Week 1 v Cincinnati (Arrowhead Stadium) - Thursday, August 28: Depth Chart, Game Notes, Etc

[Seaofred92]

 

[Seaofred92]

 

[Cornicator]

I don't mind the premise of the article. I think Sherman does a good job of actually reporting compared to some of his peers. But the tone of the tweet makes it seem like Cincinnati has been preparing for Nebraska while the Huskers haven't been preparing for Cincinnati.

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

If we don’t win this quasi home game vs a middle of the road B12 team just shut down the program and put it all to volleyball

 

[JankTheTank]

I have some beef with this. First of all, it's unfortunately more like 4-6 in openers the past decade, unless Mitch feels 2018 Colorado doesn't count as an opener because of Akron's game time cancellation.

It should also be noted that, yeah, we beat Oklahoma St to start the season in 2003, which starts this sort of arbitrary time frame, but the next time the opener even qualified for this was 2015 when Mike Riley coached his first game as Nebraska's head coach against BYU (they were independent at the time, but I think they still qualified for that category), which actually starts the time frame for Mitch's 4-6 opener schedule stat. It's not that we didn't win more. There just weren't any other qualifying openers for the next decade after Okie St.

Somehow, after opening all of our games at home against a non-P5 opponent from 2004 to 2014, six of our next 10 openers have been against a power conference opponent. This year will make it seven in the last 11. In that time, we have had three different head coaches start their Nebraska tenure by opening against a power opponent.

The other three losses (and 2018 Colorado) were all on Scott Frost, who, as we loudly heard this week, didn't even want to be here.

2015 BYU @ Lincoln
2018 Colorado @ Lincoln
2020 Ohio St. @ Columbus
2021 Illinois @ Champaign
2022 Northwestern @ Ireland
2023 Minnesota @ Minneapolis


Rhule is on this last as well for 2023, but I think we can agree that most of the entities that resulted in that loss are no longer on the team or in a position to hurt us.

 

[Pipe Line]

Hate to over react, but if we lose to CINCY in Year 3, then Rhule isn't who he/we all think he is.

 

[Stan Raymond]

I don't see how we can have a successful season if this game is a loss.

 

[Flabio]

I don't see how we can have a successful season if this game is a loss.

Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois to start last season. Having said that it would suck.

 

[Pepe Silvia]

Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois to start last season. Having said that it would suck.

They won @ Texas A&M in week 1 last year, then shit the bed against NIU in week 2

 

[Pipe Line]

Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois to start last season. Having said that it would suck.

I don't have faith this program could rebound like that.

 

[Flabio]

I don't have faith this program could rebound like that.

Me either. I don’t have any faith with the way the AD is run. Hoping for a lucky run every once and a while.

 

[Flabio]

They won @ Texas A&M in week 1 last year, then shit the bed against NIU in week 2

Don’t make me argue that this would still be the start of the season.