Redux

1 hour ago, runningblind said:

 

 

You are both right in a way, but I look at it as we never should have been as good as we were. We overachieved significantly by taking advantage of scholarship rules, TV benefits, and being out in front of S&C etc.  I remember reading an article that said almost all national championship winners were in or bordering one of the top 4/5 states for recruits (Ohio, Texas, California, Florida, Georgia). Nebraska was the only multiple time winner that did not, and we won 5.  We struck gold when it was available but those days are gone. We are simply never going to replicate that, it isn't possible with the changed landscape of college football. Folks would be much happier if they accepted that and lowered their expectations, that is called maturity.  We can win the division again and make a 12 team playoff a time or two, but so can Iowa. That is reality in 2022.  Argue that fact all you want, but that's the truth.

Precisely, unfortunately

2 minutes ago, Jason Sitoke said:

More perplexing still, how were they the best 3-win team ever if they actually won 4 games?

Revisionist history I guess.  Still trying to forget the 4th quarter of that Iowa game I went to last year 

28 minutes ago, M.A. said:

The program isn’t cursed. Where we’re at now is mainly the byproduct of poor decision making, internal dysfunctions and not handling changes particularly well. You can sprinkle in impatience and having unreasonable expectations (to an extent). There is no reason we can’t get to being highly competitive. I don’t believe in luck or curses. It’s about doing a variety of things to make it happen. Not the why. The how. And we must be willing to do it. In steps.

 Haven't won a conference title since 1999, we're approaching three decades of hardware drought in that area.  Haven't even been bowling since 2016, coming up on a decade there too.  Every time we make a move it ends up being the wrong one.  When we do make the right move, other circumstances deter it from working.  Cursed, snakebit, voodoo doll in Solich's closet call it what you will but this program is definitely cursed.

Osborne finally slays the national championship dragon, retires a few years later

Predecessor Solich given shorter leash, can't control staff, fired

Raiders flop hired to revamp destroys program with new AD

Osborne comes back to save us and hires Pelini

Pelini with flops talent almost puts us back in title mix but can't get out of own way

Conference switch essentially buries Pelini

Osborne replacement fires Pelini and hires smiley version of Raiders flop

Smiley guy sucks a$$ and gets canned, prodigal son Frost becomes hottest coach sought aftet in the country returns to Lincoln

Prodigal son handed a cesspool of a program, has first game canceled because of lightning, misses bowl

Prodigal son can't get to a bowl in year 2

Prodigal son ready for year 3 turnaround.......covid hits

Prodigal son finally ready to put it all together has the most perplexing 3 win team (not a 4 win team ,f*****g Iowa) of all time coming within a handful of points from being essentially an 11-1 team

Prodifal son gives up and has one of the worst starts to a season maybe ever and gets canned 3 games in finishing WORSE than both Raiders flop and Guy Smiley at an embarrassing 16-31

First African American coach in program history handed the dumpster fire, can't exactly resurrect this mess will be replaced by someone else who either won't be able to do it or won't be given time to do it.

This program is cursed.  We were gifted a couple of strong and legendary runs decades ago.  At this point we should be thankful our landlocked state even enjoyed that bit of success.  We aren't blue blood anymore, never will be again.  The game has evolved and the disadvantages stacked against us will prevent us from rising again.  It's not fun anymore, the last streak we have is looked at as a farce and incoming players look at our last bit of success like a phonograph.  It doesn't matter who we hire, the loyalty and passion for this program is dying and the amount of effort to rebuild it is more than most coaches would want.  We should've been happy with Solich and let him fool around with anyone he wanted to, or at least just said screw it Bo Pelini makes us relevant to the media and is entertaining as hell to watch and wins.  I'm not even interested at this point to see who we get because even if it were Nick friggin Saban all I would be thinking is "wow.....Nick Saban is about ot destroy his legacy sinking with this ship".

I say we put Leipold and Arnada on a team and then Mickey and Campbell on another team for best two out of 3 beer pong.  The winning team faces off in a sack race. Whoever wins the sack race meets Urban Meyer in an undisclosed location for 10 rounds of bare knuckle Battleship to win the opportunity to maybe become head coach of Nebraska (after a committee possibly forms to maybe discuss it)

We'll stand by the road

At this point I'm way more invested and nervous who we hire at this spot than the head coach

This doesn't really remind me of the 2009 game very much

Now....sustain that momentum.  GBR!

