Can we talk about Nebraska?...

[ElephantPie]

Will be fun to play them (and beat them) in a bowl game some day.

FIFY

 

[Rural]

- NCAA institutes scholarship limits
- Big 12 formation with the addition of TX schools decides to limit the number of partial qualifiers a program can take on (presume Big 10 does the same)
- Bill Callahan replaces Frank Solich for more "NFL" and less "9 win seasons"
- Bo Pelini creates more mess than he cleans up
- Jim Delany agrees to offer Nebraska a spot in the Big10 and Harvey Perlman accepts. The school has a rich football tradition, but one that is foreign to all Big10 programs. The N now stands for knowledge because of the academic standards forced upon them. The N on the helmet doesn't mean much to the traditional Big10 teams, and probably does not bring with it the aura it carried in the Big6/8/12 due to lack of familiarity and recent history. Instead, the N is seen as an interloper or invader and most teams want to haze the freshman if they can. Sure they won the Legends division that one time, but they got their asses whipped by Wisconsin 70-31 in the title game.
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- Geography

Nebraska football is sailing on a heading that will put them back where they were before they found Bob Devaney.

The Big Ten had no problem claiming their past great teams and players as a Big Ten "product".

Ha Ha

 

[ISpyCy]

Not necessarily to bash (feel free) but your observations.

I just find their whole zeitgeist to have changed since joining the big ten. Their fans seem to embrace their role as a big ten also ran and Iowa rival at best. That is a far cry...a gulf from twenty years ago. Riley doesn't seem to care about losing...the defense isn't even very good much less "blackshirty". There is nothing remarkable about Nebraska at all anymore.

Maybe it's my age but I'm not sure I've witnessed this sort of thing before. It's weird.

Hardly. It's the 20th anniversary of the National Championship team this year. Everybody in Lincoln is all weirded out (in their own husker-y way) about the throwbacks they will wear vs. Wisconsin. You'd think they won the NC just last year!

P.S. - I miss Bo.

 

[Rural]

In the Big 8 days their big game of the year used to be Oklahoma and garnered massive national attention.

Now their big game is......Iowa......and has the appeal of Northwestern-Illinois or Purdue-Indiana.

Money does strange things to people.

 

[weR138]

Hardly. It's the 20th anniversary of the National Championship team this year. Everybody in Lincoln is all weirded out (in their own husker-y way) about the throwbacks they will wear vs. Wisconsin. You'd think they won the NC just last year!

P.S. - I miss Bo.

You'll have to let us know what they say when they get piss pounded by Wisconsin.

And btw;

How many husker fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. They're too busy talking about how great the old one was!

 

[ameslurker]

 

[tazclone]

Not necessarily to bash (feel free) but your observations.

I just find their whole zeitgeist to have changed since joining the big ten. Their fans seem to embrace their role as a big ten also ran and Iowa rival at best. That is a far cry...a gulf from twenty years ago. Riley doesn't seem to care about losing...the defense isn't even very good much less "blackshirty". There is nothing remarkable about Nebraska at all anymore.

Maybe it's my age but I'm not sure I've witnessed this sort of thing before. It's weird.

There was nothing remarkable about them at the time they joined the big tin. Hell lowly iSu beat them.

A lot of Nebraska fans I know wish they never joined. Hate the schedule. Hate the distance for away games. Hate no true rivalry(OU.

 

[CTTB78]

...... Nebraska lost their Texas and Oklahoma player pipeline by switching to the Big10. They had a history of winning, which made those players want to go to NU if they didn't go to UT or OU. THAT is what's caught up to them......

While that may be a problem for the not so Big Red today, they began to suck well before they went to Big 10. The difference is that Grandpa Tom is gone. Same thing will happen at K-State when their Grandpa leaves.

 

[VeloClone]

They are a volleyball school.

I do notice a BIG difference in how their fans in the Twin Cities follow them. Back in their Big 12 heyday they had a huge and zealot following here. Back when it wasn't easy to get all of the games on TV they would host pay per view gamewatches at Joe Senser's Sports bar and have several hundred fans in there complete with their own pep band (no, really, their own PEP BAND in a bar). When I used to plan ISU gamewatches at the same venue I'd have to move to a different location if at the same time as the Huskers. Today, nope, they don't draw any more than we do.

Don't forget Twin Cities Fuskers used to put money together and pay a small local station to broadcast Fusker football games. I was able to listen to an ISU @ kNU football game or two that way years ago.

 

[madguy30]

Their last real legit teams were 20 years ago.

I remember B1G fans talking a bunch of smack about them with 'Welcome to the Big Ten' after they got KO'd by a nice Wisconsin team the season they joined.

