What did we learn: Ohio State
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KazLong
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Just go to the woodshed to see how many people have muted me. My mate that I play golf with posted a bunch of my old post when we hired Mr. Rogers how bad things would get that got me reported. Thanks though. He brought me back I blame him. There was a small (not really small) campaign to have me banned. BTW you are North Korea oh s#!t I am banned now.
Toe
All-American
I sort of wonder how things might have been different if Ohio State had only had 1 week to prepare instead of two. Anybody have any stats on how teams tend to fare coming off of a bye week vs when they're not?
The Dude
Heisman Trophy Winner
And Wisconsin and Purdue.
I guess we could argue over the definition of "dominated", but the outcomes of those games were never really in question.
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The Dude
Heisman Trophy Winner
Maybe I am. But I'm willing to look at things from multiple perspectives. So I'm still better than most.
Ulty
All-Conference
ColoradoHusk
Heisman Trophy Winner
Fine, Frost and coaches may have made decisions in the last few minutes of the Colorado and Northwestern games which cost NU those games. But, the players also failed to make plays and made mistakes which cost NU those games. But, for today, you seem hell bent on putting blame on the coaches for a close loss to a far superior talented team. Plus, I don’t see where Frost made any mistakes “managing the game”. Coaches have to try different things when they don’t have the talent to match up on the other side. If you think NU can match up with Ohio State on talent right now, then I think you are impossible to reason with.
StPaulHusker
Banned
The defense showed flashes but still not very good
Jovan Dewitt needs to remove himself from ST coaching duties. And then the next coach needs to teach the players BASIC Special Teams play before doing anything else.
Offense sputtered several times when they had OSU on the ropes. Which is unfortunate.
We won the turnover and penalty battle. Which is really something considering who we were playing.
Overall it was a good game. Still so far to go. Especially on defense. It might be 3 more years before we see anything championship worthy from them.
Jovan Dewitt needs to remove himself from ST coaching duties. And then the next coach needs to teach the players BASIC Special Teams play before doing anything else.
Offense sputtered several times when they had OSU on the ropes. Which is unfortunate.
We won the turnover and penalty battle. Which is really something considering who we were playing.
Overall it was a good game. Still so far to go. Especially on defense. It might be 3 more years before we see anything championship worthy from them.
HuskerPowerVA
Special Teams Player
Martinez will be a Heisman candidate before he graduates.
Frost's intensity is finally streaming down, which leads to more confidence. We did not look like a FBS team against OSU the last few years. We were one score from beating them at their place and we gave away touchdowns on both sides of the ball.
We can run the football! Creative play calling is born from setting the defense box to stop the run and Martinez does a nice job on fakes where he pulls up and throws to very talented wideouts.
Our defense can play well enough at times, but we still give up big plays from not only being out of position, but poor tacking. This was less the case yesterday, which is progress.
Special teams is exhausting and a bigger part of the game when you see what happens during poor execution.
Brady Quinn did not get into Notre Dame due to his academics.
Frost's intensity is finally streaming down, which leads to more confidence. We did not look like a FBS team against OSU the last few years. We were one score from beating them at their place and we gave away touchdowns on both sides of the ball.
We can run the football! Creative play calling is born from setting the defense box to stop the run and Martinez does a nice job on fakes where he pulls up and throws to very talented wideouts.
Our defense can play well enough at times, but we still give up big plays from not only being out of position, but poor tacking. This was less the case yesterday, which is progress.
Special teams is exhausting and a bigger part of the game when you see what happens during poor execution.
Brady Quinn did not get into Notre Dame due to his academics.
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SuperBigFan69
Head Coach
I wonder how things would have been if JD catches that pass for a TD and the Skers go up two scores.
VectorVictor
Heisman Trophy Winner
I think we learned that Caleb doesn’t have the onside kick down like a scholarship player should. Wonder if he has anything to do next season, save for riding pine (or painted steel) if we’re picking up a kicker? :dunno
No, Caleb isn’t the only problem with special teams. But he has been one of the most consistent problems all season. And after he was replaced, punting was substantially better.
Also, in the interest of not being wholly negative, I learned that I started getting pissed again when my daughters’ sports conflict with gametime. Been a few years since I felt that...
No, Caleb isn’t the only problem with special teams. But he has been one of the most consistent problems all season. And after he was replaced, punting was substantially better.
Also, in the interest of not being wholly negative, I learned that I started getting pissed again when my daughters’ sports conflict with gametime. Been a few years since I felt that...
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I think you’re misunderstanding the random part of random coin flip. I understand that in hindsight his decisions can be criticized, but, imo, he had method and justification for calling them exactly as he did. Freak meltdowns by the inferior team left him on the wrong side of the coin flip each time
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