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Looks like I'll have to get up even earlier to begin pregamming

Found it fairly satisfying that Gabbert was most overrated quarterback.....

Wasn't the 1994 CU game that night game where it rained/sleeted the whole game

Ooooh, maybe the 1996 game vs CU? I was at that game- even in the middle of July it makes me cold just thinking about it! IIRC it was a day game as opposed to night but either way the sun was no where to be found.

 

The CU game I'm talking about was definitely a night game. I'm sure you're thinking of a different game.

 

 

Great video - thanks for posting that.

well the 94 game was in the middle of the day and it was 24-7 Nebraska. Colorado had hardly any first downs and was dominated pretty much the entire game. And the 96 game was during a sleet storm. I remember parts of I 80 were closed and it was a close sloppy contest final score I believe 17-12 just off the top of my head. Terrible conditions for football, the thing that stood out the most was the cu kicker was kicking barefoot. I don't know what night game of Colorado you were thinking off. Hopefully these help with the clarification.

Does anyone know if they have the authentic ones yet? With the tackle twill numbers...usually run bout $200. Thanks.

as much as i would like to see nu beat texas, i doubt it will happen....they out-recruit us..though the 2011 class is shaping up nicely

Your theory on Texas beating us based off recruiting is flawed. If this was the case our bill callahan era wouldve been much more productive than what it is. Bo pelini will have his players ready to go. Don't worry and start sippin the kool aid.

Just an FYI I've hung out with many over the 20 years plus I've been attending games. I just don't understand why numerous of topics continue to resurface from big 12 foes. Yes we understand you guys are upset and feel we betrayed you guys. Our apologies, but at the same time we did what's best for us. The same way 16 years ago the big 8 voted against Nebraska in every aspect and formed a new conference. The big 8 history was completely erased when we joined with the floundering swc. I undestand loyalties...etc but that left as soon as the conference was aligned. Look at ou they jumped ship and wanted Texas not Nebraska as their top rival. Yes husker fans in general have a bitter taste with the conference but honestly I'm tired of hearing other schools complain about our decision. Sorry I was a but irrational earlier but Jesus let it be. It's done with.

Wow, one bitter post on the anti NU side, and the whole thing goes in the crapper on both sides... I think a lot of people are caught up in the moment and a feeling the need to justify themselves. The smack hurling is not really becoming of anyone.

 

All I can say is that insulting others to make yourself feel better is childish and is not productive, unless of course those others are from KU/Mizzou fans, in which case it is a sworn duty to insult each other...

Well thats usually what happens when you come on a nebraska board....sorry ku football isnt interesting enough to have multiple conversations going.... i like yalls look at the bright side persepective though, you know the whole its football season till we get to conference play and lay goose eggs, but uh thats right yall are a basketball school, we see how much weight that pulls. Glad Billy Self can get up off his knees of AD and conference presidents across the nation, now he can focus all his attention on those longwhorns.

I dont think it'll be that big a deal. Look at when we were in the big 8. Never played Texas teams on the regular and could still get some studs ex turner gill. But as for traditional teams that went out the door when we established the big 12. It doesn't matter to anyone else we should just get out now.

eh lets just give them the bell....we already got three crystal balls to their zero

The only reasonable thing to do is add to the east, however itll be a challenge because if you want to add club seats your capacity is actually going to diminish since the seats take up more room. The south end there is nothing you can do especially with the technology and science classes that are in the old offices, an interesting idea i had for the east and some may not like it would be keeping what we have now making the top tier all club then adding a third balcony with what others on here have already said an exterior unit supporting the third balcony. Within the unit have a nice mix of the exterior walls looking like the east side but also incorporating the dome that is on that east side. One thing to consider is the room you have to build on that side though. Itll take away the tailgating area, probably have to relocate the sculpture and also the area between the northeast side and the track fence is not very wide so itll be a bit of work to fit all that in.

I don't think Nebraska will be going anywhere, Missouri could take a look at going to the Big Ten though, since Illinois and Iowa are right next door to them and would be good border wars for them. I think too many Nebraskans would be upset if we lost being in the same conference as Oklahoma...that has been our real rival, and it would be nice if we could come up with a scenario where we could play them again every season.

 

 

If Nebraska went to the Big Ten, they could still keep their rivalry with Oklahoma by scheduling an annual game with them, like Notre Dame and USC, or Florida and Florida State do.

 

I don't think that would ever happen personally...because I think neither school would want to have the other as an annual opponent at the start of the season unless they were basically forced to do it because who ever would lose that game would probably have their chances of a national championship that season quashed. This is unfortunate for the fans in one regard, but then I remember when we did play them every year, we had the attitude that if we lost a single game, our season was practically over in some regards.

 

I hate to say it, but the days of having a rivalry like what we had with Oklahoma is probably over. And with the shifting conferences, the NCAA will probably never have the same look and feel. To some regards this may be better, because there will be more competition, but then the days of one team being dominate are over...it was fun while it lasted.