They won 9 games that year, which was on par for how they'd been for the better part of 10 seasons and have been about the same after.

 

[Trainer]

Husker fans should be accosting their own AD, who voted WITH Texas, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma against revenue sharing because Nebraska wanted theirs and didn't want to dilute their income by sharing it with also-rans like Iowa State and Texas Tech.

When their empire crumbled by their own doing and Texas filled the power vacuum, Nebraska (and A&M and, so far unsuccessfully, Oklahoma) turned like a jilted lover looking for solace from another willing hand.

That their fans have totally swallowed their current station in the Big Ten just demonstrates that it's more important that they adhere to their tribe than to any particular value system.

This. I make this same argument every time I see it. Nebraska voted AGAINST revenue sharing repeatedly. Texas, Nebraska, and maybe A&M voted against it. Every little Fusker that always says Texas pushed them to leave, I remind them of this fact.

 

[norcalcy]

One of the best parts of sports fandom is hating a particular team. I grew up a Cyclone in western Iowa. It was brutal. There was nothing sweeter than an ISU victory over them. Beating them back to back in '76 and '77 was amazing. I very much enjoyed their many soul crushing losses to Oklahoma. Having said that, I miss them and wish they were still in the conference. It was more fun when they were around. I also think we could be very competitive with them.

 

[Dennis4nh]

My Hawkeye buddies brought up the whole ISU to the MAC thing again at last Saturday's game. I quietly said there is no way the Board of Regents or the state legislature will let ISU get kicked out of a power conference and end up in the MAC, especially with our soaring almuni base, money pouring into the foundation, the 3rd largest football stadium in a P5 conference, the largest school in the state (that really bugs them) and our status as an AAU school. That's a ranking enjoyed by the top research institutions.

I'm fuzzy on the timing of this, but I think Nebraska lost their AAU status about the time it joined the Big 10, and the Big 10 made a big stink about how it only courts AAU schools. So, N's football program is languishing and its academic status is not what it was. Instead of talking about ISU as a MAC school, the Big 10 fans might want to look at one of theirs as a potential fit for MAC status.

 

[heitclone]

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/footba...cle_81919193-9d15-5403-96d2-41650baa6e25.html

I got a kick of this article from Tom Shatel, the Huskers writer for the Omaha World Herald. He's putting it on Riley and the UNL admins, not the b1g. He's not wrong, if Riley in fact wanted this, it shows you out of touch he is with what Nebraska is/was and it's a huge statement that they will never be the Huskers of the past. They got what they wanted, now they're just another b1g team.

 

[scyclonekid]

**** Nebraska, they took their tractor and left and laughed In our face to boot, so have fun being Ohio state, Michigans whipping boy.

 

[KnappShack]

My Hawkeye buddies brought up the whole ISU to the MAC thing again at last Saturday's game. I quietly said there is no way the Board of Regents or the state legislature will let ISU get kicked out of a power conference and end up in the MAC, especially with our soaring almuni base, money pouring into the foundation, the 3rd largest football stadium in a P5 conference, the largest school in the state (that really bugs them) and our status as an AAU school. That's a ranking enjoyed by the top research institutions.

I'm fuzzy on the timing of this, but I think Nebraska lost their AAU status about the time it joined the Big 10, and the Big 10 made a big stink about how it only courts AAU schools. So, N's football program is languishing and its academic status is not what it was. Instead of talking about ISU as a MAC school, the Big 10 fans might want to look at one of theirs as a potential fit for MAC status.

Your buddies looked at 61,500 in a renovated JTS with a football complex built around it and thought that's what a MAC team looks like?

**** heads

 

[Tornado man]

I have several friends who are Huskers. I heard countless rants about how much they hated Texas and to a lesser extent Oklahoma, and felt that the Big 12 did those 2 teams favors at the expense of the rest of the league. I told them when they left that if they didn't think that OSU runs the B1G the same way they thought Texas ran the Big12, that they were in for a rude awakening.

They sure seem to have accepted their B1G overlords, and do as they are told. It could be worse, they could be Missouri.

How does "OSU run the B1G?" Please back up that statement.

 

[DaHiltonHaus1]

Nebraska fans expect National Championships. Because of this, it's my pleasure to say their fans will never again be happy.

 

[Tornado man]

In the Big 8 days their big game of the year used to be Oklahoma and garnered massive national attention.

Now their big game is......Iowa......and has the appeal of Northwestern-Illinois or Purdue-Indiana.

Money does strange things to people.

And the Big 12 took that Nebraska-Oklahoma game and relegated it to every other year...

 

[BoxsterCy]

Are we done talking yet? Is it time to sing about Nebraska?