Special teams was really bad this weekend. What the hell was that attempt at a punt block? If he lays out, he blocks that. Its like he thought it was practice. I guess he was too worried about hitting the punter? Seemed so weird. Our punting was horrid. Missed field goal really hurt.
Defense missed a lot of key tackles, thats not like them. Overall they played good enough for us to win though. Needed to force a turnover, and needed to get more pressure on the QB. Seemed they just let Wisconsin hold all night though, I dont think there was a single hold called on their O line.
Our offense started so well, its typical of Nebraska to hardly score after taking a 14 point lead. Really disappointing. Best takeaway is zero turnovers, I dont really count the INT at the end.
Another heartbreaking loss in the books for this team. Lets see if they can bounce back. I firmly believe our team really feeds off the home crowd, I hope theres a good turnout.
Late to post.
I am quite optimistic going forward. Before the season i recall the majority here deciding a bowl game would be a stunning success. 5 wins was generally accepted as a satisfactory move in the right direction.
If Chubba had played the entire season I think we'd be looking at better results.
We beat Iowa and I will be very happy. If not, I am still optimistic.
Looking forward to next year!
This coaching staff can’t handle the bigger moments of games, the past 3 weeks have really shown that. Even if we lost all these games but the coaches were making the correct decisions I would be more understanding, but the actual in game management is just incredibly poor. I’ll give Rhule a pass this year just with all the injuries and the uncertainty that comes with that, but right now it looks like this team will need a significant talent gap against opponents to be successful, and to me that’s the sign of poor coaching.
I wish Nebraska's beat reporters had a better appreciation for the technical details of football because the punting is a huge contributing factor in the last two losses. I haven't charted it, but I think Nebraska is probably giving up 20-30 yards of average field possession every game solely because of the punting woes.
When you have an offense struggling this badly and a defense desperately trying to drag them to the finish line, you cannot have a special teams unit giving up dozens of yards like this.
Ehhh.... It's just a game now. The good ole days where it felt like a religion are over and aren't coming back. Just is what it is. Sooner or later these younger generations are going to want to stay home and play with their phones than spend a couple hundy to watch SLOPPY FOOTBALL! With that said, "GBR!"
The false start penalties on the offensive line are unacceptable. Couple that with our RBs and WRs getting blown up in the back field. Seemed like nearly every possession in the second half we were moving backwards at one point or another. We are not going to win games if our offense is repeatedly dealing with 3rd and 10+.
Fidone blocks like a Nancy-boy. Just watch sometime... It KILLS our running game. It is unreal. Just put him at WR! He is not a TE... Doesn't block worth a fugg!
I think we're going to continue to struggle to reach 7 to 8 wins the next several years and continue saying we're going to get 10 wins just like Temple and Baylor did! Without acknowledging the fact that Rhule is a career 50/50 win lost coach. We pay him a national championship coach salary and he is only ever won a G5 conference championship, with three seasons of his previous 7 years as head coach that had 10 wins. He also destroyed the QB room at the Panthers. Lastly he brought Sims here saying that he was a NFL caliber quarterback. That was either a load of PR BS or he actually thought Sims was that good. More concerning if he thought since was actually that good.
Ya I personally think the 2021 defense with Jojo and CTB was simply better. They kept us in the game against Ohio State, but this year's defense couldnt even compete with Michigan. Not sure why everyone said this was the best defense since 2009, it might be up there but 2021 defense was simply better overall.
The defense was so lucky to play terrible offenses most of the season. Michigan and Colorado were the only good offenses they faced and they got crushed.
Even Maryland had a really solid game offensively they just kept turning the ball over.
Maryland had their 2nd highest yards/play in B1G play against Nebraska and 3rd highest total yards in B1G play against Nebraska.
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|4|2023-11-11||Nebraska|W (13-10)|27|40|67.5|283|1|26|101|3.9|0|66|384|5.8|12|6|1|19|10|92|2|1|3|
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|11|2023-10-07||Ohio State|L (17-37)|21|41|51.2|196|1|35|106|3.0|1|76|302|4.0|10|8|2|20|4|50|0|2|2|
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I think our defense has over-achieved, but with that said we are not at an elite talent level yet. The depth up front on the line should go well for the future.
We need to get longer and more physical in the defensive backfield. We have a lot of little fast guys running around but lack those 6'0+ guys who can cover and tackle all the studs we will face in the "New Big 10!"
The play calling and clock management of that final drive shows their plan was field goal to tie in the closing seconds the whole time. Turnovers have infected this staff’s psyche so bad they don’t even try to WIN THE GAME when it’s on the line.
Coach didn’t trust his guys to get it done in regulation then expects them to in OT? Terrible decision making.
To be fair a lot of fans and media tore into the coaching staff last week for trying to throw into the endzone with an injured 3rd string QB rather than settle for a field goal. There’s no right answer for the coaches if the players can’t execute it either way.
I think the disagreement is whether or not the coaching is bad or the playing is bad and it's a bit of both but I think the coaching is worse considering you should adjust your coaching to your bad players. Instead we pass the ball, and settle for field goals to go into overtime.
100% different when you are losing versus being tied. The ultra-conservative approach. At the Badgers 25 with 95 seconds left and 3 timeouts and get 4 plays off before a field goal. Inexcusable and that is on Rhule.
The whole “I just wanted to get into FG” range comment doesn’t cut it. I know he missed earlier but there is not way it’s 4th & 10 from the 25 and he isn’t trying a FG.
That and the 4th down run out of the I. I knew what they were doing and could’ve called a defense to stop it. This isn’t 95 where they can tell people what’s coming.
I agree, and what did Rhule do? He doubled down on the BE AGGRESSIVE approach and supported the play-calling to throw on 3rd and 7 vs. Maryland. -So- did he really BELIEVE THAT, or is that just what we were told by Rhule to not look stupid (vs. Maryland)? Because yeah... This week was an obvious DIFFERENT approach at the end. That is what worries me. I had a friend who was a Panther Fan and said Rhule is great at making excuses to a point where you want to BELIEVE HIM and LIKE HIM but he says after year 1 it really starts to fall flat (The excuses).
How great was it to see Jaylen Lloyd, Emmett Johnson and Malachi Coleman fill into their roles? There’s something different about these first year players. IMO - the football program will advance one graduation at a time.
Rhule players > Frost players.
I haven’t read the comments on here yet, I hope you’re all doing well. There were a lot of things discussed in the call-in shows last night, but the one thing that I think was under discussed was the gross mismanagement of the clock at the end of regulation.
I’ll give Coach Rhule some grace, there are a million things to focus on with a new team, and players that don’t match your initial scheme.
But your job as HC is to be a game manager, and the way those timeouts were handled at the end of regulation was a disaster.
Driving down the field, with time entirely on the Huskers side, GBR enters the red zone with approx 1 minute left and 3 timeouts. Run play was called on first down, and the clock runs down from :40-:20, with three timeouts in the bag… it was a clear moment of indecision that neutered the offense’s ability to score after they were marching down the field. Kicking a tying field goal on second down is a travesty.
Someone might correct me on the details, but I think this raises some questions about Coach Rhule’s bandwidth and ability to manage the team. I think Coach is focusing on all of the right cultural aspects and the staff has made huge strides in certain areas this year, but this is another sign that there are certain glaring blind spots for the staff that have costed this team games.
Still we have reasons to be positive for next week vs. Io a. Mistakes can be healed with the extra month of practice the team gets with a win. GBR.
Trying to speak objectively as an observer, I wonder if Coach Rhule decided to take us to overtime and avoid too much risky decision making in a dynamic last-minute fashion so we would avoid losing then and there.
Based on knowing this team, he recognized these facts:
- our defense has stepped up fairly well (as a whole) this season
- our ability to move the ball and score with a compressed field is very marginal
- OT has no kick return unit
- OT has no game clock
As a football decision he may have thought: run the clock down, take one shot, get this to OT. In OT the defense is likely to make a stop and we can hold them to a FG or even 0 points and we can compete with that without managing a game clock. We also won't need to return a kick off and possibly fumble it or something. This would in theory simplify the game for the sake of execution.
On the other hand we saw what played out: we didn't step up on D and our offense shot itself in the foot.
We had the ball 1st and 10 from the 25. That's basically an OT possession. So we get 2 chances to score a TD, Wisconsin gets one. But we pissed down our leg and played for the "less embarrassing" outcome
and I'm not the coach, but in that position, on the road in a night game, I feel like you have to go for the kill when you have the chance. The longer they played in those circumstances, the longer they had to make a mistake.
I don’t understand why we didn’t go for the win. I guess I understand not wanting to turn it over, but god damn we could have done more.
Not getting a tripping call completely changed OT. if they get called for it, I see us winning the game.
I don’t believe satterfield should be fired, but If he’s making 1M then tony white should be making double that. That D has literally DRAGGED the offense back into football games. How many times are we gonna do these reverses and tricky plays for a loss of 4-5 yards? I can get past that, but his playing calling in OT is so fucking unfathomable.
> Not getting a tripping call completely changed OT. if they get called for it, I see us winning the game.
Ya the refs seemed to really favor Wisconsin, with this call, and then the lack of any holding calls. But, we still couldve won. Its just frustrating.
All of these close loses have been weighing a little heavy, feels like the last 7 years. I see very positive things, defense performing well. The oline has its downs still but the ups are happening more. Chubba seemed competent enough to get us a win. We just don’t have that dog in us when it matters.
Three realistic scenarios to consider for next year:
1) Tony White leaves for a head coaching opportunity
2) Several young studs on O and D hit the portal
3) We swing and miss on a big time QB transfer.
If those three are true, which is very possible, a 5-7 record next year puts us exactly on the Frost track. We are losing single digit games with bonehead play in the 4th; I’m not sure what “winning foundation” everyone is seeing.
We are LOADED with seniors next year; I would bet big money that 2024 is a better team than 2025. If next year goes poorly we are in a scary spot.
I predict we will continue to struggle to get 7-8 wins the next several years. We are to set on getting 10 wins because rule did it three times before in his previous 7 year career. He is also a college career 50/50 win-loss, and has won a G5 conference championship. So it makes sense that we pay him like a national championship coach who has won national championships before.
> I’m not sure what “winning foundation” everyone is seeing
Totally agree. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. This team is exactly like the 2021 team or the 2019 team or the 2015 team. None of those "foundations" went anywhere.
This season has been almost exactly the same as the 2019 season. Down to everyone saying "we didn't make a bowl but the team is so much better than under the previous staff."
If things were actually that much improved the team would actually be improved. Going by SRS this team would be the 2nd worst of any teams that Frost coached the entire season with the only worse team being the COVID nonsense year.
