re: For all of you non-Bama and non-Tenn fans that keep posting about our rivalry

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Sebastian is silently crying; even his fall from grace is unremarkable.

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Meh, Miami fell because they no longer have a schedule of mid-major cupcakes like they did in the 80's when they were independent and had the luxury of scheduling whomever they wanted. Back then they played two games -- Notre Dame and FSU. That was it.

Combine that with the fact that most other major schools now recruit the Miami area HARD. They aren't going to let all that talent go to tha U like it did in the 80's.

90's Nebraska was a system team, sort of like Houston in the late 80's/early 90's with the run and shoot. Like Ware and Klingler, Eric Crouch was a system QB who failed in the NFL (he wasn't even recruited to the NFL as a QB as I recall, but a DB. lol)

Nebraska won because Osborne was a master at the triple option. He could find big, strong lineman locally (didn't need to recruit nationally for that). All he needed were a few good skill position players and he was ready to roll. Combine that with the fact that Texas was literally horrible in the 90's and Chokelahoma was very mediocre (OU was in between Switzer and Stoops). Bottom line: the Big-12 was a joke at the time. There was no TCU or Baylor then either (both were high school teams back then and basically practice games).

Nebraska, like UT, is going to have to realize that it is hard to recruit to bumfrick Lincoln, NB. There's no local talent pool to pull from there -- they have to go into Texas for their talent and that's going to be tough sledding with Texas, A&M, TCU, Baylor, and OU all there 24/7.

That's why Osborne won -- he didn't have to compete that hard in recruiting all these skill position players since he was a system coach who did his thing (and did it brilliantly). All he needed were a couple of RB's and WR's from around the country and he was good.

I know what you're thinking. "You call Lincoln BFE, but AU is a cow college." Yes, true. However, AU is in the heart of SEC country, on the GA border, and not that far from FL. AU makes its living in GA and FL which are two of the top 5 states in football recruiting rivaled only by Texas, Cali, and Louisiana. We land a few 4 star rejects that bammer passes over from the state of Alabama as well as a few good ones that we snatch away from the MS schools and LSU.

It's easier to get players to AU than Neb or Knoxville, even if AU is "out of the way" like both of those schools.