@@AUZlE This video convinced me that frost was the worst P5 coach of all time. I honestly feel bad for our players, we had a lot of talent. Can't forget to mention frost"s visit with Raoila where he got too drunk in the hotel lobby and canceled his in home. What an absolute disgrace
@AUZlE that's messed up do you know his dad died right when he got hired? That man was his idol. It destroyed him which ended up destroying the huskers it was a terrible series of events he went to treatment and I hope he's recovering
My dad is a die-hard Husker fan and I legit think that 2021 season took years off his life. The physical drain of energy in Lincoln that year was a real thing.
I was in Lincoln visiting a friend after they lost to Purdue and when we went downtown to drink it was like everyone had just put down their dogs. Totally devastated and depressed.
i was at the opener for the year scott frost was hired, it was rained out and the game was cancelled. Almost seemed like his tenure was doomed from the start
Was a student for the 2019-2022 seasons. This was by far the worst one because every week you thought they had a chance just to see yet another blown opportunity.
I live in Omaha and volunteered in a donation center for about a year. You have no idea the Red Sea of Scott Frost merch I went through in that time. We were all in and I have never seen something pay off worse (unless coach Prime’s tenure nosedives further)
Oof, this one hurts. I've been a diehard cornhusker my whole life, and I think 2021 will go down as THE most memorable season ever. That MSU game especially broke me. I was so damn sick of us losing close, and that game was all but won, and to lose like that had me on the verge of tears. Just so heartbreaking.
The Defense deserved that win....they played PERFECT defensive football in the second half....I had never seen a black shirt defense play more sound....that was when I had lost all faith in Scott ...I'd been hanging on by fingernails at that point ..
What a graveyard of names: Scott Frost, Adrian Martinez, Mel Tucker, Spencer Rattler at OU, Paul Chryst, and Pat Fitzgerald to name a few. It’s like anyone who came in into contact with that team, self inflicted or not, was negatively affected.
man i cant stand spencer rattler. kid seemed so arrogant as a freshman and he was mid asf. bro didnt earn anything and acted like the world belonged to him bc he was a highly rated recruit.
Joe Swanson's videos continue to be impressively analytical, and at the same time, the presentation is increasingly entertaining. Big fan always looking forward to the new episodes.
Man, I had suppressed so many memories of these missed field goals and turnovers, and special teams errors. Why did I just watch this full video. This legit gave me some PTSD.
This was my freshman year at UNL. I remember thinking to myself “what tf did I sign up for”… here we are in my senior year and we’re ranked now. Absolute insanity
Ugh PTSD from so many seasons where we Clearly had the talent, just couldn't get it done. Hard to describe just how much that hurt. I still have PTSD. Every time a team starts getting hot i think "here we go again" but hasn't been the case this year. Our D is holding up and not letting teams get momentum, and our offense is walking it down the field. But Still waiting for the Anvil to drop. Its been tough to get past.
I was gonna write this long-winded comment talking about my history of being a Huskers fan, and my feelings about the season before, during, and after. But I don't think there's any simpler way to boil that all down than this: A month before the 2021 season kicked off for us, I wrote a comment in the Huskers subreddit that ended with the line "Until I'm proven otherwise, I have no reason to believe this team will be good until Scott Frost is out as our coach." But in one season, I have never been proven so right, yet so _"wrong"_ about something than I was about that 2021 season.
They weren’t unlucky, they were terribly coached and repeatedly would put themselves in worst case scenarios and then wondered how they lost so many close games they shouldn’t have been in at all.
The b roll of Cincinnati at Navy is absolutely hilarious. A game that I have blocked from my memory because of them almost beating us and ruining the greatest group of 5 season ever. Maybe you should do a video on it 👀
I was a student 20-23 and was at all the home games this season. The second half of the video, going through every choke and loss, game by game, made me physically queezy.
And i thought Illinois was unlucky last year. That Nebraska game in 2021 was a very interesting game to watch because with hindsight that Illinois team was better than our record showed. 8-4 regular season the next year proved it.
