Nebraska Football 2017-2018

[hskr4life]

Thought I would start a thread to throw all of the football news into.  To get things started, I thought this was an interesting little perspective from ESPN.

 

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/20369846/ranking-happiness-every-college-football-fan-base-2017

[Huskerpapa]

Nebraska fans are pretty smart, fickle, demanding, raucous, emotional, stubborn, enjoyable, boorish, amazing, humble, loyal, et  al, at any given moment.  We want to be entertained, but will criticize every win or every loss with the same microscope.  And so it goes. 

 

Personally, I look forward to the season.  We are in sort of an underdog role, and frankly, we may provide a bit of shock and awe if things go as planned.

[49r]

It's a little unnerving to me how many people, like at the national level, are starting to climb on the Husker bandwagon as kind of a sneaky good pick.

[huskerbaseball13]

4 hours ago, 49r said:

It's a little unnerving to me how many people, like at the national level, are starting to climb on the Husker bandwagon as kind of a sneaky good pick.

 

I think that's directly related to the hype Tanner Lee is getting.  After seeing him in the spring game and the chatter coming out of fall camp I have really high expectations for him.  With that said, who knows until the bullets start flying.   

[AuroranHusker]

Tanner Lee will be the team MVP.

 

 

[brfrad]

I think this team is one year away.  I think they will come up short in the West this year to Wisconsin.  Best case scenario for this team is 9 - 3 (losses to PSU, OSU, and Wisconsin).  Worst case scenario is 5 - 7 (wins against Ark St, N Ill, Rutgers,  Illinois,  and Purdue).  

 

Watching some games on YouTube from last year.  Keys for this year's team are a plus turnover margin, and 3rd down coversions  (both offense and defense).

 

I think the offensive and defensive lines will gain some valuable experience, with only one senior.  That's why I feel the team is one year away.

[Huskerpapa]

...are we ready for some football

 

[khoock]

On 8/24/2017 at 11:22 AM, brfrad said:

I think this team is one year away.  I think they will come up short in the West this year to Wisconsin.  Best case scenario for this team is 9 - 3 (losses to PSU, OSU, and Wisconsin).  Worst case scenario is 5 - 7 (wins against Ark St, N Ill, Rutgers,  Illinois,  and Purdue).  

 

Watching some games on YouTube from last year.  Keys for this year's team are a plus turnover margin, and 3rd down coversions  (both offense and defense).

 

I think the offensive and defensive lines will gain some valuable experience, with only one senior.  That's why I feel the team is one year away.

The only problem with that is next years schedule is brutal.

 

v. Colorado

@ Michigan

@ Wisconsin

@ Northwestern 

@ Ohio State

@ Iowa

 

Very well could be better next year but have a worse record bc of the schedule.

[khoock]

Im gonna say 9-3 (6-3). Second place finish in the division.

[FredsSlacks]

On 8/23/2017 at 6:22 PM, AuroranHusker said:

Tanner Lee will be the team MVP.

 

 

his numbers at Tulane make me a little nervous, but hopefully he's gotten a lot better.

[khoock]

11 minutes ago, TimSmiles said:

his numbers at Tulane make me a little nervous, but hopefully he's gotten a lot better.

Hoping for better, healthier, and improved weapons (WR /OL)

 

Recievers worry me with only 4 healthy scholarship ones and a handful of unproven walkons.

[AuroranHusker]

36 minutes ago, TimSmiles said:

his numbers at Tulane make me a little nervous, but hopefully he's gotten a lot better.

 

To say that Tulane's O-Line was a sieve is doing a disservice to the sieve.

 

[FredsSlacks]

well nobody appears to be betting on nebraska. the spread has dropped from 19 to 14.5.

[AuroranHusker]

1 hour ago, TimSmiles said:

well nobody appears to be betting on nebraska. the spread has dropped from 19 to 14.5.

 

Nervous about the unknowns of NU, perhaps.

[Huskerpapa]

I certainly do not mind sneaking up people this year.

[colhusker]

Well we are going to have to sneak up on them as we looked below average tonight.

[brfrad]

Whew!!  Way too close for comfort.  Offense looked decent.  However, had a chance to close out the game, and failed.  The defense has some work to do, as if you couldn't tell.  I am not going to overreact as we were vanilla on defense.  We showed no blitz packages.  We were trying to protect the inexperience at corners.  Once the newbies at corners get things figured out, this defense will start to play much better. 

 

I will say if we allow a MAC crew to ref our game, I am going to throw up.  These guys were out of their league.  Those two holding calls were terrible.   Morgan and Conrad were not holds in any light of day.

[brfrad]

Good: +2 turnover margin  225 rushing yards.  Bryant 31 carries 192 yards.  Spielman KO Ret for a TD. LIghtborn much more consistent

 

Bad:  8 penalties.  Ark State was 7 for 13 on 3rd down (must be fixed)  497 yards allowed.   

[FredsSlacks]

well at least it was an exciting game. oregon game should tell us a lot.

[Huskerpapa]

We did a lot right, and a lot wrong.  Glimpses of what may be, especially on offense.  I am hoping that we only saw a small piece of our defense, we played soft, which is not what I expected.  But if this is the worst of what we will, see, then I remain optimistic.  By the special teams matched the offense and defense.  Glimpses of a lot of positive possibilities, but also glimpses of uggghhh!

[khoock]

Im not nearly as worried as some are. 12 of Arkansas States points werent the defense's fault:

-Safety

-Punt Return

-FG where ASU player purposely takes his helmet off to get the clock stopped which allows them to set up a FG

 

Also think Diaco called a pretty vanilla game.

[hskr4life]

As much as I wanted to go crazy and throw something and yell and......... we are still 1-0 which is where we needed to be heading to Oregon.

 

Also, have heard rumblings on twitter that game time and date could be moved this weekend due to air quality.  Can anyone confirm?

Edited September 5, 2017 by hskr4life

[Huskerpapa]

MIami v Arkansas State game just cancelled due to the approaching Hurricane Irma.

[khoock]

1 hour ago, huskercwg said:

MIami v Arkansas State game just cancelled due to the approaching Hurricane Irma.

Isnt the game @ Ark St??

[hskr4life]

3 hours ago, khoock said:

Isnt the game @ Ark St??

 

Miami said they didn't want to travel so they didn't have to travel back.  Weird because I think it would be better to be in Arkansas than Miami.  Stinks for Ark St because they lose this marquee game and it won't be made up.