NUinID Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 the post I tried to quote was deleted.... But it is funny to me that Gene Chizik won a MNC very early in his head coaching career, unlike Saban and Miles, but Gene is the one currently fighting for his job. Yeah, it was real funny. What is his record without Cam Newton? What that shows is that 1 truely great player can really make that much of a difference. Braxton Miller is pretty close to that right now and in 2 years he will be very scary. Quote Link to comment
EbylHusker Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 I agree that Miller is going to be ridiculous in the coming years. Maybe he'll head for the NFL early...? Also Quote Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Osborne teams came out jittery and/or flat in plenty of big games, and for 20 years that was part of Tom Osborne's reputation. Even without the Internet, plenty of Huskers fans grumbled about Tom Osborne's job security. Here's a few: 1973: Oklahoma 27 Nebraska 0 #10 Nebraska never snapped the ball in Oklahoma territory the entire game 1975: Oklahoma 35 Nebraska 10 Nebraska was ranked #2. It was embarassing. 1977: Oklahoma 38 Nebraska 7 Nebraska fans were getting really tired of Switzer outcoaching Osborne 1985: Oklahoma 27 Nebraska 7 Nebraska was ranked #2. Ouch. 1988: UCLA 41 Nebraska 28 UCLA went up 28 - 0 on Nebraska turnovers and coasted. We were #2 at the time. Miami 23 Nebraska 3 We were getting the feeling that Nebraska couldn't hang with the big boys 1989 FSU 41 Nebraska 17 We were getting the feeling that Nebraska couldn't hang with any Florida school 1990 Oklahoma 45 Nebraska 10 And Oklahoma wasn't even ranked G-Tech 45 Nebraska 21 It wasn't even that close. Maybe our most embarassing bowl game. 1991 Miami 22 Nebraska 0 Zero? 1996 ASU 19 Nebraska 0 How did that '96 offense fail to score a point? Not suggesting the recent blowouts aren't more frequent or egregious, just want to correct the fallacy that this kind of thing never happened to Tom Osborne teams. It happened enough for Tom Osborne to feel the heat and almost bolt to Colorado in 1978. 1 Quote Link to comment
clyde40 Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 the post I tried to quote was deleted.... But it is funny to me that Gene Chizik won a MNC very early in his head coaching career, unlike Saban and Miles, but Gene is the one currently fighting for his job. Yeah, it was real funny. What is his record without Cam Newton? What that shows is that 1 truely great player can really make that much of a difference. Braxton Miller is pretty close to that right now and in 2 years he will be very scary. Also RG3 at Baylor, which is funny since in the "Name your coach" thread people mentioned Art Briles. Quote Link to comment
NUinID Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Osborne teams came out jittery and/or flat in plenty of big games, and for 20 years that was part of Tom Osborne's reputation. Even without the Internet, plenty of Huskers fans grumbled about Tom Osborne's job security. Here's a few: 1973: Oklahoma 27 Nebraska 0 #10 Nebraska never snapped the ball in Oklahoma territory the entire game 1975: Oklahoma 35 Nebraska 10 Nebraska was ranked #2. It was embarassing. 1977: Oklahoma 38 Nebraska 7 Nebraska fans were getting really tired of Switzer outcoaching Osborne 1985: Oklahoma 27 Nebraska 7 Nebraska was ranked #2. Ouch. 1988: UCLA 41 Nebraska 28 UCLA went up 28 - 0 on Nebraska turnovers and coasted. We were #2 at the time. Miami 23 Nebraska 3 We were getting the feeling that Nebraska couldn't hang with the big boys 1989 FSU 41 Nebraska 17 We were getting the feeling that Nebraska couldn't hang with any Florida school 1990 Oklahoma 45 Nebraska 10 And Oklahoma wasn't even ranked G-Tech 45 Nebraska 21 It wasn't even that close. Maybe our most embarassing bowl game. 1991 Miami 22 Nebraska 0 Zero? 1996 ASU 19 Nebraska 0 How did that '96 offense fail to score a point? Not suggesting the recent blowouts aren't more frequent or egregious, just want to correct the fallacy that this kind of thing never happened to Tom Osborne teams. It happened enough for Tom Osborne to feel the heat and almost bolt to Colorado in 1978. That UCLA game in 88 the score doesn't look all that bad, but If you watch the game, they show it on ESPN classic occationally, UCLA led Troy Aikman just killed NU. Terry Donehue took his foot off the gas big time in the second half. Quote Link to comment
T_O_Bull Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 I do hope this is the last time I waste my time reading ome of these long winded posts that claim to be well thought out but end up being pure drivel. first - People who compare Bo’s years here to the years Osborne had need to stop. TO's record - 255-49-3 regular season 12-13 bowls BP's record - 42-18 regular season 3-2 bowls second - TO never had any blowouts YR SCORE OPPONENT 73 27-0 Okla 75 35-10 Okla 77 38-7 Okla 78 20-3 Ala 85 27-7 Okla 88 41-28 UCLA 23-3 Miami 89 41-17 FSU 90 27-12 Colo 45-10 Okla 45-10 G. Tech 91 36-21 Wash 22-0 Miami 92 29-14 Wash 96 19-0 ASU Form now on do some research before you test your somewhat limited powers of observation. Now I can get back to something important, watching paint dry. T_O_B 1 Quote Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Imagine all the extra time you'd have had to watch paint dry if you'd bothered to read my post rather than duplicate it. 1 Quote Link to comment
