[Husker] Win as a team ...

[George Rapp]

... and perform like THAT as a team.  No aspect of the game today was
absent from the screw-up fairy - special teams (allowing long returns,
missed FG, blocked PAT returned for 2 points); defense (the Hail Mary at
the end of the 2nd quarter was the dagger); or offense (Taylor taking
sacks, wide-open receivers dropping balls that could not have been
delivered better by Santa ... 8^)  Add in the penalties, and we're lucky it
was only a 17-point loss.  Plus, I don't think Pelini helped his bid for
Miss Congeniality, either by blowing off the sideline reporter at halftime,
or by snarling at his team and the refs throughout the game.

The defense, especially in the second half, looked like a unit that just
lost its coordinator and hasn't gotten comfortable with the new one.
Nebraska runs the hurry-up offense to confuse opposing defenses, so it
can't be said that the no-huddle is unfamiliar, and yet NU's defense was
repeatedly looking over at the sidelines for a call while the play clock
was running.

With Penn State, Ohio State, and Nebraska losing today, Michigan State
trailing late, and Iowa and Northwestern already having lost, the B1G is
keeping their losing reputation in bowls alive (although Illinois won, and
Michigan and Wisconsin have yet to play).

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A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring
one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their
own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the
mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of
good government... - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address