To put it briefly, I feel like we definitely could've won this game, especially if our wide receivers were healthy(boy was that a fun surprise). It honestly looked like a pretty even football game, and we just gave it away on a few sloppy plays. But this isn't Cincy, Nebraska is an awful football team, before tonight I'd watched around 10 quarters of UNL and I can definitely say, they are as bad as they look on paper. Any respectable football team should be able to put up 30 points on UNL(with no defensive or ST scores).
We all know the IU offense has A LOT of issues, but let's not scoff at the fact that the difference in the game can be chalked up to two massive gash plays and a sloppy turnover, only a week after the we had the exact same problem. Those big plays should not have been possible given they were the downfall of us last week against a better team. So many problems it's hard to go into all of them in one thread, but I see this two ways, either we really didn't execute on both sides of the ball or we are just a bad football team(to sum it up briefly). Hard for me to believe it was the former given what I know about this UNL team and what I saw tonight.
We all know the IU offense has A LOT of issues, but let's not scoff at the fact that the difference in the game can be chalked up to two massive gash plays and a sloppy turnover, only a week after the we had the exact same problem. Those big plays should not have been possible given they were the downfall of us last week against a better team. So many problems it's hard to go into all of them in one thread, but I see this two ways, either we really didn't execute on both sides of the ball or we are just a bad football team(to sum it up briefly). Hard for me to believe it was the former given what I know about this UNL team and what I saw tonight.