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It concerns me a little that a true freshman is good enough to see playing time. I think our WR and QB play will be the biggest factor if we are BCS bound or not.

 

I was saying the same thing back in 1997. Why on earth was that Davison guy starting as a true Frosh?

Bobby Newcombe too

watching the 2001 Husker offense, IDK why we fired Solich, great coach.

Easy to look good when you have Eric Crouch behind center. Had McBride stayed on as DC then Solich might still be coaching today. That being said, I'm glad we have Bo.

I don't always agree with what he says either, but he's made bold predictions before and been right. I remember before the 1999 season he picked Florida State and Virginia Tech to play in the National Title game. I thought he was crazy, as Virginia Tech was not a perennial power before that. Though it helped they had a freshman qb by the name of Michael Vick.

I had to listen to the 97 NU/MU game on a radio with static because I had to work. I work in a datacenter with heavily shielded walls and a group of us were gathered around the radio in the waning moments of the game. The way Pavelka called Davison's catch, it was unclear as to what really happened. I now work a Monday through Friday schedule and refuse to attend any weddings (from now on) that are on the same day as a game.

I thought Swain was announcing that year, maybe not, but the radio annoucer did originally call the pass incomplete. Not a great call on his part and the reason Musburger's call is always used in Husker highlight videos. I was actually at a CSU game that day, did not think the NU game would be that close. Ended up leaving the game early so I could catch the 2nd half of the closer than anticipated Husker game.

didn't read the list but when I think about painful losses I always thik of Mizzou. They had the "fifth down" game, and "the kick that was completely accidental and 100% within the rules " both aginast them and both cost mizzou the game and the other team went on to win the National title in those respective years

 

Yeah, those games must have been hard to swallow for Mizzou fans. That being said, I don't think Mizzou fans can complain too much about Wiggins kicking the ball considering the got by with an illegal pick play that scored a touchdown. I believe it was their last TD and I remember Dan Fouts pointing it out. There also should have been a pass interferance play on that last drive when Davidson was trying to catch a pass near the goaline. So, yes we were lucky, but to a smaller degree, they were too.

warfield was picked as much by the nebraska defender as he was by the MU receiver. And if you watch that play it is completely legal.

It wasn't legal according to Fouts, but it's been a while since I've seen the play myself.

For this team? Swifty. Or Mo, I guess, but Swift's a guy I can just root for more. Man, what a jolt to this sorry WR corps by a lot.

 

For defense, you'd be hard pressed not to say Suh, but we got some cogs on the DL. I think I'd bring back a safety. Minter maybe? Not too good on my Husker history at this position.

Minter a good one or Mike Brown.

 

Would be interesting to see what Farley could do in this defense.

Somehow forgot about Farley, I'd probably rather have him than Trev.

Big 12 North

1. Nebraska | 12-2 (Loses to Washington, Missouri. Wins Big 12 Championship vs. Oklahoma)

2. Missouri | 10-3 (Loses to Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Texas Tech)

3. Kansas State | 9-4 (Loses to Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Texas, Missouri)

4. Colorado | 7-6 (Loses to Georgia, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas State, Oklahoma, California)

5. Kansas | 6-7 (Loses to Georgia Tech, Kansas State, Texas A&M, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Missouri)

6. Iowa State | 4-9 (Loses to Iowa, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri)

 

Big 12 South

1. Oklahoma | 12-2 (Loses to Texas Tech. Loses Big 12 Championship vs. Nebraska)

2. Texas | 11-2 (Loses to Nebraska, Oklahoma)

3. Texas Tech | 10-3 (Loses to Texas, Arkansas, Houston)

4. Texas A&M | 9-4 (Loses to Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas)

5. Oklahoma State | 8-5 (Loses to Washington State, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma)

6. Baylor | 3-10 (Loses to TCU, Kansas, Texas Tech, Colorado, Kansas State, Texas, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Oklahoma)

 

 

I agree with everything except for your forecast on Baylor. Manhattan, have you ever seen Robert Griffin play?

Which game(s) on their schedule is one player the difference between a win and a loss?

IMO, Colorado and Kansas.

