Husker Big Guy

It was until cmb23 told a poster - effectively - that he had no business making that judgment because he never played QB for the Huskers.

Well, I'll tell you this. I think a whole lot less of Matt Davison at this moment than I did an hour ago.

Heismans and recruiting rankings have really nothing at all to do with dominance. USC has already failed to achieve what NU achieved under Osborne. NU's dominance will not happen again: not at NU, and not anywhere.

I understand you are fishing to be complimented as someone who attracts homosexuals. You are doing a different kind of trolling on this board than I imagined. Are N-bombs "knowledge bombs?"

Well, there we have it. Bring six every time and rack up the sacks. Why haven't you told Cos? Do you have his number?? Yes, but I promised I wouldn't give it out carelessly.

Well, there we have it. Bring six every time and rack up the sacks. Why haven't you told Cos?

UCLA simply beat up USC last year, plain and simple. I do NOT understand the defensive scheme used by Michigan against SC, because by all appearances they had a physical defense that should have beat the tar out of Booty. They just schemed wrong. They had a guy who could lock down Jarrett (we didn't), but didn't go with the plan. Of course, Chad Henne underperformed . . . again . . . When we play USC, we will be facing some of our near miss recruits, including Patrick Turner, that monster Ray Maualuga, and that Byers kid on the offensive line. We need to show them they picked the wrong school. The big receiver made all the difference in the world for USC last year, which makes me think Mo Purify with Keller could be the same problem for them, other side of the ball. I am going to go out on a limb and say that Purify's troubles will be behind him at that point. If he throws a couple of Trojan DB's over a bench, backhands a cheerleader, and gets obstinate with four refs, what's that, 3 penalties for 45 yards? Just call that hat-trick "the Richie." He can make that up on a single play.

I watched the 1994 Orange Bowl game against FSU in the US embassy in Nairobi. At 3 am, with not a soul moving about on the streets except me, the heavily-armed marine guard lifted a steel roll-up gate from the front door, and I watched the game with two marines from Florida, a marine from Alabama, and a Kenyan friend who later attended the 1996 Fiesta bowl with me. I distinctly recall Bob Trumpy as one of the announcers of that game, and he was very fair to Nebraska, and said with emphasis he saw no clip on the Dixon punt return. I think his announcing mate was Bob Enberg, Chris Collinsworth - and the guy who does the Notre Dame games - announced the OB the next year (1995), as I recall, and had to finally shut his trap when Tommie Frazier and Cory Schlesinger made him. Terry Donahue and Jim Nantz did the Fiesta Bowl in 1996, although I had the distinct pleasure of NOT hearing them live, because I was at the party itself in Tempe. Husker fans arrived FIVE HOURS early for that game, and turned the stadium into a home atmosphere. My son gave me that trip, and it was a great present! But when I heard them later, I especially had to laugh when Donahue was trying to set up the old line about Nebraska not having Florida's speed. That was right, they had Nebraska speed. I have an email from Danny Wuerffel. I wrote to him when he said, not long ago, that the Gator's game his senior year against FSU for the championship was the biggest clobbering he had ever been part of as a quarterback. I reminded him he was in a far worse clobbering the year before, and he wrote, "Wow. That's true!" One of the Florida players said before their (2nd) 1997 game against FSU, "At least we aren't playing an NFL team this year" for the championship. On august 7th, 1998, I had the unhappy circumstance of being once again at the site of the US embassy in Nairobi, only this time it was partly in rubble. The young Marines guarding it had orders not to use their weapons while it was being ransacked by hundreds of looters following a truck bombing, said to have been done under the direction of Usama Bin laden. I was perhaps the first white civilian on the scene. Hundreds of people were buried beneath the rubble caused by the blast. A blue pickup truck was wedged in the west wall of the embassy, not far from the second floor office of Ambassador Prudence Bushnell, who, thankfully, was in the next building at the time of the attack. The 1998 Husker season did not seem especially important to me.

Schools have always had to catch up with each other. But the juggernaut that was the Huskers from 1993-1997 (60-3) won't be matched again, at least in Nebraska, because of a number of factors, including but not exclusively that there is no longer a distinctively Nebraska system that exploits college football as Osborne did. When Lloyd Carr pronounced to the media, "We're all just chasing Nebraska now," that was no small deal. The whole machinery of college football was engaged to overthrow what Osborne had done. I won't detail it all here. Partly, because the audience here is largely unfit for the discussion, preferring as it does, stupid pets tricks, and poker after dark, to solid football takes. And partly because it's all over, and why drag up what might have been? Nebraska's dominion was overthrown largely by rule, including rules on the field, eligibility rules, recruiting rules, you name it. Had the rules not changed drastically, and Osborne remained, he may have won three in a row, again, from '97-'99. Certainly he created a self-perpetuating juggernaut, the likes of which college football will likely never see again.

That's one way to put it. The other way to put it is that Nebraska's future - whether coaches, players, or fans - will never equal its past. So not really "time's (sic) change," but stuff happens, and things slide.

well, that is cmb23's opinion, and then he calls it all "luck." AND he does it all on company time!

I bet your dad has a Junior Miller story or two!

As usual. Considering the competition, this is easy stuff.

Ya, he's talking a bad beating, but it won't stop him.

The overall dominance of the huskers against a range of Big-8 teams during the Osborne era will likely never occur again in any conference. 1. The streak noted against Kansas, going back to Devaney's time. 2. The similar streak against Kansas State, that ended in 1998. 3. The undefeated streak against Oklahoma State from 1962. 4. The win streak against Missouri from 1978. Combined, at the time of Osborne's resignation after the 1997 season, those 4 streaks, all in tact, made Osborne 136-10-2 against 6 Big eight opponents (OU excluded, against whom he was 13-13). That's a .926 win pct. Not shabby.