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Way too early 2021 predictions
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You must have missed this when I posted it a couple days ago.
SSOs post 2020 season thoughts (2 posts)
How much do you think the practice fast philosophy plays into sloppy play on Saturday? It seems like if you were to slow it down a bit and correct issues in practice instead of film as we have been led to believe that our approach would work better. More reps done incorrectly just leads to more...
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Exactly right.
I have learned not to bet against trends.
I think we have a shot at beating
Buffalo and directional Louisiana, but I have a hard time seeing many wins beyond those. Maybe Illinois if their plane gets lost. I am hard put to see any reason to think we will be favored in any other game with the team we now have. We might win one other somehow, but I don't think we win any based on coaching superiority, and I assume that we have the same QB starting and playing even when he is hurt. Nothing changes on play calling or on player on field discipline. We fumble as frequently, throw the ball erratically in very unsophisticated passing patterns, have stupid penalties at the wrong time killing drives, etc., just as we have done for three years. Our game plans remain bewildering. We have nearly bare WR and RB rooms, Between now and the first game we will lose one or two or three highly praised players.
We continue our slide., unfortunately. Soon we'll be challenging the Potsy Clark years.
I deep looking for the rose colored glasses, but they don't seem to sell them at my store.
I think we have a shot at beating
Buffalo and directional Louisiana, but I have a hard time seeing many wins beyond those. Maybe Illinois if their plane gets lost. I am hard put to see any reason to think we will be favored in any other game with the team we now have. We might win one other somehow, but I don't think we win any based on coaching superiority, and I assume that we have the same QB starting and playing even when he is hurt. Nothing changes on play calling or on player on field discipline. We fumble as frequently, throw the ball erratically in very unsophisticated passing patterns, have stupid penalties at the wrong time killing drives, etc., just as we have done for three years. Our game plans remain bewildering. We have nearly bare WR and RB rooms, Between now and the first game we will lose one or two or three highly praised players.
We continue our slide., unfortunately. Soon we'll be challenging the Potsy Clark years.
I deep looking for the rose colored glasses, but they don't seem to sell them at my store.
So, how does Northwesterns trend hold?
I ask because theyre going through some major transitions there, several contributors are leaving there as well, their LBs are gone, and their 52 year coaching career DC is retiring.
Asking you, NWs trend changing or not?
We didnt play wiscy this year, so theres no direct comparisons to be had, but wiscy looks trending down, does this hold?
Now, lets look at Mich, they are definately trending down, so too is Mich St. Same for Purdue.
I believe the Huskers go 7-5, or Frost is Fired.
The Huskers likely lose to OU, MIchigan, OSU, WISKY, IOWA.
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Also want to see who comes back.
The 2021 football season will go off as usual. Come hell or high water.
Two consecutive seasons of major revenue losses would shut down many programs.
I think NU will get to 6 wins. Hopeful for more. But that will only happen if penalties, turnovers, and Special teams get fixed.
Two consecutive seasons of major revenue losses would shut down many programs.
I think NU will get to 6 wins. Hopeful for more. But that will only happen if penalties, turnovers, and Special teams get fixed.
Yeah that’s kind of the thing, right? I don’t have any confidence that more of the same is going to cut it. The solution doesn’t seem to be do what we’ve been doing but harder. If that was the case it would be fixed right now.
The problem is the staff seems to have maneuvered themselves into a situation where they are going to have to admit they’ve made some pretty big mistakes with a lot of aspects of the program. And to put it nicely this staff seems way to proud of what they do to ever admit that. So now from all appearances we’re stuck with “we’re going to do the same stuff but EVEN HARDER” and I just get a real hopeless feeling deep inside.
Still... I’m going to try my best to be in Norman next year and going to cheer my brains out but yeah my confidence in this staff’s ability to turn things around is nil.
Has there been a team in the last 20 years with a similar trajectory as ours that has turned things around with the same coaching staff?
EDIT: I mean freaking we’re basically doing the “Is he better than what we’ve got?” AGAIN by not going after a QB transfer after what has transpired at that position in the last year. What kind of insane commitment did Scott make to our QBs?
EDIT: I mean freaking we’re basically doing the “Is he better than what we’ve got?” AGAIN by not going after a QB transfer after what has transpired at that position in the last year. What kind of insane commitment did Scott make to our QBs?
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Just tagging onto the end. Don’t see it above five. I don’t agree with thought that any combination of NW, Wiscy, Iowan, or MN are likely wins or even toss ups for us. Also don’t agree with top level defense - that’s not happening as long as we give continue to give up 75% of 4th downs, or whatever it is. it is such an advantage for an opponent to know that if they get to 3rd and 3, they are definitely getting the first down. Special teams still a disaster.
I sooo want this to be wrong, to be able to look to improvement and development. But we just haven’t seen enough of it for me to be very optimistic.
I’ll tailgate, I’ll be there, and I’ll root as hard as anyone in this room. Probably harder. But I don’t see it. We’re a bottom rung team in the BiG.
I sooo want this to be wrong, to be able to look to improvement and development. But we just haven’t seen enough of it for me to be very optimistic.
I’ll tailgate, I’ll be there, and I’ll root as hard as anyone in this room. Probably harder. But I don’t see it. We’re a bottom rung team in the BiG.
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Amazing. This board is generally way over optimistic on these predictions, as I suspect most fan boards for teams around the country are. But even taking that into account, over a third of the fan base on this board think that the team will not win more than 5 games, and way over half think they will win no more than 6 games.
Sad that we've come to this. We change nothing significant and think we will do better.
Sad that we've come to this. We change nothing significant and think we will do better.
We say that every year but still lose to those teams. I’m still optimistic but it’s getting harder every season. Northwestern loses their best players and just reloads. Same seems to go for all teams not named Nebraska!
But last year, our D line was the 'o noes,world is ending,replace 3 nflers'.
This year, NW has things they cant replace, and more of it than usual.
We seemed to replace those three, so again, it only happens to other teams for the good, but not here just isnt true, just like I pointed out