The last 5 or so years have ruined my perception of football. I never feel like the game is "in the bag" until the final whistle blows, I can't even look whenever a field goal is attempted, and I take every ounce of optimism with the heaviest grain of salt. Here's to hoping that all changes soon, but im not there yet 😂
Then there's this year so far. Both my favorite college team, the Huskers, and my favorite NFL team, the Vikings, both known as the unluckiest teams in their leagues. Are doing extremely well so far
Every week that season just drained my motivation. And i was going into every week thinking "how are they gonna screw this one up." Its truely been a dark age of husker football. Thankfully it seems Rhule has taken us out of it
It isn't luck when you have terrible special teams. As a husker fan I never saw a coach give as little attention to special teams as Scott Frost, combine this with a poorly coached qb who continually took safeties, fumbled, or threw the ball into defenders hands and you have a team just give away games. The defense was good so there weren't any blow outs but the offense couldn't ever hit a field goal so it made sense that they would lose a ton of games by one score. It isn't unusual when you can't make field goals and have to go for it on 4th down a bunch.
Luck had nothing to do with it. Frost was a total bust of a head coach. He was done when he lost to a Minnesota squad down thirty scholarship players in 2020. He had no business coaching after that embarrassing loss.
Math major here, there’s one slight alteration I would make to your calculations in the video. I will go along with your same assumptions, but taking the ~17% chance of winning taken to the 8th power is the chance of 8 specific games, or 8 games in a row being one score losses. We have to account for the fact that order does not matter, that is this equation is a combination not a permutation, meaning we have to account for every scenario in which there are 8 one score losses in a 12 game season. Whether it’s games 1-8, games 1 2 & 7-12- etc. To do this we can leverage the binomial probability formula (the nCr formula in statistics) to compute the chances of this happening exactly 8 times to be around 0.016% We can also aggregate the sums of the binomial probability formula for 9, 10, …, 12 one score losses to see that the chances of having 8 or more one score losses in a season of 12 games is about 0.018% Also I’m a husker fan and man was this year (and last year when Jeff Simms had 7 turnovers in a single game) really tough on my psyche 😢
@@jdchatelain222 I know math’s not fun but I thought it was an important distinction since what actually happened was about 200 times more likely to happen than what he proposed in the video. Though both are still ridiculously unlikely
@@aidancoleman7274 Math is fabulous. Just for the subject matter, writing a mathematical thesis seemingly was a lil over the top. Thus my reaction, lol. But that's jus me when I read it. However I re read it and its all good mate.
2009 UConn football might have been unluckier. 5 losses - North Carolina (lost 12-10 on holding call in endzone in 4th qtr), Pitt (FG as time expired), WV (scored on final drive when UConn was winning), Rutgers (scored in final minute with UConn winning), Cincy (failed game-tying 2 point conversion). WV, Rutgers and Cincy losses came after starting defensive back was murdered. Cincy was ranked 3rd at the time. UConn also beat Baylor, Notre Dame, South Carolina and Louisville that year. Probably deserves its own video.
I went to Husker v Buffs game a few weeks back and was talking with some husker about Scott frost.... did he get some staffer prego while there. I never heard anything about it..
The amount of demons Matt Rhule has to exercise from from that stadium is daunting AF....i think he can do it....i just hope he knows....once you're ours...and have earned our loyalty....we dont let you leave...ask Frank...hell...ask Bo...the University may fire you in a fit of stupidity...but we dont let you go....Bo will be back....just like Frank....
In his 4+ year tenure at Nebraska, Scott Frost never won 3 games in a row. In 15 games, Matt Rhule has done it twice.
Frost was an alcoholic in the midst of destroying his professional career and personal life. I feel no sympathy for him.
@@AUZlE Insane to me that he was picked up by the Rams, but I guess there isn't really a worse NFL team to be picked up by.
@@AUZlE This video convinced me that frost was the worst P5 coach of all time. I honestly feel bad for our players, we had a lot of talent. Can't forget to mention frost"s visit with Raoila where he got too drunk in the hotel lobby and canceled his in home. What an absolute disgrace
@AUZlE that's messed up do you know his dad died right when he got hired? That man was his idol. It destroyed him which ended up destroying the huskers it was a terrible series of events he went to treatment and I hope he's recovering
@CxcxaHxxves he was a good offensive coordinator and is being in a pretty low coaching position. It's a low risk/high reward situation.
My dad is a die-hard Husker fan and I legit think that 2021 season took years off his life. The physical drain of energy in Lincoln that year was a real thing.
