Everybody just needs to settle down and...

[Mavric]

Wouldn't a more appropriate gauge of an offense's effectiveness in the B1G in November be a comparison of those offenses in the month of November rather than the entire year?

Your hunch is probably correct - Wisconsin's offense is probably more effective than Nebraska's in November, mainly because they run the ball. But I'd be curious to see what the data say.

It would.  But I don't think anyone wants to look at our offense from last November.  

 

[passranch]

Good points. But we are getting to a point in time where all of the younger fans and the future of Nebraska football fans won't know of the glory days and just know Nebraska football as 8-4, 9-3, 10-4 type seasons. There are players on the team that weren't even around for the '94-'95 seasons and too young to remember 1997. This goes on long enough and fans become complacent with the 8-4 type years and less and less money gets dumped into the program and 25 years from now Nebraska is Minnesota.

Most of the players on the team right now were not even born in '97. 

None of the students at the university were old enough to remember anything other than the most basic childhood memories of 90's dominance.

Yet, our program is making massive amounts of money - way more than we ever have. We're essentially printing our own cash. 

Yeah, truly - money isn't the reason Minnesota fell from their perch.  The Vikings are.

Did you know that in 1961, the year the Vikings started play in Minneapolis, the Gophers won their 7th (and last) National Championship?  That was more National titles than Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio State or USC had by then.  Tied them with Notre Dame (at the time) and it is still more titles than Nebraska, Texas or Penn State have to this day.

My theory is that if the Vikings had never happened we might think of Minnesota in the same vein as Alabama right now.  It is also possible that our rise to national prominence post WW2 is in some way connected...