Corn Nation on Nebbie Loss to UCLA

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MNVCGUY said:
The leash on coaches has already gotten stupid short in a lot of cases.
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Which makes me wonder how Norvell still has his job at FSU. It'd be one thing if they were trying to hold together a top recruiting class, but his class is falling apart, so I have no clue what keeps him there.
 

GopherTheJugular said:
Which makes me wonder how Norvell still has his job at FSU. It'd be one thing if they were trying to hold together a top recruiting class, but his class is falling apart, so I have no clue what keeps him there.
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I mean he won 23 games the prior 2 years and has a massive buyout
 



upnorthkid said:
I mean he won 23 games the prior 2 years and has a massive buyout
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I figured a buyout had to be in there somewhere. But still, this is pretty bad. 1-8 with a likely loss coming up?

Maybe there was some serious injury or something that I didn't know about. But I thought it was just poor play when they started out the season losing. Could be wrong.
 


Otis said:
Is there a way Wisconsin and Nebraska can tie, thereby denying both teams bowl eligibility?

That is my wish.
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I was thinking the same thing, but with the stupid overtime rules.... Maybe if the game gets cancelled or something and they can't work out a rematch?
 

GopherTheJugular said:
I figured a buyout had to be in there somewhere. But still, this is pretty bad. 1-8 with a likely loss coming up?

Maybe there was some serious injury or something that I didn't know about. But I thought it was just poor play when they started out the season losing. Could be wrong.
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No they’ve just sucked and it’s a poorly constructed roster that lost a ton of talent coupled with guys seeming to have given up on the season. His seat will definitely be scorching next year
 

dpodoll68 said:
You trot this insane garbage out every so often, while ignoring that there are multiple Division I teams in other sports in Nebraska, including specifically Creighton basketball, which is annually among the most competitive teams in the country.

It is also gleefully ignorant of the fact that, depending where they live in the state, a Nebraska resident can drive for 2-2.5 hours (or less) on the interstate and attend home games being played by the Chiefs, Broncos, Royals, Rockies, Nuggets, Avalanche - hell, even Kansas or Kansas St., among others. No competition, indeed.

Someone living in Falls City, NE has a shorter drive to Arrowhead than a person living in Duluth has to Huntington Bank. But I'm sure you already knew that, because you're so astute.

Try holding Gophers teams accountable for their performance instead of whining that they may have to compete a little.
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I understand the argument you're trying to make. But...

Does Nebraska have a population outside of Lincoln and Omaha? (Being facetious here, but not really)

Do you think anyone in Lincoln cares about Creighton basketball? (Probably could find a handful of people I guess)

There probably are a lot of fans driving to Lincoln on a Saturday from long distances to see the Huskers play. My ignorance about the population density and demographics will likely show here, but I'd infer 90% of people attending Husker games are traveling less than an hour. And I don't think Creighton/ Nebraska basketball, or Nebraska volleyball, or anything else is taking focus away from Husker football. To say that the Vikings, Timberwolves, and Wild are taking focus away from focus on Gopher football is not much of a stretch of the imagination for me.
 





I would love to have him on the Gophers staff. A real jewel in the offensive game planning who could never get his defense to come to play.
 


kg21 said:
I could watch him for 3 hours straight.

He's a huge fan, but doesn't pull any punches.
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You should do similar for Gophers football and basketball...
Side hustle.
 




BigTenGuy said:
Disagree. The beginning of the end for Nebraska was when they lost their ability to take academically marginal recruits who couldn’t go to Big Ten and many other schools. Tom Osborne fought hard to keep this advantage because he knew what it meant. As Mike Farrell recently wrote:

Another advantage Nebraska had was its use of Prop 48, which enabled it to secure additional talent that was not fully qualified academically. When the Big Eight and Southwest Conference merged into the Big 12, Texas demanded that Prop 48 players be eliminated. Tom Osborne warned that things would never be the same for Nebraska because of that capitulation to a school that arrived from a renegade league forced to shut down because of its Wild West ways.
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And yet somehow Solich and Pelini had W/L percentages > .700 after those advantages disappeared. I can never figure out the Nebraska shade that gets tossed around.
 




Found this on Reddit posted by Mammoth_impres_2108

Nebraska has lost its last 8 opportunities to pick up a 6th win and become bowl eligible. This is unusual, but not a record. What other teams have had this bad of luck? At least one.

