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On Gameday, during the "signs segment", first one they show is a young Nebby fan who had a sign the says N pressured the B10 to allow Michigan to lose N.

Howard says - "The loudest 5 win team in America."

Perfect - made my weekend and they are just a notch above Iowa and WI for me at this point on the Disgusto-Meter
 


Their schedule really is setup for failure.

Week 1: at Ohio State - HUGE loss
Week 2: Wisconsin - Big loss
Week 3: at Northwestern - 50/50, hopefully loss
Week 4: Penn State - loss
Week 5: Illinois - 50/50, but probably win
Week 6: at Iowa - loss
Week 7: at Purdue - 50/50, hopefully loss
Week 8: Minnesota - Big loss

Even, 2-6 sounds divine.
 


MplsGopher said:
Their schedule really is setup for failure.

Week 1: at Ohio State - HUGE loss
Week 2: Wisconsin - Big loss
Week 3: at Northwestern - 50/50, hopefully loss
Week 4: Penn State - loss
Week 5: Illinois - 50/50, but probably win
Week 6: at Iowa - loss
Week 7: at Purdue - 50/50, hopefully loss
Week 8: Minnesota - Big loss

Even, 2-6 sounds divine.
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Hope you're right, as that might be enough to oust Frosty

Maybe Dr. Tom can come back ala Bud for a season or two
 



fmlizard said:
It's not that crazy to imagine Nebraska going 0-8 and needing to beat Rutgers in the Toilet Bowl to avoid winless.
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Starting 0-4 and desperate for a win, on likely homecoming vs Illinois ... hard to see them not pulling that one off. Unless they're just awful.
 





Desmond is really good on Gameday.

I love that Nebraska opens at Ohio State, it couldn’t be a more fitting opener for them.
 






Wasn't there a time when Nebraska thought they'd come in and own the Big Ten? Maybe they should have taken up Warren's offer....made their own schedule....and then join the Sun Belt after the year.

Nebraska’s AD Thinks The Huskers’ Football Schedule Is Unfair

Nebraska football really wanted to play football this fall. It got its wish, and arguably the toughest schedule in the entire Big Ten.

While there are questions about how fair it is to judge any coach on or near the hot seat, this could be a pivotal year for the program. The first few years of the Scott Frost era disappointed, and in normal circumstances, this could be a make-or-break-season for him at his alma mater. Now, he has to contend with a slate that pits his team against the two hardest crossover opponents possible. There were plenty of jokes, and even one report, about the Big Ten getting effectively punished for how it handled things after the Big Ten initially chose to postpone the season until the spring semester.

After a trip to Ohio State, Nebraska hosts Wisconsin on Oct. 31. Two weeks later, the Huskers host Penn State. A Nov. 28 trip to Iowa, and Dec. 12 home game against Minnesota round out a pretty brutal eight week slate.

After the schedule was released, Nebraska AD Bill Moos said he wasn’t “singing the ‘poor Nebraska’ tune.” He isn’t a huge fan of how things were constructed by the league though. “I wasn’t toasting champagne,” he said after the release, per the Omaha World-Herald.

Moos wanted the league to “dissemble” the existing nine-game conference schedules. Instead, the Big Ten lopped a crossover game off. For Nebraska, that game would’ve been against Rutgers, the weakest Big Ten East opponent.

Now, the Huskers have five preseason Top 25 teams in eight weeks. Moos was also disappointed that the league didn’t change rules so that only division games counted in those standings. He admits that his team is at a big disadvantage by landing the conference’s two toughest teams as crossover games in the first four weeks of the short season.

Any way you slice it, Nebraska football got a brutal draw, but as Huskers star Wan’Dale Robinson indicated on Twitter, there’s nothing to do now but to go out and try and win some games.

