The Psychology

[SLOHusker]

Beyond the question of how athletic or talented guys are, or how good the schemes are, the team plays like it's afraid to lose. So much of that is due to the constant mention of "years since blah blah blah". It affects every team. Georgia has a mental issue with Alabama. They come out looking out of sorts every time they play Alabama.

Best thing to do to get out of that issue is say eff it. We don't care about the bowl streak. Just focus on being better everywhere, all the time. And the fans and media need to stop wallowing in it. Stop talking curses or poo pooing over a coach that was fired and wasn't very good to begin with. The team absorbs all that.

Part of the reason for the comeback was the game felt lost and the team visibly relaxed. As the comeback narrowed to a possible win, they tensed up again. Missed extra point, etc.
Satterfield's play-calling, slow DBs, and Raiola missing wide open receivers matters. Those are fixable things. Nobody can go back and make the Frost years better. Forget they happened and focus entirely on this year, these games and not years past.

Get that psychological monkey off the back of the program. Indiana hasn't been good forever and I guarantee you their players feel completely unaffected by what happened before they arrived.

 

[Landomatic]

Beyond the question of how athletic or talented guys are, or how good the schemes are, the team plays like it's afraid to lose. So much of that is due to the constant mention of "years since blah blah blah". It affects every team. Georgia has a mental issue with Alabama. They come out looking out of sorts every time they play Alabama.

Best thing to do to get out of that issue is say eff it. We don't care about the bowl streak. Just focus on being better everywhere, all the time. And the fans and media need to stop wallowing in it. Stop talking curses or poo pooing over a coach that was fired and wasn't very good to begin with. The team absorbs all that.

Part of the reason for the comeback was the game felt lost and the team visibly relaxed. As the comeback narrowed to a possible win, they tensed up again. Missed extra point, etc.
Satterfield's play-calling, slow DBs, and Raiola missing wide open receivers matters. Those are fixable things. Nobody can go back and make the Frost years better. Forget they happened and focus entirely on this year, these games and not years past.

Get that psychological monkey off the back of the program. Indiana hasn't been good forever and I guarantee you their players feel completely unaffected by what happened before they arrived.

Yeah, all true. But I think the issue everyone has is that the multi million dollar head coach should be able to fix that psychology. Can't expect the fans and media to be responsible for that. High expectations from fans and media are just a part of big boy, P2 conference, blue blood football. Those pressure cooker situations exist at every big time football program school. In many cases, worse than NU. If anything, our media is too soft and our fans have been too patient and supportive.

BTW, I'd give just about anything to have our one weak point be that we psych ourselves out when we play Alabama.

 

[drubendall]

What Rhule should do is take a play out of the Bo Pelini playbook. Bring in a bunker mentality. Turn the players against the fans. Us versus them. Play for your brother next to you, not these dimwitted blue hairs. It had mixed results, But he was winning nine games and going to bowl games

 

[BugsAreQualityProtein]

What Rhule should do is take a play out of the Bo Pelini playbook. Bring in a bunker mentality. Turn the players against the fans. Us versus them. Play for your brother next to you, not these dimwitted blue hairs. It had mixed results, But he was winning nine games and going to bowl games

Sipple was talking about the same thing during his post game live show Saturday night. He of course wasn’t a fan of that mentality, but it may be going in that direction regardless.

 

[SLOHusker]

What Rhule should do is take a play out of the Bo Pelini playbook. Bring in a bunker mentality. Turn the players against the fans. Us versus them. Play for your brother next to you, not these dimwitted blue hairs. It had mixed results, But he was winning nine games and going to bowl games

Bo did get his teams to play with attitude. But they also quit once things started to go the wrong way and would get massacred. This team at least plays hard to the end. This team is only a few fixes from being good. They need to focus just on themselves and ignore all the external BS. It's not always easy to ignore it. Most of these kids knew nothing about the past until they were told about it and now they feel it too.
They need to just play and not tense up. You could see the tension for three quarters. After that UCLA TD they finally seemed to relax because the game seemed out of reach. Raiola actually looked better from that moment. Satterfield's play-calling is a massive issue too, of course.

 

[Charlie Marlow]

 

[HuskerOH]

Bo did get his teams to play with attitude. But they also quit once things started to go the wrong way and would get massacred. This team at least plays hard to the end. This team is only a few fixes from being good. They need to focus just on themselves and ignore all the external BS. It's not always easy to ignore it. Most of these kids knew nothing about the past until they were told about it and now they feel it too.
They need to just play and not tense up. You could see the tension for three quarters. After that UCLA TD they finally seemed to relax because the game seemed out of reach. Raiola actually looked better from that moment. Satterfield's play-calling is a massive issue too, of course.

