Failure is inevitable and fundamental to motivate and inspire change. This week, our Huskers faced the harsh reality of their loss to Indiana 56-7. This defeat was emotional because it felt like we just gave up.

Every team has strengths and weaknesses but since that loss, our teams weaknesses are under a magnifying glass, to the point where we may be misjudging some. Perhaps it’s time to remember our strengths also.

One thing we know for sure is that we will see an effort against Ohio State this Saturday. As Isaac Gifford said in a press conference this week “Guys are pissed off!”, they got punched in the mouth and didn’t respond.

If you are reading this (btw, thank you), it’s because you have some twisted thing in you that will not allow you to give up on our Huskers. WIN or LOSE, you show up for them and this week in Columbus, they will show up for us.

The Saturday 56-7 shellacking by some basketball school seems to be firing up those “Here we go again!” feelings. Are they legit?

we’ll take a look ahead to Ohio St. - and won’t that be magical - but then it’s time to get down and dirty and have that talk about where we’re headed how.

The loss to Indiana obviously runs deeper than just the 56-7 score. Offense defense, special teams (shudder), coaching, recruiting, and, yes, fan’s sanity levels - everything is on the table.

Huskers Happy Hour is gonna get a little testy, but that will lead to some laughs - guaranteed.

Connor from Corn Crazed will stop by tonight on Monday Night Therapy as we ask ourselves, where do we go from here?

No doubt we’ll be discussing the Nebraska-Indiana debacle and what Nebraska fans should think about the rest of the season ahead.

Does Nebraska still have a chance to make a bowl game even with so many games left on the schedule? Is everything lost? Should everyone go into despair? What needs to be burned down? What needs to be burned up?

Is the universe conscience or is it really just a bunch of lifeless matter floating around, expanding while we speak?

All that and more on tonight’s Monday Night Therapy.

56-7

I could end the description right there, but Jon says that “150 words or it doesn’t get picked up by search engines.” So be prepared for word salad to last another 119 words.

Epic, systemic failure. Both teams had a bye week heading into this game. Only one team seemed prepared for the contest. The lack of preparation can not be understated. In his post-game press conference, Matt Rhule said “I didn’t see this coming. I thought we were going to play great.”

This is, in my opinion, the first crack in the armor of Matt Rhule, who said “it was bad football by us.” He was embarrassed, not in the players, but in the level of football.

This will be a turning point for the program under Rhule. We will look back at October 19, 2024 and look at is as a galvanizing moment where the ship was righted and real change started to take place. OR the loss to Indiana on their homecoming will be the beginning of the end for this staff.

I hope it’s the former. I think it will be. Regardless, Rhule will be given another year and a half to get things right in Lincoln.

Jake is already calling this a spicy show, “guaranteed.”

Hoss is getting more upset as time goes by and says it’s going to be an all-timer, a la Minnesota 2017.

What is this strange feeling? It feels strange but also really good. I think it’s what some people call “hope”???

Yes, as a fanbase, we haven’t dared have hope for many years. Not to relive the past decade but everytime we had enough enthusiasm to ‘hope’, we were taken out with a sledge hammer at the ankles, (å la Stephen King’s Misery) crippling all further dreams of the Huskers ever being good again.

Huskers are 5-1, the Hoosiers are 6-0, and both teams are coming off a bye week. Saturday will be the showdown in Bloomington Indiana at 11 am central. Nebraska is the “underdog” this week with Indiana being a -6.5 favorite.

The Cornhuskers are very familiar with being the underdogs, especially the veterans on the team who came back for another year to prove that this team that began a rebuild last season is a WINNER.

Indiana, on the other hand, is in the first year of their rebuild. Curt Cignetti is a good head coach whose record at his previous schools shows he knows how to win. However, this is the Big Ten, and winning here ain’t that easy (just ask Scott Frost). This season, Indiana has defeated UCLA and Northwestern, both in the Big Ten BUT both are in major overhaul mode after losing their head coaches (UCLA this season, NW last season).

As Husker fans, we have been here before, it’s hard to drink that ‘Rhule-ade’ after so many disappointments but tonight we will echo the sentiments that Andy Dufresne wrote in Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption; “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies”

Go Big Red!

This week on Corn Nation Overreaction, the guys have a plan to endure the bye week. That’s right, Greg, Hoss, and Jake bring you the Mid-Season Report Card.

The guys pour over each position group, giving in-depth analysis on where we are halfway through the season. What have been some high points? What areas have met expectations from the fans or the coaches? What position groups have fallen short?

Who have been the outstanding performers on both sides of the ball? What about the outstanding newcomers?

And if you’re a YouTube member, you get the episode ahead of the general public. That’s worth the price of admission, or membership.

We spend a couple minutes at the end of the show to talk about the upcoming Indiana game. So GO BIG RED!

Welcome to the Five Heart Podcast! Tonight, we will be discussing the win against Rutgers and what we have learned about our Huskers Football team half way through the season. Also, all the note taking that co-host Minnie Hunt has done, will finally pay off for one lucky Chatterfield as we see who got the closest to last week’s final score.

Since it is the ‘400th Episode Extravaganza’ we have planned a lot of fun surprises, trivia, guest appearances and a little trip down memory lane to help us honor you, the “Chatterfields” and the people who made this show possible.

For those of you that take the time to read this description prior to the show, we have a special gift. All you have to do is type “Dylan Raiola for Heisman” in the live chat tomorrow night during the show and we will let you know what you have won.

You won’t want to miss this!

GO BIG RED!

Tonight I’ll be talking about some red flags to watch out for Nebraska football for the rest of the season. What sort of things are bothering me?

I’ll give you a hint, they’re strategic and not tactical.

Then I’m going to counter my own argument.

That’s the first section of the show.

The second section of the show we’re going to talk about what an incredible weekend it was in college football with Texas A&M mashing Missouri, Vanderbilt having an amazing win over Alabama, Minnesota beating USC, Michigan watching their season go down the poop tube against Washington.

We’re going to talk about our opponents for the rest of the year.

So we’re going to kind of do a Big Ten mid-season review. Everybody else is going to be doing a Nebraska mid-season review. I’m going to look at what I have seen out of the Big Ten so far.