Keithen McCant article: A Husker Look Back

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Husker Look Back: Better late than neverBy Shane Gilster, Big Report Magazine, Posted Jun 23, 2012

Those who remember the 1991 Nebraska football season will remember a quarterback coming out of nowhere to lead the Huskers to their first Big Eight title and Orange Bowl birth since 1988.

Keithen McCant was a fifth-year senior who took over the starting QB job midway thru the first game of the season against Utah State and never gave it up.

In his previous seasons, McCant never went from being higher than No. 3 on the quarterback depth chart at NU, to being named first-team All-Big Eight and the conference’s offensive player of the year, completing 57.7 percent of his passes for more than 1,400 yards and 13 touchdowns, while rushing for more than 600 yards and seven touchdowns in his final year.

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“After my visit I was impressed, and thought Nebraska would be a good place to go to school. I was one of the top quarterbacks coming out of high school. It was ironic because I never ran the option offense. My high school team threw the ball. But I went to Nebraska because of Coach Osborne and the school itself. I wanted to get a good education and they gave me that.”

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It's surprising that McCant didn't run the option in high school. The guy was a natural at it.

 
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I love and hate that they have full Nebraska games on YouTube. Love it for obvious reasons, hate it because it makes me spend a lot more time at my computer than I probably should.

 
I'd forgotten what it was like to not have the score up on the screen all the time. It's kinda crazy that it took them so long to think of doing that. But maybe they thought more people would stay on the channel because they'd have to wait for the score to appear.

 
The Dude said:
I love and hate that they have full Nebraska games on YouTube. Love it for obvious reasons, hate it because it makes me spend a lot more time at my computer than I probably should.
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Ha ha! Yeah, me too. For exactly those reasons.

These old games are great. I remember a lot of the player names--like Keithen McCant--but can't really remember seeing them play. So these old games on youtube give me a chance to see them. It's like watching a classic old movie or something. :lol:

 
NUance said:
I remember a lot of the player names--like Keithen McCant--but can't really remember seeing them play.
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Calvin Jones and Derek Brown are the first RBs I remember watching

 
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The Dude said:
I love and hate that they have full Nebraska games on YouTube. Love it for obvious reasons, hate it because it makes me spend a lot more time at my computer than I probably should.
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Yep! I'm on the same boat. I got the other laptop hooked up to the bedroom T.V. and I run Husker games through Youtube onto the big screen. I have a ton of old Husker tapes too. I think I counted 106 tapes, and another bunch of DVD's. Each tape has 2-3 games on it. I bought the tapes from an older gentleman, and this guy actually took the time to record the games and pause the recording when there way a commercial or any other type of delay. It's nothing but play after play of Husker football. He even stopped recording when the analysts were going on their long rambles. I never get tired of watching the games from the 80's and 90's. I got em all the way up to 2003.

 
Moiraine said:
NUance said:
I remember a lot of the player names--like Keithen McCant--but can't really remember seeing them play.
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Calvin Jones and Derek Brown are the first RBs I remember watching
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Yeah, those are the first two I really remember, when I was living and dying with every Nebraska play. But the first guy I remember, when I was like four or five years old, was End-Zone Jones. I remember asking my dad like a million times why they called him that, and my dad would finally get frustrated and mutter "because he scores touchdowns, dammit. Let me watch the game."

 
Nebula said:
Moiraine said:
NUance said:
I remember a lot of the player names--like Keithen McCant--but can't really remember seeing them play.
Click to expand...
Calvin Jones and Derek Brown are the first RBs I remember watching
Click to expand...
Yeah, those are the first two I really remember, when I was living and dying with every Nebraska play. But the first guy I remember, when I was like four or five years old, was End-Zone Jones. I remember asking my dad like a million times why they called him that, and my dad would finally get frustrated and mutter "because he scores touchdowns, dammit. Let me watch the game."
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Ha! Oh yeah....he was fast as hell, huh? A home-run hitter.....

 
True to the Red.......Always said:
The Dude said:
I love and hate that they have full Nebraska games on YouTube. Love it for obvious reasons, hate it because it makes me spend a lot more time at my computer than I probably should.
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Yep! I'm on the same boat. I got the other laptop hooked up to the bedroom T.V. and I run Husker games through Youtube onto the big screen. I have a ton of old Husker tapes too. I think I counted 106 tapes, and another bunch of DVD's. Each tape has 2-3 games on it. I bought the tapes from an older gentleman, and this guy actually took the time to record the games and pause the recording when there way a commercial or any other type of delay. It's nothing but play after play of Husker football. He even stopped recording when the analysts were going on their long rambles. I never get tired of watching the games from the 80's and 90's. I got em all the way up to 2003.
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have you uploaded any to youtube? if not, please consider. i love coming across the full games from the 70's, 80's, and 90's.

 
huKSer said:
Moiraine said:
NUance said:
I remember a lot of the player names--like Keithen McCant--but can't really remember seeing them play.
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Calvin Jones and Derek Brown are the first RBs I remember watching
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Joe Orduna and Jeff Kinney are the first RBs I remember listening to - only ONE college game on TV a week
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And if you couldn't watch the Huskers on tv EVERYBODY was listening to the game on the radio! It was on at every grocery store/hardware store in town. Lyle Bremser, Kent Pavelka...great memories!

 
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