Iowa won the 1958 MNC.
No. I think they are very pleased with how their program has developed over the last decade or so. At the moment, Iowa is a superior team to Nebraska. They are just really anxious to compete against Nebraska in the Big Ten, and think that they should probably get all their trash talking in quick before Nebraska rebounds. There isn't any "hate" yet. I believe there is a lot of rabble-rousing going on both sides because of the imminence of the upcoming competition and geographic proximity, but I think both sides are really too quick to label each other. Iowa is a vastly different culture from the yuppies in Colorado, and if you really wanted to, you could see this as a respectful-but-heated rivalry, but from what I have seen on Huskerboard, Nebraska's Big 12 habit is to adopt a policy of unregulated hatred of everyone covered by a veil of sanctimony. From what I see, you guys really want them to hate you. It makes you feel good.
I bolded the parts that I would 100% agree with! Ferentz really has the team on the right track and while we realize that Nebraska has MUCH more history than we do, our current teams look to be very similar and should lead to some really good games. I just wish that we had been playing for the last 10 years so that we could have padded that W/L record a little bit before you guys started playing solid football again
On a completely unrelated note - I just found out that I get to go to the NU/Texas game (and yes I even have an NU shirt to wear!!!)
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