I'm actually a bit surprised you guys have been down this long. Unfortunately, we're seeing the same three or four programs load up on recruits each winter and for the moment there isn't much of a chance for anyone else.
How are pederson & eichorst, mike riley still getting hired!! Can't people see these 3 are THE ABSOLUTE WORST AT THEIR JOBS!! They need to be RUN OUT OF COLLEGE SPORTS PERIOD.
I am just happy that at age 70, I have matured just a little. In my teens and 20's my entire week was ruined if the Huskers lost. Now, I still want our team to win, of course, but this whole damn deal is not worth having a stroke or heart attack over. My wife is fully capable of handling that without any assistance. 😠😡
Eric Crouch should have just switched positions instead of being so stubborn. He would have had a solid career as an NFL slot receiver. He was like 5'11" flat with a noodle arm. His arm alone would have never won him the Heisman in THAT Big 12, back when their top teams had NFL defenses. And honestly we all know Grossman was robbed. Crouch's arrogance was his downfall, Russ and Kyler have cannons, he wasn't like them. With his speed, he would have been a really good slot receiver.
As a native, I can say that there were a few things that lead to this program’s downfall: 1) Frank Solich: you left out the real reason why he was fired, it was an off the field deal that had nothing to do with football. If it didn't happen, he would’ve never been fired. 2) The end of the UNO Football: One of the biggest hallmarks of the Osborne Era was the Walk-On program and the UNO Mavericks were enablers of that. It was crucial in keeping a lot of Nebraska prospects in state. Now with it gone, a lot Of Nebraska natives are leaving the state for NDSU, Kansas, Iowa State, and whoever else. 3) Leaving the Big XII: Absolutely destroyed our recruiting pipelines and landing in the Big Ten meant that we had to rebuild these pipelines while trying to compete against the likes of Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan. Of course, most Nebraska fans are still living in a time where Bill Clinton is still president and fail to understand that we are stuck in a conference we simply don’t belong in and lack any sort of equalizer or way to establish ourselves in the modern era. Basically, I miss Mavericks football.
Big 12 was ass ramming the Huskers every year, moving to the B1G wasn't a mistake, recruiting falls on the coaching staff, Bill Callahan broke that pipeline. Not the move to B1G
Pretty simple they left the Big 12 and lost their pipeline to Texas, they played big 12 schools and texas kids had no problem going to Nebraska since there family could watch half the games without having to go to Nebraska.
Agreed, plus what makes recruiting easier? Big rivalry games with a lot of hate, kids want to be apart of those and Nebraska its three biggest rivalries behind.
@@BusterCherry1 Yes and no, in 2008 we beat Clemson in the gator bowl then we won the last two north division titles in the big 12, and we were only a few bad plays away from winning both. I think personally we were trending slowly upwards, but only time would have told.
@scrub44 I agree, to me I think the perfect is ten teams each playing a round Robin then the top 2 play again for the decider of the championship, its looked good in the big 12 imo.
Huskers big problem is that they can no longer live on partial qualifiers and their walk-on program can no longer get around scholarship limits. Mad respect for Nebraska and their fans. I miss the old rivalry and hate my Sooners don't play them anymore.
Our walk-on program has seen a huge revival under Frost. Our roster was at 160 players last year, biggest in the country by far. Problem is, all those walk-ons are young and walk-ons are not ready made players. They need time to develop. That's true for scholarship players too, but especially for walk-ons.
@@jasonshaneyfelt1039 I presume under Frost they are genuine walk-ons. Back in the day walk-ons didn't count toward recruiting limits, so everybody walked on at Nebraska, even the top recruits. I hope Husker fans remain patient. Scott Frost is the best, most loyal Nebraska coach they could have. It may be a longer build than expected, but he will bring them back.
People need to shut up with the "shouldn't have fired Frank Solich or Bo Pelini" stuff. Fact is when you're USED to having a dynasty beforehand you don't just sit there and let another new coach just start winning only 10 or 11 games a year. Let somebody come into Alabama, Clemson, or even Ohio State and start going 10-3 and not competing for conference and/or national titles. I PROMISE you they'll fire their coach too. Why? Because they're USED to having better than that. That's why. Now if another new guy comes in after that previously fired coach and starts going 8-4 or 6-6, then THAT'S what happened to Nebraska. It could happen to any program that expects better than what they're getting especially if they've had much better before.
@@kayaktulsa7170 i really wish this video covered that. Is there a reason why the walkon program worked so well for Nebraska? Couldnt other schools have done the same thing?
@Hammerin' Hank Since 1978 Detroit has hosted the early NFL TGiving day game, and Dallas the later game. They never have played each other. LOL, I guess I remember Dallas beating whomever and Detroit losing to whomever and combining them. Dallas 34, Detroit 8
Here we are in 2022 and Frost was just fired. I've been a Husker fan for my whole life (53 years) and I'm not sure they will ever be back as one of the best teams. I think Nebraska is stuck at average or below average teams from now on. I've never seen the Husker defense this bad and they'll be lucky to win another game this year.
@@walkoff2 I'm kind of split on Meyer. On the one hand, I think he's a great college coach and when people mess up they deserve a second chance, on some things. On the other hand, I wonder how much what he did might hurt his recruiting. So I don't really know.
As a hardcore Wisconsin fan, first off I will say Nebraska have the greatest fans ever. Anywho, I wish they never left the Big 12. I miss the ole Nebraska vs Oklahoma, and Texas rivalry games.
Most of the reason they left the Big 12 was because Texas was trying to monopolize the media rights to games, which is a shitload of money. Plus, being in the Big Ten generates a lot more money for the university. So even though the Football team sucks, the university is doing better than ever.
People need to shut up with the "shouldn't have fired Frank Solich or Bo Pelini" stuff. Fact is when you're USED to having a dynasty beforehand you don't just sit there and let another new coach just start winning only 10 or 11 games a year. Let somebody come into Alabama, Clemson, or even Ohio State and start going 10-3 and not competing for conference and/or national titles. I PROMISE you they'll fire their coach too. Why? Because they're USED to having better than that. That's why. Now if another new guy comes in after that previously fired coach and starts going 8-4 or 6-6, then THAT'S what happened to Nebraska. It could happen to any program that expects better than what they're getting especially if they've had much better before.
Osborne knew what was gonna happen when the Big 8 became the the Big 12. Texas is a invasive species that tries to take over the pond, and that's exactly what was happening. Colorado, Missouri, and Texas A&M all bailed as well. Is Nebraska doing well in the Big ten ? Nope, but as a Husker fan I'm still glad we got out.
@@Anne_Frank00 Or else what? We'd be winning titles left and right? A "handful of good wins" is not the goal at a blue-blood program that has more conference titles and AP titles than anyone in the Big Ten. Get your program to become a royal blue-blood too that's accomplished some stuff historically that no other teams has and then you'll understand.
I'm old - I miss the Big 8. As a Colorado alum, I remember my favorite 2 Nebraska jokes: 1). Q - What does the N on the Nebraska helmet stand for? A - kNowledge. 2). Q - Why does Mrs. Osborne serve Tom his cereal on a plate? A - Any time Tom gets near a bowl, he chokes. Nebraska was great for so long, and regularly beat my Buffaloes like rented mules. I miss them, and Husker Bob too.
rethomps1 we ain’t really a cupcake if y’all can hardly beat us and we’ve even sucked the last few years so you brought yourselves down with that one buddy
@@nicksertz3445 Just play in with ya dude. We are in the same boat dude. Colorado dropped off the map for 15 years. Its like what you guys are going through now. Every year you think the new coach or new running back is gonna turn it around and every year something else melts down. Now there is the covid scam which pretty much put the nail in the coffin. Fortunately, we always have memories. CU might have come out on top the past couple games but believe me, it was really important for the CU fans to play NU again. We missed you guys and we missed you a lot. The PAC12 has been like having a new girlfriend that is a bitch. If we hadn't have won those games, the rivalry might have died. Bring it back big red! Hopefully, we will still be a football team when you get here.
As someone who has lived in Lincoln my whole life and now attend UNL, I’d be happy with a winning season, keep taking small steps till we get back to where we were.
Does OSU refer to itself at OSUC, or OU as OUN, or on and on and on. Why you do clowns call it UNL? If you are the main campus you dont do it unless is sounds cool UCLA
Possibly how he approached things, quietly and without getting too excitable, potentially caused that perception of him being "smaller" even though he is a taller guy.
People need to shut up with the "shouldn't have fired Frank Solich or Bo Pelini" stuff. Fact is when you're USED to having a dynasty beforehand you don't just sit there and let another new coach just start winning only 10 or 11 games a year. Let somebody come into Alabama, Clemson, or even Ohio State and start going 10-3 and not competing for conference and/or national titles. I PROMISE you they'll fire their coach too. Why? Because they're USED to having better than that. That's why. Now if another new guy comes in after that previously fired coach and starts going 8-4 or 6-6, then THAT'S what happened to Nebraska. It could happen to any program that expects better than what they're getting especially if they've had much better before.
No mention of the reason Pellini was fired? The meltdowns. 2012 Wisconsin. 2013 UCLA. 2013 Iowa. And my god, not mentioning the 2014 Wisconsin game? That got him fired. 2010 was a horrific decade for Nebraska football.
Ben G Wisconsin must’ve given pellini nightmares to this day. They didn’t just beat Nebraska they embarrassed them a few times in a way I really haven’t seen much.
Been hounding you for over a year to make a video about Nebraska and I was not disappointed! Sincerely thank you may for paying tribute to what we were and where we are currently. Staying optimistic it works out with Frost, but if it doesn't this fan base will fall apart eventually. Thanks again Cole!
As an Alabama fan and a huge traditionalist, I’d love to see Nebraska come back to national prominence. Every blue blood goes through down periods but Nebraska has been struggling for awhile now. I think Scott Frost is the right coach and I hope they stay patient with him and let him build the program. What do you Cornhusker fans think?
I’m 100% on board with Scott Frost. He’s definitely the guy and as a husker fan, I really just want some stability as far as coaching goes. There’s been players who come through the program who have a different position coach every year... I don’t care if it takes 4-5 years to become a nationally ranked team year in and year out, I just want the school itself to stick with and support our coach for a decade or more.
