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You're right we are five and six. But if we play with our heads on straight we're a top 15 team. And that's a legitimate top 15 team. Not one with a fake glorified cupcake induced coma of a record. We have talent but had little depth to fall back on this season. And the utter dumpster fire Bo left for Riley just gets whitwashed again and again. If this would of been a normal transition like Wisconsin went through Miami would probably be our only loss. And that's giving Miami a huge benefit of the doubt. Posters talk about bad luck this year... WRONG! We plain pissed games away at the end and Purdue was a straight up travesty. But that travesty brought the team and staff together so maybe it all HAD to play out like this??? Like a high fever has to kill the infection before you can get better. As of this second it looks like that cancer has been eradicated. But my god people... at least acknowledge the cancer was real and we were is serious trouble at mid season!
 
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Sure, we had to overcome a number of challenges this season: A young team, injuries, new system, etc.

However, at the end of the day, our win/loss is what it is and hopefully our play the last game and hopefully in a bowl supports the fact that we really are a better team than our record, but we can't say that until is plays out and shows the MichSt game wasn't a fluke, but a real step forward.

At the end of the season, you look at the record, what the challenges were and how they were handled. That is ultimately how we need to determine Riley's performance for the season.
 
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You're right we are five and six. But if we play with our heads on straight we're a top 15 team. And that's a legitimate top 15 team. Not one with a fake glorified cupcake induced coma of a record. We have talent but had little depth to fall back on this season. And the utter dumpster fire Bo left for Riley just gets whitwashed again and again. If this would of been a normal transition like Wisconsin went through Miami would probably be our only loss. And that's giving Miami a huge benefit of the doubt. Posters talk about bad luck this year... WRONG! We plain pissed games away at the end and Purdue was a straight up travesty. But that travesty brought the team and staff together so maybe it all HAD to play out like this??? Like a high fever has to kill the infection before you can get better. As of this second it looks like that cancer has been eradicated. But my god people... at least acknowledge the cancer was real and we were is serious trouble at mid season!
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No. It didn't have to play out like this. We didn't have to lose to the likes of Purdue and Illinois, but we did. For that we will get kicked.
I'm glad things are looking better now. But regardless of how Friday plays out, this season has been a big disappointment.
 
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red rover 70 said:
You're right we are five and six. But if we play with our heads on straight we're a top 15 team. And that's a legitimate top 15 team. Not one with a fake glorified cupcake induced coma of a record. We have talent but had little depth to fall back on this season. And the utter dumpster fire Bo left for Riley just gets whitwashed again and again. If this would of been a normal transition like Wisconsin went through Miami would probably be our only loss. And that's giving Miami a huge benefit of the doubt. Posters talk about bad luck this year... WRONG! We plain pissed games away at the end and Purdue was a straight up travesty. But that travesty brought the team and staff together so maybe it all HAD to play out like this??? Like a high fever has to kill the infection before you can get better. As of this second it looks like that cancer has been eradicated. But my god people... at least acknowledge the cancer was real and we were is serious trouble at mid season!
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Everyone should know this team is better than 5-6. Beating Mich St proved that. A 5-6 team doesn't beat Mich St, not even close. This teams faults were less on Riley and mostly with many players not buying into the system and still holding on to Bobo. Why it took a Purdue loss for them to get their heads on straight and decided to play I really have no idea. They last 2 weeks started to show what can happen when they play as a unit. Imagine what they could have done if these were the first 2 games instead of the last few. We could be a legit 1 or 2 loss team.
Now that being said, Im not letting Riley off the hook 100%. His teams at Oregon St have had a history of this exact setup. Play crappy all year then beat a top ranked team middle to year end. So it is hard to know if things have truly turned the corner or if this is classic Riley. We will have to see how the last 2 games play out and how next year starts
 
5-6 = lay low, (no need drawing attention to it) keep house parties to a minimum, then practice, practice, recruit and practice.
 
