USC game. What did we learn

Were down to finding a no body who coaches at a lower level.  In the current landscape were not a major player.  Ohio St, Penn St, Oregon, and most years Michigan will be your main players in the new Big 10.  Its between us and USC who is next in line after that, but other teams are improving as well.  Right now the pecking order would be :

Oregon, Ohio St, Penn St, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, USC, Washington, UCLA, and maybe were next?  UCLA should be awful this season, but Foster has them believing they can compete.  Indiana brought in players from a lower level of football and they are good enough to beat most Big 10 teams so far.  Who would come here right now?  I young guy looking to make a name and prove himself would come here, but anything else, they are looking at a job where the playoffs are at least a doable goal.  This place in my opinion is not doable right now.  Were to far down the pole to get there right now and for the foreseeable future.  

 
This team is terrible. Make no mistake, the scoreboard was closer than the actual game on the field. 

Dylan Raiola is going to turn into a cautionary tale of what happens when 5* talent goes to a team that is inept. Matt Rhule has obliterated his chances to go to the NFL. 

I cannot to begin to describe how inept the timeout usage was at the end of the game. That in itself is enough to fire them. It's an absolute joke. Matt Rhule is not cut out to coach at this level of football. The sad part is Nebraska is going to suffer with his ineptitude for 2 more years before they inevitably fire him. He should save us the headache and resign.

 
I mean, I'm always going to root for Nebraska because it's that deep in my DNA. But the real problem is that right now I'm not even sure if I like this team.

Watching Raiola regress, make timid decisions, hook slide two yards away from a much needed first down takes all the air out of my Dylan balloon. I was pretty excited about Jacory Barney and the tall talented transfer receivers, but that seems like ages ago. I'm honestly a little disgusted watching a player the size of Thomos Fidone go down like a sack of potatoes on contact. I don't have a favorite running back because they won't give me the chance. When Tommie Hill starts showboating after merely making a routine stop on a second down play in the first quarter, I start to not like him. And it seems like a lot of players think the same way --- they're gunning for the YouTube clip, not the win. I think coaching is tough and I try not to to second guess every decision, but some stuff like the pre-punt time out and subsequent delay of game embarrassment is really hard to swallow. 

The worst part is, when Nebraska has a final possession, with the time and motivation to get the monkey off their back, with an excuse to go for broke, it never occurs to me that they'll  pull it off. We know what closers look like. They just don't look like closers. It runs through the entire team and coaching staff. In case you didn't notice, college football now officially pities the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

There was definitely PI on that final play, but I can't believe the Husker fans who want to run with that grievance. If PI gets called, and the Huskers get another play inside the five, how much money would you put on Nebraska scoring a touchdown, scoring a 2 point conversion, and winning in overtime?

Exactly.  

 
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Lorewarn said:
A better O-line doesn't matter. A 5 star QB doesn't matter. A new OC doesn't matter, nothing matters other than whatever vague undetectable influence that results in this program being inherently snakebitten in a way that transcends the sum of all the variables.

Silver lining is that Dylan looked closer to comfortable and confident than he has the last 4 games (not saying his performance was great).

Does that matter? No. Nothing matters. But I’m a fake fan if I don’t find some delusion.
 
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This ^^^ is how I feel, generally.  I won't get anything but laughy smilies, too.  If any.  The trophy and up-votes and fire smilies go to less insightful posts. 

😁

 
Mavric said:
We literally have 32 defensive backs on the roster, but apparently can only play a guy who has apparently been hurt for two months and a guy who's been routinely beaten for the past year-and-a-half.
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And one who is 5 foot 4, perhaps that’s the guy you’re mention who’s been beaten for a year and a half 

 
Our O coach(es) in a paragraph (from the LJS):

In an analytics world where the magic book seems to almost always say "go for it," Matt Rhule refuses. Rhule declined to go for it on fourth-and-short in this game, instead trusting a defense that gave up 441 yards. With NU trailing 21-20 with 10 minutes left, the Huskers faced fourth-and-3 on the NU 40. Rhule called the punter on the field, wasted a timeout and then brought out the offense to try and draw an offsides penalty that was simply never going to work. USC, of course, responded by going on a drive that lasted nearly eight minutes, punctuated by a touchdown. That left NU in scramble mode at the end of the game, and we know how that goes around here.

 
308_Husker said:
Eliminate the football program for 150 years. Maybe, just maybe, if it's chosen to be resurrected, it will be rid of all curses.
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We lose a lot of seniors this year, Rhule needs to raid the portal and find a way to end the sell out streak. We’ve had one too many subpar players too fat and happy around here for too long. Getting top 10 amenities and a top 10 fan base support with minimal results for too long 

 
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