HTO and all the rest of you that acted like I was a fool for calling MR a bad hire. BO wouldn't have lost to that crap BYU team. No, BO was not a right fit. But we traded tit for tat, now we are back to a Coz D. Pains me to say. Really wish you'd have proved me wrong. 30'st something in recruiting and 0-1 for the first time since Bill Jennings was the coach. Pimp me now,please what leg do you have to stand on? Trust me, we want the same thing but Baker is not what we want.
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We would.have gotten rolled by BYU with Pelini coaching. McNeese State coaches agree.
You have not proven a dang thing yet about the Riley hire. So don't go patting yourself on the back just yet. Acting like it's all over and the writing is on the wall after 1 game is so asininely stupid and idiotic it's almost beyond comprehension that anybody would even try to say it is.
Never came to that conclusion about TO, Frank, hell BC, nor BO afte game 1. Hope your right but something tells me your wrong
Spinner, I am so glad you posted this, because as obvious as you are, you have been holding back a little. Now, you have what you think is your pound of flesh after we lost a game to a team that we were clearly better than. Your opinions are terrible because they lack substance and you are totally delusional. You are a clown who I wouldn't trust to get my lunch order correct. Get lost tweedle nuts.
Who would have thought Spinner, the eternal optimist, would have been here posting something negativity (and incorrect).
Bo would have had us lose by 30. Both QBs were mobile. We wouldn't have had a chance.
Your posts are predicable. Wait for a bump in the road and then pounce. But you are unbelievably quiet when things are good. We get it, you don't like Riley, but can you give him at least a season before you call him a lost cause? How about a 5 games?
Bo would have had us lose by 30. Both QBs were mobile. We wouldn't have had a chance.
Your posts are predicable. Wait for a bump in the road and then pounce. But you are unbelievably quiet when things are good. We get it, you don't like Riley, but can you give him at least a season before you call him a lost cause? How about a 5 games?
My favorite part of your post has to be the "tweedle nuts" part. So you want substance. I'd like to hear yours about how we couldn't run the ball most of the time or why our corners got owned much of the day or how the middle of the field was always open for them or how the hell none of our guys could break arm tackles but sure as **** theirs could. Please break it down for me sir. Do a good enough job and I'll campaign you for next coach. Cause the one we have failed at all of that. Mostly due to having his buddy as DC
None of our guys could break tackles? What happened on that bubble to Westerkamp where he broke like 6 tackles and reversed the field? Or when Hovey (or Burtch?) caught that pass and broke 4 tackles near the goal line (3rd quarter)? You hate is clouding your memory.
People need to check themselves after just one game. Losing that way on a fluke play like that sucks more than ever, but this is a transition year in the first game. We'll find out over time if this was a good hire. We're not an elite program anymore, though. That's what you have to accept. And BYU is and was as every bit as talented as we are. That's the conclusion you have to make after the way they played our guys in Lincoln. Our guys just weren't able to deal with their receiver's size. That was the difference to me. But Bo needed to go, and SE got who he got. Nick Saban and Urban Meyer wasn't knocking on our door. So get used to what we have and see where it goes for awhile. We did with Bo.
Agree on that. I think people that are irate over this loss still see us as being a top notch program. We aren't and haven't been for years. Hell we aren't even ranked. If we were still top than yes this would have been a horrible humiliating loss. As we are now This isn't some crazy unexpected loss. Many suspected it and for good reason. BYU is no crappy football team. Now if we go in and lose to South Bama next week then yes you have better reason for concern.
I don't feel any differently about Riley than I did 12 hours ago. He was a puzzling hire to me, and I'm skeptical that he'll get the Huskers back into the conference championship form that a lot of people are hoping for. But shocking as it may be, Eichorst didn't ask me who he should hire. So I don't really see the point in whining and pissing and moaning about Riley's every move until he's actually had a chance to do his job for a reasonable period of time.
And as for why NU couldn't run the ball most of the time - it's because we've had a crappy offensive line for several years now, which rarely wins the battle of the trenches against a quality opponent. What coach would you have hired who would have fixed that problem in the past six months?
And as for why NU couldn't run the ball most of the time - it's because we've had a crappy offensive line for several years now, which rarely wins the battle of the trenches against a quality opponent. What coach would you have hired who would have fixed that problem in the past six months?
I don't think I could second this post enough! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING that people can't wait to be right! After just one freaking game against a tough opponent no less.
Spinner, seriously, go find another team. The fact that you are calling people out by name and taunting like this proves you want to be right more than you want the team to be successful.
Get off this board, go support Ohio State. They won't disappoint you.
The fact that you can't differentiate between your and you're tells me you are of below average IQ. The fact that you have a knee jerk recation of an entire staff that has litterally decades more in combined experience than the previous after a single game that came down to a single play means you have an even lower IQ.
This team, under Bo, would go somewhere between 6-6 and 8-4 under Bo. Based on this weekend, there is no way Bo would have beat Miami, Northwestern, Minnesota, Wisconsin or Michigan State (and would have struggled with BYU). Taysom Hill would have ran wild on Bo's D, and he wouldn't have made a single adjustment at half. He would have said the scheme was right the players just didn't execute. Yes, this loss stings. We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. But there is a lot to look at and take away as positives considering we're in the first game of a new coach, with 3 starters suspended and our best offensive player on the sidelines with an injury. At full strength this game is a Husker Victory, and with another year under Riley, this game isn't even close.
Tough opponent or not, most of the spring and summer has been spent talking about how Nebraska now has a "real coach" or an "adult in charge" with an opportunity to "win now." Anyone that dared disagree was immediately cast as a "Bo-liever" and ridiculed/shouted down for that perspective.