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Everyone should know this team is better than 5-6. Beating Mich St proved that. A 5-6 team doesn't beat Mich St, not even close. This teams faults were less on Riley and mostly with many players not buying into the system and still holding on to Bobo. Why it took a Purdue loss for them to get their heads on straight and decided to play I really have no idea. They last 2 weeks started to show what can happen when they play as a unit. Imagine what they could have done if these were the first 2 games instead of the last few. We could be a legit 1 or 2 loss team.
Now that being said, Im not letting Riley off the hook 100%. His teams at Oregon St have had a history of this exact setup. Play crappy all year then beat a top ranked team middle to year end. So it is hard to know if things have truly turned the corner or if this is classic Riley. We will have to see how the last 2 games play out and how next year starts
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Purdue almost beat Michigan State
 
red rover 70 said:
You're right we are five and six. But if we play with our heads on straight we're a top 15 team. And that's a legitimate top 15 team. Not one with a fake glorified cupcake induced coma of a record. We have talent but had little depth to fall back on this season. And the utter dumpster fire Bo left for Riley just gets whitwashed again and again. If this would of been a normal transition like Wisconsin went through Miami would probably be our only loss. And that's giving Miami a huge benefit of the doubt. Posters talk about bad luck this year... WRONG! We plain pissed games away at the end and Purdue was a straight up travesty. But that travesty brought the team and staff together so maybe it all HAD to play out like this??? Like a high fever has to kill the infection before you can get better. As of this second it looks like that cancer has been eradicated. But my god people... at least acknowledge the cancer was real and we were is serious trouble at mid season!
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Only in a NE fan's mind should you be a Top 15 team. The record is the record. Doesn't matter how close any games were. Top 15 teams aren't 5-6 and don't lose the games you've lost. "Talent" and "stars" isn't getting you very far. Iowa is 12-0 with some high quality wins.
 
ppilate said:
Only in a NE fan's mind should you be a Top 15 team. The record is the record. Doesn't matter how close any games were. Top 15 teams aren't 5-6 and don't lose the games you've lost. "Talent" and "stars" isn't getting you very far. Iowa is 12-0 with some high quality wins.
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What exactly are these high quality wins you speak of?
 
red rover 70 said:
You're right we are five and six. But if we play with our heads on straight we're a top 15 team. And that's a legitimate top 15 team. Not one with a fake glorified cupcake induced coma of a record. We have talent but had little depth to fall back on this season. And the utter dumpster fire Bo left for Riley just gets whitwashed again and again. If this would of been a normal transition like Wisconsin went through Miami would probably be our only loss. And that's giving Miami a huge benefit of the doubt. Posters talk about bad luck this year... WRONG! We plain pissed games away at the end and Purdue was a straight up travesty. But that travesty brought the team and staff together so maybe it all HAD to play out like this??? Like a high fever has to kill the infection before you can get better. As of this second it looks like that cancer has been eradicated. But my god people... at least acknowledge the cancer was real and we were is serious trouble at mid season!
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I would love to get credit for what I think something should be rather than what it is. I dont get why we dont just shut our yappers and let the players take care of it.
 
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We go over to Nebraska, and typical of Nebraska, they've got a lot of good football players. They're a very good football team. They've got an excellent coaching staff, and I think probably the big thing right now is that they're meshing. The new staff got there whenever they got in place, it takes a while for things to come together typically, and I think we're witnessing that. They had some very difficult losses, close losses early in the season, but they were playing well but just couldn't quite finish things, and they're coming off two very, very impressive victories now, beating Michigan State a couple weeks back, and most recently Rutgers. They're a good football team, good offensively, good defensively, two excellent specialists, and good core guys on the special teams. A good football team. It's going to be a hostile environment. We know that. Anytime you travel in the Big Ten it's going to be tough to go into someone else's stadium. That's an added challenge, and we're playing them on their senior day, as well. We've got a tall list of things that we're going to have to get prepared for, and the bottom line is it's like every other game week; our guys are going to have to really prepare well, and then, most importantly, we're going to have to be ready to go at kickoff on Friday.
 
I'm starting to think red rover is seeing how many wildly positive threads he can start whilst still being taken seriously. Or he forgot to mix water with his kool aide and is straight snorting it through rolled up Benjamins.
 
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Top 15?

Heck, I can understand some optimism, but this one is past the line of sensibility.

Most of the time, things are what they are.
 