HuskerShark Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 This is the OP: Quote Link to comment
T_O_Bull Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Imagine all the extra time you'd have had to watch paint dry if you'd bothered to read my post rather than duplicate it. Was putting my post up while you were posting. Thanks for confirming my research. T_O_B Quote Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 You threw in a couple that I hesitated to call blowouts, but certainly were disappointing losses. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 I was amused and informed by Guy Chamberlin and T_O_Bull's posts. Take note on how to post, suckas. These guys did it right. Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 I was amused and informed by Guy Chamberlin and T_O_Bull's posts. Take note on how to post, suckas. These guys did it right. Quote Link to comment
thatguy Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 I do hope this is the last time I waste my time reading ome of these long winded posts that claim to be well thought out but end up being pure drivel. first - People who compare Bo’s years here to the years Osborne had need to stop. TO's record - 255-49-3 regular season 12-13 bowls BP's record - 42-18 regular season 3-2 bowls second - TO never had any blowouts YR SCORE OPPONENT Form now on do some research before you test your somewhat limited powers of observation. Now I can get back to something important, watching paint dry. T_O_B perhaps my research wasn't extensive. but my whole argument is not founded on that argument of blowout losses. regardless of how they compare, bo's team issues are still quite glaring and fundamental, and it will require fundamental changes in mentality and/or personnel to fix them. hopefully not personnel. I suppose we'll see at the end of this season. Oh, and watching paint dry has a greater uncertainty than the performance of bo's teams against top 25 BCS teams. so go right ahead. it's probably more fun anyway. Quote Link to comment
Djab23 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 So your regretting hiring a head coach, with no previous experience who is still learning? I wish I was like all these doubters who could do the job and take us to a championship game year 1. With an inexperienced coach, you take strides, and most of Husker fans wouldn't understand that. Quite embarrassing too, having Husker fans on public blogs crying and demanding the firing of their head coach, let alone demanding that your starting QB should be benched. I don't regret it at all. Bo has the passion and the drive to do what is best for the program. Takes patience, and I don't think there is one coach who took their team to a National Title within their first 5 years, as their first HC'ing gig. If I am wrong, please let me know, but I have never heard, nor seen it. Expecting a new coach to take a bad team to the championship in year 1 is stupid. But who here thought Bo would be able to do that? I agree it takes patience to build back a program that was struggling but it’s been 5 years and we are a mediocre team. We consistently are one of the top teams in turnovers and penalties and it never fails we get blown out by teams that aren't that good. I can understand loses and I don’t complain about 9 or 10 wins, but it’s the blowouts and turnovers that I don’t understand. If we fire Bo now then no one will want to coach at Nebraska, next year will be different without Wisconsin or Ohio St on our regular schedule. But if we have these problems next year, Bo is definitely gone. Quote Link to comment
Count 'Bility Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 I do hope this is the last time I waste my time reading ome of these long winded posts that claim to be well thought out but end up being pure drivel. first - People who compare Bo’s years here to the years Osborne had need to stop. TO's record - 255-49-3 regular season 12-13 bowls BP's record - 42-18 regular season 3-2 bowls second - TO never had any blowouts YR SCORE OPPONENT 73 27-0 Okla 75 35-10 Okla 77 38-7 Okla 78 20-3 Ala 85 27-7 Okla 88 41-28 UCLA 23-3 Miami 89 41-17 FSU 90 27-12 Colo 45-10 Okla 45-10 G. Tech 91 36-21 Wash 22-0 Miami 92 29-14 Wash 96 19-0 ASU Form now on do some research before you test your somewhat limited powers of observation. Now I can get back to something important, watching paint dry. T_O_B I would also like to add that if you were to translate these scores into today's majority of up-tempo and/or no-huddle offense, some of these scores would have been a 50 spot laid on us. Maybe even a 60 or two. 1 Quote Link to comment
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