Which means? Is that somehow not the truth? Is wanting to win a conference championship a negative or a sin?
Wanting to win isn't, everyone wants to win. Nebraska rubes bashing Iowa constantly about how your team is so much more dominant and how Iowa's beneath you is delusional. Unless you want to squawk about seasons that happened two decades ago.
Now I know how you feel as an Iowa fan.
I don't think you do.
And what, that will never change? You act as if the Riley era will never end or that the entire post Osborne era is the equivalent of Riley's 3 years.
Good lord man you guys just can't see through the fog, can you? It's not the Riley era. It's the Solich/Callahan/Pelini/Riley era.
Jesus Osborne retires, then you guys get a good coach in Solich and fire him after he wins a conference championship, 3 division titles, never had a losing record, and the firing came after a 10-3 season. What the F more do you want?
Then, as par for the Nebraska course, you hire a flaming turd to replace a good coach and Callahan (aka Mike Riley Sr.) runs your program into the ground and misses your first bowl games since the Nixon years. Better fire that slob and keep your streak of multiple head coaches on payroll going. What else you gonna do at that point, right?
Next let's bring in Bo Pelini and fire that guy after he wins more division titles than he lost, and never won less than 9 games. He was a dick no doubt, but you want to know why he bitched about your shit stain fans? Because they're shit stain fans. Fans who, in their infinite boredom and lack of other recreational activities, throw temper tantrums and heckle anyone who isn't Jesus Osborne and doesn't go undefeated every year. Guess what? Welcome to the Big Ten, where you have more than one full speed game against Oklahoma every year. Time for another coach to get checks for sitting on the couch (your HR and accounting departments must really love football).
Next up in a long line of genius decisions by the storied and famed Nebraska Athletic Department is to bring in the granddaddy of 'em all. Ol' Mike Riley. A guy who in his 5 years prior to Nebraska never finished higher than 5th in the PAC12 (one year), and never higher than 8th in the others. I won't bore you with the details of how that turned out. Must have been because Riley hired Crazy Bob Diaco who came from Iowa, right? Nah.
So...time to go for the record and put 3 head coaches on the payroll, and hire Dr. Tommy's redheaded stepchild, Jesus Ginger Jr. 'Cause that'll solve eeeeeeverything, right? We'll even make a comic book about him and get Billy Moos to tell those sons a bitches Harbaugh and Meyer where the bear shits (and then backtrack like a sissy when he gets called out on it).
Did Nebraska win more games than Iowa during that time? Sure. No one disputes that. But, as per the topic of the thread to this point, your team has been a bumbling, irrelevant chain of embarrassing decisions driven by the ridiculous fanbase for years. Fans who can't seem to get it in their heads that their team dwells in the bottom 4th of their conference, hasn't challenged a serious contender (let alone been one) in 15 years, and that Iowa, as shitty as we are, is better than Nebraska now. Not just a "flukey" better, either. We have more top tens, Conference CO-championships, 4 out of the last 5 against your squad, and in that time period outscored Nebraska 196-98, stolen your best in state recruits, had more players drafted, more first rounders, more pro bowlers, and more pro bowls total. Are we a blue blood? No way. And we can accept that.
Back in the corded phone days when Nebraska led us in all those categories you wouldn't think of being compared to a school like Iowa. So what's different now that the tables are turned? Nothing other than your fans' detachment from reality.
It isn't any less relevant than games that happened in 1995.
At least I was able to enjoy those years.
Lol. The Nebraska fan equivalent to "I know you are, but what am I"
