What In The World Happened?

[MoseSchrute]

A Nebraska media member tweeted out that Frost should be B1G coach of the year. Should Iowa have won the west? Meh, I'm sure every fan base can go back and change two plays in a close loss and say "Welp, we should have won." Heck ISU fans do that every year about the Iowa game. I WISH we would have won the west, but I can't say we SHOULD have won the west, because we didn't earn it on the field. When you lose 4 of 6 close games, you probably didn't really "deserve" any better.

You talking about Becka? That guy is a moron and hardly counts as a legit "media member". As far as winning the West...we had enough talent and the schedule and I have no problem saying we should have won it.

 

[deanvogs]

"Iowa went 2-4 in tightly contested games. One of the losses on the special teams, one of the losses on the offense, one of the losses on the defense, and one of the losses on the coaches."

Again, I repost what you said. Sure looks to me like you are only placing one of those losses on the coaches. Maybe you should have been more specific. Wait, is this a failure to execute thing??
I place the blame for all 4 losses on the coaches. Doesn't the buck stop there?

Re Stanley vs Mansell: I was never advocating benching Stanley permanently. During the Penn St game thread I, along with others, thought he should have been sat down for at least a few series; if not the game. His performance was EPICALLY BAD. Embarrassing for him and the coaching staff. I dare say we haven't seen a passing performance like that since Pete Gales or Bob Commings Jr. Stanley just didn't look right. Period. Even his facial expressions and demeanor were bizarre IMO.

What kind of message did that send to the other players? Every single one of them, Rastetter notwithstanding, can be held accountable for their play on the field except the quarterback apparently? Or at least THIS qb? Why, because he is a good kid and works hard? That is what Kirk said the following Tuesday while defending him. Unbelievable. Aren't we here to win games? This is big boy football. I mean Kirk is getting paid that way. Is he not? To at least be relevant?

I take it you can't help us out on "runs like a specialist"?

When did I ever says that each of those losses was SOLEY because of what I wrote? I summed up one scape goat in each loss, that doesn't mean they were solely to blame. In every game, each aspect of the team (coaching, offense, defense and special teams) you can point to one or two plays in a close game that could have made the difference.

Benching Stanley would have been dumb, and your example proves why. The only good quarter Stanley had vs Penn St. was the 4th quarter. You would have benched him and we would have loss by 20+ points.

 

[deanvogs]

You talking about Becka? That guy is a moron and hardly counts as a legit "media member". As far as winning the West...we had enough talent and the schedule and I have no problem saying we should have won it.

I get where you are coming from and I agree in the fact that we had the talent to win the west, we just didn't do it on the field, so I personally don't think I can say we should have won the west.

As far as Nebraska media goes, they are all Frosy fan boys. Only one of them said he should be B1G COY, but I'd bet tons of them think it.

 

[skinnykilmer17]

Thanks for the reminder. Our punter currently ranks 133rd nationally at 39.6 yds/punt. Think about that for a moment. Our collegiate punter hasn't averaged at least 40 yards for 2 consecutive years now.

Why would Kirk tolerate that you suppose (come on we all know the answer, right? team first??) and what happened to this supposed competition he hinted at several weeks ago?

* The stat I quoted is unfair. I looked closer at that particular website and it records every single punt this year even if a player only punted once.

If we adjust for say a minimum of 20 punts Rastetter comes in like 114th. He punted 46x.

www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/stats/leaders/NCAAF/PUNTAVG

 

[skinnykilmer17]

When did I ever says that each of those losses was SOLEY because of what I wrote? I summed up one scape goat in each loss, that doesn't mean they were solely to blame. In every game, each aspect of the team (coaching, offense, defense and special teams) you can point to one or two plays in a close game that could have made the difference.

Benching Stanley would have been dumb, and your example proves why. The only good quarter Stanley had vs Penn St. was the 4th quarter. You would have benched him and we would have loss by 20+ points.

You don't know that. We could have won by 20 without him in the game.

 

[deanvogs]

You don't know that. We could have won by 20 without him in the game.

True, I don't. I do know that Stanley played a very good 4th quarter though, and taking him out (in hindsight, as I wouldn't have killed Kirk for doing so) would have been almost certainly a mistake.

 

[InGoodCo]

You talking about Becka? That guy is a moron and hardly counts as a legit "media member". As far as winning the West...we had enough talent and the schedule and I have no problem saying we should have won it.

Becka is an idiot and I think Shatel and a few of the Husker media are very objective. But saying Iowa should have won the west is like saying Nebraska should have won on Black Friday. No they shouldn't have. They didn't. Those dolts all in Husker land believe that for sure, it doesn't mean there's a lot of objectivity to their thoughts. When the Huskers aren't good, they love to (Shatel, Damon Benning, Chatelain, Severe) point out Iowa's flaws to help their fan base feel better. It's the same narrative every down year they have "Hey, Huskers are bad but look at Iowa, they have a bunch of bumbling idiots on the sideline". It helps sell papers and get listeners.

I didn't see one publication predict Iowa to win the West. Not one. So, it's hard to say after the fact that they "should" have won the west. Why? Because the best team, Northwestern did. Iowa had its chances and didn't capitalize and they weren't good enough. That's why they play the games, sports rarely goes as it "should".