HuskerShark
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soooooo... Who pissed in your cheerios? Or a better question, where did you get the idea that this team is there to serve you? You don't think these coaches and players want to win and put a better product on the field? Get over yourself. Everyone acts like winning is so easy and comes on message boards and social media and b*tches about everything. How about you be a fan and support the team or GTFO.So now you don't think he realized that a first down would seal the win??? Make up your mind.If you are so blinded to honestly think he wasn't trying to win that game, seriously find a new sport to gollow. Unfrigginbelievable.So you don't think winning is all that important to him. OK, you convinced me.Link? You are seriously requesting a link to prove he was trying to get a 1st down after you throw out the idea that he implied he wasn't trying to get a 1st down by his freaking body language!!!Link?While I think some of their game management skills have been questionable at best, there is no way he didn't realize a 1st down would seal it.To be honest, I don't think he even realized at the time that a 1st down would seal the win. I'm not sure he realized it yet when he did the presser. Watch it. It's pretty sad.So by NOT saying he wanted a first down he was admitting he wanted the defense to win the game?Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But it's more flattery if you imitate correctly. TIABull crap.I sense a little butthurt, but I'll ignore it.Football is a unique game. There is an 11 man unit called the offense. Then there's an entirely different 11 man unit called the defense.Apparently Riley's goal was to leave Wisconsin with no timeouts and let his defense do their job.Riley said in the press conference that he just wanted them to use their timeouts. That's all he was concerned with.Doesn't this offense have any "creative" run plays other than run into the middle of the line where all the defenders are waiting? Zone read, counter, fake the sweep run up the middle, something. And why was Imani Cross the one running it? I don't know. This staff and their play calling/personnel decisions have just been baffling.
Winning was apparently not one of his goals.
Unfortunately, Wisconsin's defense did their job, ours didn't, and the Wisconsin kicker made a very miss-able kick under the ultimate pressure.
Wisconsin rose up, and our team was not able to.
If you've watched Nebraska v. Wisconsin in the last few years, this game coming down to a last second kick is really not the norm, It'd be easy to draw some positives from this game if you chose to look for them.
Most of you just see that we lost and say "we suck". Seems like an 'emo' response, or so I've heard.![]()
As to the bolded, you proved my point. He had several different goals, but "Win" wasn't one of them.
If it was, he would do everything he could to try to win.
For example, try to get a first down, since in that situation, 1st down = win. He didn't try. He admitted as much in his presser.
I get that you want to defend the Husker HC. But you should pick your battles more wisely. The endgame coaching in the last two games has been indefensible.
I think you can fairly defend the end game coaching against BYU and Miami. But the endgame coaching against Illinois and Wiscy was bad, Bad, BAD. Don't waste time defending the indefensible.
I need a link to that bolded part, because without proof of that one, I don't believe you for a second.
Redux complains about the play calls, then lists three plays that almost match exactly what Langsdorf did? Aside from the fact that it was Cross who should've bounced the ball to the outside on 1st down. On second down it looks like Cross cut it back the entirely wrong direction. 3rd down they went with Janovich up the gut. Jano just broke a 50 yard TD up the middle on the series before.
But "they weren't trying to get a first down?" That's just emo talking right there.
I haven't tried to defend the Illinois loss. I've said multiple times, that one I won't defend. Horrible playcalling and gameplan by Langsdorf.
The other losses are just football. Close games come down to who makes the play and who doesn't. Nebraska hasn't. It stinks. There's good things going on out there as well.
I hope this Minnesota game is over before the fourth quarter.
There are threads about the presser. You can watch it for your self in one of those. I'm not going to watch it again, but I'll paraphrase as best as I remember, although you really need to watch it because I can't convey Riley's body language.
He was asked, "Did you consider a pass play in the last series?" Riley quickly and firmly said, "No. We wanted to make them use their timeouts."
He didn't say,"No, we wanted to keep the clock running and still try for the first down." He didn't say "We knew we needed a first down to seal it, but we didn't want to take a chance at stopping the clock for them." His entire goal was "Burn their timeouts." But you really need to watch it. The body language says a lot.
You say some smart things, then you completely ruin it by saying nonsense like this.
You seriously do need to effin stop
Look either he realized it, and winning wasn't all that important, or he didn't realize it. Not sure which option is worse.
Are you seriously kidding me right now?