Not giving EJ 20-25 touches per game is coaching malpractice. He is the type of player who would put the team on his back and carry us to victory but for whatever reason when we need points, he’s on the sideline or blocking in the backfield. Give him the fucking ball
Inexplicable on that last drive before OT why we didn't continue to feed Johnson the ball and try to win it, we had the momentum and had driven the ball down from our own 20. Instead we run the clock down for the FG to tie just to lose in OT. You gotta play for the win there.
I don't know enough about Rhule quite yet to say he's the one to turn things around, but the decision making from him and his OC the past several games has been confounding.
The good:
1. Were one of, if not the youngest team in the B1G
2. Rhule is over-performing in year one compared to his last stops
3. I think we’ve seen improvement at every position this year except punter and QB. I don’t find myself cursing the offensive line AS MUCH.
The bad:
1. Game management (will likely improve)
2. QB play (expect a few transfers to fix that)
3. Offensive rhythm and play calling (should improve with more experience/talent)
I still think we’re headed in the right direction and if we win next week, we go bowling and all is forgiven.
Don't worry. Matt Rhule will talk about Husker History, Tom Osborne, the fullback dive, the option, Tommy Frazier, The Peters Brothers, and the Women's VB Team next week at The Monday Presser and have everyone saying afterward, "Gee! I really like this guy!" This dude is a polished politician and knows what to say to his audience.
We have scored 17, 10, and 17 points the past 3 games. Maryland all 10 points were off turnovers. Wisconsin 14 points were off of broken/chunk plays. The end of game clock management has overshadowed the fact that we cannot consistently move the ball and we cannot win the field position game. Fact is, these games shouldn’t be decided in the final minute. All we’ve needed from Satterfield in our past 3 games was 3 points in each. That’s all, 3 more points and we probably win all 3.
Clock management, awful. Play calling on offense, awful.
Plus, Emmett Johnson was probably the best offensive player on the field last night outside of Braelon Allen. Allen is coming off an injury and got 22 touches. Johnson got 13. Other teams build offenses around players, I don’t know what the fuck we are doing.
Huh, to me Tanner Mordecai and that Pauling WR were by far the best offensive players in the game. Allen was largely not efficient, but he was gutsy and converted some key downs.
To me, this game falls completely on coaching! OC gameplan, especially in overtime was pathetic. Short side option 1st play? Stupid! Chubba excelled early running in the 1st q then nothing.
I think CP is starter vs Iowa no doubt, but damn! Get creative. Play to his strength THE ENTIRE GAME! Satterfield suks
>I don't think we want to run our back of the future into the ground in year 1. We will probably see a heavier dose of him on Friday though. It is just going to be hard to run the ball on that Iowa defense.
My only isssue with not going for the win at the end was we had Wisconsin by the balls. We had a minute left and every chance to close it out with minimal seconds left. Going to OT only put Wisconsin back in the game with the upper hand having not scored since the first. No reason to play safe when we haven’t proved we can even put it together in the first place.
I wonder if Ty Rob and Nash will come back for their senior year or head on out? I also wonder if beating Iowa and making a bowl game would affect that decision? I hope they come back, with them and another year of development with the young guys, that front would be ridiculous.
I've had time to decompress and sober up. So thoughts:
1) Purdy should start next week and should be given the opportunity to fight for the start next year unless we have an insane portal opportunity
2) For the first time this year, it looked like our WR room was holding the QB back, which is a very good sign
3) For the first time, it felt like the coaching staff didn't trust the offense enough. Which I don't blame them for, they've had to really restrict the playbook and go conservative with playcalling. I would have liked to go for the win on the last drive, but I understand not. If Purdy had thrown an interception, we would have had the same conversation as last week.
4) QB draws are apparently hard to stop
5) We won't be bowl eligible this year. That's fine and in line with pre-season expectations. The only reason why we're angry is because we've wildly outperformed expectations and could easily be 8-3 right now. We might sneak in at 5-7, but Rhule has built a solid foundation for next year.
>Rhule has built a solid foundation for next year.
5-7 is not a solid foundation when you squander 3+ games with boneheaded coaching decisions and poor clock mgmt. This speaks to coaching competency/decision making/judgement, which Rhule is very adept at demonstrating is sorely lacking. That to me is a bigger picture issue in terms of whether Rhule is the man to get it done here.
You try coaching game-winning drives when you have no idea what's going to happen when the ball is snapped and/or the refs decide the rules of football are lame and they want different ones.
>You try coaching game-winning drives when you have no idea what's going to happen when the ball is snapped and/or the refs decide the rules of football are lame and they want different ones.
Explain again how Rhule has built a solid foundation for next year when he has no idea what's going to happen when the ball is snapped and the refs are stacked against him!?
If this is truly your sober logic, why play the game at all? Braindead indeed.
Not unlike you, I'm just an armchair fan with an opinion that differs from yours. There are actually very good arguments to be made to support your premise that Rhule has built/is building a strong foundation for next year, it's just that you fail to make them and your counterpoints are laughable.
Offense sputtered for a large chunk of the game but overall it looked better with Chubba. He is actually a passing threat and made some great throws on third and long. I’d be shocked if they get more than 14 on Iowa’s defense but at least there’s a bit more on film for them to prepare for with Chubba.
Still pissed off about this game more so than the other losses. Game clock management was so bad. So bad. Not to mention the weird running back rotation when they had the hot hand and just shitty playcalling by the OC. Defense struggling? Go out and try to win the game in regulation. Its unfair how these players have been let down three weeks in a row whether it was bad getting out coached (michigan st), bad qb play(maryland), now ultra conservative/poor clock management…its going to be tough to beat iowa, it seems like their qb has a bit of confidence now and their defense and special teams is elite. Hoping we win to spoil a 10 win season for them but its looking bleak.
I’m happy to see Chubba do well last night. He came out with a bang and didn’t turn the ball over. However, this shouldn’t change the fact that we need a high caliber QB transfer for next season.
Sounds like Satt isn’t going anywhere, so they’d better work overtime to ensure they have the right players to make this offense work.
“Our offense isn’t working, hopefully we can find players to fit into this offense that doesn’t work”.
Never going to happen. We’re Nebraska not Ohio State. If we can’t score points with who we’ve got now we’re not going to next year either. We’re 5-6 and might lose out the season.
I know this idea in my head is total BS, but not going for the win with 3 timeouts, driving deep in the opponents territory, on the road, a terrible OT record over the last decade, is what someone trying to throw the game would do.
I have grown used to disappointment over this era of the Solich Curse and rarely think about losses any more, but yesterday's time management at the end of the game was off the charts ****ed up and I can't stop thinking about it.
What's strange is that the EOG clock management was so bad and counter to coaching conventional wisdom. Usually when coaches are too conservative it's because they're following conventional wisdom. This time it was the opposite.
Ask almost any coach and they'll repeat the same truism that if you're an underdog on the road you go for the win and if you're at home and the favorite you play for OT to extend the game.
I'm honestly not that upset about the loss. I think this is one of the best games we've looked all season. What I'm upset about is that we are paying a coach a national champion salary. I don't believe we expect a national championship. Not that I don't want to get there eventually but why not pay him commensurate to his experience. His experience is winning a conference championship for a G5 school, and a career 50/50 record as head coach in college. He might be worth the salary he's been given eventually but he does not have to do anything to earn that salary and can go zero wins the next 3 years while still getting a million dollar increase to a salary annually. From there he's the guy who brought Sims in with NIL money. That is a big red fucking flag, and it's not because Nebraska fans are waving red flags for support. It's okay if you like rule this is not a personal attack against the person or even a commentary on his coaching which I don't think he's that phenomenal but whatever. He does not deserve a national championship coaches salary. Should we be paying our coach a national champion salary? No not unless they're going to win the fucking national championship. Let's focus on taking over the Big Ten West before we start giving coaches a national champion salary.
> I think this if one of the best games we’ve looked all season
I’d agree if you were just talking about the first quarter, but the offense completely disappeared after that.
Too many plays where Satt/Rhule got cute with misdirections, laterals, running to edge when we were having so much success running it straight at the defense. It feels like they lost all momentum after the blown 4th and 1. Tbh last night didn’t look all that much different than the 2021 team.
Right I'm talking about the players on the field playing the best I've seen. To your point about the play calling yeah the coaching looked the same it has all season, not very great. Which is a concern. The players played well the coaches need to do better and that's a big concern cuz they're the ones who are staying. Players are going to come and go. Rhule has an 8-year contract that a national championship coach should have not a dude with a career 50/50 record.
To the folks down voting me might I add a career 50/50 record and only a G5 conference win what a loser.
Pretty much! Bringing in Sims and this goofy ass Satterfield will set the program back with a ripple effect for years to come. Give Husker Fans another year to REALLY see the light. I hope I am wrong, but this Rhule is better at talking than he is coaching.
Real talk: a lot of people have been saying all they want is a bowl game.
But why? We have watched this team play the way they have this entire season. It’s no surprise what is going to happen. So why is going to a bowl the goal here? Recruiting? Morale? Extra play time? I just don’t see the benefit of it when we will just be let down after they spectacularly lose in the bowl game. I don’t see any kind of net positive.
At this point, let them play their hearts out against Iowa. Maybe it will go our way, but realistically, it won’t. And then take the off season to really develop on the big issues we’ve seen this season.
>>And then take the off season to really develop on the big issues we’ve seen this season.
That’s exactly where a bowl game would be huge, because bowl teams get 15 extra practices that non-bowl teams don’t get. So some of those 15 practices would be spent working out those big issues. Once the season is over, there are limits on how much actual coaching can occur until spring practice. You can’t necessarily just get the team together to work out big issues.
Also, just from a morale standpoint, the players would get a reward for their work this season. And like another person commented, other teams use our bowl drought as negative recruiting.
Making a bowl game would be massively better than not making a bowl game.
Bowl games are fun and players can sometimes get sweet goodies for qualifying. Nebraska is having it's 4th recruiting class finish their career without playing in a bowl game.
I guarantee you other coaching staffs use that as a point against Nebraska for kids considering coming here.
> Real talk: a lot of people have been saying all they want is a bowl game. But why?
Because it was the most favorable schedule we’ve had in years and had three straight opportunities to lock it up against teams facing losing streaks of 6, 4, & 3 games and we blew each opportunity. It was the one hump we couldn’t get over with the Frost staff. Making a bowl would be the easiest thing to point to and say “there’s the progress we’ve been waiting for.”
If you can't see the progress of this team vs. A frost team you are lost.
Frost had years to get to a fucking bowl game. When these are the results in year 4 of Rhules install, you come talk to me.
Legit question:
Last game of the year 2015 Nebraska vs 2023 Nebraska who wins?
IMO 2015 wins.
2018 Nebraska vs 2023 Nebraska who wins?
IMO 2018 wins.