This is not entirely true.... The florida florida state game is played at the end of the year around the same time we play colorado. So we could always fill the spot on the day after thanksgiving with Oklahoma instead of colorado, especially if we were to switch conferences. However the only conflict with that would be that bedlam would have to me moved to a different weekend, which many fans in oklahoma may not want. But just because we would have a non conference game against Oklahoma doesnt necessarily mean it has to be one of the powderpuffs at the beginning of the year. However we could have a game in the beginning of the year with them since we are always looking for one top 25 team to play non conference, because unless things get dramatically worse in Norman they should be a top 25 team for many years to come.

prior to the bcs style, its impossible to say what years (especially in the 80's) which games were truely national championship games, in that decade we usually played in the orange bowl if we won the big 8 there was no true 1 vs 2, however sometimes this worked out. And the arguement against about nebraska vs miami being better in the decades i would say that in the '80s miami had our number, we did play in a tougher conference with the matchup against ou basically determined who went to miami, however in the 90's no question nebraska was the team of the decade and i would take our 90's team against miami's '80s team. No one would come close to the 95 team, many believe this to be the best team ever. You look at the way we killed teams and also were classy about it. I dont know how many of you guys saw the u documentary on espn, it was sickening. Guys were straight thugs and played backyard ball. Our 90 teams were amazing and you look at the 94 orange bowl against florida state, if the refs would let our guys hit ward instead of bogus roughing the passer calls we would have easily won that game, 96 texas was a fluke and i think we still had the best team that season, and 99 texas just had our number or else we had another national championship.

Welcome to Husker Nation, and to answer your question there isnt one thing over the next thatll make you a better or more loyal fan. One thing I would say is that you need to be educated on the team and not have irrational comments towards the other teams, however I find myself making stupid remarks,but you must realize the tradtition that surrounds the program is built up from the last 4 decades so there would be alot to look up, thats why its not necessary to know all this. Its not like you grew up in the state and I like to see that we are getting a new fan base even when our team isnt the top 5 in the nation, however our fan base is far and above. If you know the fight song there are lyrics saying "we will stick together in all kinds of weather for dear old nebraska u", these words might be the best to sum up the way husker fans feel about their team. If you want a site to follow apart from huskerboard, I would suggest huskerpedia like someone else mentioned earlier, its got a lot of nebraska info from different news sites. Also I might suggest seeing if there is a alumni association up in canada that could possibly get the games on saturday. Good luck and welcome again! go big red!

I think as long as both teams are ranked top 10 no question it'll turn into a saturday night prime time game, with college gameday being there. And after experiencing what an atmosphere the oklahoma game produced this year, no question memorial stadium will be rockin and were probably looking at a record crowd for a beat down of texas, not to mention i just wanna hear what corso and crew wil have to say when nebraska sticks it to them. Obviously we will have to will then trap game in washington but you know players and coaches already have this game circled. I honestly cant wait for this game!

I know that I might get ripped apart for this but I had a few interesting ideas on the uniforms. First after watching our bowl game with arizona there was one thing that stood out about their uniforms that I thought we could possibly run with, their helmets. I dunno if anyone else noticed but it seemed like the A really stood out and I would assume it was because there was not a stripe down the middle so the A was the only thing on the helmet and drew all the attention. Id like to see us try that and again if it doesn't look good we can always fix it like the 2002 jerseys. Now about the jerseys, i personally like the ones we had from 1999-2001 which are the exact same as what we have now except for the word NEBRASKA was across the chest very small above the numbers so I wouldn't mind adding that again. However, what I would like to see are some jerseys, such as the alternate ones for the 300th come out about once a year. Thus exciting recruits because as a 19 year old I do like to see schools come out with different jerseys and I really think it excites kids also, because usually after a weekend that oregon brings out their 20th different uniform of the year guys are still talking about it at school. And I know that may upset some people but honestly, our glory days are nearly 15 years old so these recruits we are trying to pull in were 3-4 years old at that time, which im sure they can hardly remember, unless they have always grown up a husker fan were going to need something more to pull them in. I would honestly like to see some throw backs to the 70's when we wore the 2 white shoulder stripes. Also something that has been bugging me is the arrogance that fans portray on here about were nebraska and our tradition is way to good to change anything. Listen im the biggest husker fan as the next person, but when we have struggled the way we did in the middle part of this decade its just dumbfounding to listen to people constantly say this when schools such as LSU, Ohio State, and Florida, who all had a lot better seasons these past ten years compared to us, have all had alternate uniforms that they pull out from time to time. Honestly IMO the older generation needs to be a little more open to tweaks in the uniforms, itll bring excitement to the younger generation of husker fans as well as possibly be a factor in landing us some top caliber recruits.

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You see the thing is we won't have big 12 officials so the penetration that suh and that entire line will also be helped by numerous holding calls that the officials seemed to overlook the entire season. Good luck wildcats. Your gonna need it.

Obvious answer is to put suh in......

