Husker Big Guy

Now, wasn't this post originally about that poor excuse for a quarterback Joe Dailey who had us missing the days of Jamall Lord???

 

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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.

first off, i think usc is pretty dominate. 2 NC's, 3 heisman's, top 5 recruiting, etc... it can be done, just not the 'old nebraska way.' there used to be over 100 scholarships, now there is 85 i believe. there used to be freshman teams (no freshman could play varsity), there were no limit to the number of 'part-time' and full-time coaches. there were more hours for coaches and players to meet. there were less games in a season. there were no conference championship games, etc... in other words, the 'college football' game was about kids (for nebraska, a lot of homegrown and walkons) going to a college and becoming great COLLEGE football players. with the abolition of the above rules it has become more of a professional atmosphere. kids want to play right away, or they transfer. coaches are on an extremely hot carousel, which means frequent changes and BIG money. less scholarships means no more stockpiling players and keeping very loyal kids in-state. less practice time means a quicker tempo and less developement for non-starters.

 

now that callahan has been in the college system a few years, i think we will see some great strides. i remember him saying the biggest difference from pro to college was the amount of time he could spend with the players. he needed players to step in and play NOW (hence the juco explosion). now that he has had time to sift through the wannabe's and redshirt for the future we can watch some developement and grow some local talent and find great players destined for the pro's mixed with loyal in-state and walk-ons who only want to be huskers. buy into the system and start a cycle of 5 star's with corn-feds and i think streaks will start to build again. k-state, ku, colorado, ISU--they don't have the luxury of our tradition. they will never compete year in and year out. they will go through what we have been going through every 5-7 years. we are lucky it's only been 3 years in 50. go big red.

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.

Also...this whole 'flame-bait' thing you keep bringing up. What is it exactly? I've heard 'flame' used as a slur towards homosexuals. Care to explain? Why don't you drop a few N-bombs while you're at it and see how deep this hole gets?

 

BTW - by the way that is, I'll take that as a compliment. See, I believe bait is something you use to attract something else, whether it be fish, deer, or in the case 'flame'. And if I am correct, you are using 'flame' to refer to homosexuals. So to attract homosexuals using bait, you would probably use an attractive male....correct? Thanks for the kind words.

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?"

On playstation, I run a 4-3. I still blitz the 2 OLB's down the middle. I make sure that I have OLB's that have at least an 85 rating on speed. I get about 8 sacks a game.

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.

On playstation, I run a 4-3. I still blitz the 2 OLB's down the middle. I make sure that I have OLB's that have at least an 85 rating on speed. I get about 8 sacks a game.

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.

those were the days when they let Cris Collinsworth do color for games. Collinsworth is one of the best around. even though, if i remember right, he couldn't stop blowing hot air up Miami's a$$ the whole time.

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.

I also think that colleges are catching up to each other....somewhat. The talent base is different than it was 10-20 years ago. There will never be streaks like that again IMO.

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.

Time's change.

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.

If Wiggins did intend for the ball to go where he kicked it, he was the best at ball control since the legendary Pele.

well, that is cmb23's opinion, and then he calls it all "luck."

AND he does it all on company time!

touchdown!! brad jenkins--#92

 

also head coach for scottsbluff high school for 5 years (future husker QB travis turner). family settled the dickens, hershey, north platte area. high school--poudre high ft. collins

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

Great comeback. Excellent execution. Stuck the landing......9.65.

As usual.

Considering the competition, this is easy stuff.

Woodshed.....Woodshed......Woodshed!!!!!

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.

Pssst....23-3-1. (I'm glad someone voted for the conspiracy theory one...I was proud of making that one up.)

Your poll question is succeeding, but YOU went down in flames, pal.

That's what actually happened, and you are the last to know.

Also...this whole 'flame-bait' thing you keep bringing up. What is it exactly? I've heard 'flame' used as a slur towards homosexuals. Care to explain? Why don't you drop a few N-bombs while you're at it and see how deep this hole gets?

 

BTW - by the way that is, I'll take that as a compliment. See, I believe bait is something you use to attract something else, whether it be fish, deer, or in the case 'flame'. And if I am correct, you are using 'flame' to refer to homosexuals. So to attract homosexuals using bait, you would probably use an attractive male....correct? Thanks for the kind words.

Wow, you dumb.

To-May-To....To-Mah-To....either way it's ketchup because this thing is squashed. New subject.

Sure, you get pinned down, shown to be a fool, and clam up.

YOU are the guy who turned this into a whole new thread, made up a distorted a poll, hid your true viewpoint, and became flame-bait.

All I did was out you for the BTW you are.

Now you are stuck: where's the luck?

Do you always start crying when someone calls your bluff?

You are the guy breaking the play down into it's "lucky" and "skill" parts.

If the throw wasn't lucky, and the catch wasn't "lucky" and Wiggins, as you say, intentionally kicked the ball, where is this "luck" you are referring to?

Conclusion seems pretty obvious to me on this one. Looks like I'm not the only "Moronic MeChicken Loser Fan" that exists on huskerboard.

 

 

PSSSST....I couldn't care less about Missouri except when they represent the Big XII in out of conference matchups. I'm not one of those guys that want Texas, OU, CU, KSU (or whoever else) to lose all the time. I'd rather have teams from our conference look good to the rest of the country than see them with an extra loss in the record books.

You have been caught as a BTW.

Those of us with history know all the whines of BTW's, brought to maturity by PsU fans in '94, and perfection by MeChicken whiners in '97.

You are a true son of Barfnecht.

Now we're falling back on 'technicalities' to prove a point? Fine. The last .14 seconds of that entire series of events (when he secured the ball as he fell on it) was skill. The other series of events leading up to that precise, blink of an eye moment, was luck. Celebrate your victory and go dance with a banana.

 

Back to the subject....Joe Dailey. I think he could have been the greatest college QB of all time!

I see, so Frost was "lucky" to even throw the pass?

opps!! mistaken--he was a freshman in fall of 71. senior fall of 75', the year they won the big eight. finished school spring of 76'. played with tony davis, vince ferragamo, wonder monds, etc...

Now we are zeroing on your dad!

Was he from California, or Colorado?

i think great teams make plays when they have to. officiating is part of the game. the only sad fact is that the cornhuskers dropped in the next week's poll despite a win, allowing michigan to squeak their butts in the picture.

Yes, it was a week of constant whining by Michigan, who beat an overrated PsU team. They especially whined about Wiggins "intentionally kicking the ball."

However, not long after, Michigan won a squeaker against a Ohio state team that beat them everywhere but the scoreboard.

OK, I have Ken Spaeth as the only senior TE of the 1977 squad, and you have give 6 years to chose from (1972-1977) to guess who your dad is.

So, I am thinking he's a 5 year player who completed his schooling in Spring 1977, but I can't find a Senior TE on the 1976 roster.

Good God, just let it go dude. The fact that Wiggins couldn't be "intentional" in direction, height or placement with the alleged "kick" just further proves the luck involved in this fluke play. He either meant to do it, or it was luck. You just said it was unintentional. Davison catching the ball was not luck. He was a good receiver. The odds that the ball would go right to him in the midst of all the Missouri defenders after an "unintentional" kick or flailing leg that made contact with the ball is where the luck is involved. The more you talk the deeper you dig. The few, the proud, the llama riders.

Davison adjusted. He reversed direction from his own route.

He outplayed the Mizzou defenders. That wasn't luck.

"Luck" would be that Wiggins kicked the ball, and a Mizzou defender tried to catch it, but batted it right to Davison. Or something like that.

The "catch" was a player making a play.

As Tom Osborne told Michelle Tafoya: "It's players."