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Capital One Bowl: Second Half Thread

Three big plays by SC and they lead at the half 16-13.

- PAT blocked and returned for two points

- Ameer Abdullah fumble deep in SC territory taking points off the board for Nebraska

- Big Hail Mary play for SC at the end of the first half.

The second half is where we don't make mistakes and take advantage of our opportunities!

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Frist
you have frist. ill take first
With a big 2nd Half...

Nebraska will limit big plays, and score at least 2 TDs to win!

okay

here we go….

Come on Beck....call a good sound series
GIVE HIM THE BALL

Fullback in the house!
This is all our coaches fault

fire everyone!

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Good hands, Bell. Good hands!
Bell hangs on!!!
nice completion

to Kenny Bell!

Martinez!!!!

big run!!!

Niiiiice! Good read!
Theres the T-Mart of old!!!!!!
2009 TM is back?
Yeah!
What the fack was that?
.... what is this i don't even
Really???????????
Horse collar!!
that was

their defensive line doing their job

Want to bet?

Beck calls 5 Wide and we throw a pick in the red zone.

like i said.

backyard game between 10 year olds…

okay

just run the damned ball up the middle, take the field goal

My mind is full of fuck.
WTH,,,Beck???????
Holy moly. that drive = debacle
Nice tackle, Caputo.
Run > Screen> Regular Pass

Still, run the fricken ball and don’t risk the INT.

and Maher

misses….

what the hell is going on today?

Getting the mind farts out of the way.
No

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo

This isn't fair

I mean really, what the hell do we have to do to catch a break?

We did

we got two breaks from the refs in the first half, that’s all we get, we’re on our own now.

And the miss I suppose

But we’ve had the miss, two turnovers deep in SC territory, a blocked xp, hail mary given up….ugh. We’re playing well but we look snakebit today.

Finish a drive would be nice!!!
Bo has the fire inside raging. Blackshirts need to represent!
lot of mistakes on both sides, but good game so far. good luck the rest of the way!
INT right here.
I don't understand

Why? Why did we try a play action? I’m all for trickeration, but come on.

Happy New Year People

So how are we losing this game?

failure to launch
Indeed

I feel like NU is dominating them…

Best not to rehash it!!
Basically

The mistakes of the Michigan/Wisconsin games except we’re otherwise playing well.

hahaahh

chop block on you

I'm gunna be honest.

Our defense has been pretty stellar.

Agreed.

Only two horrendous big plays that we’ve given up.

Agreed

When did we get this secondary and where were they earlier this year?

My question

exactly.

yeah

you can’t really fault the hail mary. freak play

Dominant defensive series there.
nice play by Stafford

almost had that.

Yeah too bad he wasn't able to hold on to that one!
Nice stop "D"!!!
Points this time, please.
With a side of shutout.
So is the D-Line playing contain only?
Looks that way

Our secondary has done a hell of a job, two plays aside.

Yeah

Don’t want to open the rushing lanes for him to take off. Working well aside from the obvious miscues by NU.

Looks that way.
Pretty much. And the secondary is in lockdown mode. minus 2 plays of course.
Does anyone else

hold their breath during punts and kick returns after that Michigan game?

Not in this one

With SC’s punter, only good things can happen for us.

ahahaaha

yeah… which kind of sucks.

Yoshi back in. That's gotta help!
Martinez

taking… over… in the rush game?

we

haven’t even seen Brandon Kinnie, have we?

I was just going to call for Kinnie deep...

haven’t even seen him

injured or just not good enough?
I wish we'd score a bunch

Just so they’d shut up about the hail mary play of the game

I'm shocked at how bad USC has been against the option
They seemed to have adjusted to it this half
screwing up this drive

pretty good too

Offense is just full of yuck...
Dam,,,holding on the asian monster!!!
Good lord

Just punt the damn thing

Jeez,,,were falling apart!!!!!
We seem to have at least one string of 3 penalties in a row per game.
Penalties need to get fixed for next year
False Start on Will Compton?
horse collar?????
Was asking the same thing.
I thought the same thing
Matt Davison said it as well...

