[Husker] Scott Frost speaks

[BRADALAN at aol.com]

If I recall, both Okie State and Missouri had pretty good teams/seasons the  
year they broke the streaks.  Don't think we ever had a 25-year streak  
against Iowa State unless you mean at home, since Tommie and company lost to  them 
in Ames in '92.  When they beat us the first time under Solich they  had Seneca 
Wallace and one of the Davis brothers, younger one I think. They  went to a 
bowl game too.
 
This loss was to a mediocre team by an embarassing score.  I will say  this 
for Frank, he did a pretty good job of beating the teams he was supposed to  
beat.  How many of his losses were to teams that didn't make a bowl that  
season?  I suspect very few, and we never approached last place in the  North 
division, even at 7-7.
 
The 1992 loss at Iowa St was the only game Osborne ever lost to a  team that 
finished below .500 in 25 seasons.  (307 games).
 
No, Frost didn't howl at those other losses, at least not publicly, but I  
would suggest they were not quite as painful.  We were in a down season  with a 
QB who didn't see any significant playing time the year before even when  we 
were blowing teams out, and had the weakest pass protection I had seen at NU  
in at least 20 years, up to that point, which made it more difficult for him to 
 sit in the pocket and make decent throws.
 
This season, and last, have been characterized by losses that should not  
have happened.  Last season it was S Miss, Iowa State, and Colorado.   This year 
we have losses to Missouri and Kansas, who I believe we have better  players 
than.  Given their performances against other teams, there is no  reason that 
we should have given up the points we did to them.
 
I think that is the big difference right now, NU is losing to what most  
people see as inferior athletes, and BC seems to be more intent on forcing his  
system than game-planning to take advantage of each particular opponents  
defensive weaknesses.  
 
I sure hope we beat K State, because last place in the division just isn't  
right for the Huskers.  Come on boys, win one for yourselves and all of the  
guys who came before you and made that N what it is!!!
 
GO BIG RED!!!!!