ESPN State Of The Program: Nebraska

[BigRedBuster]

There are more fun things to discuss and remember.

 

[Redux]

There are more fun things to discuss and remember.

Being optimistic pisses people off though

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

I thought the Illinois loss four weeks earlier was worse than Purdue.

There was so much chaos roiling around the Purdue game that I expected a dumpster fire. The game itself was just nuts. The number of things that went wrong began to verge on the amusing.

Illinois wasn't amusing at all.

 

[SuperBigFan69]

Under your smartassery, there is some truth. We were clearly capable of beating Purdue, we just didn't have the right chemistry that day. Our QB was out, our defense was all sorts of sloppy and the staff was in panic mode. Things started clicking way too late.

The Wisconsin loss is still the friggin worst.

The Ball State loss*

That TT drubbing

The Purdue drubbing

I would put those 3 losses ahead of Wisconsin.

There's absolutely no way I'd put any of those games above either loss to Wisconsin in the B1G title game or the 408 game

See...by not putting Purdue over those...it goes to show how crappy people though things were last year and how lowered the expectations became.

 

[Hunter94]

look at the history.........the Purdue loss was beyond horrible.........worst ever.

 

[Redux]

Agree with Guy, Illinois was more infuriating. After that, thr Purdue loss was more laughable than anything.

Illinois was about coming to grips with the fact the transition was a real struggle for players and coaches. Purdue was a presentation of said struggle amidst injuries and taking an opponent lightly.

 

[Saunders]

Illinois was a close loss that could have turned on single play. Against Purdue, the Boilermakers ran the exact same play 18 times (Banker's words) and Nebraska was run off the field by a team with 1 conference win in 3 seasons...

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

Illinois was a close loss that could have turned on single play. Against Purdue, the Boilermakers ran the exact same play 18 times (Banker's words) and Nebraska was run off the field by a team with 1 conference win in 3 seasons...

I'm just looking at it in the context of the season, where each Saturday's expectations determine how bad is "worst"

Illinois felt really bad because Illinois sucked almost as much as Purdue and that was the game where we were supposed to right the ship.

In addition to missing Armstrong, the injuries before and during the Purdue game were like a car wreck. Everything that could go wrong, did. And weirdly enough, Nebraska almost came back in a flurry of fourth quarter points. It had its own sick entertainment value. By the Purdue game we knew something like that could happen. I predicted a solid victory against Illinois.

But as far as games that were just miserable to watch unfold, it's still Wisconsin 2012, when Nebraska was poised to turn the corner and just fell into the abyss.

Runner up: Texas 2010.

Honestly I'd rather have a stinker against a crappy team, than a humiliation in a game that matters.

 

[Redux]

Ever since the 2010 season I have learned to curb my anger when dealing with a Husker Loss. Every one of those games cut me deep.

 

[NUinID]

For me the Illinois loss was much worse than the Purdue game. It is very hard to overcome that many turnovers in your half of the field and win, in some ways it was like the 8 turnover ISU game in 09. It was so silly and so unbelievable that you just don't know how it happened.

The Illinois game just really pissed me off. It pissed me off because of the game plan that they tried to impliment. Trying to chuck the ball down the field in that wind and just the overall offensive game management. The defense actually played decent. Everyone was wringing their hands about the defense and they come out and limit Illinois to 14pts. if you would have asked anyone before that game who wins the game if NU only gives up 14 everyone to a man would say NU. That loss is IMO completely on the coaches and in particular Langsdorf for calling such a crappy game and MR for letting him call that game.

 

[SuperBigFan69]

For me the Illinois loss was much worse than the Purdue game. It is very hard to overcome that many turnovers in your half of the field and win, in some ways it was like the 8 turnover ISU game in 09. It was so silly and so unbelievable that you just don't know how it happened.

The Illinois game just really pissed me off. It pissed me off because of the game plan that they tried to impliment. Trying to chuck the ball down the field in that wind and just the overall offensive game management. The defense actually played decent. Everyone was wringing their hands about the defense and they come out and limit Illinois to 14pts. if you would have asked anyone before that game who wins the game if NU only gives up 14 everyone to a man would say NU. That loss is IMO completely on the coaches and in particular Langsdorf for calling such a crappy game and MR for letting him call that game.

That was the same game plan they used vs Purdue!

 

[NUinID]

For me the Illinois loss was much worse than the Purdue game. It is very hard to overcome that many turnovers in your half of the field and win, in some ways it was like the 8 turnover ISU game in 09. It was so silly and so unbelievable that you just don't know how it happened.

