[Husker] Winning record?

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I dont know that talent wise Pelini inherited that much worse in fact I think they are about the same. I think the difference is that Frank and his staff coached the players from day one making them more ready to take the field and our current players were not being coached until last April during the spring when this staff did it. Unless they were first teamers last year then they got a little coaching then. I would say that when the current freshmen are seniors you will see vast improvement from them were as we didn't see much of that the last 4 years. 
 
 


--- On Sun, 10/12/08, David Strong <gbrlist at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: David Strong <gbrlist at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Husker] Winning record?
To: "husker at tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com>
Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 11:34 PM

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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