Aaron Green

irafreak said:
The fact that TCU wasn't being brutalized by their schedule week in and week out makes it easier to win the games you are supposed to...
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Like that brutal 3 weeks of schedule we played before Washington 2.0? Or maybe the nail biter the team endured against K.State before playing Texas in 10' (which followed 4 sun belt teams)? Or the power football beatdown we received against Tech prior to Iowa State 09'. Or how about the close game we played against Michigan St. before losing to Northwestern?

(all very sarcastic above)

I completely agree w/ you that a tough schedule will wear on a team throughout the season. But it's not the "toughness" of the schedule that has led to our losses against teams we should beat. You can look to almost every "should have won" loss in the Pelini era, and take a step back to the prior weeks to find out why. Washington? Team completely not into the game. Texas? Hyped, emotional, team not into the game. Iowa State? beatdown by Tech prior week, emotional, team not into the game. Northwestern? huge win prior week, emotional, team not into the game.

This team is an emotional roller coaster (remind you of someone? maybe their head coach?), and it bites them in the a$$ at least once or twice a season.

 
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How can you say the tough schedule wears on a team throughout the season but it's not the toughness that led to our losses against teams we should beat? Maybe I wasn't clear. The schedule will affect a team's overall performance. Think back to TO's power teams. They could often sit their starters in the 4th quarter. Not having to play a full 4 quarters of intense football makes a big difference. As far as I'm concerned, TCU never had teams Nebraska couldn't beat. I just don't see how you could switch the schedule's and not have Nebraska ending up with the better record. TCU would almost certainly drop a game it wasn't supposed to.

That said. We do lose games we shouldn't but who doesn't? When was the last time Nebraska had a head coach that didn't? Even TO got beat by ISU right before they made their big run.

 
irafreak said:
How can you say the tough schedule wears on a team throughout the season but it's not the toughness that led to our losses against teams we should beat? Maybe I wasn't clear. The schedule will affect a team's overall performance. Think back to TO's power teams. They could often sit their starters in the 4th quarter. Not having to play a full 4 quarters of intense football makes a big difference. As far as I'm concerned, TCU never had teams Nebraska couldn't beat. I just don't see how you could switch the schedule's and not have Nebraska ending up with the better record. TCU would almost certainly drop a game it wasn't supposed to.

That said. We do lose games we shouldn't but who doesn't? When was the last time Nebraska had a head coach that didn't? Even TO got beat by ISU right before they made their big run.
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You're arguing the tough schedule causes wear and tear (which I agree w/ by year end), but the first 3 losses that I think we should have won came in games #4, #7, #6. Washington 2.0 came after 3 weeks off. And Northwestern came after a bye week, a Minnesota win, and another a big win where just like you said - our starters should have been sitting for the 4th quarter. Keep in mind the first 4 are usually creampuffs. TCU probably plays a tougher first set of games than Nebraska does. It's not like we're losing the 10th game.

So to say we're losing these games because we're nicked up, and we wouldn't be against lesser competition is wrong. We're losing early games, that follow us playing lesser competition than even TCU plays in the MWC.

 
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The Dude said:
kchusker_chris said:
The Dude said:
Deckedinblack said:
who cares about TCU
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People who are impressed by good intramural teams.
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Or people who watch the BCS bowls...
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I actually don't watch them if one of the participants only has to make it through an intramural schedule to get there.

That says a lot more about how sh**ty the bowl system is than it does about TCU.
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Exactly.

Walking though a creampuff schedules impresses some greatly. Me, not so much.

 
Then those same schools go down and beat the likes of Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, and a multitude of other schools that are supposedly on another level. Nothing impressive about that. Those are just the same teams that hand us our a$$ frequently. :P

 
kchusker_chris said:
Then those same schools go down and beat the likes of Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, and a multitude of other schools that are supposedly on another level. Nothing impressive about that. Those are just the same teams that hand us our a$$ frequently. :P
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It's impressive for what it is. It would be infinity more impressive if they had to play a gauntlet of teams like that to get there. Like those teams had to.

 
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