Nebraska 2018 Season Thread

[Entropy]

UNL's women's basketball team is doing very well this year.   Perhaps UNL has landed a really good coach...

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Let's set it up at a neutral place midway. Drake Stadium. 20,000 people cheering for beer. I shouldn't try to make ISU irrelevant, but that could be another midway point. Feeling evil tonight.

Council Bluffs?  Omaha? Arrowhead?

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FauxPelini weighed in with some Husker Valentine's Day poems

https://nebraska.247sports.com/Bolt/Faux-Pelini-pens-Nebraska-football-Valentines-Day-poems-115143129?utm_source=247Sports%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=180215_143430_Nebraska%20Cornhuskers&utm_content=Image&liveconnect=20-4B-18-0A-0F-AE-FD-D3-26-2C-FD-F1-DB-8E-CC-AE180215_143430NebraskaCornhuskers

[Entropy]

UNL's women's basketball team hit 20 wins this year by beating PSU.   Great season for the team after a rough transition year in 2016-2017

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Nebraska’s 2018 schedule is the nation’s toughest in this ranking.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2758778-ranking-college-footballs-10-hardest-schedules-for-2018


Nebraska could hardly face a tougher Big Ten schedule.

Seriously, this slate is brutal with a capital "BRUTAL." The Cornhuskers will travel to Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Ohio State and Iowa next season, only hosting Michigan State. They basically only miss Penn State in conference action.

Additionally, the classic matchup with Colorado resumes in 2018, and a date with Troy—which sprung an upset on LSU last year—deserves the Cornhuskers' respect.

Scott Frost did amazing work at UCF, but the head coach's first season at his alma mater may be doomed from the start.

[PSUinNC]

Nebraska’s 2018 schedule is the nation’s toughest in this ranking.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2758778-ranking-college-footballs-10-hardest-schedules-for-2018


Nebraska could hardly face a tougher Big Ten schedule.

Seriously, this slate is brutal with a capital "BRUTAL." The Cornhuskers will travel to Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Ohio State and Iowa next season, only hosting Michigan State. They basically only miss Penn State in conference action.

Additionally, the classic matchup with Colorado resumes in 2018, and a date with Troy—which sprung an upset on LSU last year—deserves the Cornhuskers' respect.

Scott Frost did amazing work at UCF, but the head coach's first season at his alma mater may be doomed from the start.

Bear with me, but it could very well be just like Saban's first at Bama.  Take your lumps, expectations b/c of this schedule should be tempered, then come out guns blazing in 2019 after a full year of recruiting.  NOT saying Frost is the next Saban, just giving some historical precedence.  
Looking forward to seeing the Huskers return the perch they belong on.  

[Hoss]

Bear with me, but it could very well be just like Saban's first at Bama.  Take your lumps, expectations b/c of this schedule should be tempered, then come out guns blazing in 2019 after a full year of recruiting.  NOT saying Frost is the next Saban, just giving some historical precedence.  
Looking forward to seeing the Huskers return the perch they belong on.  

That is what most rational Husker fans- and I don't think there are a ton of those these days- believe about the situation.

Not only is the schedule very difficult during a transition year, but our QBs are green as grass...the most experienced one (Patrick O'Brien) has 30 pass attempts in three games. We will also be counting on freshmen and JC transfers to fill out certain positions on defense with the type of players required to just run the scheme, let alone be successful.
There just really isn't any way to spin that into more 6 wins IMO. 2018 is about installing culture, gaining experience, roster shaping, and survival. Maybe in 2019 we can talk about winning 10 games.

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Welcome Back, Hoss!

I'd be tickled with 6 wins, and the 15 additional bowl practices

[Hoss]

Same here. 

Akron
Colorado
Troy
Purdue
Illinois
Minnesota

There's your home slate, and most plausible six wins...drop any of those, and getting a half-dozen Ws gets pretty dicey. 

[Entropy]

Frost's biggest issue the first year will not be the schedule or his players... it will be UNL fans.   There are a lot of noisy ones who are predicting 9-10 wins because they are committed to the idea that all the team needed was a coach and nothing else.   I don't think they want to admit how broken of a program UNL has become..

[Hoss]

There will be some nitpicking, but 90% of the blame will fall on Riley...and he should shoulder most of it, with a bit left over for Pelini. 

It will be interesting to see if Frost gets criticized for not running the ball enough though, heh. 

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Nebraska’s 2018 schedule is the nation’s toughest in this ranking.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2758778-ranking-college-footballs-10-hardest-schedules-for-2018


Nebraska could hardly face a tougher Big Ten schedule.

Seriously, this slate is brutal with a capital "BRUTAL." The Cornhuskers will travel to Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Ohio State and Iowa next season, only hosting Michigan State. They basically only miss Penn State in conference action.

Additionally, the classic matchup with Colorado resumes in 2018, and a date with Troy—which sprung an upset on LSU last year—deserves the Cornhuskers' respect.

Scott Frost did amazing work at UCF, but the head coach's first season at his alma mater may be doomed from the start.

I don't think it could be worse, but then . . . Maryland may rebound in 2018 after injury problems in 2017 doomed a promising season. On the positive side Nebraska doesn't play Maryland.

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There will be some nitpicking, but 90% of the blame will fall on Riley...and he should shoulder most of it, with a bit left over for Pelini.

It will be interesting to see if Frost gets criticized for not running the ball enough though, heh.

oh, he'll get criticized for not running the ball enough, because he's going to lose 6 games
the same way Osborne was criticized for running too much or not enough when he lost 2 games in a season

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Former Nebraska reserve quarterback A.J. Bush is joining Illinois as a graduate transfer from Virginia Tech