Husker-USC game

I commented over at Husker Mike's place and he sums up things (the questions, mostly) pretty well.

No first down pass attempts until the third quarter, which when we did, we wound up scoring. No throws downfield until far, far too late. No real attempt to cash in after the fake punt or the nice punt return. Run, run, pass on third and long, punt. It was a pathetic joke of a gameplan. I don't mind trying to establish the running game, but if it isn't working, why not try to throw a ball or two and loosen up the defense, then go back to running?

The defense played better than I expected, if you'd told me we would hold them to 28, I say we win the game easy. They were out on the field far too long with the sad play calling from Norvell. 'Nuff said. Bring on Troy, who is playing pretty damn well. We can ill afford to overlook them, they've been playing really good ball against stiff competition. Jay had better let Zac throw the damn ball against these guys on first down.