A house divided against itself cannot stand. Honest Abe Lincoln said that years before the Civil War. He borrowed the line, if you didn't already know, from Jesus.
Nebraska football pales in comparison to a budding Civil War or the fate of a man's soul. Let's not be too pithy here. But the Husker fan base had become split in the Bo Pelini era. The antipathy between the program – players, coaches, staff – and its perceived critics, be those fans or the media or whoever, grew as Pelini's tenure wore on.
You've heard the terms, right? Bolievers and Boleavers? Acolytes and critics alike waited for the other shoe to drop, waited to take up the debate again. Pelini's critics wanted to put the coach on trial. Pelini's defenders wanted to put the whole system – that is, all of what Nebraska football is and represents – on trial.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Well, Lincoln was sort of right.
http://www.omaha.com/huskers/mending-husker-fences/article_30233f1a-7b38-11e4-aaef-873fb38c967d.html
