junior4949
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All I hear is guys saying it's going to take another year or two to get back to college prominance. The one thing I think we can look back in history to about Nebraska football is this: every time we played for and or won a national championship, we had a QB with experience. After this year, Taylor is gone. In comes a new guy and more than likely the transfer from Arizona. He has one year of college eligibility, so he's gone and no experience in the program. 2008 rolls around with yet once again a new QB. I'm guessing it will be at least 2009 or 2010 at best before we get a guy in there with much experience. I find it amazing how much rope we're willing to give this coaching staff to hang themselves.
Why is everyone so upset with BC playing not to get blown out? I mean come on. He did the same thing with OU a couple of years ago, and he's gonna use the same game plan against Texas this year. The one thing I find ironic about BC is how he came in here saying we're gonna take what we want, yet in a game he plays passively waiting for the other team to make a mistake. Maybe this will eventually work, but I always thought you had to play aggressively to beat a very good opponent.
I rewatched and rewatched the game. There was one instance where it was 2nd and 10 and Taylor walked over to the sidelines. You could read his lips as to what he said, something in regards to what are we gonna do punt? Obviously, he was very frustrated. BC said in the post game comments that we didn't have time to throw and Taylor would have gotten killed. OK, but what's different about this year compared to last year? I mean come on, Taylor got literally drilled last year on several occasions. I have to wonder how the players after the game feel about the play calling and "waiting for the other team to make a mistake"?
I realize that this game put BC between a rock and a hard place due to the drilling we took a few years back at the hands of Texas Tech. However, I believe we as fans would have been able to take a 30 point or greater margin at the hands of one of the highest ranked teams in the country better than we did against a lot lower ranked Texas Tech team. We will never win or probably never even play for a national championship with the game plan of waiting for the other team to make a mistake. Great teams don't do that, and great coaches don't do that.
Why is everyone so upset with BC playing not to get blown out? I mean come on. He did the same thing with OU a couple of years ago, and he's gonna use the same game plan against Texas this year. The one thing I find ironic about BC is how he came in here saying we're gonna take what we want, yet in a game he plays passively waiting for the other team to make a mistake. Maybe this will eventually work, but I always thought you had to play aggressively to beat a very good opponent.
I rewatched and rewatched the game. There was one instance where it was 2nd and 10 and Taylor walked over to the sidelines. You could read his lips as to what he said, something in regards to what are we gonna do punt? Obviously, he was very frustrated. BC said in the post game comments that we didn't have time to throw and Taylor would have gotten killed. OK, but what's different about this year compared to last year? I mean come on, Taylor got literally drilled last year on several occasions. I have to wonder how the players after the game feel about the play calling and "waiting for the other team to make a mistake"?
I realize that this game put BC between a rock and a hard place due to the drilling we took a few years back at the hands of Texas Tech. However, I believe we as fans would have been able to take a 30 point or greater margin at the hands of one of the highest ranked teams in the country better than we did against a lot lower ranked Texas Tech team. We will never win or probably never even play for a national championship with the game plan of waiting for the other team to make a mistake. Great teams don't do that, and great coaches don't do that.