To this day, I am still trying to figure out how we lost that game. The best defense I have seen since 2009, and much like the several games that year, the lack of complimentary football doomed us.
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Breaking ***TPB Exclusive: Scrote Stats***
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The team is always on the lookout for good talent, though. Wide receivers coach Mickey Joseph gave an explainer this week.
"Coaching can't overcome recruiting. You can't win with bad players,” Joseph said. “You got to have good players to win. I always joke with them, ‘See, I'm not that good of a coach, I need talent.’
“I need you to be a talented kid. Because at the end of the day, you’re playing Power Five football. It's not that the kids will give the most effort and the least talented kids gonna win. You need talent to win. That's why I'm down in Louisiana recruiting.”
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Is it bad that I really don’t remember most of these considering they’re all about the same and all run together?
I seriously have zero recollection of last years Purdoodoo game.
I seriously have zero recollection of last years Purdoodoo game.
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I’m usually so pissed off drunk by the time the game ends I don’t remember shit
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Mickey and his wife are on my shit list unless we win now. All I want is 22 WN fullbacks at every position but winning is first and foremost.
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22 days.
Reflection on Loss #22. Oklahoma 23 Nebraska 16.
Despite having declared that Nebraska would travel to Uzbekistan to play a game the season prior, Coach Scrote tried to pull the old switcheroo and get OU off the schedule in favor of an (allegedly) much more winnable game with the Old Dominion Monarchs. Despite Coach Scrote's best effort, Nebraska traveled down to Norman, let OU score on the first possession, and trailed all afternoon en route to a 7 point loss. Special teams was an absolute eyesore with several missed field goals and a blocked extra point getting returned for 2 basically making the difference in the game. To his credit, Martinez outdueled Spencer Rattler which seemed like an accomplishment at the time, but then ole boy turned out to be muff cabbage and took his talents to South (Carolina) Beach.
Scrote Stat #8: The Scrotums like to point to Coach Scrote's incredible ability to lose close games as evidence that he's not a completely garbage coach. But let's scrutinize the claim a bit further. You all probably know that Coach Scrote lost 9 games by single digits last year including 8 1 possession games. But did you know that in those 540 game minutes, Nebraska only had the lead for a total of 107 minutes and 15 seconds or about 19.9% of total minutes. Even worse, Nebraska only led for a majority of the game in the loss against Cockeye, which totals about half of the total lead time at 54:37. But don't avert your eyes quite yet folks, we're not done. Nebraska only led for more than a half, total of 30 minutes, against Cockeye and Purdoodoo. And only led for more than a quarter, 15 minutes, against Michigan State and the two aforementioned teams. But wait, there's more. Nebraska never led against Oklahoma, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio State. So you tell me, are we close or are we only close on paper?
Reflection on Loss #22. Oklahoma 23 Nebraska 16.
Despite having declared that Nebraska would travel to Uzbekistan to play a game the season prior, Coach Scrote tried to pull the old switcheroo and get OU off the schedule in favor of an (allegedly) much more winnable game with the Old Dominion Monarchs. Despite Coach Scrote's best effort, Nebraska traveled down to Norman, let OU score on the first possession, and trailed all afternoon en route to a 7 point loss. Special teams was an absolute eyesore with several missed field goals and a blocked extra point getting returned for 2 basically making the difference in the game. To his credit, Martinez outdueled Spencer Rattler which seemed like an accomplishment at the time, but then ole boy turned out to be muff cabbage and took his talents to South (Carolina) Beach.
Scrote Stat #8: The Scrotums like to point to Coach Scrote's incredible ability to lose close games as evidence that he's not a completely garbage coach. But let's scrutinize the claim a bit further. You all probably know that Coach Scrote lost 9 games by single digits last year including 8 1 possession games. But did you know that in those 540 game minutes, Nebraska only had the lead for a total of 107 minutes and 15 seconds or about 19.9% of total minutes. Even worse, Nebraska only led for a majority of the game in the loss against Cockeye, which totals about half of the total lead time at 54:37. But don't avert your eyes quite yet folks, we're not done. Nebraska only led for more than a half, total of 30 minutes, against Cockeye and Purdoodoo. And only led for more than a quarter, 15 minutes, against Michigan State and the two aforementioned teams. But wait, there's more. Nebraska never led against Oklahoma, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio State. So you tell me, are we close or are we only close on paper?
