[Husker] Winning record?

[David Strong]

I remember seeing a couple of posts before the season started, and even during the early games against the lesser teams, that talked of 8 or 9 wins.  I didn't take them seriously and I don't think most others did either.  Before the season, I looked at the schedule and thought that 7-5 would be a successful season.  6-6, ho-hum.  5-7, no real progress.  To be honest and blunt, I thought the goal for this year was to be significantly less terrible than last year.  We were yesterday, at least the offense was, but the jury is still out on the whole season.  To get to 7 wins, we must win 4 out of the last six games.  Clearly, the next two are musts to achieve that goal and even then we will have to win two out of the last four to get to 7 wins.  This is a really tall order.  Our defense is really bad, just terrible;  hard to read about progress from last year.  Joe Ganz is a fine quarterback, a leader in every sense, and the best thing about this team.  Yes, the play in OT was about as boneheaded as they come, but up until that instant he was everything we could hope for in a QB.  The offensive line played a great game.  They were not dominant from a strength or power aspect, but they executed technical play-blocking as well as can be done.  (It's why I thought the play call on 4th and 1 in the first half was a bad choice.  They were not beating TT's DL with strength, and with the DL in tight on that play, we needed to do something else than run it into the line, not gonna happen.)

My wife said that it has been a long time since she saw me jump off the couch yelling out loud during a Husker game.  She was right, it felt strange to be doing it, couldn't be helped.  

I watched the LSU-Florida game later that night.  After watching Neb-Texas Tech, the thing that jumped out right away was the play of the defenses in that game.   They were on a whole different level than anything either Nebraska or Texas Tech had to offer.  We've just got to get back to something close to that level.  Patience?  It's hard after four wasted years that took a program that was in good, though not great, shape and left it in the dumpster.  Pelini inherited far worse than his predecessor, this will take some time.  Hard to keep that perspective after a great game like this last one though.

Dave

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