Cowherd Giving NU love...

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That may be mobile exclusive. The post appears fine on my Mac (sans extra spaces).

 

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It's weird, his posts are the only ones doing that on mine.

[NUinID]

 

 

 

2-10 with wins over Iowa and Wisconsin, or 10-3 with losses to them?

 

Neither. 10-3 with losses to OSU, Wisconsin and Iowa and Riley's seat will be scorching. 0-6 against Wiscy and Iowa is not okay.

 

 

 

Not even a little bit.

 

 

Wanna bet. Eichorst brought Riley in to win. Going 0-6 against our biggest competition in the west that happen to be very average teams will get boosters riled up. My guess would be Eichorst is out if we don't win the west and go 0-2 against Wiscy and Iowa.

 

 

Man you got to ever over this. Wisconsin is not an average team they have proven this over and over for the past 10-15 years. You may not like that, but they are a good football team.

 

Iowa is cyclical team. They will pop up and have a couple of great season's and then go back to winning 6-7 games a year for 3-4 seasons. Again it may hurt your ego a little but Iowa is a well coached team that doesn't make a lot of mistakes. They usually are talent challanged. Frankly I don't see that 9-10 win season out of Iowa this year. There defense should be decent, but offensively other than the RB returning they are short on skill players.

 

I don't like losing to Iowa or Wisconsin anymore than the next Nebraska fan, but I realize that they are programs to not look down apon as some average inferior teams.

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2-10 with wins over Iowa and Wisconsin, or 10-3 with losses to them?

 

Neither. 10-3 with losses to OSU, Wisconsin and Iowa and Riley's seat will be scorching. 0-6 against Wiscy and Iowa is not okay.

 

 

 

Not even a little bit.

 

 

Wanna bet. Eichorst brought Riley in to win. Going 0-6 against our biggest competition in the west that happen to be very average teams will get boosters riled up. My guess would be Eichorst is out if we don't win the west and go 0-2 against Wiscy and Iowa.

 

 

Man you got to ever over this. Wisconsin is not an average team they have proven this over and over for the past 10-15 years. You may not like that, but they are a good football team.

 

Iowa is cyclical team. They will pop up and have a couple of great season's and then go back to winning 6-7 games a year for 3-4 seasons. Again it may hurt your ego a little but Iowa is a well coached team that doesn't make a lot of mistakes. They usually are talent challanged. Frankly I don't see that 9-10 win season out of Iowa this year. There defense should be decent, but offensively other than the RB returning they are short on skill players.

 

I don't like losing to Iowa or Wisconsin anymore than the next Nebraska fan, but I realize that they are programs to not look down apon as some average inferior teams.

 

 

Wisconsin always plays tough and in conference play they are even better. A night game at Camp Randall is about as tough as it gets in college football. Somehow they typically play way above their talent level.

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

If Cowherd Steven A Smith and Skip Bayless all had to wake up everyday and kick each other in the nuts I'd be happy.all 3 are tools.now back to our regularly scheduled pissing match.

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Somehow they typically play way above their talent level.

They've copied the historic Nebraska model in a lot of ways - rely on good defense and offensive lines. They have a really good system that plays to their talent strengths. The biggest difference is Wisconsin has never come close to consistently hauling in the offensive playmakers Nebraska used to be able to.

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Somehow they typically play way above their talent level.

They've copied the historic Nebraska model in a lot of ways - rely on good defense and offensive lines. They have a really good system that plays to their talent strengths. The biggest difference is Wisconsin has never come close to consistently hauling in the offensive playmakers Nebraska used to be able to.

 

 

You just described Wisconsin in a nut shell. Alverez patterned Wisconsin off of the Nebraska teams he played on in the 60's. Wisconsin doesn't really worry about recruiting ratings and what not. They recruit to their system and have a great walk on program. The get a ton of walk ons out of the little towns in Wisconsin that contribute.

 

I am not sure they play that much above their talent level. I think they get a lot of underrated talent and they develop talent very well. This is a system that has been working for 25 years now. It took a while to get going and there have been some bumps along the way. But they pretty much have down a 9-10 win season as almost automatic anymore.

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Will Jim Harbaugh be on the hot seat if Michigan finishes in the top 10 for the third year in a row, but gets third in the East again?

 

They're paying him like eight million times more than we're paying Riley, and he came in with way, way higher expectations.

 

I mean, Harbaugh plays in a much tougher division than us. And basically had one play each year change it from Michigan finishing #1 vs #3 in the division.

[MichiganDad3]

There is zero chance that Riley's on the hot seat after a 10-3 season no matter what. There's even less chance that Eichorst would somehow be on the hot seat.

 

If it's a 10-3 season with losses to OSU, UW, and Iowa, that means there's a decent chance we're playing in a january bowl against a ranked opponent and win it, in addition to wins over a possibly much improved Oregon team, and a (as of now) top ranked Penn State team.

