***Official Purdue Game Discussion Thread***

[c. lassiter]

And then that play, I can't help but laugh. Really guys, you can't bring him down?

That will be shown on SportsCenter 327 times over the next week. Thank goodness he didn't score - if he had they'd have made it part of their opening like that skiier on Wide World of Sports.

[MichiganDad3]

Needless to say, if your offense scores 38 against Purdue you should win easily

Purdue ranked 122nd is scoring before today.

[pigskin barnyard mcgiggles]

We are done getting wins this year. If we cant beat Purdue. No way can beat msu and Iowa

[alexhortdog95]

Watch Langsdorf throw and give up another pick...

[Wordek]

I was on Mikes side, no more, no more. No excuses to lose to Purdue. A sh#t tier team with one win. This coaching staff is a f'ing joke.

[Pasadena Husker]

 

wow. 55 points given up to purdue. the only thing lower would be to lose like this to a FBS team.

FCS?

 

you're right

[Redux]

We just let f'ing Purdue hang 55 on us and the a-hole officials can't let us have those 2 points?

[louisianared]

Damn, I was hoping to celebrate holding them under 50...

[VectorVictor]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep fighting Blackshirts! This fan base is behind you and the coaches no matter what! We got your back!

 

 

 

Haha! sh#t........

Come on man. No one here is against the team. You seem to blame them and give the staff a pass.

 

Come on man, no one here is against the coaches, you seem to blame them and give the staff a pass.

 

I keep the balance. I'll tell you when it's one or the other or both.

 

Players have been in position to win this game and have made too many mistakes and not made enough plays to cover them up.

 

Really...so when has it been on the coaches?

 

The Illinois game. No doubt about it. The rest of the games have been a little bit of both. This one and last week was mostly all players.

 

The tone of the game and mindset of the team is set in the off-season and Sunday-Friday in practice. That is on the coaches to build their culture. 10 months is plenty of time to establish a strong culture. Listen to how Harbaugh did it through tough practices, high expectation, and accountability in the same amount of time Riley has been at Nebraska.

 

The players choose to quit on this team, but the coaches allow them.

 

As a coach, you have to know this.

 

 

This discussion of it's the players fault VS it's the coaches fault needs to stop. They are on the same damn team. You win as a team, you lose as a team.

 

Thanks_Tom RR has it exactly right. This team, it's mentality, it's mindset, it's identity is built in the offseason and in how they go about practices during the week. That is on the coaches.

 

Have the coaches made some good play calls or had the players in positions to make plays, but just didn't execute? YES!

 

This season's outcome, both it's positives & negatives falls on both parties.

 

You didn't read what I said.

 

This teams mentality is not owned by Riley or his staff. It's just not.

 

Maybe in some situations coaches are able to come over and infect the team with their mentality, but this situation was truly unique in my opinion. Bo Pelini was a different kind of coach, he instilled a very negative us against the world mentality, and the players really bought into a negative approach to things.

 

Again, I don't think Riley has been able to get a hold of this team's mentality yet, and I don't blame him. It's evident when you see some of the actions of our players too, it's really not debatable that there are some lingering attitude issues.

 

 

And why should any of these players buy into what Riley is selling when it's obviously s**t? The defensive scheme is garbage, players have regressed as the season has gone on (save for a couple of exceptions.

 

There's no excuse for this s***show, no matter how hard you want to spin one for Riley. Bo's not around any longer, which is why he makes such a convenient scapegoat--try looking at the staff on hand--the same staff that continually blows 3rd and short calls, can't run out the clock/salt away games to save their charlatan souls, and purposely plays DBs 5+ yards off of WRs w/o any safety help to back them up when their buffer allows opposing WRs and QBs to continually make plays. The same staff with a dedicated Special Teams coach that has regressed our special teams year over year.

 

But keep being part of the problem with this program--keep putting your head in the sand and trying to defend Riley and his profane incompetence.

 

This isn't going to get better with more years--he already had the talent to win the B1G West, but pissed it away. What's Riley going to do with a roster full of 5* talent--I mean, there's only three games fewer that Riley can lose in a season, so he's going to quickly bump into that ceiling...or cellar, as it were.

[lo country]

And Westy being Westy

[MichiganDad3]

First time in Nebraska's 125 year history of having 6 losses before the month of November.

 

Let that sink in...

I would fire SE and the entire football staff on Monday. The only hesitation would be money. Do we have the funds to hire a top coach and staff while paying two ex staffs.

[Pasadena Husker]

well, westerkamp didn't quit

[84HuskerLaw]

Who knows what will happen. I never felt right, before today, about firing Riley. I guess it will have to wait until year end but this one is really tough. I am not sure what Riley will want to do. He may have to rethink everything for his own reasons. If he has lost the team and the fans, he will have a tough time staying I would think personally.

[Redman]

How can some of the players still be smiling?

[Touchdown Tommie]

I never thought we would be lower than god damn Purdue!