Nebraska has the longest P4 team bowl drought (dating back to 2016), and not due to a lack of opportunities. The Huskers have played in 8 games while having five wins under their belt since their last bowl game, losing all of them. Here is a list:

2019: Iowa 27-24

2023: MSU 20-17, Maryland 13-10, Wisconsin 24-17, Iowa 13-10

2024: Indiana 54-7, OSU 21-17, UCLA 27-20

The real kick in the nuts is the fact that the Huskers have been denied a bowl game 7 times by one score (many of which came down to the last play/minute - walk-off field goals, an interception on the last play, OT loss, etc.) and three times by a rival.

I thought this 0-8 streak may be close to reaching a record, but after minimal digging, I was wrong. From 2017-2019, Colorado went 5-7 three times, picking up 11(!) losses while on the cusp of bowl eligibility. Most notably, having seven of those games after starting 5-0 in 2018. They actually just broke their streak in their most recent game, beating Cincinnati to pick up the coveted 6th win. There is a very real chance Nebraska ties this 11-game mark this season, after having a roughly 98% chance of bowling at 5-1 (shudders).

I am curious if any other teams have experienced such a horrific runs. To get consistently to 5 wins, but never 6 can be difficult for some teams, but a piece of cake for others.
 

GopherTheJugular said:
Which makes me wonder how Norvell still has his job at FSU. It'd be one thing if they were trying to hold together a top recruiting class, but his class is falling apart, so I have no clue what keeps him there.
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Jordan Travis wasn't a big-time pro prospect, but he was a really good college QB and as we've seen here in Gopherland, QB play can be all the differnce. They also didn't replace Trey Benson. That doesn't fully explain the 1-8, but it's a good place to start the discussion.
 

50PoundHead said:
And yet somehow Solich and Pelini had W/L percentages > .700 after those advantages disappeared. I can never figure out the Nebraska shade that gets tossed around.
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I think that might be the "beginning" part of the "beginning of the end" from the post you quoted.
 


Stuff said:
Found this on Reddit posted by Mammoth_impres_2108

Nebraska has lost its last 8 opportunities to pick up a 6th win and become bowl eligible. This is unusual, but not a record. What other teams have had this bad of luck? At least one.

Nebraska has the longest P4 team bowl drought (dating back to 2016), and not due to a lack of opportunities. The Huskers have played in 8 games while having five wins under their belt since their last bowl game, losing all of them. Here is a list:

2019: Iowa 27-24

2023: MSU 20-17, Maryland 13-10, Wisconsin 24-17, Iowa 13-10

2024: Indiana 54-7, OSU 21-17, UCLA 27-20

The real kick in the nuts is the fact that the Huskers have been denied a bowl game 7 times by one score (many of which came down to the last play/minute - walk-off field goals, an interception on the last play, OT loss, etc.) and three times by a rival.

I thought this 0-8 streak may be close to reaching a record, but after minimal digging, I was wrong. From 2017-2019, Colorado went 5-7 three times, picking up 11(!) losses while on the cusp of bowl eligibility. Most notably, having seven of those games after starting 5-0 in 2018. They actually just broke their streak in their most recent game, beating Cincinnati to pick up the coveted 6th win. There is a very real chance Nebraska ties this 11-game mark this season, after having a roughly 98% chance of bowling at 5-1 (shudders).

I am curious if any other teams have experienced such a horrific runs. To get consistently to 5 wins, but never 6 can be difficult for some teams, but a piece of cake for others.
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The number of one score losses Nebraska has had over the Frost era and now into Rhule is pretty unreal. It was well documented how Frost's teams did in one score games and in a little under 2 seasons Rhule is 2-8 in games decided by 8 points or less.

As a fan that would absolutely suck feeling like every time the game was close your team was going to find a way to lose.

Looked at our schedule over the last 4 years and our record in games decided by 8 points or less is 12-8 which is pretty solid.
 

MNVCGUY said:
The number of one score losses Nebraska has had over the Frost era and now into Rhule is pretty unreal. It was well documented how Frost's teams did in one score games and in a little under 2 seasons Rhule is 2-8 in games decided by 8 points or less.

As a fan that would absolutely suck feeling like every time the game was close your team was going to find a way to lose.

Looked at our schedule over the last 4 years and our record in games decided by 8 points or less is 12-8 which is pretty solid.
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The players probably expect to lose these games now...
 

Crosby said:
I actually do feel kind of bad for them. Imagine living in Nebraska, with no landscape, bad weather, and nothing to do. But you always had the Huskers, who were the state's treasure. You had fall Saturday afternoons to cheer on a darn good team. And it happened every single year. Until the Big Ten journey started. It came crashing down and now... the one thing you called your own is a shadow of its former self. You just pine for the glory years, but you really know they are never coming back. I'd be sad too.
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They have a really good volleyball team
 

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