What's more important poll

What's more important?

  • Making a conference championship every year

    Votes: 31 54.4%

  • Winning a conference championship every 5-7 years

    Votes: 26 45.6%
  • Total voters
    57
Amac3309

Amac3309

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Some nerdy analytical friends of mine are trying to create a coach ranking system out of data based on what is important to fans. Just doing it for fun but I figured this would be a good place to start gathering data. Please vote on the above

Edit: changed wording of first question

34-1 before change

 
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I didn't really know how to answer. If we beat the teams we should beat, we'll win that 9 or 10 games a year without any issue. If we make the conference championship ever year....we're going to be winning it at least once every 5 years. And I said how we "loose" mainly because I'm tired of getting blown out and embarrassed.

 
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kchusker_chris said:
I didn't really know how to answer. If we beat the teams we should beat, we'll win that 9 or 10 games a year without any issue. If we make the conference championship ever year....we're going to be winning it at least once every 5 years. And I said how we "loose" mainly because I'm tired of getting blown out and embarrassed.
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If we beat teams we SHOULD beat, in years like 2014, a pretty compelling argument can be made that we shoulda went through this season unbeaten, with Michigan St the only real what-if.

 
The wording of these questions is awkward at the very least. Sort of like asking "Have you stopped beating your wife?"

 
grandpasknee said:
The wording of these questions is awkward at the very least. Sort of like asking "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
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I voted for the way you win because it's impossible to loose a game. You can lose a game, but I don't know that you can loose a game......unless the game is too tight. I agree that I wasn't sure how to vote for a couple of these because they were worded a little strangely.

 
grandpasknee said:
The wording of these questions is awkward at the very least. Sort of like asking "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
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Going to agree with ya Grandpa, the questions are basically do you want to win or do you care how we lose. There's no medium or in between that can be used to say I enjoy the winning but at the same time, if we lose, I prefer it to at least be competitive.

 
Amac3309 said:
grandpasknee said:
The wording of these questions is awkward at the very least. Sort of like asking "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
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Thanks for the helpful critique maybe give a suggestion as to what would be better wording
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The problem is at the foundation of the question more so than the wording of the question. You're asking to pick between 1) is it more important how we win even if we're getting destroyed when we lose, or 2) is it more important that we are competitive in a loss even if we are only winning a handful of games a year. Another way to describe it is 1) do you like winning 9 games a year but then getting embarrassed in losses or 2) do you like playing teams tough but only winning five games a year. That's not really a fair question, but, I guess people could answer it if they wanted.

I chose beating the teams you should beat because the #9wins thing is overblown. We play more games now and winning 9 was never a standard during the Osborne era, the standard was winning conference titles. 9 wins just happened to be a nice little 'go us' attached to the season. And when Wisconsin is beating you by 30 on the road and a less talented Minnesota team is outscoring you 21-3 in a half, coming back to win... how many cupcakes you beat early in the season doesn't matter. Our best win of the year so far is against a very middle-of-the-pack Miami team.

I then chose how you win. Winning shouldn't come down to getting a lucky break or waiting on a Herculean play from someone. Winning should be about consistent play over four quarters and not letting a game come down to big breaks. Seemed like Nebraska's luck just finally wore off Saturday.

Lastly, I hate to put a number on it, but winning a conference championship every 5-7 is more important. It's been 15 years without one. And simply making a game, as we're all aware, doesn't mean you'll win it or even be competitive in it. Furthermore, it's unrealistic to expect Nebraska to make it every year. That's just never going to happen with Wisconsin in the same division.

 
It's funny, though. If you look back on the season, all of what we're seeing now was already being written on the wall. Nebraska almost loses to a FCS school at home, and needs a phenomenal play from AA to win the game with only a couple minutes left.

They then beat a very average Miami team at home, pulling away near the end but still battling for most of the game.

They then get, for the most part, destroyed on the road against MSU needing a near miraculous comeback to make the score close and struggle against Purdue. Then, the last two games happen.

We've looked really good against bad teams, struggled against average teams and then lost badly to some good teams. That's pretty much been the trend for a few years now. That's why I'm hoping Eichorst has made a decision already whether to keep Bo or let him go. We shouldn't use this game against Iowa as a deciding factor. There's enough evidence one way or another for Bo.

 
grandpasknee said:
The wording of these questions is awkward at the very least. Sort of like asking "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
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yep - hard to answer some of those - I'd like to be in the CCG every year - thus we should win our share. However under Bo we've been in 3 and are at zero

 
Enhance89 said:
It's funny, though. If you look back on the season, all of what we're seeing now was already being written on the wall. Nebraska almost loses to a FCS school at home, and needs a phenomenal play from AA to win the game with only a couple minutes left.

They then beat a very average Miami team at home, pulling away near the end but still battling for most of the game.

They then get, for the most part, destroyed on the road against MSU needing a near miraculous comeback to make the score close and struggle against Purdue. Then, the last two games happen.

We've looked really good against bad teams, struggled against average teams and then lost badly to some good teams. That's pretty much been the trend for a few years now. That's why I'm hoping Eichorst has made a decision already whether to keep Bo or let him go. We shouldn't use this game against Iowa as a deciding factor. There's enough evidence one way or another for Bo.
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Well put, brother. The result against Iowa shouldn't make any difference whatsoever. If Bo is going to be fired, I hope the decision has already been made. In the big picture, Friday's game means nothing.

 
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