@@jokesonyou6669 hey neb 22nd seems to fit nicely. Lets call the top 25 and request it. And neb could set a record for times finishing the season in that position. Cool Beans.
Solich's issue was the same as Pelini. He couldn't recruit. The glory years under Solich were all with Osborne's recruits. The firing may have been a bit premature, but it was justified. Getting Callahn was what ruined Nebraska football, not firing Solich. Ironically, Callahan and Riley were really good recruiters. Just bad head coaches.
@adsfafad That wouldn't make sense considering Eichorst was only the AD during Pelini's last 2 years. Osborne, who was AD for most of Pelini's tenure, loved Pelini and wouldn't have interfered with him. Pelini consistently brought in classes in the 30s in the nation. Not as bad as Solich and he did bring in a couple gems (like Abdullah and Bell), but not good either. Thanks for saying I'm "completely full of shit" though, that added a ton of credibility and maturity to your comment.
People need to shut up with the "shouldn't have fired Frank Solich or Bo Pelini" stuff. Fact is when you're USED to having a dynasty beforehand you don't just sit there and let another new coach just start winning only 10 or 11 games a year. Let somebody come into Alabama, Clemson, or even Ohio State and start going 10-3 and not competing for conference and/or national titles. I PROMISE you they'll fire their coach too. Why? Because they're USED to having better than that. That's why. Now if another new guy comes in after that previously fired coach and starts going 8-4 or 6-6, then THAT'S what happened to Nebraska. It could happen to any program that expects better than what they're getting especially if they've had much better before.
It all started when they got rid of Frank Solich and rotten athletic directors that obviously played politics Bo pelini wasn't too bad both these coaches had winning seasons and they were fired made no sense to me.
Bill Callahan sucked and Riley I'm not sure he was awake on the field you athletic directors in Lincoln were retarded with who you hired and who you fired you were pathetic you ruined a great program with those two coaches.
No in state recruiting base and institution of prop 48 in the B12. All those great teams had a significant amount of non-qualifiers. From an SI article in 96 "That is why Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, still soaked and shivering from the obligatory ice-water dousing by his players,used his Fiesta Bowl postgame press conference to grumble, in NCAA-speak, about preserving his program's might. He launched into a plea to the presidents of the Big 12 to reconsider their recent decision to limit the recruitment of student-athletes who were once known as Prop 48s" He knew it was over
I loved to watch his teams. Always rooted for them against OU and everyone else. But I fear the programs eliete days are over. A bad fit in the B1G. Poor recruiting base. The best talent wants to play where its warm. Things like that. As an Arkansas fan I personally understand these things. Best wishes.
@@Knightmessenger He didn’t say it out loud but I personally think it was one of the reasons he wanted out. That and the pressure of being the head coach of Notre Dame and the high (unreasonable) to expectations win every year as well. Also when the school rescinded the scholarship of Randy Moss.
Thank you, Mr. Cole Adams! I made my 1st comment here a half hour ago, and now I have watched your video. Thank you for taking me down memory lane into the Glory Years of Cornhusker Football, as well as the Downfall of Nebraska Football since Frank Solich was fired. You posted this in late April when the horrible Covid-era was just gaining momentum. Obviously, much has transpired since then: The cancellation of B1G X football, the resurfacing with an 8-game conference only schedule, etc. Now we are facing a GOOD Hawkeye team at the end of this week on Black Friday. There are shocking and surprising results halfway through this 2020 season; Penn State with a horrible 0-5 start, Indiana at 4-1 and ALMOST coming back from a 21 point deficit to Playoff-Bound Ohio State, for example. Nebraska is now 1-3 with no foreseeable wins the rest of this year. I am going to send this link via e-mail to a bunch of my friends. GREAT JOB on this video, sir!!! 👏👏👏👍👍👍
The SEC has basically kept the talent in the South at home, along with pilfering the top talent from the rest of the country. And in the B1G or what ever it is called now, nobody is going to out recruit Ohio State, then Michigan. Of course Wisconsin is in the mix. The Huskers had their era but the landscape has changed and left them out in the cold.
Defeatist attitude. Minnesota 11-2 after being picked to finish 6th in the Big 10 West last year. Nebraska could do the same thing (but not next season/horrible schedule). Team coaching and team chemistry can raise 3 stars to 4 stars. Wisconsin and Iowa are good most years yet hardly recruit any 4 and 5 stars. Look at Texas and Tennessee. Great recruiting yet usually underperform and disappoint. Culture wins football games. Scott Frost has to be himself and be given time to make it happen.
Scott Frost while at Oregon said it was difficult to get kids to come to Eugene. Oregon has had a higher ranked recruiting class than Nebraska every year since he took over as head coach.
I lived near Lincoln for a little over three years during the time when NE was switching to the B10. Most of the people I met were wonder people and I enjoyed my time there. However, the fanbase was completely unrealistic. They thought they would dominate the B10 but instead NE got routinely dominated. Times have changed and recruiting to Lincoln would be extremely challenging. It is not a destination state or city. The campus isn't especially beautiful. No beaches or lakes; no mountains. The only edge they have is past lore from another conference. So either they find a miracle coaching staff, which is unlikely due to intense competition or the fans need to adjust the inflated expectations. Great people though.
@@CandySnhuts That’s true ab Saban .. was just speaking from my experience w Rhule with the Panthers but he’s been successful in college in the past so maybe I’ll be proven wrong ..
One of the most memorable college football games I have seen was the November 1971 "Game of the Century". Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 35-31. The punt return by Johnny Rodgers was spectacular.
My first semester at ASU on game day their fans walked in like they owned the place. Jake Plummer and Pat Tillman sent the #1 ranked defending champs back to Nebraska after a 19-0 drubbing.
Their walk on program provided so much depth to the program and they found some great players through the program. The biggest mistake Bill Callahan, who didn’t care about tradition.
The NCAA capped how many walk-on players a team could have. It hurt Nebraska especially because they heavily depended on upperclassman "walk-on" linemen
Giving away $Millions to Frost by Not Waiting for the buy-out was stupid. Nothing will change between now & then! Nothing changes except Nebraska Threw Away Millions because they caved. Think of what that money could have bought!!! The Alumni should be upset their donations went to this man. Looking silly waiting is one thing, throwing away millions is dumb.
As a Colorado fan this was a very fun video to watch...... until I realized the same thing has been happening to us. Went from a powerhouse to a joke in the pac12
cj james 4 years is more than enough time to establish yourself as a coach when the team you're in charge of is not only privileged enough to be a power 5 school, but is also highly prestigious with a long track record of winning. The only thing Nebraska has changed over his tenure is season ticket prices, which have nearly doubled. Do you and everyone else not see that your loyalty is being taken advantage of for no good reason?
I always felt that it was a mistake for Nebraska to leave the Big12, regardless of which conference they subsequently joined. They were established as a consistent top 3 team in the conference, between Nebraska, Texas, and Oklahoma. Their Texas recruiting pipeline was gonna wither, as a lot of those Texas kids would have happily gone to Nebraska as long as they got to play in their homestate a couple times a year. Now, other than non-conference and bowl games, thats just not a gurantee.
Brutus von Manhammer Huskers left Big 12 for way more than football-academics & research in Bog 10 far exceed Big 12. Even in Nebraska, football isn’t everything. ;-)
Thanks for your kind words at the end. It has been a hard road for Husker fans over the last 20 years. It is good to hear some hopeful thoughts coming from outside the state.
Nate Wallinger That’s why the SEC was never good until they started recruiting black guys, the British-descended white people in the South are a lot scrawnier than the Germanic and Scandinavian guys up north
I went to grad school at a fun little Group of 5 university and went to all of our home games since they were free for students. The games were pretty entertaining and our team was always surprisingly competitive, so much so that we went to bowls every year I was there. The school? Ohio University. Frank Solich is without question the greatest football coach the school has ever had. Thanks, Nebraska! 😄
Is that bad??? Lol. Jk. Also, for a coaching resume, what has he really done as a head coach in the MAC for 15 years? I don’t wanna be mean but if he was so good wouldn’t he have killed it in the MAC??
@@miked4555 I agree, but that's not why he was fired. At the time he had a winning record and nothing to indicate he couldn't coach. But getting busted at 3am drunk in a car with an 18 yr old cheerleader(twice, each time with a different girl) while married wasn't going to sit well in uberconservative NE.
I think NE fans are desperate enough now to turn a blind eye. They(not me) did for Pelini. Before that having a coach behave like Pelini did would have been unthinkable. Especially after the cool of Dr Tom. Now Solich could get caught in a whore house under 50 dudes in a gay orgy and everybody would just turn off the news and go to the game.
Iowa and Wisconsin have the same strategy of recruiting big farm boys and there are only so many to go around among the big ten teams for all of them to have enough to dominate the line of scrimmage.
Ohio State used to do that too. Back when you could pack the sidelines with corn eaters. OSU didn’t really rise in the modern era until they ditched size for speed. Speed kills, just like cholesterol.
College Football is all about the coach. Nebraska has had a series of misses. 1. Frankie Solich. Personal issues and he wasn't good at recruiting without Tom. Also, by this time everyone had caught up to the strength and conditioning program. 2. Bill Callahan. Brought in to modernize the offense. He eventually did so, but took too long to adjust to the college game and how to deal with Nebraska's strange recruiting situation. Honestly I think they fired him too early. 3. Bo Pelini. He did well, but the offense regressed massively under him at a time when football rules changes were making it more of an offensive game. Undid all the good work Callahan did on the offense. Once Carl left the defense tended to be mediocre as well. 4. Mike Riley. The head-scratcher. He had some nice QB drafts, but didn't seem to be able to condition or motivate players. 5. Scott Frost. We'll see, but coming from the Oregon school I'm hopeful that he will be successful in the more offensively dominated college football of today.
All of these coaches would be better, some contenders if they faced the doormats that Osborne did. Bobby Bowden had a choice in 1989, join the SEC or ACC in 92. Look at his record against the SEC vs ACC and tell me why he joined the ACC. Conferences matter.
