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A shit stain on the universe. Hypocrites.  Liars.  Helped create the instability in the Big 12, and then tried to pin the blame on someone else while they ran off to a paycheck and irrelevancy. 

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The defense is good enough to stay in most games.  Problem is, the defense was considered more of an add-on to this high powered unstoppable offense we were supposed to be seeing by now.  There's young talent but gotdamn the coaches have got to put these kids in better situations to actually win.  So psychologically fragile, no confidence being instilled by the coaches.  They won't even attempt a throw past 20 yards.  Won't go for it inside the 20.  It's like playing cards with my brothers kids or something.

2020, covid covered and no loss of eligibility, absolutely nothing on the line and you still won't go for it inside the 20?  Kick another FG?  Big confidence builder there.  Unbelievable.

I'm not sure what version of Scott Frost this is, but it ain't the brash, outspoken tough as nails sonofabitch you wouldn't have wanted to meet in a dark alley in '97.  Hell, this mfer would probably offer to wash your car to avoid a fight.

Weak ass shit.

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8 hours ago, mulletpelini said:

The defense is good enough to stay in most games.  Problem is, the defense was considered more of an add-on to this high powered unstoppable offense we were supposed to be seeing by now.  There's young talent but gotdamn the coaches have got to put these kids in better situations to actually win.  So psychologically fragile, no confidence being instilled by the coaches.  They won't even attempt a throw past 20 yards.  Won't go for it inside the 20.  It's like playing cards with my brothers kids or something.

2020, covid covered and no loss of eligibility, absolutely nothing on the line and you still won't go for it inside the 20?  Kick another FG?  Big confidence builder there.  Unbelievable.

I'm not sure what version of Scott Frost this is, but it ain't the brash, outspoken tough as nails sonofabitch you wouldn't have wanted to meet in a dark alley in '97.  Hell, this mfer would probably offer to wash your car to avoid a fight.

Weak ass shit.

In all fairness, the 97 version hid in a closet while Lawrence Phillips beat his girlfriend.

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This Friday's game makes it six in a row for Iowa. Many have been close, within one score. But every single game Iowa does well at the line of scrimmage. Some of the games have seen dominant performances from the defensive line, really taking Nebraska and their offense out of their rhythm. Iowa has only been good one of those last six years, and finished ranked in another. Its not like they have some kind of great talent pipeline there, its more about development.

 

 

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On 11/29/2020 at 12:02 AM, mulletpelini said:

The defense is good enough to stay in most games.  Problem is, the defense was considered more of an add-on to this high powered unstoppable offense we were supposed to be seeing by now.  There's young talent but gotdamn the coaches have got to put these kids in better situations to actually win.  So psychologically fragile, no confidence being instilled by the coaches.  They won't even attempt a throw past 20 yards.  Won't go for it inside the 20.  It's like playing cards with my brothers kids or something.

2020, covid covered and no loss of eligibility, absolutely nothing on the line and you still won't go for it inside the 20?  Kick another FG?  Big confidence builder there.  Unbelievable.

I'm not sure what version of Scott Frost this is, but it ain't the brash, outspoken tough as nails sonofabitch you wouldn't have wanted to meet in a dark alley in '97.  Hell, this mfer would probably offer to wash your car to avoid a fight.

Weak ass shit.

We'd love to have those FG's.  Herman's disrespect for 3 points has cost us in his 1 year (4x) here.

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Serious questions for Nebraska fans...how much longer does he have?  Losing season next year and he gone too right?  Then that’s when y’all can have your delusions of hiring Urban Meyer?

One more would probably do it. The AD always gets defenstrated first, so that’ll be your tell. If Rutgers can beat Nebraska Friday with a ex-NU QB(and small town Nebraska boy), it’s going to be ugly. 

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9 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

One more would probably do it. The AD always gets defenstrated first, so that’ll be your tell. If Rutgers can beat Nebraska Friday with a ex-NU QB(and small town Nebraska boy), it’s going to be ugly. 

Scary part for NU fans is where do you go from Frost?  I mean if he couldn’t breathe new life into that thing, no one will be able to.  Except an Urban Meyer, which seems highly unlikely

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Scary part for NU fans is where do you go from Frost?  I mean if he couldn’t breathe new life into that thing, no one will be able to.  Except an Urban Meyer, which seems highly unlikely

It could be Frost is just a shitty coach too. Who would have though Matt Campbell gets ISU rolling. I do think that Lance Leipold would get a long look given that he’s very familiar with the landscape, if a change were made. 