I think that's why the crowd was so juiced for Colorado....the release of years of frustration was cathartic AF....
I was in Lincoln visiting a friend after they lost to Purdue and when we went downtown to drink it was like everyone had just put down their dogs. Totally devastated and depressed.
i was at the opener for the year scott frost was hired, it was rained out and the game was cancelled. Almost seemed like his tenure was doomed from the start
Was a student for the 2019-2022 seasons. This was by far the worst one because every week you thought they had a chance just to see yet another blown opportunity.
I live in Omaha and volunteered in a donation center for about a year. You have no idea the Red Sea of Scott Frost merch I went through in that time. We were all in and I have never seen something pay off worse (unless coach Prime’s tenure nosedives further)
And let’s hope it does!
Thanks for making me relive this season first thing in the morning.
Oof, this one hurts. I've been a diehard cornhusker my whole life, and I think 2021 will go down as THE most memorable season ever. That MSU game especially broke me. I was so damn sick of us losing close, and that game was all but won, and to lose like that had me on the verge of tears. Just so heartbreaking.
My brother broke his smartphone during that game as soon as he ran that punt back. So much pain lol
The Defense deserved that win....they played PERFECT defensive football in the second half....I had never seen a black shirt defense play more sound....that was when I had lost all faith in Scott ...I'd been hanging on by fingernails at that point ..
I remember seeing an article somewhere where Nebraska was statistically more likely to go 10-2 that year than 3-9 with all the one score losses
It’s called poor coaching
What a graveyard of names: Scott Frost, Adrian Martinez, Mel Tucker, Spencer Rattler at OU, Paul Chryst, and Pat Fitzgerald to name a few. It’s like anyone who came in into contact with that team, self inflicted or not, was negatively affected.
Ryan day is on notice 🤣
Kirk just missed his first game in 25 years because of the recruiting stuff for Cade that came after this year. So yeah. I'd agree. Iowa fan btw
Adrian Martinez is finding success in the UFL
man i cant stand spencer rattler. kid seemed so arrogant as a freshman and he was mid asf. bro didnt earn anything and acted like the world belonged to him bc he was a highly rated recruit.
Joe Swanson's videos continue to be impressively analytical, and at the same time, the presentation is increasingly entertaining. Big fan always looking forward to the new episodes.
Man, I had suppressed so many memories of these missed field goals and turnovers, and special teams errors. Why did I just watch this full video. This legit gave me some PTSD.
Feel the same way.
This was my freshman year at UNL. I remember thinking to myself “what tf did I sign up for”… here we are in my senior year and we’re ranked now. Absolute insanity
So much for that ranking
Ugh PTSD from so many seasons where we Clearly had the talent, just couldn't get it done. Hard to describe just how much that hurt. I still have PTSD. Every time a team starts getting hot i think "here we go again" but hasn't been the case this year. Our D is holding up and not letting teams get momentum, and our offense is walking it down the field. But Still waiting for the Anvil to drop. Its been tough to get past.
As a Nebraska fan, I still have PTSD from this season
Time to revisit this nightmare.
Despite how painful that year was, i LIVE for videos like these. Hell yeah 😂
As a Husker fan who was born in 91, it feels almost like 2021 was an atonement year for the 1990s dominance.
This season was my freshman year at UNL. It was such a sad year for the university
My new favorite college football channel talking about my year of utter depression?? count me in.
That year felt like a voodoo curse was put on Nebraska. Theres just no way you lose that much like that.
I was gonna write this long-winded comment talking about my history of being a Huskers fan, and my feelings about the season before, during, and after. But I don't think there's any simpler way to boil that all down than this: A month before the 2021 season kicked off for us, I wrote a comment in the Huskers subreddit that ended with the line "Until I'm proven otherwise, I have no reason to believe this team will be good until Scott Frost is out as our coach." But in one season, I have never been proven so right, yet so _"wrong"_ about something than I was about that 2021 season.
Adrian Martinez left Nebraska and instantly won the conference he transferred to. On the bench.
First to
Gotta feel bad for him, a lot of wasted talent.
@@ilikecheeseburger42coached by Matt Rhule he would’ve been really good!
@@therealHN1 for sure, a lot of people forget that I believe in his sophomore or junior year, he was projected to be a heisman finalist.
