NEBRASKA: The MOST CURSED PROGRAM in All of College Football...
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2023
- I honestly feel bad for Nebraska football. The Huskers used to be one of the most storied programs in all of college football, but they have now become the king of heartbreaking losses. After a 5-3 start, it looked like the Huskers were headed for a bowl game, but instead they imploded, lost all four games by one possession, and lost a heartbreaker to Iowa after Chubba Purdy threw away the season, literally. Let's talk about the Huskers, enjoy!
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The 2-Pac?
Maybe "Kent State: One of the Worst Programs?"
The downfall of Pitt and Baylor. The Bo Nix story. His rise from Auburn to Eugene.
Pitt! PITT! WTF HAPPENED TO PITT?!?!
Michigan state cover them
Cover how Iowa State went from a 3 win team in 2022 who lost multiple key players in the gambling scandal, stumbled early, but still won 7 and was in the running for the B12 championship. Even as a lifelong fan, they annihilated my preseason expectations.
As a Nebraska fan... all I feel is pain
facts bro gbr
But we suffer together
Same here I've been fan 40 years love Nebraska but it seems like nothing has changed and I never like rule hire
Good.
Good. Nebraska deserves every single heart breaking loss and terrible season they’ve had. Go gators
I feel like them leaving the Big 12 took them away from their recruiting pipeline and they lost a piece of their soul when they went to the Big 10.
I guess so man, its crazy
They let Bo Pelini go ….
I agree they lost Texas pipeline. I wouldn’t blame the Texas high school kids.I don’t want to play Iowa every year
Big Ten is better tho, Big 12 is trash.
@@jesusrivera743Yeah, but Bo Polini only won 9 games a year!!!! Certainly a firing offense!!!!😂😂😂
As a Michigan State fan, I feel a close kinship to the Nebraska football program. A man I personally consider to be the greatest figure in college football history coached at MSU during the 1950s. I'm speaking of Bob Devaney. A native of Saginaw, Michigan, Devaney went on to coach at Wyoming and then Nebraska. And in the words of Spartan SID Fred Stabley, "Into football immortality." Devaneys career was light years beyond that. He resurrected the Cornhuskers from the Outhouse of College Football to the Penthouse. He went an incredible 101-20-2 with the Cornhuskers and finished as the winningest coach in the nation. After back to back National Titles in 1970 -71, Devaney handed the reins to his protégé Tom Osborne in 1973. This is why Devaney outranks every competitor in college footballs all time hierarchy. OF ALL HIS FAMOUS PEERS FROM BEAR BRYANT TO ARA PARSEGHIAN, HE WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH A TRUE EXIT STRATEGY. Also the Athletic Director, Devaney HAND PICKED Osborne and groomed him as his successor. Because of this, Nebraska won 356 games over a 36 year stretch from 1962-1997!! All of this directly from Devaneys leadership. When Osborne retired, his Nebraska teams went 60-3 over his final five seasons with three National Titles. Unprecedented in college football history. Contrary to popular belief, the Cornhuskers didn't immediately tumble into an abyss after that. Osbornes hand picked replacement, Frank Solich also enjoyed solid success. As did Bo Pelini. No longer Super elite. BUT STILL RELEVANT. It was only when administrative incompetence reared its ugly head that Nebraska football was flushed into a Septic Tank. Figuratively speaking. UNQUALIFIED HACKS in high positions are what derailed the greatest program in collegiate football history. Not among the greatest. THE GREATEST. How about being a fan of a team that went more than 40 years without losing more than 3 games in any season?! That is true greatness. Not here today, gone tomorrow. Don't tell anyone from that era that Nebraska can't win. For two generations they won like no one else. Before or since. Thanks to an Irish Imp from Michigan. The greatest figure in the history of college football. Hire the right man. Give him autonomy. Then get out of the way. Then Nebraska can become a semblance of what they once were. The Gold Plated Standard for all time.
Very well said, as a “young” ne fan I appreciate the history lesson
Very well said. But the option scheme was created by Devaney, so some say Osborne coached 5 championships, not 3.
Common Misconception even many Husker fans make constantly: FRANK SOLICH BEING FIRED DURING A 10 WIN SEASON then hiring Bill Callahan lost our recruiting pipeline/historic offensive identity before Bo Pelini was hired or fired. It left Bo behind the 8 ball he didn’t inherit “True Nebraska”
Steve Peterson firing Frank Solich was the start of our descent to being cursed.
