Worst loss of the Pelini Era

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I am I said:
This was the exact moment I wanted Bo fired. 

He  wouldn’t let up on that kid until his face was buried in his hands.  It wasn’t coaching, it was personal. 

Bo followed him around for what seemed like minutes. Screaming cussing yelling dogging embarrassing him until the kid broke. 

I knew Bo couldn’t do what he wanted to get kids to play his scheme at that moment and wanted better for the players. It was ugly. 

That loss sealed it for me. 
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Every time Pelini comes up in a conversation (this is a rare occasion, maybe once a year) and my mom is around, she talks about this moment. She's not a serious football fan but she hated Pelini for what he did to Davie in that game.

Anyway, that was the loss for me as well. I remember being very hopeful about Nebraska's season leading up to this game. I thought we could maybe go on to win the conference championship. Then we got blown out again and I just felt Pelini wouldn't be able to do it. Then later on I wished he'd been fired the year before.

 
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Guy Chamberlin said:
We remember how easily Wisconsin ran all over us, so sometimes we forget when they passed all over us. 

They let Joel Stave throw 50 times one game because hey, why not?
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Forgot about this myself.  Wisconsin's rushing attack was a disaster in 2015 after Corey Clement's hernia injury.  Joel Stave ended that season with most single-season pass attempts in school history.  Hard to believe that team was able to win 10 games.

 
I guess we're done voting but I'd have gone with Bo's first loss to UCLA because I remember thinking we had a coach entering his 5th year at the time going up against that Mora in his first season and they were clearly more disciplined, organized, etc.  That was the writing on the wall game for me, in other words, as far as Bo was concerned.

As far as the worst loss in terms of embarassment, though, I just think there were too many for one to really stand out.  Iowa State probably makes the most sense.

Part of me thinks the win against McNeese State was really a loss.  If not for Ameer's heroics, we're as big a joke as Michigan.  How many batteries does it take to beat scUM?  I suppose that maybe that didn't work by then if we were going with FCS instead of AA but you get the point...

 
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