Other Sports: NCAA Thread v12

[JojoTheWhale]

Hillinski's on fire and they run on 3rd and 7. If they just gave themselves a chance, things would make so much more sense.

 

[Cody Webster]

Those looked like the lines for the F1 race in Austin last year....and the drinks weren't free...they just had shitty wifi and about 50% of the normal employees

 

[FLYguy3911]

Nebraska in close games is a sight.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

If Fitzgerald doesn't at least try to get a 1st here, I may combust.

(Yes, I have money on this game.)

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Scott Frost is 5-21 in one score games.

 

[Magua]

I still can't believe they decided Pat Fitzgerald's team was one to expose to an international market.

Hey. Hey, you. Shut up, you.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Is this one of those weird years where Northwestern makes a random run at the West title or is Nebraska just Nebraska?

 

[Beef Invictus]

I hate you Nebraska. Give me my 10 points back

 

[FLYguy3911]

UConn's winning!

 

[FLYguy3911]

Chase Brown is a stud.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

They gave up 527 total yards to Northwestern.

 

[GKJ]

Every year they tell us Nebraska will be good this year and every year they're wrong

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I hate you Nebraska. Give me my 10 points back

Scott Frost is just a huge albino uterus. Always has been.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Nebraska’s been in so many close games over the years & lost most of them. I believe they basically defy the analytics at this point as they haven’t had a year really where it swung positively for them.

In general though they have a historical status as a blue blood but the current recruiting landscape for them just doesn’t set up for that type of success anymore.

It’s hard for really everybody to keep up with the likes of Alabama, Georgia, & Ohio State with the way those teams recruit every cycle. They’re gobbling up all the top 100 recruits every cycle. We’ve have schools that recruit in the top 6-15 range almost every cycle & have virtually no shot at competing with those teams for a NC.

Clemson (2019 LSU as well) is essentially the model that every other team has to look at as a hopeful outcome where you essentially get a superstar QB (in their case it happened twice with Watson & Lawerence) to bridge that gap with those teams who out recruit you year to year.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Harbaugh's a weird guy.

 

[Chinatown88]

Harbaugh's a weird guy.

"If you have two quarterbacks, you have none"

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

They also fired two head coaches who won 70% or more of their games only to hire coaches who do considerably worse than that. So like a lot of bigger fan bases/media/administration/etc. there’s certainly an element of delusion about expectations. Even being just good isn’t good enough.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

We didn’t even make it to week 1 before people lost their minds.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

"If you have two quarterbacks, you have none"

It’s essentially upside (McCarthy) vs. floor (McNamara). McNamara has two years of starter reps where he was solid but unspectacular. McCarthy has better physical tools & upside but has played limited reps even if he popped more in them.

 

[Halladay]

Nebraska hasnt been relevant in over 20 years. maybe other than the one Suh year.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I want to do the pickem even tho I forgot this week

 

[flyershockey]

It’s essentially upside (McCarthy) vs. floor (McNamara). McNamara has two years of starter reps where he was solid but unspectacular. McCarthy has better physical tools & upside but has played limited reps even if he popped more in them.

This sounds familiar @JojoTheWhale

 

[Beef Invictus]

We didn’t even make it to week 1 before people lost their minds.

I maintain that the worst part of college football isn't the NCAA or conferences, it's the fans.

 

[GKJ]

Nebraska leaving the Big 12 cut off their pipeline to Texas. They were the right combination of being close enough to Texas without actually being there, and that conference was usually pretty competitive. If you’re gonna go to the Big Ten from Texas, might as well go to Ohio State. There’s not a lot of 5-star recruits in the state of Nebraska.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Nebraska leaving the Big 12 cut off their pipeline to Texas. They were the right combination of being close enough to Texas without actually being there, and that conference was usually pretty competitive. If you’re gonna go to the Big Ten from Texas, might as well go to Ohio State. There’s not a lot of 5-star recruits in the state of Nebraska.

We could expend our entire nuclear arsenal on Nebraska and nobody would notice.