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I would have left early when Wisconsin murdered us (forget what year, think it was snowing) but I was deer hunting that night and there’s no leaving early in deer hunting.
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Close doesn’t have to mean we led. Someone has to score first and it wasn’t us much of the time. But we stayed with them even though we weren’t at their level talent wise (or were we?). So yes, we were close because we kept it close. And so yes, some small improvements in some areas can mean that we win those games.
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So it was for real bothering me I couldn’t remember shit about this game, so I just watched a 20 minute condensed version on YouTube. I somehow still have zero recollection of having watched this live, though I know I did. Anyway, Here’s what I learned:
-Martinez threw 4 INTs, including a pick six. His third one really did us in.
-Defense couldn’t get a stop when they HAD to have it.
-Purdoodoo missed two chip shot FGs that would have ended this game much earlier.
-Garbage time TD so we can all celebrate another “close loss”
-despite all the above, we still had an onside kick hit our dude in the hands while down 5 with 1:00 left, but couldn’t recover it. Game over.
Just in case anyone else forgot like me.
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21 days
Reflection on Loss #21: Illinois 30, Nebraska 22. August 28, 2021.
Congratulations! You've made it through all 9 absolutely agonizing losses from last season. Let me take you young whippersnappers back in time in Baron's time machine. The year was 2021 and Nebraska was coming off one of the worst years in program history with a 3-6 season and the Husker internet was a buzz with how Frost's boys had a chip on their shoulder due to trumped up charges from the NCAA and the big ten allegedly screwing them on the schedule every season. Corch Scrote had an absolutely gimme against the Beefy Bort in his first game at the helm with the fighting Illinois to open the season and had spent all offseason greatly improving special teams which had been a disaster in 2020.
The Husker got off track early with Cam Taylor Britt fielding a punt on his own inch line and retreating into the end zone for a safety. It got worse before halftime with an Adrian Martinez fumble that the Illini returned 6. Despite knocking out Michigan transfer Brandon Peters for the game, the Chinfense let Illinois play ball control all day and KING Artur Sitkowski of Buttgers fame had a career day en route to an Illinois win. Nebraska scored a late TD to make it look... err... respectable? I mean as respectable as any loss to a first year coach in his first game at a shit tier football school like Illinois can be
Scrote Stat #9: For this stat, we return to blue blood programs. Basically by definition, blue blood programs don't retain total fucking losers. They just don't because blue bloods win and losers lose. Sucks to suck as they say in junior high school. But every rule has it's exceptions so for this Scrote Stat, we look at the last time each blue blood school retained a coach after a 3 win season in his 3rd season or later. That's right, you get two freebies, but if the rubber doesn't meet the road in year 3, what's the point of your continued existence?
USC: Larry Smith. 3-8. 1991. Larry Smith got off to a red hot start at USC rattling off 3 Pac 10 titles in his first 3 season. He took a step back to 8-4 in year 4 and then the bottom fell out in 1991 with a 3-8 season. He rebounded in 1992 to go 6-4-1 and was dismissed after losing the Freedom bowl with 3 years left on his deal.
Texas: never retained a 3 win coach.
Oklahoma: Bud Wilkinson. 3-6-1. 1960. He had his 3 win season in year 14 of his tenure. It snapped a streak of 13 conference championships in a row that had 3 national titles peppered in at tasteful intervals.
Alabama: never.
Ohio State: John Wilce. 3-4-1. 1923. He followed it up with a 2 win season and then coaches a couple more before retiring from the game. He ended up becoming a physician and university professor at Ohio State and was inducted into the college football HOF in the 1950s. Interestingly, he coined the phrase "intestinal fortitude" something Coach Scrote's teams tend to lack.
Michigan. Bump Elliott. 3-4-2. 1963. He bounced back the next year with a conference.title and a Rose Bowl and then gave way to Bo Schembechler.
Notre Dame. Cholly Weis. 3-9. 2007. His gastric bypass took about as well as his coaching career did after this season. Two more at ND, a few years cashing checks from KU and that was all she wrote for Mr. Weis.
Reflection on Loss #21: Illinois 30, Nebraska 22. August 28, 2021.