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would of, should of, could of; still = 5 and 6. Not a good year and would be very disappointed if we finished 5 - 7. NU should never ever play the last game of the year just to get to a bowl game.
 
huskerfan1414 said:
I'm starting to think red rover is seeing how many wildly positive threads he can start whilst still being taken seriously. Or he forgot to mix water with his kool aide and is straight snorting it through rolled up Benjamins.
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All my posts are based on what i honestly think we can do as a team with this staff. Remember all the blowouts under Bo? Remember all the blatant lying to cover up deficiencies? Remember how things never got fixed? Even with a new staff and all the Bo problems we were in every game till the end. The was never a moment like we constantly lived under Bo. Our old coach instilled all the wrong traits into his players. If the players could of bought in we could be playing for the B1G title. And all this isn't being blindly optimistic. All the focus is on the last minutes of these losses. But if we would of been focused the whole game we would of blown out most of the teams we lost to. That why i find it crazy that posters are unable to see the obvious. And it will be front and center against Iowa.
 
And another thing...
Remember all the undefeated highly ranked Nebraska teams? The blew opponents out. Why can't this great Iowa team blow out these same teams we barely lost to???????
 
Iowa's average margin of victory is 15.6. It's not like they are grinding out every game by a field goal. They also haven't trailed in the 4th quarter all year... I'd say that's fairly solid
 
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Everyone should know this team is better than 5-6. Beating Mich St proved that. A 5-6 team doesn't beat Mich St, not even close. This teams faults were less on Riley and mostly with many players not buying into the system and still holding on to Bobo. Why it took a Purdue loss for them to get their heads on straight and decided to play I really have no idea. They last 2 weeks started to show what can happen when they play as a unit. Imagine what they could have done if these were the first 2 games instead of the last few. We could be a legit 1 or 2 loss team.
Now that being said, Im not letting Riley off the hook 100%. His teams at Oregon St have had a history of this exact setup. Play crappy all year then beat a top ranked team middle to year end. So it is hard to know if things have truly turned the corner or if this is classic Riley. We will have to see how the last 2 games play out and how next year starts
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Michigan State just is not that good, have you watched them play more than one game this year? Either Parity has arrived in College Football, or everyone is down this year, IDK which. Iowa is not 11-0 number 3 in the nation good, nor is Michigan State. Both teams have just gotten the breaks when they needed them.

Unfortunately, Nebraska did not this year, so we get to make fun of you. Especially over that Purdue Loss, you guys stunk it up that day! I laughed and laughed!!! Pictured Nebraska fans taking down their flags, stashing their team gear in the bottom drawer of the dresser, hanging heads in disgrace, you know, fun stuff like that....

It is great to be a Hawkeye!!! It is not too late to convert, you do not even need a Priest!
 
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red rover 70 said:
You're right we are five and six. But if we play with our heads on straight we're a top 15 team. /QUOTE]

I don't disagree with your post, but I gotta point out that this is the same kind of stuff that fans of other schools used to post and we would make fun of.

You are what your record says you are. The coaches, players and even, to a lesser extent, the fan base with its lunatic fringe can all take a share of the blame.
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red rover 70 said:
You're right we are five and six. But if we play with our heads on straight we're a top 15 team. And that's a legitimate top 15 team. Not one with a fake glorified cupcake induced coma of a record. We have talent but had little depth to fall back on this season. And the utter dumpster fire Bo left for Riley just gets whitwashed again and again. If this would of been a normal transition like Wisconsin went through Miami would probably be our only loss. And that's giving Miami a huge benefit of the doubt. Posters talk about bad luck this year... WRONG! We plain pissed games away at the end and Purdue was a straight up travesty. But that travesty brought the team and staff together so maybe it all HAD to play out like this??? Like a high fever has to kill the infection before you can get better. As of this second it looks like that cancer has been eradicated. But my god people... at least acknowledge the cancer was real and we were is serious trouble at mid season!
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5-6. THAT'S why Nebraska is special. (If that makes you feel better about yourself, hey who am I to judge)
 
Your 5-6 record would not be brought up near as much if you would lay off the "cupcake" schedule comments. Iowa's OOC schedule hasn't been any worse than many of the top ranked teams this year. The big ten handed out the conference schedule. Iowa didn't have the top teams in the East on it this year. What can they do about it except keep winning. The schedule could look tougher had Nebraska won a few more games this year. I blame the looks of our schedule on Nebraska....
 
