For the first time since joining the B1G, if we actually play NW, we beat them senseless.....They are going to walk into a healthy and extremely pi$$ed off Nebraska team.....
Wisconsin Game Cancelled
- Thread starter seaofred92
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We are in the beginning stages of seeing a light at the end of the tunnel from roster flipping, redshirting and strength and conditioning
It's early, but we look pretty damn good at the line of scrimmage. On both sides
teachercd
Head Coach
National writers even starting to weigh in and make fun of Wisconsin...for being afraid.
https://nebraska.forums.rivals.com/threads/i-have-to-say-this.278986/
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macroboy
All-Conference
Apparently not for Kool aid though, which you have to be chugging if you think anybody is ducking this team.
We just had an entire week of ‘ya know getting beat by 5 tds wasn’t really that bad’ posts.
teachercd
Head Coach
Mike Farrell:
“Nebraska is being targeted and screwed.
To me it’s clear that the Huskers are getting the screws put to them by the Big Ten. They were vocal about playing this season and obviously rattled some cages at the Big Ten office and were rewarded with Ohio State, Wisconsin and Penn State in their first four games. Now the Badgers lose some key players to COVID and the game against the Huskers is cancelled when they would have a very good chance to win. What if this wasn’t Barry Alvarez’s team? Alvarez is, after all, the puppet master of the Big Ten. What if it was Nebraska who was missing two QBs? You think they’d cancel a game against Wisconsin? No chance. It’s clear this is a message to the Huskers for their daring take that we should actually play football this season and even though Nebraska helped save the football season in the Big Ten this kind of punishment will continue for years to come. And it’s petty and unprofessional and the leadership at the Big Ten, Alvarez included, should be ashamed. These are the people that postponed the season, got egg on their face when others played and then started the season so late that there is no wiggle room to postpone a game like they can in the Big 12, SEC and ACC. And it’s simply ridiculous.
I have vented. Thank you.”
“Nebraska is being targeted and screwed.
To me it’s clear that the Huskers are getting the screws put to them by the Big Ten. They were vocal about playing this season and obviously rattled some cages at the Big Ten office and were rewarded with Ohio State, Wisconsin and Penn State in their first four games. Now the Badgers lose some key players to COVID and the game against the Huskers is cancelled when they would have a very good chance to win. What if this wasn’t Barry Alvarez’s team? Alvarez is, after all, the puppet master of the Big Ten. What if it was Nebraska who was missing two QBs? You think they’d cancel a game against Wisconsin? No chance. It’s clear this is a message to the Huskers for their daring take that we should actually play football this season and even though Nebraska helped save the football season in the Big Ten this kind of punishment will continue for years to come. And it’s petty and unprofessional and the leadership at the Big Ten, Alvarez included, should be ashamed. These are the people that postponed the season, got egg on their face when others played and then started the season so late that there is no wiggle room to postpone a game like they can in the Big 12, SEC and ACC. And it’s simply ridiculous.
I have vented. Thank you.”
teachercd
Head Coach
Pretty sure you missed something.
See...for the Illini game they were not down to their 4th string QB that has played like 1 snap in the last 3 years.
Much better than previous years for sure. Not bad to hold our own at the LOS against OSU......
J-MAGIC
Five-Star Recruit
People buy into conspiracies because it's easier to do that than accept a bleak reality: That there's a surging pandemic going on, and that playing sports during it was going to be difficult and unwieldy at best.
Ask yourself what's more likely: 1) That one school that has kicked our asses for 10 straight years without really passing the ball wanted to duck us and coordinated with a massive, de-centralized corporation in a couple of days to intentionally screw only us over, or 2) That one school just had some players make a dumb decision during a pandemic and are trying to stem an outbreak before they are forced to cancel a third of their season.
Constantly playing the victim any time something bad happens is getting really old. Sometimes you just get unlucky.
Ask yourself what's more likely: 1) That one school that has kicked our asses for 10 straight years without really passing the ball wanted to duck us and coordinated with a massive, de-centralized corporation in a couple of days to intentionally screw only us over, or 2) That one school just had some players make a dumb decision during a pandemic and are trying to stem an outbreak before they are forced to cancel a third of their season.
Constantly playing the victim any time something bad happens is getting really old. Sometimes you just get unlucky.
teachercd
Head Coach
We know the answer...
One school (Wisconsin) CAN play this weekend according to the rules that they helped to write.
They are CHOOSING not to play. That is the answer, they are choosing not to play. How would playing create an outbreak? Germed players stay at home, rest of the non-germers practice.
But now...now they are going to give 18-22 year old guys 7 days off with nothing to do? Guess what...they will find stuff to do.
Swiv3D
Starter
J-MAGIC
Five-Star Recruit
They are choosing not to play one game voluntarily in an attempt to stem a burgeoning outbreak and not go above the threshold that would make them cancel three games. Don't be intentionally dense because you're mad.
The tests are giving false negatives; that's how the outbreak at Baylor happened. Wisconsin can't be sure of who has it and who doesn't, so they are choosing not to gather in a large group to limit the spread. I would hope our coaches would do the same thing.
funhusker
All-American
Agreed. I'd be much more frustrated if Wisconsin decided to play and then a week later Nebraska has an outbreak in their locker room costing them more than one game.
teachercd
Head Coach
Stem it how???
THEY HAD RULES IN PLACE AND THEY BROKE THEM. But now, by giving them a week off to "stay inside" they are going to follow the rules? That is dense.
I am mad but not dense. I know why they are doing it, it isn't because they are scared it is because they think it benefits them...it benefits them at the expense of others that HAVE followed the rules.