Look at what Iowa has done at home vs Big Ten teams this year. On the road they have been a$$ vs Michigan State and UCLA.
It’s amazing if you are optimistic about playing at Iowa.
UCLA is better than we thought
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It’s amazing if you are optimistic about playing at Iowa.
Even Purdue has been showing improvement. I don't think we'd beat them if we played today. In both seasons under Rhule, we've really regressed in the 2nd half of the season
Ouch! You’re right… next time I want to post something I’m always gonna start a new thread moving forward no matter how many threads about the topic are on the board.
Sorry my post bothered you enough you felt compelled to post about it.
Regressed is a soft way to put it. Indiana’s great team this year screwed our bowl chances up. Many knew that we needed 6 wins in the first 6 or 7 games because we’d fall apart down the stretch but Indiana got in the way. Them and Illinois. We had to get one of those. No, I don’t have any faith we will win another game. We are so soft that a bear would use our program to wipe its a$$.
Think i heard someone say they're the best 4-5 team in the country. LOL
Is that the UCLA team that's in Los Angeles?
To be sure, Bienemy has baggage and his coaching style isn’t for everyone I doubt though that he’s long for UCLA.
UCLA has lost to Oregon, Penn State, Indiana and LSU. Brutal schedule - 4 top 15 teams. Lost a close game to a pretty good Minnesota team for their 5th loss. Not saying UCLA is good because I don't think they are. But probably better than their record would indicate.
Does it matter? Or is this another one of those coping mechanisms us Husker fans have grown accustomed to?
I still feel like we’re going to make Iowa/Wisconsin look like the 1995 Huskers
Agreed on all points. ESPECIALLY the point about hiring good coordinators. You hire some good coordinators who you can trust you can actually stay outta the way and be a CEO type.
It's why I said Deion at Colorado would be as good as the coordinators he hires. That's still to be determined of course but back on topic I think foster at least hired a legit OC. Plus he has some skill talent left over and a pretty accurate QB who is starting to get it.
As a HC I understand the need to have your hands on the program but man having to "coach" an OC who has been that multiple times for you should probably tell you something.
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Meh...Gimme the better team with the most talent and I'll try and navigate the other stuff. Sure it matters but how much remains to be seen.
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If UCLA was still in the PAC-12, you would be telling us over and over and over again how pillow-soft they are.
Being a Big Ten SuperFan must be exhausting.
Bye week is just as bad as a loss. Damn we really need a win.
You Hawkeye lover 😆
...and if me and you can see it , and 85k+ in memorial stadium can see it,what are the chances that the opposing DC can see it??
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It looks pretty obvious to me that Satterfield is a below average OC and play caller. That won’t cut it with a freshman QB. It would be a struggle for a freshman even if he had a good OC. I firmly believe this team is a 7-8 win team with a better OC.
The entire coaching staff and players are below average. Except for the punter, he's legit.
They had 2 turnovers near the goal line. Score instead of turning it over and UCLA wins by a lot more. And Iowas LB playing QB was an improvement for them over their starter!
If you take away Iowa's turnovers, they win and probably win comfortably. It works both way.
No, it doesn’t work that way fook Iowa they need to lose every game.
The travel time between Los Angeles and Lincoln is only about three hours. It's not significant. When NU plays at Rutgers or Maryland it's similar and nobody cared about that in prior years.
After watching games this weekend I think NU is fully capable of winning out. Need better play-calling and no matter how many stars Raiola has he needs to play better. Hopefully Holgerson is having some effect there.
UCLA showed that if you shut down Iowa's run game they really don't have much. Wisconsin is pretty similar. USC is trying to right its own ship and tye fans there want to get rid of Riley.
Minus the homers, I think most people would agree. Once again, we get dominated by a shitty UCLA team and now the Husker faithful thinks UCLA is a playoff contender. Before they dominated our ass, they were an easy win. Now they are the shit. Blows my mind what a bunch of blind dipshits the fanbase has become.
A lot of the posts have zero objectivity. All emotion and extreme predictions based on perceptions in the moment. Opinions swing wildly from one game to the next. Most people that dug below the surface of UCLA's 2-5 record saw there was more going on and that record was a mirage. Minnesota goes from being trash to pretty good to trash in a matter of days. Same with Iowa and Wisconsin and Rutgers and every team not called Ohio St.
Some of this just comes down to matchups like mobile QBs and tempo offenses and the ability or lack thereof of stopping the run. And turnovers and penalties. NU can absolutely win all three of its remaining games but it needs to get the offense to stop misfiring and clean up details like perimeter blocking.
If UCLA didn’t throw that 2 interception which he threw it up for grabs, UCLA would have been up by 14 at half and your herkys only had 265 yards of total offense all night.
Head back to your clarkeye board your posts scream who your team is..
I had us going 6-6 - 7-5 this year. Never trusted Satterfield and I didn't trust the offensive line. But a case could be made that maybe our OL was the best offensive position this year...we have been horrid offensively.
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I don’t think the OL is the issue. They could be better but I see a deer in headlights at QB and a play caller that can’t get out of his own way. They are giving DR way more time to execute than they gave HH or Purdy last year
I had us at 7-8. I was concerned about a freshman QB but bought in too much to the propaganda. It’s another season of 2 plays a game costing us multiple wins.
I think the O line is good enough to win 8 games. My problem is some of the things Satt’s play design asks them to do in the run game. Either the design is awful OR we must telegraph to the defense where we’re running the ball.
Not remotely true. ONE change on staff would change things significantly.
Probably fair, I was looking at stats for the total big 10, and road teams were like 2-14 at one point, but we are the farthest west so the travel and time change effect is probably muted.
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