90 Colorado game
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I tried to link it but it doesn't share correctly. Just hit up, Youtube and search Colorado vs Nebraska, and scrool down to it
I have a dvd of it. The Huskers had them on the ropes. Colorado came back behind the running of Bieniemy.
I was there-it was a miserable game. The weather was awful and we went into the 4th quarter with a 12-0 lead and they scored 27 unanswered in the 4th and we lost 27-12. The game did have one of the coolest moments in Memorial Stadium history though-the "deaf clap" for Kenny Walker on Senior Day.
I'll never forget Eric Bieniemy. He has to be one of the all-time Husker killers. Just reading that name makes me shudder.
JJ Flannigan played very well against the Huskers. I'm going to guess that OL was pretty good.
There are alot of old games out there on YouTube these days. I watched the 85 Fiesta Bowl against Michigan recently. Talk about giving a game away. We had them beat in every way and just p***** it away in the third quarter.
It's almost worth it though just to see Jim Harbaugh make one of the most boneheaded plays I've ever seen a player make.
It's almost worth it though just to see Jim Harbaugh make one of the most boneheaded plays I've ever seen a player make.
Memory is a funny thing. I could have sworn I was there for Kenny Walker's senior day, but I checked things and I must not have been. I remember watching this game on TV, I think my dad wasn't going to go to it, but then he drove down late. I remember the field being sopping wet all game and CU beating Nebraska...but in my mind this game was not Walker's last at Memorial Stadium and I was there doing the sign when he ran out.
Internet says no, I am misremembering...
There are at least 200 Huskers games on youtube. I posted about 100 myself. Great place to watch old games.
I have watched lots on youtube the last 6 years or so, great place.
And thanks to you for posting some of them.
I was there in the stadium for this one and it was the most miserable I have been at a game ever. 30 degrees and pouring rain. Losing in 4th quarter collapse to the enemy.
Our plan was to stuff their run and force them to pass and we did just that. Their WRs made some jump ball catches on lame throws that turned the game and broke our defense.
McCartney can go f*&# himself.
Our plan was to stuff their run and force them to pass and we did just that. Their WRs made some jump ball catches on lame throws that turned the game and broke our defense.
McCartney can go f*&# himself.
I can still see Bieniemy taking his helmet off and sticking his tongue out after scoring last touchdown. Ugh.......hated him!
Sadly, cu owned the 4th quarter, and Dr. Tom had no answers on offense. cu had some wicked talent on defense that shut UNL most of the game.
He had put the ball on the carpet no less than 4 times earlier in the game. A couple times blowing easy scoring opportunities. In reality the Buff probably should have had 13-17 more points.
So did Mike Pritchard (3-90). CU fumbled 7 times lost four. My bro and I drove back for that game...I remember not having feeling in my forehead after the game as the icy cold rain beat against it for most of the game...a few brews at CB&P rectified that problem!
That game and the Washington game the next year caused a rethinking of defensive strategy. NU had been looking to go lighter and faster all the way around on D, including the line. Those 2 games caused NU to move away from lighter/faster on the interior, back to the big bruisers on the interior D, while staying lighter/faster in the backer and DB's.
I would agree. I would say the Colorado game, the Oklahoma game and the Bowl game against Georgia Tech were the games that tipped the scales.
Those games started a a transformation from the 5-2 (3-4) to the 4-3. The DEs were guys like Alberts who really just rushed the passer and set the edge on outside runs. The 3 guys in the middle all had 2 gap responsibilities and the 2 LBs were bigger and not always fast. So without huge guys in the middle, or LBs that could cover RBs the defense became ineffective.
It transformed to guys like Winstrom, who was recruited as a 5-2 DE/ OLB, to a 4-3 DE with one gap run responsibilities and ability to rush the passer. Also it kept 1 of the bigger LBs as a MLB but moved smaller faster guys to the OLB, especially the SLB like Jamel Williams, who was 6'0" and 200lbs
Those games started a a transformation from the 5-2 (3-4) to the 4-3. The DEs were guys like Alberts who really just rushed the passer and set the edge on outside runs. The 3 guys in the middle all had 2 gap responsibilities and the 2 LBs were bigger and not always fast. So without huge guys in the middle, or LBs that could cover RBs the defense became ineffective.
It transformed to guys like Winstrom, who was recruited as a 5-2 DE/ OLB, to a 4-3 DE with one gap run responsibilities and ability to rush the passer. Also it kept 1 of the bigger LBs as a MLB but moved smaller faster guys to the OLB, especially the SLB like Jamel Williams, who was 6'0" and 200lbs
That and getting boat raced by Florida teams in the bowl games all the time.
Getting boat-raced by the FL teams was why they shifted to all smaller and faster. But then the coaches realized that they still needed serious muscle up front to stop the power running teams in the Big 8. So they tweaked the initial tweak to go back to the beasts on the interior D-line who would not be dead by the time the 4th quarter came around. NU's offense pounded people to death in the trenches and NU realized after the CU and UW games that they couldn't let other teams do that to them.
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