Yup and I have a true belief. The only way a decent coach will come close to this program is when they have nothing to lose and the fans have long given up and stopped caring. Seems to work at a lot of other places. This head coaching job right now is too high profile and fan expectations are unrealistic. Nobody wants to walk into it. Trev talked him into it and then walked. I still don't know what happened there. Here's the deal though. I see slow people all over the field for NU. Rhule has been emphasizing speed in his recruiting. Speed and athleticism will cure a bunch of the problems we have right now. Give him his 5 years like we have given his predecessors before we run him out of town. We have lost to 2 ranked teams. Let's just grin and bear it and see where things go. Cignetti is going to get his ass kicked a few times and let's see how cocky he is then.
Maybe that Tony white defense really isn't as good as everyone was talking about..everytime he faces a team with a great offense that defense gets crashed.
I was at the game today. And yes Im an IU fan. This may sound like a trivial thing to some, but I noticed right off the bat before the game even kicked off when the teams came out onto the field at the start of the game Nebraska came out of the tunnel in a slow, easy gait. There seemed to be no enthusiasm or one single player sprinting to the sidelines, etc. Yes, Indiana was at home , but 75 % of Indiana's team was hopping around and sprinting and looked enthusiastic to be there. It was a clear difference that stuck out like a sore thumb. Just sayin. Good luck the rest of the year. Btw i genuinely like Rhule and hope he can get the Huskers on the right track again.
I mean other than Raiola, what sure fire high round pick do we have on this roster? And I am worried we are going to ruin this kid by throwing him out there with no running game and a blah O-line. We have to see the "long-game" with Dylan, and maybe let him sit with the excuse, "He has a bad ankle."
we'll stay in the shitter if we keep firing coaches. stop it. theres gotta be a better way. this loss is a head scratcher for sure. but stop being a doomer
As a lifelong K-State fan who lived in Lincoln when the Huskers were at the height of their power from 1994 to 2000, the present-day Huskers' lack of a running game hurts my heart...
there has been a noticeable difference confidence since the loss to Illinois. The same team that took the field against Colorado and Illinois left that game Seeming to be playing scared. I don’t think they win the game against Indiana in any shape or form, but the way this game was lost was because of a lack of confidence.
This Nebraska team looked like they didn’t even want to be there. They gave up after the first drive. THEY GAVE UP!!!! Absolutely pathetic. Quit paying coaches millions for this crap.
I truly believe that if Coach Rhule is to succeed, he must clean house on the offensive side of the ball. Raiola, Satterfield, and the 20 year old receivers coach.
The point at which I knew Nebraska had no chance of coming back was the huge "Uno Reverse Card" interception play on 4th Down at the end of the Huskers' opening drive of the second half...
Jeff Moken. Nebraska go triple option football. Paul johnson proved it can work in big time college football. Osborne ran a different type of option, but what moken does still fits nebraska. Option helps the D to limit posessions and in recruiting its zigging while everyone is zagging.
Then fire the replacement after the next game. Then the next replacement after the next game. Set a record for most coach firings at one program in one season! Rhule is a 3 season turnaround guru. This game was a disaster and next week's will likely be another, but that's two games, not a whole season. As a non-Husker fan living in Nebraska, I can view Husker football without being blinded by the passions that tend to come with rabid fandom. Rhule has noticeably improved the team from last year to this year. Last year's edition of the Big Red would have been 3-3 going into the Indiana game instead of 5-1. That fits Rhule's previous pattern at both Temple and Rutgers. His first year at a school is normally an adjustment year, followed by a build-up second year that is visibly better (at least for those who know what to look for and don't get blinded by the emotions of the moment). Rhule's third year, if his previous pattern holds, is the real breakout year, and is what the admins hired him for. Nebraska will almost certainly get into a bowl game this season, and could win as many as 8-9 games by the time all is said and done, setting the stage for the third year breakout.
Who’s better? Who would you hire right now? We know that Rhule is a slow cooker when it comes to rebuilding programs and he does so through recruiting and completely rebuilding the program. That takes time, and in Rhule’s case, about 3 years. Completely changing the coaching staff will reset the entire process. Looking at individual coaches and their performances might be worth it after the season’s over, but we need to hang in there
I know everyone wants to just blame the offense for the struggles but in my opinion the defense is the real issue against good teams they get pushed around and shredded because they can’t win upfront like they did in the glory years. There’s literally no elite level talent that can wreck an offense on this team. In the 90’s they had horses on the D-line that could win games on their own. And all the elite top tier defenses along the way have had that as well it all starts upfront and that makes everyone else’s job easier.