…though I think it was more wishful thinking. (I thought it was too…)

Of course, ESPN went to their studio, so no replay…

do they have to pay extra royalties

when they play replays? Because it makes no sense.

looks like the refs switched sides
This is redonkulous
Flag,,,laughable now!!!!!!!!
Seriously

run the linemen until they’re under 200 pounds for this drive

just punt it already
This is EMBARASSING!
throw it deep to Bell
Hard to do that with Ingram and Clowney
Yeah cause most offenses can pick up 3rd and 20

stupid announcement.

okay

let’s go….

Third Quarter is flying by!

4 minutes left already?

No time to wear down this South Carolina Defense. 4th Quarter will be much tougher.

Defense

HOLD!

No, that's the OL.
This game is just infuriating

USC has no business being IN this one, much less ahead….

Yoshi should sit the next series...
I feel a turnover coming
Doubtful

we don’t have the ball.

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Is it just me

or are the people with the 4g in these commercials actually the assholes? Why is that an advertisement?

Just pointing out the truth.

Apple zombies are morons and there are better options out there. ;)

I agree

but those commercials are all about how awesome having 4g is, but then acting like a smug asshole when you have it. I don’t understand.

yeah

they’re really huge assholes.

and i don’t get why it’s an ad either.

So if they didn't block the extra point

We would be tied at 14.

Yep, one bad snap from a tie game

and a few turnovers from a big lead.

Well its good to have that trick out of Spurrier's bag
Wow,,,UGA handling MSU!!
this is going to be another bad day

for the B1G

Y

ou’d think USC was the #1 team in the country listening to these announcers.

finally

blitz…. and a sack!

we haven't scored in two quarters

..we may be outplaying them,but we will need points eventually

all things considered, we are within 3 pts of the #9 team in the country...

who only lost to auburn and a great arkansas team….

ahhh shit.....

ejected?!?!?!

Um. Wow.

That’ll be fun for the NFL agents.

Dennard and Jeffery EJECTED!!!!!!!!
Uh

Well how about that.

Whaaaaaat??????????????
Shit,,,they ejected both of them!!!!!
Um

wow. I like this ref though.

i would say... worse for them than for us
Should have gone to the body.
No fucking POISE!!!!!!!!!
so...which one hurts worse???
I think them

but who knows.

Damn

Should’ve had some freshman scrub take a shot at him.

Worth it.

Way worse for them than us.

I love that swing by Dennard. Fuck you!
What the hell,,,

is wrong with Dennard???? You can’t do that shit!

He's got a nice right hook though.
I never understood punching a guy

in the face when he has a helmet on.

Yeah,

you’re probably going to break your hand on a face, let alone someone’s helmet.

On net probably better for us

Jeffries physically was a problem for the defense.

Big East officials

don’t screw around, huh?

I've noticed them giving players warnings all game though....
No, and thats not such a bad thing!
Yet I still think they've called a good game.
Nope.

They’ve been chippy all game though. So they’ve probably been watching this the whole time just waiting for a fight.

Better Big East Officials than Big 12, that’s for sure!

And thank God for that

If it was Big 12 refs Dennard would’ve gotten tossed and Jeffries would still be in.

Since Jefferies didn't throw a punch, you may be right..
That two hander to the face

is a punch

I thought it was iffy. Probably best that they both got ejected and maybe the officials

assumed they didn’t see the whole thing.

I see what you're saying

but at the point he threw that, the play was over and they were squaring up, not much else the ref can call there

These officials have been good and fair so far.
Who started that?
i think

it started the first play of the game.. Dennard was playing him pretty physical

Hard to say

They both took turns escalating. Pretty clear they’d had enough of each other.

that's the disney spirit!!
Crap now the color guy has nothing to talk about

other than Nebraska isn’t build to pick up 3rd and 30

Man,,,, we need some positive plays!!!!
why is rex pitching to tmart?

what parallel universe is this?

another false start
That was not a delay of game.

Right?

Yeah more mistakes!

Time to start holding the coaching staff accountable.

yep

this has been as BAD a start to a half as I’ve seen from this team

Aiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi.
i hope we don't get in trouble for dennard still on sideline
Jefferies was still on the sideline earlier as well

but yeah, they need to get him to the locker room

I hope not

either. That was my first thought.

what's the penalty on that?

will they flag us do you think?

Probably a personal foul on sideline.
The team has lost all composure now
We have officially collapsed!!
What the hell happened to the o-line at halftime???
3rd and 15 in an obvious passing down happened.
I think USC adjusted.