For offense I'd say Johnny Rodgers, it's been a while since we had an electric playmaker on offense. He could also help with special teams. On defense, I'd say Trev Alberts, we have not seen a dominating LB in a while either.

didn't read the list but when I think about painful losses I always thik of Mizzou. They had the "fifth down" game, and "the kick that was completely accidental and 100% within the rules " both aginast them and both cost mizzou the game and the other team went on to win the National title in those respective years

Yeah, those games must have been hard to swallow for Mizzou fans. That being said, I don't think Mizzou fans can complain too much about Wiggins kicking the ball considering the got by with an illegal pick play that scored a touchdown. I believe it was their last TD and I remember Dan Fouts pointing it out. There also should have been a pass interferance play on that last drive when Davidson was trying to catch a pass near the goaline. So, yes we were lucky, but to a smaller degree, they were too.

anyone know where to get a copy of this game anymore? Furthermore-any of the old school Nebraska games?

For the 1998 Orange Bowl I would recommend this http://cgi.ebay.com/Nebraska-Cornhuskers-Greatest-Games-5-DVD-Boxset-/360265299255?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item53e17c3537, cheap price and you get the original tv broadcats. It also has some bonus Husker videos with it.

For other games, this site seems to be pretty good. http://www.ioffer.com/i/nebraska-cornhusker-football-classics-on-dvd-1963-2009-46713481

2009 had more heartbreaks and more frustrating moments, but overall I thought it was the better season. It was the first time since 2001 that I though we were on the verge of getting back to becoming a national power. Granted we lost four games, but there were no blowouts and we could have easily been 12-1.

I was 10 yrs old at the 1987 OU NU game and it was very heartbreaking. I remember 'the boz' strutting on the field and crying my eyes out as the clock ticked to zero. That day sealed my fate as a die hard Cornhusker fan.

You must have been at the 1986 game, which was also painful, if you remember the Boz. By 1987 he was in Seattle getting ran over by the likes of Bo Jackson.

I do agree that the 1987 game was one of the most painful losses. Not sure how we got two home games in a row against OU, but they had come from behind the year before and beaten us in the final seconds. In 1987 they had their starting QB and RB out and they still came in and beat us. Nebraska had talked trash the whole week leading up to the game and then was shut down offensively after the first possession. To make matters worse it was the fourth loss in a row for NU against the Sooners and the second time in four years that we had been ranked #1 going into the game.

Oh well, OU fell apart after that game and TO only lost to OU one more time. It made those wins in the '90's that much sweeter.

If you're strictly looking at defense, then maybe. However, I don't think it will be the defense that will make or break it for us in 2010. In 1994, we returned a two year starter at QB who was the MVP to the prior year's bowl game. We returned a stud OL. We played for a NC in 1993, but not in 2009. We played for a Big 12 Championship in 2009. I'm hopeful that 2010 in like 1994 with regards to the Big 12 Championship game. I just don't think we're quite ready for the NC yet.

I don't think we're quite ready for the NC yet either, but I would love to be proven wrong. However, if you would have told me before the '94 season that we would win the NC despite losing Tommie for most of the year, and that we would have Matt Turman start on the road against K-State, I would not have believed that either.

Does anyone remember what happend to Farley after he left the team? If memory serves, I thought he just went back to Mississippi or Alabama and was never heard from again.

 

Not sure..

But this thread did get me interested in "whatever happened to Doug DuBose"

 

All I'm able to find is a couple years with the 49rs and these:

 

http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/doug-dubose

 

SPORTS

 

February 14, 1990

Irving Fryar of the New England Patriots, a former Nebraska football player, denied a published report that he shared cocaine with Doug DuBose, a troubled former Cornhusker star running back. "I used marijuana through college," Fryar told the Omaha World-Herald, "but I didn't use cocaine until after my senior year in college, right before I got into the pros."

SPORTS

 

February 7, 1990

University of Nebraska football Coach Tom Osborne confirmed that former running back Doug DuBose tested positive for drugs several times and was treated for drug use while at Nebraska. Osborne was responding to statements by DuBose published in the Hartford (Conn.) Courant. DuBose told the Courant that he twice tested positive for drugs, was never suspended from the team and accepted about $50,000 in gifts from Nebraska boosters over a five-year period.

