Penalties???

[Native Nebraskan]

Will penalties be the Achilles Heel of the team this year?

 

[scarletred]

That was a area Riley and Pelini’s team had... Should have some improvement in year 2..

 

[Sinomatic]

No. Not enough digit spaces on the scoreboards.

 

[tone1017]

Seems like a weird thing to worry about before we’ve even played a game but I guess at this point we are running out of offseason topics.

 

[Truehuskerfan]

Penalties really hurt us the first half of the season last year(not all of which was completely our fault, in my opinion), but we improved a lot in that area as the season went along. I don't expect it to be a major problem this year.

 

[huskerfan66]

Discipline eliminates penalties. This team is becoming disciplined

 

[barney44]

Only time will tell...

My guess is that they will still exist with this team. Can we overcome our mistakes is the real question...

 

[oldjar07]

Penalties are something that can be fixed right away if you put enough emphasis on it. There's really no excuse for what we saw last year.

 

[Hoosker Du]

Seems like a weird thing to worry about before we’ve even played a game but I guess at this point we are running out of offseason topics.

During his meet with the media Frost mentioned penalties being a bit of an issue during the situational scrimmage yesterday.

 

[Hoosker Du]

Will penalties be the Achilles Heel of the team this year?

No, Gerald Foster graduated.

 

[bigredhunter]

Penalties destroyed us the first part of last season. Our win/loss record could have looked a lot different if that one stat changed.

L Colorado 33 Nebraska 28
Penalties: CU 8-46 NU 11-95.
Huge advantage Colorado

L Troy 24 Nebraska 19
Penalties: Troy 10-95 NU 10-75
Advantage NU

L Michigan 56 Nebraska 10
Penalties: UM 8-77 NU 10-79
Even

L Purdue 42 Nebraska 28
Penalties: Purdue 10-75 NU 11-136
Huge advantage Purdue

L Wisconsin 41 Nebraska 24
Penalties: UW 5-50 NU 10-100
Huge advantage Wisconsin

L Northwestern 34 Nebraska 31
Penalties: NW 1-5 NU 9-89
Huge advantage Northwestern

W Nebraska 53 Minnesota 28
Penalties: NU 6-43 UM 8-80
Advantage NU

W Nebraska 45 Bethune Cookman 9
Penalties: NU 5-35 BCU 6-34
Even

L Ohio St 36 Nebraska 31
Penalties: OSU 6-46 NU 5-44
Even

W Nebraska Illinois
Penalties: NU 7-72 Illinois 7-72
Even

W Nebraska 9 Michigan St 6
Penalties: NU 5-45 MSU 7-87
Huge avantage NU

L Nebraska 31 Iowa 28
Penalties: NU 3-35 Iowa 2-20
Even

 

[Oldie but goodie]

There are good penalties and bad penalties. Ours seemed mostly bad. They can and should improve this season.
I am more concerned with our kicking game or lack thereof. We are terrible and have the talent to be good. This is one area Frost is sadly lacking in. We don't even really have a kicking game coach., yet two linebacker coaches. I don't get it.