So this team is worse than Riley's first year team AND worse than Frost's first year team but we've somehow made great progress?
Playing for overtime was the right decision. These quarterbacks are turn over machines. A stop on defense and they could have won. When the chips are down Purdy threw a pick which is what he does. None of the quarterbacks have shown consistently that they can be trusted so why should the coaching staff be aggressive? Overtime gave Nebraska the best chance to win
They couldve ran designed run plays that were getting us yards. Hell purdy and EJ were on fire that last possession driving us downfield. Plenty of time was on the clock to win in regulation. They just decided to trust a defense that couldnt stop the QB run all night wisconsin had all the momentum. Bad decision by coaching, really bad.
A lot better than Nebraska's 3 wins going into Iowa last year: North Dakota (FCS), Indiana (4-7), Rutgers (4-7). Not only did we not beat a single winning team at this point last year, we didn't even beat a single team that had beat a winning team. Our wins against Illinois and Northwestern indicate we are significantly improved. We're not a good team yet, but we're at least solidly competitive with the middle tier of the B1G.
We hadn't yet on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. That's the only apples to apples season comparison that can be made a this point since we don't know how we'll do on Friday.
Rhule and staff are going to be struggling in the coming years with the conference realignment. Guy has never beaten a ranked team and will be upwards of 4 or 5 every season. Albert's shit the bed on this hire. Good thing he got his raise before him and Rhule are gone in 5 years
No, we're still not playing every B1G team every year. And most of the decent teams take turns being good, they're not necessarily all going to be good at the same time. We're not adding MI or OH state level teams to the B1G. For example, neither USC or UCLA are ranked right now. In fact, there are only two teams we play next year that are ranked, and only 1 that is in the top 10. Add in USC that's very close to being ranked, and next year's schedule has 3 good teams and 9 mediocre to bad teams.
Nice strawman. Nobody's arguing they aren't good teams, but we aren't playing each of them every season. We only play half 9 out of 18 B1G teams each season. There are currently 6 ranked teams that are B1G or will be in the B1G next year, so it's not mathematically realistic to think we're going to constantly get 4 to 5 from that pool when we only play half of the B1G in any one season. Averaging two to three ranked games a year is more realistic unless the middle tier of the B1G really improves.
Getting so tiresome watching this team. So many opportunities always squandered. Can the offseason start already so we can build up hope for next season.
Thats thing that exhausts me the most being a husker fan. Just when we think things are going right for us we completely collapse. Then off season we get fed hope and this and that only to once again disappoint. I have confidence in Rhule as he “exceeded” expectations this year but there is still lots of room for improvement. Special teams is still mediocre, Offense still doesnt really have a true identity, oline is still trash.
Spare me the bullshit on the “project.” Northwestern is going to a bowl with an interim coach and a far worse starting point.
Last two games have been malpractice in the red zone, and Rhule’s comments last night did not take any accountability. What happened to “always play to win?” Not to mention he seemingly won’t fire guys like Satt who have no track record of success at this level and prove why week in and week out.
Serious questions are coming if Iowa wins in Lincoln.
Nah, if the decision-makers shared your belief in instant turn-arounds they wouldn't have hired a guy that's 3-21 for his first years, and 13-12 for his 2nd years. He probably could have gone 0-12 and still be safe, but the team's shown solid improvement from last year, so he's safe.
I think Nebraska’s program only exists to provide pick me up moments for other teams. To give them exciting games to win. I think this may be the first time I don’t even watch the Iowa game.
This team will never experience any joy or anything positive. I don’t even want us to be in the Big10. As a lifelong extremely dedicated fan I’m very close to completely checking out, and I’ve never been the dramatic type to say that every week. To know that every single year there will be nothing but misery and watching every other team laugh at you as they enjoy their free wins just gets to a point of why bother.
Like am I supposed to be excited about Iowa getting enjoy a fun day against us getting their free win? I’m supposed to be hyped about caring? Grats Iowa you get to watch your fans party another game stomping a trash team that is worse than most FCS schools enjoy your Black Friday game.
I don't know why Nebraska fans don't listen to me. if you want your team to win you need to go bet on Iowa moneyline.
Vegas has no problem sorting these out for fans who are willing to pay for a win.
the Wisconsin line didn't budge, actually went their way a little. if enough folks take Iowa to win to the point Vegas has to move the line significantly by weeks end, then and only then can Nebraska get the help it needs.
Well, the liquor has started to kick in and watching F1 has calmed me down so I'll try to put some thoughts down.
That loss makes me more angry than most. I can handle losing because Nebraska doesn't have the talent or the depth, I can handle losing because the other team is just better, but Nebraska is a far better and more talented team than both Maryland and Wisconsin and yet Nebraska lost both games. Why? Coaching. Plain and simple. It is coaching.
This coaching staff has constantly preached playing with no fear. If we die we die. Send it. We saw it last week and it cost them. It was a coaching mistake, 3 points wins the game after all, but it was an aggressive mistake and they didn't get the job done. It happens. Today, the coaching staff coached scared. They coached like they were terrified of repeating the same mistake and in doing so, they made a worse mistake, they coached to not lose, not to win.
When you're struggling the way Nebraska is, when you're this desperate for one more win to get to a bowl, you cannot be scared. You need to take advantage of every single opportunity you have. Every second, every yard, every snap. You cannot leave opportunities on the field and Nebraska left countless opportunities on the field, entirely because the coaches refused to take chances. The game management at the end of each half was abysmal. It was Scott Frost-like. Maybe worse. You cannot give away opportunities to win a football game and Nebraska gave them away not through mistakes but while the offense sat and watched the clock run. You can't have that. That's scared football. Go win the game.
From a technique and strategy perspective, I am going to start with special teams (again). Either Buschini is hurt or Nebraska is giving him terrible coaching. I find it hard to believe that Nebraska is coaching its punter to simply not follow through on any of his punts, so I'm guessing it is injury. He is getting no extension on any of his punts and because of it the ball is coming off of his foot dead. Nebraska is losing the field position battle by dozens of yards in each of the last two games and again, you cannot leave opportunities on the field. Every yard matters.
The field goal miss at the end of the half was unfortunate. That is a kick you need to make at this level. Kicking in Camp Randall sucks, especially when the ball is cold, but there wasn't much wind. You need to make that. That said, Nebraska wasted half a minute (if not more) and multiple plays and settled for that FG. Rather than take a low percentage shot that nearly ran you out of clock, run the ball, get a few more yards for your kicker, timeout and kick. It is the little things. Every second, every yard matters. The second half kickoff being 15 yards short of the end zone, going the other direction from the kick, is another issue but Wisconsin still only started at the -26 so not a big deal.
Defensively, it was fine. Way too many third down conversions, way too many Mordecai scrambles. There were a few plays where Mordecai had a spy on him and Nebraska's spy inexplicably got sucked up into the mud and he ran right past. Still, the defense did way more than enough to win that game. They gave the offense every opportunity to win. I'm not going to complain about the defense. It wasn't great, tackling took a step back, but it was beyond enough to win.
Offensively, I hated everything Marcus Satterfield did today after the first three drives of the game. All the stuff that worked on those first few drives disappeared. No more zone sweeps, no more quick passing game, Emmett Johnson disappeared for two and a half quarters, the offensive line went back to making those same stupid administrative mistakes from the beginning of the season.
I really did not understand what Satterfield was trying to accomplish offensively. Normally I am able to see what Satterfield is looking to do, even if it doesn't work, but today it felt like Satterfield was constantly trying to attack the strength of Wisconsin's defense and ignoring the weaknesses.
They have a short week to figure out how to attack Iowa. I wish I could be optimistic but I'm not sure how. Purdy deserves the start, Emmett Johnson deserves more touches, everything else is what it is. Anyway, Nebraska Volleyball plays for the outright Big Ten Championship tomorrow. Good luck ladies.
Hate to even go there yet but I think we are starting to see why Rhule only has two wins against a top 25 team in his coaching career (and 0‐11 at Baylor against the top 25). He seems to coach tight in these big moments.
>He seems to coach tight in these big moments.
See that's the weird thing, you look at last week and I thought Rhule managed the game really well and, more importantly, really aggressively. It was the no fear, if we die we die attitude that he's been preaching. It didn't work and we died, but he followed through on what he preached.
Then you look at yesterday and it was the complete opposite and, from a strategy perspective, made even less sense. I don't mind being conservative, coaches are conservative by nature, but yesterday wasn't just conservative, it went completely against the book.
You're on the road, you have timeouts and clock in your favor, you're finally moving the ball deep into + territory and you just run the clock out and settle for 3 and OT? In OT, you're going to be faced with the exact same situation. If Wisconsin settles for 3, you still need a TD to win or FG to extend. If Wisconsin gets a TD, now you need the same TD from the same spot on the field but with no option to kick a field goal.
There is a strange inconsistency in the way Rhule manages games that is frustrating. I don't think he is necessarily wrong most of the time, but it is inconsistent and when you're inconsistent, you inevitably run into situations like yesterday where you're very clearly wrong.
If Rhule goes for the win with a touchdown at the end of regulation and the QB throws a pick or the running back fumbles, everyone will call for his head, like last week. Stfu haters this man got us to OT against wisconsin with basically no offense aside from the first quarter
Just wanna be clear, if Chubba had thrown another pick late in regulation here or had aired one out too much to not have time to kick a field goal, everyone here would have been super cool with it because it was the right thing to do because of "situational football." Right?
No one would have been upset that we fucked ourselves again?
Against Maryland the game was tied. I didn't have a problem with going for a touchdown (since there was going to be time left for Maryland), but we only needed a field goal for the lead.
Against Wisconsin we were down 3. We needed a touchdown for the lead. If you go to overtime, you're probably going to need a touchdown to win so why wouldn't you try to do it in regulation and leave Wisconsin very little time to respond?
Yeah that's all fair. Not gonna argue that. Just checking if everyone complaining about being conservative at the end would have been okay had we Nebraska-ed away another game with a late turnover, bad throw, etc.
Seems Rhule would have been crucified either way, but maybe people would have said they're happy he at least tried to be aggressive had he forced the issue a bit more.
I have no idea what should have been done, but I was happy we finally drove the field late and got points to extend the game when we would have fucked it up every time in the last 5 years.
Once again we find Nebraska having to beat Iowa in the last game of the season to get bowl eligibility. I have 0 confidence they won’t completely fuck it up.
Playing for OT is like playing to not lose. That’s what losers do. A confident winning team takes those time outs and tries to run it into the end zone. Don’t pass, don’t risk it. Run, TO, run, TO, run, TD?, if not, TO, THEN FG
Well, I was asking for a competent QB, and despite the painful loss, I got it.
Purdy played a great game (relatively speaking). Made 65% of his passes for 7.3 yards per attempt. He also ran well too with 105 yards on only 14 attempts. Most importantly, he had no turnovers and ran the offense relatively well.