This disaster is likely to be remembered for years as one of the huskers most embarrassing performances and that's saying a lot. Scary thing is though next week against Ohio State has potential to be way worse because as improved as Indiana is it's hard to believe they are anywhere near as talented as the Buckeyes. Hope I'm wrong but next week is likely going to be worse than today unless Ryan Day is merciful.
In 2025, Nebraska get Akron and Houston Christian. That should be 2 wins. 4 more wins in 10 games. In 2026, Nebraska plays Ohio and North Dakota. That should be 2 wins. 4 more wins in 10 games.
Your defense is good. Not great, but good. When the opposing offense can run effectively, and pass both short and deep, any defense will have problems. A defense can stop 2 of those 3. Put 8 in the box and leave the safeties back, and you stop the run and the deep ball, but the short game is open. 8 in the box plus the safeties up, and you get thrown over the top. 7 in the box means that you get run on. So a good offense will always beat a good defense. The problems for Nebraska are that their O-line can’t create rushing lanes and that the QB can’t yet take what the defense was giving him. So the Nebraska offense just couldn’t keep up with the IU offense. Both defenses are about the same. IU took what the Nebraska defense gave it. Nebraska’s offense didn’t take what the IU defense was giving it. The other problem more fundamentally for Nebraska was that the coaching is spotty right now. Clean up the coaching and Nebraska will be good.
Great offense doesn’t always beat great defense it’s been proven that the way to slow great offense is to win up front and let your back end use the extra guy to cover. Yes what you’re saying is true a lot but there’s plenty examples of the defense slowing great offense to reference too.
yes the huskers looked horribly slow, why, its not flat out race speed, it looks like speed of aggressiveness, and speed of tacking our backs, speed on their d line, every position faster and more aggressive than the huskers,
Nebraska has not had a 1,000 yard rusher since 2018. Before that there was Ameer Abdullah in 2012,2013 and 2014. Nebraska has a terrible time versus Wisconsin and Iowa. Nebraska is 0-4-1 versus USC. Maybe Nebraska will beat UCLA. Nebraska needs to go to a conference where Nebraska will be more competitive.
It’s the O Line but nobody wants to say it and offend Uncle Raolia! He’s NOT a good O Line coach! If Dylan feels the need to leave then “Bye” but his uncle needs to go! A TEAM IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS O LINE! Indiana just proved it but nobody wants to say it! Swap lines and tell me NU loses!!!
When you're emotionally tied to a team it's hard to have a holistic and objective perspective. I think Nebraska is a good, not great, but good team. If IU was wearing maize and gold you would likely conclude you got beat by a superior team. There's a far greater than 0% chance that's exactly what happened today. IU is averaging 200+ rushing yards and 300+ passing yards. They are Top 10 in both offense and defense. It's not rational to think the odds were even for Nebraska to compete lock-step with IU in Bloomington.
It’s over. We all know it. Now we begin the 1-2 year purgatory of continued shit, only to wait for the next bunch of failures to assume the reigns
Yep
Yup and I have a true belief. The only way a decent coach will come close to this program is when they have nothing to lose and the fans have long given up and stopped caring. Seems to work at a lot of other places. This head coaching job right now is too high profile and fan expectations are unrealistic. Nobody wants to walk into it. Trev talked him into it and then walked. I still don't know what happened there. Here's the deal though. I see slow people all over the field for NU. Rhule has been emphasizing speed in his recruiting. Speed and athleticism will cure a bunch of the problems we have right now. Give him his 5 years like we have given his predecessors before we run him out of town. We have lost to 2 ranked teams. Let's just grin and bear it and see where things go. Cignetti is going to get his ass kicked a few times and let's see how cocky he is then.
Maybe that Tony white defense really isn't as good as everyone was talking about..everytime he faces a team with a great offense that defense gets crashed.
Hoo hoo hoo Hoosiers!
Congrats on a great team. Smoked us
The Hoosier Daddies...
I was at the game today. And yes Im an IU fan. This may sound like a trivial thing to some, but I noticed right off the bat before the game even kicked off when the teams came out onto the field at the start of the game Nebraska came out of the tunnel in a slow, easy gait. There seemed to be no enthusiasm or one single player sprinting to the sidelines, etc. Yes, Indiana was at home , but 75 % of Indiana's team was hopping around and sprinting and looked enthusiastic to be there. It was a clear difference that stuck out like a sore thumb. Just sayin. Good luck the rest of the year. Btw i genuinely like Rhule and hope he can get the Huskers on the right track again.