Only a full year removed from a national title appearance too 😓
Got that right Pederson was a prick
Solich and Pelini are #3 & &4 all time best winning percentage in NU history. Solich took over for Osborne, Pelini took over for Callahan who drove the program into the ground (Wisconsin dropped 70 points or so on us, Melvin Gordon ran for over 400 yards against us on Callahan’s watch). Our program has been unrecognizable since blowing Pelini out for these soft sweetheart coaches.
@@DeBa1226 are greatly mistaken. The Wisconsin beat downs happened under Pelini’s watch… Callahan was fired in 2007, before Nebraska left the Big 12.
Oh I do believe I recall what transpired before Solich was shown the door. A once proud Nebraska defense, on a team ranked in the top 5, surrendered 62 points to a superior team - including the 6 (six, you read that right) touchdowns on the ground by Chris Brown. 62-36 and the crying children on ABC, having been showcased by Brent Mussberger, weren't just horrified at what they witnessed that day, they were crying for the future. Even Lawrence Phillips was so saddened by the beat down that he refused to beat up a single woman and further refused to perform his signature move of throwing a pregnant woman down the stairs.
As a Nebraska fan , i was born in 75. So i was blessed to witness the golden years. With that said , its been a painful watch. My daughter asked why do i still watch them when they suck? I said its about being loyal. But Nebraska has made it hard to stay loyal. I see huge strides in our defense, but our offense is horrid. I feel horrible that our defense this year wasnt rewarded with anything. I will always love our huskers. But hopefully next year we see huge strides in our offense. GBR☠️
I have 4 kids that haven’t watched a game with me in years. They have never seen them good at all. Not even mediocre 😢. It’s a really sad story
@@gbrcards2469 yeah i feel ya man. It sucks
I also was born in 75 and the glory days just keep fading away.
I had asked my dad the same thing when we had lost 6 in a row to Auburn and during the Shula years but now look at us
MR is the answer to bring back Nebraska to respectability.
As a Nebraska football fan and apparently a masochist at this stage, see y'all next season.
Maybe but don't count on it..its no longer fun
I say this every year but maybe next year
Huskers have been losing in last second, heart breaking fashion for pretty much the last 4 or 5 years. Just bizarre and every season it appears to get even worse. The unreal amount of turnovers and FG debacles (both missing FGs & the other tram making them) has been practically bizarre. Just uncanny at this point, beyond bad luck. Nebraska needs a witch doctor or something
Being a cornhuskers fan feels like being in an abusive relationship. (Sorry, I'm posting that as if it were 2005)
Nah I’m done watching this program
I’m not a Nebraska fan but my grandpa was and the one thing he always told me was Nebraska should of never fired Frank solich
If someone could make a highlight video of all the rediculous heartbreaking ways Nebraska has lost football games since the Bill Callahan era it would be truly appreciated and cathartic. There’s been so many.
Two things happened:
1. The atrocity that was Scot Pederson as Athletic Director.
2. Moving to the Big Ten, which killed their momentum they had been gaining in 2009-2010 AND taking away a fertile Texas recruiting base.
Steve* Pedersen
Can we please stop with the nonsense about "Texas recruiting"? First of all, we joined the Big 12 in 1998. How on earth did Devaney and Osborne win ALL our National Championships before the Big 12 opened up Texas recruiting?
Also, I hear all the time that the reason that we can't compete with Ohio State and Michigan and Penn State is because they have so many 4- and 5- star recruits right in their back yard. So, when we were in the Big 12 where Texas had all those 4- and 5- star recruits, that was an advantage for us. But now that we are in the Big 10 where Ohio and Michigan and Penn State have all those 4- and 5- star recruits, that is a disadvantage for us.
Whatever.
@@screenname9424Nebraska was in the Big 8 and a founding member of the Big 12
No kidding. What's your point?@@P51DFreak25
and there were no Texas schools in the Big 8. So his point still stands… how did they win all those games without Texas recruiting?
Nebraska spent 89 years in a conference without a Texas school in it and won four of their national championships during that time. They spend 15 seasons in a conference with four Texas schools in it and all the sudden this false narrative of Nebraska football’s success depended on recruiting in Texas gets pushed out for whatever reason. Nebraska isn’t good because of bad coaching since Solich got fired. That’s really what it comes down to.
