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First of all welcome to this board. It is the best Husker Message Board!!! You may want to visit the Husker homepage Here There are links to lots of articles etc. and you can access the media guide which has tons of info. There are many good websites, here is one that might be of interest Link

5 ? Geez I'm getting old, I remember games from the mid 60s. Oh well its worth it to remember Johnny the Jet playing in early 70s

Ding Ding Ding - Correct Answer!! With SP he (the young T.O.) would have been fired.

Now that some of the less important things are behind us, like the regular season and recruiting, its time for this unbiased poll. I posted an article a few weeks ago about Eastern Washington planning on putting in a red field. (its my first poll so I hope I don't mess it up)

I started this topic, mainly because its slow this time of year, and also because if you are under the age of 40 or so, you might not remember when Osborne was not as highly thought of as he was at the end of his career. Devaney was very sucessful and popular from the start, and Tom was somewhat thought of as not being as good as the Bobfather. He also was looked at as not being able to win the big game. Of course you go back to the end of the 1968 season, there was a petition to fire Devaney. (fans) But just think how NU fans would feel now if Bo interviewed for the Colorado job like Tom did. Tom says in his book that he went there with the intention of probably taking the job, but decided he couldn't after thinking about the players he had recruited for NU. Anyway here is a link to a page where I saved the article about Tom almost being fired. Link

Would T.O. make it as a head coach today? No, I don’t mean at his age right now. I don’t even mean the coach who was 60-3 over a 5 year period. I’m talking about Osborne when he first started. In 1973 Tom took over from Bob Devaney who had been the modern day savior of Nebraska Football. Under the Bobfather, the Huskers had been National Champion 2 of the previous 3 years, won 3 of the 4 Big 8 Championships (and the 4th by forfeit). NU also had at one time had a 32 game unbeaten string. Devaney was 40-2-2 in his last 44 games. Bob won 7 Big 8 Championships in 11 years and an 8th from a forfeit. Osborne from 1973-1976 had a good winning record of 37-10-2, which at the time was just outside the top 10 major college best records for those years. Huskers shared the Big 8 crown with OU in 1975 although they lost to the Sooners 35-10. No National Championships. Huskers rallied to beat Texas Tech in the Astro Blue Bonnet Bowl or Tom would have been fired, according to a NU Regent who told him afterward. Add 2 more seasons and NU has the 11th best winning % in the country, there is one more Big 8 Championship shared with OU, and Nebraska won that year 17-14, but lost the rematch in the Orange Bowl. Osborne even traveled to Boulder to interview for the Colorado head coaching job. (don’t think there wasn’t a long line of people willing to help him move). Add 2 more years and a couple more losses to Oklahoma. By then Nebraska is #9 in the country for winning %. So in his first 8 years Tom has a good record but no NC’s, a couple shared Big 8 Championships, and a 1-9 record vs. Barry Switzer and the Sooners. Would that cut it today?

Nice video of 83 Kickoff Classic. My favorite uniforms. Also on the right side you should see a link to - Who is College Football's best team of all-time? and from there another to Best All Time Football Program. Link - Video

Yeah if I still lived in Omaha/Lincoln area I could probably find info at the library archives of papers etc. Out here in Spokane WA it hardly makes the paper. I could do some online but someone at the paper has to guess what I want and then there is a charge. Maybe someday on vacation I'll go back. Probably out there somewhere online if I could just find it. Have a least some for most years back to the early 80s. Before that there was not much anyway.

Yes, SuperPrep / with Allen Wallace became part of Scout. I just have Wallace/SuperPrep listed on his own prior to 2002. I have a copy of the post you mention. I am mostly looking for Lemming and Emfinger now, or anything else prior to Rivals and Scout starting. Bobby Burton and National Recruiting Advisor became part of Rivals. Emfinger has been around for a long time.

I like the power running game out of the I, with some option. Nebraska really only ran option plays about 25% of the time back in the day. NU rarely if ever ran a true triple option.

For what its worth, I've got a page on a site that shows many of the past unifroms. Personally I liked the early 80s but most people probably think they're to plain. Uniforms

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Article compares recruiting class rankings from 2004-2008 vs wins on field Article Link

Pretty sure this has been posted before, but the best team of all time is currently a distant third. (but they should also have 1971 NU) VOTE VOTE

Welcome!! This is the best Husker board!! Good people, (for the most part)

I have a site and on one of the pages I am trying to find as many class rankings for past NU classes as I can. (down the page) If you have any to add or correct let me know. Recruting

Hope this has not already been posted. This link lists all the states by the # of recruits that signed D1A/FBS LOI. NE could of had a few more that chose to walk-on to NU Link Article

If you haven't read it, I would reccomend the book "The Nebraska Way" by Johathan Crowl. Written shortly before the 2007 season. Talks a lot about SP and BC and all the changes.

This writer does the top 15 CFB recruiting classes of all time. Most NU fans will probablly agree with #2. Article Link

Mike Rozier no question. Had power, speed, moves, good hands. Saved the 82 Mizzu game coming off the bench hurt.

The Huskers have had some very good ones over the years. Its a little hard to compare QBs from different eras and offenses, but my favorite would be Turner Gill. Great combination of running and passing along with leadership. His record was 28-2 as a starter and the 2 losses were by a few inches and a few seconds, that would have been NC seasons.

Only one? Thats tough. Probably the Orange Bowl loss vs Miami after the 1983 season. That was a great team that should have had a NC. It hurt bad for a long time.

Article Here Live in Spokane WA area and heard about this. I am not in favor of red field in Lincoln for what its worth ____________________________________________________________________________________________- Boise State has its infamous "Smurf Turf," and Nebraska has what it likes to call the "Sea of Red" to describe the vast crowd inside Lincoln's Memorial Stadium. As of next fall, though, neither of them will have anything on I-AA Eastern Washington, which announced plans Wednesday to install an actual field of red: Taking a cue from Boise State's famous blue turf, Eastern Washington is planning to install an artificial red playing surface inside its football stadium. The Big Sky program's official school colors are red and white. Former EWU star Michael Roos, now in the NFL with the Tennessee Titans, has pledged $500,000 toward the "Red Turf Project.'' School officials in Cheney hope to raise additional private money and have the field installed for the 2010 season. [...] "There is no doubt that one of Boise State's claims to fame has been their blue turf and like it or dislike it, it has certainly brought them a tremendous amount of notoriety," EWU athletic director Bill Chaves said. "In a similar vein we have a tremendous opportunity at Eastern to do the same by differentiating ourselves with the red turf while providing a superior playing surface." The NCAA has no provision addressing the color of playing surfaces -- at least not yet -- because it hasn't had to consider the issue outside of the relatively obscure venues at Boise State and Division II University of New Haven, which installed its own blue turf last year. If it goes through with it, then, EWU's lava motif will be breaking ground on what promises to be a run on multi-colored turf by publicity-starved schools across the country; eventually, somebody somewhere is going to go with black. (I'm looking at you, Idaho.) Until then, Woodward Field, thy name is "Blood."

At last the best Nebraska message board is back!! I have page that compares Suh and other past interior dlinemen Dlinemen

Second year in a row the wife has picked more bowl winners than me, and she picks on team colors, where they are from, mascots, who she does or does not like etc. Some of the teams she never even heard of.