Omaha Weird Harold article

[kcbob79clone]

Who knew we owe our success, as does the HoKKKs and others, to the demise of Cornhusker football!

Chatelain: Patience paid off for Iowa and Iowa State fans. It could for Nebraska, too

Accept it or not, Iowa and Iowa State represent the best rebuttal to national critics who claim Nebraska can’t win big anymore, writes Dirk Chatelain.

omaha.com

 

[usedcarguy]

They still haven't hit rock bottom yet. LOL

 

[JM4CY]

The can compare all they want. Their problems are between their own ears.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Ha. ******* loosers.

 

[NWICY]

Can two nine win coaches you deserve all the bad Karma that rolls your way. Arrogant bastards.

 

[Neptune78]

Fans from the state of Iowa pulling for the Huskers....LOL

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

hosting a critical game against Buffalo

LOL when a game against Buffalo is considered a critical game.

I doubt there are many, if any, Cyclone fans telling Husker fans to be patient and things will get better. They could go 0-120 over the next 10 seasons and I wouldn't feel sorry for them.

 

[Lineup]

huck the fuskers

 

[AuH2O]

I think it's hard for these programs that were once good but don't have local recruiting advantages to grasp that the things that made it a great job and made a rebound easy are largely gone:
- On TV every game? Now everyone is.
- Allowing partial qualifiers? Not anymore.
- Great facilities? Almost everyone has them, or at least good enough that it no longer tips the recruiting scales very much.
- Lots of money to pay coaches? So does everybody else
- History of winning? Not recently enough that anybody they are recruiting remembers

 

[JM4CY]

Fans from the state of Iowa pulling for the Huskers....LOL

Ya, no. Not a snowballs chance in hell.

 

[madguy30]

I think it's hard for these programs that were once good but don't have local recruiting advantages to grasp that the things that made it a great job and made a rebound easy are largely gone:
- On TV every game? Now everyone is.
- Allowing partial qualifiers? Not anymore.
- Great facilities? Almost everyone has them, or at least good enough that it no longer tips the recruiting scales very much.
- Lots of money to pay coaches? So does everybody else
- History of winning? Not recently enough that anybody they are recruiting remembers

Especially when that winning was done with a brand of football that's basically obsolete (triple option).

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Well, thank gawd that Nebraska decided to suck so we could finally succeed. JFC

"Nebraska’s collapse over the past 20 years has opened the door to some fascinating breakthroughs, first at Kansas State in the early 2000s, then Missouri and Kansas in the late 2000s. You might argue that Minnesota, Northwestern and the Iowa schools have benefitted, too.

Does Campbell lure three All-America candidates to Ames if Nebraska is a top-10 team? Doubtful."

 

[CYTUTT]

It is still perplexing. Nebraska was on par with OU. This is a classic case of SERIOUS mismanagement! Glad to see it, all things considered.

 

[cychhosis]

Especially when that winning was done with a brand of football that's basically obsolete (triple option).

If they would have stayed with that, they could have recruited that niche well.

 

[Selmak The Tok'Ra]

Who knew we owe our success, as does the HoKKKs and others, to the demise of Cornhusker football!

Chatelain: Patience paid off for Iowa and Iowa State fans. It could for Nebraska, too

Accept it or not, Iowa and Iowa State represent the best rebuttal to national critics who claim Nebraska can’t win big anymore, writes Dirk Chatelain.

omaha.com

The shouldn't have canned Solich when they did.

Screw Nebraska.

I hope Frost stays there forever.

 

[BryceC]

I honestly can't believe this article I just read it. He must have really gone out of his way to find somebody that was telling them to keep their chins up. I want their heads down like the proletariat at the start of Les Mis, and I want their football team to get the Fantine treatment every single game. I went there.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I honestly can't believe this article I just read it. He must have really gone out of his way to find somebody that was telling them to keep their chins up. I want their heads down like the proletariat at the start of Les Mis, and I want their football team to get the Fantine treatment every single game. I went there.

 

[Frak]

I think it's hard for these programs that were once good but don't have local recruiting advantages to grasp that the things that made it a great job and made a rebound easy are largely gone:
- On TV every game? Now everyone is.
- Allowing partial qualifiers? Not anymore.
- Great facilities? Almost everyone has them, or at least good enough that it no longer tips the recruiting scales very much.
- Lots of money to pay coaches? So does everybody else
- History of winning? Not recently enough that anybody they are recruiting remembers

The TV point is the biggest. It used to be that there were probably 5 games on TV every weekend. Nothing else was even televised. Even 15-20 years ago, we'd have maybe 1 game a year on national TV and a couple more regional games. Nebraska was on national TV more games than not. That allowed them to recruit California and Florida better than the local schools there. If you are getting CA kids that only USC and UCLA pass on and FL kids that only the big three there pass on, you're going to have a good team if you can develop, which they could.

That advantage is gone. Everyone has games on TV. Everyone has facilities that are on par with Nebraska. There's no doubt they could do as well as ISU has if they hired the right coach. We did and they haven't.

 

[cydsho]

Pretty much anytime anyone from the OWH talks about Iowa state....

 

[Gunnerclone]

This is just a microcosm of the rot of America. The crazy people never take responsibility for themselves.