ColoradoHusk

I don' think he does have a clue. I think the MSU win, though many of the Kool-aid drinkers on here would believe otherwise, was a blind pig finding an acorn Its his historical MO. .500 team that somehow upsets a highly ranked team.... He is what he is and we are what we are with him at the helm.This. People wanted to believe after 2 games. They wanted to forget the first 9.

Wouldn't have been able to get the FG team on the field and get the kick off in time if they hadn't Bullcrap Whats bullcrap. If he Turner didn't get a first down then the clock didn't stop. They never would have gotten the FG team on and the kick off in seven seconds. And why not take the time out anyway, make sure everything and everyone is in place. Unlike the Illinoise game, that was actually good clock management. The clock stops when the time out is called. Period. Doesn't matter who is on the field, which down, etc. 11 year olds playing Madden know this. It's football clock management 101. This staff can't figure it out after hundreds of years experience. Are you saying that the timeout didn't need to be called or that he should have let it run down a few more seconds before calling a timeout?

The timeout needed to be called before NU's FG. If you want to nitpick, it could have been called with 3 seconds left to ensure it was the last play of the half.

9 straight FG's made for Drew Brown.

Brown has been nails in conference play.

Go Ducks???

Alex Lewis whiffed on the cut block on the pick 6.

You gotta work off that turkey and stuffing somehow.

He may shrink right out of it.RADAR's boner for Riley will keep him warm for a couple hours. He will need NU to keep it close to act as a fluffer.

I trimmed my beard and shaved it down to a goatee and sideburns last weekend. Yesterday I shaved my chin and have a very bad handlebar mustache going. Today I will go with just a sweet stache. Maybe my wife will want a mustache ride later tonight.

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Go Big Red!!! Thanks to all the seniors who have gone through tough times at NU with coaching changes and putting up with criticism of a season that hasn't gone their way.

Those are SWEET!!!

True. I agree that Nebraska has a few talented kids each year, it's just tough to scout them because of the competition level they are going up against. Meh. There's tons of great former Huskers who weren't from class 'A' who didn't play against so called 'tough' competition whatever that means. Osborne and his staff used to scout just fine actually in classes that weren't class A so if you only think of it in terms of who faces 'good competition' you're going to overlook a whole lot of talent in the end. I'm not saying NU should never offer those guys, but I am just saying it's tough to scout those guys. Recruiting is enough of a crap shoot. Recruiting big guys at small town schools is even more of a crap shoot. Yes, some of those guys are able to translate to high level college football, but a lot of them belong in FCS or D-2.

Zach Sterup says hello.

Thanks for the clarification! If you add 73, 76 and 77 to the 82 game, that's only 4 Black Fridays prior to 1990. When I was growing up in the 80s, NU always played OU in the last game of the regular season on the Saturday BEFORE Thanksgiving. There was that one year where NU played CU after the OU game. I think that game was moved to Thanksgiving weekend for TV purposes. NU didn't start having a regular Friday after Thanksgiving game until 1991. It started with OU, and then went to CU when the Big 12 was formed in 1996.

Huh? When did they play after Thanksgiving? Never, I'm pretty sure. Texas continued their game with A&M until A&M went to the SEC. We stopped playing Oklahoma every year since they were in a different division, that's why we stopped playing them after Thanksgiving. It wasn't going to be an annual game anymore. Yeah, Texas - OU is always the 2nd Saturday in October, because it's played during the Texas State Fair. The Cotton Bowl stadium is inside the Fairgrounds in Dallas. They have never played around Thanksgiving. OU now plays Okie State on Thanksgiving weekend, usually on Saturday.

Be sure to look up above to see how the Big 8 compared to the Big Ten back then. I'll add one more bit of research here (as I didn't above because I had focused on teams that were contending for the national title): Total (final AP) top 25 appearances for the Big 8 in that time period: 43 Total (final AP) top 25 appearances for the Big XII in the time period Nebraska was in it: 57 Total for the Big Ten: 39 before Penn State and 66 since (but still before Nebraska joined to make this comparison equal) Thanks for those facts. I don't mind being proven wrong with facts like that. Cool work.

Look, I get that Nebraskans are proud of the success that NU has attained in the past. I am super happy that NU won 3 national championships when I was attending UNL in the mid 90s. It was awesome!!! However, it is snobbish to still rely on those past accomplishments as proof of how great Nebraska is "currently" and that we can't accept Iowa as a rival. NU fans don't want to accept anyone as a rival, really. NU fans didn't take CU seriously, even when CU had a good of a 10-year run as anyone in college football in the late 80s to mid 90s. NU fans didn't want to accept Kansas State was a rival as KSU was making a push in the 90s and early 00's. NU fans didn't want to accept Missouri as a rival in the 00's. NU fans don't want to accept any Big Ten team as a rival, because we think that NU is "above" any of the Big Ten West opponents, even if the record shows that NU isn't. To me, that's snobbish behavior. Werent you born in Iowa? Nuff said! LOL, I was born in Omaha, thank you.

