Just embarrassing
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Iowa sold out to stop the run. That made it appear as if our offensive line can't run block. It has been that way all year. If Tommy was a real threat passing the ball then our running lanes would open up. It all starts with the QB.
+1
this is what we got from our 4 year starter in Big Ten play
109 for 217 - 50.2% 7 TDs 7 INTs
In all seriousness, has any 4 year starter at a blue blood program accomplished so little during his tenure??
Oh come on. I'm a Hawkeye fan and can't believe the poor-mouthing here. Nebraska is a good/great program. Demographics and changing realities of college FB make it difficult to impossible to return to the 1990s, but that doesn't mean that Nebraska should be satisfied to just get in the Citrus Bowl. You need a coach to establish an identity that matches your recruiting areas, and then be hellacious at developing players and playing to that identity. Is Riley the guy for that? Perhaps. Going from 5 wins to 9 is a good start.
No idea if Riley is the next great coach. But I would bet that he at least gets to 1 conference title game.
Solid post. Thanks. Good luck in your bowl game
Our Linebacking play is bad. It needs to be addressed as well. They do not attack and make horrible reads.
It actually was a lot like this year...the just ran 44 plays last year to get 28 points. The last two years have been embarrassing in the trenches
Iowa was good enough to beat Michigan and Michigan lost to Ohio State in 2 OTs so in reality Nebraska was not up to par to play with the big boys and big boy football... Put down Iowa all you want but the bottom line is you got your butts whipped in Iowa City!
Thanks, we'll need it, I think. Big 10 is a place where literally anyone can succeed, thanks to the TV money. Purdue is finally building football-only practice facilities, Northwestern is finishing up a new facility/stadium, Minnesota working on theirs, etc. The point is there are 3 teams (Michigan. OSU, PSU) who have a huge advantage on everyone else due to abundance of great players in close proximity to their campuses who any guy off the street could recruit to play there. If you aren't one of them, you have to be good at identifying, recruiting, developing and coaching. If you are, you can win (or have a chance to). But facilities alone won't do it (everyone has money for facilities). You have to be good at what it is you are doing. Wisconsin has been the best during this decade at this.
Agree we used to say that recruits could ask their Dads about the Neb tradition, soon they will need to check with their grand dads!
Iowa lost to a FCS team. This is an embarrassing loss. And not just because it was a blow out. Nebraska is a better program than Iowa and it isn't even close. They shouldn't be losing to teams like Iowa on a regular basis. It's embarrassing.[/QUOTE]
Worse than Purdue last year? You know, The Big Tens honorary FCS team.
Worse than Purdue last year? You know, The Big Tens honorary FCS team.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure what properties you are using that developed this hypothesis? Are they completely arbitrary or only half?
It should be 4 in a row, but for awful special teams play by Iowa in 2014. Iowa was awful that year.
Fact is, iowa has been better the last 15 years. Sorry, but you will never see the Nebraska football of the glory years. That's not trash talk it's just fact.
Since abandoning the option game, Nebraska has nothing unique about them; that was what brought in top talent. Now you keep hiring coaches to play west coast offense in the big ten....that's not going to work. Need to dominate the LOS and pound the ball; Nebraska has ignored that.
Sometimes things are beyond your control. Our O-line and D-line are thin and gimping. Ryker? Broken wrist. I don't think he was coming in unless we had to. By had to I mean if Tommy couldn't physcially go, not to give us a chance to win. He just wasn't coming in. And no, there was not a thought of burning POB's redshirt. As far as Lightbourn, he's had to step in for arguably one of the nation's top punters who died in a car accident over the summer.
Definitely not suggesting burning POB's redshirt. Wasn't Ryker cleared to play? You could tell Tommy was definitely not even close to being healthy. And his decisions to go for the homerun instead of just extending the drive drove me nuts. That's one reason why I'm not unhappy to see him moving on. Love his gutsy play, and I know we wouldn't have won 9 games without him, but his decision making process is horrendous.
Lightbourn isn't doing much to ingratiate himself in the locker room. The kid is a headcase. Screaming in the locker room when you are 2nd from the lowest in the nation in punting is not going to win over other players.
Again, this year should have been all Foltz. Lightbourn may have never started. You do what you gotta do. I have to believe that the coaching staff was protecting POB's redshirt at all costs. We all wanted to have Tommy back against Iowa. Most everyone agreed it was our best chance against a peaking Iowa team. Maryland was not Iowa. That's why we used Fyfe and tried to let Tommy heal. Then Ryker broke his wrist and had surgery. I don't believe he was an option unless the had to carry Tommy off.
We also had about 440 yards of offense last year. But when you are literally handing Iowa 7 points by throwing it directly to their DE to waltz into the endzone, your QB is choking a game away that could have easily been won.
No way do you burn his redshirt in the 12th game of the season. Never suggested that. I do have a hard time understanding how in 5 years in a football program, how a D1 QB never came to understand the concept of extending a drive vs going for the homerun. That just boggles the mind how 2 coaching staffs couldn't get it through his head that he has a better chance of completing a pass with a 10-yard hook route vs a bomb.
Trust me. I was thinking the same thing. However, I feel that TA was our best QB this year. He got us to 9 games (maybe 10) this year. Next year we can complain about the next sure thing.
Trust me. I was thinking the same thing. However, I feel that TA was our best QB this year. He got us to 9 games (maybe 10) this year. Next year we can complain about the next sure thing.
Yeah, I'll take a healthy Tommie over any of our QBs, but he was obviously not even remotely healthy. Sad, because him not being able to run pretty much sealed our fate before the game started.
