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re: Top 10 College Football Programs of the Last 60 Years (ranked by wins)
Posted on 5/17/19 at 1:11 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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.
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Posted on 5/17/19 at 1:18 pm to BHMKyle
... and the same set of circumstances are part of Arkansas' downfall as well... just not as severe.
Arkansas too is a relatively small state with no major metropolitan areas of 1 million+ residents. While it has far more African Americans than Nebraska, the percent is far less than most other Southern states.
And while its not nearly as remote as Lincon, NE... Fayetteville is pretty far away from a major metro area:
215 miles from Oklahoma City
233 miles from Kansas City
320 miles from Memphis
335 miles from Dallas
357 miles from St. Louis
Not a single major metro within 200 miles.
Arkansas too is a relatively small state with no major metropolitan areas of 1 million+ residents. While it has far more African Americans than Nebraska, the percent is far less than most other Southern states.
And while its not nearly as remote as Lincon, NE... Fayetteville is pretty far away from a major metro area:
215 miles from Oklahoma City
233 miles from Kansas City
320 miles from Memphis
335 miles from Dallas
357 miles from St. Louis
Not a single major metro within 200 miles.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 2:12 pm to BHMKyle
God, do you millennials know anything? Nebraska recruited nationally, including Florida (Tommie Frazier) and California (Lawrence Phillips) because they took PARTIAL qualifiers (a correction to the earlier reference to non-qualifiers) and got the big roided-up cornfed uglies from in-state.
Then when the Big 12 was formed, The University of Texas led the move to eliminate accepting partial qualifiers.
Between TEXAS whipping their arse on the football field afterward -- and the aforementioned issue -- Nebraska HATED Texas, then doubled down on cutting their nose off to spite their face by abandoning the Texas recruiting grounds in favor of a new conference (Nebraska aggy gonna state of Texas aggy?).
The issue of revenue sharing was a cover for Nebraska to escape their Unversity of Texas masters, as it was for college station aggy, the latter of which were simply flat broke financially.
Then when the Big 12 was formed, The University of Texas led the move to eliminate accepting partial qualifiers.
Between TEXAS whipping their arse on the football field afterward -- and the aforementioned issue -- Nebraska HATED Texas, then doubled down on cutting their nose off to spite their face by abandoning the Texas recruiting grounds in favor of a new conference (Nebraska aggy gonna state of Texas aggy?).
The issue of revenue sharing was a cover for Nebraska to escape their Unversity of Texas masters, as it was for college station aggy, the latter of which were simply flat broke financially.
This post was edited on 5/17/19 at 2:14 pm
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