The Bone Yard

I'm in the same boat. Somehow this feels like a bad dream. We clearly are not that bad on defense. If I had to point to one thing, this team was flat, unprepared for what Wisconsin was doing, and showed little emotion. In the biggest game of the year they crumbled. Answers are going to be hard to find.

unprepared. turnovers. penalties. coming into a game with a ty plan and getting behind early. out-efforted. everything, and it all starts with coaches. i know you discouraged a quick "fire Bo," but

FIRE BO.

seems that way.

I don't disagree with anything but do we really think firing Bo is the answer? I really don't.

Honestly, I almost pass this game off as a fluke. Just went south from the first snap.

Wisconsin was ready to play.

They lost 5 games by 3 points or in OT. Nobody wanted to hear that. They are a good football team.

They threw everything and the kitchen sink at us and really exposed our defense and our offensive tendencies.

Give credit to their coaches. They had us locked in and masterly planned from the get go. And kept throwing in new wrinkles each and every offensive series in the first half.

This is what I have called out all year in which our coaches aren't ready for anything that they don't see on film. They said it every week, and it never got corrected.

Great coaching staff's prepare for the unexpected. You don't get undressed like that in a single half to start a game as to where you have no ability to recover much less have no idea what they are doing or how to stop it.

If you are a great defensive coach, then your opposing team's coach doesn't put forth such a risky offensive gameplan like they did tonight. They executed things they hadn't ran all year. And ran them like they were bread-n-butter.

Motion and movement before the snap, and unleashed speed like we had never seen before.

While we were worried about Wisconsin running between the tackles or going over the top deep without a Safety over top, they went in a completely different direction.

They spread the field in the run game with the Jet Sweep and 9 OL Wildcat. With a QB who threw a grand total of 8 passes.

Probably our biggest factor for getting beat this bad is that we didn't respect the speed they had on offense.

We knew about Abbrederis could run, but we didn't know that Gordon was faster than anybody on our team as well.

Throw in Ball and White, and we looked silly. Plus they were more physical.

I don't think firing Bo is the immediate answer, but I do think it is the right short and long-term move for this program. Bo Pelini is soiled goods; the media hates him (warranted or not), the officials hate him, the fanbase isn't really sure about him at this point, and if I were a recruit, Bo officially has lost any credibility he had as a head coach and defensive guru after a series of absolutely embarrassing losses on national television.

Let him go to the MAC when he can get blown out by a middling B1G team and not have anyone care.