Is this a fair assessment of Nebraska?

Texas 2010. This program has still not recovered from that massive failure. That was it. That was our real "back" moment. And we sh#t it down our leg. It's been a pretty inconsistent, and downright abismal at times, showing since. We can point to a&m 2010, but the wheels were already set in motion against Texas. Everything was in place to squash a struggling Texas like a bug and get our mojo back. It was right there on a silver platter for us, and we lost our appetite.

 
You beat me to it Account, relevance in whether a team is good or bad has nothing to do with how much they talk about you. Texas hasn't been relevant since they lost to Alabama in the BCS game in what 2008? Yet they still talk about them incessantly. Now they will spend the next 3 months talking about what is wrong with Texas and who will be the next coach. You can throw USC into that mix also.

Nebraska has gotten very little respect over the last few years and they really haven't earn any, but to drop a team two weeks in a row in the AP pole after winning games is ridiculous. But to jump a Miami team from no where to 15 in the pole is also ridiculous.

I have no problem with Nebraska not being talked about because they haven't earned that right. I just have a big problem with the media talking about Texas or USC or Miami when they really haven't earned the right either.

It really is about how many butts you put in front of the TV set that matters as far as how much you are talked about.

 
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
I am I said:
Also, some kid who "doesn't know where Nebraska is". That's kinda stupid.
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It's also very common.
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I agree, why is this such a hard thing to believe? I am sure most kids aren't studying geography to know exactly where those U.S. states are.

I also love how people get all bent out of shape when non-Nebraskans say that the state is nothing but farmers and corn fields. I am in my upper 30s, and I have never been to Mississippi and Alabama. I would have no idea what those states are like. Shoot, I grew up in Omaha, and hadn't gone further west than Lincoln for most of my life.

 
As far as ankrah sharing that he did not know where nebraska was prior to attending... i prefer to leave that alone. I dont see any positives in dwelling on the fact that one of our players had trouble with 5th grade geography

 
I think this article is solid. Basically comes down to anytime we have a 'big' game, we don't win. Plain and simple --Time to sack up and restore order this Saturday and carry the MO to Ann Arbor

 
That sentiment still bugs me. I would rephrase it like this:

Any time we have a 'big' game, our performances are inconsistent. However, the 'biggest' games have an all too consistent theme of not coming to play.

We have won big games - Missouri in the rain and in 2010, Oklahoma State, Michigan State in 2011, etc. It's just the biggest stage where we always seem to falter. It's weird, too, because it goes back through three coaching staffs. What gives?

 
Had this conversation with a guy the other day, mainly in regards to recruiting, the alternate uniforms, the marketing and all that crap. We were discussing how so many Nebraska fans brush off the uniforms as non-important, or the little things that recruits care about. He has kids in middle-school. He said (keep in mind I live in KC) - "Go ask your wife's kids (she teaches middle school) who their favorite team is. They'll tell you KU, or KState, or MU. But ask them who their second favorite team is, and they'll tell you Oregon almost every time". The uniforms and the "relevancy" isn't about getting this years recruits in the door, or next years even. It's about laying a foundation for recruiting kids that are 8, 10, 12 years old today. The loss of relevancy may not be felt today, but I guarantee you it will begin to be felt as time goes on. If you live in Nebraska, you can't understand it....because every kid's favorite team is still NU. Get outside the state lines, and the opinion of Nebraska has DRASTICALLY shifted over the last 10 years. We're now on an equal pedestal with KState, MU, Iowa, etc. That was never the case. We're just another midwest team.

 
RedRedJarvisRedwhine said:
StPaulHusker said:
The Dude said:
Joe_5700 said:
Perhaps Ankrah's comment was a little bit tongue in cheek?
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Or he simply didn't know where Nebraska is, just like millions of Americans.
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I am a Steelers fan. I worked with a guy (living in Minnesota) that thought Nebraska bordered Pennsylvania. Not joking. We have very uneducated people in this country.
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uneducated or stupid
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Why would it make you stupid not knowing where a state is? Are human beings supposed to be born with an innate ability to cognitively perceive government-determined boundaries of land?

 
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
RedRedJarvisRedwhine said:
StPaulHusker said:
The Dude said:
Joe_5700 said:
Perhaps Ankrah's comment was a little bit tongue in cheek?
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Or he simply didn't know where Nebraska is, just like millions of Americans.
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I am a Steelers fan. I worked with a guy (living in Minnesota) that thought Nebraska bordered Pennsylvania. Not joking. We have very uneducated people in this country.
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uneducated or stupid
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Why would it make you stupid not knowing where a state is? Are human beings supposed to be born with an innate ability to cognitively perceive government-determined boundaries of land?
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Not born. But a 30 yr old man who graduated from HS should know where the states are located.

 
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