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Except Frost already proved that he’s not at UCF.

He’s had 1 winning season in 5. A lot of guys have caught lightning in a bottle for a season, it didn’t make them good coaches either. Frost is a terrible game manager, and that’s where the close loses pile up. 

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I give up.

Seriously though, he's got next year to get over .500 and get to a bowl.  It has to get progressively better or he's done.  Next year he's got 4 pretty decent recruiting classes of his kids.  No more culture bullshit, no more I need to be able to recruit to my own playbook.  This team has enough talent to win above .500 now let alone next next year.  The coaches have done these kids no favors.  Lot of young talent with a year of covid experience under their belts.  Time to develop or shut up.

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On 11/30/2020 at 10:57 AM, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

Yeah, but he refused to wash Lawrence's car. He drew a bold line and held to it.

Frost had no problems manhandling LeGarrette Blount, so it might be not be physical courage thing as much as embarrassment of getting caught.  Pick it up at 1:18.

 

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Scary part for NU fans is where do you go from Frost?  I mean if he couldn’t breathe new life into that thing, no one will be able to.  Except an Urban Meyer, which seems highly unlikely

Frost is at Nebraska for at least two more years, maybe longer.  I am a big fan of signing a contract and holding to it, regardless of how bad it sucks at the present. Frost could use better assistant coaches, however.

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On 12/15/2020 at 2:56 PM, Cornfusion said:

Frost is at Nebraska for at least two more years, maybe longer.  I am a big fan of signing a contract and holding to it, regardless of how bad it sucks at the present. Frost could use better assistant coaches, however.

A pretty good test for Frost will be on September 18, 2021, vs Riley... (Some fans are [semi] erect about the rivalry):

 

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and theres the shitty roster management in a free fucking year where you could have played the now backup to get him some playing time but no, that just wouldn't make sense now would it.  Warner shouldn't be a huge loss, there should be talent behind him to cover that.  Farniok will be a loss in OL depth for sure.  It sucks losing McCaffrey because he's a good weapon that should have been on the field no matter if he was playing QB or not.

Oh, and once again, it's offensive players transferring.  Very few if any D players have gone.

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I remember when I first started visiting the football boards in the late '90's. God, it was an amazing time to be witnessing different parts of the sports 'net learning and developing, and posters doing the same. Nebraska was far and away the most daunting program alongside FSU. It seemed like no one else was close, even if there were obviously strong programs short of them, such as UF, Michigan, OSU, and Tennessee that were worthy of respect. USC sucked. Texas sucked. Bama sucked. LSU sucked. Clemson? Ha. Right. 

Now? No one has collapsed like Nebraska. FSU has shit all over itself over the past 4+ years, but they also won a title before that. Texas and USC have certainly gone up to elite and then back down to mediocre. Obviously Bama, Clemson, OSU, and LSU have ascended. Michigan and Tennessee really suck now too, but no one sucks like Nebraska.

Anyway, it's gratifying to watch. I fucking hate those shit heads. Osborne pulled a stunt going to the Big 10 and blaming Texas. This is after he sold his soul to win titles with pieces of human shit. And Nebraska fans, of course, stayed "classy" cheering for shitbags and then talking shit about us on their way out the door. Not so much any more. Turns out, winning covers up a lot of sins. 

I had a Nebraska fan that I deal with attempt to claim the "evil Texas" premise with me recently. It was nice. Instead of arguing with him about the lack of facts in his argument (unequal revenue sharing in which Nebraska abstained from benefitting, Texas ending the walk-on program for UNL, other absurd shit), I just went with it. "Yep, you guys were immoral cheaters and Texas showed up and took your heart and soul from you, and you deserved it. You bitches left because you couldn't handle being owned in the conference, and now you've gone somewhere in which you are truly irrelevant. No one cares and no one notices you. If we added you to our future non-con, we'd have to schedule a premier program in the same seasons in order to avoid being accused of having a cupcake schedule. " He changed the subject. 

