USC Recap

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I usually don't like to write these in the heat of the moment. I know the game's not even over, but I need something to do while I sit here feeling the agony creep in. I love the Huskers, and it hurts like hell to watch them be humiliated by a cocky, undeserving bunch of entitled pricks, but such is life. One day we might be a team that can play with these a$$hole$, but clearly this is not our night.

After this beating––and this hurts more than anything, I think––I would seriously like to listen to the arguments from the anti-Callahan crowd. If the Huskers had lost by a touchdown, I wouldn't care what they had to say. But this beating is simply unacceptable. We have talent on the field, but the playcalling, the execution and the most basic fundamentals on defense are beyond horrible. If you can't teach players how to tackle, then what the f#*k good are you? NOTHING ELSE MATTERS IF YOU CAN'T TACKLE THE BALL CARRIER.

And our offense. Holy sh#t. What can you even say? Two good drives do not override the horrendous execution for the rest of the game. But I don't really want to talk about the offense. They're not even worth mentioning. Our defense really is the only thing that we need to talk about. This was a joke. They do not deserve their blackshirts. Again, it kills me to say these things. I want to see them do well. But this line is so atrocious, so pathetic, so unbelievably worthless that Tom Osborne's heart is slowing down even as we speak. They might as well not even play. We'd be better off just letting the other team get the TD, then have Keller go out and try to score on every drive and go for 2 at the end of the game.

Our O-line: I really wish I hadn't gotten my hopes up after Nevada. Keller was knocked around all night, and our running game, I forget what it looks like but I looked up the words in the dictionary, was inept as an old man's wang.

This whole performance just sickens me. Literally I mean. My body is rejecting, my atoms cannot tolerate, the worthlessness of the team I hold so dear. I really don't know what it's going to take, but I think we can all agree (and if you don't you're an absolute fool) that the "Restore the Order" campaign is officially on Holiday. We are so far from championship contender level, so completely incapable of competing with the LSUs, USCs, and Oklahomas of the world that only a miracle at this point can get us to that level. Keller hasn't panned out. The O-line is vastly overrated. Lucky has proven he's just as worthless as last season. Running the ball on a nobody (like USC did to us tonight) is about as valuable as an old dry turd.

The Bix XII is out of reach. We'll win the north, I'm sure, but I kind of chuckle and cry at the same time when I think of what the Sooners will do when they face us this December.

If I were the coach, the first thing I would do is strip every defensive player, particularly the lineman, of their blackshirts. There haven't been blackshirts since the late nineties playing football in memorial stadium. This defense is simply the epitome of the slide. If I were Callahan, after I had hurled Cosgrove out on his a$$ for not teaching proper tackling, I would demand that all 14-15 players at once take them off, fold them up, and I'd put them in a lock box in my office. I would then hand them new jerseys. These would be pinkshirts, a color I think we can all agree more adequately describes the state of affairs.

The pinkshirts would then have the opportunitly to throw off their shame and humiliation by playing the game of football, and that starts with tackling. Missed tackles automatically delay this process another week. I would open practices to the media, so everyone in the state and nation could see the new and deproved pinkshirts. No reason to try and keep it a secret; after tonight the whole nation knows our defense sucks.

But I must say to the SC fans, you guys played a great game. You deserve this victory completely, and I applaud and commend your effort. That said, I hate your team, your coach, your arrogant media, and I preemtively hate the lashing we're going to get after this shameful warmup game. But you guys played well. Good news is you'll lose later on, but for tonight, celebrate as we cheer as the winners go by.

Go big red. Where, I have no idea.

 
I agree, Callahan has to make adjustments, alot of people put it on Cosgrove, but Callahan is the boss. Callahan IMO has never been that great of a coach, and obvisouly never one a big game, hasn't won when trailing at half. Something has to change, I don't want it to happen during the season so there isn't much use of talking about personel changes but something should be done. I just wish Callahan hadn't recieved that extension

 
I usually don't like to write these in the heat of the moment. I know the game's not even over, but I need something to do while I sit here feeling the agony creep in. I love the Huskers, and it hurts like hell to watch them be humiliated by a cocky, undeserving bunch of entitled pricks, but such is life. One day we might be a team that can play with these a$$hole$, but clearly this is not our night.

After this beating––and this hurts more than anything, I think––I would seriously like to listen to the arguments from the anti-Callahan crowd. If the Huskers had lost by a touchdown, I wouldn't care what they had to say. But this beating is simply unacceptable. We have talent on the field, but the playcalling, the execution and the most basic fundamentals on defense are beyond horrible. If you can't teach players how to tackle, then what the f#*k good are you? NOTHING ELSE MATTERS IF YOU CAN'T TACKLE THE BALL CARRIER.

