You got your feelings hurt when I rightfully criticized the HC.
If strangers with different opinions make you cry then close the laptop, grandma.
This is really long, so read it or not, makes no difference to me.
Since you're just a newbie as a Husker fan, and I'm one of your hated grandpa's, actually make that one of your hated great-grandpas in my case, after having watched about 750 Husker games. If you had been around long enough you would have been subject to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, the reality being the last chance we had to be great was in '09 with Suh, only to have the Texas game stolen by the officials. Is Matt Rhule gonna ever return us to even that '09 excellence? Not hardly.
I was 9 years old when I watched Devaney coach his first game at NU. By the time I was 12 we were playing for our first national title, only to lose. Us old guys watched us get drilled 47-0 by Oklahoma. That one was humbling. A couple years later, for two straight years we got ran off the field by Bear Bryant's Bama team.
The latter part of the 60's included being shut out at home by Kansas State. It remained uneventful until 1969. With the help of the officials we managed to steal an unwarranted win against Kansas and that launched us to the second wave of Husker greatness. The signal was tying USC in 1970 as NU reeled off about 33 wins in a row. For two years NU won the national title squeaking by LSU then running Bama off the field in the Orange Bowl.
We fans then had the pleasure of having our as*ses handed to us by Oklahoma for 6 straight years, mostly close games mixed in with 27-0 and 38-7 a*s whippings. We finally reached euphoria in '78 beating the dreaded Sooners in Lincoln, only to be rewarded with a re-match in the Orange Bowl.
The 80's began as the program got better and then in 1982 we had a game stolen by us with Penn State, a game that cost us a national title. We came back even stronger and played a year or so later only to come us short again against Clemson. So, yeah, over the years there's been some tough days. We followed that up by our unsuccessful 2 point conversion against Miami while playing again for the national title. At that point, I was now 30 years old, about the same as you are now, so now us old timers have seen a bit more water under the bridge than you'll ever experience following this team.
You might even vaguely remember in 2004 when NU was humiliated by Texas Tech 70-10. I remember it well, so do many others, difference is we didn't just read about it, we watched it in real time. You notice I went right past the '93'-'97 seasons as we played for the national title 5 times and won it 3 times. Those days seem like 100 years ago.
For the most part, the last 15 years have been a waste of time and energy. We've been through 5 coaches, each one so far out of their league it's been pathetic. Now we have a really good man in Matt Rhule, no doubt just an average coach. A coach who can't seem to get his assistants to do what he wants them to do. Does anyone think Osborne would let a DC call a vanilla game on defense as we are being gouged by a decent, far from great, Minnesota team? Or have an offensive game plan that would yield 2 field goals against the same team that was just drilled by OSU 42-3?
You show me a coach who won't TELL HIS ASSISTANTS, this is how it's gonna be, and I'll show you a career .500 coach. The head man doesn't have to be a sonofabitch, but the assistants damn well better know who the boss is, what the boss wants, and then let them go off and do their own thing during a game and expect to work here next year.
I don't think any of us expect miracles in this day of parity and unequal NIL money. But, this bullsh*t of not showing up on a Friday night by a squad of entitled little sh*ts against a team that is totally beatable and get embarrassed is the latest chapter of this program. A coach can't talk about being physical with a commitment to running the ball, then show through actions that its nothing more than lip service.
The team has a chance Saturday to regroup, if they do or not remains to be seen. The question is does the head man and his assistants have what it takes to keep this thing from going in the ditch? Do the players have what it takes to rise up and beat a decent NW team? If they don't NU is gonna get their dicks knocked in the dirt the next 5 games.
I hope you enjoyed this little rant, because its what decades of following a team can do to long time fans. So the coach wants people to dig deeper in their pockets to help this program move forward, the first step to doing that is proving on the field that it's even worth donating a dollar. To me, it looks like a million miles away to ever be good again, or at least, until we find THE RIGHT coach. We know we have Matt for 2 more years, and I expect more of the same.
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