They'll never be back. They're nothing but smoking ruin and rubble, thousands of miles away from talent, interest, and rivalry. It's fitting.

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(Mitch Sherman) Nebraska off the rails: Ranking the 20 most bizarre moments of the past decade

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LINCOLN, Neb. — What a wild, weird decade. Since Nebraska played its last game as a member of the Big 12 and jumped into a whole new world of football, a lot has gone down. Much of it on the unconventional side. Inspired by The Athletic’s recent dive into Tennessee’s decade of debacles, here is an examination of Nebraska’s own 20 most bizarrely memorable episodes and events of the past 10 years — some fun, some painful or depressing, but nonetheless insightful.

This decade for Nebraska featured inspiring moments, too, like Jack Hoffman’s touchdown run at the 2013 spring game, and tragedy, with the deaths of Sam Foltz and Bob Elliott. But this list is limited to the kind of incidents that just don’t seem real. Be assured, though, they all happened. For perspective and analysis, we turned to three figures in the Nebraska media who covered it all: John Bishop, longtime radio commentator and co-host of “Unsportsmanlike Conduct” on Omaha’s KOZN; Andy Kendeigh, sports director for KETV in Omaha, and KOLN sports director Kevin Sjuts of Lincoln. To the rankings.

1. In reveal of secret audio, Bo Pelini annihilates Nebraska fans after his team beats Ohio State

Way back in 2011, No. 14 Nebraska roared from 21 points down in the third quarter to beat the Buckeyes 34-27. It was the largest comeback in school history. And Pelini, the fourth-year coach, took this opportunity to rip the fans at Memorial Stadium, some of whom booed the Huskers at halftime and did not return to their seats for the second half. Pelini made his critical remarks off air before a postgame radio interview with Greg Sharpe, the lead announcer for the Huskers Sports Network. But the tape back in the network studio was rolling. “Fuck you, fans,” Pelini said to Sharpe. “Fuck all of you.”

Almost two years passed, with whispers prevalent that a recording existed of Pelini’s tirade. “You knew there was something like this out there,” Bishop said. “It was kind of like the dirty little secret that Bo was dog-cussing the fans.” Then in September 2013, two days after a 41-21 Nebraska loss to UCLA, Deadspin got its hands on the 2011 audio. A storm ensued. Pelini apologized. Athletic director Shawn Eichorst and chancellor Harvey Perlman weighed in, saying the matter had been handled months earlier by then-athletic director Tom Osborne when Nebraska officials learned of the recording.

The coach kept his job. But the damage remained. “Right then in that moment,” Bishop said, “you knew everything was going to change. The thing about Nebraska, you know the passion and how much the people support the team. For the head coach to lay waste to those fans, just the idea of it is shocking. And to be that angry at the fans after you’ve just made this dramatic inspired comeback, it just didn’t make sense to focus on such a negative.”

2. ‘Do you see the strain?’

Nebraska defensive coordinator Bob Diaco offered a series of seemingly delirious postgame comments in November 2017 after the Huskers lost 31-24 in overtime at home against Northwestern. It marked Nebraska’s third loss in four games and fifth overall that fall as the Mike Riley era slipped toward the point of no return. Diaco’s stress was understandable. But… “The strain is spectacular, right?” he said to a group of reporters. “So we can just go back and look at the game. Do you see the strain? Do you see it or no, or is it just something that I’m missing?”

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“If you look at the faces of the reporters in that moment,” Sjuts said, “it’s like everyone was trying to understand what he was saying, but no one could understand.” And when it was over? “Everybody just kind of looked at each other like, ‘What the hell was that?’” Sjuts said. “We knew we all just got a quote that was probably going to last for years around here. But no one knew what it meant.” Sjuts described Diaco, the former Notre Dame coordinator and UConn head coach who spent one season in Lincoln, as “TV gold.”

“Here you have a really handsome man who would just deliver these dynamite quotes that were oftentimes off the wall,” Sjuts said, “and they played so well for our audience.” Because of the strain or whatever caused it, Diaco’s defense fell off a cliff after that moment, surrendering 166 points in its final three games. He and the rest of Riley’s staff were summarily fired. And that quote, Bishop said, “probably turned into the defining moment of Diaco’s tenure.”