RHULE SUCKS YOU CAN HAVE HIM AS A WATER BOY
Not a surprise Scott. Funny how you saw this but our clueless coach couldn’t. Rhule is not the answer for NU. He and his staff have issues.
Salty Schaefer finally starting to see Nebraska isn't good. Older get wiser.
I mean other than Raiola, what sure fire high round pick do we have on this roster? And I am worried we are going to ruin this kid by throwing him out there with no running game and a blah O-line. We have to see the "long-game" with Dylan, and maybe let him sit with the excuse, "He has a bad ankle."
Rhule is cooked. Just a matter of time now until this era comes to an end. Maybe then Nebraska will actually hire a winner.
They never will get a great coach hired they have went through to many the best thing would be is to scrap the football program period
@@terrylinden7513 they’re not gonna scrap the largest money maker
Keep firing coaches everytime they get beat they might as well
@@terrylinden7513 if we scrapped coaches every time we got beat we’d be on our 10th coach since Rhule
we'll stay in the shitter if we keep firing coaches. stop it. theres gotta be a better way. this loss is a head scratcher for sure. but stop being a doomer
Those tackles sealed off our over rush on the outside and our bears are a step too slow up the middle.
As a lifelong K-State fan who lived in Lincoln when the Huskers were at the height of their power from 1994 to 2000, the present-day Huskers' lack of a running game hurts my heart...
there has been a noticeable difference confidence since the loss to Illinois. The same team that took the field against Colorado and Illinois left that game Seeming to be playing scared. I don’t think they win the game against Indiana in any shape or form, but the way this game was lost was because of a lack of confidence.
This Nebraska team looked like they didn’t even want to be there. They gave up after the first drive. THEY GAVE UP!!!! Absolutely pathetic. Quit paying coaches millions for this crap.
Rhule will probably have them practice in pads tomorrow because they obviously didn’t practice the last 2 weeks and didn’t show up to the game.
Nebraska lost to a top 10 possibly even a top 5 team in Indiana. This Indiana team is one of the best teams in the country and will be a playoff team.
I truly believe that if Coach Rhule is to succeed, he must clean house on the offensive side of the ball. Raiola, Satterfield, and the 20 year old receivers coach.
The point at which I knew Nebraska had no chance of coming back was the huge "Uno Reverse Card" interception play on 4th Down at the end of the Huskers' opening drive of the second half...
Jeff Moken. Nebraska go triple option football. Paul johnson proved it can work in big time college football. Osborne ran a different type of option, but what moken does still fits nebraska. Option helps the D to limit posessions and in recruiting its zigging while everyone is zagging.
THIS IS SCOTT FROST 2.0... Rhule has lost the locker room....FIRE RHULE NOW
Then fire the replacement after the next game. Then the next replacement after the next game. Set a record for most coach firings at one program in one season! Rhule is a 3 season turnaround guru. This game was a disaster and next week's will likely be another, but that's two games, not a whole season. As a non-Husker fan living in Nebraska, I can view Husker football without being blinded by the passions that tend to come with rabid fandom. Rhule has noticeably improved the team from last year to this year. Last year's edition of the Big Red would have been 3-3 going into the Indiana game instead of 5-1. That fits Rhule's previous pattern at both Temple and Rutgers. His first year at a school is normally an adjustment year, followed by a build-up second year that is visibly better (at least for those who know what to look for and don't get blinded by the emotions of the moment). Rhule's third year, if his previous pattern holds, is the real breakout year, and is what the admins hired him for. Nebraska will almost certainly get into a bowl game this season, and could win as many as 8-9 games by the time all is said and done, setting the stage for the third year breakout.
Who’s better? Who would you hire right now? We know that Rhule is a slow cooker when it comes to rebuilding programs and he does so through recruiting and completely rebuilding the program. That takes time, and in Rhule’s case, about 3 years. Completely changing the coaching staff will reset the entire process. Looking at individual coaches and their performances might be worth it after the season’s over, but we need to hang in there
Rhule just isn’t the guy. Something is up behind the scenes. Getting blown out after a bye is just insane
Blown out in Bloomington. Busted flat in baton rouge... Feel like I'm lost in a song about Bobby McGee.
"MURDER" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that was brutal.....😬
I feel sorry for the young NE fans. Not knowing a winning team.
I lost my YMCA 4th Grade Flag Football Offensive Playbook a few years ago and would swear I saw Satterfield holding it on the sideline yesterday.
Satterfield must have been watching the Adam Sandler classic "The Waterboy" and decided to copy the "bad guy" coach from that movie...
