CBS Sports: Breaking Down the Big Ten Schedules

[74Hunter]

i really think this line of reasoning is a little disingenuous. we had every reason to be excited for last season. we had a lackluster defense the year before and it was being replaced with, what we were lead to believe, a bunch of young, but extremely talented, players. and the offense was supposed to be explosive with senior talent that was pretty good the year before.

i got to say that is some serious revisionist history to say we should not have had such high expectations for last year.

Depends on who you talk to. Many thought that the defense would have problems,especially early, even though they were more talented than the year prior, just because they were so young.

 

[sd'sker]

I think we should have had high expectations pre-season, mostly because of the defensive fluff, but in hindsight, the Wyoming game should have been a reality check. Most of the time, expectations are based on everything going right (ala injuries). Losing TM was a gigantic blow, and losing Spencer Long 1/3 through the season was pretty big too.

Pre-season expectations for this year should be higher than last year's final result.

i was concerned after the wyoming game, but thought they would be able to put it together, which arguably they did later. since is was a young defense, i hoped it would progress by leaps and bounds. but it struggled with the same issues as the year before.

 

[Saunders]

I think we should have had high expectations pre-season, mostly because of the defensive fluff, but in hindsight, the Wyoming game should have been a reality check. Most of the time, expectations are based on everything going right (ala injuries). Losing TM was a gigantic blow, and losing Spencer Long 1/3 through the season was pretty big too.

Pre-season expectations for this year should be higher than last year's final result.

i was concerned after the wyoming game, but thought they would be able to put it together, which arguably they did later. since is was a young defense, i hoped it would progress by leaps and bounds. but it struggled with the same issues as the year before.

I think from the beginning of the season to the end, the D was night and day. The problem was, we were counting on an explosive offense lead by a veteran QB to hold the team up while the D learned the ropes. That never happened.

 

[deedsker]

My preseason expectations were higher last year than preseason expectations this year.

Martinez, Ameer, Bell, and Enunwa were supposed to support a inexperienced defense that would pull it together by the end of the year.

This year, we have an improved but not yet high caliber defense trying to support Ameer and a young quarterback. Don't see that panning out as well.

 

[Landlord]

I went back and looked at some old threads to look at A) what expectations were and B) why we had those expectations (whether or not they were legitimate). First, for B...

- Taylor as a senior

- Old slow defensive players graduated, new fast defensive players starting

- Coaches felt good about fall camp

- Bo Pelini was happy and getting along with the media

- Permanent team captains

- Easy schedule

- Scoring Explosion capability on offense

So here is where we called Chuck Long an idiot for picking Michigan State to win the division.

Here's where CBS Sports had us winning the Legends and us agreeing with them.

Here's where Scout picked us to go 10-2 and win the division.

Here's where 6 panelists for Athlon Sports predicted us going 10-2 or 11-1 and everyone thought that was spot on.

Here's where Deinhart picked us #2 in the conference behind OSU.

Here's where Athlon Sports called us a darkhorse national title contender.

Here's where the 'Most Accurate Site' of 2012 picked us to win the Legends.

 

[TAKODA]

Nice LLoMS! +1 for taking the time to link

 

[TAKODA]

i really think this line of reasoning is a little disingenuous. we had every reason to be excited for last season. we had a lackluster defense the year before and it was being replaced with, what we were lead to believe, a bunch of young, but extremely talented, players. and the offense was supposed to be explosive with senior talent that was pretty good the year before.

i got to say that is some serious revisionist history to say we should not have had such high expectations for last year.

I think we should have had high expectations pre-season, mostly because of the defensive fluff, but in hindsight, the Wyoming game should have been a reality check. Most of the time, expectations are based on everything going right (ala injuries). Losing TM was a gigantic blow, and losing Spencer Long 1/3 through the season was pretty big too.

Pre-season expectations for this year should be higher than last year's final result.

I would agree with this years expectations being higher than last (at least for me)!

Like I have said numerous times in other post, I appreciate the efforts TM put fourth in our games because no one can say he didn't push hard to do the best he could but there was an underlying problem within the mental part for our team when he was in there. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't in realistic terms but the team played better once TA took over (at least in my opinion). I also think the fact that our "D" should be salty and improved (especially on the ends) and we have experience where it is needed.

 

[Saunders]

i really think this line of reasoning is a little disingenuous. we had every reason to be excited for last season. we had a lackluster defense the year before and it was being replaced with, what we were lead to believe, a bunch of young, but extremely talented, players. and the offense was supposed to be explosive with senior talent that was pretty good the year before.

i got to say that is some serious revisionist history to say we should not have had such high expectations for last year.

I think we should have had high expectations pre-season, mostly because of the defensive fluff, but in hindsight, the Wyoming game should have been a reality check. Most of the time, expectations are based on everything going right (ala injuries). Losing TM was a gigantic blow, and losing Spencer Long 1/3 through the season was pretty big too.

Pre-season expectations for this year should be higher than last year's final result.

I would agree with this years expectations being higher than last (at least for me)!

Like I have said numerous times in other post, I appreciate the efforts TM put fourth in our games because no one can say he didn't push hard to do the best he could but there was an underlying problem within the mental part for our team when he was in there. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't in realistic terms but the team played better once TA took over (at least in my opinion). I also think the fact that our "D" should be salty and improved (especially on the ends) and we have experience where it is needed.

The Iowa and MSU games looked like the same boneheaded stuff we'd seen before.