And our offense. Holy sh#t. What can you even say? Two good drives do not override the horrendous execution for the rest of the game. But I don't really want to talk about the offense. They're not even worth mentioning. Our defense really is the only thing that we need to talk about. This was a joke. They do not deserve their blackshirts. Again, it kills me to say these things. I want to see them do well. But this line is so atrocious, so pathetic, so unbelievably worthless that Tom Osborne's heart is slowing down even as we speak. They might as well not even play. We'd be better off just letting the other team get the TD, then have Keller go out and try to score on every drive and go for 2 at the end of the game.

Our O-line: I really wish I hadn't gotten my hopes up after Nevada. Keller was knocked around all night, and our running game, I forget what it looks like but I looked up the words in the dictionary, was inept as an old man's wang.

This whole performance just sickens me. Literally I mean. My body is rejecting, my atoms cannot tolerate, the worthlessness of the team I hold so dear. I really don't know what it's going to take, but I think we can all agree (and if you don't you're an absolute fool) that the "Restore the Order" campaign is officially on Holiday. We are so far from championship contender level, so completely incapable of competing with the LSUs, USCs, and Oklahomas of the world that only a miracle at this point can get us to that level. Keller hasn't panned out. The O-line is vastly overrated. Lucky has proven he's just as worthless as last season. Running the ball on a nobody (like USC did to us tonight) is about as valuable as an old dry turd.

The Bix XII is out of reach. We'll win the north, I'm sure, but I kind of chuckle and cry at the same time when I think of what the Sooners will do when they face us this December.

If I were the coach, the first thing I would do is strip every defensive player, particularly the lineman, of their blackshirts. There haven't been blackshirts since the late nineties playing football in memorial stadium. This defense is simply the epitome of the slide. If I were Callahan, after I had hurled Cosgrove out on his a$$ for not teaching proper tackling, I would demand that all 14-15 players at once take them off, fold them up, and I'd put them in a lock box in my office. I would then hand them new jerseys. These would be pinkshirts, a color I think we can all agree more adequately describes the state of affairs.

The pinkshirts would then have the opportunitly to throw off their shame and humiliation by playing the game of football, and that starts with tackling. Missed tackles automatically delay this process another week. I would open practices to the media, so everyone in the state and nation could see the new and deproved pinkshirts. No reason to try and keep it a secret; after tonight the whole nation knows our defense sucks.

But I must say to the SC fans, you guys played a great game. You deserve this victory completely, and I applaud and commend your effort. That said, I hate your team, your coach, your arrogant media, and I preemtively hate the lashing we're going to get after this shameful warmup game. But you guys played well. Good news is you'll lose later on, but for tonight, celebrate as we cheer as the winners go by.

Go big red. Where, I have no idea.
We're just over-matched, talent-wise. Look at our NC teams from the 90s... speed to spare. Red jerseys everywhere, opponents' jerseys nowhere on the screen. Recovering our own fumbles and making our own breaks. We were on the receiving end of that tonight.

And, you're right - it does hurt. Especially, when they should have had at least 1 TD and a long 3rd down conversion called back for hands to the face by the RB.

Maybe some of it is a gameplan/execution issue - mostly it's a talent issue. We'll struggle with Kansas and Missouri - but probably will win the North. Mayeb even beat Texas. Is that enough? No. But, we're getting there.

 
Don't worry, BC will be head ball coach next spring and Coz will be will still be the D cord. The used car salesman Pud will spin it as everything is just grand in huskerland. The proof has always been in the pudding. Ever since BC took over our OL has been horrible. It would be one thing if he was a defensive coach by background, but his friggin background was coaching the OL. Since he couldn't improve our OL, that should have been proof right there that he's just not good at his job. In the offseason, his offensive coordinator leaves for UCLA. Today, UCLA got whooped 44 to 6. We all know Cosgrove sucks. BC not only isn't a very good coach, he can't even recognize coaches that are good to put on his staff. I mean he did pick Blake who was a good recruiter but absolutely sucked as a coacy.

The sad part of the whole game is that we got beat at our own game a decade ago. We got beat to death with the run and the play action passes. We go to this wizardly W(orst)CO, while all the rest of the teams seem to be going back to what we actually once ran. No, they're not running power option football, but they are running the spread option. I watched the Tennessee and Florida game. One of the announcers said he believed 80% of all college football teams would be running the spread option within the next 5 years.

I hate to say it, but this year looks to be a repeat of last year. Next year should be interesting as we start all over doing the same old same old only with a young inexperienced QB. I guess we'd better all get used to it because the way I see it nothing will change for at least 4 or 5 more years!