"still don't understand why solich was fired" bruh, boozing and nailing 19 year old cheerleaders as a 55 year old guy is quite the opposite of his predecessor.
@America reminds me of the 65 year old man who went to confession and told the priest he had just had carnal knowledge of not 1 but 2 20-year-old bikini models. The priest started to give him his penance when he said "No thanks. I'm not Catholic." "So why are you telling me about this?" "Are you kidding? I'm telling EVERYONE about this!"
I remember when ASU beat Nebraska in 1996 and it felt litterially like David slayed Goliath! The students took down the goal post and carried it all through Tempe like we won the national championship! It litterially felt like defeating the NY Yankees or Patriots or Chicago Bulls in the 90's!. Now if ASU beat Nebraska, it would feel like just a good victory, not defeating a behemoth!
And Riley was stuck with Bo Pelini’s... which is where the trip to rock bottom began... Bo wouldn’t recruit hard. He didn’t believe he could get top level players, and relied on diamond in the rough type players like Ameer Abdullah... problem is those are few and far between.
Jeff Banfield I never liked the Riley hire... but he had some successful seasons at Oregon St. so I get the whole, what could he do with better resources... I also think the way Pelini and his staff poisoned the well that the majority of coaches would have struggled. Pelini should shoulder the majority of the blame for the current state of Husker Football. He was handed a cupboard stocked full of NFL talent... Billy C and his staff could recruit... Bo peaked in 2009 and 2011... the program was in decline and he was lucky to be fired while his 9 win streak was intact... the rising tide in the B1G would have been bad for him... imagine a world though where the keep Bo one more year... fire him and potentially end up with PJ Fleck as opposed to Mike Riley...
Oh stop.... frost sat on his ass living in Orlando getting Gators FSU,Mia castoffs that had pure speed... Nebraska has no power or speed they constantly get bullied at the line of scrimmage
It’s mind blowing to think that Nebraska was two plays away from five straight national titles in the 1990s. But Nebraska moving to the Big Ten was the final nail in the coffin. They lost a huge chunk of their Texas recruiting pipeline…as well as their identity. Edit: With Oklahoma and Texas going to the SEC in 2025, Nebraska going to Big Ten was going to happen eventually. But they could have better prepared themselves for the move, or maybe moved later on. As a college football fan, I want to see Nebraska succeed again, because I believe when Nebraska is winning, college football is better for it. But it seems like they really don't care anymore. For the last decade, Nebraska Football is like that family member that keeps exhibiting self-destructive behaviors. You plead with him or her to get help and turn their lives around, but they still keep believing everything is just fine.
11:57 Wisconsin has gotten better doing it the Nebraska way than Nebraska themselves. Nebraska might have better recruiting rankings, but Wisconsin does a better job recruiting fit and finding those undervalued farm boys in their own backyard. Also, this video implies that Nebraska has an uphill battle being in the same division as Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. I disagree, I think only Wisconsin is the measuring stick in that division and every other program is in a different category.
Wisconsin has done well for a team that hardly ever has a top 25 recruiting class..Nobody has done better though winning with less than Bill Snyder of Kansas St.
Growing up I remember people getting pissed at Nebraska because we were "running up the score". We'd have 3rd string players in and still be scoring. I'm glad that I got to experience growing up with Nebraska as a top team but its sucked to watch them struggle since Osborne.
They played Big Ten football before they were in the big ten. Great running game, big o line, and AMAZING defense. They came into the Big Ten and have been outclassed playing the same game as big ten teams do, while they are trying to rebuild. Looking forward to them coming back to an elite program.
I'm 21 from lincoln. I grew up on stories of the homegrown greats. Also when I was young before the big 10 nebraska was a physical smash mouth team with guys like Suh and Burkhead. But then mike riley came to town and completely destroyed everything. Now when I watch you Badgers I cringe because you guys have a similar formula now
@@delux6993 You guys will be back in the next 2-5 years. It takes a while for a coach to make a program his own, regardless of being as good of a coach as Frost is. The storied past will keep recruiting classes coming in even with a few down seasons. Not to mention Memorial Stadium. By far my favorite away stadium, that place is absolutely electric. Really hoping for a huge rivalry to develop between Wisco vs Neb. Gotta prove who the real Big Red is lol.
@@thecamprandallkid4451 i hope so. I think the west has potentially better rivalries if we can establish some tradition. Keeping it real I prefer Wisconsin fans over Iowans. The Hawkeye are toxic. I think their side of the river has something funny in the water.
I'm a lifelong cornhusker fan,16, and you should here about how my father talks about nebraska football, along with my Grandpas. My dad talks about how never agian will there be an era like 93-97 Nebraska football. And he means for any team. Sure Alabama s defently had a Dynasty, but nebraska for 5 years ran the triple option non stop and beat just about everyone. LSU is good, but its not 62-24 against the second best team in the nation good
Show your relatives this. The 95 team is now 4th on the all time greatest list behind the 71 team. See ESPNS top 150 list (Sept 2019) from 150 contributors. From another post of mine: Yes, the 71 Neb team was arguably the best, but that changed in 2020. Now, Neb fans no longer have the greatest team ever. They have been replaced by the SEC's greatest ever, the 2019 LSU Tigers. The SEC should hold the title for greatest ever anyway. For your viewing pleasure, you little pencil wennie Neb fans. LSU 2019 will easily replace Neb as #1 whenever ESPN creates another all time list. Total below LSU 10, Neb 2 (Did not consider yds since it was a diff era) NC GAME Margin of Victory.....................Neb Neb 32, LSU 17 Total Pts Allowed....................Neb Neb 6, LSU 25 Total Pts Scored LSU 45, Neb 38 ALL GAMES Games Played LSU 15, Neb 12 (can't penalize Neb for not having conference championship and PO games but sure as hell can reward LSU for playing more and proving themselves more.) Heisman winners at game time (Rem the voters of best ever are considering every element that would make a team better) LSU 1, Neb 0 SOS LSU 6th, Neb 13th (this is the most important stat here. Neb was not in top 10.) Ranked teams played LSU 7, Neb 3 Top 5 teams played LSU 4, Neb 2 Top 5 teams played in last 3 games LSU 3, Neb 2 # of teams beaten that finished in top 10 LSU 5, Neb 3 Conference Championship Games Played In/Won LSU 1/1, Neb 0/0 Pre NC Playoff Games Played In/Won LSU 1/1, Neb 0/0
Solich was fired because of his alcoholism and the student that he got pregnant. But of course most outside of Lincoln don’t know about this. Pelini was an absolute psycho on and off of the field. I witnessed him go absolutely insane at his daughters softball game over what he felt was a bad call by the umpire. After he stormed off a university staffer approached the umpire and gave him passes to a game. Why wouldn’t you get rid of guys like that?
I went to that Nebraska/Miami National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl back in the day. Sad to see the state of the program for nearly two decades. They were such a mainstay of my Saturday's.
BigSnipp are you for real comparing Nebraska to Ohio? You’re largest metro would be 5th in Ohio. Columbus is the fastest growing city in the Midwest and one of the fastest in the nation. Let’s compare apples to apples here.
Here's how Nebraska gets back on top. The NCAA decides to go ahead and do this season despite the coronavirus. Miraculously all the games that we should lose their state is in lockdown so they can't play. And boom we're back on top
The 90s footballs teams were dominated by big, strong lines who won by attrition. Nowadays, speed is the name of the game and you can tell that Scott knows this. Watching the last two years, you can see the obvious inspiration drawn from Osborne. Our offense has been one dimensional ( probably to a detriment )with constant screens and runs but Frost continues to recruit fast, shifty players. Adrian Martinez, Wandale Robinson, Luke McCaffrey, etc. Frost is mimicing the model of the past but adapting it to modern times. He knows what he's doing, it will just take time.
People also need to remember he's still dealing with players he didn't bring into the program. He showed his leadership as soon as he got there and a few players tried to "boast" their dominance and he promptly removed them.
It just seems that after Solich left, the program began it's spiral and has never recovered. Hiring these subsequent "experimental" coaches is not working and only further hampers recruiting. Frost is not the answer either. I think he's in over his head.
If the 2020 season isn't cancelled due to the virus, I am predicting we go 8-4 (7-5, or 9-3 is also very possible). We have an easy first 7 games and we should be able to easily pull a bowl game.
I'm glad that you mentioned Steve Pederson as one of the reasons for the downfall of Nebraska football, because I completely agree on that point. However, I also understand that the landscape of college football has changed, specifically recruiting, and that Nebraska hasn't kept pace with the current expectations of many top recruits. Having seen the results of the team working well in every aspect of the game, I still believe in Coach Frost, even if other fans disagree with my opinion.
I feel once Callahan switched this team from I-formatiom to spread formation and primarily passing was the start of the demise of Nebraska. I also feel once Nebraska transferred to the Big Ten also spelled doom for the Huskers. They're now in a conference where they consistently get out recruited by Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State ect.....
Mike Riley talent is still in the program. Once thats gone we'll be fine. 7 to 8 wins a year is what we are. Fans need to realize this. The 90's are long gone
At least Neb has a governor with the courage to not follow the idiots in the other 43 states that ordered their residents to stay in place during Corona. Here are Italy's deaths by age, as of 4-22-20, www.statista.com/statistics/1105061/coronavirus-deaths-by-region-in-italy/ We had their numbers before ever sheltering in place. We knew statically what we were up against. 95% are 55 and older. That is, 95% were retired or close to retirement. The world shut down everything vs spending a fraction (current and long term) to protect the elderly. The world has officially gone insane. Way to go Swedes. Close to having their herd immunity numbers and proving rest of world wrong. Support higher education, esp critical thinking!!!
They’ll never admit but going to the Big 10 was a huge mistake. They had success recruiting Texas but now have to recruit get northern kids to pass Ohio St, Michigan, Penn St, etc and go to Lincoln. They should’ve emulated Oklahoma blueprint
WRONG! Neb won the NC in 70 and 71. Delaney retired in 72. It took 21 years and a silly schedule for Osborne to repeat. And none of the coaches you clowns throw around got the luxury of coaching in the defunct Big 8. Osborne is the worst coach in having the most of all the coaches since Delaney and doing the least amount with it over most of his career.