Im pretty sure that the only reason a second was added was so we didnt have to hear mac crying again talking to reporters after the game kinda like last years a&m game, pretty sure I saw his eyes watering as he held that finger up begging for a second to be put back on. I personally had a figer pointed right back at him.

And an interesting side note.... do you think your head queer, i mean hearder of steers is still begging for a playoff now that he whornes are in the NCG..... its just being on both sides of the ball so I would drop this conversation, go post it on the longhorns message board, complain about our hickness or how all we do is harvest corn, granted a longhorn isnt any more superior than a cornhusker, sorry we dont have the numerous boosters throwing money towards the program (or officials), instead all our accomplishments have been built of tradition and hard work, but dont bother us over here with that sh#t. We were respectful and gave you props now dont beat a dead cow.... thats our job on our board.

one last thing

all of husker nation. i call for us to all boycott the game. the bcs picked it and we all need to send a message.

 

please stand with me husker nation

 

Network Television Executive: "They're going to boycott the game in Nebraska"

Advertising Executive: "What's Nebraska?"

Network Television Executive: "They're going to boycott the game in Nebraska"

Advertising Executive: "What's Nebraska?"

Network Television Executive: "The Big 12 north team that actually made it to the championship game"

We don't have to blame anyone but ourselves for this loss.

 

106 yards of offense. That is why we lost this game.

 

First and goal from the 10 yard line, three points scored.

 

Six first downs.

 

Stop blaming the BCS or the officials. It starts and ends with us. We have enough integrity for that, don't we?

 

100% agree. I am rooting for Texas in the NC game. When did we become such sore losers as a fan base? If the roles were reversed, who would the majority of Texas fans be rooting for?

 

You're saying that if we would have won Saturday night and destroyed their hopes for a chance at the National Title that they would have rooted for us to win the Fiesta bowl? After their inability to get to the game last year? Forgive me if I'm skeptical.

 

You are forgiven. My point was what if we were headed to the NC game to play Alabama? I don't think Texas fans would be rooting for an Alabama victory.

would they root for us even if we got the extra second ...... sorry just had to add that.

We don't have to blame anyone but ourselves for this loss.

 

106 yards of offense. That is why we lost this game.

 

First and goal from the 10 yard line, three points scored.

 

Six first downs.

 

Stop blaming the BCS or the officials. It starts and ends with us. We have enough integrity for that, don't we?

completely agree here. This has been the story all year...look back to va tech. I mean if we get a td in either one of these games were winning it. Obviously our offense has major work to do and hopefully for our sake they will. But we still lost the game and honestly we shot ourself in the foot on that final drive Texas took the lead. With that said I'm just glad we are back to the point where in these big games we are being heartbroken rather than blown out. Sooner than later that'll change and we will be winning these games. Hopefully we do well against arizona and get suh a heisman.

GBR!!!!

Nebraska just made sport centers not top 10 for their false start against colorado, where it was called for everyone except the center.

Its amazing to see fro once Mizzou finally pulled out a win against a team that went 0-7 to finish out the season, nice of you to come back.

And dont be upset that we had an amazing 4th quarter comeback, sorry our punch to mizzou fans guts was stronger than those weatherspoon tries to give out during the game

basically, if you can not get into the top 9, you have no excuses in an 8 team playoff.

 

Are you kidding me.... because the 8th ranked team is so much better than the 9th ranked team.....especailly with biased rankings towards the SEC teams, for example youd be perfectly fine if Nebraska was ranked 9th behind 3 SEC teams....you would honestly say they dont deserve to be in the playoff especially if they were 10-2 losing in a conference championship game..... Ill call bullsh#t on that one.

this is crazy, a 9th ranked NU does not stand a chance to win it, so no i would not care. are you saying that you are fine with a 3rd loss NU? and i do not even know what spankytoes is talking about, i think he is thinking of a 4 team playoff. everyone needs to take a logic class and understand that your arguments against a playoff system are the same arguments, but much stronger, against the BCS.

if 9 feels like they get left out, who cares, there are 8 spots to play into and you did not make it. if 3 feels left out, as they often do now, they may be just as deserving or more deserving than 1-2.

the season is too long to allow one loss to ruin it for a team. the top 8 teams are there for various reasons...SOS, finishing strong, going undefeated, and they deserve a playoff.

the 8th team may or not be so much better than the 9th team, but the 3rd team is so much better than the 2nd team???

spankytoes says, you lose you pay the consequences, well i say 'you win, why should you still pay the consequences.' the regular season would be more exciting because a team would not be out of the race because of one early loss, or just one loss.

and you keep talking about undefeated teams, what about when 5-6 teams all have one loss. like OU loses to TTU, TTU loses to UT, and UT loses to OU...?

the top two teams is a much more contentious argument then the top 8 teams, especially when, for all practical matters, only the top 4-5 teams really have a chance.

No i was speaking theoretically and I agree with you and knapplc that there needs to be an improvement but not a playoff more so a +1 system for those teams remaining undefeated after their BCS games