Nebraska loses to Illinois
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No Fooling. I suppose in a couple of years the new coach may prove the transition a good one but it is tough not to be happy with 9 wins year after year.
Just under a minute to go deep in Illinois territory with a six point lead, U of N passes on both third down and fourth down, stopping the clock twice and giving the ball back to Illinois. If the QB had just kneeled twice U of N likely wins.
There will be a new coach at U of N next year.
There will be a new coach at U of N next year.
Its not just the loss but the way he lost. That is the third last minute or overtime loss so far. Fans get really annoyed by that very quickly. How did they let the Illini receiver get behind the secondary in the last minute for that bomb? That is basic.
You sound like you know something about being frustrated with last second losses.....
But not looking forward as much to the U of I game - they upgraded their season by going down a head coach. Hopefully we can still pound them.
We all do but three out of five games at the beginning of his tenure is pretty amazing. Tennessee's fans are screaming for the coach's head and they have only had two.
It was really dumb to throw on 3rd down, but it didn't matter on 4th down as the clock stops on change of possession
I saw the stats on how bad Nebrtaska's pass defense has been, but this was pathetic. Safety playing 2-deep zone gets beat over the top on a long pass in the final minute to setup the game winner and Illini's other touchdown came on a totally blown coverage.
Apparently the play call was a bootleg, but the pass was improvised. Regardless, it's borderline criminal that UNL did not run. The play started at 55 seconds, meaning you could subtract about 40 seconds. Call a timeout on 4th down, then run a jet sweep to the long side, or maybe run play actio and drop way back and wait as long as you can before throwing it 50 yards out of the end zone.
You can still look forward to it. Once Ferguson got knocked out of the game for the Illinii, both offenses made Minny's effort vs. our defense seem championship caliber by comparison. Nebraska played horrificly and was coached at a high school level today (with my apologies to some high school coaches, who would have managed the clock at the end of the game far better than Riley did). Illinois was only slightly better.