As a big 10 fan, I was excited to see Nebraska join the conference. I'm just shocked that it hasn't worked out as well for them on the field. After the 2009 Big 12 title game, I figured Nebraska would be a consistent contender in the big 10. Especially when they made the east and west divisions. That's why I kind of disagree with the Bo Pelini firing. I understand it but don't 100% agree with it or thought it was well timed. As for Frost, I just finger pointed the mess Riley left. Scott's done a decent job at recruiting considering where they've finished and the recruiting classes he brings in. After last season, we know how the team played so anything less than a big 10 west division title is a disappointment this season. I like seeing the comments though and understanding why Nebraska hasn't been Nebraska. Idk if the scholarship limit being voided would allow them to grab more of their walk ons but I hope that means they could turn things around. I hate seeing 2nd tier teams labeled better than them.
Nebraska didn't adjust to scholarship and ncaa staff reductions or adjust to passing game changes. Big 12 was formed specifically to stop Nebraska dynasty's plus Big12 along with Big10 academic standards that limits quality of players recruited out of state. Need to load up on juco players every year 4 to 6 scholarships and have 1 or 2 state run juco with football scholarships. Cost of college is killing walkons. Frost by promising 3 players a year a scholarship in 1 to 3 years getting a few players but not enough.
@@grundja1 Frost is like Osborne, at critical points in a game he won't be able to breathe fire and motivate the team to climb one more rung. Imagine a Switzer sideline vs an Osborne sideline.
Bill Callahan was the beginning of the end. Can't completely change the style of offense from run option to pro style before you get the pieces to play those roles in place, esp at QB position. Not sure if firing Pelini when we did helped much eitber.
As other said, leaving the Big 12 was a big mistake. Texas recruiting disrupted, as well as fine traditional rivalries with Oklahoma and Colorado. Tom Osborne, while very successful and conservative both professionally and politically, pushed the limit of the student athlete. Many of his out of state recruits had legal problems and were young men of dubious character. Today they are avoided. It does not matter whether you have an old school run offense or a new spread offense, you just need good players. Nebraska does not have enough of them. The Nebraska administration just flippantly said, "Lets go to the Big Ten Network." You need a plan. You need an identity. Nebraska should have stuck with corn-fed linemen from Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, etc. And then had some sort of pipeline to get African Americans at skilled positions.
Don't dump on me . I loved how nebraska stood up to the florida schools. Loved the scott frost teams. ...but that era, you guys were seriously on steroids. That helped a lot. My team was on steroids in the late 80's...Michigan State
I wish I could tell those Nebraska fans, as a messenger from the future, " don't worry, Nebraska will be great again.". But unfortunately,it's gotten worse
Agreed. Came in thinking this guy wouldn't know sh*t about Nebraska. Touched on a lot of good points about what has affected Nebraska. Don't always buy into the can't recruit to Nebraska because of location. Look at Creighton basketball. Nebraska can recruit and with technology and social media....no one is too far away from home.
The real problem was the administration that didn't know how to find a good coach that could recruit and then know what to do with them when he got them look at the terrible coaches we went through probably the biggest mistake was getting rid of Frank solich,, I have no doubt that he would build a better program and have more better records than any of them coaches that they hired and paid lots of money for to be losers Callaghan sucked Riley you wondered if he was awake Paulina you couldn't control him on the sidelines what kind of guys is well I guess that's the best out there when you're losing program cuz they saw it coming when Tom Osborne left Nebraska football left and that's the bottom line that couldn't win without him. Tom Osborne was the magic.
Darren Spoles was the dagger and the nail and the hammer, and the Bill Snyder was the hand driving it all home. Nebraska was never the same after that game.
lol, Neb would love to face a team that gave Osborne more than 10% of his regular season wins. During the 73-97 stretch, MO avg'd 5 (4.88) wins and 6 (6.16) losses per season. Remove Neb's win and they were still a losing team over the 25 years.
Bo Pelini was 67-27 when he was fired after a 9-3 season after beating Iowa. Since then with Riley and Frost. Nebraska is a combined 34-48.
love bo or not, nu always went 9-3 with him
But he was just so rude and hurt everybodys feelings. Mike riley is a real nice guy. Obviously a better coach over bo
@@justinworley2470 lol troll
Should have kept bo betcha by now we probably could have had a championship. If not least wewouldn't be a laughing stock
@@scottmichael9221 at the very least just be ranked. I miss those days. I miss Bo. Fuck the Boosters
As a Nebraskan, I’d just take a winning season at this point
prob better odds than chance in hell.
Yep you guys suck
I don’t even think we have practices going on so it’s not looking good
I'm actually a bit surprised you guys have been down this long. Unfortunately, we're seeing the same three or four programs load up on recruits each winter and for the moment there isn't much of a chance for anyone else.
Let's Go Hawks
The same thing that killed Pitt Football.
Steve Pedersen.
And pitt basketball
Pitt football was dead long before Pedersen buddy.
Does Pitt even have a football team?
CR sports yes. Yes they do
How are pederson & eichorst, mike riley still getting hired!! Can't people see these 3 are THE ABSOLUTE WORST AT THEIR JOBS!! They need to be RUN OUT OF COLLEGE SPORTS PERIOD.
I am just happy that at age 70, I have matured just a little. In my teens and 20's my entire week was ruined if the Huskers lost. Now, I still want our team to win, of course, but this whole damn deal is not worth having a stroke or heart attack over. My wife is fully capable of handling that without any assistance. 😠😡
Much respect OG
"You dont win with choir boys"
Choir, like a singing group in a church, not chair
In all fairness, you probably wouldn't win with chair boys either.
Eric Crouch should have just switched positions instead of being so stubborn. He would have had a solid career as an NFL slot receiver. He was like 5'11" flat with a noodle arm. His arm alone would have never won him the Heisman in THAT Big 12, back when their top teams had NFL defenses. And honestly we all know Grossman was robbed. Crouch's arrogance was his downfall, Russ and Kyler have cannons, he wasn't like them. With his speed, he would have been a really good slot receiver.
🤣🤣🤣 I can't believe he said that.
Well, you might win with stool boys or couch boys. How about recliner boys?
I know. I heard that from the other room and cracked up, knowing he had just misread his own source. Didn't even make sense!
As a native, I can say that there were a few things that lead to this program’s downfall:
1) Frank Solich: you left out the real reason why he was fired, it was an off the field deal that had nothing to do with football. If it didn't happen, he would’ve never been fired.
2) The end of the UNO Football: One of the biggest hallmarks of the Osborne Era was the Walk-On program and the UNO Mavericks were enablers of that. It was crucial in keeping a lot of Nebraska prospects in state. Now with it gone, a lot Of Nebraska natives are leaving the state for NDSU, Kansas, Iowa State, and whoever else.
3) Leaving the Big XII: Absolutely destroyed our recruiting pipelines and landing in the Big Ten meant that we had to rebuild these pipelines while trying to compete against the likes of Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Of course, most Nebraska fans are still living in a time where Bill Clinton is still president and fail to understand that we are stuck in a conference we simply don’t belong in and lack any sort of equalizer or way to establish ourselves in the modern era.
Basically, I miss Mavericks football.
I really do wish UNO didnt get rid of their football program. Fuck Trev Alberts
What is the off the field incident with Solich? I think I know what it is but I'd like to hear it from you also.
@@Gold-oj8do he was having an affair with a female student and IIRC he had a dui or two.
Big 12 was ass ramming the Huskers every year, moving to the B1G wasn't a mistake, recruiting falls on the coaching staff, Bill Callahan broke that pipeline. Not the move to B1G
@@Anne_Frank00 ..If Nebraska and Arkansas would of let the coaches get laid both would still been playing winning football
Never forget when Ndamukong Suh almost carried a team to a national championship game by himself 💪🏾💯
Never happened. Big 12 title...yes
Should've won the Heisman.
Tony Bendorf yea basically
Not quite, they were 9-3 going into the Big XII title game. He was unreal though.
Dude didn't even pronounce his first name right😂
Pretty simple they left the Big 12 and lost their pipeline to Texas, they played big 12 schools and texas kids had no problem going to Nebraska since there family could watch half the games without having to go to Nebraska.
wow I've never thought about it in this way
Agreed, plus what makes recruiting easier? Big rivalry games with a lot of hate, kids want to be apart of those and Nebraska its three biggest rivalries behind.
But Nebraska was on the decline well before they left the Big 12.
@@BusterCherry1 Yes and no, in 2008 we beat Clemson in the gator bowl then we won the last two north division titles in the big 12, and we were only a few bad plays away from winning both. I think personally we were trending slowly upwards, but only time would have told.
@scrub44 I agree, to me I think the perfect is ten teams each playing a round Robin then the top 2 play again for the decider of the championship, its looked good in the big 12 imo.
Huskers big problem is that they can no longer live on partial qualifiers and their walk-on program can no longer get around scholarship limits. Mad respect for Nebraska and their fans. I miss the old rivalry and hate my Sooners don't play them anymore.
Don't forget those county scholarships.
Our walk-on program has seen a huge revival under Frost. Our roster was at 160 players last year, biggest in the country by far. Problem is, all those walk-ons are young and walk-ons are not ready made players. They need time to develop. That's true for scholarship players too, but especially for walk-ons.
@@jasonshaneyfelt1039 I presume under Frost they are genuine walk-ons. Back in the day walk-ons didn't count toward recruiting limits, so everybody walked on at Nebraska, even the top recruits. I hope Husker fans remain patient. Scott Frost is the best, most loyal Nebraska coach they could have. It may be a longer build than expected, but he will bring them back.
People need to shut up with the "shouldn't have fired Frank Solich or Bo Pelini" stuff. Fact is when you're USED to having a dynasty beforehand you don't just sit there and let another new coach just start winning only 10 or 11 games a year. Let somebody come into Alabama, Clemson, or even Ohio State and start going 10-3 and not competing for conference and/or national titles. I PROMISE you they'll fire their coach too. Why? Because they're USED to having better than that. That's why. Now if another new guy comes in after that previously fired coach and starts going 8-4 or 6-6, then THAT'S what happened to Nebraska. It could happen to any program that expects better than what they're getting especially if they've had much better before.