Simple... and YOU ARE RIGHT
Nebraska's problem is they just have stayed in the Big 12!
Hindsight. Nebraska's real problem is zero program stability.
According to the 247 team talent Nebraska had the 4th most talented roster in the big ten, this is a disappointment
Just shows you how meaningless that metric is
Well when almost all your offense is injured it’s hard. Nebraska NEEDS a QB badly as well.
@@TheS0VA Is there a Tommie Frazier look alike out there man was he beautiful ….
@@jesusrivera743 Tommy was THE man
After the @ Colorado game beat down in 2001 they have never been the same.
So true..I will never forget that game....
@@davefleming1117 I was watching a kid and couldn’t sit down it was like a run up the middle for Colorado was a touchdown.
As A Miami fan, I totally get what Nebraska fans are feeling. That being said I really would love to see Nebraska return to its prominence as a powerhouse it once was.
As a Nebraska fan who lives in Florida I feel the same way about Miami
Fellow miami fan...it's been an awful 20 years lol
@@ethanreed8400 I feel like the rivalries with Florida and Miami have slowly evolved into a mutual fellowship where we all want each other to become good teams again. Sucks that if we were to meet in our current states it would be a bum fight 😂
Nebraska Women’s Volleyball is more interesting than their Football team
Iowa is Pittsburg Steelers of college football. They have the same uniforms, a damn good defense, an awful offense, and somehow win a lot of games.
Yup
Hayden Fry asked the owners of the team if he could use the uniforms, pretty cool 😎
They lost their recruiting pipelines when they went to the big 10.
Im not from Nebraska, but I lived there from 2003-2007. During that timethey fired Frank Solich and brought in Callihan. Solich had just had a 9 or 10 win season. It's been pretty much down hill since then. To top it iff the should have stayed in the Big 12, when they moved to the Big 10 they lost their recruiting base from Nebraska down into Texas. How many young men want to go play somewhere, where they really have no chance of playing near home.
Good or even great recruiting can't cancel out bad coaching. One doesn't win conference titles and National Championships with 5 star recruits. Those are won with NFL prospects and those are made by coaches on collegiate practice fields.
They never had a recruiting base in Texas. This is the biggest load of hot garbage people have been pushing as an excuse since bo pelini got fired. When Nebraska was at their best in the 70’s through 90’s they were recruiting throughout the Midwest, west coast, and Florida. It’s only when the Texas teams jumped into the big 8 and ruined the conference that Nebraska had to start recruiting in Texas, and they were never the same after 1997. Nebraska in the 2000’s was struggling to win with Texas recruiting. They still consistently out recruit most big 12 and B1G and still lose, not because of lack of talent but because of atrocious coaching
Nebraska has married the girl (The Big 10) that their mother wanted them to marry. A nice life with big time league money rolling in nonstop and marquee guest like Penn state, Michigan and Ohio State dropping by the house on a regular basis. Small problem, the program, the fans and the school are miserable. The Cornhuskers should have stayed in the Big 12 and the entire landscape of college sports might have held form and the outrageous conference hopping might have never happened. I live in North Carolina and a Nebraska home game has been on my bucket list for decades, I'm now afraid that by the time I actually make it to Lincoln the Big Red and Memorial stadium will only be a shell of their former shelves.
Captain obvious here ....Iowa- Nebraska will never replace Oklahoma- Nebraska, but you already know that.
Phil Parker is the best Defensive Coordinator in college football and it isn’t even close.
Nebraska chose the money over being relevant. For decades, Nebraska was one the most consistent programs in college football. The move to the Big 10 had a negative effect on recruiting. They could no longer depend on the Texas pipeline of talent they once enjoyed. It’s unfortunate that one of the most dominant programs in football is in a position of hoping to eventually become relevant again.
It's no longer a matter of money. With Texas gone, t hey could name their price. With the recruiting area of the New Big 12. It would be too easy for Nebraska. Nobody wants Nebraska recruiting Texas, Arizona, and Florida, knowing they'd be in the playoffs every year.
