Best. Halloween. EVER!!!!!!
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Came back to Lincoln from Colorado Springs with some CU grad friends for both the '92 and '94 games. Fun times.
Hard to believe both teams were ranked #2 & #3 25 years ago when they met in 1994. My how the mighty have fallen. 
we all want what we can't have. you, me, c3o and everyone else in Husker Nation miss winning. period.
I'd bet dollars to donuts you were clamoring for an offensive change in 2002.
Actually all I wanted was for the QB to be able to pitch and IB catch the pitch when running the option. Once Frank got in and started running the QB more he should have done it out of a different formation.
Coaching went stale. I was probably guilty of wanting change, (mostly felt like Solich wasn't the guy)
But I watch football differently. I understand things now I didn't then. Nebraska really had a nice formula of running the ball and pushing around defensive fronts. And the option wrinkle was nice. It worked because we didn't have to recruit like Frost does. I hope Scott's system works and I think it will.
Don't know if I remember the stadium being wilder for a whole game than this one. Had so much fun, I was 10 years old and I got to go to a night game and I thought it was a HUGE deal. Painted my face, I remember the crowd being just nuts the entire time.
I remember the place being completely bonkers and then I think we went to a Val's buffet somewhere after.
I remember the place being completely bonkers and then I think we went to a Val's buffet somewhere after.
Here's my memory...
It was snowing in Haven Kansas, where we were, and my wife wanted me to take the kids when it got to be 38-7....I'm normally the nicest guy ever, but I made it VERY clear that I was not going out until the beat down was over, and that SHE was welcome to take them early if she wished!!!
It was snowing in Haven Kansas, where we were, and my wife wanted me to take the kids when it got to be 38-7....I'm normally the nicest guy ever, but I made it VERY clear that I was not going out until the beat down was over, and that SHE was welcome to take them early if she wished!!!
45:20 Jones actually throws the ball away before he breaks the plane. Lots of stuff in this video that you wouldn't get away with today. That would be a touchdown-turned-touchback.
There would have been about 50 flags for rouging the passer and late hit thrown in the first quarter alone.
There would have been about 50 flags for rouging the passer and late hit thrown in the first quarter alone.
he DIDN'T get away with pulling off his helmet...Dr.Tom read him the riot act, if i recall!!!
when our run got stuffed. We lost, and sometimes we lost bad. But they beat the teams they should have with that system, 9 out of 10xs. Running the ball and a modicum of defense wins games. Get those to elite levels and you're going places.
Yes, I know what Wisc did against OSU. I just miss that creative offense. Hell, in the mid 90s long after Oklahoma ditched the wishbone, we were really the only team in the nation with that scheme. I miss that power I with HB, 2 FB and 2 TE
Yes, I know what Wisc did against OSU. I just miss that creative offense. Hell, in the mid 90s long after Oklahoma ditched the wishbone, we were really the only team in the nation with that scheme. I miss that power I with HB, 2 FB and 2 TE
The overall violence of the game leaps off the screen at me. The aggression is nowhere near what it was, that NU team would beat this one so badly it wouldn't even be funny. The bad intentions when they hit at every single position are a major contrast to what we have seen in Lincoln lately.
Also I had forgotten how damn fast Lance Lewis was. Dude used to sneak through on a trap and just be GONE
Also I had forgotten how damn fast Lance Lewis was. Dude used to sneak through on a trap and just be GONE
Both teams hit hard. Did you laugh at the passing pocket they gave Tommy or lack thereof? even those designed roll outs were pure chaos in the backfield. You could see a budding star in Michael Westbrook too.
Tommie was absolutely not scared of anything. I think all the time about Benning's story of getting in the Orange Bowl game and Derrick Brooks laid the wood on him, he goes back to the huddle and says something like, "Man these guys came to hit tonight." Tommie immediately looked to the sidelines and told them to throw his *** out of the game because he was "scared." Kicked a running back out of the game for saying the defense was hitting hard.
Some pretty horrendous passes in his freshman year though. There are a few in that CU game alone where it's a TD if he gets the ball in there with a little touch.
That option run where he shook a few guys and then gave Figures the stare down at the end, that was a flash of the player he was turning into.
No matter the system that's what is needed in Lincoln. Tommie Frazier was Reno Hightower from Best of Times in real life.
i agree with you. That offense is an identity and it puts RBs and OL in the NFL. It allows you to recruit athletes at QB, maybe these days it could involve a little more passing.
Nowadays, nothing special about the Oregon offense. It’s installed everywhere. It works but when Team A gets top 300 guys to run it and Team B gets a couple top 300 guys. Team A gonna win.
However, none of this matters if our defense looks like it does. Ugh. And they aren’t exactly lining up to play here