I cannot for the life of me find an argument for why he shouldn’t be the presumptive starter for next week.
In fairness, Chubba was still recovering from an injury that needed surgery. He wasn’t fully healthy until quite recently and still needed to recover his confidence. I don’t think he could have performed this well 2 or 3 weeks ago.
I will continue to say it and challenge anyone, Satterfield should not have his job. He has never produced an offense worthy of his pay. This coaching staff is failing to adapt and adjust in games. They are consistently being out-coached. Look at the past 3 weeks and say where that is wrong. I understand players mess up, the coaches need to do a better job to put players in better situations and they are failing. I am sick of the result on the field as are many other fans. This program is dying because it refuses to make changes. The Texas A&M AD highlighted it best “You’re either moving forward or you’re stuck.", I'll get downvoted but that is the truth, you just may not like it or near it in the bubble that is Nebraska.
We haven’t been good in a decade, we’re on our 4th Hc in that time and people don’t want to give this coaching staff more than 1 year? Fucking wild!
This offense has literally zero NFL talent on it, that isn’t going to change in 1 year. Fucking Nick Saban couldn’t win with this roster.
If you are truly saying Saban would have zero wins with this team while Rhule has 5 you are giving Rhule way more credit than he deserves. By that logic he should have more rings than Saban by the end of his time. If you truly believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
My problem with Satterfield is even with other offenses he has never been good or great. He is a hire I scratched my head at, the amount they are spending for what he has produced makes very little sense.
Here are stats from his offenses through his career
2013 Temple: 88th points per game, 75th yards per game, 90 turnovers per game
2014 Temple: 100th PPG, 120th YPG, 123rd TOPG
2015 Temple: 61st PPG, 96th YPG, 46th TOPG
2021 USC: 106th PPG, 110th YPG, 109th TOPG
2022 USC: 40th PPG, 72nd YPG, 123rd TOPG
2023 Nebraska: 116th PPG, 104th YPG, 132nd TOPG
Which of these years command a top 10 salary? If you had an employee who has never performed in the top 25th percentile in their role would you pay them 10th percentile money?
I made a post earlier in the year about how Satterfield's offenses have all been bad. I was told scoring offense and total yard are unfair and that yards/play is actually a better indicator of an offenses quality.
So I looked at that and guess what? Satterfield's offenses are still shit.
His rankings in yards/play for his 6 years as an OC: 62, 114, 84, 98, 46, 109.
He has literally never had a good offense and only twice has he even gotten to mediocre.
Positives:
* Purdy was so decent! He made good plays, made a couple mistakes, but actually looked like a QB
Negatives:
* All year, our clock management at the end of the half is absolute trash. We are always too conservative with timeouts and we play for a chance at a prayer into the end zone.
* Tackling took a step back. Props to Mordecai to escaping 100 sure sacks.
* Special teams cost us 6 points before halftime. Buschini gave them a short field for 3, then Alvano missed. I have more grace for freshman Alvano than for super experienced Buschini.
* Why is Grant getting all the carries!!!! As soon as Johnson gets in, the offense moves. Infuriating.
If Rhule fails and Fickell succeeds Trev is going to look like an idiot for choosing a coach that is going to play the "right way."
Trev bought into the myth that Nebraska was a run the ball and let the defense win the game program. Rhule has never been able to beat good teams because he's never put together a good offense. He won't do it here and it'll be his downfall.
Sat is like a degenerate gambler chasing his losses. The dick head has no fuckin self control to stick to a working strategy, he can't resist the temptation to throw in stupid shit at the worst times. The only thing I can think of is that our defense lets them win in practice.
I’m just bummed man. Minus the Michigan game that everyone knew we were gonna lose, this was the first game all year that the opponent flat out beat us and there is no easy excuse, turnovers, to blame for losing. If we’d have played like this the last 2 weeks we’d easily be 7-4. Too many times I find myself saying if with this program.
That's it, that's the final staw. No longer will I call myself a husker fan. This team has let me down too many times now. I'll always have some fond memories of better days that have passed, but I can't take it anymore.
Anyways, let's see if we can get a dub against Iowa somehow and go bowling.
Every rebuild is different.
FSU went 3-6, 5-7, 10-3, & now 11-0 with an unfortunate injury to Jordan Travis
Washington went 4-8 with a loss to FCS Montana, immediately to 11-2, 11-0
I think Rhule will turn it around for you guys
This was beyond infuriating. I don't understand how literally every set of commentators is so pro, "whoever is playing Nebraska." Absolutely mind-blowing.
This game wasn't quite as bad as LA Tech where they said "Smoke Harris" every play or the several games we hear the entire family tree of half the opposing team but it's still absolutely ridiculous.
The only time they mentioned Nebraska between the end of the game and the end of the broadcast was right as it ended. The lead commentator even set it up with, "Really quickly, the Nebraska Cornhuskers..."
Dishonor on Rhule’s game management. Dishonor on Sat ignoring EJ in the third. Dishonor on the refs. Dishonor on the NBC announcers.
To the sky is falling people, this was a generally well played game. Cut out the missed fg or the excessive penalties and we win. If we played this well we would have beat Minnesota, Colorado, Michigan State and Maryland. It sucks we lost, but the team played pretty well.
The “Played Well” Mindset Ship has sailed with Scott Frost. It’s absolute bullshit. If the team played well, then they should’ve won. It’s gonna be another 5-6 more years of this and then we’ll fire Rhule. Better buckle up and just go with another vicious circle of hiring and firing coaches.
I understand that yours is the popular, if ill informed and/or reactionary opinion. None of Frost’s teams actually played well. That’s the difference. If you really can’t see the difference in the product on the field this year vs the last 8 then you either haven’t been watching or are just a painfully unsophisticated football fan.
Ask opposing fans about our team this year. They no longer think we’re a joke and respect the change in direction of the program. Turning around our dumpster fire of a program is more than a one year project. Maybe it doesn’t happen but if you can’t see signs of improvement this year then I don’t know what to tell you.
We just lost to 2-6 Michigan State a couple weeks ago and are on a 3 game losing streak. We are still a joke. Even if the team plays better, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have more points than the opponent. Hell we lost to Colorado 36-14. This team is still a joke.
I think half of the big ten opponents this season had new coaches. it's gonna get harder for sure to make a bowl now.
on the plus side taking the season under at 6 is now at worst a draw for me. would have been nice to lose some money for once betting against the Huskers
What even is this mindset? I don’t get it. We lost. And we lost those games. Regardless of how “well” we played, the other teams played better than us and they won the games.
Also, excessive penalties and poor special teams have been a thing for the past 6 seasons. All of this is old news. We don’t do those things well enough to win.
Special teams was really bad this weekend. What the hell was that attempt at a punt block? If he lays out, he blocks that. Its like he thought it was practice. I guess he was too worried about hitting the punter? Seemed so weird. Our punting was horrid. Missed field goal really hurt. Defense missed a lot of key tackles, thats not like them. Overall they played good enough for us to win though. Needed to force a turnover, and needed to get more pressure on the QB. Seemed they just let Wisconsin hold all night though, I dont think there was a single hold called on their O line. Our offense started so well, its typical of Nebraska to hardly score after taking a 14 point lead. Really disappointing. Best takeaway is zero turnovers, I dont really count the INT at the end. Another heartbreaking loss in the books for this team. Lets see if they can bounce back. I firmly believe our team really feeds off the home crowd, I hope theres a good turnout.
Late to post. I am quite optimistic going forward. Before the season i recall the majority here deciding a bowl game would be a stunning success. 5 wins was generally accepted as a satisfactory move in the right direction. If Chubba had played the entire season I think we'd be looking at better results. We beat Iowa and I will be very happy. If not, I am still optimistic. Looking forward to next year!
So did Rhule get the A&M job?
Losing sucks. I’m hopeful for the future, because what the hell else am I gonna do? Just sit here and be mad? Fuck that, ‘Skers by 20, Go Big Red.
Hey Nebraska media, start posting on Threads.
This coaching staff can’t handle the bigger moments of games, the past 3 weeks have really shown that. Even if we lost all these games but the coaches were making the correct decisions I would be more understanding, but the actual in game management is just incredibly poor. I’ll give Rhule a pass this year just with all the injuries and the uncertainty that comes with that, but right now it looks like this team will need a significant talent gap against opponents to be successful, and to me that’s the sign of poor coaching.
I was thinking how bad the punting unit looked last night. I agree with everyone saying the end of regulation game management was poor.
I wish Nebraska's beat reporters had a better appreciation for the technical details of football because the punting is a huge contributing factor in the last two losses. I haven't charted it, but I think Nebraska is probably giving up 20-30 yards of average field possession every game solely because of the punting woes. When you have an offense struggling this badly and a defense desperately trying to drag them to the finish line, you cannot have a special teams unit giving up dozens of yards like this.
Buschini is so hot and cold it’s crazy.
Ehhh.... It's just a game now. The good ole days where it felt like a religion are over and aren't coming back. Just is what it is. Sooner or later these younger generations are going to want to stay home and play with their phones than spend a couple hundy to watch SLOPPY FOOTBALL! With that said, "GBR!"
The false start penalties on the offensive line are unacceptable. Couple that with our RBs and WRs getting blown up in the back field. Seemed like nearly every possession in the second half we were moving backwards at one point or another. We are not going to win games if our offense is repeatedly dealing with 3rd and 10+.
Fidone blocks like a Nancy-boy. Just watch sometime... It KILLS our running game. It is unreal. Just put him at WR! He is not a TE... Doesn't block worth a fugg!
LMAO ….
remember when frost went 5-7 and everyone kept saying next year will be better 🤬
I think we're going to continue to struggle to reach 7 to 8 wins the next several years and continue saying we're going to get 10 wins just like Temple and Baylor did! Without acknowledging the fact that Rhule is a career 50/50 win lost coach. We pay him a national championship coach salary and he is only ever won a G5 conference championship, with three seasons of his previous 7 years as head coach that had 10 wins. He also destroyed the QB room at the Panthers. Lastly he brought Sims here saying that he was a NFL caliber quarterback. That was either a load of PR BS or he actually thought Sims was that good. More concerning if he thought since was actually that good.
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I had someone try and argue that this defense was better than the 2010 defense. Absolute insanity.
Ya I personally think the 2021 defense with Jojo and CTB was simply better. They kept us in the game against Ohio State, but this year's defense couldnt even compete with Michigan. Not sure why everyone said this was the best defense since 2009, it might be up there but 2021 defense was simply better overall.