 
What's that I hear, fans dropping off the bandwagon?

The most disturbing thing, to me, was watching how empty Memorial Stadium was at the end. We have the best fans in the world, don't we? So how come half the fans quit while Keller and the team were still gunning for the end zone?

Something has got to be done about our tackling. But how about our quarterback! We've found ourselves a gamer, all right. So, please, stop with the whole "season is lost" attitude. The players aren't playing that way, and the Best Fans in the World should give them more support than that.

Recuperate, smash down Ball State, and see what we can do against Mizzou on the road.

By the way, how 'bout those Longhorns....eh?

 
What's that I hear, fans dropping off the bandwagon?

The most disturbing thing, to me, was watching how empty Memorial Stadium was at the end. We have the best fans in the world, don't we? So how come half the fans quit while Keller and the team were still gunning for the end zone?

Something has got to be done about our tackling. But how about our quarterback! We've found ourselves a gamer, all right. So, please, stop with the whole "season is lost" attitude. The players aren't playing that way, and the Best Fans in the World should give them more support than that.

Recuperate, smash down Ball State, and see what we can do against Mizzou on the road.

By the way, how 'bout those Longhorns....eh?
I NEVER said the season was over. But it doesn't mean sh#t to win the North and you know it. So what if we smack Mizzery around? We're going to run all over them because their D-line is even more atrociocious than ours, but when we step out on the field against Oklahoma (probably*), it could get nasty again. And that's not the mark of improvement. I preferred last year's game at SC to this one. At least we didn't get flat embarrassed on our own turf and in front of our own fans.

 
But look at all the progress we've made since 04! :sarcasm
I do not see any reason for sarcasm; I do believe we have made major progress since 2004. We would be a lot worse off if we still had Solich.

If all of you are going to start bagging on Callahan, what about Solich; he only got where he did because of Osborne's players.

Callahan is the future of Nebraska and we need to come to terms with that. Now, do we need to find a new DC; you are damn right, but besides that, I really like what I see in this team at times.

Please give this team a break, they just got beat and beat badly. It is now in the past and we need to begin looking towards Ball State.

 
What's that I hear, fans dropping off the bandwagon?

The most disturbing thing, to me, was watching how empty Memorial Stadium was at the end. We have the best fans in the world, don't we? So how come half the fans quit while Keller and the team were still gunning for the end zone?
Why not drop off the bandwagon after this disaster? It's pretty hard to keep supporting this coaching staff full of bums like Cosgrove. And maybe the stadium wouldn't be empty at the end if WE DIDN"T GET OUR ASSES KICKED!!!! :bang :bang :bang :bang :bang

 
It wasn't directed towards you, but more towards the general gloomy feeling perpetrating through this board. We did see one thing this year we didn't see last year though: an offense. And a team (and coaching staff) that did not quit when the game got out of reach to keep it respectable.

It'll be a tough week...but tough teams (and fanbases) will live past it, and I know we can.

Why not drop off the bandwagon after this disaster? It's pretty hard to keep supporting this coaching staff full of bums like Cosgrove. And maybe the stadium wouldn't be empty at the end if WE DIDN"T GET OUR ASSES KICKED!!!!
Hello?...because we're Husker fans?!

 
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It wasn't directed towards you, but more towards the general gloomy feeling perpetrating through this board. We did see one thing this year we didn't see last year though: an offense. And a team (and coaching staff) that did not quit when the game got out of reach to keep it respectable.

It'll be a tough week...but tough teams (and fanbases) will live past it, and I know we can.
You can't hang Cosgrove on Callahan. The man was in the Pros and from what I hear was damn good. But I worship at the Church of what's Happening Now. He has proven over and over he can't adjust. The simplest ploys put his head in the toilet, and he can't even teach our guys how to TACKLE. I can't get over that last one; it really is the whole problem. Asante––turned into a fu-cking joke. Can't tackle. LBs. Can't tackle.

If you can't do the most fundamental element of a contact sport, nothing else matters.

 
Why should we all stick around when our coaches obviously didnt't? We were killing with the pass, but then Calli thinks we need to "POUND THE ROCK" and we fall apart. I don't care about T.O.P. or rushing yards or how we do it, I just want us to move the damn ball. He is obsessed with the running game, I understand in most cases the running game opens up the passing game, but when the pass is working why not stick with it. Keller looked pissed at how the game was being called after we stopped passing.

PLUS where the hell were our linebackers??? I really can't be too pissed about the dline, but the linbackers were nowhere to be found on those runs. Also, TACKLE LOW, NOT HIGH!!! W...T...F...?!?!?!?

 
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