What Did We Learn? - Michigan

HuskerNation1 said:
Indiana's also dominated against many teams that are not used to getting dominated. And they are dominating a top 10 team as we speak. It's rare to see a nobody football program like Indiana have such sudden success with a new coach.
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What has Illinois proven to become #9? Dominating losing teams, barely beat a transition Michigan team, and lost to the only two good teams they faced. Indiana is a better team, they were better the prior 8 years too. I don’t think people realize how hot garbage Nebraska was and what Rhule took over when trying to compare us to everyone we *think* we should be better than.
 
DefenderAO said:
Why can Indiana look like a legitimate contender and we cannot? They barely like football at that school? They look much better than us, after their HC has been there for how long? Two years at a basketball school...
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That is EXACTLY what I would like to know. Comes down to this. If you are a good coach, you win in year 1. You don’t have to wait to year 4 to show what you are about. Rhule’s resume speaks for itself. He is a 0.5 win percentage coach who won twice against ranked opponents. At some point, he does not even believe he is capable of beating ranked opponents so why should his team. Today, it seemed like he was happy the game was close. He should expect to win at home with a fan base that has been nothing but supportive of this team and a university that has opened the check book. He is in Year 3. What is the excuse now? He has a 5 star QB. Rhule is the type of coach who will be able to get us to 8-4 every season but that is about it. Don’t expect playoffs or championships with him in the BIG Ten.
 
lo country said:
I've said it before, but I'd hit up proven starters in FCS schools.....As an example, Marques Watson-Trent has 6 tackles at LB through 3 games, 1 sack and 1 TFL. Unsure about today. Get dudes who have played and started. Not projects who were on the roster at a P4 school and didn't play. Probably reasons they were not starting or challenging for playing time. Gronowski at Iowa doing well, Char Brown at Miami doing well. I'd assume OL/DL would show similar success.
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Watson-Trent was one of the most productive linebackers in D1 football the last three years before joining Nebraska.
 
Corn Train said:
Pritchert is an easy target but have we got our monies worth outside of WR’s?
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probably a better idea to name them individually rather than by group. Some not so much. But they are certainly better than the guys we would’ve had just on the roster otherwise.
 
lo country said:
I've said it before, but I'd hit up proven starters in FCS schools.....As an example, Marques Watson-Trent has 6 tackles at LB through 3 games, 1 sack and 1 TFL. Unsure about today. Get dudes who have played and started. Not projects who were on the roster at a P4 school and didn't play. Probably reasons they were not starting or challenging for playing time. Gronowski at Iowa doing well, Char Brown at Miami doing well. I'd assume OL/DL would show similar success.
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Gronowski has been one of the worst QBs in power 4 football minus last night. So lol.

Brown is not starting at Miami. A better idea would’ve been to just pay up for Dowdell and Emmett and cut whatever they are paying for Ives and keep all the younger guys.


Nebraska just like any other school will get talent from whenever they can get it. If you can ball colleges will find you.
 
It will be interesting to see what we do in two weeks. How will the team respond and can our coaches fix some of the issues. Over the past decade, we tend to do play worst after a bye.
 
Savage Husker said:
What has Illinois proven to become #9? Dominating losing teams, barely beat a transition Michigan team, and lost to the only two good teams they faced. Indiana is a better team, they were better the prior 8 years too. I don’t think people realize how hot garbage Nebraska was and what Rhule took over when trying to compare us to everyone we *think* we should be better than.
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Indiana was 44-62 (.415) from 2015 to 2023 before Cignetti took over. They were NOT a good team before Cignetti. Nebraska was 43-63 during this same timeframe. Suggesting that Cignetti inherited something far better than Rhule is laughable.

With that said, I do believe Rhule is making strides where Riley and Frost did not and he needs to focus on getting dominant players on both lines. That is where games are won and lost and Michigan's line won the game for them today.
 
Decked said:
Watson-Trent was one of the most productive linebackers in D1 football the last three years before joining Nebraska.
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Decked said:
Watson-Trent was one of the most productive linebackers in D1 football the last three years before joining Nebraska.
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Remembered we had one from a non P4 school. Wrapped him up with Brown (Miami) and Gronowski (Iowa) as FCS guys. Point stands, shoot your shot at proven starters at non P4 schools to get guys who have performed at a high level instead of always thinking that a 2nd/3rd string guy at P4 "X" is better than a starter at a lower division school. In 5 years we have had 6 drafted, NDSU has had 5. Their average round is 2.6 and ours is 5.6. Get proven guys, even at a lower level, seems to be a lower risk higher reward than an unproven "big" school guy. Brown doing well at Miami this season. Gron doing well at Iowa.
 
lo country said:
Remembered we had one from a non P4 school. Wrapped him up with Brown (Miami) and Gronowski (Iowa) as FCS guys. Point stands, shoot your shot at proven starters at non P4 schools to get guys who have performed at a high level instead of always thinking that a 2nd/3rd string guy at P4 "X" is better than a starter at a lower division school. In 5 years we have had 6 drafted, NDSU has had 5. Their average round is 2.6 and ours is 5.6. Get proven guys, even at a lower level, seems to be a lower risk higher reward than an unproven "big" school guy. Brown doing well at Miami this season. Gron doing well at Iowa.
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I raise you:

Jaylen George East Tenn. State

Kevin Gallic Montana State

Andrew Marshall Idaho

Jamir Conn Southern Illinois

Almost every single person we brought in this year from the portal was a starter at their former school. But there are times where you are taking a depth guy. You are not going to pay a starting type player for a backup role as interest from the transfer nor your budget allow it. What you are saying doesn’t match up with the real life picture.
 
Archy1221 said:
Again, had Hunter not stepped out of bounds, it’s a one point win. Had Rhule kicked the easy field goal it’s a tie game going into overtime.

Michigan had its opportunity to bat down a jump ball just the same as our safety had the opportunity to make a tackle in the hole to prevent 7 points.
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If we played Michigan 10 times, how many do you suspect we win?
 
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