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Your 5-6 record would not be brought up near as much if you would lay off the "cupcake" schedule comments. Iowa's OOC schedule hasn't been any worse than many of the top ranked teams this year. The big ten handed out the conference schedule. Iowa didn't have the top teams in the East on it this year. What can they do about it except keep winning. The schedule could look tougher had Nebraska won a few more games this year. I blame the looks of our schedule on Nebraska....
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Point taken on the cupcake comment... sorry. I've just seen Nebraska themselves play a weaker schedule and be racking up 400+ yard games. Only to get stopped dead in it's tracks by the first really good team it played. I've seen this play out before and Iowa looks like those Nebraska teams. Are we good enough to stop Iowa in it's tracks??? Maybe... maybe not. But Vegas has this game way too close for a matchup between a 11-0 and a 5-6 teams. Something has to be screwy in the equation???
 
red rover 70 said:
You're right we are five and six. But if we play with our heads on straight we're a top 15 team. And that's a legitimate top 15 team. Not one with a fake glorified cupcake induced coma of a record. We have talent but had little depth to fall back on this season. And the utter dumpster fire Bo left for Riley just gets whitwashed again and again. If this would of been a normal transition like Wisconsin went through Miami would probably be our only loss. And that's giving Miami a huge benefit of the doubt. Posters talk about bad luck this year... WRONG! We plain pissed games away at the end and Purdue was a straight up travesty. But that travesty brought the team and staff together so maybe it all HAD to play out like this??? Like a high fever has to kill the infection before you can get better. As of this second it looks like that cancer has been eradicated. But my god people... at least acknowledge the cancer was real and we were is serious trouble at mid season!
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Dammit! You made me laugh and my coffee went thru my nose. Yeah, your a top 15 team for sure. Shit it did it again.
Have fun in Detroit. I hear they make bulletproof parkas now.
 
This season is almost over, and we're playing the last game, hoping for a win, so we can call ourselves...."average" (6-6). There are positives and negatives from this season that point to both coaches and players, and do not remove all doubt concerning success in future seasons.

In MSU's victory over OSU, MSU with their backup qb ran the ball about 50 times. In NU's loss to Purdue, NU with our backup qb threw the ball about 50 times.

We could be really good next year, average next year, or bad next year. The key words here are "next year". I suppose some could be waiting with bated breath to see if we get the magical 6 wins to be "legitimately" bowl eligible. To me, this year is a failure.
 
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Rover...are you going to print up some shirts that say "Best 5-6 team in the nation"
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I might have to get it trademarked first. I was listening to the morning radio shows and damn if it didn't sound like talking points were taken straight from this thread.
 
If at the end of the game, if you haven't outplayed your opponent and your opponent hasn't outplayed you, you've earned a coin flip for the win - nothing more, nothing less. Perhaps Nebraska lost more than its share of coin flips, but the fact that it came down to coin flips against several mediocre teams shows that Nebraska is (was?) a mediocre team. Hopefully we've improved and hopefully we continue to do so. But don't spin the record to imply something it's not. We didn't play a tough schedule and, so far, we've lost a majority of our games. It is what it is.
 
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Iowa's average margin of victory is 15.6. It's not like they are grinding out every game by a field goal. They also haven't trailed in the 4th quarter all year... I'd say that's fairly solid
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Your average margin of victory can be attributed to a 62-16 drubbing of mighty 1-9 North Texas.
 
Red, I agree with you about the Huskers. I actually said it a couple of days ago....your boys are closer to a 9 win team then we want to admit. Throw the Purdue game out as Tommy was not even playing. I truly don't know any Hawk fan who thinks we are going to waltz into Memorial and handle the Huskers with ease. Everyone I know looks at this as a toss up game at best for the Hawks. This is a dream season for us, and who know if it will ever happen again. I only hope the Hawks are as focused as they are going to need to be to play this game. One more thing....I live on the East side of the state, and many, many of us do NOT have any hate for the Huskers.....we reserve that for the FREAKING ILLINI!!! :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING HUSKERS!!!
 
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