Congratulations! You've made it through all 9 absolutely agonizing losses from last season. Let me take you young whippersnappers back in time in Baron's time machine. The year was 2021 and Nebraska was coming off one of the worst years in program history with a 3-6 season and the Husker internet was a buzz with how Frost's boys had a chip on their shoulder due to trumped up charges from the NCAA and the big ten allegedly screwing them on the schedule every season. Corch Scrote had an absolutely gimme against the Beefy Bort in his first game at the helm with the fighting Illinois to open the season and had spent all offseason greatly improving special teams which had been a disaster in 2020.
The Husker got off track early with Cam Taylor Britt fielding a punt on his own inch line and retreating into the end zone for a safety. It got worse before halftime with an Adrian Martinez fumble that the Illini returned 6. Despite knocking out Michigan transfer Brandon Peters for the game, the Chinfense let Illinois play ball control all day and KING Artur Sitkowski of Buttgers fame had a career day en route to an Illinois win. Nebraska scored a late TD to make it look... err... respectable? I mean as respectable as any loss to a first year coach in his first game at a shit tier football school like Illinois can be
Scrote Stat #9: For this stat, we return to blue blood programs. Basically by definition, blue blood programs don't retain total fucking losers. They just don't because blue bloods win and losers lose. Sucks to suck as they say in junior high school. But every rule has it's exceptions so for this Scrote Stat, we look at the last time each blue blood school retained a coach after a 3 win season in his 3rd season or later. That's right, you get two freebies, but if the rubber doesn't meet the road in year 3, what's the point of your continued existence?
USC: Larry Smith. 3-8. 1991. Larry Smith got off to a red hot start at USC rattling off 3 Pac 10 titles in his first 3 season. He took a step back to 8-4 in year 4 and then the bottom fell out in 1991 with a 3-8 season. He rebounded in 1992 to go 6-4-1 and was dismissed after losing the Freedom bowl with 3 years left on his deal.
Texas: never retained a 3 win coach.
Oklahoma: Bud Wilkinson. 3-6-1. 1960. He had his 3 win season in year 14 of his tenure. It snapped a streak of 13 conference championships in a row that had 3 national titles peppered in at tasteful intervals.
Alabama: never.
Ohio State: John Wilce. 3-4-1. 1923. He followed it up with a 2 win season and then coaches a couple more before retiring from the game. He ended up becoming a physician and university professor at Ohio State and was inducted into the college football HOF in the 1950s. Interestingly, he coined the phrase "intestinal fortitude" something Coach Scrote's teams tend to lack.
Michigan. Bump Elliott. 3-4-2. 1963. He bounced back the next year with a conference.title and a Rose Bowl and then gave way to Bo Schembechler.
Notre Dame. Cholly Weis. 3-9. 2007. His gastric bypass took about as well as his coaching career did after this season. Two more at ND, a few years cashing checks from KU and that was all she wrote for Mr. Weis.
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20 days.
Reflection on Loss 20. Minnesota 24-Nebraska 2017. December 2020.
The COVID year created many bizarre topsy turvy situations that the Big Red and America had to take on stride. Thee world was very unpredictable, but in chaotic times we can always fall back on the stability of Daddy PJ clowning coach Scrote with a not sexy ball control football that breaks the will of the Chinfense and this day was no exception. Coach Scrote returned Adrian Martinez back to the starting lineup only to inexplicably put Luke McCaffery in on the first drive and proceeded to ask him to throw the ball resulting in an early interception. Minnesota got the Big Red down and kept.them down the entire game, something that you might not be shocked to learn would be one a staple of Coach Scrote's 2021 team. Ibrahim went over the century mark and Nebraska was outpossessed 38-22 minutes(ish) in a forgettable day for Coach Scrote.
Lattimer reminded me that Ole PJer was down 30 players that day. How embarrassing
Scrote Stat #10: Some staples of the Scrotefense have been going fast, turning the ball over, not scoring points, and putting up a lot of yards that don't matter. Now we all know that lots of factors contribute to the yards per point stat including things like terrible special teams not getting you great field position and turning the ball over a bunch to kill drives but did you know that Coach Scrote's offenses at Nebraska have never finished inside.the top 75 in yards per point, including particularly ghastly number last year where Nebraska accumulated an 111th 16.7 yards per point. For the dumber posters among us, e.g. Jim, big numbers are bad
Reflection on Loss 20. Minnesota 24-Nebraska 2017. December 2020.
