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Nick Saban's 1st game at Michigan State - interview at the start
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:48 am
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Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:11 am to SummerOfGeorge
Tom Osborne told him afterwards that his team wasn't as bad as he (Saban) was likely thinking at the conclusion of the game.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:13 am to CapstoneGrad06
That was one hella scary Nebraska team
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:27 am to SummerOfGeorge
Saban ran up against an unstoppable force that day. The '95 Nebraska Cornhuskers are arguably the greatest team in college football history.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 8:00 pm to RollTide1987
OT, but really sucks to see a program like Nebraska be stuck in mediocrity. Ever encounter I've had with NU fans has been great.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 8:26 pm to Gary Busey
I watched the bama ole miss game this year in Nebraska at a bar with a bunch of big red fans. Good people. My brother married into that fan base
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:34 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Hello, new coach, you're first game in the '95 Huskers.
Nick Saban was a n00b and went straight for a Lvl 100.
legend
He would go onto to field teams that rivaled that mighty Nebraska team.
Nick Saban was a n00b and went straight for a Lvl 100.
legend
He would go onto to field teams that rivaled that mighty Nebraska team.
This post was edited on 5/16/17 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:13 pm to Gary Busey
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OT, but really sucks to see a program like Nebraska be stuck in mediocrity.
Yeah I don't really understand why they aren't more competitive. Great fans, program, and passionate base.....
I always thought a good OOC opener would be Bama-Nebraska at Jerryworld. We haven't played them since 1978.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 12:56 am to 14&Counting
They don't have a natural recruiting base. When they were dominant back then they always had several partial qualifiers (12 were on that 1995 team). The Big 12 and the Big 10 don't allow them.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 7:37 am to 14&Counting
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Yeah I don't really understand why they aren't more competitive. Great fans, program, and passionate base.....
Their great teams were almost ALL built on the Prop 48 guys. Once they lost that they really lost their pipeline to guys from Texas, California and Florida. They never routinely beat out big programs for those kids (like Michigan, Ohio State, etc did in Florida). Add to that their style and what they did with Midwestern kids on the lines and the fact that those things don't really work in today's game......
I'm not really sure how they get back to being a consistent national player again. I think Riley will have them winning 8-10 games yearly and maybe squeak in a great senior class once in a while to get to 11 or 12, but I can't see them being a consistent Top 10 team again.
Sucks, because as everyone said, by all accounts an awesome fanbase who LOVES their program as much as we do.
This post was edited on 5/17/17 at 7:38 am
Posted on 5/17/17 at 12:26 pm to Gary Busey
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OT, but really sucks to see a program like Nebraska be stuck in mediocrity. Ever encounter I've had with NU fans has been great.
Nebraska and Texas need to stay in mediocrity long enough for Alabama to pass them in all-time wins. 5-7 more years?
Posted on 5/17/17 at 12:36 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Their great teams were almost ALL built on the Prop 48 guys. Once they lost that they really lost their pipeline to guys from Texas, California and Florida. They never routinely beat out big programs for those kids (like Michigan, Ohio State, etc did in Florida). Add to that their style and what they did with Midwestern kids on the lines and the fact that those things don't really work in today's game...
Their endowed county walkon program ending really hurt too. They stock piled Nebraska kids on those "scholarships".
Roster size being slowly reduced by the NCAA hurt them as well. Osborne won titles after this went into effect, but he had the program humming along for a couple decades by then.
Rebuilding it with all these limitations that Devaney and Osborne didn't have to deal with makes it a much tougher job now.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 2:32 pm to CapstoneGrad06
The best they can hope for is a Snyder/KSU or Boise St. type run. They need Texas and/or Oklahoma to be down during their heyday.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 3:32 pm to Gary Busey
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Ever encounter I've had with NU fans has been great.
I'll always like Nebraska for humiliating Peyton Manning in his last college game.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 3:32 pm to Gary Busey
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Ever encounter I've had with NU fans has been great.
I'll always like Nebraska for humiliating Peyton Manning in his last college game and for hosing the Ol Ball Coach.
This post was edited on 5/17/17 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:02 am to CapstoneGrad06
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Rebuilding it with all these limitations that Devaney and Osborne didn't have to deal with makes it a much tougher job now.
Firing Frank Solich hurt them as well. They haven't been anywhere near as dominant a program since they let him go. Meanwhile, Solich has been coaching at Ohio since '05 and has been taking them to bowl games on a fairly consistent basis.
This post was edited on 5/18/17 at 9:05 am
Posted on 5/19/17 at 1:15 pm to CrimsonCrusade
I was a teenager in the 90's and I used to love watching the great Nebraska teams and their awesome running game. They were always good for over 400 yds on the ground and consistently put up 70 or sometimes even 80 points.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 5:47 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Coach Saban discusses his first season as a head coach: 1990 Toledo
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