Beck hasn’t found a way around it.

I don't know 1 good drive

then the 89 penalties, and now this drive. It’s execution on the field.

Then we're waiting for young men to calm down.

Might not work out for us. :(

I think it's composure

that first drive was great, then we started self-inflicted wounds and haven’t started.

This is where Bo earns his paycheck

For the first time all game, USC is approaching something resembling outplaying us. Gotta get the team focused and outlast them here in the 4th. Our oline has pushed them around most of the game and it tends to do even better in the 4th. Let’s close this game out so we won’t be bitter about a brutally blown bowl game all off season.

Yeah

he needs to show another step in his development and get his team focused and firing. I just hope no one else on the D decides to “head hunt” a litle.

fourth quarter

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Bullshit!!!!!!!!

Don’t pick that flag up!

They picked it up,,

so they could give it to us!!!!

Bull. Hockey. Penalty.
Um

no replay on that foul ESPN? Thanks for that. You suck

okay

now they’re just throwing flags

Ball Was thrown over his head!

Uncatchable!

Bullfuckingshit
That ball was overthrown 15 yard!!!!
This is some Texas A&M bullshit
Not even close.
well they are SEC now
that was a terrible call
WOW

we need to not melt down

defense

has to keep it’s composure

The way the Ref said first down, he seemed overly happy about it
he did that for us

in the first half, just his style

nice coverage there
good throw though

better coverage

C'mon Blackshirts!!!! Step it up!
okay

get a stop!

shoudl be a holding call on them
Bout time USC got a flag!!!!
They need to stop letting the QB get the edge

bad angles

Good thing they held.

Jesus Will Compton is not good.

In trouble next year at LB
i think their sophomore qback

is better than ours :(

i don't know

Martinez gets rattled and Beck isn’t helping him

3rd and 18.....damn
WHY blitz on 3rd and super long?
we need to hold them to a fg

their kicker already missed a close one

Wide open,,,Hmmmmm
I hate this game.
They got the TD.

Our goose is cooked.

okay

we’re in trouble…..

not good. way too easy on those last two passes.

they gotta blitz on a few of these pass plays.

Down by 10,,,,

we are not a comeback team!!!!

Game. Over.

In the key moments of this game, the players lost their composure, and the coaches completely lost their minds and called horrendous plays. Ridiculous melt down.

1st half=played great, but made mistakes.

2nd half=played like shit with a ton more mistakes.

Let the drinking commence!!!
With the way

our offense is misfiring, this is going to be tough to overcome….but, I’m a believer.

plenty of time left

if the offense can get back on track.

Beck needs to call some plays they can execute on first down.

apparently Pelini's halftime speech only fired up one guy

..Dennard

Wow

this is a woeful second half so far. Some serious questions about maturity on our team right now.

well, we weren't helped by an ATROCIUS

pass interference call

true

but a lot of the other things were entirely out fault

This team

will finish self dectruct mode in 3… 2…1.

A bit late there
Game is turning into a microcosm of the team's problems

Along with the coaching staff’s issues.

Remember when Martinez took the zone read down to the 1 yard line?

First and goal?

Seems like an eternity now… Those were good times…

THICK OSU girls there.
And I left for home at 3am,,,

just to watch an epic meltdown!!!! At least im home and dont have to drive pissed!!!

that's

a good point

And you are free to drink now.
USC has some fat cheerleaders
Ok.

I’m almost done with this game.

Yeah, the possibility of me breaking a screen at my house is too high
Catch the ball PLEASE!!!!!!!
That play sums it up.
holy shit

man… what the fuck.

MArlowe....you ass
Self Destruct

Mode. You have no defense.

All our base are belong to USC

Yoshi

false start again.

just shoot me.

Eleventy jillion penalties.
We have way to many games like this!!!!!!!!!!

When will it end,,,when will it end???

All the penalties?

ALL. THE. PENALTIES!!!

Why is Hardrick still in the game?

Seriously…

who's the replacement tackle?
Injured.
Oh good yell at the refs that should help
Oh boy,,,Bo is going A&M on the refs,,,,not good!!!
Kenny Bell

there you go!

Firt down to Bell.

Baby steps.

