This has been a horrible season for Nebraska filled with subpar coaching, uneven and sloppy performances, and blowout losses. But I love seeing these kids still grinding, fighting, and leaving it all on the field. They didn’t win on the scoreboard today, but there’s a lot to be said for their heart and character.
Damn Proud
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Hard to believe our biggest point total of the season comes at Penn State. How many of us would have predicted that in August?
This offense has playmakers, but we're plagued with a poor OL and a defense that misses two or three tackles for every one that it makes.
I'm glad they didn't give up today. I'm glad those who took the points lost money.
This offense has playmakers, but we're plagued with a poor OL and a defense that misses two or three tackles for every one that it makes.
I'm glad they didn't give up today. I'm glad those who took the points lost money.
I'm proud of a few players. Just a few. There are a few players I'd prefer never to see again. Late hits on the quarterback, again. Get rid of him. Ole offensive line blocking. Get rid of all of them. Stevie Wonder inspired tackling, get rid of them. Honestly, other than JD, I'm not sure there is a single underclassman that I'd ever want to see play for the Huskers again.
Riley and company are a travesty, I get that. But much of the effort I saw tonight was downright embarrassing. Yes, the coaching is pathetic, but each of these players has years of football before they ever got to Nebraska and their performance has been a disgrace.
I know many want to celebrate the players and blame the coaches, but a good number of these players should be ashamed of themselves. Hopefully the quitters on the field will quit the program in short order.
Clean out the cancer once and for all, from the athletic department, from the team, from the university, all of it. Start over and never allow this rot to creep into Nebraska again.
Riley and company are a travesty, I get that. But much of the effort I saw tonight was downright embarrassing. Yes, the coaching is pathetic, but each of these players has years of football before they ever got to Nebraska and their performance has been a disgrace.
I know many want to celebrate the players and blame the coaches, but a good number of these players should be ashamed of themselves. Hopefully the quitters on the field will quit the program in short order.
Clean out the cancer once and for all, from the athletic department, from the team, from the university, all of it. Start over and never allow this rot to creep into Nebraska again.
It takes dedication to show up each and every day for practice and gameday, BUT Tanner Lee looks good against basically a scout team defense late in the game, our defense still gave up points to 2nd and 3rd teamers. I will give credit where credit is due, many have stuck through it week in week out and that gets my hats off to those who have.
What I do not like is the lifeless emotion from staff and players. High School and College is still a game of emotion, HCMR has taken all the wind out of the sail with his Bob Ross schictk,
What I do not like is the lifeless emotion from staff and players. High School and College is still a game of emotion, HCMR has taken all the wind out of the sail with his Bob Ross schictk,
This is it in a sentence (OK, more than one sentence.....). The hunger isn't there, but don't blame it on the athletes. Forced accountability is a must, and it is simply missing. Find athletes who have it, develop it, and demand it.
This, of course, is a generalization. There are players for NU who should be proud of their effort today. But the effort is not team wide imo, and you just can't have weak links in this conference.
Basic fundaments should be second nature by the time you hit this level of college ball. I'm just not seeing it.
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Score was 42-10 at halftime.
Final score was 56-44. Hip hip hooray they made the final score less lopsided than the actual game actually was.
To say that you're "Damn Proud" of the soft, ineffectual performance this team put in today completely obscures and ignores just how awful this team is.
The OP is doing nothing more than giving a trophy to a last place team.
Sincerely,
RandomFan aka Husker94
P.S. I'm not trying to be combative, argumentative, or start a flame war/fight. But we have GOT to stop making excuses for this team. They are soft. They are weak. They are ineffectual and pathetic and dancing around the issue only serves to obscure the solution.
Final score was 56-44. Hip hip hooray they made the final score less lopsided than the actual game actually was.
To say that you're "Damn Proud" of the soft, ineffectual performance this team put in today completely obscures and ignores just how awful this team is.
The OP is doing nothing more than giving a trophy to a last place team.
Sincerely,
RandomFan aka Husker94
P.S. I'm not trying to be combative, argumentative, or start a flame war/fight. But we have GOT to stop making excuses for this team. They are soft. They are weak. They are ineffectual and pathetic and dancing around the issue only serves to obscure the solution.
Your failing miserably then. If you have come back to the board just to tell everyone here how stupid we are, maybe you should reconsider.
Okay, I've done my venting. One more game and the healing begins. I can take one more miserable experience if there is going to be light at the end of the tunnel.
I’m not making excuses for anyone or handing out participation trophies. This is a poorly coached mess of a team.
My guess is that you have never played football, and as such I don’t think you have the first clue how physically tough and mentally demanding the game is. I played a little high school ball and only got a glimmer. But my brother, brother-in-law, and numerous friends played college ball and I saw what they went through.
Those kids pour their hearts into the game. They could go to a variety of schools and choose to come to Lincoln. They workout, practice, run, lift, stretch, eat, sleep, and live, all with an eye toward playing the game they love at the highest level possible.
I can’t imagine how hard it would be to go into the season with high expectations and then struggle like this. The coaches know they’re not coming back and so do the players. But they suit up every day, take the field, and do their best anyway. They held no illusions they were going to fly to Happy Valley and beat Penn State. But they went anyway. They were down multiple scores at the half and were getting blown off the field. Yet they came out for the second half ready to play, gave them all a run, and made a game of it. Your complete disdain for the heart and character that takes is an embarrassment Jenn.
These are in a sense our kids. They’re 18-22 years old. They come here, sign up to wear our colors, and work their butts off to do us proud and represent the state with pride. You have demeaned them all season, in the most personal terms, calling them soft, ineffectual, weak, pathetic, awful, and cowards. That’s easy to do for a fairweather fan who never played the game sitting behind the comfort of a keyboard and trying to appear knowledgeable and tough. It’s also pathetic.
I'm now in post venting mode. Just one more game, maybe a turd for Iowa, and we move on.