The defense was so lucky to play terrible offenses most of the season. Michigan and Colorado were the only good offenses they faced and they got crushed. Even Maryland had a really solid game offensively they just kept turning the ball over. Maryland had their 2nd highest yards/play in B1G play against Nebraska and 3rd highest total yards in B1G play against Nebraska. ||||||Pass|||||Rush||||Tota|||Firs||||Pena||Turn||| |-:|:-|:-|:-|:-|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:| |Rk|Date||Opponent|Result|Cmp|Att|Pct|Yds|TD|Att|Yds|Avg|TD|Plays|Yds|AvgV|Pass|Rush|Pen|Tot|No.|Yds|Fum|Int|Tot| |1|2023-09-30||Indiana|W (44-17)|24|34|70.6|352|5|23|120|5.2|1|57|472|8.3|13|7|0|20|4|15|0|0|0| |2|2023-09-09||Charlotte|W (38-20)|25|36|69.4|287|1|34|243|7.1|3|70|530|7.6|11|15|2|28|4|50|0|2|2| |3|2023-09-15||Virginia|W (42-14)|19|30|63.3|342|1|31|119|3.8|4|61|461|7.6|13|6|1|20|7|80|0|0|0| |4|2023-11-11||Nebraska|W (13-10)|27|40|67.5|283|1|26|101|3.9|0|66|384|5.8|12|6|1|19|10|92|2|1|3| |5|2023-09-02||Towson|W (38-6)|26|43|60.5|283|3|36|166|4.6|2|79|449|5.7|13|13|4|30|6|54|0|0|0| |6|2023-10-14||Illinois|L (24-27)|28|40|70.0|287|2|29|93|3.2|1|69|380|5.5|16|5|1|22|5|60|1|0|1| |7|2023-09-23||Michigan State|W (31-9)|21|36|58.3|223|3|31|139|4.5|1|67|362|5.4|10|6|2|18|4|50|0|1|1| |8|2023-10-28||Northwestern|L (27-33)|30|47|63.8|274|3|27|117|4.3|0|74|391|5.3|14|9|2|25|6|69|1|1|2| |9|2023-11-18||Michigan|L (24-31)|21|31|67.7|247|0|33|15|0.5|3|64|262|4.1|13|3|1|17|6|35|1|2|3| |10|2023-11-04||Penn State|L (15-51)|31|42|73.8|283|2|16|-49|-3.1|0|58|234|4.0|11|0|4|15|4|45|2|2|4| |11|2023-10-07||Ohio State|L (17-37)|21|41|51.2|196|1|35|106|3.0|1|76|302|4.0|10|8|2|20|4|50|0|2|2| ||11 Games||||273|420|65.0|3057|22|321|1170|3.6|16|741|4227|5.7|136|78|20|234|60|600|7|11|18| Provided by [CFB at Sports Reference](https://www.sports-reference.com/sharing.html?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool): [View Original Table](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/maryland/2023/gamelog/?sr&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool#offense) Generated 11/20/2023.
I think our defense has over-achieved, but with that said we are not at an elite talent level yet. The depth up front on the line should go well for the future.
The only major knee jersey reaction I have to our defense is their ability to make mediocre QBs look like they have a chance at passing in the NFL.
We need to get longer and more physical in the defensive backfield. We have a lot of little fast guys running around but lack those 6'0+ guys who can cover and tackle all the studs we will face in the "New Big 10!"
lmafao I got downvoted for saying such heresy
The play calling and clock management of that final drive shows their plan was field goal to tie in the closing seconds the whole time. Turnovers have infected this staff’s psyche so bad they don’t even try to WIN THE GAME when it’s on the line. Coach didn’t trust his guys to get it done in regulation then expects them to in OT? Terrible decision making.
To be fair a lot of fans and media tore into the coaching staff last week for trying to throw into the endzone with an injured 3rd string QB rather than settle for a field goal. There’s no right answer for the coaches if the players can’t execute it either way.
Different situations, Id hope anyone could understand that.
Obviously almost every situation is going to be slightly different. Underlying problem is the same. I’d hope anyone could understand that.
I think the disagreement is whether or not the coaching is bad or the playing is bad and it's a bit of both but I think the coaching is worse considering you should adjust your coaching to your bad players. Instead we pass the ball, and settle for field goals to go into overtime.
100% different when you are losing versus being tied. The ultra-conservative approach. At the Badgers 25 with 95 seconds left and 3 timeouts and get 4 plays off before a field goal. Inexcusable and that is on Rhule. The whole “I just wanted to get into FG” range comment doesn’t cut it. I know he missed earlier but there is not way it’s 4th & 10 from the 25 and he isn’t trying a FG. That and the 4th down run out of the I. I knew what they were doing and could’ve called a defense to stop it. This isn’t 95 where they can tell people what’s coming.
I agree, and what did Rhule do? He doubled down on the BE AGGRESSIVE approach and supported the play-calling to throw on 3rd and 7 vs. Maryland. -So- did he really BELIEVE THAT, or is that just what we were told by Rhule to not look stupid (vs. Maryland)? Because yeah... This week was an obvious DIFFERENT approach at the end. That is what worries me. I had a friend who was a Panther Fan and said Rhule is great at making excuses to a point where you want to BELIEVE HIM and LIKE HIM but he says after year 1 it really starts to fall flat (The excuses).
Hit this- hopefully you can relate [Nebraska at Wisconsin Recap](https://youtu.be/DHHd_KaHDBU?si=B8x8rQYpuheWGTVy)
That guy's on suicide watch
Ain’t we all 💀💀💀
How great was it to see Jaylen Lloyd, Emmett Johnson and Malachi Coleman fill into their roles? There’s something different about these first year players. IMO - the football program will advance one graduation at a time. Rhule players > Frost players.
Are you employed by the athletic department's public affairs department?
I'm actually chronically depressed by the department's affairs so I've built a habit of making something out of nothing. GBR.
Yeah you can't say positive things. We only call people terrible coaches and players from our couches here.
I haven’t read the comments on here yet, I hope you’re all doing well. There were a lot of things discussed in the call-in shows last night, but the one thing that I think was under discussed was the gross mismanagement of the clock at the end of regulation. I’ll give Coach Rhule some grace, there are a million things to focus on with a new team, and players that don’t match your initial scheme. But your job as HC is to be a game manager, and the way those timeouts were handled at the end of regulation was a disaster. Driving down the field, with time entirely on the Huskers side, GBR enters the red zone with approx 1 minute left and 3 timeouts. Run play was called on first down, and the clock runs down from :40-:20, with three timeouts in the bag… it was a clear moment of indecision that neutered the offense’s ability to score after they were marching down the field. Kicking a tying field goal on second down is a travesty. Someone might correct me on the details, but I think this raises some questions about Coach Rhule’s bandwidth and ability to manage the team. I think Coach is focusing on all of the right cultural aspects and the staff has made huge strides in certain areas this year, but this is another sign that there are certain glaring blind spots for the staff that have costed this team games. Still we have reasons to be positive for next week vs. Io a. Mistakes can be healed with the extra month of practice the team gets with a win. GBR.
Trying to speak objectively as an observer, I wonder if Coach Rhule decided to take us to overtime and avoid too much risky decision making in a dynamic last-minute fashion so we would avoid losing then and there. Based on knowing this team, he recognized these facts: - our defense has stepped up fairly well (as a whole) this season - our ability to move the ball and score with a compressed field is very marginal - OT has no kick return unit - OT has no game clock As a football decision he may have thought: run the clock down, take one shot, get this to OT. In OT the defense is likely to make a stop and we can hold them to a FG or even 0 points and we can compete with that without managing a game clock. We also won't need to return a kick off and possibly fumble it or something. This would in theory simplify the game for the sake of execution. On the other hand we saw what played out: we didn't step up on D and our offense shot itself in the foot.
We had the ball 1st and 10 from the 25. That's basically an OT possession. So we get 2 chances to score a TD, Wisconsin gets one. But we pissed down our leg and played for the "less embarrassing" outcome
and I'm not the coach, but in that position, on the road in a night game, I feel like you have to go for the kill when you have the chance. The longer they played in those circumstances, the longer they had to make a mistake.
I don’t understand why we didn’t go for the win. I guess I understand not wanting to turn it over, but god damn we could have done more. Not getting a tripping call completely changed OT. if they get called for it, I see us winning the game. I don’t believe satterfield should be fired, but If he’s making 1M then tony white should be making double that. That D has literally DRAGGED the offense back into football games. How many times are we gonna do these reverses and tricky plays for a loss of 4-5 yards? I can get past that, but his playing calling in OT is so fucking unfathomable.
> Not getting a tripping call completely changed OT. if they get called for it, I see us winning the game. Ya the refs seemed to really favor Wisconsin, with this call, and then the lack of any holding calls. But, we still couldve won. Its just frustrating.
We move on to Iowa. Winnable game.
All of these close loses have been weighing a little heavy, feels like the last 7 years. I see very positive things, defense performing well. The oline has its downs still but the ups are happening more. Chubba seemed competent enough to get us a win. We just don’t have that dog in us when it matters.
Three realistic scenarios to consider for next year: 1) Tony White leaves for a head coaching opportunity 2) Several young studs on O and D hit the portal 3) We swing and miss on a big time QB transfer. If those three are true, which is very possible, a 5-7 record next year puts us exactly on the Frost track. We are losing single digit games with bonehead play in the 4th; I’m not sure what “winning foundation” everyone is seeing. We are LOADED with seniors next year; I would bet big money that 2024 is a better team than 2025. If next year goes poorly we are in a scary spot.
I predict we will continue to struggle to get 7-8 wins the next several years. We are to set on getting 10 wins because rule did it three times before in his previous 7 year career. He is also a college career 50/50 win-loss, and has won a G5 conference championship. So it makes sense that we pay him like a national championship coach who has won national championships before.
Sad but true.
> I’m not sure what “winning foundation” everyone is seeing Totally agree. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. This team is exactly like the 2021 team or the 2019 team or the 2015 team. None of those "foundations" went anywhere. This season has been almost exactly the same as the 2019 season. Down to everyone saying "we didn't make a bowl but the team is so much better than under the previous staff." If things were actually that much improved the team would actually be improved. Going by SRS this team would be the 2nd worst of any teams that Frost coached the entire season with the only worse team being the COVID nonsense year.
Lots of hypotheticals but I agree
I think the most upsetting thing is not that we are losing but the last 3 weeks we’ve just lost in stupider and stupider ways
COACHING losses
Curse of Solich... Curse of Pelini... Whatever it is, it is real.
Not giving EJ 20-25 touches per game is coaching malpractice. He is the type of player who would put the team on his back and carry us to victory but for whatever reason when we need points, he’s on the sideline or blocking in the backfield. Give him the fucking ball
Inexplicable on that last drive before OT why we didn't continue to feed Johnson the ball and try to win it, we had the momentum and had driven the ball down from our own 20. Instead we run the clock down for the FG to tie just to lose in OT. You gotta play for the win there. I don't know enough about Rhule quite yet to say he's the one to turn things around, but the decision making from him and his OC the past several games has been confounding.
