First off, the B1G is exactly what I thought it would be. All teams except OSU and Michigan are average at best! Never dreamed our program would fall to their level. IF we we're in the Big 12 we might be .500 in conference play. Fact is we have fallen to the lowly B1G standards. We need to get better athletes and maybe better coaching.
My thoughts on NU and the B1G
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The Big 12 sucks actually, B1G is better overall. We need to get more physical on los again, need players which is depleted to say the least.
So, somehow it's the conference's fault that you are average?
I think there are many reasons, but the B1G is not one of them.
I have watched the Huskers all season and they are not an average team. They are a very good team, that when healthy, can compete with almost anyone.
Iowa is playing their best football here the last few weeks of the season.
I think there are many reasons, but the B1G is not one of them.
I have watched the Huskers all season and they are not an average team. They are a very good team, that when healthy, can compete with almost anyone.
Iowa is playing their best football here the last few weeks of the season.
All great teams have great lines on both sides of the ball. We have neither and aren`t close.
Agree Herky, solid conference and Iowa was better today. Tommy at 100% it is still a tough game, Tommy at 70% no contest. Our OL and DL are not up to standard and lack depth and talent, that must be fixed. Hell B1G has 4 teams in top 7 of CFP. It is not an average conf
IMOthe B10 is getting tougher every year. 5 years ago this was a pretty weak conference. Now we have 4 or 5 teams in the top 16 w/2 n the top 4.
We are average because both lines are average at best. Until we recruit elite talent on the LOS we will continue down the same path.
I thought Iowa caught the Huskers at just the right time this week. TA not really practicing much if at all really showed. The offense as a result looked out of sync the entire game.
Iowa this year, they were a team without an identity until after the PSU game. PSU fire-bombed Iowa mentally, razing it to the ground. The first 9 games, this team just plain didn't look focused.
For whatever reason, that razing cleaned the mental slate where they were able to figure out how to win games with what they had. A "whole greater than the sum of the parts" type thing Ferentz seems to be good at creating most years.
I wouldn't worry too much about Nebraska's future. You guys will be fine. Get healthy, kick the crap out of whomever you play in your bowl, and we'll see you next year.
Iowa this year, they were a team without an identity until after the PSU game. PSU fire-bombed Iowa mentally, razing it to the ground. The first 9 games, this team just plain didn't look focused.
For whatever reason, that razing cleaned the mental slate where they were able to figure out how to win games with what they had. A "whole greater than the sum of the parts" type thing Ferentz seems to be good at creating most years.
I wouldn't worry too much about Nebraska's future. You guys will be fine. Get healthy, kick the crap out of whomever you play in your bowl, and we'll see you next year.
Perhaps it was easier to be way above average in the Big 8 when you had Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma State and Iowa State on the schedule each year.
And it's so much more physical than the Big 12. People don't understand that. Even teams like Northwestern and Minnesota are going to hit you repeatedly. The Big Ten season takes a toll.
You are nuts. The big 10 has 4 teams in the top 10. Nebraska got fat on a bad big 8 where they only had to play a good team one or two times a year. Better football in this conference, and you lose more.
Ummmmm....our lines aren't average by NU standards yet. They are below average for what we were used to during Osborne's tenure. Even when he struggled to "win the big ones" he had very good offensive lines. Last year's recruiting class may turn that around but both our offensive and defensive lines were wanting. Maurice is the only guy on our D line and Gates is probably the only guy on the offensive line that would have started for Tom. I think we'll be better there next year.
You guys are fooling yourselves. You hurt us by leaving, you hurt yourselves by leaving.
Your schedule was backloaded. 7 years ago you wouldn't have the losses you racked up against these opponents because you were stronger overall.
You beat on these big ten pansy's your first few years, you lost your big xii players and have now become Indiana.
You are the only school we lost that truly hurt our conference (missouri sucks, ATM is still aggie, Colorado is the only one that actually moved to a better fit), but you hurt yourselves too.
Edit: You guys call Iowa a rival, that's cute and very nice of you. But, from 1979 - 2012 they beat you 1 time. After you settled and became Big Ten'd they now have you on their level and have been pummeling you.
Your schedule was backloaded. 7 years ago you wouldn't have the losses you racked up against these opponents because you were stronger overall.
You beat on these big ten pansy's your first few years, you lost your big xii players and have now become Indiana.
You are the only school we lost that truly hurt our conference (missouri sucks, ATM is still aggie, Colorado is the only one that actually moved to a better fit), but you hurt yourselves too.
Edit: You guys call Iowa a rival, that's cute and very nice of you. But, from 1979 - 2012 they beat you 1 time. After you settled and became Big Ten'd they now have you on their level and have been pummeling you.
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Lol the big 12 is a joke, absolutely zero defense being played in that league and it shows in out of conference games and bowl games. Nebraska still has a better shot at making the playoffs some day in the big ten over the disgraced big 12
If you guys were smart you would leave for the PAC-12.
Ps, ban big 12 schools from playing 11am games. Sick of turning on a game that is suppose to start at 230pm to see two pansy big 12 schools
In a 54-50 score battle with 8 minutes left in the third quarter. Absolutely pathetic football.