@@kayaktulsa7170 i really wish this video covered that.
Is there a reason why the walkon program worked so well for Nebraska? Couldnt other schools have done the same thing?
Miss watching Oklahoma Nebraska every Thanksgiving 70s - 80s...Boomer Sooner
lol. who knew. It was like watching Dallas vs Detroit. We knew the outcome mths before!
Next year it’ll be back
@Hammerin' Hank Since 1978
Detroit has hosted the early NFL TGiving day game, and
Dallas the later game.
They never have played each other. LOL, I guess I remember Dallas beating whomever and Detroit losing to whomever and combining them. Dallas 34, Detroit 8
They're not in the same universe anymore. Not conference-wise or talent-wise.
@@idesofmarch2368 OU is a couple of notches above Notre Dame.
Here we are in 2022 and Frost was just fired. I've been a Husker fan for my whole life (53 years) and I'm not sure they will ever be back as one of the best teams. I think Nebraska is stuck at average or below average teams from now on. I've never seen the Husker defense this bad and they'll be lucky to win another game this year.
If Urban Meyer is interested would you want him as your coach?
@@walkoff2
I'm kind of split on Meyer. On the one hand, I think he's a great college coach and when people mess up they deserve a second chance, on some things.
On the other hand, I wonder how much what he did might hurt his recruiting. So I don't really know.
coming back a year later and now nebraskas defense is elite and offense terrible with another below .500 finish :(
11:28
Nebraska fans- you were the chosen one!! It was said that you’d rebuild the program! Not keep it in darkness!!
Bring balance to the big ten
Be patient, Grasshopper. St. Frosty is looking for the right combination of buttons to press. It's a different time.
Lmao
As a hardcore Wisconsin fan, first off I will say Nebraska have the greatest fans ever. Anywho, I wish they never left the Big 12. I miss the ole Nebraska vs Oklahoma, and Texas rivalry games.
Most of the reason they left the Big 12 was because Texas was trying to monopolize the media rights to games, which is a shitload of money. Plus, being in the Big Ten generates a lot more money for the university. So even though the Football team sucks, the university is doing better than ever.
People need to shut up with the "shouldn't have fired Frank Solich or Bo Pelini" stuff. Fact is when you're USED to having a dynasty beforehand you don't just sit there and let another new coach just start winning only 10 or 11 games a year. Let somebody come into Alabama, Clemson, or even Ohio State and start going 10-3 and not competing for conference and/or national titles. I PROMISE you they'll fire their coach too. Why? Because they're USED to having better than that. That's why. Now if another new guy comes in after that previously fired coach and starts going 8-4 or 6-6, then THAT'S what happened to Nebraska. It could happen to any program that expects better than what they're getting especially if they've had much better before.
Osborne knew what was gonna happen when the Big 8 became the the Big 12. Texas is a invasive species that tries to take over the pond, and that's exactly what was happening. Colorado, Missouri, and Texas A&M all bailed as well. Is Nebraska doing well in the Big ten ? Nope, but as a Husker fan I'm still glad we got out.
@@nebraskafan1450 They shouldn't have fired Frank or Bo.
@@Anne_Frank00 Or else what? We'd be winning titles left and right? A "handful of good wins" is not the goal at a blue-blood program that has more conference titles and AP titles than anyone in the Big Ten. Get your program to become a royal blue-blood too that's accomplished some stuff historically that no other teams has and then you'll understand.
I'm old - I miss the Big 8. As a Colorado alum, I remember my favorite 2 Nebraska jokes: 1). Q - What does the N on the Nebraska helmet stand for? A - kNowledge. 2). Q - Why does Mrs. Osborne serve Tom his cereal on a plate? A - Any time Tom gets near a bowl, he chokes. Nebraska was great for so long, and regularly beat my Buffaloes like rented mules. I miss them, and Husker Bob too.
Been kinda nice watching Frost get his panties in a wad the last couple of time he tried to take on the baby buffs!
rethomps1 just wait until we play u in a couple years
Its nice to have a cupcake on the schedule again!
rethomps1 we ain’t really a cupcake if y’all can hardly beat us and we’ve even sucked the last few years so you brought yourselves down with that one buddy
@@nicksertz3445 Just play in with ya dude. We are in the same boat dude. Colorado dropped off the map for 15 years. Its like what you guys are going through now. Every year you think the new coach or new running back is gonna turn it around and every year something else melts down. Now there is the covid scam which pretty much put the nail in the coffin. Fortunately, we always have memories. CU might have come out on top the past couple games but believe me, it was really important for the CU fans to play NU again. We missed you guys and we missed you a lot. The PAC12 has been like having a new girlfriend that is a bitch. If we hadn't have won those games, the rivalry might have died. Bring it back big red! Hopefully, we will still be a football team when you get here.
As someone who has lived in Lincoln my whole life and now attend UNL, I’d be happy with a winning season, keep taking small steps till we get back to where we were.
Does OSU refer to itself at OSUC, or OU as OUN, or on and on and on. Why you do clowns call it UNL? If you are the main campus you dont do it unless is sounds cool UCLA
@@robjohnson8861 well i agree with you, just so you know UCLA is the full name, its cal los angeles univeristy of california is in berkeley
@@gcesports7191 interesting.
@@robjohnson8861 no one calls UVA UVAR or UNC UNCC
@@gcesports7191 yeah, neb is only one i can think of. Uab is Univ of AL at Birmingahm, and UAH is huntsville
“Even though Osborne was a small man...” Lol He’s 6’3”.
Big and Tall are different...
He's a youtuber relax
Mike41 you clearly didn’t comprehend. He’s talking about in the modern era 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Possibly how he approached things, quietly and without getting too excitable, potentially caused that perception of him being "smaller" even though he is a taller guy.
People need to shut up with the "shouldn't have fired Frank Solich or Bo Pelini" stuff. Fact is when you're USED to having a dynasty beforehand you don't just sit there and let another new coach just start winning only 10 or 11 games a year. Let somebody come into Alabama, Clemson, or even Ohio State and start going 10-3 and not competing for conference and/or national titles. I PROMISE you they'll fire their coach too. Why? Because they're USED to having better than that. That's why. Now if another new guy comes in after that previously fired coach and starts going 8-4 or 6-6, then THAT'S what happened to Nebraska. It could happen to any program that expects better than what they're getting especially if they've had much better before.
No mention of the reason Pellini was fired? The meltdowns. 2012 Wisconsin. 2013 UCLA. 2013 Iowa. And my god, not mentioning the 2014 Wisconsin game? That got him fired. 2010 was a horrific decade for Nebraska football.
Ben G Wisconsin must’ve given pellini nightmares to this day. They didn’t just beat Nebraska they embarrassed them a few times in a way I really haven’t seen much.
They shouldn’t have fired pellini unless they like their 4-5 win seasons.
@@dubvideos Pellini was an ass who refused to adjust his game. We just saw his failure at LSU. He was a chump.
2010 was a year, not a decade.
@@encycl07pedia- I meant 2010's.
Been hounding you for over a year to make a video about Nebraska and I was not disappointed! Sincerely thank you may for paying tribute to what we were and where we are currently. Staying optimistic it works out with Frost, but if it doesn't this fan base will fall apart eventually. Thanks again Cole!
As an Alabama fan and a huge traditionalist, I’d love to see Nebraska come back to national prominence. Every blue blood goes through down periods but Nebraska has been struggling for awhile now. I think Scott Frost is the right coach and I hope they stay patient with him and let him build the program. What do you Cornhusker fans think?
Lol "huge traditioanlist". Big 8 is dead.
They shouldn’t have fired solich, they should learn from that and need to give the coaches time and keep racking in recruits
I’m 100% on board with Scott Frost. He’s definitely the guy and as a husker fan, I really just want some stability as far as coaching goes. There’s been players who come through the program who have a different position coach every year... I don’t care if it takes 4-5 years to become a nationally ranked team year in and year out, I just want the school itself to stick with and support our coach for a decade or more.
@@jokesonyou6669 hey neb 22nd seems to fit nicely. Lets call the top 25 and request it. And neb could set a record for times finishing the season in that position. Cool Beans.
Sure...you say that, but I don't think you'd be feeling that way if Nebraska starting poaching Bama's recruits.
Solich's issue was the same as Pelini. He couldn't recruit. The glory years under Solich were all with Osborne's recruits. The firing may have been a bit premature, but it was justified. Getting Callahn was what ruined Nebraska football, not firing Solich.
Ironically, Callahan and Riley were really good recruiters. Just bad head coaches.
@adsfafad That wouldn't make sense considering Eichorst was only the AD during Pelini's last 2 years. Osborne, who was AD for most of Pelini's tenure, loved Pelini and wouldn't have interfered with him.
Pelini consistently brought in classes in the 30s in the nation. Not as bad as Solich and he did bring in a couple gems (like Abdullah and Bell), but not good either.
Thanks for saying I'm "completely full of shit" though, that added a ton of credibility and maturity to your comment.
"Chair boys"? I think you meant, "CHOIR boys" there, chief.
Yeah. I’m wondering what the heck a chair boy even is.
I also would recommend avoid saying things like five consecutive games in a row.
@@bobculwell5375, 60% of the time, it works every time.😁
one of mike riley's 2016 wins came at oregon. it was his 1st win against the ducks in 9 years
Gabriel Rodriguez brass banaza
We didn’t win at Oregon only at home
@@ablex9316 yeah, i meant overall, at home or on the road
I was in Lincoln in the haymarket when we won. On a date with some tinder chick. Pretty rad day tbh! She wasnt tho, total drag.
People need to shut up with the "shouldn't have fired Frank Solich or Bo Pelini" stuff. Fact is when you're USED to having a dynasty beforehand you don't just sit there and let another new coach just start winning only 10 or 11 games a year. Let somebody come into Alabama, Clemson, or even Ohio State and start going 10-3 and not competing for conference and/or national titles. I PROMISE you they'll fire their coach too. Why? Because they're USED to having better than that. That's why. Now if another new guy comes in after that previously fired coach and starts going 8-4 or 6-6, then THAT'S what happened to Nebraska. It could happen to any program that expects better than what they're getting especially if they've had much better before.