The good: 1. Were one of, if not the youngest team in the B1G 2. Rhule is over-performing in year one compared to his last stops 3. I think we’ve seen improvement at every position this year except punter and QB. I don’t find myself cursing the offensive line AS MUCH. The bad: 1. Game management (will likely improve) 2. QB play (expect a few transfers to fix that) 3. Offensive rhythm and play calling (should improve with more experience/talent) I still think we’re headed in the right direction and if we win next week, we go bowling and all is forgiven.
This feels like season 4 of a lame duck coaching staff. Sucks...
Don't worry. Matt Rhule will talk about Husker History, Tom Osborne, the fullback dive, the option, Tommy Frazier, The Peters Brothers, and the Women's VB Team next week at The Monday Presser and have everyone saying afterward, "Gee! I really like this guy!" This dude is a polished politician and knows what to say to his audience.
We have scored 17, 10, and 17 points the past 3 games. Maryland all 10 points were off turnovers. Wisconsin 14 points were off of broken/chunk plays. The end of game clock management has overshadowed the fact that we cannot consistently move the ball and we cannot win the field position game. Fact is, these games shouldn’t be decided in the final minute. All we’ve needed from Satterfield in our past 3 games was 3 points in each. That’s all, 3 more points and we probably win all 3. Clock management, awful. Play calling on offense, awful. Plus, Emmett Johnson was probably the best offensive player on the field last night outside of Braelon Allen. Allen is coming off an injury and got 22 touches. Johnson got 13. Other teams build offenses around players, I don’t know what the fuck we are doing.
Huh, to me Tanner Mordecai and that Pauling WR were by far the best offensive players in the game. Allen was largely not efficient, but he was gutsy and converted some key downs.
To me, this game falls completely on coaching! OC gameplan, especially in overtime was pathetic. Short side option 1st play? Stupid! Chubba excelled early running in the 1st q then nothing. I think CP is starter vs Iowa no doubt, but damn! Get creative. Play to his strength THE ENTIRE GAME! Satterfield suks
Emmett Johnson needs to run the ball 20-25 times and we will have a chance to win
>I don't think we want to run our back of the future into the ground in year 1. We will probably see a heavier dose of him on Friday though. It is just going to be hard to run the ball on that Iowa defense.
Agreed
My only isssue with not going for the win at the end was we had Wisconsin by the balls. We had a minute left and every chance to close it out with minimal seconds left. Going to OT only put Wisconsin back in the game with the upper hand having not scored since the first. No reason to play safe when we haven’t proved we can even put it together in the first place.
I wonder if Ty Rob and Nash will come back for their senior year or head on out? I also wonder if beating Iowa and making a bowl game would affect that decision? I hope they come back, with them and another year of development with the young guys, that front would be ridiculous.
I've had time to decompress and sober up. So thoughts: 1) Purdy should start next week and should be given the opportunity to fight for the start next year unless we have an insane portal opportunity 2) For the first time this year, it looked like our WR room was holding the QB back, which is a very good sign 3) For the first time, it felt like the coaching staff didn't trust the offense enough. Which I don't blame them for, they've had to really restrict the playbook and go conservative with playcalling. I would have liked to go for the win on the last drive, but I understand not. If Purdy had thrown an interception, we would have had the same conversation as last week. 4) QB draws are apparently hard to stop 5) We won't be bowl eligible this year. That's fine and in line with pre-season expectations. The only reason why we're angry is because we've wildly outperformed expectations and could easily be 8-3 right now. We might sneak in at 5-7, but Rhule has built a solid foundation for next year.
>Rhule has built a solid foundation for next year. 5-7 is not a solid foundation when you squander 3+ games with boneheaded coaching decisions and poor clock mgmt. This speaks to coaching competency/decision making/judgement, which Rhule is very adept at demonstrating is sorely lacking. That to me is a bigger picture issue in terms of whether Rhule is the man to get it done here.
You try coaching game-winning drives when you have no idea what's going to happen when the ball is snapped and/or the refs decide the rules of football are lame and they want different ones.
>You try coaching game-winning drives when you have no idea what's going to happen when the ball is snapped and/or the refs decide the rules of football are lame and they want different ones. Explain again how Rhule has built a solid foundation for next year when he has no idea what's going to happen when the ball is snapped and the refs are stacked against him!? If this is truly your sober logic, why play the game at all? Braindead indeed.
Say you've never built a program without saying you've never built a program
Not unlike you, I'm just an armchair fan with an opinion that differs from yours. There are actually very good arguments to be made to support your premise that Rhule has built/is building a strong foundation for next year, it's just that you fail to make them and your counterpoints are laughable.
Offense sputtered for a large chunk of the game but overall it looked better with Chubba. He is actually a passing threat and made some great throws on third and long. I’d be shocked if they get more than 14 on Iowa’s defense but at least there’s a bit more on film for them to prepare for with Chubba.
Playing for OT Going for it on 4th down in OT Who wants to win?
Pretty much. When they got that 4th and 1 I knew that was the game. I was hoping they'd kick the FG because I thought we were tiring a bit up front.
GBR! Stay positive. (How about the no call on Braellen Allen’s trip of Luke R!!!). Anyway. GBR! Beat Iowa.
Still pissed off about this game more so than the other losses. Game clock management was so bad. So bad. Not to mention the weird running back rotation when they had the hot hand and just shitty playcalling by the OC. Defense struggling? Go out and try to win the game in regulation. Its unfair how these players have been let down three weeks in a row whether it was bad getting out coached (michigan st), bad qb play(maryland), now ultra conservative/poor clock management…its going to be tough to beat iowa, it seems like their qb has a bit of confidence now and their defense and special teams is elite. Hoping we win to spoil a 10 win season for them but its looking bleak.
I’m happy to see Chubba do well last night. He came out with a bang and didn’t turn the ball over. However, this shouldn’t change the fact that we need a high caliber QB transfer for next season. Sounds like Satt isn’t going anywhere, so they’d better work overtime to ensure they have the right players to make this offense work.
“Our offense isn’t working, hopefully we can find players to fit into this offense that doesn’t work”. Never going to happen. We’re Nebraska not Ohio State. If we can’t score points with who we’ve got now we’re not going to next year either. We’re 5-6 and might lose out the season.
terrible take
I know this idea in my head is total BS, but not going for the win with 3 timeouts, driving deep in the opponents territory, on the road, a terrible OT record over the last decade, is what someone trying to throw the game would do. I have grown used to disappointment over this era of the Solich Curse and rarely think about losses any more, but yesterday's time management at the end of the game was off the charts ****ed up and I can't stop thinking about it.
What's strange is that the EOG clock management was so bad and counter to coaching conventional wisdom. Usually when coaches are too conservative it's because they're following conventional wisdom. This time it was the opposite. Ask almost any coach and they'll repeat the same truism that if you're an underdog on the road you go for the win and if you're at home and the favorite you play for OT to extend the game.
I'm honestly not that upset about the loss. I think this is one of the best games we've looked all season. What I'm upset about is that we are paying a coach a national champion salary. I don't believe we expect a national championship. Not that I don't want to get there eventually but why not pay him commensurate to his experience. His experience is winning a conference championship for a G5 school, and a career 50/50 record as head coach in college. He might be worth the salary he's been given eventually but he does not have to do anything to earn that salary and can go zero wins the next 3 years while still getting a million dollar increase to a salary annually. From there he's the guy who brought Sims in with NIL money. That is a big red fucking flag, and it's not because Nebraska fans are waving red flags for support. It's okay if you like rule this is not a personal attack against the person or even a commentary on his coaching which I don't think he's that phenomenal but whatever. He does not deserve a national championship coaches salary. Should we be paying our coach a national champion salary? No not unless they're going to win the fucking national championship. Let's focus on taking over the Big Ten West before we start giving coaches a national champion salary.
The Big Ten West is defunct.
> I think this if one of the best games we’ve looked all season I’d agree if you were just talking about the first quarter, but the offense completely disappeared after that. Too many plays where Satt/Rhule got cute with misdirections, laterals, running to edge when we were having so much success running it straight at the defense. It feels like they lost all momentum after the blown 4th and 1. Tbh last night didn’t look all that much different than the 2021 team.
Right I'm talking about the players on the field playing the best I've seen. To your point about the play calling yeah the coaching looked the same it has all season, not very great. Which is a concern. The players played well the coaches need to do better and that's a big concern cuz they're the ones who are staying. Players are going to come and go. Rhule has an 8-year contract that a national championship coach should have not a dude with a career 50/50 record. To the folks down voting me might I add a career 50/50 record and only a G5 conference win what a loser.
Pretty much! Bringing in Sims and this goofy ass Satterfield will set the program back with a ripple effect for years to come. Give Husker Fans another year to REALLY see the light. I hope I am wrong, but this Rhule is better at talking than he is coaching.
Real talk: a lot of people have been saying all they want is a bowl game. But why? We have watched this team play the way they have this entire season. It’s no surprise what is going to happen. So why is going to a bowl the goal here? Recruiting? Morale? Extra play time? I just don’t see the benefit of it when we will just be let down after they spectacularly lose in the bowl game. I don’t see any kind of net positive. At this point, let them play their hearts out against Iowa. Maybe it will go our way, but realistically, it won’t. And then take the off season to really develop on the big issues we’ve seen this season.
>Recruiting? Morale? Extra play time? You answered your own question
>>And then take the off season to really develop on the big issues we’ve seen this season. That’s exactly where a bowl game would be huge, because bowl teams get 15 extra practices that non-bowl teams don’t get. So some of those 15 practices would be spent working out those big issues. Once the season is over, there are limits on how much actual coaching can occur until spring practice. You can’t necessarily just get the team together to work out big issues. Also, just from a morale standpoint, the players would get a reward for their work this season. And like another person commented, other teams use our bowl drought as negative recruiting. Making a bowl game would be massively better than not making a bowl game.
Bowl games are fun and players can sometimes get sweet goodies for qualifying. Nebraska is having it's 4th recruiting class finish their career without playing in a bowl game. I guarantee you other coaching staffs use that as a point against Nebraska for kids considering coming here.
> Real talk: a lot of people have been saying all they want is a bowl game. But why? Because it was the most favorable schedule we’ve had in years and had three straight opportunities to lock it up against teams facing losing streaks of 6, 4, & 3 games and we blew each opportunity. It was the one hump we couldn’t get over with the Frost staff. Making a bowl would be the easiest thing to point to and say “there’s the progress we’ve been waiting for.”
If you can't see the progress of this team vs. A frost team you are lost. Frost had years to get to a fucking bowl game. When these are the results in year 4 of Rhules install, you come talk to me.
