[Husker] Fwd: Regular Season

[Mike Jaixen]

Charles Davis, the Fox color analyst, just said the same thing in an interview on 1620 AM.  He thought that Saturday night was much more about Wisconsin playing really, really well than Nebraska playing really, really horribly.

Maybe he was knowing his audience...or talking them off the ledge.  (Or talking them into putting down their tar, feathers, pitchforks, and semi-automatic weaponry :)  But I suspect not.

Mike Jaixen
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--- On Mon, 12/3/12, Paul Dalen <quesohusker at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Paul Dalen <quesohusker at gmail.com>
Subject: [Husker] Fwd:  Regular Season
To: "Husker List" <husker at tssi.com>
Date: Monday, December 3, 2012, 3:16 PM

Well said.  When I get home tonight I'm going to look into the frequency of
BCS conf teams rushing for 500+ yards.  My hunch is that is extraordinarily
rare...maybe once per year?  And my point for doing that is to show that
whatever was part of the perfect storm hit NU Saturday, the result was far
worse than NU defensive talent accounts for.

Whatever the reason, and I suspect luck and the psychological effects of it
on both teams, played a much greater role in the game that we want to
admit.



On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com>wrote:

>
> I thought my answer was clear.  No team ever plays up to their
> potential.  Or, maybe I misunderstand what you mean by plaing
> up to their potential.  Maybe they always play up to their potential
> and their potential is less than perfect.  I don't know what you
> mean by up to their potential.  Is that clear?
>
> There is a reason that they keep score (rather than try to figure
> out who played a complete game or who played up to their potential)
> --- and that reason is to know which team won and which one didn't.
> In the win column, Nebraska had a good year.
>
> It is just patently ridiculous to me that people are wondering if
> NU should keep Pelini or suggest that other teams wouldn't want
> to hire him after a big loss.  Nebraska has 10 victories in the
> regular season --- only 10 other teams have more.  Most of the
> computers rank Nebraska ~#15-16, even after this loss.  This in
> a place that has a small population base, in the middle of what
> many folks regard as nowhere.  You can expect and demand all you
> want, but what you evidently expect is irrational.
>
> Even Sipple's line about giving Bo the "benefit of the doubt" is
> ridiculous.  Folks, winning 10 regular season games and playing in
> the Big 10 Championship game is a good year.  Period.  Think about
> it.  The Big 10 has Michigan, Ohio St, Penn St, and Nebraska (not
> to mention 8 soon to be 10 other teams).  Those are some of the
> most elite programs of all time, but year in and year out at
> most half of those four elite programs are going to play in the
> Conference Championship game and at least three of them aren't
> going to win it.  Just making it to that game is a good year.
>
> This has been a good year for NU football.  If you're tired of
> watching after this year, which I think not only has been successful
> but also has been one of the most entertaining, I'm wondering why
> you continue to watch.  Yes, the last game was very disappointing,
> but it was one game.  NU blew out Florida in 1995 by 38 points.  Did
> they fire their coach?  No.  And, next year his team won the MNC.
> NU blew out Tennessee in 1997 by 25 points.  Did they fire their
> coach?  No.  And the next year his team won the MNC.  I presume
> those schools had similarly irrational fans, but didn't NU fans learn
> anything from the last 10 years?  I hope Bo isn't listening and/or
> knows that such irrationality is limited to a minority of fans.
>
>
>
>
> > Obviously the coaches' don't know the meaning of what  "complete game"
> means
> > either as they use it every week. So why not ask them that question. And
> you
> > haven't answered which game or games the Huskers played to their
> potential.
> > That is all I wish for as a fan is for them to play the best they can. I
> as
> > a fan get tired of them playing like the keystone cops.
>
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