Mark May picks NU over OSU?

[skersfan]

Tough act here, ESPN, Mark May says we win, we find a reason that that is bad.

Two people Nebraska fans seem to hate are Herbie and May, and normally both are spot on. So I am taking it as a postive.

We can not have it both ways, we whine either way it seems.

ESPN does not hate us more than any other team, and when we win we get credit, when we lose we deserve what we get. Just the way things are.

No idea which team shows up at Ohio State, hoping for the second half team of last week. Will just have to watch and see who is right.

 

[PIMPLE]

Didn't we say the same thing when he picked UCLA over us and looked what happened.........BTW I still think OSU will win......BIG

I've been sipping the koolaid over the week like fine scotch and now think we have a chance. Bo and company will eventually turn the corner and pull a tough one out in a hostile environment. This could be the one. We match up pretty good. D needs to show up.

If we win is it "turning the corner" or just us winning a good matchup?? We should win if you go by what husker fans have been saying for the last 10 years. They have a new coach and system...Ohio state has not looked that good to me, Cal should have beat them. We should not have lost 1 game this season with as bad as the big10 is...not if Bo is a top tier coach.

 

[skersfan]

Urban nor Bo win this game, it is the talent on the field and who is ready to play. I am sure Ohio State will come out ready to play, you just never know with Nebraska.

 

[Nebula]

1. ESPN is not anti-Nebraska

I think the whole "Greatest Team Ever" thing they did left permanent marks on the minds of some Husker fans. Herbstreit did get legitimately emotional over that deal, and in the process kind of denigrated Nebraska football. (A fan could perceive it that way at least. A Sun Devil fan probably got a chuckle out of it maybe, but if you love Nebraska, there is a good chance you could've taken it as an agitated, animated belittlement of the accomplishments achieved by some of the best Nebraska teams in history.) That's how I saw it at the time.

As years pass, I realize they can't all sit around and quietly agree on everything, because people will turn the channel. (Or that's the fear, I guess.) May and Alberts also perpetually acted like competing silverbacks during mating season every single halftime show or SC or whatever program they were on together. So whether the animosity was real or contrived, the end result was that May would unreasonably say negative things about Nebraska just as he'll needle Holtz about ND now out of the blue.

This is another formulaic strategy by that network though, as we all know. The "Adversaries." Like John Clayton and the "unfortunate cell picture" guy who's name eludes me at the moment. The vitriol between those two was laughably forced. It was almost unintentionally funny.

It's fake controversy mostly, and I agree: that network doesn't hate Nebraska. We have a huge fanbase. They're not stupid; they don't want to alienate those fans. The Herbstreit thing was a little different though. He turned real ire straight at the center of Nebraska football, and as he was becoming the face of that network's CFB programming at the time, it resonated. I was pissed about it.

Now I don't care at all. I just watch the games, and if Nebraska isn't on I typically don't have broadcast audio going at all. Jesse Palmer or The Rolling Stones? That's not a tough decision.

 

[California Husker]

1. ESPN is not anti-Nebraska

I think the whole "Greatest Team Ever" thing they did left permanent marks on the minds of some Husker fans. Herbstreit did get legitimately emotional become a whiny little b!^@h over that deal, and in the process kind of denigrated Nebraska football. (A fan could perceive it that way at least. A Sun Devil fan probably got a chuckle out of it maybe, but if you love Nebraska, there is a good chance you could've taken it as an agitated, animated belittlement of the accomplishments achieved by some of the best Nebraska teams in history.) That's how I saw it at the time.

As years pass, I realize they can't all sit around and quietly agree on everything, because people will turn the channel. (Or that's the fear, I guess.) May and Alberts also perpetually acted like competing silverbacks during mating season every single halftime show or SC or whatever program they were on together. So whether the animosity was real or contrived, the end result was that May would unreasonably say negative things about Nebraska just as he'll needle Holtz about ND now out of the blue.

This is another formulaic strategy by that network though, as we all know. The "Adversaries." Like John Clayton and the "unfortunate cell picture" guy who's name eludes me at the moment. The vitriol between those two was laughably forced. It was almost unintentionally funny.

It's fake controversy mostly, and I agree: that network doesn't hate Nebraska. We have a huge fanbase. They're not stupid; they don't want to alienate those fans. The Herbstreit thing was a little different though. He turned real ire straight at the center of Nebraska football, and as he was becoming the face of that network's CFB programming at the time, it resonated. I was pissed about it.

Now I don't care at all. I just watch the games, and if Nebraska isn't on I typically don't have broadcast audio going at all. Jesse Palmer or The Rolling Stones? That's not a tough decision.

fixed it for ya

...also, if the thing between May and Alberts was contrived, then May had to get tired of having to play the idiot every week (actually he is still playing that role...so maybe he never tires of it). :espnsucks:

 

[Nebula]

fixed it for ya

...also, if the thing between May and Alberts was contrived, then May had to get tired of having to play the idiot every week (actually he is still playing that role...so maybe he never tires of it). :espnsucks:

Gotta agree. Your analysis is more accurate. :lol:

 

[lo country]

Urban nor Bo win this game, it is the talent on the field and who is ready to play. I am sure Ohio State will come out ready to play, you just never know with Nebraska.

We have been Jekyll and Hyde for the previous 4 years and I see nothing indicating any difference this year. I just really hope we can put together a solid 4 quarters of play on both sides of the ball. If we do, I think we win.

I predict it will be a close win by NU or a loss in a blow out. I do not see us keeping close in a loss.

 

[FriendlyLurker2007]

first off :espnsucks: , second how can you not pick us to win with Choi on the team???

 

[Huskurz]

We wil win.

 

[HuskerThor]

Tough act here, ESPN, Mark May says we win, we find a reason that that is bad.

Two people Nebraska fans seem to hate are Herbie and May, and normally both are spot on. So I am taking it as a postive.

We can not have it both ways, we whine either way it seems.

ESPN does not hate us more than any other team, and when we win we get credit, when we lose we deserve what we get. Just the way things are.

No idea which team shows up at Ohio State, hoping for the second half team of last week. Will just have to watch and see who is right.

+1

Publicity is what we want. Right now it's positive pub, lets enjoy it.

 

[VectorVictor]

Mark May is still alive? Good for him!

His words are like a giant cabinet filled with VHS tapes holding every episode of Who's The Boss in it. Thoroughly useless. And kind of depressing, now that I think about it.

And what, pray tell, is "thoroughly useless. And kind of depressing..." about the above?

 

[Peoriahusker]

I'm watching USC play Utah and during the half time show saw that Mark May and Griese both picked NU over Ohio Sate! I know May almost always sides against us and I despise him in general. Kind of surprsing. ESPN seems anti-Nebraska as a whole. Hope he is right! By the way USC is over rated.

we're hosed

 

[Saunders]

 

[GM_Tood]

 

[Nebula]

Mark May is still alive? Good for him!

His words are like a giant cabinet filled with VHS tapes holding every episode of Who's The Boss in it. Thoroughly useless. And kind of depressing, now that I think about it.

And what, pray tell, is "thoroughly useless. And kind of depressing..." about the above?

I strike the term "useless" based upon above evidence.

Depressing because I remember watching that show as a kid, which in turn reminds me that I am now an old sad sack.