Where is Kinnie??
oh...there he is
Dropping the ball right on cue.
Getting sandwiched.
Rex shaken up,,,not good!!!
damn

Brandon Kinnie – a little late and Kinnie takes a shot

We have the least mobile mobile QB
unmolested

wow…

nobody

even blocked the guy

Well

time to not watch this for a bit to not break things. Just an epic melt down.

This is getting embarrasing for Husker fans!!!
They'll pick this flag up too.
In Before "Fire Bo"
Horrible coverage again

You’d think we’d have worked on that during the Bowl prep.

Our Special Teams Coach is now our D Coordinator.

Probably no time.

Sad.

Our punter has the biggest hit on the day, and it was barely a hit.

This game sucks so badly

I’m gonna be pissed for awhile.

Why be pissed,,,we should be used to it!
We didn't outplay Wisky and Michigan
We only outplayed USC in the first qtr,,,

the rest of the game,,,Suckage!!

Truth

infuriating.

Gamecock D is ruling here! No O at all!
wow, 3 penalties? lol
Ugh

now this becomes the media story. I’m out. Best of luck not breaking things, Jon.

This 2nd half was horrible beyond words.
did everyone check out here?

Turn out the lights?

okay

let’s get the defense going.

this damned game ain’t over yet, but the fucking defense had better win it if it’s going to be won

Cue the Fuckity,fuck,fuck, rant,,,NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll start,,,,Fuck Beck!!!!!!!
Most of us are too disgusted to say anything
+1

can’t post due to RAEG

10 Point game, feels like we're down 45.

One big play and we’re still in this.

will probably need the refs help though
The problem

Is that EVERYTHING has gone against us ALL day. Something going our way seems about as likely as Suh parachuting into the stadium wearing #93 in full pads ready to play.

Hi. I'm not here to troll, I'm gone after this, but just wanted to say...

…this is the most asinine crop of officials I’ve ever seen.

i love the

Big East more alla the time

A few bad calls

but actually on the whole weren’t bad until the last 10 minutes, but for that cue yakkety sax for everything that happened for both tea and the refs.

Someone said we were outnumbered at the game 5 to 1

No wonder! I wouldn’t pay all that money to watch this debacle in person either!

what the hell

Lavonte David gets hit from behind after the play and there’s no flag?

Shit there’s a flag for everything else

Whoever that DB is

he left his jock on the field over there

Bad angle on the tackle again
Thorrell

that was Thorrell

Need a pick or fumble

Quick turnaround might help but looks pretty hopeless here.

This drive

Is giving me shades of the Northwestern game.

After this mess,,,,

the “Fire Pelini” crowd is going to have a field day!!!

Questions need to be answered.

Same problems over and over again.

It doesn't seem to get better either.
im concerned

next year a first year defensive coordinator, and missing 3 great players on d….may be ugly folks

Compton is not very good.

Hopefully Santos et al can come in and play well.

Papuchis has called a great game overall.

Execution errors by the players. And only a few bad calls in key moments (that killed us).

Offense is just as much to blame for this game as the plays the D gave up. No hail mary if we just run the dang ball.

Or Martinez throws it to his WR
Clutch play by Compton and David
They should punt, NU has no yards in the 4th quarter
that's why

i’d go for it.

I think they get it then and it's really game over.

SO PUNT THE BALL!

I don't look at either option as being a bad one
That is the game!
not to mention

that we can’t stop the run worth a shit

Of course they get it,,,

suprised they didn’t get a TD!

Surprised we didn't get a flag!
Easy gets it.
I am just

unbelievable sad. So many self-inflicted wounds.

/ unbelievably...

screw spelling, screw this game.

That sums up this season,,,,

I hoped for better!!

I think Pelini should be fined for the behavior of his players today.

I can take losses, especially to a team ranked higher than you. But having your players this undisciplined at the end of the season is unacceptable.

SC

could probably just take a knee from here on out

Well

2009 Holiday Bowl was the high point of 2009. 2010 Holiday Bowl was the low point of 2010. This is a microcosm of 2011.

LACK OF POISE

How can the kids have poise when the head coach doesn’t?

As I said earlier,,,aTm all over!!!!
Did you come here just to post that?
No,, just thought it was noteable.
?

what now?

What now???

not sure what you’re looking for???

