Nebraska vs Virginia Tech - Post Game Thread - Grief Counselors Available

that hurt.

a lot

I can’t hang this one on the defense, though. And how can Helu rush for 150+ yards and the Huskers not have a TD?

I’m currently deployed to the middle east and its 0215 in the morning, i gott be in formation in 3 1/2 hours and stayed up to listen to this game online, heartbreaking, unhappy with our overall performance, our D played pretty solid but the STUPID penelties killed us and the way our offense stalled out on drives hurt us, we should of blown out VT they are overrated!!!

Penalties, drives in the red zone ending in field goals, dropped touchdown passes, blown coverages. So many small things that could have changed everything. At least we lost by 1. We hung in there. The defense and Alex Henery keeping us in the game until the last seconds.

that we would have held VT to 16, I would have bet the farm we would have won 28-16 or some such. We pooped the bed every time we got to the red zone.

Lee now, please. We don’t like the cyborg you put in his place.

Wow…Pelini is PISSED OFF during the post-game inteviews, chewing out a reporter that asked about the last play.

Look this hurts because we had this game. There was no blow out. There is no doubt who is the better team.

We need to let this go. Playing that defense, in that environment will help push this team to greater things.

the only thing a prevent defense does is prevent you from winning. Why oh why did they let that guy run by them?

 of my family, I’m going to leave the house for a bit.

They clearly do NOT understand what’s just happened.

And when I get back. I’m calling a carnival and selling them into slavery.

Hey now… at least we’re not Colorado! We could suck and win a game against a crappy team. We put it out there, had a tough challenge and lost by one.

keep it … well, relatively positive… let’s not disembow ourselves. We are all Husker fans.

was a really, really, really tough one. I’m about the most pessimistic fan I know, but here are the things I’m going to try to take away from it.

—For essentially all but two plays, Nebraska’s defense was superb. They made Tyrod Taylor look flustered and confused for almost the entire game in his own house, and they shut down the running game, too. 99% of the time, your offense will bail out a defense that has just two really poor plays (on the same drive, too) all game.

—Lee won’t play that poorly again. He just won’t. That’s the best defense he faces all year, and it’s the first road game of his career. It’s all uphill from here.

Nebraska was clearly the better team on the field today. That’s really little consolation, but you’re just not going to lose a bunch of games in the same season in which you dominate almost the entire last three quarters. That’s really rare — unless you have a horrible coach, which I don’t think we have. I haven’t been overly impressed with Pelini’s game coaching skills, but I don’t think he’s going to keep losing ones like this. He’s got to break through at some point.

That’s my attempt to be constructive and think positively. The Mizzou game should be fun.

First, I saw nothing after the Nebraska’s first field goal as I am in Chicago and had to take the kids to Medieval Times. I followed the fourth quarter on the Blackberry as the red knight was finishing off the evil green one. I lose reception and only know that Tech went up 16-15. I get back to in-laws house and my wife tells me all the Huskers got were five field goals and should have done better. I saw the clips on ESPN between games and read the posts above. Jon . . . . . drink. You’’ve been doing it since you got up this morning. You’ll cuss the headache tomorrow and bitch when the Packers go in the tank. Those that think Cody Green would have made a difference, get a life. The fans favorite QB is always the second team guy. In this day and age coaches still have a much better handle on personnel than a bunch of geeks typing away on their computers on a blog! It kills me to read this crap! Dimayednufan, you need to get a life. Resurrection projects like Pelini took over takes a lot longer than 16 games. Sounds like there were a lot of errors and miscues but cut the tough guy win at all costs the time is now and we should never for second bs. The Huskers didn’t get it done. They got beat. The coaches will beat themselves up tonight and the players will hurt until they get back on the practice field. A one point game on the road against a higher rated time in a tough environment is an improvement on Pelini’s measuring stick. He knows it but like the good coach he is he will not state it because that runs contrary to what Husker fans want to hear. Jon . . . keep drinking. ’Clones up 24-7.

did you guys see the thing where Lee and Green were asked to mark down how many plays they knew?

Green knew about 17 of them, Lee knew all of them. That’ 300-something plays, right?