Big twelve killed one of the best rivalries the season ending with the Huskers and Sooners
Nebraska killed the series.
nick57 Oklahoma leads the all time series 45-38-3. Wouldn’t really say they killed the series.
@@taylorstephens122 He meant stopped the series.
It all started when they got rid of Frank Solich and rotten athletic directors that obviously played politics Bo pelini wasn't too bad both these coaches had winning seasons and they were fired made no sense to me.
Bill Callahan sucked and Riley I'm not sure he was awake on the field you athletic directors in Lincoln were retarded with who you hired and who you fired you were pathetic you ruined a great program with those two coaches.
No in state recruiting base and institution of prop 48 in the B12. All those great teams had a significant amount of non-qualifiers. From an SI article in 96 "That is why Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, still soaked and
shivering from the obligatory ice-water dousing by his players,used his Fiesta Bowl postgame press conference to grumble, in NCAA-speak, about preserving his program's might. He launched into a plea to the presidents of the Big 12 to reconsider their recent decision to limit the recruitment of student-athletes who were once known as Prop 48s"
He knew it was over
Why wasnt prop 48 covered in the video? Why do you think it hurt Nebraska worse than other schools?
I loved to watch his teams. Always rooted for them against OU and everyone else. But I fear the programs eliete days are over. A bad fit in the B1G. Poor recruiting base. The best talent wants to play where its warm. Things like that. As an Arkansas fan I personally understand these things. Best wishes.
@@Knightmessenger Prop 48 being dropped is the main reason why Lou Holtz left Notre Dame.
@@allengreene9954 did Lou Holtz ever say that outright? I don't remember him giving a clear answer.
@@Knightmessenger He didn’t say it out loud but I personally think it was one of the reasons he wanted out. That and the pressure of being the head coach of Notre Dame and the high (unreasonable) to expectations win every year as well. Also when the school rescinded the scholarship of Randy Moss.
Thank you, Mr. Cole Adams! I made my 1st comment here a half hour ago, and now I have watched your video. Thank you for taking me down memory lane into the Glory Years of Cornhusker Football, as well as the Downfall of Nebraska Football since Frank Solich was fired. You posted this in late April when the horrible Covid-era was just gaining momentum. Obviously, much has transpired since then: The cancellation of B1G X football, the resurfacing with an 8-game conference only schedule, etc. Now we are facing a GOOD Hawkeye team at the end of this week on Black Friday. There are shocking and surprising results halfway through this 2020 season; Penn State with a horrible 0-5 start, Indiana at 4-1 and ALMOST coming back from a 21 point deficit to Playoff-Bound Ohio State, for example. Nebraska is now 1-3 with no foreseeable wins the rest of this year. I am going to send this link via e-mail to a bunch of my friends. GREAT JOB on this video, sir!!! 👏👏👏👍👍👍
The SEC has basically kept the talent in the South at home, along with pilfering the top talent from the rest of the country. And in the B1G or what ever it is called now, nobody is going to out recruit Ohio State, then Michigan. Of course Wisconsin is in the mix.
The Huskers had their era but the landscape has changed and left them out in the cold.
Defeatist attitude. Minnesota 11-2 after being picked to finish 6th in the Big 10 West last year. Nebraska could do the same thing (but not next season/horrible schedule). Team coaching and team chemistry can raise 3 stars to 4 stars. Wisconsin and Iowa are good most years yet hardly recruit any 4 and 5 stars. Look at Texas and Tennessee. Great recruiting yet usually underperform and disappoint. Culture wins football games. Scott Frost has to be himself and be given time to make it happen.
Scott Frost while at Oregon said it was difficult to get kids to come to Eugene.
Oregon has had a higher ranked recruiting class than Nebraska every year since he took over as head coach.
I lived near Lincoln for a little over three years during the time when NE was switching to the B10. Most of the people I met were wonder people and I enjoyed my time there. However, the fanbase was completely unrealistic. They thought they would dominate the B10 but instead NE got routinely dominated. Times have changed and recruiting to Lincoln would be extremely challenging. It is not a destination state or city. The campus isn't especially beautiful. No beaches or lakes; no mountains. The only edge they have is past lore from another conference. So either they find a miracle coaching staff, which is unlikely due to intense competition or the fans need to adjust the inflated expectations. Great people though.
Panthers fan here and I am sorry the storied Nebraska program is about to have endure Matt Rhule ..
Saban had a losing record at the dolphins. Not worried about Rhule. He may not be as good as Pelini, but he's decent
@@CandySnhuts That’s true ab Saban .. was just speaking from my experience w Rhule with the Panthers but he’s been successful in college in the past so maybe I’ll be proven wrong ..
One of the most memorable college football games I have seen was the November 1971 "Game of the Century". Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 35-31. The punt return by Johnny Rodgers was spectacular.
My first semester at ASU on game day their fans walked in like they owned the place. Jake Plummer and Pat Tillman sent the #1 ranked defending champs back to Nebraska after a 19-0 drubbing.
I'm a lifelong PSU fan and I can say Nebraska has the classiest fans in CFB. Nebraska will find it's groove again.
Their walk on program provided so much depth to the program and they found some great players through the program. The biggest mistake Bill Callahan, who didn’t care about tradition.
The NCAA capped how many walk-on players a team could have. It hurt Nebraska especially because they heavily depended on upperclassman "walk-on" linemen
Giving away $Millions to Frost by Not Waiting for the buy-out was stupid. Nothing will change between now & then! Nothing changes except Nebraska Threw Away Millions because they caved. Think of what that money could have bought!!! The Alumni should be upset their donations went to this man. Looking silly waiting is one thing, throwing away millions is dumb.
As a Colorado fan this was a very fun video to watch...... until I realized the same thing has been happening to us. Went from a powerhouse to a joke in the pac12
Remember when husker fans took over your guys stadium
Raz: Reptiles and inverts I do. If I remember correctly you guys blew a 17-0 4th quarter lead.
Yeah that's what we need to work on because that happened in a lot of 9ther games too where we had a lead then blew it
We have to remember frost has only been a head coach for only 4 years he is only going to keep learning and growing. PS great vid
Yeah most Nebraska natives I know are optimistic.
cj james
4 years is more than enough time to establish yourself as a coach when the team you're in charge of is not only privileged enough to be a power 5 school, but is also highly prestigious with a long track record of winning. The only thing Nebraska has changed over his tenure is season ticket prices, which have nearly doubled. Do you and everyone else not see that your loyalty is being taken advantage of for no good reason?
Trey Magathan Idk what this guy is talking about lmao, its only been two years, going into year three this season
HuskerMotion I think he means as a college head coach. Meaning two at ucf and two here
Who wants to play for Nebraska
I always felt that it was a mistake for Nebraska to leave the Big12, regardless of which conference they subsequently joined. They were established as a consistent top 3 team in the conference, between Nebraska, Texas, and Oklahoma. Their Texas recruiting pipeline was gonna wither, as a lot of those Texas kids would have happily gone to Nebraska as long as they got to play in their homestate a couple times a year. Now, other than non-conference and bowl games, thats just not a gurantee.
Brutus von Manhammer Huskers left Big 12 for way more than football-academics & research in Bog 10 far exceed Big 12. Even in Nebraska, football isn’t everything. ;-)
@@pahouseholder Bull.
Thanks for your kind words at the end. It has been a hard road for Husker fans over the last 20 years. It is good to hear some hopeful thoughts coming from outside the state.
" Just recruited the big strong farm kids and it worked." It's so funny to think about but it true in some ways
It's tru in alotta ways. Them big country boys just bullied people and no one could do anything about it.
Nate Wallinger That’s why the SEC was never good until they started recruiting black guys, the British-descended white people in the South are a lot scrawnier than the Germanic and Scandinavian guys up north
You've definitely never been to the south
See: Iowa for the same thing on a lesser level, just a conveyor belt of Offensive Linemen to the NFL - but hardly any skill position players.
It's still true. Wisconsin just got to the Rose Bowl, regularly in the mix for B1G Championships, using that exact formula.
I went to grad school at a fun little Group of 5 university and went to all of our home games since they were free for students. The games were pretty entertaining and our team was always surprisingly competitive, so much so that we went to bowls every year I was there.
The school? Ohio University. Frank Solich is without question the greatest football coach the school has ever had. Thanks, Nebraska! 😄
I still remember that 4-yard-line safety and I still can't believe they called it.
Lincoln has paid 4 it ever since running Solich
As an Ohio fan, we are VERY glad to have Solich. What a guy.
Solich was fired for 2 DUI's and 2 cheerleaders he was caught cheating with.
Is that bad??? Lol. Jk. Also, for a coaching resume, what has he really done as a head coach in the MAC for 15 years? I don’t wanna be mean but if he was so good wouldn’t he have killed it in the MAC??
@@miked4555 I agree, but that's not why he was fired. At the time he had a winning record and nothing to indicate he couldn't coach. But getting busted at 3am drunk in a car with an 18 yr old cheerleader(twice, each time with a different girl) while married wasn't going to sit well in uberconservative NE.
doG -the backward goD imagine that happening this day and age Crazy
I think NE fans are desperate enough now to turn a blind eye. They(not me) did for Pelini. Before that having a coach behave like Pelini did would have been unthinkable. Especially after the cool of Dr Tom. Now Solich could get caught in a whore house under 50 dudes in a gay orgy and everybody would just turn off the news and go to the game.
I never heard that story! I'm looking this up. That's crazy!!
Iowa and Wisconsin have the same strategy of recruiting big farm boys and there are only so many to go around among the big ten teams for all of them to have enough to dominate the line of scrimmage.
Ohio State used to do that too. Back when you could pack the sidelines with corn eaters. OSU didn’t really rise in the modern era until they ditched size for speed. Speed kills, just like cholesterol.
Choir boys is pronounced "Quire boys"
Right before that he said Osborne was a small man? Who wrote that shit? He was 6'3".
he really said "chair boys" im dead
Lol, I thought he said "chair boys" and was like, wtf does that mean? Thanks for clarifying.
@@resdog851 Small man, among men...Switizer, Bowden.