The Illinois game just really pissed me off. It pissed me off because of the game plan that they tried to impliment. Trying to chuck the ball down the field in that wind and just the overall offensive game management. The defense actually played decent. Everyone was wringing their hands about the defense and they come out and limit Illinois to 14pts. if you would have asked anyone before that game who wins the game if NU only gives up 14 everyone to a man would say NU. That loss is IMO completely on the coaches and in particular Langsdorf for calling such a crappy game and MR for letting him call that game.

That was the same game plan they used vs Purdue!

I agree that the game plan was poor, but the defensive play and the turnovers are what killed NU in that game. How many times did Purdue complete that little swing pass to the RB for an 8-12 yard gain, 10-12x? Probably not that many it just seemed that way.

You coach football once a team get momentum and is hitting on all cylinders as Purdue was doing that game it is hard to swing it back in the other direction. It doesn't matter how bad the team you are playing is either. That is the fun part about football.

 

[RedSavage]

For me the Illinois loss was much worse than the Purdue game. It is very hard to overcome that many turnovers in your half of the field and win, in some ways it was like the 8 turnover ISU game in 09. It was so silly and so unbelievable that you just don't know how it happened.

The Illinois game just really pissed me off. It pissed me off because of the game plan that they tried to impliment. Trying to chuck the ball down the field in that wind and just the overall offensive game management. The defense actually played decent. Everyone was wringing their hands about the defense and they come out and limit Illinois to 14pts. if you would have asked anyone before that game who wins the game if NU only gives up 14 everyone to a man would say NU. That loss is IMO completely on the coaches and in particular Langsdorf for calling such a crappy game and MR for letting him call that game.

While the game plan for Illinois was very poor, it was primarily because of the wind. If you watched the game, we were burning their dbs all game long. We just couldn't complete passes bc of a combination of Tommy throwing in the wind and our receivers having butterfingers at crucial times.

 

[NUinID]

For me the Illinois loss was much worse than the Purdue game. It is very hard to overcome that many turnovers in your half of the field and win, in some ways it was like the 8 turnover ISU game in 09. It was so silly and so unbelievable that you just don't know how it happened.

The Illinois game just really pissed me off. It pissed me off because of the game plan that they tried to impliment. Trying to chuck the ball down the field in that wind and just the overall offensive game management. The defense actually played decent. Everyone was wringing their hands about the defense and they come out and limit Illinois to 14pts. if you would have asked anyone before that game who wins the game if NU only gives up 14 everyone to a man would say NU. That loss is IMO completely on the coaches and in particular Langsdorf for calling such a crappy game and MR for letting him call that game.

While the game plan for Illinois was very poor, it was primarily because of the wind. If you watched the game, we were burning their dbs all game long. We just couldn't complete passes bc of a combination of Tommy throwing in the wind and our receivers having butterfingers at crucial times.

Yeah, I understand what you are saying and that is the exact thing that Langsdorf and MR said. Just becasue that is what the defense is giving you doesn't mean it is going to work. At a certain point you have to say this isn't working lets try something else. They finally did late in the 4th quarter to try and salt the game away. It shouldn't have been that close though, should have been up by a couple of TD's. Running the ball was working, but they just couldn't lay off the fact that their DB's were playing so lose on the deep stuff.

 

[RedSavage]

For me the Illinois loss was much worse than the Purdue game. It is very hard to overcome that many turnovers in your half of the field and win, in some ways it was like the 8 turnover ISU game in 09. It was so silly and so unbelievable that you just don't know how it happened.

The Illinois game just really pissed me off. It pissed me off because of the game plan that they tried to impliment. Trying to chuck the ball down the field in that wind and just the overall offensive game management. The defense actually played decent. Everyone was wringing their hands about the defense and they come out and limit Illinois to 14pts. if you would have asked anyone before that game who wins the game if NU only gives up 14 everyone to a man would say NU. That loss is IMO completely on the coaches and in particular Langsdorf for calling such a crappy game and MR for letting him call that game.

While the game plan for Illinois was very poor, it was primarily because of the wind. If you watched the game, we were burning their dbs all game long. We just couldn't complete passes bc of a combination of Tommy throwing in the wind and our receivers having butterfingers at crucial times.

Yeah, I understand what you are saying and that is the exact thing that Langsdorf and MR said. Just becasue that is what the defense is giving you doesn't mean it is going to work. At a certain point you have to say this isn't working lets try something else. They finally did late in the 4th quarter to try and salt the game away. It shouldn't have been that close though, should have been up by a couple of TD's. Running the ball was working, but they just couldn't lay off the fact that their DB's were playing so lose on the deep stuff.

I completely agree. It's not like running the ball wasn't working either, we averaged 5.5 yards/carry that game. Frustrating though (from a fan's standpoint and I'm sure especially a coaches) when you have multiple opportunities to score and put the game away but just can't execute (god I hate that term).