It's official......
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Asked in another thread but will ask here as well
as a team at the bottom of the big ten west are we getting good teams best shots?
have we become the classic trap game opponent and other teams show up expecting to sleep walk to a win and the games as a result end up being close
I wasn't overly inclined either way on Frost, but actually like that we ended up keeping him. I'm sick of the coaching carousel. For all the programs that works for, there are probably 5-10 that it doesn't.
We are VERY close as our stats prove and the staff changes may be all it takes to have a breakthrough. It's worth a shot in my opinion. Time will tell.
We are VERY close as our stats prove and the staff changes may be all it takes to have a breakthrough. It's worth a shot in my opinion. Time will tell.
Based on Vegas lines and opposing coaches’ comments I don’t think so. It really is just a unique case of a team that loses a ton of close games.
It’s the Illinois, Minnesota, and Purdue results that are the real head scratchers.
I think coaches know from watching our games that we are a very solid team. Day from OSU said that he thought we were one of if not the toughest team they would face.
I wouldn't say we are what other teams want to schedule as their Homecoming game, but I do think that teams are confident they will beat us so they play a more traditional, conservative game. The only team that really tried to get creative against us was Illinois.
I have no doubt that opposing coaches think we aren’t as ****** as our record. Good luck convincing teenage players on the other teams of this
More optimism comes from next year's schedule, if the coaching staff can eliminate the head-scratching mistakes:
- Northwestern loses much of its sad offensive depth, so don't expect much improvement there.
- North Dakota is an FCS school.
- Georgia Southern is a mid-level Sun Belt team.
- Oklahoma will lose at least 11 starters.
- Rutgers loses 14 starters.
- Indiana is horrible AND loses 16 starters, 10 of them on defense.
- Michigan loses only 9 starters.
- Minnesota loses 16 starters, 8 on each side of the ball.
- Wisconsin loses 14 starters.
- Purdue loses only 7 starters, so could actually be favored to win the division next year, along with Wisconsin and Iowa.
- Illinois loses only 7 starters.
- Iowa loses only 5 starters, and should be preseason favorites, along with Purdue and Wisconsin, to win the division.
Yeah that’s not gonna be easy, but you asked if we’re only hanging with these good teams because we’re being overlooked. I think the answer is no.
Are returning starters on a team that has finished at the bottom of the big ten west for 4 straight seasons good?
i don’t believe I said it was the only reason but I do not believe that Ohio state came into our game with the same focus as they did MSU
I have no doubt the coaches take every game seriously - human nature and experience dictates that college kids may not
I think as a program and a fanbase, we are the equivalent to a "punchable face." In other words, teams enjoy the **** out of beating us regardless of our record. Based upon how teams celebrate beating Nebraska still means something. It cracked me up how a sports writer from the Minneapolis paper basically said PJ is an average coach who has built his rep on beating bad Nebraska teams. Or something like that.
Maybe the Nebraska players this year didn't take the games seriously. Just playing devil's advocate.
Can't blame the coaches, right? Just human nature of young college athletes.
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No offense but you’re in the crowd of dumbest fookers ever if that’s what you think.
A few have mentioned that same sentiment, but why the **** would you stop the so called
Carousel on the worst coach in Neb history?
Pure idiocy logic. Cally and Riley were canned quickly with significantly better records yet people want to keep this clown because… some close losses?
Stupid. 12 one point losses is still 0-12.
I will preface this by saying, I thought it was time to move on from Frost. However, fixing the small things keeping this team from winning is very doable.
You call Antwill a "dumb fooker", yet your sentiment that all loses are equal is incredibly stupid. It is a hell of a lot easier to find one more point, than to find 40. The fact that he has lost close games doesn't mean he always has to. Heck, just this year we have lost by a total of 49 points and have given up 44 points on special teams alone. Wouldn't hiring an ace special teams coach go a long way to winning more games? Wouldn't hiring a better OL coach? Seems a lot easier than starting over with a new staff, yet again. And why the hell would the firing of some other coach 15 years ago factor into wether or not to keep this coach?
They are blood hungry vampires. They don't want nuance. They want their version of "justice"
Favorable comments from coaches who beat us nearly every time we play head to head doesn’t give me overwhelming confidence.