3. Pelini blasts the Nebraska administration after his 2014 firing

Two days after Eichorst fired Pelini, the coach gathered his former players at Lincoln North Star High School to deliver his parting words. Not swayed by the release of the vulgar audio recording, referenced above, from 15 months earlier, Pelini cut loose. This time, though, Eichorst and the Nebraska leadership directly felt the brunt of his hostility. Not surprisingly, a person in attendance, presumably connected to the program, recorded Bo. Two weeks later, after Pelini accepted the Youngstown State job, the profanity-laced audio was distributed to media outlets.

Nebraska released a statement in response, saying it was “extremely disappointed” by Pelini’s actions and words. You think? “The sequel doesn’t quite match up,” Bishop said of the audio reveal. “It’s not ‘Godfather II’ to ‘Godfather I.’ It certainly was interesting, but it wasn’t surprising. We knew that Bo had an issue with Shawn Eichorst. But to this day, it’s still amazing that more players from that team didn’t leave the program. Because that was a toxic environment, as toxic as I can ever think of there being.”

Incidentally, KETV got word of the Dec. 2 meeting and sent videographer Andrew Ozaki to capture footage of Pelini as he entered the high school. When the coach arrived, he or someone with him saw Ozaki and they darted toward an alternate entrance to the school. “That’s where the absurdity meter is almost pinned to the right,” Kendeigh said.

4. The #Calibraska movement

Riley, after a 6-7 debut season in 2015 that ended with a victory against UCLA in the Foster Farms Bowl, carried some momentum into his second offseason. The coach aimed to capitalize on his history out west by building the Huskers’ 2017 recruiting class around a group of Californians, using his connection from two decades earlier at USC with former NFL star wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson to get in the door at talent-rich Calabasas High School.

Johnson’s son, wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson Jr., joined the class to much fanfare early in 2016, as did his teammate, quarterback Tristan Gebbia. Nebraska brought more than a dozen recruits from California on official visits in the fall of 2016 after the Calibraska experience peaked in June with a satellite camp in Los Angeles. Riley and his coaching staff ran the camp, which was forced to relocate because of wildfires. Kendeigh convinced his boss in Omaha to let him attend the event and collect interviews with a group of recruiting targets that included Johnson, Gebbia, defensive backs Darnay Holmes and Brendan “Bookie” Radley-Hiles, running back T.J. Pledger and receiver Tyjon Lindsey.

“In the moment, it was worth taking a swing,” Kendeigh said. “The talent at the camp was unbelievable. It was well worth the effort for Nebraska to think outside the box. Did it work out? Of course not. But Mike Riley, being a West Coast guy, it was playing to his strengths.”

Johnson, Gebbia and Lindsey signed with Nebraska in 2017. Only Lindsey played for the Huskers, and he transferred early in 2018 as a sophomore. Radley-Hiles, an obsession of some Nebraska fans as a 2018 prospect, pledged to the Huskers but decommitted in October 2017 and landed at Oklahoma as a coaching change loomed in Lincoln. The Calibraska class as a whole recently ranked last out of 70 notable classes surveyed in The Athletic’s 2017 recruiting re-rank.

“I was probably more skeptical than most people,” Bishop said. “The whole deal is that you’re highlighting the four or five guys from California and putting out the hashtag. But what about the other 15, 16 guys in the recruiting class? They’re not special, too? The heart and soul of the program are kids from around here who live and breathe Nebraska.”

5. Eichorst fires Pelini and trashes Iowa

Pelini got the boot two days after Nebraska finished the 2014 regular season with a 37-34 overtime win at Iowa. In discussing the decision to make a change after an emotional victory against a division rival, Eichorst said he “had to evaluate where Iowa was.” It was viewed at the time as a strong statement about Nebraska, which strived to play for Big Ten titles.

The Hawkeyes, who finished 7-6 in 2014, took it as something different. Eichorst’s words helped fuel Iowa on a run to beat Nebraska in the next six matchups, an active streak. “To me, that statement is one of the last vestiges of Nebraska looking down their noses at the Iowas of the world,” Bishop said. “You know that makes them upset. That sticks in their craw, and they’re not going to let Nebraska forget it. But for those of us who wanted a border rivalry, it was probably the perfect thing to say.”

