sd'sker
Banned
the key is to find an excuse to make every game a big game. but i just think it has to be distracting for the players to keep getting pounded in their head that they have to treat a game like every other game. that probably makes them more nervous and they feel like they have to come out a play it like a regular game (i.e. with no passion, just focus on fundamentals, which is over compensating the wrong way), and that is why they come out flat, because they are over compensating the wrong way to playing it like every other game, then they play worse than any other game.I agree 100%! If this is just another game, then why would it garner so much attention from everyone? We aren't a team that can like that, unless we are acting as if every game is a potential make or break game, which we obviously aren't. I can't understand how these players aren't getting pumped for home games?bo talks about treating it just as another game. i think that overplaying the "it is just another game" angle gets in the players heads worse than treating it like the big game that it is. they need to be playing inspired, possessed for these big games, because they are different.Why is that when Nebraska gets into these BIG GAME situations they always seem to shoot themselves in foot...A game that we truly wanted...a team that we wanted to beat so so bad... A game that was right there for the taking....but yet we were the ones that took it right in the arse!!! That needs to stop!!!!