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Illinois @ Nebraska Game Thread (11/21/20)
- Thread starter Red Reign
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Glad you're final coming around.
We’re just gonna have to suffer through this year and hope for the best. Who knows this is such an inconsistent team maybe we could get some really good play coming up.
Scott Frost is not going anywhere this year.
and he’s not going anywhere next year barring a complete meltdown say a 4-8 season or less.
but yeah he’s not earning his pay and it gets harder and harder to just say it’s younger players, we need better recruiting blah blah blah.
I think he needs to just dump the idea of making the Big Ten adjust to Nebraska. Put that in his back pocket. Save it for LATER. Go have a talk with Fitzgerald or Ferentz and just learn how to play Big 10 style Football. We playcall and scheme so arrogant and that’s fine if you’ve got the talent and the wins....We have far too many holes on this team even though the talent situation is improving...and the schemes and playcalling play right into the hands of many Big Ten defenses.
I keep hoping that Scott improves as a coach. Kind of the OJT thing. I’m just not seeing it and it’s distressing as well as depressing. LOL
Game flushed. Going to set up my Christmas tree! Get into the holiday spirit!
2020 has been one of the worst years I can remember in 66 years of life. But 2021 is looking a LOT better!
And I am the Eternal optimist, the glass half full guy...and I still think frost can make it happen.
Scott Frost is not going anywhere this year.
and he’s not going anywhere next year barring a complete meltdown say a 4-8 season or less.
but yeah he’s not earning his pay and it gets harder and harder to just say it’s younger players, we need better recruiting blah blah blah.
I think he needs to just dump the idea of making the Big Ten adjust to Nebraska. Put that in his back pocket. Save it for LATER. Go have a talk with Fitzgerald or Ferentz and just learn how to play Big 10 style Football. We playcall and scheme so arrogant and that’s fine if you’ve got the talent and the wins....We have far too many holes on this team even though the talent situation is improving...and the schemes and playcalling play right into the hands of many Big Ten defenses.
I keep hoping that Scott improves as a coach. Kind of the OJT thing. I’m just not seeing it and it’s distressing as well as depressing. LOL
Game flushed. Going to set up my Christmas tree! Get into the holiday spirit!
2020 has been one of the worst years I can remember in 66 years of life. But 2021 is looking a LOT better!
And I am the Eternal optimist, the glass half full guy...and I still think frost can make it happen.
The bar was so low a flea couldn’t limbo under it
We’re a sophisticated high brow offense though. All good
Frost dug the ditch deeper. Much deeper. It's all on him.
I remember getting lit up because I questioned the hiring of one of the assistants who had zero coaching experience.
C
The remaining few that are still trying to defend Frost would absolutely not being doing so if his name wasn't Scott Frost. If the current coach had no Nebraska ties, no Osborne ties -- he might not even be back next season.
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You would think. I sure hope so.
Mario needs to go. Maybe Held too. Ruud is not a great coach either.
Final Game thoughts.
I’ll spare the bile. What I said at halftime, still goes.
One of the poorest performances by a Nebraska team in my lifetime occurred today.
Playing with a chip on their shoulder? Bull.
Nebraska played with no heart. No passion. No emotion. No effort. No desire. No pride.
Nothing.
The tank was empty from the very beginning. First play of the game, Luke McCaffrey basically gave the game away with utter stupidity, nonsense, idiocy and the rest was downhill.
I’ve seen enough of the Luke McCaffrey experiment. He was dreadful today. He was late all day long. If he had to catch a bus, he’d still be at the hotel or wherever the pre-game party was.
Three times in three years now, Nebraska has shown up with absolutely no interest in the game before them. Michigan two years ago. Minnesota last year. And today at home, Illinois.
Nebraska is the worst team in the Big Ten. Sadly, it isn’t even close. I’m not sure they have it in them to win another game this year.
We’re lost folks. Scott Frost has no clue how to turn this around. Blaming Coach Riley for all of his failings has turned out to be an insufficient strategy. I’m not advocating we fire him, but it is what it is.
We have a green coach that needs to grow up in a hurry. Today was inacceptable. I hate to use that word.
Every single player in the locker room needs to apologize to the fans and the State of Nebraska. That travesty—that lack of effort—was unacceptable.
Think of this, Illinois recovered every fumble today—regardless which team fumbled. Granted, they got some incredibly lucky bounces, but teams that hustle get those breaks. Teams that don’t give a crap (I mean Nebraska) don’t.
Five turnovers. Nebraska didn’t lose because of those five turnovers. They gave up five turnovers because they played like losers.
The defense couldn’t stop pee-wee football team today. Perhaps some excuse can be made that they were hungover from the 93 play effort that our pathetic offense forced them to play last week. For whatever reason, Nebraska had no juice all game long defensively. And third downs were automatic again today. Teams continue to convert third downs with ease.
We had our usual couple of special team’s disasters today. We had a good return, but of course, it didn’t count because of an illegal block. The play where we gave up the punter run for a first down couldn’t have been a greater indictment of the horrible coaching that took place today.
Offensively, we are a complete disaster. We have two QB’s who can’t hit the broad side of a barn. Our RB’s are non-existent (not that Frost would ever use them effectively anyway), our WR’s are terrible, and our OL can’t sustain anything for very long. Our TE’s aren’t bad.