In a 2016 interview with the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Eichorst tried to clarify the remarks, saying Iowa athletic director Gary Barta and coach Kirk Ferentz “are some of the most beautiful people I know.” Eichorst was fired at Nebraska in 2017.

6. Some in the national media ridicule Nebraska for its desire… to play

A throng of writers and broadcasters, from ESPN to Yahoo and Sports Illustrated, expressed outrage over Nebraska’s choice to speak out against the Big Ten’s August 2020 decision to postpone the football season because of the coronavirus pandemic. In an impassioned statement on the eve of the league’s announcement, coach Scott Frost and three players offered their case that moving ahead with games and practices was best for the players and the state.

When the Big Ten dropped the bad news, it prompted a bold statement from Nebraska leaders that they would “continue to consult with medical experts” and “hope it may be possible for our student-athletes to have the opportunity to compete.” Talking heads and columnists lobbed accusations that Nebraska was bidding to leave the conference. Maybe the school ought to just leave, some said, for daring to think independently, even as three of the other four Power 5 leagues were moving ahead with a fall season.

“It wasn’t good,” Sjuts said. “A lot of the criticism of Nebraska wanting to play was rooted in that they weren’t a successful program. I think the conversation is different if this is a conference championship contender.” Order returned two days after the Big Ten decision as Nebraska fell in line. Or did it?

7. Nebraska players sue the Big Ten

Why not? A group of Nebraska players filed a lawsuit in Lancaster County District Court against the Big Ten in late August over the league’s decision to postpone the football season until spring 2021, a far-fetched vision. The suit, also somewhat far-fetched in its demands, alleged that the Big Ten was acting in breach of contract. But it led to the release of details about the league’s vote to postpone play. And though the suit induced a few eye rolls outside of Nebraska and was not cited by the Big Ten in its decision to alter course, the conference on Sept. 17 announced plans to play a nine-game fall season.

Adding perfectly to the bizarre factor, University of Nebraska system president Ted Carter was caught on a hot mic one day before the Big Ten reversal, spilling the beans about the upcoming change.

8. Pelini melts down during and after the 2013 finale

Mired in controversy as the calendar turned to Black Friday and a home date against Iowa, Pelini swiped his hat at an official in the first half, nearly hitting him in the face after the coach finished arguing a pass-interference call. The hat swipe cost the Huskers another 15 yards. Later, Bo barked at ESPN sideline reporter Quint Kessenich during a halftime interview. And after the Hawkeyes beat Nebraska 38-17 to drop the Huskers to 8-4, Pelini described the pass-interference flag as a “chickenshit call.”

His fate apparently sealed, he dared Nebraska to fire him. “If they want to fire me, go ahead,” Pelini said in the postgame news conference. “I believe in what I’ve done. I don’t apologize to you. I don’t apologize to anybody.” Questioned about his behavior, Pelini said that he “saw Kirk Ferentz on the other side acting a lot worse than I act.” “It was so very fourth grade,” Sjuts said. Pelini earned the strong backing of his players.

“You could just feel the tension,” Bishop said. “He’s basically a guy that says, ‘You know what, to heck with everything, I’m going to be me and let it fly. And little did we know, we still had a year to go.” Alas, the next morning, Eichorst, in his first year atop the department, announced in a statement that Pelini would return for a seventh season. Sjuts, in the minority, said he didn’t expect Pelini to get canned. “I just didn’t think Shawn Eichorst had it in him to get rid of Bo at that point,” he said. “I don’t know that Eichorst had his next guy lined up.”

9. Hoodies?!?

After an October 2019 loss against Indiana that dropped the Huskers to 4-4, Frost criticized his players for wearing hoodies two weeks earlier while warming up before a 34-7 loss at Minnesota that was played in snowy weather. It was an issue of toughness, Frost said while wearing a hoodie. “You got ridiculed or beat up when I was playing if you did that,” he said at the time. Who knew this was a problem?

“It was out of the blue,” Kendeigh said. “It reminded me of when you’re in a relationship and things aren’t going well, and you just bring up stuff to air out because you’re frustrated.” Frost’s comments didn’t go over well. “I got where he was trying to go,” Bishop said. “He wants to instill toughness. But when he wears a hoodie and you see other guys on other teams wearing hoodies, it’s kind of a fake tough-guy act.”

