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re: Top 10 College Football Programs of the Last 60 Years (ranked by wins)
Posted on 5/17/19 at 11:23 am to CarolinaGamecock99
Posted on 5/17/19 at 11:23 am to CarolinaGamecock99
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It’s crazy how hard Nebraska has fallen.
Any ideas on the reason for this?
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Posted on 5/17/19 at 11:29 am to 1BIGTigerFan
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It’s crazy how hard Nebraska has fallen. Any ideas on the reason for this?
TEXAS broke them.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 11:33 am to 1BIGTigerFan
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Any ideas on the reason for this?
they were still dominant/elite in the 90s. When Osborne retired they were obviously going to take a hit, although solich kept them respectable and still ran the option. When he was let go they had a string of like 5 HCs that were all mostly garbage and they stopped running the option.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 11:51 am to 1BIGTigerFan
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It’s crazy how hard Nebraska has fallen.
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Any ideas on the reason for this?
They've never been the same since they got prison raped by Colorado in 2001. A few years after that, they made a decision to try and modernize their offense by hiring Bill Callahan and it was a complete disaster.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 12:06 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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Any ideas on the reason for this?
They joined a real conference.
For example:
Arkansas was 13th in wins in the 27 years before they joined the SEC, with 6 conference championships.
In the 27 years since they joined the SEC, Arkansas is 50th in wins, with 0 conference championships.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 1:11 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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Any ideas on the reason for this?
Nebraska falling off has more to do with demographics than it does anything else.
1. Small state with slow growth
*Since 1970 its 39th in total growth
*It has zero metropolitan areas with at least 1 million people
*It's second largest city behind Omaha only has 330,000 in the metro area (Lincoln)
2. Very few African Americans
*The state has less than 5% African American population
*Very few African Americans to recruit and its difficult to convince African Americans from far away to come all the way there.
3. Middle of Nowhere location
*There is only one major metro of 1 million+ within 400 miles of campus (Kansas City)
*Compare that to say Nashville, TN who is itself a major metro and is within 400 miles of 9 other major metros with 1 million + residents
You just have to go way too far to recruit decent talent. There's just simply not enough around.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 1:54 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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Any ideas on the reason for this?
Osborne retired and Nebraska is a shitty state in terms of in state and regional talent
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