Let’s not beat up Lee too much. He struggled, he knows that. He’ll get there.

Coaching? Hmmmm….. after reading this, we should have gone for it on 4th down. right?

Corn blight, have you “turned the corner” to vodka yet? Or still sucking cheap Minnesota beer? What’s the outlook for next week? Come on, quit wallowing in your self-pity and give me a look ahead!

300 straight sell-outs. We celebrate ourselves. Crush them, then kill Missourl

My wonderful wife has lifted me out of self-pity and given me hope for the coming season. It’s just a game. There’s the promise of hope for the coming conference season, and banana bread and chocolate chip cookies.

If you loved me, you’d kill me. She made me write that last stuff. No gut shots. Head or chest only.

Okay I’m not usually an optimist. I am upset we lost, all Husker fans are upset we lost. But VT was supposed to be this great team, with a top 10 defence and we lost by 1. We lost because we beat ourselves. We could have won, but we weren’t playing smart. I am sure that is something that will be brought up in the next week and worked on. We didn’t have any unsportman penalties, and we kept a higher ranked opponent from getting ANY 1st dows for an entire quarter. Was it what we wanted? No. Is there something we can do better? Of course, always will be. But we will do thing only thing we can. Learn from the mistakes we made and remember to not make them again.

…vent all you want, but tomorrow, let’s realize what happened. Virginia Tech has a pretty solid defense; almost always does. (They got gassed against Alabama, who ran 88 plays against them.) If NU had gotten off to a faster start, that could have happened today.

Zac Lee had a pretty decent 2nd quarter, but an awful 2nd half. A lot of that credit goes to the Hokies, who were all over him. Roy Helu gets a lot of credit for an outstanding performance, but I think we’ll find Va Tech is a pretty good team.

With USC’s loss and the way the BYU game is going we’re only going to get a little bit of the bad press from the haters!

I suppose that’s a good thing considering what happened during the Callahan Era. This is something that the younger Husker fans probably don’t understand about us old-schoolers. Those of you who grew up during the Osborne Era would understand; whenever Nebraska lost, your emotions would vary from being so sick you wanted to puke. Then you were so angry you wanted to trash your TV with a baseball bat. Then you were so depressed you just wanted to crawl into a dark hole. I’m not going to re-hash the details of today’s loss in this take, so I will only say the Huskers were their own worst enemy. And that’s what sucks the most.

I think he played an average game, not a poor one. No delay of game penalties. Many successful checks at the line of scrimmage. Several good balls dropped (Holt), flat-out missed (uh, Holt), and another TD nullified by penalty. Big first downs on the scramble and the QB draw.

Some of those misfires were painful, but again, first road start in one of the toughest stadiums around. I know that’s cliche at this point, but I feel it needs to be pointed out as long as people insist that Lee is anything but entrenched as our QB.

I predict a big night in Columbia for Zac.

It’s in our nature as Nebraska fans to immediately take things out on ourselves. Each and every time we lose a game, and especially ones like this, we focus on what it was that we should have done differently. Rarely do we ever give any credit to the opponents, which really shows a lack of perspective on this.
Growing up in Omaha, I can only ever remember my Dad yelling at Osborne on the radio, and cursing our teams when we lost. Thanksgiving holidays filled with uncles, granpas, and dad bitching about why Osborne was doing things wrong, etc. That’s why we are viewed as the most gracious fans in the country. For no other reason than that we are so pissed at ourselves, that we have nothing left to direct at the visitors. Which is fine, but it’s really just denial of what we cannot handle. We have been bred to beat up ourselves, and in this day and age…that doesn’t solve anything. It sucks to lose like this, but if I’m a Virgina Tech fan, I feel good about how our defense played, how our QB stepped up when needed, and how lucky we were to be on the winning end of a game where someone has to lose.
To those who are thinking that Cody Green would’ve done better…you couldn’t be more wrong. Of course you will second guess, but get real. Look at last week when Austin Arnoud from ISU (who is built just like Green) came up against a snotty defense. Played terrible, turned the ball over, and effectively gave ISU no chance in hell of staying in that game. If Cody plays, maybe he pulls thae same crap, and we are all stewing over why Bo would put him in the game.