10. Nebraska rips defeat from the jaws of victory at Illinois

Leading by six points and facing third-and-7 with one minute to play at Illinois in 2015, the Huskers mismanaged the clock terribly and blew Riley’s Big Ten debut. Nebraska needed only to keep the clock moving, with the Illini out of timeouts, to all but ensure victory. But from the Illinois 28-yard line, QB Tommy Armstrong Jr. improvised on a run call and inexplicably threw incomplete. He then threw incomplete again, handing the ball back to Illinois with 55 seconds left. The Illini drove 72 yards in six plays for the 14-13 win.

“Traditional football says there’s no way you should be throwing a pass on third down in that situation,” Sjuts said. “That should have never, ever happened.” Riley said Armstrong was instructed to run on third down. Nevertheless, the coach, in just his fifth game, lost the trust of some fans. “It just kind of opened up the window of questioning the play calling,” Sjuts said.

11. Nebraska runs out of kickers and raids the student body in search of a leg

The Huskers in September 2019 took extreme measures to find a competent kicker after injuries shelved Barret Pickering and Dylan Jorgensen, and punter Isaac Armstrong missed a field goal in overtime that would have extended Nebraska’s bid to beat Colorado on the road. “That was really weird,” Sjuts said. “A lot of teams go about two deep on kickers. You don’t think you have to go much deeper than that.”

Converted safety Lane McCallum hit a short, line-drive field goal from 24 yards to beat Northwestern, but it did not inspire confidence. “I would like to see a Sports Science on how high the kick got off the ground,” Sjuts said. “I am still to this day stunned that it didn’t get blocked.”

Things got so dicey that Frost checked with 295-pound defensive end Ben Stille, a solid kicker in high school at Ashland-Greenwood (Neb.). But Stille’s cleats were all wrong, and his taped ankles posed a problem. Eventually, the Huskers added Harrison Martin from the student body and Matt Waldoch via the club soccer program. Waldoch, a sophomore, kicked three field goals and six extra points against Maryland in November and hit a 41-yard field goal in the season finale against Iowa. Still, Nebraska started over at the position ahead of the 2020 season and found Connor Culp as a grad transfer from LSU. He earned first-team All-Big Ten honors in his first season.

12. Eichorst tries to kill Black Friday

In the days before the Nebraska loss that sealed his fate in 2017, Eichorst embraced the apparent end of Nebraska’s traditional Black Friday game against Iowa. He said the Huskers could benefit from a full week of preparation before the regular-season finale in years ahead. “It was another complete and total misread of the room,” Bishop said. “People have come to love the Black Friday tradition.”

The change was set to come, too, with a new Thanksgiving week opponent as future Big Ten schedules swapped Minnesota for Iowa. Much derision from fans and media followed the announcement. Eichorst took a new stance two days later and pushed for Black Friday games against the Gophers. “I will let you know when I do make mistakes,” he said. The two-year change was set to take effect in 2020, but schedule reshuffling as a result of the pandemic left Iowa-Nebraska intact last year on Black Friday. As of last week, it’s set to remain there in 2021.

13. Frost levels complaint against Iowa for clapping

After the Huskers lost 26-20 at Iowa on Black Friday in 2020, Frost was asked about several errant snaps delivered by Nebraska center Cameron Jurgens, a recurring problem in his two seasons at the position. On this day, Jurgens misfired on five first-half snaps, including one that sailed several over the head of quarterback Adrian Martinez. That was on the Hawkeyes, Frost said, pointing to claps that came from the Iowa sideline. In an empty Kinnick Stadium, the clapping, Frost said, simulated a snap call from Martinez and bothered his center.

Video appeared to show that Frost was right. He said he talked to officials about it, and the clapping stopped. “Make no mistake, Iowa was trying to mess with them,” Bishop said. “But it was a face-palm moment. This excuse-making is not the Nebraska way. This is not what you do. If you lose, lose with dignity. To veer off and use this as an excuse, it just rung so hollow.” Ferentz, surprised by Frost’s comments, said he’d “never heard of that.”

“If a player was on the field doing it, I get that,” Ferentz said. “But what are we talking about? The next thing you know, we’re going to be treating this like golf. I was going to say tennis, but they (clap) at tennis.” Said Kendeigh of Ferentz: “He almost started laughing because he couldn’t believe this was coming up.” Only a few months old, this one is likely to persevere in Nebraska-Iowa lore.

