The Quiet Part, Said Aloud
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Agree with this take. We all want to be Elite but the worst thing was the near 25 year coaching carousel of bad coaches like OP stated. A rebuild was necessary and like or not we are stuck in the Big-10. We have to build the roster to fit the Big-10. We have the QB and WRs. Really need another RB and some dudes on both O-line and D-line to take it to another level.
I hated moving to the Big 10 but it is what it is. We can’t leave now. There is no reason we can’t be successful in this conference. Barry Alvarez ruled this conference for a while. Iowa wins 8-10 games a year. If you can’t recruit 5* players then you have to coach up the ones you recruit. The biggest thing I don’t understand, is how our coaches thought our offensive line and defensive line could compete with big time programs.
Yet both Texas and Oklahoma are finding success. The SEC doesn’t show blatant favoritism towards their original members like the BIG. Their only priority is striving to be the best football conference in the country.
I like the freshmen and redshirt freshmen linemen we’ve recruited but damn it’s tough to start 2 year guys in your lines in the P4. People need to chill and let this season play out. Those young guys got a lot of snaps against Akron and HCU but it’s unrealistic to expect them to supplant experienced starters. Tackle is where we need better play and that would be asking a lot of a freshman.
What is our record in November over the last 10 years?
I think sense is going to win out eventually. The power 4 will form 2 conferences, then one. Then divisions will be created out of the conferences that are regional, and we will be in a division with Colorado, Kansas State, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa State, Iowa. Winner goes to the playoff, and the others compete for a wild card spot. This temporary madness, will be just that...the costs of travel, of losing attendance and viewership due to lack historical hatred is going to weigh on the sport.
just an example:
60% of Michigan's starting OL are Redshirt Freshmen or Sophomores
100% of Michigan's 2nd team OL are True/Redshirt Freshmen or Sophomores
this line of thinking is antiquated
The SEC literally bent over and gave Texas the easiest schedule possible last year.....
How so? They lost to Georgia twice, once in the regular season and once in conference championship.
Idk...it just kinda gets old to me. Not only that but it usually happens right after Nebraska loses a tough game. People coming out of the woodworks with these things. It reeks of tucking your tail and running because you can't win. I could be wrong tho....
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Agreed, at least it's a bit different this time talking about the SEC instead of the Big 12. Big 12 sucked when we were in it and has only gotten worse. There were many good reasons that we left and went to the B1G.
Now if someone wants to lament on the good old days in the BIG 8 then I'd agree with them.
If Nebraska would start winning more games and not losing 28 in a row to ranked teams, or losing to lousy iowa at the end of each season, they might gain some value and respect. Until then..
Sure, but I don’t see it happening this year unless drastic changes and improvements are made this season.
Not following the logic we should have joined an even harder conference..back then, it was the NFL lite..and has been till bout 2ish years ago. I think people who blame any of our lack of success on not gong to the SEC are just living in a different reality than I am...and now, at this point, less than zero chance it happens and just having this discussion seems odd. We look like babies.
...and this coming from somebody who never wanted to join the B1G, but we're here now. No reason we can't make the best of it
...and this coming from somebody who never wanted to join the B1G, but we're here now. No reason we can't make the best of it
If Indiana can succeed in the B1G then NU can as well.
Check the rest of their conference games and the standings of those teams.
Bunch of liberals and also the weirdos in Iowa and Wisconsin to deal with.
You may think Nebraska is a good fit, but the original conference members don’t. They resent the “new” members including Penn State. Bunch of arrogant pr!cks at the original members.
Well…you’re definitely on the right board….you lasted all of three days on The Platinum Board before getting banned.
Have fun in the S. Callahan ghetto.
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Not only is it antiquated it’s just another excuse. I’m sick of watching everyone else have success at some point. Now here we are where people are making posts of being in a conference division with Iowa Iowa State Kansas KState. I’m not living in the past but thoughts like that make me want to vomit. For christs sake that’s who we are now. Too many people along the way in the program didn’t give a f- - k about positive results.
Seriously? LOLWell…you’re definitely on the right board….you lasted all of three days on The Platinum Board before getting banned.
Have fun in the S. Callahan ghetto.
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“Banned”
more like petitioned by the softest coward ***** to ever walk the earth
A grown man so precious about his echo chamber he happily offered what minimal dignity he had left to protect it
Those guys were being recruited by Harbaugh as they were contending for national championships. Our redshirt freshmen and sophomores were being recruited while we were in a 6 year losing record streak. Do you believe we were able to recruit the same caliber of linemen that Made Chicano was getting at that time?
The entire conference is like that
every team has 1st-3rd year OL all over their 2-deep
Especially from a coach (Rhule) who only talks about the trenches of the Big Ten.
Didn't read every word of every post, but are there really people who think the B1G is good for NU? Other than a little extra money that has amounted to jack **** for us? Seems like a lot of people in here arguing with the OP. The move to the B1G has been the single worst mistake NU has ever made and it's not even close. How dumb do you have to be not to see that?
You're apparently one of the brainwashed people who think it's a good thing. Sorry my post made you feel (more) retarded.
Quite a few things that are big mistakes.
Osborne promising to retire so Solich could become HC.
Forming the Big 12 with the 4 SWC teams, they should have joined the Big 8 with the Big 8 rules, Formation of the BIg 12 was a colossal mistake that started a lot of this crap.
Frankly I don't think moving to the B1G was a mistake, I think it is a better place to be than the SEC and certainly much better than staying in the Big 12.
For certain we are better off than having stayed in the Big 12, it is a shell of the conference that we left. At that point in time moving to the Big Ten wasn’t a mistake…..15 years later looking at results says that it was but we escaped instability and drama around the big 12 fallinh apart.
Absolutely not. NU doesn't belong in the SEC and we'd find huge disconnect in culture.
NU has way more in common with the B10 than SEC.
Devaney was right to push us towards the B10
NU has way more in common with the B10 than SEC.
Devaney was right to push us towards the B10
really we should be in the ivy league but the big 10 will do for now.
I'm pretty sure calvinists founded harvard, princeton, Nebraska and yale.
I'm pretty sure calvinists founded harvard, princeton, Nebraska and yale.