Chat with Eric Crouch on ESPN

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While we're judging players 10 years after the fact, Newcombe scrambled way too much and seemed even more hot-headed than Crouch.

and regardless of how selfish (or not) Crouch was, dissing him for not pitching the ball often enough is hilarious. You do what works, and him running the ball seemed to work pretty well.

Add to that the potential disaster of pitching the ball to guys like Danimal...well........let's just say him and our 2010 wrs had a lot in common.

So yeah, Crouch sucked so bad we won the BigXII, Played in a NC game and even beat Texas.

Since Frank & Crouch sucked soooooo bad, could someone tell me how many times we've done "any" of those things since?

 

[Joe_5700]

idk maybe im way out on a limb here, but the guy won a freaking heisman trophy while he was at nebraska and took the team to a MNC game!(granted he didnt win it)he also set 32 team records and had a great career winning percentage, and he did it with a less talented team then what the other great qbs in husker history had. give the guy a break! he played his butt off and represented the school well while he was here. maybe its just me but i dont think all this trash talking is even remotely necessary.

I don't think it's trash talking just that too many people are afraid to admit that Eric Crouch wasn't all that he was cracked up to be. They don't want to admit that there is a darker side to how Crouch got the qb job at Nebraska. Sure he may of put up good numbers and was a great player but at what cost? We never ran the option while he was here cause he never pitched the ball to the running back. If it wasn't a designed handoff the rb was never gonna get the ball in any situation. In fact if you stopped Crouch you had us beat. Before you start saying we didn't have any rb's we had a guy named correll buckhalter playing at the same time.

We should have had a NC in 1999... if it wasn't for the avalanche of fumbles. Did Colorado stop Crouch when they put 60+ on us? He was definately not a liability to the team like you seem to be implying.

I don't know if we could've beaten Florida St. Even with Michael Vick Virginia Tech still got beaten soundly. Miami stopped Crouch in the NCG. Miami showed class in the second half by not pouring it on.

Our 1999 defense was pretty sick. As long as we kept the turnovers down, we would have beaten FSU IMO.