The offense is the largest problem. The team knows that they can only score about 20 points per game. If the opposition gets out quick they panic knowing their backs are against the wall.

The defense is good and can keep the team in the game but can not carry the team. Imagine if the offense carries it's weight and scores over 21...

Rhule needs to either take over play calling with a run heavy plan or put the QB coach in control, his resume screams of Rhule's vision. Rhule has instilled fight and competition into them but the offensive game plan is just that, OFFENSIVE. If the run game gets established it will rest the defense and make them more effective. One feeds the other.

 

[Zeke2005]

“Those are fixable things”
Is that you Scott Frost?

He liked to talk about fixable things. We all know he never did. Sorry, but that’s why I have doubts now

 

[king_kong_]

our head elf has a Master's Degree in Educational Psychology

 

[61bigredfan]

I went to the game-looked like if something good would’ve happened in the first drive of the second half we would’ve been fine. Then DR locks up, throws the pic, and I felt like we just kind of fell apart for a while.

There are 80,000 opinions from those who went to the game about what happened. Mine is apart from the above, that they came out flat, DR was pressured and relatively immobile till he got hurt, and in the last drive our receivers couldn’t catch a cold. Did anyone else also think that it looked like our kicker warming up before the game looked like he was hitting knuckleballs?

 

[huskerfan66]

What Rhule should do is take a play out of the Bo Pelini playbook. Bring in a bunker mentality. Turn the players against the fans. Us versus them. Play for your brother next to you, not these dimwitted blue hairs. It had mixed results, But he was winning nine games and going to bowl games

I can never wrap my mind around the idea of turning the team against the fans. They've been there to support and fund them. Do they want us to stay home and they play in an empty stadium and make them travel on greyhound busses to usc??

 

[NikkiSixx]

Beyond the question of how athletic or talented guys are, or how good the schemes are, the team plays like it's afraid to lose. So much of that is due to the constant mention of "years since blah blah blah". It affects every team. Georgia has a mental issue with Alabama. They come out looking out of sorts every time they play Alabama.

Best thing to do to get out of that issue is say eff it. We don't care about the bowl streak. Just focus on being better everywhere, all the time. And the fans and media need to stop wallowing in it. Stop talking curses or poo pooing over a coach that was fired and wasn't very good to begin with. The team absorbs all that.

Part of the reason for the comeback was the game felt lost and the team visibly relaxed. As the comeback narrowed to a possible win, they tensed up again. Missed extra point, etc.
Satterfield's play-calling, slow DBs, and Raiola missing wide open receivers matters. Those are fixable things. Nobody can go back and make the Frost years better. Forget they happened and focus entirely on this year, these games and not years past.

Get that psychological monkey off the back of the program. Indiana hasn't been good forever and I guarantee you their players feel completely unaffected by what happened before they arrived.

totally agree about the bowl streak meaning nothing.. but there are a lot of fans on here that will question that..

coach should come out and say it.. bowl games are for losers, forget the dmn bowl game drama. That's what I would tell the team.

 

[redwine65]

Beyond the question of how athletic or talented guys are, or how good the schemes are, the team plays like it's afraid to lose. So much of that is due to the constant mention of "years since blah blah blah". It affects every team. Georgia has a mental issue with Alabama. They come out looking out of sorts every time they play Alabama.

Best thing to do to get out of that issue is say eff it. We don't care about the bowl streak. Just focus on being better everywhere, all the time. And the fans and media need to stop wallowing in it. Stop talking curses or poo pooing over a coach that was fired and wasn't very good to begin with. The team absorbs all that.

Part of the reason for the comeback was the game felt lost and the team visibly relaxed. As the comeback narrowed to a possible win, they tensed up again. Missed extra point, etc.
Satterfield's play-calling, slow DBs, and Raiola missing wide open receivers matters. Those are fixable things. Nobody can go back and make the Frost years better. Forget they happened and focus entirely on this year, these games and not years past.

Get that psychological monkey off the back of the program. Indiana hasn't been good forever and I guarantee you their players feel completely unaffected by what happened before they arrived.

it's more then that, sattterfeild seems as bland as can be and calls game like he's on ludes....then the team turn flat as a pancake, seemingly flatlining...