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Just disappointing. It’s really the only way to describe Friday’s game, or the past two games, or really the entire season. Sure, at times we were excited and hopeful of the direction throughout the season. Towards the beginning it certainly seemed like a reality that progress was being made. That this team could live up to the “Rhule Year 3” benchmark. But after the last two games against Penn State and Iowa, two blowout losses, you could say the season fizzled out. At least Emmett Johnson is exciting to watch. This is a troubling trend under...
I remember a little over two years ago, on a Thursday night, Nebraska traveled to play Minnesota for the first game of the Matt Rhule era. The previous year, the defense was poor. It marginally improved when interim coach Mickey Joseph moved Bill Busch into the defensive coordinator position for the remainder of the 2022 season. However, to start 2023, the Blackshirts held Minnesota to 55 yards rushing in a 10-13 loss. We didn’t know what to expect in Rhule’s first game, but we almost instantly saw a renewed physicality and toughness to the... Full story
It’s starting to feel like each and every week is a barometer on the progress of the program. A type of must-win feeling lingers with each game. Win, and progress is shown as expected. Lose, and questions brew. This could not be more true than the upcoming road game against Penn State. The 4-6 Nittany Lions are currently favored by around 10 points. Even with Nebraska having the better record, you could argue the record of each team makes this tougher on Nebraska. At 7-3, Nebraska has already clinched a bowl game, but is also out of the p...
Another disappointing close loss. The streak now stands at 29 consecutive losses to ranked teams for Nebraska. It stretches across four coaches. It is what it is. I’m not a fan of focusing on the past and that’s not why this game was disappointing. It was disappointing because of the environment of the game, the opportunity Nebraska had if they won, and the opportunities they had to win the game. The night game environment was electric for the blackout. Nebraska had the opportunity to keep the season alive and become a dark horse candidate for...
If at the start of the season, we were told Nebraska had the chance to be relevant in the month of November, we would take that every time. Never mind how ugly some of the wins have been. Never mind the what ifs against Michigan. Never mind the disappointing effort on the road against Minnesota. Nebraska is 6-2, sitting just outside the top 25, with #23 USC coming to Lincoln Saturday night, with an opportunity to reclaim and maximize this season. Now I’m not saying this team is going to make a run through the playoffs. But it’s not out of the...
That wasn’t the result we wanted or expected. The Huskers seemed to come out flat last Friday night, and Minnesota was the more physical and disciplined team. A disappointing game in more ways than one. After the Michigan loss earlier this season, I wrote that we should look forward to Nebraska going undefeated through the month of October to take the next step forward as a program. Obviously, this team was not ready to take that next step. The same issues we’ve seen most of the year - poor pass protection, leaky run defense, lack of est...
That makes two games in a row where Nebraska jumps out to a lead, struggles in the middle of the game, only to pull it out in the end. Maybe this team is starting to find an identity. While it is not a perfect identity to have, it is one that shows progress, and one that is the opposite of what it has been for the past few years. Finally, Nebraska has a team that doesn’t quit, is scrappy, and finds ways to win. We may be finally at the point where we don’t have to take the good loss, oh-so-close stance. We can look for improvement in a win...
The good, the bad, and the ugly. That's how Nebraska's game versus Michigan State felt. So did the Cincinnati and Michigan games. It's a fair guess to say that a few of the games left this season will feel the same. But there is an important detail to notice. While the game was not pretty, the Huskers found a way to win. That is a trait a Husker team has not had in over a decade. And if it continues, Nebraska can accomplish everything it wants this season. Some of the good- special teams continu...
The upcoming month of October will be the true gauge for Nebraska’s season. We thought maybe this team could run before it could walk. As Nebraska fans, sometimes we may look at some teams in the Big 10 as guaranteed or should-be wins on the schedule. The truth is, over the past decade, Nebraska has not consistently beat these teams. If Nebraska wants to run and place itself atop of the Big 10, it needs to first walk and assert itself above the middle of the pack. Over the next four weeks the Huskers play Michigan State, Maryland, Minnesota, a...
It's almost like a bad movie that gives the story away in the previews with no plot twist. The whole offseason and the first three weeks of the season there were two main questions with this team. Are they talented and deep enough at running back and at defensive line? The result of this game shouldn't really be shocking to anyone, no matter how hard we willed ourselves to believe certain things would get better. Now that sounds a bit harsh to these position groups, and it wasn't just them that...
Hopes and tensions were high in Arrowhead Stadium Thursday night as Cincinnati was driving down the field in the final moments, only trailing three points. On their last drive, the Huskers Malcolm Hartzog gave up a catch on a critical fourth-down conversion. Four plays later, Hartzog was penalized for defensive holding, placing the ball at the Nebraska 33 yard line. Husker fans feared yet another close game was slipping away. However, on the next play, Cincinnati took a shot into the end zone where Hartzog sprinted under the route and...
Nebraska Athletic Director Troy Dannen said in a press conference that roughly 66,000 tickets have been sold for Thursday night’s matchup. Of those, only 6,000 were sold from Kentucky and Ohio regions. That was on Aug. 8, about three weeks prior to kickoff. I’m sure a few more tickets have been sold since then as fans plan to make the drive to Kansas City. Yes, it should feel like a home game, a potentially sold-out crowd, when Nebraska takes on Cincinnati for the season opener at Arrowhead Stadium. This will be Nebraska’s first game at Arrow...
“But we were so close”…. Just a phrase that we, as Nebraska fans have become all too familiar with as of late. But what if …What if we could change that? What if we change the outcome of at least one play, to change the outcome of one game; what impact would that have on today, on the legacy of the program, coaches, and players? There are too many options, especially recently, where the outcome of one play could have a drastic impact on a game and a season. But we need to look with a wider scope than affecting the outcome of a recent losing...
