Next year’s schedule ??
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Is next years schedule all that tough?
We don’t play a power 5 non conference opponent.
I wonder if Bill, knowing the murderous schedule next year, will again set the bar at 6 wins.
I see where lots of people are saying the Huskers should start next season 7-0. I suspect that is possible but right now it is just as likely to be 2-5. My belief is it will be somewhere in between those two extremes! For that to happen the program is going to have to become a team and the one for all and all for one attitude is going to have to come back. No matter what anyone says the attitude of a team starts at the top and with leadership. Top being Head Coach and leadership being the captains. The captains have to have the respect of the whole team. Hopefully those things happen and the Huskers become an ALL FOR ONE ONE FOR ALL TEAM again!
so out of the 150 players in the team, maybe 20 will play in the league. What are the chances that one of those 20 plays for the Bills?
good point
jeez in 2021 we have OU- OSU-mich-MSU We still have Iowa and Wisc (not sure it matters if we have them at home or not)
2022 - OU and Michigan - maybe 2022 is the year. Wait...North Dakota is on the schedule - is that the school from North Dakota that is good in football? I sure hope not
Yes, it doesn't matter who we play, win or the coach is incompetent. Beat everybody, call the plays that work, unacceptable, no excuses!!!!
Last five games are a substantial step up from the prior seven. As I see things, NU needs to work on NU and stop the worriment over the schedule. Based upon the play in 2019, CMU is a possible L, Perdue and Cincy are tossups. If NU decides to get back to basics and gets a run game going out of the gate, the team is 7-0 going into the Shoe. The other parts of Frost's offense operate optimally only if a basic run games exists, not the other way around.
we don’t lose to CMU or Cincy - we lost to Troy in year 1. I can’t remember a Nebraska staff that has 2 nonpower 5 losses on its resume - does Frankie? Riley and Callahan only have one
I'm guessing Moos means that he wishes we had some really difficult games at home again next year, when we hope to be better. Going to Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio State should be losses from today's perspective, but we'd have a fighting chance at home. Swap out Indiana for Penn State, and you have a much more difficult home game there. And Cincinnati is currently a better team than Colorado, at least according to rankings and power indices, but it's a home game versus the roadie in Boulder.
In short, the top 11 opponents from this year (dropping USA to account for SDSU not being an FBS team) have an average ranking of 50. Next year's top 11 opponents have an average ranking of 46, according to the ESPN Football Power Index, where Nebraska is ranked 50th.
That means we played five games this year against teams ranked ahead of us, four of those games were in Lincoln, and we lost all four. We won all three home games against teams ranked below us, and we went 2-2 in road games against those teams.
Next year, we'll play six teams ranked ahead of us currently (subject to change, obviously).
In short, the top 11 opponents from this year (dropping USA to account for SDSU not being an FBS team) have an average ranking of 50. Next year's top 11 opponents have an average ranking of 46, according to the ESPN Football Power Index, where Nebraska is ranked 50th.
That means we played five games this year against teams ranked ahead of us, four of those games were in Lincoln, and we lost all four. We won all three home games against teams ranked below us, and we went 2-2 in road games against those teams.
Next year, we'll play six teams ranked ahead of us currently (subject to change, obviously).
- Of those six, three are at home — PSU, Minnesota, Cincinnati.
- Winning at least one of those is imperative.
- Winning two would be good.
- Winning all three would be awesome.
- Three of those games are road games — OSU, Wisconsin, Iowa.
- Winning even one of those games would be a triumph.
- Of those six, two are on the road, where we should have a chance at 2-0 (Northwestern and Rutgers).
- The other four are at home (Purdue, Illinois, Central Michigan and SDSU), and it's high time the Huskers started treating Memorial Stadium like the sacred ground that it is.
- Ohio State (1)
- Wisconsin (9)
- Iowa (16)
- @ Minnesota (19)
- Indiana (36)
- @ Purdue (63)
- @ Illinois (65)
- @ Colorado (68)
- Northwestern (75)
- @ Maryland (90)
- Northern Illinois (106)
- South Alabama (122)
- @ Ohio State (1)
- @ Wisconsin (9)
- Penn State (10)
- @ Iowa (16)
- Minnesota (19)
- Cincinnati (41)
- Purdue (63)
- Illinois (65)
- @ Northwestern (75)
- Central Michigan (88)
- @ Rutgers (118)
- South Dakota State (NR)
I was a guy this year who thought we would start 4-0 and have some momentum going into Ohio State...based on how we played them a year ago, I thought we would have a chance to beat the Bucknuts at home and then with momentum behind us, we would really take off....I was obviously drunk on hype and served a large piece of humble pie.
My expectation for next year's schedule is that we will be better than this year, but I'm not going to have any inflated expectations going in...while it's quite possible we could start 7-0, I could just as easily see us going 4-3 or worse to start. Not to sound like a Tommie Frazier, but I'll reserve excitement when I see it on the field
My expectation for next year's schedule is that we will be better than this year, but I'm not going to have any inflated expectations going in...while it's quite possible we could start 7-0, I could just as easily see us going 4-3 or worse to start. Not to sound like a Tommie Frazier, but I'll reserve excitement when I see it on the field
We should be expecting at least 9 wins - people keep talking about hype - if you ask me there hasn’t been enough hype or expectations around here
See, here's the difference between us. I like that. Moos is having fun, he's showing confidence in the program. If we don't beat OU, I'm not going to be pissed at Moos for saying this three years prior. You look at it like a blood contract. "Moos promised us we would beat OU and we didn't, he is a liar. He isn't even living up to his own standard. Here is a comparison to some other AD that took over and beat OU. Fire everyone."
He was wrong. The Big Ten media were wrong. Most of us were wrong. We're now dealing with it, and we certainly hope Coach Frost is doing the same and working to improve. As a journalist, I can tell you never to pay attention to whom journalists think is going to win a game, a conference title or a national championship. We're just not that smart.
again - we are a blue blood - we should have blue blood expectations. The expectations have been far too low around here
man there are a lot of people lowering standards and expectations with hope that maybe they can be met
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Im beginning to tire of his schtick. But he got us Hoiberg and for that I am grateful.
100% correct sir! Extremely well stated. I'd bet the ranch HCSF wants that as bad as we do.
I am aware. As another poster stated, he was wrong, dead wrong. Now it's a 4 to 5 year rebuild, at least that's the narrative. Sure, there is plenty of spin going on to try to make it look less embarrassing for Frost, but like it or not, he's not going anywhere, and so you should try to relax, this is where we are at the moment. What do you need to hear? That Frost, to date, has been much more bark than bite? It's true, but I don't really see a bunch of people talking about the great job that he's doing. I don't really care for the idea of having to wait 2 or 3 more years before we can expect to be good, because to some extent it is silly, so I kind of laugh at it and have a little fun with it. Maybe you should try a different approach in order to deal with it.
what makes you think I’m not having fun?
the 180 of spin from the hire and even heading into year 2 until now is quite amusing
Next years non-conf schedule is tougher than this years based on this years performances. Nothing saying there won't be a drop off, but Cinc is certainly better than CU and has been a top 20ish team the last 2 years. The other non-conf games are playing for conf championships this year. So hardly bottom dwellers. The 2nd half of the schedule is clearly harder than this year with so many away games.
this thread got popular quick. I’d say the results say he’s good. I don’t even need to open the thread to know what it will contain.