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[TheBeav815]

48-18-2 record vs cu. I think the bluffs have always been obnoxious pretenders. I am far from a young buck, and, yes, I would feel differently if playing ou, even moreso because they were in the playoff last year and highly rated now

^ it's not the young bucks, it's the old guys who will never accept anyone other than OU as the rival.

 

[Anon1727835823]

A true rivalry is defined by the players. If the players "get up" more for one team than another, it may be a rivalry. If they truely despise the program on the other side of the field, regardless of win loss records, it may be a rivalry. Fans dont define them.

If fan's defined rivalries, we would have a true rivalry with Iowa, because our fan bases dont like each other at all. I dont think the players treat it as one though.

 

[litespeedhuskerfan_rivals19671]

Urine balloons = Rivalry.

 

[Lincoln100]

Urine balloons = dipshits

 

[Shimmer003]

Not a rival. Hated CU but no more than kstate or Missouri. Nebraska has had but only one rival and they stabbed us in the back and ran away like a little....they can have Texas. We’ll take the B1G and move on as far as I’m concerned.

 

[SOHusker11]

Urine balloons = dipshits

I'd change it to chickenshits, but otherwise agree.

#GBR

 

[jolley]

Some of you young buck's don't recall the significance of this opponent in the past.

If we were playing Oklahoma Saturday would you feel differently?

ou spoiled many undefeated seasons and nc title chances for NU, as NU did to them a few times. That's why it was a rivalry to me. I remember a lot of disappointment and jubilation after ou games for 4 decades. cu games? meh

 

[litespeedhuskerfan_rivals19671]

I'd change it to chickenshits, but otherwise agree.

#GBR

I'll never forget Davidson calling that on the radio, it was Davidson wasn't it??? IIRC, he was cracking up in somewhat disbelief. Would love to hear that again to see if the reality matches my recollection on that.

 

[tyrusraymondcobb]

More than once called the CU game a “rivalry” game. First time I’ve ever heard a player or coach refer to them as a rival. I’ve never considered them a rival. Pieces of sheet for certain, but never a rival.

Sal is Dead...you know the rest.

 

[Ki113rSk3r69]

Least we forget TO almost left our butts for Colorado! They’re a rival, wether we like it or not..

 

[Shimmer003]

Least we forget TO almost left our butts for Colorado! They’re a rival, wether we like it or not..

TO would disagree with this

 

[Lincoln100]

Urine balloons = Rivalry.

And you think we should respect them

 

[jolley]

Least we forget TO almost left our butts for Colorado! They’re a rival, wether we like it or not..

that, as I remember it from the 70's, was not for any love of colorado as much as he heard there was an appreciable amount of dissatisfaction with him not winning "the big ones" especially against ou, and colorado making him a substantial offer and not for any great appeal of cu

 

[oldjar07]

This. Some people talk as if our only true "rival" is OU. My gracious. CU was definitely a rival in the late 80's and 90's.

Colorado has always meant more to me as a rival game than Oklahoma ever did. I guess that shows the average age of this board that so many think that Oklahoma can be our only true rival.

 

[Solana Beach Husker]

How many teams in the big 8 have won a national title in the last 30 years? 3...CU, NU, OU...they are a rival. It is o.k to have a national champion as a rival.

 

[Black5hirt]

I sure as hell hope Eric Crouch considered them a rival when he played here. Might not have helped too much when Crouch played them in that last game, but Colorado definitely considered us a rival and that's the sort of thing that can happen in a rivalry game.

That game was the beginning of the end. Chris Brown is still running.

 

[inWV]

CU imposed themselves as a rival and NU dropped a couple by not taking that seriously. We are in the process of doing the same with Iowa. You don’t necessarily get to pick your rivals. Sometimes they pick you.

 

[jolley]

That game was the beginning of the end. Chris Brown is still running.

I think, with all due respect and after hearing about this for a while now, that the beginning of the end was when the majority of TO's recruits and his influence left the program (i.e. Mcbride) . There was a semblance of TO's program, later, under FS, but recruiting suffered more and more as time went on. I remember reading about highly rated recruits being interested in NU early in the year, but FS could not close on most of them. Deangelo Evans probably being one of the exceptions to that. IMO it wasn't one game. That game was a symptom, not a cause. I realize this is subjective opinion and open for debate.

I despise what pederson did to the program, but his observations about recruiting were not totally inaccurate. The problem was he was convinced by his own ego that he was omnipotent, and couldn't correct the program because he let his own personality flaws get in the way resulting in his piss poor management. JMO

 

[Black5hirt]

I think, with all due respect and after hearing about this for a while now, that the beginning of the end was when the majority of TO's recruits and his influence left the program (i.e. Mcbride) . There was a semblance of TO's program, later, under FS, but recruiting suffered more and more as time went on. I remember reading about highly rated recruits being interested in NU early in the year, but FS could not close on most of them. Deangelo Evans probably being one of the exceptions to that. IMO it wasn't one game. That game was a symptom, not a cause. I realize this is subjective opinion and open for debate.

I despise what pederson did to the program, but his observations about recruiting were not totally inaccurate. The problem was he was convinced by his own ego that he was omnipotent, and couldn't correct the program because he let his own personality flaws get in the way resulting in his piss poor management. JMO

You are correct.

 

[xxUNRIVALEDxx]

I think, with all due respect and after hearing about this for a while now, that the beginning of the end was when the majority of TO's recruits and his influence left the program (i.e. Mcbride) . There was a semblance of TO's program, later, under FS, but recruiting suffered more and more as time went on. I remember reading about highly rated recruits being interested in NU early in the year, but FS could not close on most of them. Deangelo Evans probably being one of the exceptions to that. IMO it wasn't one game. That game was a symptom, not a cause. I realize this is subjective opinion and open for debate.

I despise what pederson did to the program, but his observations about recruiting were not totally inaccurate. The problem was he was convinced by his own ego that he was omnipotent, and couldn't correct the program because he let his own personality flaws get in the way resulting in his piss poor management. JMO

Agree. That game wasn’t the beginning of the end, it was just the most symbolic moment everyone could point to when looking back.

 

[TheNewNU_rivals50820]

I despise what pederson did to the program, but his observations about recruiting were not totally inaccurate. The problem was he was convinced by his own ego that he was omnipotent, and couldn't correct the program because he let his own personality flaws get in the way resulting in his piss poor management. JMO

Apparently Pederson fired Frank in large part because he had an NFL head coach in 2003 lined up to take over for him. It was a "WOW" hire according to Perlman (likely Steve Spurrier), apparently things fell through in contract talks and we settled on Callahan after the most embarrassing coaching search in college football history until Tennessee took that honor last season.

 

[Baxter48_rivals204143]

To this day can't figure out why Peterson wanted wannstedt he never was a good head coach, both peterson and eichorst were just puppets of Harvey