The COVID year created many bizarre topsy turvy situations that the Big Red and America had to take on stride. Thee world was very unpredictable, but in chaotic times we can always fall back on the stability of Daddy PJ clowning coach Scrote with a not sexy ball control football that breaks the will of the Chinfense and this day was no exception. Coach Scrote returned Adrian Martinez back to the starting lineup only to inexplicably put Luke McCaffery in on the first drive and proceeded to ask him to throw the ball resulting in an early interception. Minnesota got the Big Red down and kept.them down the entire game, something that you might not be shocked to learn would be one a staple of Coach Scrote's 2021 team. Ibrahim went over the century mark and Nebraska was outpossessed 38-22 minutes(ish) in a forgettable day for Coach Scrote.
Lattimer reminded me that Ole PJer was down 30 players that day. How embarrassing
Scrote Stat #10: Some staples of the Scrotefense have been going fast, turning the ball over, not scoring points, and putting up a lot of yards that don't matter. Now we all know that lots of factors contribute to the yards per point stat including things like terrible special teams not getting you great field position and turning the ball over a bunch to kill drives but did you know that Coach Scrote's offenses at Nebraska have never finished inside.the top 75 in yards per point, including particularly ghastly number last year where Nebraska accumulated an 111th 16.7 yards per point. For the dumber posters among us, e.g. Jim, big numbers are bad
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You forgot that Daddy PJ was down something like 30 players that game as well.
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It's so hard to keep track of reasons why Frost's embarrassing losses on paper were actually way worse at the time
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I remember before that game a buddy was texting me that, they're down 30 scholarship players, "We're going to roll the row the boaters." Safe to say, the oar went the other way.
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19 Days
Reflection on Loss 19. Cockeye 26, Nebraska 20.
You can basically set your watch to Coach Scrote dropping close games against Cockeye and 2020 was no exception. I could waste your time regaling you with boring things like Nebraska muffing a punt to set up Cockeye points, Cockeye leaning on Nebraska until they broke in the 2nd half and then playing keep away, and Martinez fumbling the game away at the Cockeye 38 yard line. But it seems like a better use of my time to remind you that this was the day that Scrote cemented his legacy as a sniveling whiny bitch for crying about clapping on the Cockeye sidelines disrupting the snap. Walk loudly and carry a same penor as Churchill or someone used to say.
Scrote Stat #11: I've got a.busy day so I can't do a deep dive on embarrassing stats but I'll share with you a wikipedia page edit that was made by some PATRIOT. "After four seasons, Frost's coaching record at Nebraska is 15–29, with a 10–25 record in the Big Ten conference and an 0–14 record against ranked opponents. He is the first Nebraska Cornhusker head coach to have four consecutive losing seasons since Bill Jennings."
Reflection on Loss 19. Cockeye 26, Nebraska 20.
You can basically set your watch to Coach Scrote dropping close games against Cockeye and 2020 was no exception. I could waste your time regaling you with boring things like Nebraska muffing a punt to set up Cockeye points, Cockeye leaning on Nebraska until they broke in the 2nd half and then playing keep away, and Martinez fumbling the game away at the Cockeye 38 yard line. But it seems like a better use of my time to remind you that this was the day that Scrote cemented his legacy as a sniveling whiny bitch for crying about clapping on the Cockeye sidelines disrupting the snap. Walk loudly and carry a same penor as Churchill or someone used to say.
Scrote Stat #11: I've got a.busy day so I can't do a deep dive on embarrassing stats but I'll share with you a wikipedia page edit that was made by some PATRIOT. "After four seasons, Frost's coaching record at Nebraska is 15–29, with a 10–25 record in the Big Ten conference and an 0–14 record against ranked opponents. He is the first Nebraska Cornhusker head coach to have four consecutive losing seasons since Bill Jennings."
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The funny thing is Fleck did an interview with the local guys where I’m at. They asked him about replacing the o-line. He said he wasn’t worried because he said it was the group who had to play us the Covid year and took it to us. He said they will be fine up front.
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