Sky is not falling

[Jim14510]

4 yo woke up this morning and asked if Nebraska won.
Told him no.

He promptly told me he wants to be an Indiana fan because they beat the duck team

He'll come around eventually.

 

[dom91932]

4 yo woke up this morning and asked if Nebraska won.
Told him no.

He promptly told me he wants to be an Indiana fan because they beat the duck team

 

[Jim14510]

On the plus side we could have Peepants as a coach where beating #15 Nebraska was a great win for the program. His words.

 

[Herbie]

On the plus side we could have Peepants as a coach where beating #15 Nebraska was a great win for the program. His words.

Maybe it’s a hot take but I like fleck.

He does a lot with not much on his roster

 

[Jim14510]

Maybe it’s a hot take but I like fleck.

He does a lot with not much on his roster

He doesnt have much on his roster because he's a douche.

 

[Havoc34]

He doesnt have much on his roster because he's a douche.

Who also wins football games and has been been making Nebraska his bitch for years

 

[V-Doub]

Who also wins football games and has been been making Nebraska his bitch for years

Well, to be fair that list would include at least 4 or 5 active B1G coaches…

Spoiler

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

This really made me stop and think.

I love Willy c but he might be on drugs

 

[Irv]

The sky isn’t falling because thing aren’t worse - it’s just the same shit it’s always been.

The defining characteristics of the post-Osborne years are that:

1. We do not beat teams we aren’t supposed to.

2. We lose at least some to teams we aren’t supposed to.

That combination is a laser-guided missile to destroy hope, especially when it repeats itself for two decades.

Every week, for 20 years, we can turn on the tv and watch some team pull off an upset, and give their fans hope that their program could be better.

But never Nebraska.

Teams that are always in danger of losing to teams they should beat, but are not in any way a threat to defeat the teams they are theoretically chasing, are a fucking chore to support.

 

[ChocaEgg]

I love Willy c but he might be on drugs

Gotta be hard drugs with that take

 

[Flabio]

This really made me stop and think.

 

[BorWhiskey]

1. We do not beat teams we aren’t supposed to.

2. We lose at least some to teams we aren’t supposed to.

I’m pretty sure I made this point after losing to Michigan so I apologize for repeating myself… but the above is what 95% of teams go thru. Only the elite teams don’t because they don’t have to worry about #1.

It’s hard to win.

The unbiased market thought we were a 7-8 win team. Wanting more as a fan is totally fine. Thats what we do. But we raise the bar on what the team is capable of and get angry when that isn’t met. Again that’s what being a fan is all about. Doesn’t mean it’s rational.

Hitting the market expectations are still very much in play. You don’t need to be happy with that but I just recommend we don’t fall into depression over not exceeding those expectations,

I think we’ve hit the under every year since 2016 as well.

 

[Mood4NU]

Only possible win left is Northwestern and that is a long shot

😂 no

 

[ChocaEgg]

😂 no

 

[Irv]

I’m pretty sure I made this point after losing to Michigan so I apologize for repeating myself… but the above is what 95% of teams go thru. Only the elite teams don’t because they don’t have to worry about #1.

It’s hard to win.

The unbiased market thought we were a 7-8 win team. Wanting more as a fan is totally fine. Thats what we do. But we raise the bar on what the team is capable of and get angry when that isn’t met. Again that’s what being a fan is all about. Doesn’t mean it’s rational.

Hitting the market expectations are still very much in play. You don’t need to be happy with that but I just recommend we don’t fall into depression over not exceeding those expectations,

I think we’ve hit the under every year since 2016 as well.

I appreciate what you’re saying, but I don’t find it comforting that in year 3 of a highly paid coaching tenure, with a schedule that avoids the 3 national title contenders in our conference and has 2 cupcake wins guaranteed, that our expectation should be 7 wins, and that a 24-6 bed-shitting vs Minnesota should fit squarely within those minimal expectations.

 

[dom91932]

I appreciate what you’re saying, but I don’t find it comforting that in year 3 of a highly paid coaching tenure, with a schedule that avoids the 3 national title contenders in our conference and has 2 cupcake wins guaranteed, that our expectation should be 7 wins, and that a 24-6 bed-shitting vs Minnesota should fit squarely within those minimal expectations.

In that poll from after the MSU game: https://theplatinumboard.com/threads/what-game-scares-you-most-these-next-2.17175/ nearly 70% said we would lose one of the last two games.

For me it's not so much that we lost but the way we lost. We were beat up and looked unprepared. The level of ineptitude and incompetence on display was something that should never have happened at this stage in the program.

 

[Deckard_26354]

We can’t run the ball or stop the opponent from doing so. In the B1G. In year 4. NU is cooked. HCMR is a nice guy, good ambassador but as a HC he is drastically overrated.

 

[Irv]

In that poll from after the MSU game: https://theplatinumboard.com/threads/what-game-scares-you-most-these-next-2.17175/ nearly 70% said we would lose one of the last two games.

For me it's not so much that we lost but the way we lost. We were beat up and looked unprepared. The level of ineptitude and incompetence on display was something that should never have happened at this stage in the program.

I don’t think 70% of people were voting that the expectation in year 3 is that you can’t possibly beat unranked Maryland and Minnesota on the road back to back.

I think 70% of people were voting that they have been battered into assuming we’d find some way to fuck things up.

 

[Pipe Line]

This past week from Maryland to last night was the full Husker experience.

My problem is this, when culture shit with Rhule is preached the way it is, that shouldn’t be the case at this point in his tenure

 

[Pipe Line]

Maybe it’s a hot take but I like fleck.

He does a lot with not much on his roster

Hate him and his antics. Love his football culture