CBS Sports: Breaking Down the Big Ten Schedules

1HuskrFan said:
To compare one year with the next is fruitless, no grounds to determine how any game will go ..............

What makes everyone think that Michigan State is going to be a loss. Without the 5 turnovers last yr, do you think MS still wins????? Same for Iowa for that matter... Does UCLA come back without Taylor being injured in first half, doubtful. Minnesota was just a plain old a$$ kicking by a team taken to lightly.
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No grounds to determine how any game will go huh? You mean, like that^?
We can talk about what ifs all we want, but those games happened the way they happened. In a way we have seen a few times here lately.

Excitement about the upcoming season is evident. People clearly have high expectations, just look around this board. But as possible as you think it is for this talented team to do well, it is just as possible we see some repeats of the exact same things we've seen nearly every year for the last six seasons. That's not unreasonable. It's also not unreasonable for fans to be tired of seeing it. I would expect the coaches and players are sick of the results as well.

 
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NUpolo8 said:
saunders45 said:
NUpolo8 said:
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
He asked if having a good quarterback was all they needed to beat us and you said history says yes.

What he didn't ask is "should we write off fresno as an easy win?"

If that's not what you meant you should have said something differently because we haven't lost to a mid major since 2004. So history says no.
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You guys really need to slow down with creating all of these achievements. We had room for the "9 wins" banner, but if we want to hang the "Better than Brady Hoke" and "Haven't lost to a mid major" banners we may have to do another expansion project.
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When did he call it an achievement? Oh that's right, he didn't.
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Simmer down. The banner can be hung, it just will take time. It's a first time banner, you can't expect it to be hung perfectly right away.
Give it 6 or seven years of it falling down and getting little strings cut off of it four times a year. Entitled fans are the worst.
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FIFY
 
NUpolo8 said:
saunders45 said:
NUpolo8 said:
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
He asked if having a good quarterback was all they needed to beat us and you said history says yes.

What he didn't ask is "should we write off fresno as an easy win?"

If that's not what you meant you should have said something differently because we haven't lost to a mid major since 2004. So history says no.
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You guys really need to slow down with creating all of these achievements. We had room for the "9 wins" banner, but if we want to hang the "Better than Brady Hoke" and "Haven't lost to a mid major" banners we may have to do another expansion project.
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When did he call it an achievement? Oh that's right, he didn't.
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Simmer down. The banner can be hung, it just will take time. It's a first time banner, you can't expect it to be hung perfectly right away.

Give it 6 or seven years of it falling down and getting little strings cut off of it four times a year. Entitled banner readers are the worst.
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Nebraska just can't compete with the big boys of banner hanging. We don't have the tools.

 
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My preseason expectations were higher last year than preseason expectations this year.

Martinez, Ameer, Bell, and Enunwa were supposed to support a inexperienced defense that would pull it together by the end of the year.

This year, we have an improved but not yet high caliber defense trying to support Ameer and a young quarterback. Don't see that panning out as well.

 
I went back and looked at some old threads to look at A) what expectations were and B) why we had those expectations (whether or not they were legitimate). First, for B...

- Taylor as a senior

- Old slow defensive players graduated, new fast defensive players starting

- Coaches felt good about fall camp

- Bo Pelini was happy and getting along with the media

- Permanent team captains

- Easy schedule

- Scoring Explosion capability on offense

So here is where we called Chuck Long an idiot for picking Michigan State to win the division.

Here's where CBS Sports had us winning the Legends and us agreeing with them.

Here's where Scout picked us to go 10-2 and win the division.

Here's where 6 panelists for Athlon Sports predicted us going 10-2 or 11-1 and everyone thought that was spot on.

Here's where Deinhart picked us #2 in the conference behind OSU.

Here's where Athlon Sports called us a darkhorse national title contender.

Here's where the 'Most Accurate Site' of 2012 picked us to win the Legends.

 
NUpolo8 said:
True2tRA said:
Experiment like we did against Wyoming? In what way? Do you mean experimenting with different players at different positions?
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I think that was the first 3-4 defense game if I'm not mistaken.
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We've used variations of a 3-4 alignment for awhile, most notable in our spinner package. Sometimes it was horrible (Mizzou 2008) and other times it worked magnificently (Mizzou 2010). But yeah, that game seemed to be more tradition 3-4 look that didn't mesh well with the youth.

 
saunders45 said:
NUpolo8 said:
True2tRA said:
Experiment like we did against Wyoming? In what way? Do you mean experimenting with different players at different positions?
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I think that was the first 3-4 defense game if I'm not mistaken.
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We've used variations of a 3-4 alignment for awhile, most notable in our spinner package. Sometimes it was horrible (Mizzou 2008) and other times it worked magnificently (Mizzou 2010). But yeah, that game seemed to be more tradition 3-4 look that didn't mesh well with the youth.
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It was maybe still more of the passive methodology than the actual 3-4. At least last year.

 
That is just altogether interesting to me. I've got to start paying more attention. That, or my memory is shot. So purely out of curiosity......we were experimenting with a new scheme in the first game of the season with all that youth and inexperience on the field? Trying to make sense of that.

I was typing this as you said what you said Saunders. I didn't realize we had been using that much in the past. I remember those games with the roaming DT and a lot of movement up front, but I didn't know what exactly we called that, or even considered it a 3-4 scheme.

 
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This is as good a time as any to announce the latest news from your friendly Mod team.

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You're taking away the only entertaining stuff on the board. I guess I'll have to join ShaggyBevo and look at MS Paint drawings of weiners.

 
saunders45 said:
sd'sker said:
i really think this line of reasoning is a little disingenuous. we had every reason to be excited for last season. we had a lackluster defense the year before and it was being replaced with, what we were lead to believe, a bunch of young, but extremely talented, players. and the offense was supposed to be explosive with senior talent that was pretty good the year before.

i got to say that is some serious revisionist history to say we should not have had such high expectations for last year.
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I think we should have had high expectations pre-season, mostly because of the defensive fluff, but in hindsight, the Wyoming game should have been a reality check. Most of the time, expectations are based on everything going right (ala injuries). Losing TM was a gigantic blow, and losing Spencer Long 1/3 through the season was pretty big too.

Pre-season expectations for this year should be higher than last year's final result.
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I would agree with this years expectations being higher than last (at least for me)!

Like I have said numerous times in other post, I appreciate the efforts TM put fourth in our games because no one can say he didn't push hard to do the best he could but there was an underlying problem within the mental part for our team when he was in there. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't in realistic terms but the team played better once TA took over (at least in my opinion). I also think the fact that our "D" should be salty and improved (especially on the ends) and we have experience where it is needed.

 
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