How many people at the beginning of the year would have been happy with 9-3 or 10-2? I know that I would have been happy with that jump. This team was not prepared for this game tonight and that gets put on the coaches, but has any player on this team ever played in a big time meaningful game? It sucks, but damn it feels good to be so pissed off after a loss. Lets you know that this team is getting closer to being back. 10-2 with a good bowl game and top 15 finish are still there to be had, just don't give up on this team after this game. GBR
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I would be perfectly happy with 10-2. But, we lost by 59 points. Our next worst loss..... 60 under Callahan. I'm not terribly enthusiastic about this staff after this disaster.
Just get in line of the people who will base this staff's ability on the strength of this game... seems like a long one.
Not sure how to respond to this without being attacked. So, I will just say this. Has any staff lost this poorly to a team and gone on to win a championship of any kind? Especially a staff with a top ten team.
Well how bad do you want? Jimbo Fisher lost by 43 to Louisville earlier this year. It's not 59, but a lot more than you would expect for a coach that won a national championship just 3 years ago.
To gauge correctly you must also take a hard look at the Conference minus Michigan and Ohio State look and the talent you played prior to the Wisconsin and Ohio State game. If a good team played the sisters of the poor they might be undefeated, but that still does not mean they are a top 10 team or even top 20 for that matter.
Not attacking you here... but a year after Nebraska beat florida 62-24 (a Florida team loaded with FAR more talent than what we currently have now) they won a national championship. The margin wasn't as bad in that game but the point remains... to base an entire staff's coaching ability on one game seems a bit dramatic.
I don't think anyone is happy with a 60 point loss. But 9-3? Yes, after last year, 9-3 would make me happy.
It's just funny to me... 10-2 with a 60 point loss is fine. 9-3 with a 60 point loss? Now I'm not happy.
Made me laugh...
The thing about a 59 point loss is that it is still just ONE loss...a 10-2 season with a good bowl slot is still a possibility. Not happy about the loss but I also will not lose any sleep over it.
Saban lost to Louisiana-Monroe at Alabama, Alabama-Birmingham while at lsu, and lost multiple times by 40 plus points while at Michigan state. It happens to everybody.
Overall? Yes. Nobody likes blowouts, but the overall record is what is important. One game should never influence how one feels about the overall record.
In 1998, Butch Davis's Miami team lost in the Big East Championship game to Syracuse something like 62-3, then came back the next week to beat an undefeated UCLA team the next week in a 59-55 type of game. The game had been rescheduled due to a hurricane, I think. Three years later it was essentially Davis's team that won the MNC.
The previous staff was fired because they had too many games exactly like this one - although to be fair, they never lost by 59 to anyone. Let's hope this game was just an aberration and NU continues to trend upward.
The issue is not that Nebraska lost on the road to a very strong opponent. The issue is that NU looked like they did not belong. They looked helpless - just like they did so many times under Bo Pelini. And this was on the heels of a week where the tide was actually turning. For the first time in many years, the college football world was taking Nebraska seriously. Well, all of that good will from the good showing in Madison went out the window tonight. NU is right back where they started from - with no one taking them seriously.
NU may finish 10-2 (only if TA is back - it's doubtful they win a game with Ryker Fyfe at QB). Maybe they back into the CCG and pull off a big upset and make the Rose Bowl as B1G champs and get back into the national discussion. In that case, we'll be able to dismiss tonight.
But as of right now - this was a very bad result. A VERY BAD RESULT.
The issue is not that Nebraska lost on the road to a very strong opponent. The issue is that NU looked like they did not belong. They looked helpless - just like they did so many times under Bo Pelini. And this was on the heels of a week where the tide was actually turning. For the first time in many years, the college football world was taking Nebraska seriously. Well, all of that good will from the good showing in Madison went out the window tonight. NU is right back where they started from - with no one taking them seriously.
NU may finish 10-2 (only if TA is back - it's doubtful they win a game with Ryker Fyfe at QB). Maybe they back into the CCG and pull off a big upset and make the Rose Bowl as B1G champs and get back into the national discussion. In that case, we'll be able to dismiss tonight.
But as of right now - this was a very bad result. A VERY BAD RESULT.
Yes, and only losing by 35 in a game where a player sets an NCAA rushing record against you is SO much better. If we keep losing games like this, then you have a point. Right now, it's just one game.
The upside is that it took until the 22nd game before one of these happened. We should all be grateful for that.
But it's OK to lose 7 games as long as they're close.
And believe me, winning the next 3 will be a major miracle - especially assuming Tommy is on concussion protocol and won't play next Sat. That means Fyfe and that's a major problem with our patchwork line and his decision making/passing.
Several idiots on here have said "but we never got blown out like Blo". So I guess losing 7 close games is acceptable vs winning 9-10 games every year which is no good because there were some blowouts. We should have won 10 games last year. We never ran the ball the way we should have until the Bowl game.
Fair enough. 9-3 is definitely an improvement after last year, but 9-3 with an embarrassing blowout is not really an improvement over Pelini. In fact, that is pretty much the average Pelini season. We mocked Pelini for his "9-win trophies".
With that said, I recognize that this is only year 2. If this is still happening 2-3 years from now, I hope Riley has the guts to make the difficult staff changes that Callahan and Pelini did not.
I didn't look at game stats, but I think OhSU scored on every single possession save the last burn-the-clock possession. Very disappointed to say the least. This was a Rutgersesque performance.
Being realistic. We should still be able to win all or most of the games remaining. Now, let me go read the posts where everyone is thrashing the players and propping up the coaching staff.
Being realistic. We should still be able to win all or most of the games remaining. Now, let me go read the posts where everyone is thrashing the players and propping up the coaching staff.
What incredible insight!!! So glad we have people like you to remind us of this! With this amazing post as your first post, I can't wait to see what gems you grace us with moving forward...
Wrong. FHCBP was fired because he lost MULTIPLE games he should have won AND he was a complete horses ass.
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