This year the league is pretty bad, no doubt.
You guys would be hanging with Kansas and Cyclones though if you played round Robin with your team this year though.
And since you left, I think the your former conference is up on big ten head to head.
Not here to rub salt in your wounds, but the idea that you are better since leaving is absurd. You are playing a softer schedule now, that doesn't keep you tough.
TCU is harder than Minnesota.
OU is harder than Wisconsin.
Tech is harder than Northwestern.
Okie State is harder than Iowa.
You used to play tougher overall competition and recruit better quality players.
You guys would be hanging with Kansas and Cyclones though if you played round Robin with your team this year though.
And since you left, I think the your former conference is up on big ten head to head.
Not here to rub salt in your wounds, but the idea that you are better since leaving is absurd. You are playing a softer schedule now, that doesn't keep you tough.
TCU is harder than Minnesota.
OU is harder than Wisconsin.
Tech is harder than Northwestern.
Okie State is harder than Iowa.
You used to play tougher overall competition and recruit better quality players.
I came over here to get a laugh from you idiots and you are even more delusional than I thought. Wow. Just think how bad you would be if you joined the MAC.
Not sure if you are drunk or stupid. You left out the three best teams in the Big 10, where do they fit into your rankings of elite Big 12 teams like Texas Tech (ISU 66-10) and TCU?
Little drunk admittedly. I understand I left out OSU and Michigan. but they aren't in your division. you don't play them consistently.
Notice how I left out Purdue, Rutgers and Maryland too?
Ah yes, the grind of the Big 12 round robin. If only we could count ISU and Kansas as conference games every year.
The Big 12 has no redeeming qualities at all. None. It is a complete joke in every respect. It's only a matter of time before it implodes all together.
Even with NU's struggles, they are infinitely better off struggling in the Big 10 than they would be excelling in the Big 12.
God, the Big 12 could not be any more ridiculous.
Even with NU's struggles, they are infinitely better off struggling in the Big 10 than they would be excelling in the Big 12.
God, the Big 12 could not be any more ridiculous.
Yes, particularly with the completely ridiculous rematch... errr I mean "championship game"
You play half of the other division consistently in a 9 game schedule. UW is on the bubble even if they win in the championship game. Because they lost two games on their cross-division schedule. Iowa was left out last year as a one-loss because they avoided UM and OSU.
Well, possibly. But we (OU) Will deal with whatever comes from the final realignment.
You however, are done being in the national title mix forever. I realize you and others here will deny that, but it's true.
Nebraska football will never regain what it was 1970-2000. You at least had a shot to be that team before you left.
These type seasons are only going to continue.
It really is a shame.
I have never understood why some NU fans put down the big 10?
OU will instantly be in the national title mix when they join a more competitive conference?
I am not denying the "special" that exists in your old conference. But that disfunction existed with your university too, while you were here.
Anyway, the OP isn't all wrong. you cut off your nose to.... Well you get the idea. Goodnight.
You beat TCU, Texas, Texas Tech and Iowa State by an average of 7 pts/game this year, and gave up 42 pts/game in doing so.
I have a feeling that when realignment comes, you aren't going to be able to deal with ****.
No, we were in it last year and even as bad as we showed this season we are still in the discussion. with possibly 2 guys going to new York for heisman ceremony.
AL while in this ragtag conference you left. Anyway goodnight guys. I look forward to watching your bowl game.
Hw did OU do vs Ohio St at home being ***** slapped haha and Houston really who lost to Memphis, really. Did Hou lose to SMU as well omg
Try and research before looking dumb, in '95, CU, KSU, and KU, we're all in the top 10.
Any Big 12 clown arguing that it is better than the B1G needs to be admitted. B1G is the wealthiest and most stable conference in the country, with 4 of the top 10 winningest programs in college football history, and 4 top 10 teams this year. Big 12 has to obey Texas, whereas everyone in the B1G is an equal.
Did Texas tank because Nebraska left? Because Texas sucks and they used to be very good or at least solid. Was TCU even a B8/B12 team before Nebraska left the conference? Texas Tech used to be so bad before the 2000s I didn't even know they existed. Okie State used to be mediocre at best. Colorado used to be a good B12 program before the 2000s. Honestly, the only reason some of the current pitiful B12 teams are any good is because Nebraska left. I'd take Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, and (except for this year) Michigan State against the B12's top 7 EVERY year. Oklahoma, the B12's best team, was destroyed by Ohio State, the same Ohio State team that struggled against a pitiful Michigan State team and lost to #8 Penn State. West Virginia has been one of the B12 conference's best teams for years and they weren't even in the B12 until recently. The only consistently reliable top 10 team from the B12 year-in and year-out is Oklahoma. That's sad.
Yeah, it's not like OU never made a bad coaching hire and ate dirt for an extended period of time. Then after that they were never relevant again. Good lord.
You are essentially paraphrasing what Charlie McBride said in defending the firing of Frank a dozen years ago. He said the lack of quality olinemen was shocking and a certain sign of bad days to come. In twelve years we still have a crappy oline and have added a crappy dline for good measure.