SPORTS

 

February 5, 1990

Irving Fryar, a wide receiver for the New England Patriots, has acknowledged that he used cocaine while playing at the University of Nebraska, the Hartford Courant reported. Fryar also said he helped introduce Nebraska teammate Doug DuBose to the drug. Fryar's comments came in a story profiling DuBose, who went on to the NFL but is now out of the league because of a seven-year-old cocaine habit. Fryar, who claims to be drug-free, said of DuBose's situation: "That could so easily have been me."

SPORTS

 

49ers' DuBose Is Suspended by NFL as Part of League's Get-Tough Policy

August 5, 1988

Running back Doug DuBose of the San Francisco 49ers has been suspended by the National Football League for 30 days, apparently because he failed a league drug test, 49er Coach Bill Walsh announced Thursday at Rocklin, Calif. Walsh said that DuBose's suspension is the result of the NFL's new get-tough policy this season. "He has been placed on non-football injury status and will be unable to participate in a game for 30 days," Walsh said. "He most likely will be able to practice within two weeks.

 

Thanks Doug- way to make the Huskers shine

 

Pretty cool that the LA times archives go back this far.

 

How about Fryar?

 

Always wondered if he owed someone some money and tried to throw the MNC against Miami.

I've heard that about Fryar throwing the '84 Orange Bowl too, not sure if there's any truth to it though. He did drop that easy TD pass right before Jeff Smith scored the TD to bring us within 1 point. Maybe if he does catch that play Kenny Calhoun, who deflected the two point conversion pass, does not come off of Fryar on the play and Smith is able to catch the pass.... Regardless of if he actually did throw the game or not he has turned his life around from the drug use and last I heard he was a pastor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/31njcol.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

My dad said the Rams and The EAGLES are having talks to trade Michael Vick for the number one pick, the eagles were saying because they do want to take Suh. I dont know where this is supposed to be posted because its not a rumor

There has to be more involved (or at least I hope) Vick by himself in not even close to being worth a #1 pick. Heck he wasn't even worth it the first time he was drafted when the Chargers traded the #1 pick (which ended up being him) to Atlanta for two of their picks (which ended up being LT and Brees).

I had misgivings about that game. I remember how impressive Florida was throughout 2005, but I also remember that they hadn't played the same schedule we had played, and thinking we'd win - but in a close game. I figured we couldn't stop them from scoring but that we could shorten the game with our ball-control ground game.

 

We watched the game at the home of my wife's work buddy. Both she and her husband were Florida alums. After the first quarter I was not feeling too comfortable, but felt we weren't in any trouble. It was an exciting game.

 

After the second quarter, we spent most of halftime trying to cheer up our hosts with comments like, "You guys could come back..." and the like. I spent the whole second half holding in my glee.

 

 

One thing - Tommie gets way too much credit for "The Run." The Gators gave up on that play. That's pretty obvious. Yeah, he fought on and tore out of their grasp, but they were barely giving a half-hearted effort to bring him down. Florida's defense wasn't SO bad, nor was Tommie SO good, that he could break away from seven determined tacklers. It was just a case of a team being mentally and emotionally beaten, and Tommie and the Huskers at their peak.

 

Read the context of what I wrote, people. I never said Tommie Frazier wasn't good. It's ridiculous to gig my post if you're not reading it correctly. Sheesh.

Guys, knapplc has a valid point here. I can expand on it a little bit.

 

Yes, that run is probably one of the best plays in Cornhusker football history. And yes, a lot of what happened there had to do with Tommie being Tommie. But you also need to consider a couple of things.

 

1) That was the longest run Frazier had had all year up into that point. If that was "all him", why hadn't he done something as equally as impressive before that game? Don't read any more into that than what you have to. I'm just saying, that was a first for Tommie.

 

2) That score came when Nebraska was up 42-17 or something like that, giving Nebraska 49 points after the run. Does anybody really think Florida was trying their best at this point in the game? If you think so, you are severely mistaken. You try being down by 30+ points in one of the most important games of your life, and tell me how "motivated" you would be.

 

3) From the replays, you can tell a lot of the Florida players are going for the strip instead of the tackle. That also helped Tommie break free from some of those tackles.

 

So, I'm not saying that the run wasn't impressive or that I don't love to see it, because I do. I just think it's important to realize that came at a very vulnerable time for the Gators.

