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re: Nick Saban's 1st game at Michigan State - interview at the start
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:13 pm to Gary Busey
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.
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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
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