is there a coach that could fill dr. tom's shoes?
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Urban Meyer. Too bad the chances of him coming here are extremely small.
I read on TOS that Urban's plane and crew landed in Lincoln. Anybody hear anything about this?
Urban would never stay long enough to equal Tom's record and he also said a high character guy.
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My standards & expectations have lowered considerably from the Osborne era. Only took me 20 years of not being relevant in college football to get here.
I'd happily settle for 6 wins and a bowl game on a consistent basis, with some better-than-average years sprinkled in.
Our season ending in November every year has got to stop. Please.
I'd happily settle for 6 wins and a bowl game on a consistent basis, with some better-than-average years sprinkled in.
Our season ending in November every year has got to stop. Please.
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I'm still hanging on to the delusion that we soon will be a team where 6-win seasons are the outliers. Outliers of poor performance.
Perhaps I'm naive to think this, but I'm still hanging on by a thread of hope.
Osborne had systems and plays copied from him by Joe Gibbs. He is probably the best offensive mind in college football history. Everyone said he would not be able to make the option out of the pro set I work and he found a way. Also knew his own system to go with more split formations when running the qb more with Frost than he did with Frazier. If you download his playbooks, he had precise instructions on footwork for offensive linemen.
No, we won't find another Osborne
No, we won't find another Osborne
We will never experience the TO era again. So to answer the question No! We are a long way from talking about winning NC's and 9+ games a season. It's over!
it's a problem...really as mentioned before only aranda seems to have the wins AND the charator needed,
who could fit..
alot of the others seem to have degenerate behavior. either like sexually inmoral or cheatin, or both...
who could fit..
alot of the others seem to have degenerate behavior. either like sexually inmoral or cheatin, or both...
People forget, even Tom Osborne was quoted as saying, " You don't win games with choir boys."
well choir boys is kinda a rome thing..I'm thinking more upstanding leader prebyterian, like eisenhour (ww2 victor) or grant (civil war victor).
Name them? If there are any, they aren't coming to Lincoln. It is a mark that will NEVER be equalled.
Like I said, finding (naming) them is the issue. No one knows the future.
Hey, you said back on Oct 17 that that post was your last on the head coach. What are you, a maniac?
Men like T.O, come along only rarely. Times were indeed different. He ran a unique offense that was hard to stop and recruited for his needs as opposed to number of stars. NU was ahead of its time when it came to weight training, etc. Last Saturday's game was a lesson in how a traditional passing game has problems in the Midwest winters. We had a great run but its over and suspect we will never see one like this anytime soon. Hope I am wrong however.
Didn’t Pelini win 9+ every year and make multiple trips to conference championship games? Would the fan base hate him as much now? I’m betting the people that wanted him fired have started to regret that these days.
Scott Frost. Nebraska man. Offensive genius. Wins everywhere he goes. Quality family man with no vices. And I hear he is available. 😎
As they should. And yes Pelini did win 9+. But outside of Suhs senior season. We were along ways from contending for NC's. And I would argue that things have changed a great deal over the last decade. NU was still a blue blood with a winning tradition. We are a far removed from those days now.
It's not just the Tom Osborne factor.
College football has changed so much in the 25 years since he retired that it's not even practical to think any school can achieve what he achieved for a 20-year period at Nebraska.
Agree College Football has changed so much since the 80’s and 90’s. Every decade has had teams that were on top only to replaced by other teams surpassing them. The reigns come and go. I highly doubt we will ever have a run like we did in the 90’s under TO but it doesn’t mean we can’t have some great years and challenge for the conference every now and then.
Alabama under Saban is about the most dominating team in the modern era. They are starting to some chinks in their armor but they are still very good. Saban won’t Coach forever so hard to predict how good Alabama will be.
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This is the only answer. After all, he is just like TO! If he can’t do it, nobody will
dr. tom never seemed to cheat like the sec, ohio state with tressel or usc with bush
did'nt seem to turn over assistant coaches every year
never heard of him being sexually inmoral like a urban or freeze etc.
I don't remember him winning less then 9 games...he considered 9 game won a problem area.
never seen him on the cover of SI losing insitutional controll
and never seen him circle the bluffs as a must win game, and swearing off black and gold.
I think there was 1 ncaa discrepancy over giving players books to read
I don't remember him ever just runing the qb, or not knowing defense, or saying f all NU fans..
did'nt seem to treat NU as a retirement job or play on golf simulators
I don't remember him handing out free shoes, or getting a SI front page on players not going to class
never seen him win a game by a player catching the ball a yard out of bounds
it just allways seemed like a man going bout his job with him.
or mentoring kids...stuff like that
did'nt seem to turn over assistant coaches every year
never heard of him being sexually inmoral like a urban or freeze etc.
I don't remember him winning less then 9 games...he considered 9 game won a problem area.
never seen him on the cover of SI losing insitutional controll
and never seen him circle the bluffs as a must win game, and swearing off black and gold.
I think there was 1 ncaa discrepancy over giving players books to read
I don't remember him ever just runing the qb, or not knowing defense, or saying f all NU fans..
did'nt seem to treat NU as a retirement job or play on golf simulators
I don't remember him handing out free shoes, or getting a SI front page on players not going to class
never seen him win a game by a player catching the ball a yard out of bounds
it just allways seemed like a man going bout his job with him.
or mentoring kids...stuff like that
Transfer portal and NIL two most impactful/significant changes in decades.
TO was a great mind no doubt. I’m going with Hal Mumme. Basically reinvented offensive football with the Air Raid.
Maybe Tom retired because he thought he couldn't fill his own shoes in the not to distant future.