The same thing happened to Nebraska when they joined the Big Ten that happened to Arkansas when they left the Southwest Conference to join the SEC.
they should bring back bo pelini’s cat
Lol why????
RP28 team morale would be at an all-time high-Miami’s turnover chain is just a poor man’s Bo-Pelini’s-Cat
Classic move
Great video and analysis. Also Cole, thanks for the kind words at the end of your vid.
Interesting that this was recommended today. UA-cam is pretty smart.
College Football is all about the coach. Nebraska has had a series of misses.
1. Frankie Solich. Personal issues and he wasn't good at recruiting without Tom. Also, by this time everyone had caught up to the strength and conditioning program.
2. Bill Callahan. Brought in to modernize the offense. He eventually did so, but took too long to adjust to the college game and how to deal with Nebraska's strange recruiting situation. Honestly I think they fired him too early.
3. Bo Pelini. He did well, but the offense regressed massively under him at a time when football rules changes were making it more of an offensive game. Undid all the good work Callahan did on the offense. Once Carl left the defense tended to be mediocre as well.
4. Mike Riley. The head-scratcher. He had some nice QB drafts, but didn't seem to be able to condition or motivate players.
5. Scott Frost. We'll see, but coming from the Oregon school I'm hopeful that he will be successful in the more offensively dominated college football of today.
All of these coaches would be better, some contenders if they faced the doormats that Osborne did. Bobby Bowden had a choice in 1989, join the SEC or ACC in 92. Look at his record against the SEC vs ACC and tell me why he joined the ACC. Conferences matter.
"still don't understand why solich was fired"
bruh, boozing and nailing 19 year old cheerleaders as a 55 year old guy is quite the opposite of his predecessor.
@America reminds me of the 65 year old man who went to confession and told the priest he had just had carnal knowledge of not 1 but 2 20-year-old bikini models.
The priest started to give him his penance when he said "No thanks. I'm not Catholic."
"So why are you telling me about this?"
"Are you kidding? I'm telling EVERYONE about this!"
Whoa
@America 19 is too old. 16 is legal most places.
Pelini still has nightmares about Melvin Gordon...
What happened they thought they could come bigten and run like the bigten like the big12 but ended up being the doormat of the bigten.
I remember when ASU beat Nebraska in 1996 and it felt litterially like David slayed Goliath! The students took down the goal post and carried it all through Tempe like we won the national championship! It litterially felt like defeating the NY Yankees or Patriots or Chicago Bulls in the 90's!. Now if ASU beat Nebraska, it would feel like just a good victory, not defeating a behemoth!
Frost was stuck with Riley’s recruits 🤷🏻♂️
Give Frost 4 years and Nebraska might be on it's way back up but it's gonna take longer than you'd think.
And Riley was stuck with Bo Pelini’s... which is where the trip to rock bottom began... Bo wouldn’t recruit hard. He didn’t believe he could get top level players, and relied on diamond in the rough type players like Ameer Abdullah... problem is those are few and far between.
@@williamcowen5658 To be fair, Riley has never been a winner .
Jeff Banfield I never liked the Riley hire... but he had some successful seasons at Oregon St. so I get the whole, what could he do with better resources... I also think the way Pelini and his staff poisoned the well that the majority of coaches would have struggled. Pelini should shoulder the majority of the blame for the current state of Husker Football. He was handed a cupboard stocked full of NFL talent... Billy C and his staff could recruit... Bo peaked in 2009 and 2011... the program was in decline and he was lucky to be fired while his 9 win streak was intact... the rising tide in the B1G would have been bad for him... imagine a world though where the keep Bo one more year... fire him and potentially end up with PJ Fleck as opposed to Mike Riley...
Oh stop.... frost sat on his ass living in Orlando getting Gators FSU,Mia castoffs that had pure speed... Nebraska has no power or speed they constantly get bullied at the line of scrimmage
It’s mind blowing to think that Nebraska was two plays away from five straight national titles in the 1990s. But Nebraska moving to the Big Ten was the final nail in the coffin. They lost a huge chunk of their Texas recruiting pipeline…as well as their identity.
Edit: With Oklahoma and Texas going to the SEC in 2025, Nebraska going to Big Ten was going to happen eventually. But they could have better prepared themselves for the move, or maybe moved later on. As a college football fan, I want to see Nebraska succeed again, because I believe when Nebraska is winning, college football is better for it. But it seems like they really don't care anymore.
For the last decade, Nebraska Football is like that family member that keeps exhibiting self-destructive behaviors. You plead with him or her to get help and turn their lives around, but they still keep believing everything is just fine.
11:57 Wisconsin has gotten better doing it the Nebraska way than Nebraska themselves. Nebraska might have better recruiting rankings, but Wisconsin does a better job recruiting fit and finding those undervalued farm boys in their own backyard. Also, this video implies that Nebraska has an uphill battle being in the same division as Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. I disagree, I think only Wisconsin is the measuring stick in that division and every other program is in a different category.
Similar to old Nebraska style, but not better than Nebraska did it. When Wisconsin wins 3 national championships in 4 years, let me know.
@@markwest8960 I meant now. Nobody cares about the 90's.
@@kdavis508 Wisconsin still hasn’t won a National Title since 1941.
Wisconsin has done well for a team that hardly ever has a top 25 recruiting class..Nobody has done better though winning with less than Bill Snyder of Kansas St.
Growing up I remember people getting pissed at Nebraska because we were "running up the score". We'd have 3rd string players in and still be scoring. I'm glad that I got to experience growing up with Nebraska as a top team but its sucked to watch them struggle since Osborne.
They played Big Ten football before they were in the big ten. Great running game, big o line, and AMAZING defense. They came into the Big Ten and have been outclassed playing the same game as big ten teams do, while they are trying to rebuild. Looking forward to them coming back to an elite program.
I'm 21 from lincoln. I grew up on stories of the homegrown greats. Also when I was young before the big 10 nebraska was a physical smash mouth team with guys like Suh and Burkhead. But then mike riley came to town and completely destroyed everything. Now when I watch you Badgers I cringe because you guys have a similar formula now
@@delux6993 You guys will be back in the next 2-5 years. It takes a while for a coach to make a program his own, regardless of being as good of a coach as Frost is. The storied past will keep recruiting classes coming in even with a few down seasons. Not to mention Memorial Stadium. By far my favorite away stadium, that place is absolutely electric. Really hoping for a huge rivalry to develop between Wisco vs Neb. Gotta prove who the real Big Red is lol.
@@thecamprandallkid4451 i hope so. I think the west has potentially better rivalries if we can establish some tradition. Keeping it real I prefer Wisconsin fans over Iowans. The Hawkeye are toxic. I think their side of the river has something funny in the water.
@@delux6993 haha ya they've got a little too much pride at times. Good luck this season!
@@thecamprandallkid4451 You too!
I'm a lifelong cornhusker fan,16, and you should here about how my father talks about nebraska football, along with my Grandpas. My dad talks about how never agian will there be an era like 93-97 Nebraska football. And he means for any team. Sure Alabama s defently had a Dynasty, but nebraska for 5 years ran the triple option non stop and beat just about everyone. LSU is good, but its not 62-24 against the second best team in the nation good
Show your relatives this.
The 95 team is now 4th on the all time greatest list behind the 71 team. See ESPNS top 150 list (Sept 2019) from 150 contributors.
From another post of mine:
Yes, the 71 Neb team was arguably the best, but that changed in 2020. Now, Neb fans no longer have the greatest team ever.
They have been replaced by the SEC's greatest ever, the 2019 LSU Tigers. The SEC should hold the title for greatest ever anyway.
For your viewing pleasure, you little pencil wennie Neb fans.
LSU 2019 will easily replace Neb as #1 whenever ESPN creates another all time list.
Total below
LSU 10, Neb 2 (Did not consider yds since it was a diff era)
NC GAME
Margin of Victory.....................Neb
Neb 32, LSU 17
Total Pts Allowed....................Neb
Neb 6, LSU 25
Total Pts Scored
LSU 45, Neb 38
ALL GAMES
Games Played
LSU 15, Neb 12
(can't penalize Neb for not having conference championship and PO games but sure as hell can reward LSU for playing more and proving themselves more.)
Heisman winners at game time (Rem the voters of best ever are considering every element that would make a team better)
LSU 1, Neb 0
SOS
LSU 6th, Neb 13th
(this is the most important stat here. Neb was not in top 10.)
Ranked teams played
LSU 7, Neb 3
Top 5 teams played
LSU 4, Neb 2
Top 5 teams played in last 3 games
LSU 3, Neb 2
# of teams beaten that finished in top 10
LSU 5, Neb 3
Conference Championship Games Played In/Won
LSU 1/1, Neb 0/0
Pre NC Playoff Games Played In/Won
LSU 1/1, Neb 0/0
No way in hell Neb holds on to #1 all time.
and LSU 2019 beat Saban at home.
and GA in the SEC which is a home game for GA
When Nebraska decided to shit can a good coach in Frank Solich that when it went downhill?
Solich was fired because of his alcoholism and the student that he got pregnant. But of course most outside of Lincoln don’t know about this. Pelini was an absolute psycho on and off of the field. I witnessed him go absolutely insane at his daughters softball game over what he felt was a bad call by the umpire. After he stormed off a university staffer approached the umpire and gave him passes to a game. Why wouldn’t you get rid of guys like that?
lol....they hired Mike Riley........A lifetime .500 coach.....
..he goes 19-19
I went to that Nebraska/Miami National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl back in the day. Sad to see the state of the program for nearly two decades. They were such a mainstay of my Saturday's.
Young kids have no interest in spending 4 years in Lincoln, NE. How can that possibly compete with Columbus, OH?
Hell Chapel Hill had a better recruiting class than Scott had.
Columbus is actually a pretty cool city, and there are tons of things to do in Ohio. Plus, Columbus is close to other major cities.
Lmfaoooo
BigSnipp are you for real comparing Nebraska to Ohio? You’re largest metro would be 5th in Ohio. Columbus is the fastest growing city in the Midwest and one of the fastest in the nation. Let’s compare apples to apples here.