14. Tommie Frazier calls for the firing of Nebraska’s defensive coaches

Remember the 2013 UCLA loss? Yeah, the one that prompted the release of Pelini’s two-year-old tirade against the fans. Well, a few hours after the game, before the Deadspin story dropped, Frazier, a two-time national champion former Nebraska QB, unloaded on Twitter, calling for the removal of Pelini’s entire defensive coaching staff. Arguably the greatest player in school history, Frazier was honored at halftime of the game for his election to the College Football Hall of Fame.

“If this is what is going to happen for the remainder of the season, count me out,” Frazier wrote after Nebraska surrendered 38 unanswered points. “I don’t care if we lose a game, but the way we are losing is just not what Nebraska fans deserve. I have fought, bled, and cried over this program. I didn’t do all that for the program to become what it has today. Time for change!” Pelini, predictably, did not appreciate Frazier’s criticism. “If he feels like that,” the coach said, “we don’t need him. That’s a shame.”

15. The Frost era opens with a thunderstorm cancellation, a QB injury and a thud against Troy

In a decade of letdowns, the greatest of all came perhaps out of a game that was never played. Memorial Stadium was rocking and ready to explode on Sept. 1, 2018, as Akron visited to kick off the Frost coaching era. But Mother Nature had other ideas. A stubborn line of severe weather dumped rain and brought hours of lightning to Lincoln, canceling the game after the opening kick. A scramble to keep the Zips in town for a strange Sunday affair fell short.

The Huskers opened a week later, blowing a fourth-quarter lead against old rival Colorado. Before the Buffaloes’ winning drive, Adrian Martinez exited with a knee injury. Replays showed that CU linebacker Jacob Callier twisted the right leg of Martinez, later igniting a controversy. And it led to the absence in the next game of the freshman, whose ascension had caused older quarterbacks Patrick O’Brien and Gebbia to transfer ahead of the Frost opener.

Nebraska played Troy without a scholarship quarterback — and lost 24-19 behind walk-on Andrew Bunch. The Trojans picked up $1.15 million for the trip, sending the Huskers to an 0-2 start for the first time since 1957. Soon, 0-2 was 0-6, and questions lingered about that unfortunate first night. “If they play the Akron game,” Kendeigh said, “I think the whole thing is different.”

16. Wisconsin runs wild, again and again

Nebraska played its first conference game as a member of the Big Ten on Oct. 1, 2011, against Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium, full of fans roiling with eagerness to extend the Huskers a rude welcome. The Badgers won 48-17, a mere preview of the meetings ahead. Since Nebraska joined the league, Wisconsin has won eight of nine games against the Huskers, avenging its only defeat, in 2012, with a 70-31 embarrassment of the Huskers two months later in the Big Ten championship game. Melvin Gordon and Monte Ball both topped 200 yards in that debacle, again foreshadowing the exploits of Wisconsin running backs against the Blackshirts.

Two years later in Madison, Gordon rushed for 408 yards, then an FBS record, in three quarters. “It symbolized that Barry Alvarez built the foundation at Wisconsin on the tenets of Nebraska football,” Kendeigh said. Alvarez, the Wisconsin athletic director and former coach, of course, played linebacker at Nebraska and began his coaching career in the state, modeling his system after his college coach, Nebraska legend Bob Devaney.

Against Nebraska in the past decade, Wisconsin owns an 18.2-point edge per game and has rushed for 2,820 yards, averaging 6.9 per attempt. Jonathan Taylor became the first player in Wisconsin history to gain more than 200 yards on the ground three times against a single opponent, accumulating 674 yards from 2017 to 2019 while facing the Huskers. “We’ve heard this before, but Wisconsin out-Nebraska’d Nebraska,” Kendeigh said. “It’s true. It drives Nebraska fans crazy, and rightfully so.”

17. Northern Illinois wins in Lincoln

Nebraska quarterback Tanner Lee threw two pick sixes in the first quarter, and the Huskies flew home in September 2017 with a 21-17 victory as the first non-Power 5 opponent to beat the Huskers at Memorial Stadium since Southern Miss in 2004. After the game, in an odd move for any athletic director, let alone Eichorst, who was known to hide from the media, he appeared in the hallway outside the interview room. “He was almost begging reporters to come up and ask him questions,” Sjuts said. “That’s when your (antenna) goes up that this is very outside the norm, and there’s something bigger at work.”

