Bad News;No masking the Husker are hurt

shoots through the gym after a deep splash or one of those wild plays where the ball bounces off several hands and a large defensive board is pulled out of the air.

Perhaps it’s just a fleeting absence, though. Isn’t that the hopeful thought? That isn’t a query. It’s an assertion.

“This is the most enjoyable season. “This is the only enjoyable time of the year,” the head coach of Nebraska remarked. “Hopefully, the guys who will return will handle it appropriately now that we’ve experienced it.”

For what it’s worth, he believes they handled themselves appropriately this week in terms of preparation. He referred to Texas A&M as a “buzz saw,” one that has everything calibrated and prepared for cutting at exactly the correct moment. Or, as all the Husker supporters that descended upon Memphis would say, the wrong time.Enough agreed to indicate that Rienk Mast believes this is a club that may seriously challenge Houston, the top seed, on Sunday.

Still, it sucks, as Mast put it. This sensation. Many of you experienced it with them. when you believe something should occur. when there is a great deal of willpower behind it.

This isn’t an attempt to garner support; rather, it’s just my honest opinion: at least someone is hurting this morning. Take into consideration the actions done and the interest generated for this campaign even as of October.A sufficient number of fans saw enough improvement to genuinely believe with all of their hearts and minds that Nebraska would succeed this time, rather than just hoping for it.

And these are how the last six weeks should feel every year. We shouldn’t be spending February only talking about spring football nuts and bolts, and if so-and-so might play guard instead of tackle. We’re fully capable of that, mind you, and will spread the butter on that biscuit again this week with no complaints.

But it was good for me, and I think for a lot of you, that this Husker team gave us “bubble watch” threads on message boards and had people watching some random game on the West Coast because it impacted NET rankings or Lunardi’s “Last Four In.”

When I was growing up around here, Nebraska football success also drew people to so many other games across the country. They were connected to the whole puzzle of the sport. And it’s really fun when it’s like that. It stirred emotions just not on what the Huskers did but what happened in some game that could cause a chain reaction in the rankings. You don’t realize how much you miss those days until you don’t have them for a spell.

Football has to bring those feelings back now too. Hoiberg’s team, in an accomplishment that shouldn’t just be waved away, did that this season.

This isn’t to be Pollyannaish and drip ketchup over burnt fries. We’ll get to a bad night of ball in a moment. But this is how February and March is supposed to feel. Every year. And it’s going to hurt sometimes. Really hurt.

But what’s far worse is how it had been – when there was no hurt at all.