@@ilikecheeseburger42 he was. We should’ve known better
Praying for your deliverance from the scourge on the University of Florida football program known Sunbelt Billy.
They weren’t unlucky, they were terribly coached and repeatedly would put themselves in worst case scenarios and then wondered how they lost so many close games they shouldn’t have been in at all.
The b roll of Cincinnati at Navy is absolutely hilarious. A game that I have blocked from my memory because of them almost beating us and ruining the greatest group of 5 season ever. Maybe you should do a video on it 👀
I was a student 20-23 and was at all the home games this season. The second half of the video, going through every choke and loss, game by game, made me physically queezy.
The last seven years as a cornhusker has been pain, but today we are ranked #22 and undefeated. All is right in the world again.
I hope the cornhuskers lose out, just for this comment.
@tonycordero6105 good luck to whatever team you root for.
@@tonycordero6105who hurt you lmao
@@tonycordero6105What part of that comment triggered you
You jinxed it ☹️
And i thought Illinois was unlucky last year. That Nebraska game in 2021 was a very interesting game to watch because with hindsight that Illinois team was better than our record showed. 8-4 regular season the next year proved it.
I just want to say that these videos are AMAZING, thank you for making awesome CFB content :)
“The offense has to step up and throw an interception” had me bruh😂
Hard work is paying off my friend!
Watching on my lunch break, what a treat.
The last 5 or so years have ruined my perception of football. I never feel like the game is "in the bag" until the final whistle blows, I can't even look whenever a field goal is attempted, and I take every ounce of optimism with the heaviest grain of salt. Here's to hoping that all changes soon, but im not there yet 😂
For real! Every game this season (so far) I've been excited but waiting for the show to drop and the wheels to come off, I just can't shake it yet
great vid!!! really reminds me of how low of a point we were at in the last couple of seasons
Why good special teams coaches are one of the most prized assets in the game.
Empire with some damn good cooking. 🥃
Then there's this year so far. Both my favorite college team, the Huskers, and my favorite NFL team, the Vikings, both known as the unluckiest teams in their leagues. Are doing extremely well so far
Your choice in music is great!
Empire doing steiner Math
Let’s gooooo I’m early to an empire upload
Honey, wake up. It's time to talk about COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY RAHHHH
Scott Frost has become an inside joke in my workplace thanks to this season, and the firing that happened in the next season.
Babe another EMPIRE video just dropped
That last Iowa INT was actually Logan Smothers, not Adrian
Beautiful work!
Every week that season just drained my motivation. And i was going into every week thinking "how are they gonna screw this one up." Its truely been a dark age of husker football. Thankfully it seems Rhule has taken us out of it
A HUSKERS VIDEO LFG
Yeah, but of all the husker football to highlight, why this 😂😭
Its been a tough decade as a lifelong fan. Firing Frank Solich was a disaster, firing Bo Pelini was even worse
I wouldn't wish this fate even on my worst team rivals...
New EMOIRE video?! Strap me tf up!
Nah nah nah that was a Logan Smothers interception against Iowa
Cooking with... corn?
cooking with ethanol
It isn't luck when you have terrible special teams. As a husker fan I never saw a coach give as little attention to special teams as Scott Frost, combine this with a poorly coached qb who continually took safeties, fumbled, or threw the ball into defenders hands and you have a team just give away games. The defense was good so there weren't any blow outs but the offense couldn't ever hit a field goal so it made sense that they would lose a ton of games by one score. It isn't unusual when you can't make field goals and have to go for it on 4th down a bunch.
another one score loss tonight lmao, it’ll never end for these guys
As someone who hates Nebraska I had a big smile on my face every week
Luck had nothing to do with it. Frost was a total bust of a head coach. He was done when he lost to a Minnesota squad down thirty scholarship players in 2020. He had no business coaching after that embarrassing loss.
Us in Husker nation truly suffered that year.
Fordham mention LFGGGGG
Scott Frost tenure in Nebraska sat Cornhhusker football back
Just a heads up brother, one does not pronounce the ‘h’ in Fordham
This was my freshman year at Nebraska, wasn’t fun
Math major here, there’s one slight alteration I would make to your calculations in the video.
I will go along with your same assumptions, but taking the ~17% chance of winning taken to the 8th power is the chance of 8 specific games, or 8 games in a row being one score losses.
