I think you know what he means. He wants a good showing. We always want to be competitive and the last few weeks we've been pretty pathetic. We want wins, we expect wins, but we also realise losses happen and we only ask the team to give it their all. We see nebraska's offense come out of the gates and play with fire (not flat) we will be competitive.
How bout the option winning the game... If you meant keeping the game competitive, then ya, i agree with you completely, I sure as hell hope we don't get blown out, but I also am sick of hearing people wishing to not get killed. For the facts.. Nebraska is at home, it is a night game, they have the #4 defense in the country, Oklahoma is without their heisman hopeful qb, Oklahoma gave up 30 to kansas st., at home, Nebraska should be motivated from last years 1st quarter humiliation, Oklahoma's weak spot (most would agree) is their offensive line while Nebraska's strong spot on the strength of their team is the defensive line, Nebraska finished well after a 5-3 start last year, Oklahoma has the same number of losses (clearly better losses though), Bo Pelini is a strong motivator, and vegas seems to think it will be closer than 75% of this board thinks (I'll be the first to point out that vegas is wrong a lot, but not as much as they are right). It is a proven fact that the public is wrong more times than they are right. All that said, anything could happen in this game, as always. I'm sure you are a huge fan, and probably a bit more realistic than myself haha, I can't help it though. Go Big Red
vegas spreads don't predict the score. Unless they have a crystal ball and an ability to see the future, that is impossible.
well it doesn't work. i.e. the isu game.
This game will more than likely be the nail in the coffin for this program. Our history is now ancient, we havent played for a title in 9 years or a major bowl, we have pretty much been a doormat in the conference since then. If we take another beat down on National T.V. it really is not doing us any favors. I dont know how many nationally televised games we can get our asses handed to us before we become completely irrelevant, but I am suspecting this to be the one that does it.
Ancient = 9 years ago? I agree things may look bad now, but I think this is a little far people.
OUs time during the 90s makes these last 7 years for NU look amazing. And look at where OU is standing now...
We havent had a marquee win in a decade and we continually get beat down on national tv in our marquee matchups. The future is bleek, i am just coming to realize it.
I agree with most of what you say, however with Nebraska there will be no changing expectations. It is in our blood to expect a good footabll team every year, and that is just the way it is. Trev Alberts said something along those lines when Mark May was so puzzled as to why solich was fired after 2003. I think people are angry and dissapointed because they expected improvement, which we have clearly seen on the defensive side of the ball. I think they have exceeded all expectations in that area. Unfortunately we have taken a major step back with the offense, and that is probably where expectations were a little high, myself included. I predicted a 10 win regular season, going 1-1 against va tech oklahoma and winning the north. With everything that's happened with the offense, things just aren't clicking. 2 of those goals are still attainable, but a bit unlikely. I'll tell you though, the effort is clearly there, something that I couldn't say in 2007, which is why at this point the only thing more disappointing to me than the offense struggling is people booing and leaving with the game in doubt.
