try for turnovers more aggressively against NU because how turnover-prone we have been.