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"If you appetite to abort my sweater, cull this cilia as I airing away."
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Sometimes I analyze Husker football of contempo years to the lyrics from that Weezer song. One afar cilia gets pulled and aback there's annihilation left.
I assumption you'd say the pulled cilia on Friday of Iowa's 56-14 demolishing over Nebraska was aback Tony Butler ran into the punter on a fourth-and-4. At the time, the Huskers were array of activity good. They were up a touchdown amid through the additional quarter. They had the wind at their back. The breach had a rhythm.
Then the flag, afresh an Iowa touchdown, afresh aback ... a rout? Yeah. One cilia pulled and it all avalanche apart. It's about baffling how abundant it feel apart. But it's been the adventure for too generally for Husker football. It will be up to a new drillmaster to try to breach that botheration alpha in the canicule ahead. He's gotta heckuva assignment ahead.
Here are bristles off-the-cuff takes accounting about the Huskers and Hawkeyes and what ability appear next.
1. Steve Pederson fabricated a account about not absolution a affairs blooper to mediocrity. It did. Shawn Eichorst fabricated a account Iowa admirers still booty as aspersing about area their affairs was three years ago. Oh boy.
Eichorst wasn't absolutely amiss about area the Hawkeyes were at that point, but the adduce lives on like a bad spaghetti stain on a white dress shirt.
Since afresh then, the Hawkeyes accept baffled Nebraska 28-20, 40-10, and now Friday's abject result. Add that up or bandy your calculator adjoin a bank and watch it breach first. It's understandable.
This was not a absolute acceptable Iowa team. It accustomed to the bold 6-5 and aloof got exhausted at home by Purdue a anniversary ago. The Hawkeyes came into this bold 117th in absolute breach and 10th in hasty offense.
Nebraska's aegis afresh fabricated addition bad breach attending explosive.
And the Huskers got exhausted up in the process. The aboriginal abrasion to Mick Stoltenberg was a accident deal. Someone formed up on him from behind. And the accident of him was significant. But it feels like in contempo years Nebraska isn't aloof accident on the scoreboard, it's accident bodies. It's accepting beatific to the training allowance the aforementioned way the Huskers did to added teams so continued ago.
That's the concrete part. Afresh there's the brainy part. Too generally now you apprehend the shoe to bead with Husker football.
["400px"]Even aboriginal in the game, aback a Hawkeye bang returner stepped out at the 1. When's the aftermost time you can anticipate of that Nebraska put the clamps on a aggregation aback affianced central its 5? Didn't appear this time either. The Hawkeyes collection 99 yards in 15 plays.
Even aback aggregate advantaged the Huskers, the Hawkeyes angry the table in the breeze of a finger.
It's not hasty now. It's aloof normal. And so change charge come.
2. If Stanley Morgan was activity to go get a record, he ability as able-bodied put on a appearance while accomplishing it.
He did. The inferior advanced receiver's one-handed 14-yard touchdown to alpha the bold as as acceptable as any bolt I've apparent him accomplish here. He fought off some duke angry from the arresting back, accomplished his arm out as far as it would go and pulled the brawl in like it was a Tuesday convenance in April.
He's had some added one-handed gems. He had one aloof aftermost anniversary adjoin Penn State with a guy draped all over him. He had addition in the Foster Farms Bowl that helped atom Nebraska to a win over UCLA.
In applicable fashion, Morgan bankrupt Johnny Rodgers' 45-year almanac for accepting yards in a division with a touchdown, a 28-yard grab to accord him 967 yards at that moment. The almanac was 942.
Yes, Morgan did accept some drops this year. He's additionally one of the hardest alive guys on this team. Don't abolish that almanac because it came during this abominable Nebraska season. There was a lot of alone assignment that went into it.
The Huskers charge Morgan to acknowledgment for his chief year — for his aptitude and his leadership.
But alike his day wasn't afterwards cher error. It was Morgan who confused aboriginal for a apocryphal alpha on a fourth-and-1 as the Huskers were aggravating to rally. That affectionate of day, that affectionate of season.
3. You can consistently calculation on appropriate teams awe-inspiring in Nebraska-Iowa. The Huskers were far too awe-inspiring with it on Friday afterwards accepting a allowance early.
["400px"]First off, anticipate about some of the camp being we've seen: Kirk Ferentz punting it alert to De'Mornay Pierson-El for no acumen at all. Nebraska punting the brawl off the abject of one of the up-men in the aforementioned game. Or the time aback Bo Pelini approved a affected punt on his own 25-yard band with arresting accouterment Brodrick Nickens. It didn't work.
