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this is what I'm hoping for.....

we shall see

A familiar face at sporting events will make a stop at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.

Bill Murray, the actor known for his work on Saturday Night Live and through movies like Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Stripes, will be joining Tom Osborne at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Murray, who is in Omaha on Saturday performing at the Holland Center, will join Osborne in the former coach's suite at the stadium.

Purdue wins 30-17.  I think we finally see a couple of trick plays click including a fake punt.  Key is Purdue getting up early in the 1st half again allowing the D to take more chances and be more aggressive as worked well last week.

I didn't realize that Purdue late 4th Q choke vs Neb was their only win in the last 10.  Makes that loss hurt even more.

I doubt that was the problem for Nebraska.

I am learning just how deluded many of our fans actually are…far more than I realized.  I am not talking about the Casual Fan, but the supposed Twitter Intelligencia that knows formation names and recruiting class rankings and stuff, but apparently has zero clue that football is actually played by humans and not capital letters.

Entropy and I were discussing how the volume of Nebraska-related internet traffic is way down this year. That may seem obvious- like “Duh…they suck”- but there’s more to it than that IMO. We have sucked, outright, for a while now. Since losing in OT at Wisconsin in October 2016, when NU was flirting with a Top 10 ranking, we dropped 4 of 6 to end that year, went  a disastrous 4-8 in 2017. There was plenty of internet traffic in those times…all incessant bitching and ranting, but there was plenty of it.

I think what we are seeing now is that most fans are hitting the metaphorical snooze button, and waiting to come back in a year (Or two) to see what Frost has accomplished. They trust him and support him, but they don’t watch the sausage being made.

There is only so much abject failure and fan-on-fan crime that a person can take before you find better things to do. The games are terrible and the boards are a shitshow of intersectional warfare…thank God I have one kid that’s good in fall sports.

Nothing is going to change until this program gets stronger and faster players, period. The question is whether the staff is going to go Full JUCO this December/February is hopes of a quick fix, or if they have the patience and ability to build from the prep ranks.

I agree with your point, although I don't think UFM pulled off quite the transition miracle you posit. Not only did Tressel recruit well overall, but he'd been using QBs like Smith, Pryor and Miller who's skill set could be integrated into Urban's offense. Scott has neither luxury. 

That said, I think the defensive staff has mismanaged their personnel at LB, and its costing them dearly. We have a SS that should be playing WLB, a WLB that should be playing ILB, and an ILB that should be filling water bottles. 

The offensive staff....I just don't think they have the OL to play with wide splits. That's a base tenant of Scott's offense, but man, if you can't block nothing else is going to work. Especially with an 18yo quarterback. For $5M a year, tweak the damn playbook to use tighter splits.