Illinois up 41-7.....

[GetReal]

Illinois 48 - Purdue 14. Perhaps Illinois should seize the name "blackshirts" - it sure as heck does not fit Nebraska.

[Street Novelist]

Don't worry; I'm sure people here will figure out a way to pin our loss to Purdue on poor player performance and not poor coaching.

[brophog]

 

Purdue's run defense was and probably still is last in the conference in rush defense. Mind-boggling (but not surprising) that our game plan wasn't adjusted to reflect that.

 

I guess that's what we said for a week now, It appears Illinois knew this going in, watched the film, exploited it and will win easily.

 

Is the lack of a running game for Nebraska a matter of "can't" or "won't"

Wrong logical conjuction.

[huskerfan92]

Stat Comparison of Nebraska & Illinois vs Purdue:

 

Rushing Offense (Attempts-Yards):

Nebraska 29 - 77yds

Illinois 41 - 382yds

 

Passing Offense (Total Passing Yards, Completions-Attempts):

Nebraska 407, 29-48

Illinois 213, 21-38

 

Turnovers:

Nebraska 5 (1 lost fumble, 4 INT)

Illinois 0

 

Rushing Defense (Total Rushing Yards Allowed):

Nebraska 183yds (4.9 yds per rush)

Illinois 89 yds (3.2 yds per rush)

 

Passing Defense (Total Passing Yards Allowed):

Nebraska 274yds (6.4 yds per pass)

Illinois 174ds (4.3 yds per pass)

 

Defense Total Yards Allowed:

Nebraska 457yds

Illinois 263 yds

 

For the rushing offense. You take away Fyfe's sacks and the WR runs and you have our running backs gaining 97 yards on 20 carries....basically a first down every two carries

[Kiyoat Husker]

While I agree that our game plan and play calling was piss-poor and we would have probably lost that game anyway,

 

Don't fixate on the 55 points as being all on the defense. When you turn it over FIVE TIMES resulting in 28 points, what would have been a close loss morphs into a beat down.

 

Fife was going to make some mistakes in his first start. We should have run more.

[NUinID]

It really is a matter of wanting to run the ball. Nebraska against MSU really wanted to run the ball. It probably actually helped that Newby was hurt as far as the running game goes. They realized that Cross runs the power game better than zone read stuff. So that is what they ran and it worked. The power stuff would have worked against Purdue that is just not what they want to do. Maybe they will get a clue and realize they can run the power stuff. I sure hope so.