the silver lining

The Iowa game was the worst loss of the season.  The silver lining is it shows we need serous upgrades in players and coaches.  
 

We can be mad at Illinois and USC losses but it’s CFB, I’m not too upset about those.  But we absolutely left wins on the table losing to Iowa and UCLA.  Now that the games are over and I can assess the season, this was an 8 win team. Over 8 wins and we would have overachieved.  7 wins, OK we gave one win away, stuff happens.  But to end at 6 wins is underachieving.  And I have a terrible taste in my mouth losing the way we did to Iowa.  We Fn handed them the game.  
 

So my silver lining is to come out angry and smash our bowl opponent. That will tell me a lot about this team and coaching staff how we perform in the bowl. Lose and this season sucked with another losing record, win and build for the future.  Either way Rhule better be lining up the next season coaches and players now. 

 
Next year silver lining - we don't play Wisconsin, tOSU, or Indiana.
Instead we get Penn State, Michigan and Minnesota.

We also play USC and UCLA again - so that's cool.
Add in Maryland, Northwestern, MIchigan State
And Iowa of course.

Non-Conf - Cincinnati (Neutral site), Akron, Houston Christian

Bold are home games 

Note:  The #1 QB in the nation (HS) flipped two weeks ago from LSU to Michigan.  Total stud 5 star kid, Day 1 starter.

 
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SouthLincoln Husker said:
We still need to find some OTs in the portal.  What I've been reading, our young guys at this position are not ready yet.   
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I agree with you on this.  It’s gotta be the biggest position of need to address in the portal.   I would also go after Brown at KState to help solve the WR riddle we always have.  Combine him with the young guys and I think we got something good going on.  
 

And make sure they get it right.   

 
BoSolich said:
outside of the indiana game we lost 5 games by a total of 29 points. 

with a true freshman qb and good upcoming recruiting class with lots of top talent that want to play with raiola.

i think we win more than 6 games next year.
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yipee. With the recruiting classes we get, we should be closer to 9/10 wins and not losing to Iowa.

 
Huskers93-97 said:
Hasn’t the off season narrative for like the last 5 years been hey we are close because most of our losses were by single digits. 
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Boom.  At first I was fooled.  We are hanging with these teams.  One more play, call goes our way, extra yard here or there....And now sitting at 7-32 (Frost/Rhule) and go to 14-32 throwing in Riley I realize that we are not getting better or improving. If we were, we'd start to see a lot more 1 score games going into the W column.   Mental, coaching, scheme etc....Or lack of identity.  I think getting good at the basics would be huge.

 
lo country said:
Great classes that give below average results.  That's gotta change.  I am still amazed we get the classes we do with the records we have....
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what is Indiana's class rank and fir how long(not decades)? It starts at the top. Anyone who has played sports in college has many times left scratching their head about coaching decisions

 
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Husker66 said:
what is Indiana's class rank? It starts at the top. Anyone who has played sports in college has many times left scratching their head about coaching decisions
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Checked 247, they show us as 23rd and Indy as 39. We look to be 7th in the B1G.  I agree with you as our rankings do not fit with the results we see.....

 
chamrocck said:
7th in the B1G?  We are not playing for B1G championships with that lackluster result.  
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Yep. OSU, Michigan, Oregon, USC, Penn St, Wisky, NU.....As of today.  With the 105 man roster, NIL and the Portal, we need to be 100% spot on our HS recruits.  Hard to play the long ball developmental game when locked in a 105.

 
chamrocck said:
The Iowa game was the worst loss of the season.  The silver lining is it shows we need serous upgrades in players and coaches.  
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These is contradictory. Outside of the big pass play, Iowa did nearly nothing all game long. I would argue they capitalized on our errors more than they were better than us in anything specific. 

 
Wistrom Disciple said:
These is contradictory. Outside of the big pass play, Iowa did nearly nothing all game long. I would argue they capitalized on our errors more than they were better than us in anything specific. 
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Not knowing how to win is the #1 problem.  I don’t realty care about the stats, win the damn game.  The answer is in your comments “our errors”. There are many comments about how when X happened I knew we would lose or when Y happened I know how this movie ends. We make stupid errors that lose games and it’s not acceptable.  ST is overdue for a coaching change. The ST lack of coaching cost us this game. We have senior WRs that can’t catch a pass and senior OL that can’t protect the QB.  Yes we need coaching and player upgrades 100% or expect the same crappy results.

 
chamrocck said:
Not knowing how to win is the #1 problem.  I don’t realty care about the stats, win the damn game.  The answer is in your comments “our errors”. There are many comments about how when X happened I knew we would lose or when Y happened I know how this movie ends. We make stupid errors that lose games and it’s not acceptable.  ST is overdue for a coaching change. The ST lack of coaching cost us this game. We have senior WRs that can’t catch a pass and senior OL that can’t protect the QB.  Yes we need coaching and player upgrades 100% or expect the same crappy results.
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Agreed that winning is most important. It was your premise that I disagreed with. Iowa does not have better talent and arguably does not have better coaching. What exactly would you say Iowa coaches did to win the game last week?

Iowa didn't cause our senior receiver to drop a wide open pass. They didn't cause our senior returner to get inexcusably close to the ball instead of catching it. The coaches teach the players to either catch it or get the hell away. That was solely on the player (IGC) failing to make a decision until the last moments. I agree that Foley has not had as positive of an impact as hoped.  Iowa was gifted the ball inside our 5 and settled for a field goal. They had a total of five first downs and zero third down conversions. In short, our loss on Friday (and most of those on the season) were not due to insufficient talent within our program and I argue that the Iowa coaches did nothing to suggest that they caused the win. 

My belief is where they excel, compared to our team, is that they have an intangible optimism that they can still win after one or two mishaps happen. As this message board will indicate, the second we do something wrong or don't get a flag, a dozen people will comment 'here we go again' or 'fire X, fire Y.' If we think that the players are immune to this line of thinking, we'd be foolish. They know the recent history and struggles. My hope is that a bowl prep, cycling out of some upperclassmen, and a new group of players next year will help end the pessimism and bring about better results. 

 
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