Super Official "Burn it all down if we can't beat" Rutgers game week thread

[HuskerVotary]

I am so spectacle when I hear news like this. Think of the recent history with this university and contract extensions.
2019-Scott Frost gets a 2 year extension after finishing the season 5-7
2025-Penn State position opens up, Nebraska panics and extends Coach Matt's contract despite a .500 winning percentage.
2026-Coach Matt hints that SEC teams are sniffin' around and really want Colandrea to join them. Obviously, there was no proof of this except for Matt mentioning it in a presser. I think Matt had already spoken to AC about returning and they had tentatively agreed to an extension before the SEC spoof, but it looked like the Huskers got one over on the big, bad SEC by keeping Colandrea. Literally one day after AC agrees to remain a Husker, he plays the worst game of his career, with 3 interceptions.
These 3 decisions alone have cost the university probably $30 million.

Right now, it's looking like Aurich was a great hire, but was it really worth offering an extension after 9 games and a 5-4 record? It looks to me like Coach Matt is once again searching for "good news" amidst a dismal season, or maybe the university has recognized they may be extending Coach Matt's successor after the season.

We shall see...

I can see how a guy might feel like this...

 

[ATX_Husker]

I think that it is interesting that Husker Nation expects the Huskers, the team, coaches, and organization, to possess the type of resilience that Husker Nation itself does not possess. We ask HCMR to gain control, but we lose our minds. ( I include myself in this statement.) Sometimes I wonder if the problem with Husker football is that we, as fans, constantly whine about those who never wanted HCMR, constantly hammer on him, and if he does something good, they write it off. I guess I am just thinking out loud.

Thank you for listening to my babbling.

Please carry on with the " the sky is falling, Chicken Little " conversation.

I think for the most part Husker Nation has been pretty rational and patient. While the football expenditures have continued to rise to astronomical levels the fanbase has lowered their expectations from championship level football to being willing to accept 8-9 win seasons where we are competitive and don't get embarrassed. Just asking for a decent return on our investment...

 

[Crusader Husker]

I think for the most part Husker Nation has been pretty rational and patient. While the football expenditures have continued to rise to astronomical levels the fanbase has lowered their expectations from championship level football to being willing to accept 8-9 win seasons where we are competitive and don't get embarrassed. Just asking for a decent return on our investment...

Understand, part of that was ramblin' and blabbin', part of that was wondering, and part of it was observation. When I take a 10,000-foot view, have we improved? Yes. Have we improved enough, no. I am OK with HCMR getting fired, but the whining and complaining with everything that happens gets old. Please understand, it is not everyone on this board, but a few. I do think the whining and complaining does get to the players.

 

[Pavlov's Dog]

To summarize,
I believe the fanbase is equally divided between the skeptical and the cynical.

 

[Pavlov's Dog]

....and Doc Fumble.

 

[ATX_Husker]

Defense has improved but I am not sure we have improved in any other area. Special teams took a major step back with the loss of Ekeler. Offense struggles to score double digits. An interesting note when gauging improvement prior to this past weekend Nebraska did not have a victory over an opponent that had beaten another P4 team. That changed when Maryland beat Purdue and Michigan State beat Michigan.

 

[ATX_Husker]

 

[ATX_Husker]