Good lord. So far 10 minutes of sucking off Woody Hayes and then Urban making excuses for him hitting the Clemson player.
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Something wrong with you. One hell of a show..Good lord. So far 10 minutes of sucking off Woody Hayes and then Urban making excuses for him hitting the Clemson player.
Great show. Can’t wait to watch more. ESPN definitely over emphasized parts where they had easy access to guys/interviews (Meyer, Finebaum, Tebow) but it’s hard to fault them for that. It only minimally takes away from the story. There was a lot on the sec and Notre Dame but they also played huge parts in the history of college football. Would have liked to see a little more on the military academies but they supposedly have a lot more coming so hopefully they go back to it.
Go watch the Simpsons or whateverGood lord. So far 10 minutes of sucking off Woody Hayes and then Urban making excuses for him hitting the Clemson player.
If I read it right on ESPN its a two part documentary.It’s 150 years of college football documentary..
Trust me by the time they show all of them this fall you will change your mind..
Those shows had better be better than this documentary, because it sucks. Bad.
First of all, its extremely negative. It should be titled “150 years of this awful stuff called CFB.” With the trailer asking if its even worth playing at all.
Before you take it to extremes, Im not saying it 100% must be sunshine and roses. But come on, lets at least build it up with the good stuff first. A documentary celebrating CFB should probably, you know, celebrate it?
Its also inaccurate at times. Their timeline regarding tv for example is wayyyy off and also fails to account for the rise of cable tv in general.
It discusses the system of passing without ever diving into the history of the run game or option, unless you count the small segment on football before the forward pass was legal. It talks about the run game only in a negative light, and how passing is so much better. Wtf? Go ahead and discuss passing, but you should probably highlight the greatness and evolution of run games, too.
The focus on specific programs was at times a mix of teenage fandom and at other times simply perplexing. TCU? Washington?
Why the hell did they focus so much on Woody Hays? Go ahead and talk about him, but they could have discussed three other coaches in the time they devoted to worshiping him.
Some of the people they interviewed absolutely sucked and frankly from hearing them talk Im not sure why they even like CFB. Questionable choices.
I could go in for awhile but what an absolute letdown. This was horrible.
One can also judge the first and I thought longest episode, much as one judges a new episode of their favorite series.Hopefully I will watch all of them and judge it after seeing the majority of them..
If you thought it sucked, your just a husker homer.....I agree. I thought it sucked too. Very weird.
If you thought it sucked, your just a husker homer.....
On a serious note, the best part (and it included a few bites from Johnny Rodgers about how Devaney recruited African-American players) explained how northern schools such as Michigan State started to put some distance between themselves and most of the SEC — excepting Alabama — by recruiting black players from the South to fill their rosters. Only when Alabama started getting its ass handed to them did Paul Bryant begin to recruit black players.
The Huskers won our first national championship by beating an all-white LSU team in the Orange Bowl. The next year, we defeated Alabama, which featured one black starter. By the time Nebraska played Alabama again six years later in Lincoln, the Tide's roster had done a makeover.
As it relates to Nebraska, the documentary claimed that Nebraska and Oklahoma used segregation against Southern schools by focusing on African-Americans to form a larger portion of their rosters. However, that's misleading regarding players from the South.
Devaney's recruiting focused on players from the North and West, though the 1971 team included John Adkins from Virginia. We generally didn't recruit from former Confederate states, though we did pull players from Missouri, a slave state that didn't rebel. Our 1971 team included African-American players from Illinois, Ohio, California, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, New Jersey, Michigan and Wyoming.
Before Devaney, Bill Jennings dipped into the South to pick up some African-American players who helped turn the program around a few years later with Devaney. They included Willie Ross from Helena, Arkansas and Ed Mitchell from Galveston, Texas.
Nebraska began to integrate under Bill Glassford in the early '50s after nearly 40 years of having no black players on the roster. Of course, in the 1890s and early 20th century, led by the legendary George Flippin, Nebraska had several African-American players on the roster, and it caused schools in Missouri and Oklahoma heartache.
As early as 1967, Alabama had four African-American walk-on players on the team for spring practice, but none of them made the roster for the fall season.The tipping point for Bama was apparently in 1970 when USC went down to Legion Field and beat Bama like a drum.
This is what I heard on sports nightly last night.Those shows had better be better than this documentary, because it sucks. Bad.
First of all, its extremely negative. It should be titled “150 years of this awful stuff called CFB.” With the trailer asking if its even worth playing at all.
Before you take it to extremes, Im not saying it 100% must be sunshine and roses. But come on, lets at least build it up with the good stuff first. A documentary celebrating CFB should probably, you know, celebrate it?
Its also inaccurate at times. Their timeline regarding tv for example is wayyyy off and also fails to account for the rise of cable tv in general.
It discusses the system of passing without ever diving into the history of the run game or option, unless you count the small segment on football before the forward pass was legal. It talks about the run game only in a negative light, and how passing is so much better. Wtf? Go ahead and discuss passing, but you should probably highlight the greatness and evolution of run games, too.
The focus on specific programs was at times a mix of teenage fandom and at other times simply perplexing. TCU? Washington?
Why the hell did they focus so much on Woody Hays? Go ahead and talk about him, but they could have discussed three other coaches in the time they devoted to worshiping him.
Some of the people they interviewed absolutely sucked and frankly from hearing them talk Im not sure why they even like CFB. Questionable choices.
I could go in for awhile but what an absolute letdown. This was horrible.