sCrUmptious!

Vassar?

I don't know about the rest of you, but I would have liked to have seen Nebraska run a few more trick plays today.

Actually, stomach punch aside I'm pretty pleased with the game today. CU almost pulled a win out of Lincoln despite the fact that the Huskers didn't play horribly. Considering the situation this team was in, that's a pretty weighty accomplishment, and it'll certainly be another great entry into the history of the series. I will say this, though: Your kicker needs to acquire a less communist last name. Henery? What the hell is that? Take the lead from the rest of your team - Your quarterback isn't named Gananz, your coach isn't named Pelinini, and your d-lineman isn't named Suhuh. Go with Henry, for god's sake.

BB (MBB?) quit being so damned gracious. Screw you, Huskers!

I really don't want to get into one of these "well my school has this, yours only has this" debates, but you've pretty much forced my hand here. Nebraska is a fine school, but it's not on par with Colorado academically. Nor is Oklahoma, Iowa State, Texas Tech, or any of the other schools in the Big XII other than Texas, Baylor, and Aggieland. This is not an opinion, this is a fact. Four of the "less than talented" members of CU's faculty have received Nobel prizes in the past 8 years. I'm not sure what our ranking was this year, but I know that CU has been ranked as the 11th best public university in the country by The Economist numerous times this decade. In 2007 CU was ranked as the #34 university in the world (public or private) by the Institute for Higher Education. 17 CU graduates have gone on to become astronauts and fly in space (that's a lot). Also, most graduates from CU know how to properly spell the word "genius." I think I'll stop there. Please give my regards to your esteemed circles.

That phrase moved him up on my rational thought o meter.. Sorry, had to fix that one for ya.

He could have gotten the same level of education for a third the price if he would have just enrolled at Hamilton Business College... You do realize that CU carries a large part of the Big XII's academic credibility on it's back, right?

Umm... did you read the article?

I liked this thread better the first 17 times it was started in the past week.

Wait a second...how has Colorado been doing? I think it is obvious by the feelings of the fans that it isn't a rivalry. If it was a true rivalry then I'm sure the CU fans would be excited about the game regardless of "Nebraska" having fallen on hard times... Any rivalry game is going to have a lot less passion involved when nothing of substance is on the line. I'm sure today's Michigan/Ohio State game would have been a lot more exciting for the fans involved if Michigan were ranked, or if Ohio State were playing for anything other than an outside chance to get a Rose Bowl bid. Just the same, I'm sure there'd be a lot more passion in next week's CU/NU game if either CU or NU was ranked, or if NU was playing for something more than getting themselves to a more prestigious crappy bowl, or if CU was playing for something more than just getting themselves to a crappy bowl in the first place. Admittedly CU fans generally get a lot more excited for a Nebraska game than they get for a similar game against KState or ISU, and the older fans (the fans who were students in the 80's and 90's) without question still circle Nebraska as THE big game of the year, but my point was that the students seem to get more excited for CSU than they do for the Nebraska game nowadays, so maybe the CU/NU "rivalry" will be denied on both sides once those students become the older fans. Dig? 2001 is an entirely different situation, and really has no relevance to what the game is like today. After 10 consecutive years of painfully close losses (with few exceptions, 1994 comes to mind), Nebraska comes into Boulder undefeated, heavily favored, with the eventual heisman winner on their roster, and not only does CU beat them, they absolutely destroy them and set all sorts of records along the way. Any win like that is going to have a sizable hangover effect on both fan bases... hell, CU fans such as myself still talk about that game, and we probably always will. That was probably one of the top 3 or 5 most meaningful wins in CU program history. That was 7 years ago though. Since then Nebraska has gotten dramatically worse (then better, but only in bits and pieces), but has never come anywhere close to being dominant like they used to be, while Colorado has been up and down (also never nearly as good as they were in '01) and has really yet to get its feet completely back under it following the whole "scandal" fiasco. With all of this taken into account, it's no wonder that both fan bases are a lot more apathetic about the series than they were 5+ years ago. It'll come back though, assuming at least one of the programs does.

You should also try sticking a nail through a marshmallow, throwing it, and seeing how capable of a projectile it makes. The key to your typical "that's nothin', one time a CU fan _______ at me when I was in Boulder" story from a Husker fan is its complete and utter lack of grounding in reality and/or the laws of physics.

Well it's not like NU and CU never played before McCartney started making a bigger deal out of the game... if I remember correctly the series dates back to the 1890's, though I think that's true of most of the old big 8 matchups. Regardless, McCartney's "deciding" on Nebraska as CU's rival was only a catalyst - that decision on his part wouldn't have any relevance today were it not for the 15+ years of top 10 matchups and nail biting finishes that followed it (I'm talking about 1986 through 2001, primarily). I find it odd that Nebraska fans alternate so effortlessly between declaring that either A: CU fans are apathetic towards football in general, or B: that CU fans truly care a great deal whether or not Nebraska fans perceive them to be a "real" rival. Well, which one is it? We can't care and not care about football at the same time, folks.

Ehh, I don't think there's any sort of set requirements that a game has to have for a yearly contest to become a rivalry game. Obviously most heated rivalries have a few things in common (close proximity to one another, history of success for one or both programs, perceptually or literally differing social dynamics at each school, reciprocity, etc) and CU/NU fits the bill for most of these categories, but it's not like missing one or two of the common qualifiers excludes a game from being seen as a rivalry. That said, now that NU's fallen on hard times it seems that the student body at CU gets a lot more excited for the CSU game every year, so maybe soon enough we'll have a situation where both sides are railing on and on about how this "really isn't a rivalry." Regardless, the title of rivalry game doesn't really matter to me too much, I just enjoy the tradition (or if you're prefer a less romantic term, "recurrence") of the game the day after Thanksgiving. It's nice to have that big network audience, and it's a superb way to wake up from a turkey coma. As far as the whole "Oklahoma is our only real rival" argument - well, I just hope you guys really soaked in all the pageantry, tradition, and mutual respect that game brought into your lives this year... you know, for the 3 or 4 minutes of gametime when Oklahoma wasn't up by 28 points.

Yes... were it not for its dearth of legitimate literature, my precious alma mater might have also soared to the lofty scholarly heights required to produce a graduate who would go on to invent the McRib sandwich. :sigh: By the way man, and this is purely just a personal note, could you add a couple more pictures to your signature? It's not nearly big enough.

I just wanted to provide a Cliff Notes version of this Husker wankfest for anyone too lazy to read the whole thread. You're welcome.