What if those 3 losses are all embarrassing blowouts?

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There is zero chance that Riley's on the hot seat after a 10-3 season no matter what. There's even less chance that Eichorst would somehow be on the hot seat.

 

If it's a 10-3 season with losses to OSU, UW, and Iowa, that means there's a decent chance we're playing in a january bowl against a ranked opponent and win it, in addition to wins over a possibly much improved Oregon team, and a (as of now) top ranked Penn State team.

 

What if those 3 losses are all embarrassing blowouts?

Then it's still the best Bo year with more happy faces and less scowls.

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Will Jim Harbaugh be on the hot seat if Michigan finishes in the top 10 for the third year in a row, but gets third in the East again?

 

They're paying him like eight million times more than we're paying Riley, and he came in with way, way higher expectations.

 

I mean, Harbaugh plays in a much tougher division than us. And basically had one play each year change it from Michigan finishing #1 vs #3 in the division.

 

I would imagine that Harbaugh's seat will get warm this year if he loses to OSU, MSU, and PSU this year. At some point the OSU game is a must win and the OSU/MSU games are must win within the same year.

[The Dude]

With Iowa and Wisconsin at home I think we have a great chance of sweeping​ the division.

 

Strangely, Iowa is more worrisome than Wisconsin. But Iowa is still looking for a QB, replaced basically all the offensive coaches (head coach's kid is playing OC haha), and who knows if they have a real D1 WR on the roster.

 

Northwestern and Minnesota might put up a fight for a bit but we have an NFL QB and top defensive coordinator now. We gotta cruise in those games. Illinois too. Gotta stop dicking around with Illinois this year as well.

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The problem with Iowa is they somehow get better at the end of the year. We tend to play some of our worst ball in game 12. I wish we could play Iowa week 2, we may win 50 straight to be honest.

[junior4949]

 

 

On his show today. Talking about the coaches poll and was talking about how it's predominantly traditional powers in the top 10. So he said he went back and looked at the '87, '97, and '07 preseason coaches polls.

 

He said they were virtually the same except that Notre Dame and Nebraska were absent in this years poll compared to the past polls. Then for the 2nd time in a week or so he starts in on Tanner Lee.

 

"I have Nebraska winning 9 games. Nebraska has a quarterback nobody has heard of named Tanner Lee, who will end up being the best college football player no one is talking about in preseason. Nebraska is going to be pretty good this year, they have a transfer quarterback named Tanner Lee who is SPECIAL. (his emphasis) He is a playmaker at quarterback. Mike Riley is a great quarterback coach."

 

I've never heard Cowherd mention Nebraska more than once ever in a single year for college football. He's brought them up TWICE in 2 weeks. High praise from a guy who normally is ripping NU for its geographical location in regard to recruiting.

 

May be a better year than most people expect!

 

If we lose to Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Penn State; I'm not sure how we're having a better year than most people expect. Aren't those the only ranked teams we play preseason?

 

 

 

You realize that most national prognosticators have been picking NU to win 6 games....

 

 

I do realize this. However, I also realize that two years ago we only won 6 games. Yet, we also defeated not only a ranked team but also a team that made the playoffs. Winning 9 games a season means very little to me at all if we lose to every ranked team we play. While I may be in the minority, the 15' season seemed more successful than the 16' season.

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On his show today. Talking about the coaches poll and was talking about how it's predominantly traditional powers in the top 10. So he said he went back and looked at the '87, '97, and '07 preseason coaches polls.

 

He said they were virtually the same except that Notre Dame and Nebraska were absent in this years poll compared to the past polls. Then for the 2nd time in a week or so he starts in on Tanner Lee.

 

"I have Nebraska winning 9 games. Nebraska has a quarterback nobody has heard of named Tanner Lee, who will end up being the best college football player no one is talking about in preseason. Nebraska is going to be pretty good this year, they have a transfer quarterback named Tanner Lee who is SPECIAL. (his emphasis) He is a playmaker at quarterback. Mike Riley is a great quarterback coach."

 

I've never heard Cowherd mention Nebraska more than once ever in a single year for college football. He's brought them up TWICE in 2 weeks. High praise from a guy who normally is ripping NU for its geographical location in regard to recruiting.May be a better year than most people expect!

 

If we lose to Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Penn State; I'm not sure how we're having a better year than most people expect. Aren't those the only ranked teams we play preseason?

You realize that most national prognosticators have been picking NU to win 6 games....

I do realize this. However, I also realize that two years ago we only won 6 games. Yet, we also defeated not only a ranked team but also a team that made the playoffs. Winning 9 games a season means very little to me at all if we lose to every ranked team we play. While I may be in the minority, the 15' season seemed more successful than the 16' season.

We played more quality ball in '15 during a losing tranisition year than we did in year 2 during a winning year. Agreed.

 

But let's at least see what we have before assuming we lose to every quality opponent we have.