Eichorst had in the week prior extended Riley’s contract by one year and tripped over himself in the aforementioned botching of Black Friday on future schedules. He was fired five days after the Northern Illinois debacle and replaced on an interim basis by ex-Nebraska great Dave Rimington.

18. Bill Moos pokes Big Ten bullies at the wrong time

Speaking to boosters and media at the Omaha Press Club in April 2018, Moos, the first-year AD, said that Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and Ohio State’s Urban Meyer were “running a little scared right now” of Nebraska and Frost, the Huskers’ fancy new hire. “And they won’t admit it,” Moos said. “We’ll leave it at that.” He later clarified that his comments were made “a bit tongue in cheek.” Michigan beat Nebraska 56-10 five months later, and the Huskers have lost to Ohio State by an average margin of 27 points in their first three meetings under Frost.

19. Ohio State exposes Nebraska in a 62-3 rout

A 7-0 start in 2016 pushed Riley’s second team to seventh in the AP poll. Nebraska then lost in overtime at Wisconsin but remained ninth in the rankings as it traveled to play No. 6 Ohio State. The Buckeyes, after one-score wins against Wisconsin and Northwestern sandwiched around a loss at Penn State, entered as a 17-point favorite against Nebraska and covered the spread two minutes into the second quarter.

The final: 62-3, the most lopsided loss for the Huskers since a 70-10 defeat at Texas Tech in 2004. “What struck me on the field, looking at the Ohio State guys in warmups, they were grown men, NFL players, as compared to the Nebraska players who weren’t,” Kendeigh said. “The difference in size and strength was jaw-dropping.” Said Riley at the time: “That game came out of the blue.” Actually, it exposed the Huskers, who were masquerading as a highly ranked team. They’ve not since returned to the top 10.

20. Jack Gangwish bludgeons a raccoon after a selfie mishap

Hours after Eichorst introduced Riley as coach, junior defensive end Jack Gangwish killed a raccoon with a crescent wrench on the side of the road. What, is that weird? Gangwish jumped out of his 2002 Chevy Duramax pickup, according to his story, to pose for a selfie with the raccoon before it bit him on the leg. So the 21-year-old Husker, wary of contracting rabies, chased the animal down and went too far in trying to subdue it.

Gangwish tweeted several times about the encounter, posts later deleted. “I remember it blowing up on social media,” Kendeigh said. “After that, could you imagine the introductory meeting between Mike Riley and Jack Gangwish?” Gangwish served as a captain on Riley’s first Nebraska team in 2015. As of last check in late 2020, he was looking for opponents as a heavyweight MMA fighter. Gangwish, not Riley.

 

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they  have a pretty brutal schedule next year if they lose on Sept. 11th they should just walk into the Buffalo locker room with a fat ass check to see if they can make the hire

if they win they still have a possible 5 straight losses coming after that

then a strong chance to lose 3 of the last 4

 

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance
August 28 vs. Illinois    
September 11 Buffalo*    
September 18 at Oklahoma*    
September 25 at Michigan State    
October 2 Northwestern
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, NE
   
October 9 Michigan
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, NE
   
October 16 at Minnesota    
October 30 Purdue
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, NE
   
November 6 Ohio State
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, NE
   
November 13 Southeastern Louisiana*
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, NE
   
November 20 at Wisconsin    
November 26 Iowa
 

 

 

 

 

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On 11/8/2020 at 11:46 AM, Sgt Hulk said:

Not really Nebraska football team.  But that little kid that had brain cancer and ran the touchdown play during their spring game many moons back.  His dad has it now and it’s terminal.  
 

The article is on ESPN 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30987054/andy-hoffman-father-nebraska-football-fan-jack-hoffman-dies-brain-cancer-42

 

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3 minutes ago, mulletpelini said:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30987054/andy-hoffman-father-nebraska-football-fan-jack-hoffman-dies-brain-cancer-42

 

I think I speak for everyone here when I say, why couldn't it have been mulletpelini...

 

Jokes aside, that's some incredibly sad, heavy shit.  RIP Father and Son...

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