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After falling behind 14-0, Nebraska changed it's offensive playcalling and marched deep into Ohio State's territory. It honestly felt like they were going to score and make it 14-7 when Martinez slightly sailed a pass over Wandale's hand, which deflected it into an Ohio State player that was on the ground. 

 

Would 14-7 be a lot different than a backbreaking turnover? Absolutely. Psychologically deflating for a still fragile team playing against the #5 and arguably better than that team in the nation.

 

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1 minute ago, Jack Burton said:

The W/L doesn't matter but at one point Nebraska was getting beaten 48-0 while getting outgained 502-79 in the 3rd Q. At home. At night. Very similar to the Mike Riley game vs OSU in 2017.


To be honest it is still partially a Riley team and the rest are underclassmen we’re forced to play because of Roley. 
 

 With a true Sophomore at QB and RB, a true freshman RB/WR, a redshirt freshman playing his first season for center... what do you expect when we play a team that is most likely heading to the playoffs. 
 

The sky isn’t falling, Frost is not Riley. There is still a lot of work to be done. 

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I agree that The team didn’t have much of a chance to win this game, but come on.  At least be respectable. Make the game close, make OSU at least break a sweat.  Show the recruits that NU is just a few gamebreaking players away from being OSU. Getting slaughters on national TV then winning some close games against NW, Indiana, and Purdue doesn’t do much for the program IMO

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5 minutes ago, Branno said:


To be honest it is still partially a Riley team and the rest are underclassmen we’re forced to play because of Roley. 
 

 With a true Sophomore at QB and RB, a true freshman RB/WR, a redshirt freshman playing his first season for center... what do you expect when we play a team that is most likely heading to the playoffs. 
 

The sky isn’t falling, Frost is not Riley. There is still a lot of work to be done. 

I'm still on the Frost train. Just don't want to ignore how ugly it was tonight and frankly the first half of this year.

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1 minute ago, Archy1221 said:

I agree that The team didn’t have much of a chance to win this game, but come on.  At least be respectable. Make the game close, make OSU at least break a sweat.  Show the recruits that NU is just a few gamebreaking players away from being OSU. Getting slaughters on national TV then winning some close games against NW, Indiana, and Purdue doesn’t do much for the program IMO

 

We may be a few game breaking players away from being OSU. 

 

I'm not sure any of us know what really matters to recruits. If national perception mattered as much as we think it did, then why has Frost been able to pull some solid recruiting classes? Why does Nebraska still land several 4-star recruits? Why does Nebraska flip recruits who are committed to other programs? 

 

Winning close games against NW, Indiana, and Purdue do matter. Because they keep us in the hunt and set the stage for bigger contests against bigger teams. Wisconsin loses its luster if Nebraska loses 2 of these next 4 games. And winning these games shows the team is taking a step forward from the years before. Yeah, it's not as glamorous, but nothing this program ever did has been glamorous. Nebraska didn't just become good overnight. It scratched and clawed its way there, and it took years, and it took consistently beating the less glamorous teams. 

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Why would they care about getting s#!t on? They're not getting s#!t on. They can come and make a difference so that their team doesn't get s#!t on. 

 

But again, I don't think any of us knows what recruits really want. 

 

And the correlation between single game outcomes and recruiting rankings, future game outcomes, national perception, whatever, is illusory. It may look like there's a relationship, but one probably doesn't really exist. 

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