Give me a break. Trying to bring Nebraska fans back to reality I guess can be called trolling. And I did grow up in Western Iowa so I am a bit jaded.
How about since you joined the conference? The bullies of the B1G have won the last 3 out of 4 and the 1 you won had to go in to overtime.
Your down decades are beginning to eclipse your up decades at some point your up decades will be referred to as a blip.
Iowa record over the last 20 years: 145-105 Winning percentage .058 Average wins per season: 7.25
Iowa is a little different compared to Nebraska in the state of above average football being played at both places. Iowa will have a poor season and then followed by great season and even a couple BCS games. I'd bet Iowa has had more top 10 or 25 finishes those years and more BCS games.
Here are your exact numbers for past 15 years.
Okay I'll even let ya go back to the hay-day. Lemme throw on my 90s gear first.
And personally, I wouldn't find the highs and lows a good tradeoff. There has really been more lows than highs anyway. For us, 9 wins has been sort of the minimum standard of excellence. Compared to that standard, you have exceeded it 5 times and met it once over the last 20 years. That means you've failed to meet it 14 times. Over the same period, we failed to make it to 9 wins just 5 times. From 2010-2014, you failed to make it to 9 wins even once. We haven't had that long a period of futility in 55 years. Basically what you have are a few good seasons, a few really good seasons and a lot of mediocre to bad seasons. There's no way I would trade that for what we have done.
Maybe you'll answer this the same for this question. But would you trade the more recent say 10 years of success? I know most Nebraska fans think 9 wins is failing but really to average that is quite good, with how much college football programs can swing( look at Texas.) I'd ask what you remember about those past 10 years averaging the 9 wins and how you perceived them?
To me, one 12 win season where you didn't win the conference championship and got blown out in the Rose Bowl would not at all make up for how crappy the 5 years before it were.
Maybe the problem is you think the other upper level teams care about any of that stuff. Maybe it's because you're still new to the Big Ten. But we will see you in late November, it's probably going to be cold and windy. And the Joe Moore award winning offensive line is going to run off tackle power again, and again , and again. Point being I doubt any of these wins are going to come easy and often. So Nebraska can either embrace the rivalry or it's going to be some frustrating years to come.
What does being new to the B1G have to do with any of the facts I stated? It is simply a fact that we are one of the top 5 winningest teams of all time. It is a fact that we have five national titles and 3 heaismann winners and multiple Lombardi and Outland winners. Fact that we have way more conference titles, bowl appearances and bowl wins than Iowa. Fact that we have greater fan support.
I'm saying your new and maybe not noticing that it can be a grind. Not many teams can go through the season just destroying all the competition. It will always be tough to get wins against the quality teams. That's why I don't brag about how Iowa is superior to Northwestern. Because I know any time we play Northwestern it is probably going to be a tough and physical football game. Telling them that Iowa has a better weight room than they do means nothing.
You can't sustain success bringing in 2 and 3 star talent and coaching them up. Kirk can do some amazing things from time to time but he also has more bad seasons mixed in than is acceptable.
Tom Osborne had a long and successful career doing exactly that.
Nonsense. He had to get quality talent to win national championships. Tommie Frazier was a 5 star QB. Scott Frost, Lawrence Phillips, Ahman Green, Grant Wistrom and a host of others from 1994-97 weren't 2-3 star talent either.
Don't be retarded, you can't claim just one guy as his success. He had lots of 2 & 3 stars that were coached up. Walkons, the S&C programs, those players were developed. A few stars here and there, but most of the team was 2 & 3 star guys, and it was year in and year out. Sustained.
It wasn't just one. I only mentioned Tommie Frazier because I remember his exact rating. I added several other players, and there are more than that who were not 2-3 star talent. The idea that his national championship teams were filled with 2-3 star talent is a myth that people nevertheless keep believing. Did they have some? Sure-but he doesn't win national championships without those 4-5 star players.
Because Kirk is stubborn. Iowa had three top 105 kids committed last April but only one signed. He pulled the offer of a top 100 RB from Texas because he visited other schools while committed to Iowa. Kirk doesn't give a rip about star rankings and I'm starting to believe he is correct.
They annoy me too. I like thoughtful conversations. Just stating 40-10 is not thoughtful at all.
Kirk probably knows nothing about the "star" system, probably barely knows how to use a computer. He looks for kids that will fit the system and work well within in it. I wish he went after the 4 star guys more often but he's stubborn and probably doesn't care. That's why he's been going into Nebraska and stealing guys like Bazata and Ott. Nebraska scoffed at those guys but Iowa saw tough guys that will fit within the system and ended up being good players.
All power five conferences can be a grind. Don't flatter the B1G beyond what it is. And since you seem unaware of this I will share it with you: Nebraska had been in plenty of tough and big games long before we joined the B1G. Don't talk nonsense about how shocked Nebraska was to discover that the B1G was ever so much tougher than anything we had seen before.
Kirk doesn't change philosophies. Brian has been on record as saying he will take a page from Belichek's playbook and game plan each week differently. I'm hoping this stops lesser teams from sticking around. But that they still stay in games against superior talent.
He also had less restrictive standards as well... prop 48 was huge for us, which is exactly why Texas and white rest of the Bog 12 killed it.
This is proof of your trolling... since we joined we are 3-3. But you wanna focus on only 4.
But we werent 9-3 every year. Youre wrong. Again.
