If The Only Things You Knew About the Illinois Game .....

[Red Five]

If I saw the two teams' offensive yardage stats, penalty stats, and the fact that we wound up +1 in the turnover margin and nothing else, I probably would have guessed that we won the game something like 30 - 24.

We only had a 20% post game win expectancy according to SP+, which takes the things you mention into account.

 

[Red Five]

fwiw....we turned down a bowl game after the 2020 season

 fwiw… we were 3-5 in 2020 and the only reason we could have went to a bowl was because of weird Covid stuff.

 

[Nebfanatic]

No program, because we're the only one who hasn't made a bowl game in 7 years.

Not sure what success your talking about.  Tom Osborne's success from the late 1900s?  Not relevant in 2024.  A lot of up and coming coaches have no recollection of that.

Patience isn't what gets 9-win coaches fired.

I'm talking about programs that have won over 800 games in their history of which we are a select few. None of those programs have patience. We shouldn't have fired Bo but cmon man. At this point that is squarely in the past and there was more to it than his success on the field. The relationship deteriorated. If the decision was on the fans do you think the majority would have had him fired? I don't know. We had patience with Riley and Frost though given their respective results. No one is calling for Rhules head. Idk man it just feels like old man yells at cloud right now because I'm really not sure what you are critiquing. I'm not seeing this lack of appreciation you are so I suppose we can just agree to disagree.

 

[commando]

 fwiw… we were 3-5 in 2020 and the only reason we could have went to a bowl was because of weird Covid stuff.

yes...bu other teams with losing records did play.   we could have also

 

[The Dude]

I'm talking about programs that have won over 800 games in their history of which we are a select few. None of those programs have patience. We shouldn't have fired Bo but cmon man. At this point that is squarely in the past and there was more to it than his success on the field. The relationship deteriorated. If the decision was on the fans do you think the majority would have had him fired? I don't know. We had patience with Riley and Frost though given their respective results. No one is calling for Rhules head. Idk man it just feels like old man yells at cloud right now because I'm really not sure what you are critiquing. I'm not seeing this lack of appreciation you are so I suppose we can just agree to disagree.

Agreed.  

 

[The Dude]

https://huskerbigred.com/the-honeymoon-is-over-for-matt-rhule-nebraska-football/

 

[MyBloodIsRed16]

The receivers showed up big time after being AWOL for two games, but we got blown out by a team some predicted us to beat by 24. The kicker (first time playing, missed one) was horrible and cost us the game. The defense was lost most of the game. Tommi Hill went out with an injury and his replacements had no idea what to do. Satterfield's playcalling was yet again a mystery....running and short passing down the field with ease, then trying some trick play that Raiola overthrew every time. Illinois tricked White's defense with astonishing ease. Huskers were winded on home field in 4th quarter.

Losing by 7 in OT is a blowout??

 

[Undone]

On three separate drives we threw a pass into the end zone that our receiver had both hands on (interception), threw a pass to a RB who caught the ball out of bounds (field goal) and missed an open tight end in the end zone (missed field goal).

Any of those 18 points would have been handy.

Yep, I gave almost the exact same summary in one of my posts in the 'What Did We Learn' thread.

 

[Hayseed]

Losing by 7 in OT is a blowout??

Didn't you read the title of this thread?

 

[MyBloodIsRed16]

Didn't you read the title of this thread?

Ha! sure didn't

 

[teachercd]

I'm talking about programs that have won over 800 games in their history of which we are a select few. None of those programs have patience. We shouldn't have fired Bo but cmon man. At this point that is squarely in the past and there was more to it than his success on the field. The relationship deteriorated. If the decision was on the fans do you think the majority would have had him fired? I don't know. We had patience with Riley and Frost though given their respective results. No one is calling for Rhules head. Idk man it just feels like old man yells at cloud right now because I'm really not sure what you are critiquing. I'm not seeing this lack of appreciation you are so I suppose we can just agree to disagree.

Canning Bo was such a mistake.