 

[kchusker_chris]

Here's a 2013 prediction thread that's started during the summer. I think by summer most expectations had cooled. We'd just gotten beaten in the bowl, and weren't too far off from getting smoked in the conference championship game. The bigger 2013 expectations came sometime early in the 2012 season as we saw it slowing slip away and everyone started to look to the next year and that easy schedule, senior offense.

A few of the regular optimists like saunders, utly, mavric, robsker and huskernationnick (1 loss) had us 2-3 losses - which isn't that far off. I think I was expecting 10 wins based on the schedule.

the schedule we have for this year and we can't win more than 9 games then i think you really have to start to wonder about Pelini and if he can get it done.

I would agree if we got blown out on all those games, but your not giving these opposing teams any credit. Michigan, Northwestern, UCLA, Penn St and Iowa could all be losses. I don't mind having a 9 win season, if they are at least not blowouts.

....ooops

http://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/65575-official-nebraska-2013-season-prediction-thread/page-2

 

[kchusker_chris]

Check out this gem. Boy did the offense put the D in some really crappy positions last season. When this was written Martinez was still healthy though, but doesn't it seem like we're beginning to say the same exact crap every year?

Too many questions on defense for me to say we'll get to that game. The Michigan game is gonna be tough as hell at their house, Penn State is a winable game, but again, it's at their house. I still think Northwestern is going to give us some fits, the last two years of playing them makes me think that. I could see us winning all the games and I could see us losing up to four games next season. It's really hard to say until I see the defense on the field. If I'm going just by offense, yes, we are a dangerous team and a great team.............on the offensive side. As long as the O-line plays OKAY we should win a lot of games, they play terrible and I'll pull my hair out because that group hasn't been getting it done IMO. Good thing is we have a couple of games to work the issues out before we play UCLA. That's gonna be a tough game.........

The defense doesn't have to be great, but the offense can not put them in bad situations like they did last year. The offense has a chance to really help them out if they can execute and are efficient. I think they'll make the D look a little better than they really are. We should be able to win the field position battle with this O nearly every game. Not many 3-and-outs should be expected. That'll help the D.

 

[kchusker_chris]

AND THE WINNER!

4 loses will still cause the board to go completely Chernobyl, and it will go full on Hiroshima and Nagasaki if one or more of those four loses is a blow out...

 

[TAKODA]

i really think this line of reasoning is a little disingenuous. we had every reason to be excited for last season. we had a lackluster defense the year before and it was being replaced with, what we were lead to believe, a bunch of young, but extremely talented, players. and the offense was supposed to be explosive with senior talent that was pretty good the year before.

i got to say that is some serious revisionist history to say we should not have had such high expectations for last year.

I think we should have had high expectations pre-season, mostly because of the defensive fluff, but in hindsight, the Wyoming game should have been a reality check. Most of the time, expectations are based on everything going right (ala injuries). Losing TM was a gigantic blow, and losing Spencer Long 1/3 through the season was pretty big too.

Pre-season expectations for this year should be higher than last year's final result.

I would agree with this years expectations being higher than last (at least for me)!

Like I have said numerous times in other post, I appreciate the efforts TM put fourth in our games because no one can say he didn't push hard to do the best he could but there was an underlying problem within the mental part for our team when he was in there. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't in realistic terms but the team played better once TA took over (at least in my opinion). I also think the fact that our "D" should be salty and improved (especially on the ends) and we have experience where it is needed.

The Iowa and MSU games looked like the same boneheaded stuff we'd seen before.

True!

The Iowa game was an abomination. I honestly don't know why that happened the way it did. I think there was something brewing behind the scenes that boiled over to the players. Don't know that for sure but man that was piss poor. The MSU game was turnovers at the most important times that killed us and they were just on. Great catches and solid passes. Up to that point of the season, I do not recall seeing MSU "O" look that good!

 

[Landlord]

True!

The Iowa game was an abomination. I honestly don't know why that happened the way it did. I think there was something brewing behind the scenes that boiled over to the players. Don't know that for sure but man that was piss poor. The MSU game was turnovers at the most important times that killed us and they were just on. Great catches and solid passes. Up to that point of the season, I do not recall seeing MSU "O" look that good!

Combination of three things.

1. A piss poor start from Ron Kellogg with two consecutive interceptions.

2. The pressure and detriment however implicit of the rumors swirling about Bo being out negatively impacting our coaches and players.

3. Iowa is a good football team.

 

[Saunders]

Here's a 2013 prediction thread that's started during the summer. I think by summer most expectations had cooled. We'd just gotten beaten in the bowl, and weren't too far off from getting smoked in the conference championship game. The bigger 2013 expectations came sometime early in the 2012 season as we saw it slowing slip away and everyone started to look to the next year and that easy schedule, senior offense.

A few of the regular optimists like saunders, utly, mavric, robsker and huskernationnick (1 loss) had us 2-3 losses - which isn't that far off. I think I was expecting 10 wins based on the schedule.

the schedule we have for this year and we can't win more than 9 games then i think you really have to start to wonder about Pelini and if he can get it done.

I would agree if we got blown out on all those games, but your not giving these opposing teams any credit. Michigan, Northwestern, UCLA, Penn St and Iowa could all be losses. I don't mind having a 9 win season, if they are at least not blowouts.

....ooops

http://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/topic/65575-official-nebraska-2013-season-prediction-thread/page-2

I also made those without the thought of TM turning into Professor Xavier in one game. Gimme 2012 TM and we're 10-2.

But, that's the fun part a prediction. It can get flipped on it's head because of one thing.

P.S. I'm more centrist.

 

[Count 'Bility]

Tim Beck thought Kellogg was Tom Brady just because he couldnt run and completed a 50 yard hail mary a few weeks prior. That's all you need to know about that Iowa game.