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Nebraska’s AD Thinks The Huskers’ Football Schedule Is Unfair

Nebraska football really wanted to play football this fall. It got its wish, and arguably the toughest schedule in the entire Big Ten. The first few years of the Scott Frost era disappointed, and in normal circumstances, this could be a make-or-break-season for him at his alma mater.
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So Nebraska wants to be elite, but only the kind of elite that is elite without elite work or elite hardships and responsibilities. I see.
 

Dan Patrick's "Sources" are at it again. Patrick claims a source told him that the B1G deliberately gave Neb a difficult schedule to punish them for their actions.

If that is true, then the B1G is being run by idiots.

I just don't buy it. Even if the B1G leadership was that petty, and it was deliberate, it's going to come out. Barry Alvarez was one of the main guys on the scheduling committee. So was Coyle. are they willing participants in some kind of a conspiracy?

There is just too much for the B1G to lose to try a stunt like that, when their public image has already taken a huge hit.

My gut tells me that Patrick's "source" has an axe to grind and is using Patrick to put this idea out in the public consciousness.
 


#2Gopher said:
Administration probably put these kids up to it as they have no balls.
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Not sure if you're being serious, but of course that Tweet is fake ... just making fun of the Nebraska players who sued to overturn the postponement.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Dan Patrick's "Sources" are at it again. Patrick claims a source told him that the B1G deliberately gave Neb a difficult schedule to punish them for their actions.

If that is true, then the B1G is being run by idiots.

I just don't buy it. Even if the B1G leadership was that petty, and it was deliberate, it's going to come out. Barry Alvarez was one of the main guys on the scheduling committee. So was Coyle. are they willing participants in some kind of a conspiracy?

There is just too much for the B1G to lose to try a stunt like that, when their public image has already taken a huge hit.

My gut tells me that Patrick's "source" has an axe to grind and is using Patrick to put this idea out in the public consciousness.
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Making schedules is really hard and Penn State/Ohio State were on Nebraska's original schedule. Is it a crappy draw for them....yep....but they just look stupid in complaining about it. Oh boo hoo, you have to play 2 really good teams from the East....get over it and prove that you are the team you think you are....or can you only be that team when the schedule is made nice and easy for you? This has not been a good couple months for Nebraska, they just come off looking bad in almost every situation they have been involved in.
 

Another spin on this (not likely but here it is)

What if NEB shocks the entire college football world and pulls an upset and beats Ohio State in their opener!? 😳 Then goes on stays undefeated til the last game of the season while ranked #2 in both Coach’s and AP polls with our Gophers rolling in with West title on the line?

There is some merit to wanting NEB to do well this year so we will look better after we beat them, no?

I think it’ll be kind of fun to see an upset in week one! I know Michigan fans will be NEB fans in week one.
 

Nebraska seems so delusional and the fan base is so intent on recreating the 90’s, it seems they have lost touch with reality.

They think they can and should still dominate. It seems like they would be happier dropping a division or two where they could actually dominate instead of firing up the excuses every season to explain their B1G failings.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Dan Patrick's "Sources" are at it again. Patrick claims a source told him that the B1G deliberately gave Neb a difficult schedule to punish them for their actions.

If that is true, then the B1G is being run by idiots.

I just don't buy it. Even if the B1G leadership was that petty, and it was deliberate, it's going to come out. Barry Alvarez was one of the main guys on the scheduling committee. So was Coyle. are they willing participants in some kind of a conspiracy?

There is just too much for the B1G to lose to try a stunt like that, when their public image has already taken a huge hit.

My gut tells me that Patrick's "source" has an axe to grind and is using Patrick to put this idea out in the public consciousness.
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You do not need your gut feelings to know it is false. There is no stunt.

They have the same schedule of B1G games minus one from the original schedule. Rutgers can't play everyone and had to be dropped from someones schedules. That is the luck of the draw in the B1G, the crossover games are very tough when you draw the top teams, everyone goes through it.

You do not hear OSU or PSU being concerned that they have to play Nebraska.

Grow a pair Nebraska
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Dan Patrick's "Sources" are at it again. Patrick claims a source told him that the B1G deliberately gave Neb a difficult schedule to punish them for their actions.

