Hummm, you ought to at least try to understand the posts you read before tearing into another poster. First, I never "self proclaimed" any expertise on the strength of schedule topic, although it is a pretty simple concept that any 5th grade football fan could master better than the NCAA. Why, you might ask? Why would I call the NCAA experts methodology "silly" and claim a 5th grade football fan could to better? I will tell you why. It is because the NCAA methodology was put together without the use of any football or scheduling experts at all. They simply took the team schedules for 2012 and added up the records for all of the opponents and ranked them based on the percentage of 2011 wins vs. losses, WITHOUT ANY ANALYSIS at all. Without, compensating for the number of returning starters, the numbers of returning (or lost) star-type players, the number of home vs. road games, or any coaching changes at any of the schools--simple stuff any 5th grade fan would know. Sounds like a pretty shoddy way to put together a strength of schedule doesn't it? Well it is shoddy, and meaningless, and silly…a complete waste of time except for someone who wants to grab onto it (as an excuse) because they want to claim that "experts" (LOL) like the NCAA say their schedule is tough.
Second, I never bad mouthed Phil Steele, what I said was I was surprised to see Chitown Husker use Phil as his "expert" because clearly Phil thought 3 other BIG contenders had HARDER schedules than ours. THAT my friend was "proof" that Chitown's argument was wrong and it was provided by his own expert witness. You can't find funnier stuff in a bad movie these days!
Boy, no one roots harder for the Huskers or feels worse than I do when they lose. The problem is, once you lose blind faith in your coaches, you start to see the program for what it is and where it is headed. That never happened between 1962 and 2001, then in 2002 that stark reality hit and we haven't ever pulled out of that hole since. Suh and some other fine blackshirts got Bo off to a good start, but until similar high talent shows up again, it going to be hard to move back to the blind faith world. Perhaps TM will up his game to Heisman level and the issue will be solved! Otherwise, I guess our best hope is that Johnny Stanton is the second coming of Andrew Luck two years from now.
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Here we go with this again............1st he wasn't "ripping into the poster" stop crying. And you don't have to quote, word for word, "I AM AN EXPERT EVERYONE LISTEN TO ME" in order for us to catch the little vibe that you give off in your posts.
2nd Even a 5th would call Bull..... on the logic that a 5th grade would analyze the strength of schedule in the manor that you "claim" the experts aren't doing. I think that's funny because every year I read a mag, watch a ESPN show, listen to sports radio, etc.....this is exact formula the experts say they use when coming up with their polls, rankings, pre-season predictions, etc... and thus it is also the reason why you know the formula, but we are sure you didn't come up with the formula yourself. You show me a group of 5th graders whom can accurately and consistently give us preseason info as these "silly" experts give us every off-season.
3rd you might want to re-read Chitown's post again. Nothing you quote prove that his post was wrong. He already pointed out that Steele had our schedule at #25, which is a tougher schedule that 80% of the FBS schools as of course you know there are 124 teams (120 full members, and 4 transitional). So just because you can point out that their are 3 teams in our conference with tougher schedules doesn't make NU's schedule any easier.
Last........no one knocks you for not being satisfied with the what has been accomplished thus far or what hasn't been accomplished (in your eyes). No one's asking you to be a die hard supporter of the coaching staff. Cry about it all you want. I just don't understand why you spend so much energy in trying to convince others that we should feel the same way as you. And when we don't agree, you call it "blind faith" (which is kind of redundant). If you actually open your eyes, you will see what the REAL greatest fans are using as a source for having faith in this staff.
We can give you a run down of things this staff has accomplished that allows us to have excitement for what's to come but you spend so much energy to shoot it down like it means nothing, yet claim that we will do worse in the near future. Like having 9 or more wins the passed 4 seasons. Yes, we could have won more, we should have won more, but 9 or more wins for the passed 4 seasons has only been accomplished by 8 other HCs in the FBS (again 124 teams, equally 124 HCs). And we have the only one of them whom this is their first HC job. We means he's still learning and growing into his position. The recruiting classes are getting stronger. The GPA of the team has gotten better, in a time where top programs across the country are getting penalized for whatever, we still stand for doing things the right way......and I could go on and on....
You and only you see this program as being the worst it's ever been or at least worse than anytime from 1962 to 2001. Last I checked theirs a certain AD in our offices who was around (actually on the sidelines) during that time and if he felt like the program he help to build for so long was at it's worse state, or is going down hill, I'm sure he would make some changes for the better. I think he did that by getting rid of your buddy Billy C.
Moral of the story, your negative vibes won't effect the Real Greatest fans. We root, support, cheer, wear red, etc... through the good and the bad, ups and downs. If some of us want to drink the kool aid and take a trip to the hyperbole every once in a while, so be it. Even if the sole reason is to help us to enjoy the offseason a lot more. It beats crying about what hasn't been accomplished in 12-13 years.