Why are you answering for the original poster?
Just making the point that,,,

when Bo looses his poise,,the whole team seems to loose theirs,,like the aTm game..Same result today.

That reply is to the original poster.

look at the indention.

Husker fan 'til I die,,,,

win or loose,,,I’ll be RED forever!!!!

Amen.

But this was tough.

me too...

glad this season is over….some disappointments for sure..

It is

hard to be well coached but so undisciplined at the same time but the Huskers pull it off nicely.

Meh.

At least the Saints are whoopin ass.

colts are cleaning house
i'm drinking good beer
/Chicago fan

The universe hates me

Sigh.

Go Bears.

Pick 6,

on side kick, TD…we win…..it’s nice to have dreams.

This off season

is going to be painful

Fuck that

horrible.

Oh David. That ones on you
That's a BS call!

Shaw is a running back there, not a scrambling QB.

Looked like a slide and a blow to the head to me...
At the last second.

If a RB is rumbling down the field and slides that late, it’s a no call.

Eh

I knew the flag was coming the moment the hit happened. You can argue about the merits of the rule, but that was a completely consistent call with similar plays in other games.

haha

um, yeah. sliding feet first, too. and your guy lead w/ his head.

Good lord

And its Spurrier and we just hurt his qb on a cheap shot so they won’t be taking knees.

I'm done. It's been a fine season talking to you all, I need to go calm down.

Pelini embarrassed the university today. Simply put.

The painful thing

Is that this was a game we should have one, no question about it. Dumb mistakes in the first half and a total loss of composure in the second. Just terrible.

Oh lawd.

Jon Gruden is calling CFB today.

And i used a

vacation day for this :(

really?

you didn’t get the day off work?

Not Really.

that’s the problem with working in a hospital. You want a day off you use vaca.

I got up at 3am and drove 485 miles!!!!!
Insult to injury!!
And icing on

this crap cake….they score again.

Embarrassing.

Word for this game.

Question

what must Bo do next year to keep his job? Win the BigX?

He's not going anywhere with TO as AD
OK...

minimum # of wins, then… 8? 7 and he’s gone? 6? Just wondering. Thanks.

Go troll elsewhere.

What must Colorado do to even think they’re relevant at anything?

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt against my better judgment

I’d say he’d keep his job as long as we made a bowl. Under 9 wins and his seat starts to get warm.

interesting

good luck next year. hope to see you in the Rose Bowl (yes, we’re delusional).

He's not even on the hot seat.

I don’t understand the Pelini hate in Nebraska.

Hate?

No hate, just disappointmen

I don't understand it either.
no way that's happening

even if i am the most passionate N fan.

mich and ohio st will be much better..

There will be a bigger fire Pelini crowd this year.

I may even join them. This is embarassing. Losing is ok, but losing in an embarrassing way? Absolutely unforgivable. And that is on the coach.

There is it.

I agree.

its all about recruiting friends

im not one of those fans that scours college football, but even a quick glance at rivals.com or espy recruiting, we don’t even have 1 recruit in the top 150 barely…

the days of walk-ons turning into all americans is probably over…

That whole idea was overblown as well.

Look at the best teams NU has had, a lot of out of state, recruited talent.

We were fine

until the turnovers and that hail mary. Don’t even get me started on the 2nd half.

Football = done

Basketball = we suck
Baseball - Starts soon! Looking forward to baseball, can we make it to Omaha?

Oh god no

for baseball. That’s a worse clusterfool than basketball.

B1G is weak in baseball
And NU will maybe win a horrible conference

and be done.

Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
even W volleyball choked
Waiting for someone

to blame that on Pelini too.

Women's basketball....

13-1, and just beat the Big Ten pre-season favorite. Give some love to the ladies.

That was fucking horrible.
Time to eat my feelings.
See all you faithful in September!
September?

See you at the Spring Game! :D

Things to build on next year?

Our offense will have a full season under their belt. And we’re very, very young.
Tim Beck will learn from his ways.
The defense faces a challenge replacing three stalwarts in Crick, David, and Dennard.
But the defense is young, and has potential, just no “stars”. Papuchis is an intriguing option, although far from my first.
Nebraska fans, get off your high horse. We’re a GREAT team. Inconsistent, but still great.

We’re a GREAT good team.
Oh well.

Geaux Tigers!!

And down goes Sparty..

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