***Northwestern Game Thread***

[AFhusker]

Im a husker fan, that wont change. I cant watch this anymore. TA isnt getting better, schemes are bad, and playcalling is worse. Ill tune in but emotionally im checked out and thats sad.

I've been emotionally checked out since Wisconsin took us behind the woodshed in 2012.

[InOmaha]

Coaching not good. Players not making plays when they had the chance. If they make the plays it's a Minnesota score. Lost it with play calling AND execution.

 

We are Minnesota, Northwestern, Iowa. We have been for 3 years. This was our down year, like they rotate through. One play here, one good pass, run, tackle.

 

That's normally the difference in wins and losses for marginal teams. The only difference between this year and last is we don't play in a bowl above our record die to our fans traveling well.

 

We still won't compete in the west. Still won't play for championships, etc. The wins over easier mon confetence and BIG bottom teams in the past made us feel better for being a low end unranked team at the end of the year.

 

This year it came earlier.

[GOAT]

Sadly, nothing is going to change until Eichorst is gone. Maybe Alvarez will take pity on us and retire early so that Eichorst can gtfo.

[Hunter94]

I feel like I owe Bill Callahan an apology. Riley and this staff might be worse.

Cosgrove was worse than Banker, but not by much.

[redout22]

I think I would have rather lost these 5 games by a combined 80 points instead of where we are sitting right now. It's like they are pretending to give us hope and then at all last second they give us a big ole NOPE and then decide to stop playing/coaching at the worst possible time

[GOAT]

Guarantee that Riley will tell the suits "just wait until I get my own QB in here, blah blah blah"

 

Unless POB is the second-coming of Joe Montana, we're screwed

[Hunter94]

no blow out losses yet, but still have Michigan State and Iowa to go.......no way in hell we get bowl eligible.

[AFhusker]

A team captain cost the offense a chance to get the ball back and we had a poor 4th quarter effort once again.

That is lack of depth, kids get tired. But the problem lately has been more offensive than defensive. Look at the number of plays and we should have killed NW on the scoreboard, but dropped passes, RB's who can't break a tackle or find a hole to save their life, and a QB who has no football intelligence wears the defense out in the 4th are killing this team.

[Husker67]

 

I feel like I owe Bill Callahan an apology. Riley and this staff might be worse.

Cosgrove was worse than Banker, but not by much.

 

I think you're right, Hunter, but Banker is going to give him a run for it.

[Whs from cb]

 

 

 

How anyone wants to give these guys time...I'll never understand

Each one of these five losses were winnable games.

 

And look what Michigan and Iowa did to NW in the previous two weeks. We are light years behind Iowa...............Iowa.

I almost took you seriously. The fact that all five losses were winnable should tell us everything we need to know.

 

They were winnable with any other coaching staff. But with Riley? A winnable game is going to be a loss 60% of the time.

 

Make that 100% of the time

[AFhusker]

Guarantee that Riley will tell the suits "just wait until I get my own QB in here, blah blah blah"

 

Unless POB is the second-coming of Joe Montana, we're screwed

POB better be the real deal and be able to start next year or it is going to get even worse than this year has been.

[Redman]

Dropped balls, a dumb interception, and giant holes up the middle of the defense killed us.oh, and bad coaching

[Redux]

3 losses at home so far this year. MSU and Iowa left to come in

There is a real possibility that we don't beat a power 5 team at home this year.

[AFhusker]

 

 

I feel like I owe Bill Callahan an apology. Riley and this staff might be worse.

Cosgrove was worse than Banker, but not by much.

 

I think you're right, Hunter, but Banker is going to give him a run for it.

 

At least we played 10 bowl teams in 2007, this schedule is soft as toilet paper and we won't get to a bowl.

[Dansker]

 

 

I feel like I owe Bill Callahan an apology. Riley and this staff might be worse.

Cosgrove was worse than Banker, but not by much.

 

I think you're right, Hunter, but Banker is going to give him a run for it.

 

 

Even Cosgrove didn't field the WORST pass defense in the country.