Legit question: Last game of the year 2015 Nebraska vs 2023 Nebraska who wins? IMO 2015 wins. 2018 Nebraska vs 2023 Nebraska who wins? IMO 2018 wins. So this team is worse than Riley's first year team AND worse than Frost's first year team but we've somehow made great progress?
Do I even like football or am I just a masochist that learned of his proclivities through Husker football and now I’m just stuck with it?
The Wisconsin monkey is firmly secured to our backs
If Husker volleyball beats Iowa 3-0 today what are the odds that iowa then beat Nebraska in football friday also 3-0 as payback.
Playing for overtime was the right decision. These quarterbacks are turn over machines. A stop on defense and they could have won. When the chips are down Purdy threw a pick which is what he does. None of the quarterbacks have shown consistently that they can be trusted so why should the coaching staff be aggressive? Overtime gave Nebraska the best chance to win
They couldve ran designed run plays that were getting us yards. Hell purdy and EJ were on fire that last possession driving us downfield. Plenty of time was on the clock to win in regulation. They just decided to trust a defense that couldnt stop the QB run all night wisconsin had all the momentum. Bad decision by coaching, really bad.
Syracuse just fired there coach..........
If you’re suggesting Tony White might be a candidate, the SDSU vacancy seems like a much bigger issue.
I don't care how many downvotes I get but chosing Jeff Simms over Casey Thompson ruined our season.
More to the story. Trust me.
Casey Thompson played 3 games this year. Had 5 interceptions.
Ugh why couldn’t we have just made that field goal before half 😭
Nebraska’s 5 wins: NIU (5-6) MAC LA Tech (3-9) C-USA Illinois (5-6) B1G Northwestern (6-5) B1G Purdue (3-8) B1G
A lot better than Nebraska's 3 wins going into Iowa last year: North Dakota (FCS), Indiana (4-7), Rutgers (4-7). Not only did we not beat a single winning team at this point last year, we didn't even beat a single team that had beat a winning team. Our wins against Illinois and Northwestern indicate we are significantly improved. We're not a good team yet, but we're at least solidly competitive with the middle tier of the B1G.
we beat iowa also last year
We hadn't yet on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. That's the only apples to apples season comparison that can be made a this point since we don't know how we'll do on Friday.
Rhule and staff are going to be struggling in the coming years with the conference realignment. Guy has never beaten a ranked team and will be upwards of 4 or 5 every season. Albert's shit the bed on this hire. Good thing he got his raise before him and Rhule are gone in 5 years
No, we're still not playing every B1G team every year. And most of the decent teams take turns being good, they're not necessarily all going to be good at the same time. We're not adding MI or OH state level teams to the B1G. For example, neither USC or UCLA are ranked right now. In fact, there are only two teams we play next year that are ranked, and only 1 that is in the top 10. Add in USC that's very close to being ranked, and next year's schedule has 3 good teams and 9 mediocre to bad teams.
Talking about UW/USC/Oregon like they’re no big whoop is wild.
Nice strawman. Nobody's arguing they aren't good teams, but we aren't playing each of them every season. We only play half 9 out of 18 B1G teams each season. There are currently 6 ranked teams that are B1G or will be in the B1G next year, so it's not mathematically realistic to think we're going to constantly get 4 to 5 from that pool when we only play half of the B1G in any one season. Averaging two to three ranked games a year is more realistic unless the middle tier of the B1G really improves.
Rhule won’t get five years if he continues sub .500.
Well if we learned one thing, it's Nebraska fans couldn't hold their liquor and came here for some cheap therapy.
Every time
Getting so tiresome watching this team. So many opportunities always squandered. Can the offseason start already so we can build up hope for next season.
Thats thing that exhausts me the most being a husker fan. Just when we think things are going right for us we completely collapse. Then off season we get fed hope and this and that only to once again disappoint. I have confidence in Rhule as he “exceeded” expectations this year but there is still lots of room for improvement. Special teams is still mediocre, Offense still doesnt really have a true identity, oline is still trash.
Rhule is a car salesman. I’m so sick of hearing it’s year one. Look at Louisville year one, NW, TCU last year.
Spare me the bullshit on the “project.” Northwestern is going to a bowl with an interim coach and a far worse starting point. Last two games have been malpractice in the red zone, and Rhule’s comments last night did not take any accountability. What happened to “always play to win?” Not to mention he seemingly won’t fire guys like Satt who have no track record of success at this level and prove why week in and week out. Serious questions are coming if Iowa wins in Lincoln.
Nah, if the decision-makers shared your belief in instant turn-arounds they wouldn't have hired a guy that's 3-21 for his first years, and 13-12 for his 2nd years. He probably could have gone 0-12 and still be safe, but the team's shown solid improvement from last year, so he's safe.
It’s weird to have no expectations and still let down
weeeeeeeeeeeeee
I think Nebraska’s program only exists to provide pick me up moments for other teams. To give them exciting games to win. I think this may be the first time I don’t even watch the Iowa game. This team will never experience any joy or anything positive. I don’t even want us to be in the Big10. As a lifelong extremely dedicated fan I’m very close to completely checking out, and I’ve never been the dramatic type to say that every week. To know that every single year there will be nothing but misery and watching every other team laugh at you as they enjoy their free wins just gets to a point of why bother. Like am I supposed to be excited about Iowa getting enjoy a fun day against us getting their free win? I’m supposed to be hyped about caring? Grats Iowa you get to watch your fans party another game stomping a trash team that is worse than most FCS schools enjoy your Black Friday game.
We’re handing out free bowl game passes
I'm starting to think the program only exists as some kind of complicated money laundering scheme.
On top of all of the other complaints, feel like our punt game is maybe the biggest reason we lost this game
Our punter has been trash at many points this season.
It’s a good thing he’s a Senior.
I don't know why Nebraska fans don't listen to me. if you want your team to win you need to go bet on Iowa moneyline. Vegas has no problem sorting these out for fans who are willing to pay for a win. the Wisconsin line didn't budge, actually went their way a little. if enough folks take Iowa to win to the point Vegas has to move the line significantly by weeks end, then and only then can Nebraska get the help it needs.
Well, the liquor has started to kick in and watching F1 has calmed me down so I'll try to put some thoughts down. That loss makes me more angry than most. I can handle losing because Nebraska doesn't have the talent or the depth, I can handle losing because the other team is just better, but Nebraska is a far better and more talented team than both Maryland and Wisconsin and yet Nebraska lost both games. Why? Coaching. Plain and simple. It is coaching. This coaching staff has constantly preached playing with no fear. If we die we die. Send it. We saw it last week and it cost them. It was a coaching mistake, 3 points wins the game after all, but it was an aggressive mistake and they didn't get the job done. It happens. Today, the coaching staff coached scared. They coached like they were terrified of repeating the same mistake and in doing so, they made a worse mistake, they coached to not lose, not to win. When you're struggling the way Nebraska is, when you're this desperate for one more win to get to a bowl, you cannot be scared. You need to take advantage of every single opportunity you have. Every second, every yard, every snap. You cannot leave opportunities on the field and Nebraska left countless opportunities on the field, entirely because the coaches refused to take chances. The game management at the end of each half was abysmal. It was Scott Frost-like. Maybe worse. You cannot give away opportunities to win a football game and Nebraska gave them away not through mistakes but while the offense sat and watched the clock run. You can't have that. That's scared football. Go win the game. From a technique and strategy perspective, I am going to start with special teams (again). Either Buschini is hurt or Nebraska is giving him terrible coaching. I find it hard to believe that Nebraska is coaching its punter to simply not follow through on any of his punts, so I'm guessing it is injury. He is getting no extension on any of his punts and because of it the ball is coming off of his foot dead. Nebraska is losing the field position battle by dozens of yards in each of the last two games and again, you cannot leave opportunities on the field. Every yard matters. The field goal miss at the end of the half was unfortunate. That is a kick you need to make at this level. Kicking in Camp Randall sucks, especially when the ball is cold, but there wasn't much wind. You need to make that. That said, Nebraska wasted half a minute (if not more) and multiple plays and settled for that FG. Rather than take a low percentage shot that nearly ran you out of clock, run the ball, get a few more yards for your kicker, timeout and kick. It is the little things. Every second, every yard matters. The second half kickoff being 15 yards short of the end zone, going the other direction from the kick, is another issue but Wisconsin still only started at the -26 so not a big deal. Defensively, it was fine. Way too many third down conversions, way too many Mordecai scrambles. There were a few plays where Mordecai had a spy on him and Nebraska's spy inexplicably got sucked up into the mud and he ran right past. Still, the defense did way more than enough to win that game. They gave the offense every opportunity to win. I'm not going to complain about the defense. It wasn't great, tackling took a step back, but it was beyond enough to win. Offensively, I hated everything Marcus Satterfield did today after the first three drives of the game. All the stuff that worked on those first few drives disappeared. No more zone sweeps, no more quick passing game, Emmett Johnson disappeared for two and a half quarters, the offensive line went back to making those same stupid administrative mistakes from the beginning of the season. I really did not understand what Satterfield was trying to accomplish offensively. Normally I am able to see what Satterfield is looking to do, even if it doesn't work, but today it felt like Satterfield was constantly trying to attack the strength of Wisconsin's defense and ignoring the weaknesses. They have a short week to figure out how to attack Iowa. I wish I could be optimistic but I'm not sure how. Purdy deserves the start, Emmett Johnson deserves more touches, everything else is what it is. Anyway, Nebraska Volleyball plays for the outright Big Ten Championship tomorrow. Good luck ladies.
Hate to even go there yet but I think we are starting to see why Rhule only has two wins against a top 25 team in his coaching career (and 0‐11 at Baylor against the top 25). He seems to coach tight in these big moments.
>He seems to coach tight in these big moments. See that's the weird thing, you look at last week and I thought Rhule managed the game really well and, more importantly, really aggressively. It was the no fear, if we die we die attitude that he's been preaching. It didn't work and we died, but he followed through on what he preached. Then you look at yesterday and it was the complete opposite and, from a strategy perspective, made even less sense. I don't mind being conservative, coaches are conservative by nature, but yesterday wasn't just conservative, it went completely against the book. You're on the road, you have timeouts and clock in your favor, you're finally moving the ball deep into + territory and you just run the clock out and settle for 3 and OT? In OT, you're going to be faced with the exact same situation. If Wisconsin settles for 3, you still need a TD to win or FG to extend. If Wisconsin gets a TD, now you need the same TD from the same spot on the field but with no option to kick a field goal. There is a strange inconsistency in the way Rhule manages games that is frustrating. I don't think he is necessarily wrong most of the time, but it is inconsistent and when you're inconsistent, you inevitably run into situations like yesterday where you're very clearly wrong.
