An empty 9 win season that results in no division championship, no conference championship, no significant bowl win is meaningless. What good is 9 wins when all anyone sees of your problems is you getting your shit pushed in on national television? Because that's Nebraska. We scrape by against garbage teams, we eek out the occasional tight win against a team we should beat and then any time we face a big time statement game shit like tonight happens.
If Nebraska still played in the Big 12, Pelini would have been fired years ago because those offenses would have Jameis'ed our defense in a backwoods midwestern motel room. At least in the Big 12 no one would have seen it happen, which coincidentally also qualifies for being Jameis'ed. We play in arguably the weakest division in the Power 5 conferences and are maybe, mayyyybe, the 3rd best team in it.
Is Nebraska really better off now than we were with Callahan? The defense is somehow worse, which I didn't think was possible, yet here we are. At least Callahan eventually trailed off to apathy. No expectations, no nothing. When Kansas dropped like 700 points on us, no one cared because Nebraska was just whatever. Pelini was supposed to fix that, he was supposed to reinvigorate a program and what do we have to show for it?
48-17 L in Madison
45-17 L in Ann Arbor
30-13 L in Orlando
63-38 L in Columbus
70-31 L in the Big Ten Championship
45-31 L in Orlando... again
41-21 L in Lincoln vs UCLA
34-23 L in Minneapolis against a fucking Gopher
41-28 L in Lincoln vs Michigan State
38-17 L in Lincoln vs Kirk Ferentz's wallet
59-24 L in Madison
That's just in 3 and a half seasons. This program is pathetic. They are mentally soft, not entirely unlike their head coach. They can run their mouths all they want, but when it comes time to step up and do something about it fold like a lawn chair. Half the team was on twitter this week bitching about no respect from the CFB Playoff Committee and instead of going out and making a statement, they stab themselves in the dick with a sharpened first down marker.
Then every other sideline shot of Bo Pelini is screaming at a player for not doing his job. It isn't the players any more, this is year 7 of the Bo Pelini era and the same offensive schemes are flummoxing defensive mastermind Bo Pelini. It is the same mistakes. That is scheme. I am so god damn tired of hearing the phrases "not executing" and "losing confidence" and "missed assignments" and "bad tackling" and "we have to respond better". You know what, do something about it for fucks sake. If you can't do it, we'll go get someone else who can. At least maybe then we wouldn't be the embarrassment of college football. A supposed defensive mastermind just gave up the single game all-time rushing record. By the way, Nebraska is now on the wrong end of both the all-time single game rushing record and all-time single game receiving record.
I have my own personal list for head coaching candidates, I've had one since 2011 when this bullshit with Pelini started, but a change has got to be made. We cannot keep going on and on with this. Empty 9 wins bracketing embarrassing losses is not better than we were 7 years ago, or 12 years ago.
