There is no effing curse. That is a losing mentality. I was a longtime Cubs fan and trust me, it starts to become a mental issue when you start believing in that BS. Put the best players on the field with the best coaching and they win. Do you really think a curse made a difference to Suh? Or Phillips? Or the Peter brothers? No. They went to the field with the attitude that they were going to destroy the opponent. They were better than the guys they were going against and knew it.
We need to get more ruthless about pulling starters who miss tackles and don't make a play. I know everyone here hates Sapp but one thing I remember hearing him say in an interview was that when he arrived he didn't make friends with guys like the Rock that were veterans. He told them he was going to take their job away, and he did that. We need more determination and a willingness to pull guys that miss tackles or make a bad play.
You shut your whore mouth
No curse just nepotism and incompetent coaching which is probably why Warren keeps his distance from the program. If we were a company we'd have filed for bankruptcy 5 times over.
I have actually given Osborne more credit retrospectively. As Devaney’s OC he had a major hand in those first two national titles too.I've said this before and will again, Nebraska football for the past 20 years is about what it should have been all along, right there with the other old Big 8 teams (minus OU), some winning seasons, some losing seasons, and a whole lot of WTF jammed in.
It's amazing how one man changed the whole landscape for Nebraska football and sent them on an over 40 year run that probably would never have happened without him. Unless another Bob Devaney lands on Nebraska's doorstep, I see the past 2 decades performance continuing for quite awhile.
He certainly did, and I truly wasn't trying to take credit away from Coach Osborne, it's just that Devaney, like any great coach, had that special something that made him a cut above the rest. Sure, he had a few seasons that came close to getting him let go, but he retooled and let Osborne and the rest of the staff do their jobs.
I'm telling you we're close. We just didn't purge far enough.
I still like Rhule and respect his track record in college football, but sheesh, yesterday was BAD.
It’s been so long people have forgotten or didn’t really know, but we were strictly a running team who threw the ball maybe 10 times a game and completed 4 of those. We blocked and controlled the clock and ran the option out of the I.. fullbacks and everything. That is all we did, over and over and over and we had elite running backs and a great offensive line. Nobody has committed to the run like what Tom did. Not a single coach has done e it Tom’s way, and the closest to doing it was Bo and he couldn’t get over the hump, but he still didn’t run the offense like Tom did, but he did get 9 wins a season, but Guarantee once Tom is gone, someone will do it like that, and they will have success and people will lament what took everyone so damn long to just copy him. Just my prediction
I have officially exhausted my patience. I have been a husker loyalist for 67 years. I am done !
We have tried so many different ways to get back to where we were except for the way that made us great in the 1st place, I dont know if its a tragedy or a comedy that we cant figure it out.
I don’t really care for Lil Red but the mascot was here during the Championship years of the Mid 90s.
This. We’ve been cursed ever since. When that arrogant 💩 of an AD, Steve P., fired our 9-3 coach, he cursed this program.
Well, when a group of serious men are fired for a group of not very serious men....
Tom did not beat his wife that we know of, Nikki, not so sure about.
Selflessness, Discipline and attention span. That would be the first 3 traits of any Head Coach / play caller I would hire.
I read an article back in '03 right after Solich was fired (Mandel with SI, I think) where he pointed out that one of the things that made Nebraska great for so long (all kudos to TO) was the hardnosed brand of football they played. It was that type of play that made Nebraska standout from most other teams, and it was that type of play that attracted certain types of players (tough, hardnosed, etc.). He said it'd be a mistake if Nebraska went away from that style of play, that if we tried to be like the USC's and Texas' of college football (i.e., teams that run pro-style offenses, which require prototypical pro-caliber QBs, OL and WR) that Nebraska would fail because we'd never be able to recruit those types of players on a consistent basis.
We didn’t want to be one of the only programs in the country that was run first, despite giving us a lot of success. When you can dominate running the ball, you control the clock and wear down your opponent. Your biggest risks are holding calls and fumbles. You’re also afraid you won’t be able to move the ball down the field quickly if necessary.
This is especially true when you have a QB who can run the ball. If given the choice, I'd choose a dual threat QB every time.
I think it's more out of respect for Tom.. as soon as he is gone, I expect someone will indeed copy his script.
