* Not much to say about this game. Poor play calling. Continued sloppiness. Never in a million years did I think this team would start 2-3.
* Thinking that Mike Riley was a poor choice for head coach is not the same as thinking Pelini should have stayed. Pelini was a jerk that was not going to get Nebraska back to championship-level football. That said, many posters questioned the wisdom of hiring Riley and letting him bring his crew from Corvalis. Those posters were shouted down in what can only be described as a mass exercise in groupthink.
* The team will be very lucky to make it to .500 this year. Given Nebraska's easy schedule, a returning qb, etc., such a result would be mind blowing. There is still hope that the ship will be righted, we'll catch a few breaks, or that we will knock off a good team. That's the best case scenario at this point: that the team gels later in the season and builds for next year.
* Time to stop moving the goalposts. When Riley was hired, the argument made by Eichorst (and many on this board) was simple: Riley has done some good things with poor facilities and poor recruits at Oregon State. When he comes to Nebraska and gets good athletes and good facilities, he'll have us humming along. Now the mantra has changed to: he needs to get his own recruits first. Yes, the team has been plagued by injuries. Not an excuse for mustering 13 points against Illinois.
* This was not supposed to be a rebuilding project. This was supposed to be a retooling project. Riley wasn't supposed to blow up the system and build from the ground up. He was supposed to come in like a good consultant, find inefficiencies, and get us over the hump. Riley inherited a program that was winning 9-10 games a year but getting blown out in games against good competition.
* Our close losses look even worse now. Cincinnati solidly beat Miami. Last week Michigan shut out BYU.
* Ask yourselves a question: based on what you've seen after five games, do you think Riley will restore Nebraska to past glory? If the answer is "yes," please share your reason(s). I'm looking for some optimism, but I fear that we are in year one of yet another five-year "rebuilding project" that will end up getting us no closer to where we want and need to be. And before some folks cue up the "you can get off the bandwagon now" arguments, I've been a fan through thick and thin (lots of thin the last 15 years). I'm not going anywhere, and I'll always support the Huskers.
Go Big Red!
* Thinking that Mike Riley was a poor choice for head coach is not the same as thinking Pelini should have stayed. Pelini was a jerk that was not going to get Nebraska back to championship-level football. That said, many posters questioned the wisdom of hiring Riley and letting him bring his crew from Corvalis. Those posters were shouted down in what can only be described as a mass exercise in groupthink.
* The team will be very lucky to make it to .500 this year. Given Nebraska's easy schedule, a returning qb, etc., such a result would be mind blowing. There is still hope that the ship will be righted, we'll catch a few breaks, or that we will knock off a good team. That's the best case scenario at this point: that the team gels later in the season and builds for next year.
* Time to stop moving the goalposts. When Riley was hired, the argument made by Eichorst (and many on this board) was simple: Riley has done some good things with poor facilities and poor recruits at Oregon State. When he comes to Nebraska and gets good athletes and good facilities, he'll have us humming along. Now the mantra has changed to: he needs to get his own recruits first. Yes, the team has been plagued by injuries. Not an excuse for mustering 13 points against Illinois.
* This was not supposed to be a rebuilding project. This was supposed to be a retooling project. Riley wasn't supposed to blow up the system and build from the ground up. He was supposed to come in like a good consultant, find inefficiencies, and get us over the hump. Riley inherited a program that was winning 9-10 games a year but getting blown out in games against good competition.
* Our close losses look even worse now. Cincinnati solidly beat Miami. Last week Michigan shut out BYU.
* Ask yourselves a question: based on what you've seen after five games, do you think Riley will restore Nebraska to past glory? If the answer is "yes," please share your reason(s). I'm looking for some optimism, but I fear that we are in year one of yet another five-year "rebuilding project" that will end up getting us no closer to where we want and need to be. And before some folks cue up the "you can get off the bandwagon now" arguments, I've been a fan through thick and thin (lots of thin the last 15 years). I'm not going anywhere, and I'll always support the Huskers.
Go Big Red!