Good point, it was a great run, but Florida was severly beaten at that point and were going for the strip. Though it did not get the same attention that the Florida run did, I remember being amazed at Tommie's strength from a play earlier in the year vs. CU. In the 2nd Quarter Frazier was essentially blindsided by Greg Jones while dropping back to pass, Frazier managed to absorb the blow, pump fake, and get off a 35-yard pass down the sideline to Ahman Green. I still love watching that game, grew up in Colorado, so our victories over them were always a little extra special.

Yes, it was Gowdy and Corso.

 

http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1259327357

wow! i know this is a very old man thing to say, but the fact that someone (e.g. the person that found this link) either knew about this link or merely searched for it and easily found it on the internet still amazes me.

The power of Google....I'm guessing that it took a little while to compile the list though.

Check this place out:

 

http://www.onthefield.com/products/Custom-Nebraska-Home-Replica-Football-Jersey-Name-&-Number-69.95.html

 

$109.95 for the stitched ones. 10-15 day delivery.

 

Of course for all of your OTHER husker gear visit huskernation.com

 

I'll let this get a peek in the main forum for a while, then I'll be moving it to the classifieds.

I have looked for a few months on eBay and all that I can find is replicas going for around $70. That site above looks like a good deal, but I don't think the jerseys are authentic, just replicas with stiched number/letters. You used to be able to order authentic customizable jerseys from Husker Authentic, though I don't see that on their website anymore. You might want to call them to see if that's an option.

http://huskers.teamfanshop.com/

Yes, it was Gowdy and Corso.

http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1259327357

Terry Rodgers he looked impressive his first few games getting around 100's yards then he got injured (Knees if I remember).

 

 

Mike Grant came off the bench and looked like the next big time QB then he was injured and never looked the same again.

 

 

Some one said Mickey Joesph - He was exciting to watch until Oklahoma cheap shotted him into the bench after a 30 yard gain.

I thought the Oklahoma player was trying to keeping him from sliding into the bench and inadvertently injured Joseph. Seems like the field and sidelines were watered down due to the warm weather that day.

Of course it's been 19 years and I was a little kid at the time so my memory was a little fuzzy.

#1 Randy Stella. The guy was an absolute beast in terms of a physical specimen. Unfortunately, when God said brains he thought he said trains and said no thank you I'll take the bus. He had the ability to be one of it not the best ever LB here at Nebraska. #2 Richie Incognito. Pretty much the same reason as above. #3 Terry Rogers. I'm not sure how he would have panned out, but he did show glimmers of greatness before injury ended his football career. #4 Kenny Wilson. Pretty much the same reason as #3.

Though it's not his fault, we could have had Barry Sanders instead of Terry Rodgers. Coming out of high school Rodgers was ranked as as one of the best prospects while Sanders was thought to be too small.

Mickey Joesph QB was one of the best option QBs in high school

but just did OK with NU. His leg injury against OU didn't help

matters.

He never did live up to the hype, his hands were just too small.

Best part about this is the way these two areas work together. If the DBs have awesome coverage, then the D-line has more time to get to the QB. If the D-line gets to the QB quickly and/or destroys blockers, then the DBs have easier coverage and better chances to make tackles, picks, and deflections.

 

Thinking about next year keeps getting me amped up. Is it September yet?!

Agreed, they do go hand in hand, even the best DB's can only cover a WR for so long. As amazing as Suh (and the rest of the d-line) was against Texas it was impressive to watch the secondary. On many of the plays there was nowhere for McCoy to throw the ball.

Here's some trivia for you. Name the team that went into the bowls rated #3; #1 and #2 lost while that #3 team won their bowl game; yet in the final poll that #3 team finished ... #3.

1970 Nebraska (in the UPI Poll), we finished #1 in the AP Poll

This is crazy to think mccoy is a better pick but i hope it happens and suh ends up at a better franchise

Begs to ask if you really think the Lions, Bucs & Redskins are much better? None of those teams would pass on Suh if the Rams say 'no' to him. IMO he'd better off with the Rams than the Lions, but not necessarily the Bucs or Redskins.

I agree that he'd be better with the Rams, Steve Spagnuolo's a good defensive coach. The Redskins may not be bad as he would get to play alongside Haynesworth and Orakpo.