I know everyone wants to just blame the offense for the struggles but in my opinion the defense is the real issue against good teams they get pushed around and shredded because they can’t win upfront like they did in the glory years. There’s literally no elite level talent that can wreck an offense on this team. In the 90’s they had horses on the D-line that could win games on their own. And all the elite top tier defenses along the way have had that as well it all starts upfront and that makes everyone else’s job easier.
This disaster is likely to be remembered for years as one of the huskers most embarrassing performances and that's saying a lot. Scary thing is though next week against Ohio State has potential to be way worse because as improved as Indiana is it's hard to believe they are anywhere near as talented as the Buckeyes. Hope I'm wrong but next week is likely going to be worse than today unless Ryan Day is merciful.
Black shirts. What a laugh
Oof. Go big red.. still 😢
IU is Big Red now, not Nebraska.
no words
If Neb doesn't turn it around, Riaola may leave after this year.
In 2025, Nebraska get Akron and Houston Christian. That should be 2 wins. 4 more wins in 10 games.
In 2026, Nebraska plays Ohio and North Dakota. That should be 2 wins. 4 more wins in 10 games.
Your defense is good. Not great, but good. When the opposing offense can run effectively, and pass both short and deep, any defense will have problems. A defense can stop 2 of those 3. Put 8 in the box and leave the safeties back, and you stop the run and the deep ball, but the short game is open. 8 in the box plus the safeties up, and you get thrown over the top. 7 in the box means that you get run on. So a good offense will always beat a good defense.
The problems for Nebraska are that their O-line can’t create rushing lanes and that the QB can’t yet take what the defense was giving him.
So the Nebraska offense just couldn’t keep up with the IU offense.
Both defenses are about the same. IU took what the Nebraska defense gave it. Nebraska’s offense didn’t take what the IU defense was giving it.
The other problem more fundamentally for Nebraska was that the coaching is spotty right now. Clean up the coaching and Nebraska will be good.
Great offense doesn’t always beat great defense it’s been proven that the way to slow great offense is to win up front and let your back end use the extra guy to cover. Yes what you’re saying is true a lot but there’s plenty examples of the defense slowing great offense to reference too.
Y’all keep talking about who Indiana played?!??! Who Nebraska played to make y’all believe NE football is better than IU?
Exactly! Beat UTEP, UNI, Purdon't. They are always such hypocrites
Dylan's ankle is what happened against Illinois and ever since. He may as well be throwing from a wheel chair back there.
You can’t compare Indiana to tcu. Tcu didn’t blow teams out like Indiana has. Tcu scraped by during their run.
yes the huskers looked horribly slow, why, its not flat out race speed, it looks like speed of aggressiveness, and speed of tacking our backs, speed on their d line, every position faster and more aggressive than the huskers,
Either the team doesn't give a shit or it's on the weight program when you talk about speed.
It’s got to come down to coaching. No communication. Satterfield is crap
I was thinking Huskers could lose all 5 remaining except for UCLA> But the bruins woke up today so maybe even the bruins can beat the huskers
Nebraska has not had a 1,000 yard rusher since 2018.
Before that there was Ameer Abdullah in 2012,2013 and 2014.
Nebraska has a terrible time versus Wisconsin and Iowa. Nebraska is 0-4-1 versus USC.
Maybe Nebraska will beat UCLA.
Nebraska needs to go to a conference where Nebraska will be more competitive.
Thats what happens when you hire a coach that has a .500 overall career record.
“Indiana has a decent offense” Really???? Decent??
Welcome to the land of make believe 😂😂😂
It’s the O Line but nobody wants to say it and offend Uncle Raolia! He’s NOT a good O Line coach! If Dylan feels the need to leave then “Bye” but his uncle needs to go! A TEAM IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS O LINE! Indiana just proved it but nobody wants to say it! Swap lines and tell me NU loses!!!
Line ? Hell it's more than that...our receivers suck , RBs are very average, and we have a slow hippopotamus for a QB who gets worse with every game.
I bet you big time this team Nebraska ends up 5 and 7 again this team sucks big time
When you're emotionally tied to a team it's hard to have a holistic and objective perspective. I think Nebraska is a good, not great, but good team. If IU was wearing maize and gold you would likely conclude you got beat by a superior team. There's a far greater than 0% chance that's exactly what happened today. IU is averaging 200+ rushing yards and 300+ passing yards. They are Top 10 in both offense and defense. It's not rational to think the odds were even for Nebraska to compete lock-step with IU in Bloomington.
Rhule sucks bruh.....he sucked in the NFL! He sucks even more now!