But where do we go from here?
QB draw on third and long over and over isn’t gonna cut it. Marvin Scott between the tackles is working early . . . so we abandon it and start running him wide for losses before abandoning him completely. Then we bring in our speed back Johnson, and what do we do? You guessed it. Right up the gut.
That Coach Frost really has a plan, doesn’t he?
Farmer with the tackle of the day. A brilliant tackle of the other player’s helmet. Just like the coaches teach it.
For the most part, Illinois won every collision today. Pride will do that.
I don’t want to hear any more crap about a chip on their shoulders.
I'll repeat. Every player should step up to the podium and apologize to the fan base and the state of Nebraska.
Why is Jurgens untouchable? He took a TD off the board with a penalty and his two bad snaps killed drives. He was awful today. I said at halftime if he had to take a urine test, he’d have to tell the nurse that he left all of his on the field. Enough is enough.
A coach once taught me, if you don’t play hard, people start getting hurt. I hope Miller is okay. His injury was the low point of a dismal day.
So, I think I am going to stop talking now. No analysis can describe this stinker. If the players don’t care, then why should I?
If the players think that the effort they showed today was good enough, then they are the biggest group of con artists the world has ever seen. As the saying goes, first person a con artist cons is himself.
Nebraska is now 1-3 and sinking like the Titanic.
But I doubt Hollywood ever makes a movie about it.
Take care all.
I’ll spare the bile. What I said at halftime, still goes.
One of the poorest performances by a Nebraska team in my lifetime occurred today.
Playing with a chip on their shoulder? Bull.
Nebraska played with no heart. No passion. No emotion. No effort. No desire. No pride.
Nothing.
The tank was empty from the very beginning. First play of the game, Luke McCaffrey basically gave the game away with utter stupidity, nonsense, idiocy and the rest was downhill.
I’ve seen enough of the Luke McCaffrey experiment. He was dreadful today. He was late all day long. If he had to catch a bus, he’d still be at the hotel or wherever the pre-game party was.
Three times in three years now, Nebraska has shown up with absolutely no interest in the game before them. Michigan two years ago. Minnesota last year. And today at home, Illinois.
Nebraska is the worst team in the Big Ten. Sadly, it isn’t even close. I’m not sure they have it in them to win another game this year.
We’re lost folks. Scott Frost has no clue how to turn this around. Blaming Coach Riley for all of his failings has turned out to be an insufficient strategy. I’m not advocating we fire him, but it is what it is.
We have a green coach that needs to grow up in a hurry. Today was inacceptable. I hate to use that word.
Every single player in the locker room needs to apologize to the fans and the State of Nebraska. That travesty—that lack of effort—was unacceptable.
Think of this, Illinois recovered every fumble today—regardless which team fumbled. Granted, they got some incredibly lucky bounces, but teams that hustle get those breaks. Teams that don’t give a crap (I mean Nebraska) don’t.
Five turnovers. Nebraska didn’t lose because of those five turnovers. They gave up five turnovers because they played like losers.
The defense couldn’t stop pee-wee football team today. Perhaps some excuse can be made that they were hungover from the 93 play effort that our pathetic offense forced them to play last week. For whatever reason, Nebraska had no juice all game long defensively. And third downs were automatic again today. Teams continue to convert third downs with ease.
We had our usual couple of special team’s disasters today. We had a good return, but of course, it didn’t count because of an illegal block. The play where we gave up the punter run for a first down couldn’t have been a greater indictment of the horrible coaching that took place today.
Offensively, we are a complete disaster. We have two QB’s who can’t hit the broad side of a barn. Our RB’s are non-existent (not that Frost would ever use them effectively anyway), our WR’s are terrible, and our OL can’t sustain anything for very long. Our TE’s aren’t bad.
But where do we go from here?
QB draw on third and long over and over isn’t gonna cut it. Marvin Scott between the tackles is working early . . . so we abandon it and start running him wide for losses before abandoning him completely. Then we bring in our speed back Johnson, and what do we do? You guessed it. Right up the gut.
That Coach Frost really has a plan, doesn’t he?
Farmer with the tackle of the day. A brilliant tackle of the other player’s helmet. Just like the coaches teach it.
For the most part, Illinois won every collision today. Pride will do that.
I don’t want to hear any more crap about a chip on their shoulders.
I'll repeat. Every player should step up to the podium and apologize to the fan base and the state of Nebraska.
Why is Jurgens untouchable? He took a TD off the board with a penalty and his two bad snaps killed drives. He was awful today. I said at halftime if he had to take a urine test, he’d have to tell the nurse that he left all of his on the field. Enough is enough.
A coach once taught me, if you don’t play hard, people start getting hurt. I hope Miller is okay. His injury was the low point of a dismal day.
So, I think I am going to stop talking now. No analysis can describe this stinker. If the players don’t care, then why should I?
If the players think that the effort they showed today was good enough, then they are the biggest group of con artists the world has ever seen. As the saying goes, first person a con artist cons is himself.
Nebraska is now 1-3 and sinking like the Titanic.
But I doubt Hollywood ever makes a movie about it.
Take care all.
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No coach ownership in the press conf. Same BS
