Here We Go Again at Nebraska....

hawkod said:
New AD (Bill Moos) states Nebraska needs to be mentioned in the same breath as the top 3-5 athletic programs nationally:
http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...hington-state-bill-moos-new-athletic-director
At least he's saying what the faithful want to hear.
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Who was the Nebraska coach who was talking about beating OSU, Michigan, Penn St.? Nebraska needs to try to compete with Wisconsin and Iowa, they are completely lacking of any kind of identity. This AD hire isn't going to change anything.
 
What Herbie Husker will never realize or at least appreciate is the two primary reasons Big Red was ever good was a decent head coach (Osborne) and the fact they competed for decades in a really weak conference (Big Eight).

Those days are long gone, never to be repeated. Nebraska will forever be a middle-of-the-Road program stuck in the cold, snowy Midwest many hundreds of miles from a large urban center from which it might be able to recruit talented athletes.
 
tweeterhawk said:
What Herbie Husker will never realize or at least appreciate is the two primary reasons Big Red was ever good was a decent head coach (Osborne) and the fact they competed for decades in a really weak conference (Big Eight).

Those days are long gone, never to be repeated. Nebraska will forever be a middle-of-the-Road program stuck in the cold, snowy Midwest many hundreds of miles from a large urban center from which it might be able to recruit talented athletes.
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I remember when some of the Husker fans thought they could dominate the Big Ten, Legends as it was then, when the Huskers made the move. The B1G is competitive. No Saturday's are free. You can't buy your tickets to Indy in August in the B1G. It's not the B12 North.
 
Of the four teams added two of them thought it would be easy to win championships every year and everyone is scratching there heads on why we took the other two,I know money.
 
The tortuous purgatory of wildly flailing and grasping at hope to return to glory that has already slipped away couldn't happen to a nicer fan base.
 
HawkeyeDenis said:
I remember when some of the Husker fans thought they could dominate the Big Ten, Legends as it was then, when the Huskers made the move. The B1G is competitive. No Saturday's are free. You can't buy your tickets to Indy in August in the B1G. It's not the B12 North.
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Penn St did as well when they came in. They thought they would just dominate every year. Exactly correct that they don't know who they are. A team has to have stout lines in the BIG. That was the mistake with Mike Riley, he thought he'd come in and get WR's and a QB and win. Not going to happen. To good of defenses on a weekly basis.

After a bunch of 3 and outs with your QB & WR's, not a lot of time runs off the clock and out goes your D again to get gassed and gashed, over the course of a game.
 
deanvogs said:
Who was the Nebraska coach who was talking about beating OSU, Michigan, Penn St.? Nebraska needs to try to compete with Wisconsin and Iowa, they are completely lacking of any kind of identity. This AD hire isn't going to change anything.
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Are you saying Wisky and Iowa are OSU, M, and PSU? I would argue that save this year maybe, Iowa has been PSU and maybe M in the past 10 or so.
 
tweeterhawk said:
What Herbie Husker will never realize or at least appreciate is the two primary reasons Big Red was ever good was a decent head coach (Osborne) and the fact they competed for decades in a really weak conference (Big Eight).

Those days are long gone, never to be repeated. Nebraska will forever be a middle-of-the-Road program stuck in the cold, snowy Midwest many hundreds of miles from a large urban center from which it might be able to recruit talented athletes.
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Bingo and don't forget about them not being able to have over a 100 kids on scholarship anymore.
 
The challenge for Nebraska (and Iowa, of course) is recruiting the truly elite athletes, the one or two difference makers that push a team into elite status. Ohio State can do it on a regular basis. Penn State certainly did it with Barkley. You saw it Saturday (again): Ohio St 56 Neb 14 and it wasn't that close.

Reilly will be fired at the end of the year and then they will be starting over again
 
I have a feeling he was hired to try to get either Scott Frost or Chip Kelly. I think Chip Kelly was OC when he was AD at Oregon. Also, he isn't going to fire Riley mid season, pretty clear from his Q&A with the press.
 
Nebraska was part of the vanguard of PEDs...before it was tested, before many people were aware of it, before anyone cared...

Nebraska made a living off of risky California athletes...who "made the grade" in the Nebraska "academics"...

Nebraska played cupcakes for most of the season in the old days...

The Husker Machine was able to protect players involved in rapes, theft, fraud, etc...

Things have changed...there you have it...
 
revkev73 said:
Nebraska was part of the vanguard of PEDs...before it was tested, before many people were aware of it, before anyone cared...

Nebraska made a living off of risky California athletes...who "made the grade" in the Nebraska "academics"...

Nebraska played cupcakes for most of the season in the old days...

The Husker Machine was able to protect players involved in rapes, theft, fraud, etc...

Things have changed...there you have it...
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If they were in southeast they'd be fine. But as it is, they are out in the middle of the corn belt. The recruiting repeatability is a bit more precarious.
 
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