TIL WE CAN'T BE BEAT

Iowa is going to look awful in every game this year.  Except their last one.

We have an identity....we just stole it from Minnesota 

I for one am so grateful I got to watch Scott Frost losing his job over 4hrs live and in person with my oldest almost 7yr old and his 2 cousins.  Got home at like 1am with them.....thanks Scott...

It started with a cancelation and a loss following.  Ended with a loss to a glorified FCS team dumping just shy of 800 yards on them.  And some people are confused why he was fired.

I once heard, (not a typical source I would use), that Frost had an unusual relationship with the maid.  Not like a sexually based relationship, but more like a caretaker interaction.  Would do like puzzles with him, like she were "babysitting" him in a way.

Again, never heard anything else in that realm again, so I still question the validity.

Scott Frost's nervous and regretful expression never changed during his entire tenure

I fully believe the guy never truly wanted to be here.  It always felt forced and he never looked comfortable.  Rumors of his home life, speculation of troubles betwixt he and his wife, it all culminated on the field.  If he would've been hired before taking the UCF job, I believe it would've gone much differently.  He's still, maybe, a good coach.  And I hope he finds success (and comfortability) somewhere sunnier and less stressful.

But for us, he leaves us in no better shape than he found us, maybe worse.

On 9/12/2022 at 3:28 PM, The Dude said:

 

Is Matt Campbell Riley or Pelini?

Depends on his love for ice cream and screaming

Here's an awful take by a fella named Pete Mundo.  He surmised that schools that left the Big 12 are experiencing woes simply BECAUSE they ledt the Big 12.  Nevermind it was 10yrs ago this shift happened.

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2022/09/11/four-former-big-12-schools-embarrassed-in-week-2/

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The grass isn’t always greener. Just ask Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado and Texas A&M.

The four former Big 12 schools all didn’t just lose on Saturday, they were embarrassed. And one of them even decided to pull the plug on their head coach. Those four schools deciding to leave the league was almost the demise of the Big 12.

They all had their reasons at the time, but there’s no doubt that while the money may be better than the Big 12 (sans Pac-12/Colorado), there’s little joy being brought to these fan bases since they left the Big 12, and their futures don’t look much better than the past or present.

Just who is Pete Mundo?  Ahhhhh, this explains it:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-mundo-35a2541a

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I am currently the morning show host and assistant program director at 710AM KCMO in Kansas City, Missouri. Additionally, I own and operate my own independent Big 12 sports digital media outlet, Heartland College Sports. I had previous stops at CBS Sports Radio, Fox News Radio and Sports Illustrated.

Actually pretty funny that Big 12 homers are still this level of sad sack that their beloved sinking ship was abandoned by teams smart enough and valuable enough to leave.  Keep hugging Pete, eventually the Big 12 will get Villanova and you'll have something to talk about besides your ex girlfriends that leave you on read now.

5 minutes ago, The Dude said:

 

There's a blast from the past.

On 9/5/2022 at 7:52 PM, Redux said:

Can't wait to watch this in at Memorial!  I feel like with pro wrestling it will look even more surreal in person watching us struggle to establish any sort of consistency.

Dammit......

Why do I have a nagging feeling this hire is going to be more Riley than it is Pelini

5 minutes ago, The Dude said:

It's appropriate it ended on a missed field goal.

It should've ended on a canceled game

Can't wait to watch this in at Memorial!  I feel like with pro wrestling it will look even more surreal in person watching us struggle to establish any sort of consistency.

9 hours ago, Husker03 said:

My coffee just came out of my nose....

Hope you used goats milk to cream

The last time Nebraska won 3 straight games ....2016.  Illinois, Indiana and Purdue.  Amidst the Mike Riley paper tiger 7-0 team that still managed to get blown out twice and lose 4 games.  So it's been 5 years since Nebraska has won more than 2 straight.  If Frost wants to stick around any further than October 1st, he's gotta decimate Georgia Southern Tech State, then play mistake free against Oklahoma and come away with a W.

I learned that it truly doesn't matter who our coach or staff consists of, this is a perennial average team with a ceiling of 8 or 9 wins.  The glory days were the exception, this program will never be elite again.  Thanks for trying Frost, now let's find out who the next sub par coach we'll be paying in 4yrs after firing will be.