trouble said:
knapplc said:
Wow...a Nebraska fan admitting that the Bruins are a good team! (I won't call them great until after the Stanford and Oregon games.)
Almost all posters here believe, or at least write, that if Nebraska had only done things differently the outcome would have been different. I think Martinez should have run more and that the defense should have blitzed a little more. But I think that would have only narrowed the margin of defeat.
Nebraska up 21-3 has only to keep doing what it was doing to win that game. You sound as if this UCLA victory was inevitable at all times in the game - and it very clearly wasn't.
Down 18, UCLA needed Nebraska to collapse to win that game. Nebraska obliged.
This mantra you keep selling that UCLA's athletes were clearly superior to Nebraska's is false. The teams are pretty evenly matched athletically.
Exactly.
UCLA didnt and doesnt have superior athletes to NU. They are right about even across the board. UCLA is a good team but they aren't as superior as Bruins fans beleive them to be.
I wish your team luck the rest of the year but the arrogance is getting a bit old.
I stand by what I said - I think that the Bruins were faster than Nebraska.
This is absolutely false
Fixed it for you.
Anyways, no way did UCLA have the faster team. Why can I say this? We were up 21-3. If UCLA had superior athletes they would have came into Memorial Stadium and whooped us from the beginning. Instead, here is what happened:
Drive 1: 6 plays, 37 yards, 2:15 = PUNT
Drive 2: 3 plays, 8 yards, 0:56 = INTERCEPTION
Drive 3: 8 plays, 49 yards, 2:32 = FIELD GOAL
Drive 4: 4 plays, -4 yards, 1:33 = TURNOVER ON DOWNS
Drive 5: 8 plays, 36 yards, 2:33 = MISSED FIELD GOAL
Total: 29 plays, 127 yards, 9:49 = 3 POINTS
Those were your first 5 drives of the game, and they lasted until about halftime. Comparatively, Nebraska's first 5 drives:
Drive 1: 3 plays, 3 yards, 0:34 = PUNT
Drive 2: 4 plays, 28 yards, 1:30 = PASSING TOUCHDOWN
Drive 3: 17 plays, 92 yards, 6:42 = PASSING TOUCHDOWN
Drive 4: 10 plays, 36 yards, 5:27 = PUNT
Drive 5: 2 plays, 26 yards, 0:38 = PASSING TOUCHDOWN
Total: 36 plays, 175 yards, 14:51 = 21 POINTS
Nebraska was athletically equal to or better than UCLA on Saturday. Mentally though, when things started turning south, it seemed the whole team went into a shell and never came out. Last week could have turned ugly for the Bruins, it really could have and should have. But UCLA fought and fought and fought, and they deserved to win the game when it was all said and done.