What we learned this week

[Blackshirt39]

That it is time for Pelini to #$%! or get off the pot as head coach.

[huskerscott]

Four years later we are the still the same type of team. No progress made.

[CheeseHusker]

Program is at another crossroads.

 

Right now, the program is treading water, and has been since 2008. It still looks a whole lot better than 2007.... but at some point, it's got to move. We're in neutral. The opponents change, the conference changes, the players change.... but the results are the same. There an impressive win, followed by a crushing blowout. There's a home loss to a terrible opponent who has no business beating you. And once in awhile, you have a great win as a home underdog.

 

In the end, there's a 10-3 / 9-4 season, where the 9 or 10 perhaps weren't the 9 or 10 you should have won, and the 3 or 4 weren't necessarily the 3 or 4 you should have lost.

 

One step forward, one step back, one step forward, one step back.

 

That's what we are.

[CheeseHusker]

[double post]

[Excel]

I learned that Nebraska had the exact type of team that I thought they had back in September...Good team but not BCS/CCG caliber. The only things that've chanced since then have been the perceptions of fans.

[quitou]

That a lot of people overreact.

 

This is one of those singularities of a game that you can't learn anything from. All you can reasonably say is that anything can happen in the span of a season. Your Huskers are not a machine that consistently plays 100% of their talent level. Some games they poop the bed... this is one of those times. Stop thinking that anything you see this game is the norm. This is the exception, not the rule.

[Treand3]

Program is at another crossroads.

 

Right now, the program is treading water, and has been since 2008. It still looks a whole lot better than 2007.... but at some point, it's got to move. We're in neutral. The opponents change, the conference changes, the players change.... but the results are the same. There an impressive win, followed by a crushing blowout. There's a home loss to a terrible opponent who has no business beating you. And once in awhile, you have a great win as a home underdog.

 

In the end, there's a 10-3 / 9-4 season, where the 9 or 10 perhaps weren't the 9 or 10 you should have won, and the 3 or 4 weren't necessarily the 3 or 4 you should have lost.

 

One step forward, one step back, one step forward, one step back.

 

That's what we are.

 

This stuff is frustrating, because we all want so badly to be elite again.

[CheeseHusker]

We all get volatile as a group because the highs, when they come, set us up for the fall.... the expectations go sky high and then crash whenever the bump hits. The Michigan State win made us believe.

 

It's a roller coaster every year and the Flying Pelini brothers are the carnies runnin' the show.

[BlackHand]

1. Play calling on both sides of the ball is not getting any better.

2. Taylor is developing but is not there yet.

3. Both lines need some attitude. They both get pushed around at will.

4. Pelini's teams are undisiplined regardless of who the players are.

5. Lostin Cassidy is not an answer to any question.

[quitou]

Program is at another crossroads.

 

Right now, the program is treading water, and has been since 2008. It still looks a whole lot better than 2007.... but at some point, it's got to move. We're in neutral. The opponents change, the conference changes, the players change.... but the results are the same. There an impressive win, followed by a crushing blowout. There's a home loss to a terrible opponent who has no business beating you. And once in awhile, you have a great win as a home underdog.

 

In the end, there's a 10-3 / 9-4 season, where the 9 or 10 perhaps weren't the 9 or 10 you should have won, and the 3 or 4 weren't necessarily the 3 or 4 you should have lost.

 

One step forward, one step back, one step forward, one step back.

 

That's what we are.

This stuff is frustrating, because we all want so badly to be elite again.

Being elite isn't a switch that reads 'press when you feel you're ready'. It's done either with a concerted effort from a good coach you hope will become great with time, or your program spending $5+ million a season for a veteran, proven coach. I'm sure no one really has to mention Doctor Tom and his first 15 years, but... yeah...

[Hercules]

We weren't remotely ready to play today. That was the most error-ridden performance I've seen in the Pelini era. The turnovers were ridiculous, Martinez wasn't prepared to read that defense and he/Beck weren't able to adjust throughout the game, Burkhead was off on his spacing all day long, the receivers were bad in every facet of their position, the defense gave up way too many big plays and couldn't get off the field on third down, and the special teams... the special teams... the special... [vomit]

[RyanPMD]

That Lavonte is hands down the best linebacker in the country. Period.

 

(I'm only posting positive stuff the rest of the day)

[JTrain]

I don't follow recruiting very closely. Maybe someone can explain. Bo is known as a defensive genius-- a great playcaller and talent developer (the man that helped make Suh an all-time great) with NFL coaching experience. How on earth is this the best we can do, talent-wise, four years into the Bo era? Evans, Thorell, Cassidy and Fisher all Blackshirts? Defensive ends are far from elite (none of them will be close to the all-B1G three-deep). I grant that even the best teams often have one or two starters of questionable talent, but when 5-6 of your top 13 are players that would barely see the field on an Alabama or LSU, you have some real talent issues. Is Pelini that sub-par as a defensive recruiter?

[knapplc]

We learned that there are some people who call themselves "fans" who will absolutely drop a deuce on the players via Twitter when we lose a game like this.

 

Classy.

[HuskerDens]

Unfortunately, we learned even the TV announcers noticed Michigan was keying on Thorell when they needed new downs.

 

We learned the team needs to get ready for Iowa and find a way to get pumped. Iowa will come out ready - question is will we be able to keep our heads in the game if Iowa starts strong.