Look, I get that Nebraskans are proud of the success that NU has attained in the past. I am super happy that NU won 3 national championships when I was attending UNL in the mid 90s. It was awesome!!! However, it is snobbish to still rely on those past accomplishments as proof of how great Nebraska is "currently" and that we can't accept Iowa as a rival. NU fans don't want to accept anyone as a rival, really. NU fans didn't take CU seriously, even when CU had a good of a 10-year run as anyone in college football in the late 80s to mid 90s. NU fans didn't want to accept Kansas State was a rival as KSU was making a push in the 90s and early 00's. NU fans didn't want to accept Missouri as a rival in the 00's. NU fans don't want to accept any Big Ten team as a rival, because we think that NU is "above" any of the Big Ten West opponents, even if the record shows that NU isn't. To me, that's snobbish behavior.

I was mainly quoting Sam McKewon as he selected the "arbitrary" term of "since the 80s." I wouldn't trade places with Iowa.

Here are the season records since NU's last conference championship in 1999. NU wins NU losses Pct IA Wins IA Losses Pct 2000 10 2 0.833 3 9 0.250 2001 11 2 0.846 7 5 0.583 2002 7 7 0.500 11 2 0.846 2003 10 3 0.769 10 3 0.769 2004 5 6 0.455 11 2 0.846 2005 8 4 0.667 7 5 0.583 2006 9 5 0.643 6 7 0.462 2007 5 7 0.417 6 6 0.500 2008 9 4 0.692 9 4 0.692 2009 10 4 0.714 11 2 0.846 2010 10 4 0.714 8 5 0.615 2011 9 4 0.692 7 6 0.538 2012 10 4 0.714 4 8 0.333 2013 9 4 0.692 8 5 0.615 2014 9 4 0.692 7 6 0.538 2015 5 6 0.455 11 0 1.000 Total 136 70 0.660 126 75 0.627 It's not like NU is WAAAAYYYY better than Iowa since the turn of the century. If 2000 is taken away, the records are even more similar. I chose the period of the 80s-now, as Hayden Fry's first season at Iowa was 1979. NU had a better record in the 80s, but there could be an argument that NU played in a much weaker Big 8 conference. The weak Big 8 conference allowed NU to get "closer" to National Championships than Iowa did. Look, I hate Iowa too. But, the teams aren't that different than each other.

I'm not trying to discount the 90s for Nebraska. Just saying that Iowa is not so much different from NU in the past 35 years, especially the past 15 years.

Sam McKewon and Jon Nyatawa had a great conversation in this week's Pick 6 podcast regarding the "rivalry" of NU and Iowa. Sam makes the point that for most of the past 35 years, the 2 programs are very similar. In the 1980s, NU and Iowa were in the middle of the tenure of their "legendary" coaches at NU. TO was at NU and Fry was at Iowa. Both teams had some very good/great teams, but would constantly come up short. Iowa NU would lose big games to OU or CU at the end of the season, which would dash their championship hopes. Iowa would constantly come up short against Michigan or Ohio State in the hunt for the Big Ten title. Sam said that the 1985 Iowa team (with Chuck Long) was probably the best team in the country, but a loss to Ohio State when they were #1 and then a Rose Bowl loss to UCLA cost Iowa it's chance for the National Championship. The 90s, are where the two teams went separate paths. NU went to a higher level in TO's last few years and reached the pinnacle of college football, while Iowa "struggled" at the end of Fry's tenure, but still posted winning seasons. Since the turn of the century, NU and Iowa have almost the exact same record. Iowa has higher peaks with and lowers valleys, while NU has been pretty much the same 8, 9, 10 win team for the past 15 years (save for a few disastrous losing/.500 seasons). This year, Iowa is playing like how most NU fans want NU to play. They are playing smart, hard-nosed football. They limit mistakes and the kids are playing "above" their recruiting ranking. Yes, Iowa is taking advantage of a "weak" schedule, but Iowa can only play the teams that are on their schedule. NU has had a very similar schedule and have a much worse record. The only reason NU doesn't want to accept Iowa as a rival, is that NU fans are snobbish and don't want to put Iowa on a similar level. But other than a few years in the 90s, NU and Iowa have been similar programs the past 35 years.

True. I agree that Nebraska has a few talented kids each year, it's just tough to scout them because of the competition level they are going up against.