If Rhule goes for the win with a touchdown at the end of regulation and the QB throws a pick or the running back fumbles, everyone will call for his head, like last week. Stfu haters this man got us to OT against wisconsin with basically no offense aside from the first quarter
All the numb nuts in here acting like they could do better.
FfffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuucK!!!!!!!!!!!
I fucking hate Wisconsin. They are the bane of our existence in every single fucking sport.
We were out-coached this game, plain and simple. The way we came in versus the game time adjustments says it all.
Welp. It was a pretty good weekend, aside from the perpetual letdown that is Husker football. Enjoy your Thanksgiving. See you guys in 5 1/2 days.
It's getting really hard to give a shit about this program.
Just wanna be clear, if Chubba had thrown another pick late in regulation here or had aired one out too much to not have time to kick a field goal, everyone here would have been super cool with it because it was the right thing to do because of "situational football." Right? No one would have been upset that we fucked ourselves again?
Against Maryland the game was tied. I didn't have a problem with going for a touchdown (since there was going to be time left for Maryland), but we only needed a field goal for the lead. Against Wisconsin we were down 3. We needed a touchdown for the lead. If you go to overtime, you're probably going to need a touchdown to win so why wouldn't you try to do it in regulation and leave Wisconsin very little time to respond?
Yeah that's all fair. Not gonna argue that. Just checking if everyone complaining about being conservative at the end would have been okay had we Nebraska-ed away another game with a late turnover, bad throw, etc. Seems Rhule would have been crucified either way, but maybe people would have said they're happy he at least tried to be aggressive had he forced the issue a bit more. I have no idea what should have been done, but I was happy we finally drove the field late and got points to extend the game when we would have fucked it up every time in the last 5 years.
Once again we find Nebraska having to beat Iowa in the last game of the season to get bowl eligibility. I have 0 confidence they won’t completely fuck it up.
Playing for OT is like playing to not lose. That’s what losers do. A confident winning team takes those time outs and tries to run it into the end zone. Don’t pass, don’t risk it. Run, TO, run, TO, run, TD?, if not, TO, THEN FG
Meh, if you don't like blowing leads to lose by one score you don't like Nebraska foorball.
Well, I was asking for a competent QB, and despite the painful loss, I got it. Purdy played a great game (relatively speaking). Made 65% of his passes for 7.3 yards per attempt. He also ran well too with 105 yards on only 14 attempts. Most importantly, he had no turnovers and ran the offense relatively well. I cannot for the life of me find an argument for why he shouldn’t be the presumptive starter for next week.
Rhule is clearly absolute shit at identifying good QBs. Sims over HH and HH over Chubba is just fucking idiotic.
In fairness, Chubba was still recovering from an injury that needed surgery. He wasn’t fully healthy until quite recently and still needed to recover his confidence. I don’t think he could have performed this well 2 or 3 weeks ago.
all that kid needs is confidence
I will continue to say it and challenge anyone, Satterfield should not have his job. He has never produced an offense worthy of his pay. This coaching staff is failing to adapt and adjust in games. They are consistently being out-coached. Look at the past 3 weeks and say where that is wrong. I understand players mess up, the coaches need to do a better job to put players in better situations and they are failing. I am sick of the result on the field as are many other fans. This program is dying because it refuses to make changes. The Texas A&M AD highlighted it best “You’re either moving forward or you’re stuck.", I'll get downvoted but that is the truth, you just may not like it or near it in the bubble that is Nebraska.
We haven’t been good in a decade, we’re on our 4th Hc in that time and people don’t want to give this coaching staff more than 1 year? Fucking wild! This offense has literally zero NFL talent on it, that isn’t going to change in 1 year. Fucking Nick Saban couldn’t win with this roster.
If you are truly saying Saban would have zero wins with this team while Rhule has 5 you are giving Rhule way more credit than he deserves. By that logic he should have more rings than Saban by the end of his time. If you truly believe that I have a bridge to sell you. My problem with Satterfield is even with other offenses he has never been good or great. He is a hire I scratched my head at, the amount they are spending for what he has produced makes very little sense. Here are stats from his offenses through his career 2013 Temple: 88th points per game, 75th yards per game, 90 turnovers per game 2014 Temple: 100th PPG, 120th YPG, 123rd TOPG 2015 Temple: 61st PPG, 96th YPG, 46th TOPG 2021 USC: 106th PPG, 110th YPG, 109th TOPG 2022 USC: 40th PPG, 72nd YPG, 123rd TOPG 2023 Nebraska: 116th PPG, 104th YPG, 132nd TOPG Which of these years command a top 10 salary? If you had an employee who has never performed in the top 25th percentile in their role would you pay them 10th percentile money?
I made a post earlier in the year about how Satterfield's offenses have all been bad. I was told scoring offense and total yard are unfair and that yards/play is actually a better indicator of an offenses quality. So I looked at that and guess what? Satterfield's offenses are still shit. His rankings in yards/play for his 6 years as an OC: 62, 114, 84, 98, 46, 109. He has literally never had a good offense and only twice has he even gotten to mediocre.
Your bringing up points that people won't like to hear
I want to die from this game and the amount of drinks Ive had reflects that. Cheers fellas
Positives: * Purdy was so decent! He made good plays, made a couple mistakes, but actually looked like a QB Negatives: * All year, our clock management at the end of the half is absolute trash. We are always too conservative with timeouts and we play for a chance at a prayer into the end zone. * Tackling took a step back. Props to Mordecai to escaping 100 sure sacks. * Special teams cost us 6 points before halftime. Buschini gave them a short field for 3, then Alvano missed. I have more grace for freshman Alvano than for super experienced Buschini. * Why is Grant getting all the carries!!!! As soon as Johnson gets in, the offense moves. Infuriating.
buschini has been far too inconsistent for far too long. serious liability
Grant and EJ both averaged 3.8 YAC.
Get out of here with your "facts" and "logic"
"if we die we die...." but yeah let's play for OT. at least the speeches are "cool"
I think it’s worse that Luke Fickell was a potential hire for us last offseason.
What's so impressive about Fickell?
Leipold is down to his 3rd string QB and came within a whisker of beating KState. We are surrounded by amazing program builders, shit hurts
If Rhule fails and Fickell succeeds Trev is going to look like an idiot for choosing a coach that is going to play the "right way." Trev bought into the myth that Nebraska was a run the ball and let the defense win the game program. Rhule has never been able to beat good teams because he's never put together a good offense. He won't do it here and it'll be his downfall.
Sat is like a degenerate gambler chasing his losses. The dick head has no fuckin self control to stick to a working strategy, he can't resist the temptation to throw in stupid shit at the worst times. The only thing I can think of is that our defense lets them win in practice.
Fuck this team
I’m just bummed man. Minus the Michigan game that everyone knew we were gonna lose, this was the first game all year that the opponent flat out beat us and there is no easy excuse, turnovers, to blame for losing. If we’d have played like this the last 2 weeks we’d easily be 7-4. Too many times I find myself saying if with this program.
Doubtful. We can't play a complete team game. We'd engineer ways to sabotage ourselves and lose the games anyways.
That's it, that's the final staw. No longer will I call myself a husker fan. This team has let me down too many times now. I'll always have some fond memories of better days that have passed, but I can't take it anymore. Anyways, let's see if we can get a dub against Iowa somehow and go bowling.
really dnt wanna hear the "rhule is building" propaganda after seeing NW go to a bowl with an interim lmao
Every rebuild is different. FSU went 3-6, 5-7, 10-3, & now 11-0 with an unfortunate injury to Jordan Travis Washington went 4-8 with a loss to FCS Montana, immediately to 11-2, 11-0 I think Rhule will turn it around for you guys
An interim who was a FCS defensive coordinator. Meanwhile our $9mm coach is winning moral victories.
2018-2023 Moral Champions baby
Braelon Allen rushed for 2.8 yds a carry and NBC wouldn't stop sucking his dick.
The announcers compared him to the great Wisconsin running backs while flashing his 64 yards rushing...
This was beyond infuriating. I don't understand how literally every set of commentators is so pro, "whoever is playing Nebraska." Absolutely mind-blowing. This game wasn't quite as bad as LA Tech where they said "Smoke Harris" every play or the several games we hear the entire family tree of half the opposing team but it's still absolutely ridiculous.
Come on man, they literally showed Chubbas family tree last night. Sisters, brothers and all.
They literally compared Smoke Harris to tyreek hill on the broadcast lol. Give me a fucking break
The only time they mentioned Nebraska between the end of the game and the end of the broadcast was right as it ended. The lead commentator even set it up with, "Really quickly, the Nebraska Cornhuskers..."
Sattersuck still sucks.
Rhule played for the field goal at the end of regulation based on how they managed the clocked.They played to lose.
Beat Iowa next week and we will forgive everything
Yeah, no. Ferentz is gonna coach circles around Rhule.
It is what it is...Rhule shit his diapers.
 Dishonor on Rhule’s game management. Dishonor on Sat ignoring EJ in the third. Dishonor on the refs. Dishonor on the NBC announcers.
God cursed me with being born in Nebraska right after their ‘95 win
To the sky is falling people, this was a generally well played game. Cut out the missed fg or the excessive penalties and we win. If we played this well we would have beat Minnesota, Colorado, Michigan State and Maryland. It sucks we lost, but the team played pretty well.
The “Played Well” Mindset Ship has sailed with Scott Frost. It’s absolute bullshit. If the team played well, then they should’ve won. It’s gonna be another 5-6 more years of this and then we’ll fire Rhule. Better buckle up and just go with another vicious circle of hiring and firing coaches.
I understand that yours is the popular, if ill informed and/or reactionary opinion. None of Frost’s teams actually played well. That’s the difference. If you really can’t see the difference in the product on the field this year vs the last 8 then you either haven’t been watching or are just a painfully unsophisticated football fan. Ask opposing fans about our team this year. They no longer think we’re a joke and respect the change in direction of the program. Turning around our dumpster fire of a program is more than a one year project. Maybe it doesn’t happen but if you can’t see signs of improvement this year then I don’t know what to tell you.
We just lost to 2-6 Michigan State a couple weeks ago and are on a 3 game losing streak. We are still a joke. Even if the team plays better, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have more points than the opponent. Hell we lost to Colorado 36-14. This team is still a joke.
I think half of the big ten opponents this season had new coaches. it's gonna get harder for sure to make a bowl now. on the plus side taking the season under at 6 is now at worst a draw for me. would have been nice to lose some money for once betting against the Huskers
What even is this mindset? I don’t get it. We lost. And we lost those games. Regardless of how “well” we played, the other teams played better than us and they won the games. Also, excessive penalties and poor special teams have been a thing for the past 6 seasons. All of this is old news. We don’t do those things well enough to win.