Isaiah Newcombe
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We are all old. Bobby Graduated in 01, so he wouldn’t have had this kid until a couple years after that. Of course Bobby and I are the same age and my youngest is 4, man I will never retire.
I think we considered it but having luck with Shawn Hardy and now looking like Latrell Neville is about to be a Husker, maybe we held off. Or apparently we did completely.
actually the real proof we are getting old is seeing Chris Brooks son being recruited by our staff. Now that’s bad 
Well his dad and former Husker Bobby Newcombe was a big time recruit for us. I believe would have been a Husker legend at QB, but I digress.
He's also the Head Coach at Casteel High in the Phoenix area. Was State Champs 3 years ago. I'm sure they have talent coming out of there and I can't think of a better IN than a former Husker being the coach.....
He's also the Head Coach at Casteel High in the Phoenix area. Was State Champs 3 years ago. I'm sure they have talent coming out of there and I can't think of a better IN than a former Husker being the coach.....
I guess he isn't concerned about finishing his career under a different coach than the one who recruited him. Hard to imagine Chip's shelf life isn't just about expired there.
Bobby was not a very good qb... but please tell us how he was better than Crouch.
Cmon, calm down.... Bobby was a stud, Crouch was a stud. Newcombe before knee injury was special, period
I don't know if this is true or not but it's at least possible. Bobby was a complete stud.
Wasnt that the game where Crouch was a complete gamechanger at WR, QB, and a little RB or WB or whatever iirc?
I often wonder what we would have looked like offensively with Newcombe remaining at QB and Crouch the swiss army knife scoring from ALL positions.
No that was the Cal game a week later. Threw for a TD to Winstrom and ran for a TD..he ran caught and threw TD first one time since Johnny the Jet..
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Good for you, just always felt Bobby was a better all around quarterback than Eric. Still think when frank begged Eric to come back, it started the downfall of franks tenure.
Thank You!.. not saying Bobby Newcombe wasn't an All-American type talent at receiver or could have been at QB as well.. but Crouch won a Heisman Trophy. It's pretty tough to argue that a guy was flat out better than a Heisman Trophy winner. I'm sure Coach Frost would be more than willing to take a player of either of their caliber today.
The only reason crouch won the Heisman trophy is because frank ran him in the ground highlighting him. His last 2 games were evident of that. Again it’s jmo
Nah. The only reason Eric won is because he was the best player in the game that year. You ride the talent you have as far as it will take you.
Frank failed by not maintaining Tom's momentum with recruiting and talent development.
It's Eric's fault for masking Frank's failure. Winking
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wait, didn't Newcombe win the starting job? then Crouch threatened to quit the team, and then Frank made Crouch the starter? I thought it was something like that...
Not exactly. As I remember it, Frank did talk Crouch into coming back but Newcombe remained the starter for the first couple of games. I absolutely loved Newcombe, but he struggled at QB after that knee injury, and Crouch was delivering better results.
Lets be glad that Eric won the Heisman. Without his heroic performances we would have lost 4-5 total games and we would have lost our minds during that time.
The knee injury took away Nukes explosion. He was never the same after that. Even as a WR he was never that 1997 Nuke ever again.
I honestly think if TO was there in 1998 he wouldve used Nuke and Crouch for that matter differenty. I think Nuke couldve been that pass first run second guy who was super explosive when he did get his number called. Imo Nuke and Crouch after Nuke for hurt were hamstrung by Solichs not so versatile offense.
It won Crouch a heisman but imo it would NOT have won Nuke one. He couldn't run the option as well as Crouch could. I do however think he was a better passer early on than Crouch was.
Then jammal Lord became that RB playing QB like Solich made Crouch. Frankie wasnt a good OC at all.
Holla
I still shake my head when I think about an answer Crouch gave somebody a few years ago. Somebody was asking him about all of the QB draws that Frank called. Crouch said, "most of them weren't called plays. I would get to the line of scrimmage and see what the defense was in and just say F###. This play won't work and we don't have a good audible out of this either. So I would just get the snap and take off (and run)."
He was probably improvising his way out of some of those play-action passes Frank used to call on 3rd and 12. You know, where absolutely nobody pays the slightest bit of attention to the fake and just goes full-tilt for the QB. It's amazing Crouch could make it up on stage to receive that trophy.
I've never tried to play half a college football season on a torn PCL. Is that an easy thing to do?