Appreciating the 2009 Nebraska upset 10 years later
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Colorado on November 23, 2001
I’ll never forget listening to that one on the radio. I can remember the exact place on the farm where my dad and I got out of the tractor/combine to yell “we won?!?!?!?” At each other in disbelief.
That was definitely the day that it was clear that a dominance like the 90s was gone and probably not coming back anytime soon. That was step 1.
Step 2 was when they fired Pelini it was clear that the athletic department and fanbase are too delusional to realize that those glory days aren't coming back.
It was many moons ago, but I still have numerous memories of ISU games from "Farming Radio." And most cases I remember what we were doing that day (mostly associated with fall field work). Notable one was '81 CyHawk game (23-12 win).
A few memories aren't positive, but we'll forget about that for now.
Definitely, one of my top 5 that I most often watch over and over!
Well now tell us what you really think LOL.....Well Rhoads did two things right ...He beat Iowa in Ames and Iowa City....
In my humble opinion Nebraska's road to perdition started when they Fired Frankie Solich for not winning a natl championship in the Rose Bowl vs Miami...they next hired Bill Callahan and then things went from bad to worse since...Talking to my Husker relatives last sat nite ....they want to fire Scott Frostbite after THIS SEASON....I told them it wasn't going to happen and welcome to the world of "perpetually rebuilding"....btw attendance for the Indiana game was 9,000 short of a sellout......Almighty Nebraska will call it a sellout, because of tickets sold but....Some fans aren't showing up to see LOSING HUSKER FOOTBALL!!
Firing Solich was the official end of the T.O. era at Nebraska. Pelini did well but couldn't get along with the administration, alumni, or anyone who was ever critical of him. I have no idea why they built that upper deck expansion that is 400 feet away from the field.
I had my first date with a gal the night before this game. I found out she was a kind of Nebraska fan so we made a bet on the game. Loser was buying sushi for the next date. I figured I was buying. Then the game happened. She stuck to her word and paid for the next date against my insistence that she not. Ten years later we have been married for 7 years have a 6 month old and she loves the Cyclones.
I was going to post Solich if you didn't. The dude won the Big 12 North 3 times and only was worse than second once. But they fired him after a 10-3 season. The fanbase had a conference championship as their minimum expectation with many clamoring for a NCG berth every year with the expectation of winning it at least every other year. A 59-19 (.756) record wasn't good enough.
What really did him in was the 7-7 record his second to last year. The Huskers at that point hadn't had a non-winning record in over 40 years - before both Osborne and Devaney.
That was a funny game to win and it really did pave the way to ISU being someone you'd better be ready for as CPR at the least had his teams playing hard.
The 2010 Tech and Texas games were a part of that as well and obviously the OSU upset.
The 2010 Tech and Texas games were a part of that as well and obviously the OSU upset.
Picture of me and my kid brother at the game. I grew up in Nebraska and always went to the ISU/Nebraska game wherever it was. My brother still lives in Nebraska and is of course a Husker fan. EVERY TURNOVER I picked him up and shook him around, I'm surprised he didn't punch me before the game was over.
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You need to post that pic more. I'm sure you've posted it before and I get a kick out of it every time.
Keep in mind that we had a guaranteed fumble return TD blown dead because the officials didn't think the ball was a fumble. The call on the field was down by contact, but review overturned the call.
you guys were a few rows above me in that end zone. Seems like all the crazy stuff happened in our end.
There were rumors that Solich had some problems with keeping his throat hydrated - if you know what I mean.
I heard this from a colleague who was a big Nebby fan and was in Lincoln. Not sure how legit this was but she mentioned that it was a public knowledge.
I heard this from a colleague who was a big Nebby fan and was in Lincoln. Not sure how legit this was but she mentioned that it was a public knowledge.
Frankie Solich wasn't the only coach with that problem...a coach by the name of Bob Devaney got stopped by the Lincoln Police for a DUI and was politely escorted home...HellsBells...Johnny Rogers robbed a gas station and went on to win the natl championship in the Game of the Century and who else but Jimmy Dean Walden was the Huskers Offensive Coordinator.....
I'm late to the party but my immediate thought when I saw the OP was "whar Yakety Sax?"
One of the many things that always amazes me about that game/video is that we always came up with the ball cleanly. The first guy to touch the ball (for us) came away with it. We didn't kick around fumbles or drop interceptions. We needed every one of those TOs and we grabbed them all.
Somewhat related to the farmer radio stories on here, we had a family early Thanksgiving/birthday party in far NE Iowa (Hawk Country, limited radio) that day. When the game ended my nephew and I drove gravels until we found a spot on the ridge where we could pull in KWMT AM and listened to the postgame. There may or may not have been a couple beers cracked. The win didn't end up being as monumental as it seemed at the time, but it was still a damn good win and a helluva fun day.
The only problem is that nowadays it’s so easy to beat Nebraska, that it kinda takes some of the glamour off. I mean, even Indiana does it, for Pete’s sake!
