That's my thought. 5 loses by 13 points. 4 of those loses were with less then 30 seconds left. UGH.
should have hired
- Thread starter BayAreaBigRed
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This is the argument as I perceive it:
Our talent level is so bad, we should be happy with 3 wins. The coaching staff is excelling, without them we would've lost every game. Oh thank you Coach Riley, you are our savior. Those talentless players are making it too hard for you to win games.
I have not heard or read where ANYONE is claiming we have enough talent to try for a national championship.
It's high time for the coaching staff to realize that if a guy doesn't make the play because of mental error or stopped on the play, that they bench said player immediately. I don't give a crap if they think said player gives them the best chance to win. If a guy isn't into the game and has mental errors or is quitting on a play, how the heck is that guy giving our team the best chance to win. This goes for the OL also. To heck with rhythm. Where is the rhythm when a guy has his head in is azz or quits on a play. Ya think some guys will wake up?
not any good coach. oline that had not blocked anybody in 3 years. no good qb on the team. no difference makers at rb or wr.
Yea we are making excuses. We should just shut up and let some of you guys act like OUR HUSKER coaches are complete failures and getting smashed all over the field and shouldn't be allowed to coach.
For F_ck sake, its getting old. The trueth is, we have lost 5 games by a total of 13 points. This shows me that we are in the games, we are competing with every team we play and we where more then capable to win every single game. You guys can try and make the losses worse then what they really are, but there a lot of us actually watching with open eyes and seeing whats actually there. Sucks we lost 5 games, God knows id rather be 8-0 but we are not. The bright side, like some of see, we are in on every single game and yes, we could of won every single game but as luck, fate or what ever you want to say has it, we lost the games. I mean honestly, how hard is it to give credit where its due instead of turning an ant hill into a dam mountain?
For F_ck sake, its getting old. The trueth is, we have lost 5 games by a total of 13 points. This shows me that we are in the games, we are competing with every team we play and we where more then capable to win every single game. You guys can try and make the losses worse then what they really are, but there a lot of us actually watching with open eyes and seeing whats actually there. Sucks we lost 5 games, God knows id rather be 8-0 but we are not. The bright side, like some of see, we are in on every single game and yes, we could of won every single game but as luck, fate or what ever you want to say has it, we lost the games. I mean honestly, how hard is it to give credit where its due instead of turning an ant hill into a dam mountain?
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Being completely real, we SHOULD beat Purdue soundly (even if we struggle a bit) and should beat Rutgers as well. Now if we get smashed, blown out by MSU, then sure, have at it. But heaven for bid we get beat by MSU by a last second field goal or lose by 3 points or less, would that change some if your views (for some reason i doubt it, hell even if we beat MSU by 10 i think some of you have your minds made up already regaurdless). Sorry, i think we will beat Iowa, just have a good feeiling that Iowa's power running game won't rock against our solid run defense. Vince amd Collins will make them have to stretch it out or pass, which this does favore us big time. I don't see us lossing to Iowa.
Well obviously you only look at one thing... Passing yards against us
Currently we are #48 in opponent completion % at 56.5% passes completed against us. To me that is where the Pass defense should be judged not Yards against us
That also leads me to pass attempts against us... 338 Pass attempts against us which also in the most in the Nation
Here is a few more that make your statement false
TD Allowed #72
INT's #86
Yard's per attempt #93
While these stats are not good... I would not say they are the "Worst in the Nation"
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Come on big red, if they looked at the whole picture, it would kill off there point. They have to filter for the absolute worse stat possible and run with that and base there conclusion soley off it.
No, I expect more from a Mod to be respectful of posters. You bring evidence to back up your "opinion". Football is an art just as much as it is a science. Many coaches have different philosophies and they sure as hell know more about the game as you or I do. But that doesn't mean you can treat posters like crap. Your a mod. You are suppose to be held at a higher standard. I
Second- Of course there are plenty of armchair QB's here. It's a freaking message board. Your one of them. I am one of them. Anyways a 3-5 record isn't reason enough to complain? MR's recruiting at NU inception to date isn't reason enough to complain? Let me guess - "Next Year..."
3-5 isn't absolutely false. That's a fact.
39th in recruiting by rivals isn't false, that's fact.
Being out recruited by at least half of the B1G isn't false, that's a fact.
MR's has a combined conference record 59-66 that's a fact.
Doing better next year with MR or MR's an improvement to recruiting is an opinion in which you have no bases of proof to make it a fact.
Firstly off, showing proof that our roster is on par with teams like Purdue and Northwestern etc is not an opinion it's a fact. When you have a roster like that expect to get those results. Also, yes I'm not going to kiss *** to people who either clearly don't understand the game of football, or just want to come over here and be a negative troll just to stir the pot. Not saying I like the record, what I'm saying is its going to take time to get talent on this roster and to give Riley time to do it. This is a complete reboot. What Bob and Tom built has been eroded away for a while now and it will take time. The last guy got 7 years let's give MR time as well. Riley will bring in a good recruiting class this year and an even better one next year. Ask @Mike Matya how organized and relentless the new staff is on the recruiting trail.
I was responding to the poster who said we had enough talent to win championships on our roster. Which is absolutely false. Also, I haven't seen is signing day here? I must have missed it. Oh also the fact that Rivals rankings are very skewed until you hit the 20+ commitment mark. I look at Avg star ranking that's a better indicator. This staff just isn't taking anyone who wants to commit first like the last staff did. We are in on some guys that are legit and will go through the entire recruiting process before deciding. You torch and pitchfork people need to be more patient and calm down.
We're struggling to field warm bodies at at least a few positions.
How many dudes do we realistically think we can do this to, without just forfeiting up front and calling the whole season an extended tryout?