I agree it's ridiculous to think the first game of a new regime means anything long-term. I just would say these Riley bashing comments aren't exactly unexpected after 9 months of trashing anyone who was skeptical or disagreed with the hiring of him or firing of the previous staff.
Regardless, I hope the team and staff rebound and everyone can be happy with the future of the program. GBR!
I agree it's ridiculous to think the first game of a new regime means anything long-term. I just would say these Riley bashing comments aren't exactly unexpected after 9 months of trashing anyone who was skeptical or disagreed with the hiring of him or firing of the previous staff.
Regardless, I hope the team and staff rebound and everyone can be happy with the future of the program. GBR!
If you couldn't see that the last 3 coaches were failures after the 1st game, then you were wrong about all 3. So I'd say I'd feel pretty confident about Riley's success based on your 1st game impression about the last 3 coaches being wrong. Not sure why you thought that was going to bolster your argument-it did just the opposite.
That is substance? You and TT need to get a room together. I thought I told you to get lost clown. Having to look forward to reading your uneducated incessant bitching and moaning is a sad thought. Seriously, just do everyone a favor, open your front door and just start walking until you are lost so that we aren't subjected to you anymore.
It's not me who has to prove himself. It's riley who does and he is battling .ooo so far
I've rarely posted on HOL since Pelini was fired, but if it makes you feel good, carry on. Just know, you started this, Rivals now archives posts, so don't complain later on...
Let's compare to 1st games against a real program/team. Not going with TO comparison,too far back to have any relevance to modern scenarios (scholarship limits etc)
Frank Solich's first game ever made a QB and receiver from La Tech household names after passing for over 500 yds and receiving over 400 Yds. A win but there were glaring issues.
Billy C's first game against a Div I team was a loss to a 7-5 Southern Miss team. First actual game was to Western Illinois. Doesn't count.
Bo's first game (non interim) against a power 5 team was a loss to VTech.
I realize this doesn't support the idea that we will be ok under Riley, but I wasn't exactly sold on any of the other coaches after their first games either.
You couldn't wait to post on here today, just admit it. You have never posted a single thing positive about Riley, and now you call out HTO personally and anybody else supportive of the Riley hire. You claim this one victory as indisputable proof that Riley is horrible. AFTER ONE GAME. How in the hell are you so clairvoyant that you know Riley will flop?
You're seriously gonna sit here and say you're a husker fan and then post this garbage? Obviously I see things from a positive perspective... In spite of the loss there were good things that happened that never happened under Bo. You didn't mention one damn thing that went well, cuz you couldn't wait to stick to anybody who supported the hire. Husker fan? I'm sure you are and want us to win, but don't use this platform as a soapbox to say "I told you so!"
In all seriousness, you're whole thread was started as a big fat "up yours" to anybody who didn't agree with your pessimistic outlook before a game was played.
You're seriously gonna sit here and say you're a husker fan and then post this garbage? Obviously I see things from a positive perspective... In spite of the loss there were good things that happened that never happened under Bo. You didn't mention one damn thing that went well, cuz you couldn't wait to stick to anybody who supported the hire. Husker fan? I'm sure you are and want us to win, but don't use this platform as a soapbox to say "I told you so!"
In all seriousness, you're whole thread was started as a big fat "up yours" to anybody who didn't agree with your pessimistic outlook before a game was played.
Just when I thought this board couldn't get any dumber......you go and do this.
I didn't love the Mike Riley hire either, absolutely hated the Banker hire. Yet I don't feel after 1 game the need to ***** about it and talk about how right I was. People who draw a conclusion based on one game are fools. period.
saying you wanted to keep bo while also saying you hate Banker after this game is an oxymoron. I'll be critical of Banker too after this, but to think bo would have done better is nuts.
HTO, that can't be right. Banker is the worst defensive coordinator in the history of NU football. So says spinner... Surely your graphic is old...
First of all, there is no possible way to say what would have happened had Bo been the coach yesterday. There is no alternate universe where such things can be played out, so it is opinion at best. Plus Bo was a megadouche, and I hated every minute he was associated with Nebraska.
Second of all, it is just as impossible to know what we have in Riley after one game. We will know more about THIS YEAR'S TEAM after a few more games. We won't really know about Riley until HIS players and HIS system are fully installed. That's about three years, not one game.
I'm not happy with the result yesterday, but man the dumb posts come out after a loss...
Second of all, it is just as impossible to know what we have in Riley after one game. We will know more about THIS YEAR'S TEAM after a few more games. We won't really know about Riley until HIS players and HIS system are fully installed. That's about three years, not one game.
I'm not happy with the result yesterday, but man the dumb posts come out after a loss...
Where am I? Just got home after working out drinking a protein shake. It's all good!
Callahan and Pelini didn't play a Div-1 team and like another poster pointed out in their first game against a power-5 team they also lost and not by a Hail Mary.
It's too early to judge this team or coach. We don't know whether BYU is good or bad. Nice comeback. Bad defense on the last play, obviously. Hard to know what happens with BP as coach in this game-he gave one up against S. Carolina a few years ago, before half-time.
But is BYU=power 5 team?
While watching game, I was genuinely thankful Bo's crew was not on sidelines as I truly believe it would've turned into another Wisconsin-like debacle on National Television.
I don't know if they are a power 5 team or not, but they are a lot better than the corpses that we usually play in the first game. I did hear the announcers say they are number 5 on the wins list in the last 40 years.