If Tatgate hurt tOSU you really think Urban Meyer would be there and miles ahead of every other B1G program, so they don't get to play in the title game a couple years but they haven't skipped a beat and will remain an annual top 5 team. I'm pretty sure tOSU fans/administration are licking their chops at where they stand in the future big picture
None of this is a problem for Nebraska. There's plenty of speed and strength on this team. You need to concentrate on the real issue w/ Nebraska - and that's "effort". For whatever reason it is lacking. It wasn't lacking on the Wyoming team we played, it wasn't lacking w/ UCLA or SDState. We look slow because we show no effort. We look weak because we show no effort. There are brief bursts of effort where you see they possess the tools needed to play with anyone, then there are long lulls where it's hard to distinguish the team from a mid-major. And it's not an opinion, it's backed up by the scoreboard time after time.
Outside of kids heading to Notre Dame, and a few to Kentucky and Tennessee, most of the top talent in Ohio will stay in the B1G. Ohio State and Michigan will have most of the talent along with Michigan State.
I certainly think it's an issue, but I refuse to believe that South Dakota State or Wyoming was better conditioned than Nebraska. Bo needs to start subsituting 'effort' for his overused excuse of 'execution' because I think he is confusing the two. Lack of the first is the cause for a lack of the second.devnet said:
Kentucky is plucking tons of guys this year because of the snake Marrow and Stoops' connections. Probably not the norm, but 7 out of their 24 (fairly highly rated) recruits are from OH. Otherwise you're right, a few from IL will end up at Missouri or Vandy, 1 or two of the top guys might make a break for Florida or Alabama. But the B1G locks down their territory pretty well.
If it's a 1st half-2nd half thing, does that lend to the fact it may be adjustments?
If I didn't see a linebacker jogging to get in on a tackle maybe. Or constantly hear the team discuss how they let up. We get gashed from the get-go defensively so I don't think it's an adjustment thing. Offensively, maybe. I've seen defenses adjust to our offense almost every week for the better part of the last 2 years. We've had some nice comebacks scattered around in there, but games like UCLA and Georgia make your head spin offensively. For them, I'd say it's more a lack of focus than a lack of effort (with some facepalm play calling thrown in). Defensively is primarily where the effort lacks.
