This seems very familiar

[cb1954]

The way this football season has gone reminds me a lot of the way things use to be vs Oklahoma.

 

Last years regular season ended with a loss to Texas in the B12 Champ game.

From 1972-1987 NU ended the regular season or a bowl game (1978) with a loss to the Sooners - 13 of 16 years The only years the Huskers won vs OU were the 3 years Turner Gill was QB. and 1978 when NU won but then lost to OU in the Orange Bowl. (Gill was injured soph. year) 1976 NU also played Hawaii as a 12th game at end of reg. season.

 

This year everyone was looking forward to the season as a whole and especially the Texas game.

All those years NU was looking forward to the season and the of course the Oklahoma game

 

Tom Osborne was 5-12 vs Barry Switzer (1973-1988)

NU is 1-9 vs Texas since B12 started.

 

This year you could read articles on how Texas could not run the ball very well, and could not stop the running game. Pretty much the opposite happened.

Back then you would read aritlces about how OU running the wishbone fumbled a lot or could not throw the ball. Many years NU would fumble more than the Sooners and OU would throw a late pass to pull out a victory.

 

NU has 2 Big 12 Championships in 14 years (this year - 15th- isn't over yet)

From 1972-1987 NU won or shared 7 Big 12 Championships. 3 were shared with OU and the Sooners beat NU every one of those years except 1978 when NU won the regular season game but then lost the rematch in the Orange Bowl. NU also got the 1972 title because the Sooners had to forfeit 3 games. The only years the Huskers actually beat OU and won the Championship outright (except 78) were when Turner Gill was QB

 

Another stat - From 1972-1993 the Huskers won the last regular season game AND its bowl game twice, 1982 (when the refs gave the Penn State game and NC away) and 1976 when Hawaii was a 12th game at the end of the regular season, and NU beat Texas Tech in bowl game and avoided Osborne being fired. There were a lot of long winters.

 

To those of us that are a little older we've lived through this before. It still sucks, but you have to realize there was more to Nebraska football then T.O.s last 5 years. We survived then and we'll survive this. One can only wonder if the internet would have been around then.

[TheCheshireCat]

Really good post. I just hope we can fix whatever is wrong with the offense. Our defense is and will be good with Pelini. We need an O coordinator who can make the most of our talent, or a WR coach, or an O-line coach, or whatever the problem is. Something has to change.

[Sparker]

Would be interesting to know which position coaches were fired/quit/retired during that time and how much impact that had. I don't think most people are angry with Bo, but the OC/recievers/OL coaches.