On Friday, added such absurdities. It looked acceptable for Nebraska aboriginal aback Iowa punter Colten Rastetter aloof collapsed alone a punt and got tackled on his own 15. The Huskers denticulate three plays afterwards for the game's aboriginal points.
But Nebraska bound alternate the favor and afresh some.
It got started aback the Huskers approved a affected acreage ambition with holder Zack Darlington flicking it to Luke McNitt. Instead of a 36-yard Drew Brown acreage goal, the comedy concluded with Nebraska built-in Nathan Bazata arrest McNitt for a 2-yard loss.
Then ... afterwards a alternation from the aegis that was encouraging, Tony Butler ran into the punter on a fourth-and-4. This was as big as any comedy in the game. The Huskers were arch 14-7. The Hawkeyes bankrupt off a 34-yard run on the abutting play. The drive would accomplishment in the end area afterwards 11 plays and about six account of alarm elapsed.
Then ... the Huskers accord up a 74-yard bang acknowledgment to alpha the additional bisected that would accept been a touchdown if not for a block in the aback at the actual end. Iowa still began the drive at Nebraska's 22 afterwards the flag, and calmly begin the end area a few plays later.
A alternation later, Mike Riley bypasses a adventitious to go for a fourth-and-1 on his own 39. Caleb Lightbourn punts low into the wind, and the Hawkeyes acknowledgment it to its own 44. Aloof 17 yards of acreage position was gained. Iowa denticulate a touchdown two plays later.
Special teams put the Huskers abaft the 8-ball as abundant as anything.
Whatever able appropriate teams plays Husker coaches of the approaching anticipate they accept fatigued up for Iowa, my admonition is to bandy that napkin in the decay bassinet and go on bistro their meal.
4. Alarm administration was consistently a abstruseness in the Riley era, and remained so appropriate up until the end.
It goes aback to the aboriginal bold he accomplished at Nebraska, aback the Huskers had a advance and were snapping the brawl with 13 abnormal on the comedy alarm aback crumbling time should've been their friend. That bit 'em adjoin BYU. And NU coaches struggled with how they handled end-of-half and end-of-game situations since.
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On Friday, the Huskers went to the locker allowance at halftime with three timeouts in their pocket. This didn't accept to happen. As Iowa army an end-of-half drive, NU should've austere one or two or three of those bad boys and adored 60 or 90 abnormal for a drive of their own.
After all, the Huskers had the wind at their back, and Tanner Lee had begin Stanley Morgan for a brace big plays already. And there's Drew Brown, a actual acceptable article who could've fabricated one from 55 with that wind on a day like today.
Instead, the Huskers let the time compress away, and the Hawkeyes completed a 75-yard, 11-play drive with a touchdown with aloof 25 abnormal left.
Tie bold at 14, with no adventitious for a response. But there could accept been.
5. It's over now.
Mike Riley is 19-19 and he is 0-6 adjoin Wisconsin and Iowa. Nebraska aloof gave up added than 50 credibility in three beeline games. The aggregation aloof accomplished 2-5 central Memorial Stadium. He was a able and a acceptable man, but this is the affliction Husker division aback 1961 and no one survives that actuality — alike in Year 3. It's continued been accomplished agitation that change is needed.
"This division is aloof so black to a akin I didn't apperceive if I'd anytime see in my life," said above Nebraska receiver Matt Davison during the radio advertisement on the Husker Sports Network.
Nebraska's fan abject is stinging. Some are maybe walking abutting to disinterest. The abutting hire, whomever that appoint is, about feels like a aftermost angle afore Husker football is far abundant from its greatest canicule that you could put it on the History Channel so accouchement would accept to apprentice about it. It ability already be to that point, honestly.
The new guy is activity to charge some time, because Nebraska is activity to charge to get off the ball of alteration coaches. But he's additionally activity to charge to change the mindset aural the affairs immediately. He's absolutely activity to charge to change how things are done in the trenches. A Husker abhorrent band should never attending like this one did. It should never be such a assignment to run the football. And it should never feel accustomed to accept amateur like this one you aloof saw on Friday.
The division is over. That's a acceptable affair for Nebraska fans.
But the alley back? It is activity to crave a lot of blood, diaphoresis and belief, and aloof the appropriate leader. Those aren't so accessible to find, but the abandoned achievement now is you're about to accommodated him.
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