@@thawk121 as someone who lives near Columbus I can say its absolute aids
Here's how Nebraska gets back on top. The NCAA decides to go ahead and do this season despite the coronavirus. Miraculously all the games that we should lose their state is in lockdown so they can't play. And boom we're back on top
somehow, someway, Neb would find a way to screw the pooch.
The 90s footballs teams were dominated by big, strong lines who won by attrition. Nowadays, speed is the name of the game and you can tell that Scott knows this. Watching the last two years, you can see the obvious inspiration drawn from Osborne. Our offense has been one dimensional ( probably to a detriment )with constant screens and runs but Frost continues to recruit fast, shifty players. Adrian Martinez, Wandale Robinson, Luke McCaffrey, etc. Frost is mimicing the model of the past but adapting it to modern times. He knows what he's doing, it will just take time.
People also need to remember he's still dealing with players he didn't bring into the program. He showed his leadership as soon as he got there and a few players tried to "boast" their dominance and he promptly removed them.
ohio state exposed frost offense when he was the oc at oregon
@@justinalley3399 and Scott frost went undefeated with UCF and beat Auburn. One game isn't his entire rap sheet
It just seems that after Solich left, the program began it's spiral and has never recovered. Hiring these subsequent "experimental" coaches is not working and only further hampers recruiting. Frost is not the answer either. I think he's in over his head.
I can tell you this. The Cornhuskers are not as powerful as when Tom Osbourne was head coach.
Why you gotta remind me of Callahan dude? Giving me flashbacks.
If the 2020 season isn't cancelled due to the virus, I am predicting we go 8-4 (7-5, or 9-3 is also very possible). We have an easy first 7 games and we should be able to easily pull a bowl game.
I'm glad that you mentioned Steve Pederson as one of the reasons for the downfall of Nebraska football, because I completely agree on that point. However, I also understand that the landscape of college football has changed, specifically recruiting, and that Nebraska hasn't kept pace with the current expectations of many top recruits. Having seen the results of the team working well in every aspect of the game, I still believe in Coach Frost, even if other fans disagree with my opinion.
I feel once Callahan switched this team from I-formatiom to spread formation and primarily passing was the start of the demise of Nebraska. I also feel once Nebraska transferred to the Big Ten also spelled doom for the Huskers. They're now in a conference where they consistently get out recruited by Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State ect.....
Exactly. They should have stayed in the big 12
Mike Riley talent is still in the program. Once thats gone we'll be fine. 7 to 8 wins a year is what we are. Fans need to realize this. The 90's are long gone
At least Neb has a governor with the courage to not follow the idiots in the other 43 states that ordered their residents to stay in place during Corona.
Here are Italy's deaths by age, as of 4-22-20, www.statista.com/statistics/1105061/coronavirus-deaths-by-region-in-italy/
We had their numbers before ever sheltering in place. We knew statically what we were up against.
95% are 55 and older. That is, 95% were retired or close to retirement.
The world shut down everything vs spending a fraction (current and long term) to protect the elderly.
The world has officially gone insane. Way to go Swedes. Close to having their herd immunity numbers and proving rest of world wrong.
Support higher education, esp critical thinking!!!
They’ll never admit but going to the Big 10 was a huge mistake. They had success recruiting Texas but now have to recruit get northern kids to pass Ohio St, Michigan, Penn St, etc and go to Lincoln. They should’ve emulated Oklahoma blueprint
Bill Callahan is the worst thing that ever happened to Nebraska.
Jonathan Houser: I think Riley has him beat. Nebraska recovered after Callahan. Two years after Riley now with Frost and we're still garbage.
Jonathan Houser you spelled Mike Riley wrong.
@@dadestarmysteries255 we never would have been in the mike riley situation if it wasn't for Bill Callahan.
WRONG!
Neb won the NC in 70 and 71. Delaney retired in 72. It took 21 years and a silly schedule for Osborne to repeat.
And none of the coaches you clowns throw around got the luxury of coaching in the defunct Big 8.
Osborne is the worst coach in having the most of all the coaches since Delaney and doing the least amount with it over most of his career.
@@robjohnson8861 Hahahaha 😂😂😂 this is quite possible with dumbest thing I have ever read regarding college football.
As a big ten fan, I would love to see Nebraska get back to winning and be a top 10 program! I hate to see them in the shape that they are now
Great job on your videos. Not too long, and very optimistic. Can't say that for my Browns.
As a big 10 fan, I was excited to see Nebraska join the conference. I'm just shocked that it hasn't worked out as well for them on the field. After the 2009 Big 12 title game, I figured Nebraska would be a consistent contender in the big 10. Especially when they made the east and west divisions. That's why I kind of disagree with the Bo Pelini firing. I understand it but don't 100% agree with it or thought it was well timed. As for Frost, I just finger pointed the mess Riley left. Scott's done a decent job at recruiting considering where they've finished and the recruiting classes he brings in. After last season, we know how the team played so anything less than a big 10 west division title is a disappointment this season. I like seeing the comments though and understanding why Nebraska hasn't been Nebraska. Idk if the scholarship limit being voided would allow them to grab more of their walk ons but I hope that means they could turn things around. I hate seeing 2nd tier teams labeled better than them.
this made me cry salty tears which fell onto my corn which was already salted and now its too salty
Nebraska didn't adjust to scholarship and ncaa staff reductions or adjust to passing game changes. Big 12 was formed specifically to stop Nebraska dynasty's plus Big12 along with Big10 academic standards that limits quality of players recruited out of state. Need to load up on juco players every year 4 to 6 scholarships and have 1 or 2 state run juco with football scholarships. Cost of college is killing walkons. Frost by promising 3 players a year a scholarship in 1 to 3 years getting a few players but not enough.
62-36
This is the moment that Nebraska football died.
And the 37-14 loss to Miami was when the plug was pulled
And the first quarter opening week rainout against Akron was the failed heart restarting.
The program died on the operating table vs Illinois
@@cornhuskerfever Nah bro, we killed ya. Peace.
Watching this before our first home game of 2022 makes me sad as hell.
I like how we hire a .500 coach in Mike Riley that went about 6-6 every year at oregon state and expect him to do anything else at Nebraska
After mean Bo and his hissing cat, Nebraska wanted a "nice guy".
Frost is just a Pelini without the psycho rage issues. Colossal ego with and mediocre recruiter
@@grundja1 Frost is like Osborne, at critical points in a game he won't be able to breathe fire and motivate the team to climb one more rung. Imagine a Switzer sideline vs an Osborne sideline.
Bill Callahan was the beginning of the end. Can't completely change the style of offense from run option to pro style before you get the pieces to play those roles in place, esp at QB position. Not sure if firing Pelini when we did helped much eitber.
It’s gonna take time for Scott Frost to really turnaround this Nebraska team.
As someone who goes to school there, the big farm kids just dont cut it anymore
As someone raised in Nebraska living in Lincoln whose traveled all over the country there is nothing like Nebraska football not even in the south
As other said, leaving the Big 12 was a big mistake. Texas recruiting disrupted, as well as fine traditional rivalries with Oklahoma and Colorado. Tom Osborne, while very successful and conservative both professionally and politically, pushed the limit of the student athlete. Many of his out of state recruits had legal problems and were young men of dubious character. Today they are avoided. It does not matter whether you have an old school run offense or a new spread offense, you just need good players. Nebraska does not have enough of them. The Nebraska administration just flippantly said, "Lets go to the Big Ten Network." You need a plan. You need an identity. Nebraska should have stuck with corn-fed linemen from Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, etc. And then had some sort of pipeline to get African Americans at skilled positions.
Don't dump on me .
I loved how nebraska stood up to the florida schools. Loved the scott frost teams. ...but that era, you guys were seriously on steroids. That helped a lot.
My team was on steroids in the late 80's...Michigan State
Boyd Eppley was a pioneer in PED usage.
Proof?
@@markwest8960 google Tony Fitton
I wish I could tell those Nebraska fans, as a messenger from the future, " don't worry, Nebraska will be great again.". But unfortunately,it's gotten worse
As a lifelong fan this is a pretty darn accurate assessment
Agreed. Came in thinking this guy wouldn't know sh*t about Nebraska. Touched on a lot of good points about what has affected Nebraska. Don't always buy into the can't recruit to Nebraska because of location. Look at Creighton basketball. Nebraska can recruit and with technology and social media....no one is too far away from home.
I never understood why it mattered how long you were a fan.
Gary Pulliam I guess if you haven’t been following the team for while you may not understand the context years ago
The real problem was the administration that didn't know how to find a good coach that could recruit and then know what to do with them when he got them look at the terrible coaches we went through probably the biggest mistake was getting rid of Frank solich,, I have no doubt that he would build a better program and have more better records than any of them coaches that they hired and paid lots of money for to be losers Callaghan sucked Riley you wondered if he was awake Paulina you couldn't control him on the sidelines what kind of guys is well I guess that's the best out there when you're losing program cuz they saw it coming when Tom Osborne left Nebraska football left and that's the bottom line that couldn't win without him. Tom Osborne was the magic.
I've been to Memorial Stadium, The Big House and the Horseshoe. Lincoln is far and away the best atmosphere I've been to
I'll take the cumulative records of the schools from The Big House and the Horseshoe...you can have your Memorial Stadium atmosphere.
@@craigphillips7258 1 shared NC in the last 70 years. Yeah, right. Go Big Blue! Shit!
Darren Spoles was the dagger and the nail and the hammer, and the Bill Snyder was the hand driving it all home. Nebraska was never the same after that game.
You are so very correct.
I live in Nebraska and have been a fan my whole life. You did a great job on this video. well done sir.
Its because the changed the walk on program
The last bit of this video has not aged well
Go Big Red! 🏈 Looking forward to the football season! Looking for some improvement. I am thinking 7-5 and then a bowl win.
Be 5 losses in a row to end the regular season
I think Nebraska and Missouri should come back to the Big 12.
lol, Neb would love to face a team that gave Osborne more than 10% of his regular season wins.
During the 73-97 stretch, MO avg'd 5 (4.88) wins and 6 (6.16) losses per season. Remove Neb's win and they were still a losing team over the 25 years.
check that. MO did have 4 good seasons (8 wins), but 21 years they were pretty damn bad.