Nebrask Dominance over Kansas

[Husker Big Guy]

first off, i think usc is pretty dominate. 2 NC's, 3 heisman's, top 5 recruiting, etc... it can be done, just not the 'old nebraska way.' there used to be over 100 scholarships, now there is 85 i believe. there used to be freshman teams (no freshman could play varsity), there were no limit to the number of 'part-time' and full-time coaches. there were more hours for coaches and players to meet. there were less games in a season. there were no conference championship games, etc... in other words, the 'college football' game was about kids (for nebraska, a lot of homegrown and walkons) going to a college and becoming great COLLEGE football players. with the abolition of the above rules it has become more of a professional atmosphere. kids want to play right away, or they transfer. coaches are on an extremely hot carousel, which means frequent changes and BIG money. less scholarships means no more stockpiling players and keeping very loyal kids in-state. less practice time means a quicker tempo and less developement for non-starters.

 

now that callahan has been in the college system a few years, i think we will see some great strides. i remember him saying the biggest difference from pro to college was the amount of time he could spend with the players. he needed players to step in and play NOW (hence the juco explosion). now that he has had time to sift through the wannabe's and redshirt for the future we can watch some developement and grow some local talent and find great players destined for the pro's mixed with loyal in-state and walk-ons who only want to be huskers. buy into the system and start a cycle of 5 star's with corn-feds and i think streaks will start to build again. k-state, ku, colorado, ISU--they don't have the luxury of our tradition. they will never compete year in and year out. they will go through what we have been going through every 5-7 years. we are lucky it's only been 3 years in 50. go big red.

Heismans and recruiting rankings have really nothing at all to do with dominance.

 

USC has already failed to achieve what NU achieved under Osborne.

 

NU's dominance will not happen again: not at NU, and not anywhere.

[DaveH]

 

I won't detail it all here. Partly, because the audience here is largely unfit for the discussion, preferring as it does, stupid pets tricks, and poker after dark, to solid football takes. And partly because it's all over, and why drag up what might have been?

 

Wow. Don't do us any favors or anything, bud. Thanks for the massively generalized, disparaging comments though