If that is true, then the B1G is being run by idiots.

I just don't buy it. Even if the B1G leadership was that petty, and it was deliberate, it's going to come out. Barry Alvarez was one of the main guys on the scheduling committee. So was Coyle. are they willing participants in some kind of a conspiracy?

There is just too much for the B1G to lose to try a stunt like that, when their public image has already taken a huge hit.

My gut tells me that Patrick's "source" has an axe to grind and is using Patrick to put this idea out in the public consciousness.
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They have the same schedule they had before ... just one less crossover...
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Dan Patrick's "Sources" are at it again. Patrick claims a source told him that the B1G deliberately gave Neb a difficult schedule to punish them for their actions.

If that is true, then the B1G is being run by idiots.

I just don't buy it. Even if the B1G leadership was that petty, and it was deliberate, it's going to come out. Barry Alvarez was one of the main guys on the scheduling committee. So was Coyle. are they willing participants in some kind of a conspiracy?

There is just too much for the B1G to lose to try a stunt like that, when their public image has already taken a huge hit.

My gut tells me that Patrick's "source" has an axe to grind and is using Patrick to put this idea out in the public consciousness.
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What would the Big Ten “lose” if it came out that they did exactly that? They can schedule however they please. It’s not illegal and not against NCAA rules.

If Nebraska doesn’t like it they can GTFO.
 

The Big Ten kept all of the six-year crossover games as they were originally to be in 2020.

Nebraska was originally to be in Columbus in 2020, for game five out of six. OSU will be in Lincoln in 2021.


And that then dictated, in order to maintain 4/4 home/away, that the home games of each West teams’s other two original 2020 crossovers would be kept. Meaning Penn State in Lincoln.


The only thing that the schedulers did have control over was the order of the games.

In that case, I hope they did “screw” Nebraska with a bunch of hard games up front to crush any chance of momentum. They deserve that, so they can sit on it and spin.
 

MplsGopher said:
What would the Big Ten “lose” if it came out that they did exactly that? They can schedule however they please. It’s not illegal and not against NCAA rules.

If Nebraska doesn’t like it they can GTFO.
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Seriously?

If a conference deliberately gave a team a more difficult schedule as a form of punishment - and it became public - the B1G would receive a mountain of bad publicity, not to mention possible legal action.

For the sake of argument, because Coyle was on the scheduling committee - if Coyle was part of that "punishment" and got caught, he would be fired on the spot.

if you're OK with a conference deliberately messing with the schedule to favor certain teams, here's a question for you - how would you feel if the team getting the "bad" schedule was MN?
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Seriously?

If a conference deliberately gave a team a more difficult schedule as a form of punishment - and it became public - the B1G would receive a mountain of bad publicity, not to mention possible legal action.

For the sake of argument, because Coyle was on the scheduling committee - if Coyle was part of that "punishment" and got caught, he would be fired on the spot.

if you're OK with a conference deliberately messing with the schedule to favor certain teams, here's a question for you - how would you feel if the team getting the "bad" schedule was MN?
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I laid out how the schedule went above. They did control the order, and I hope they did give Neb a difficult front end on purpose.

You’re wayyy overreacting to what the fallout would be. Legal action?? Please. Again, they can gtfo if they feel that way. It’s a voluntary membership.

Negative publicity? So what. Let em sit on it.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Seriously?

If a conference deliberately gave a team a more difficult schedule as a form of punishment - and it became public - the B1G would receive a mountain of bad publicity, not to mention possible legal action.

For the sake of argument, because Coyle was on the scheduling committee - if Coyle was part of that "punishment" and got caught, he would be fired on the spot.

if you're OK with a conference deliberately messing with the schedule to favor certain teams, here's a question for you - how would you feel if the team getting the "bad" schedule was MN?
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Earth to SON!

No one with any credibility believes that crap and many have responded to let you know!

They have their same schedule, just had to drop one game off and they wished it was one of the tougher opponents.
 

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