We have to account for the fact that order does not matter, that is this equation is a combination not a permutation, meaning we have to account for every scenario in which there are 8 one score losses in a 12 game season. Whether it’s games 1-8, games 1 2 & 7-12- etc.
To do this we can leverage the binomial probability formula (the nCr formula in statistics) to compute the chances of this happening exactly 8 times to be around 0.016%
We can also aggregate the sums of the binomial probability formula for 9, 10, …, 12 one score losses to see that the chances of having 8 or more one score losses in a season of 12 games is about 0.018%
Also I’m a husker fan and man was this year (and last year when Jeff Simms had 7 turnovers in a single game) really tough on my psyche 😢
🙄🙄
@@jdchatelain222 I know math’s not fun but I thought it was an important distinction since what actually happened was about 200 times more likely to happen than what he proposed in the video.
Though both are still ridiculously unlikely
@@aidancoleman7274 Math is fabulous. Just for the subject matter, writing a mathematical thesis seemingly was a lil over the top. Thus my reaction, lol. But that's jus me when I read it. However I re read it and its all good mate.
@@jdchatelain222 I don’t think it deserved a thesis either lol, I think that’s just a lack of ability on my part to write concisely though 😅
@aidancoleman7274 Lol!! Well written non the less.
Nebraska mentioned?
Should be a 30 for 30 for this 😭😭
2009 UConn football might have been unluckier.
5 losses - North Carolina (lost 12-10 on holding call in endzone in 4th qtr), Pitt (FG as time expired), WV (scored on final drive when UConn was winning), Rutgers (scored in final minute with UConn winning), Cincy (failed game-tying 2 point conversion). WV, Rutgers and Cincy losses came after starting defensive back was murdered. Cincy was ranked 3rd at the time.
UConn also beat Baylor, Notre Dame, South Carolina and Louisville that year.
Probably deserves its own video.
You forgot about Nebraska 2022 and Nebraska 2023 seasons
Could you tell me what song you used? I swear I had some bargain-bin video game or another that used it when I was a kid
i have a link to every song used in the description under sources
@@empireonyt15 Much appreciated!
For the curious, it was apparently PGA Tour 06.
134 FBS teams but only 825 games?
Lots of handpicked math and equations here, but sure
LETS GOOO NEBRASKA!!! FUCK YEAH!!! WOOO!!!!
I went to Husker v Buffs game a few weeks back and was talking with some husker about Scott frost.... did he get some staffer prego while there. I never heard anything about it..
I appreciate this video but i just can't watch it.. Thank you for making it but i don't want to remember the trauma.
husker fans every year: despite all recorded history, this is our year
The amount of demons Matt Rhule has to exercise from from that stadium is daunting AF....i think he can do it....i just hope he knows....once you're ours...and have earned our loyalty....we dont let you leave...ask Frank...hell...ask Bo...the University may fire you in a fit of stupidity...but we dont let you go....Bo will be back....just like Frank....
Exorcise
16 minutes of bad math. impressive.
Very handpicked math
12:46 logan smothers interception not Martinez
You mean the best 3 win team in college football history
I hope Will Compton watches this
Not really that unlucky, its called the Martinez curse. Adrian was the 2nd half of that curse. Nice kid, had talent, 100% did not fit Frosts offense.
Hahahahaha. 🤣 Yet another ranked opponent loss and loss in a close game. Nebraska's cursed. 🤷
Best terrible team in history.
For all the luck frost brought us at UCF, he clearly balanced the books at Neveraska
They weren't unlucky. They lost all those games because they had an infertility complex.
“Unluckiest” may be the wrong word. More like chokers and unpreparedness
I'll bet you play very well on game day.
Your title is definitely misleading and false.
You mean the most over rated team in college football history
It would be if this video was about Colorado or Notre Dame
@@OctoberRust02truth!!!
@@OctoberRust02 I said team not program
@@eu4zeboNotre Dame is a team that is overrated every year way more than Nebraska.
@ilikecheeseburger42 a team is a one season thing. 2021, nebraska is the most overrated team, not the program .
to everyone here before 30 mins, you’re the realest.🫡
bruh you were right at 30 mins
@@bryce975 I was here at 29 exactly lmao. shh.