The real problem is with social media and smart phones now everyone is so connected and they wanna be in the “it” spot. Nebraska is just not a place that college NIL superstars want to live lol. Why would they live in nebraska when they can be millionaires in Florida, Texas, Cali, Ohio, or Georgia. Oklahoma has had a similar problem since NIL became a thing, no one wants to live in butfuck Oklahoma. It just is what it is
IT'S NOT THE BIG 10s FAULT THAT NEBRASKA CAN'T WIN IN THE BIG 10
You can add California and Arizona to that puzzle in terms of recruiting.
I may be in the minority in this room but the other problem is we never had the right man at the helm. Frank was in over his head. Riley was a joke. Bo was a spoiled child and things were running aground with him in charge... He was not a CEO and even his mentality was 'everyone in the dressing room against everyone not in the dressing room'. Talk about isolating your fan base .
Finally His recruiting was starting to suffer. My understanding is he hated it and it was pretty clear because there was always a panic at the end to take anyone.
EXACTLY, THEY TOOK THE MONEY.... ROOT OF ALL EVIL.
The "Curse" actually started in 2003 when they fired Frank Solich. Nebraska fans can thank Steve Pedersen for that.
Once Nebraska stops living in the 90s and begins living in the present, they will then make progress.
What does that even mean? None of the guys on the team were even alive when they last were relevant. None of them remember that.
Why not? The past isn’t full of one loss games and heartbreak unless you are referring to the recent past then 🤷🏻. We had people at this university in power, run this program into the ground on purpose.
Lol Nebraska has out recruited the West every single year they've been in the big10. They spend more money than any West team. We have better fan support for one of the worst teams in cfb the last 7 years. And most fans just want a bowl game at this point. Anyone spouting this "stop living in the 90s" retard shit has no idea what they're talking about.
Minnesota used to be a blueblood too. Won multiple NCs in football. Last NC was decades ago (1960/split with Ole Miss) . Nebraska is dangerously headed towards that status as well. Last NC 1997/split with Michigan)
Other former bluebloods that won multiple NCS in the past, decades ago. That has yet to return to that: Army (last title 1946) , Georgia Tech (last NC 1990/split with Colorado) , Pitt (last NC 1976) , Michigan State, (last NC 1966), Michigan (last NC 1997 split with Nebraska) , Miami (FL) (last NC 2001) , Illinois (last NC 1951) , Cal (Last NC 1937) , Tennessee (Last NC 1998), Oklahoma (last NC 2000), Ole Miss (Last NC 1960/split with Minnesota), USC (last NC 2004), etc
The worst thing to happen to nebraska is nebraska fans. Their overvaluing of that programs destroyed the program.
Nebraksa is Minnesota with a more delusional fanbase. They deserve what they get for firing Pelini.
How can your program be cursed when you’ve won multiple championships in the past?
As a Nebraska fan I finally feel completely broken. I was born in 1995 and just missed out on witnessing the Tom Osborne era. I think what it comes down to is arrogance and greed. Firing Frank Solich in 2003 definitely derailed the program. Bo Pelini revitalized it but couldn’t stop getting blown out by 40-50 points a couple games every year. I believe if we would have stayed in the Big 12 and didn’t chase the money, Nebraska would be in a much better position.
My fellow Nebraskans laugh at the idea of not making the move to the B1G 10. Besides University revenue the conference change hasn’t benefited a single fan. Hell I moved to Texas 4 years ago and I could see them play once or twice a year if they would have stayed in the Big 12. Oh well.
I was also born in '95. I've seen pretty good Nebraska football but I have never in my life seen truly great Nebraska football.
Been a fan since 71...I feel like the younger generation doesn't give a flying shit about winning. Seems like they are truly the everyone gets a participation ribbon. There's a split fan base right now.
agreed...Huskers never belonged in the BIG...they are a BIG fish swimming with a few sharks...with OSU and Michigan, they werent winning the BIG at any point..fans can brag about the $$ the school got, but unless they divvy that out amongst the fans there is no point of taking pride in it..all that $$ hasnt helped Nebraska win a single game...theyve become the Indiana of college FB...blue blood in history and name only
@@dionpryor369 I haven’t seen a single Nebraska fan who doesn’t care about winning, I think most fans just want to be a team that makes bowl eligibility with how low they’ve stooped
Texas and Oklahoma had our number Little did we know so did the rest of the B1G
The "curse" is due to two things. The first is simply the college football gods making up for all the years that Nebraska had everything go their way. No other program in D1 history was so successful for so long as Nebraska was. Winning seasons with no more than 4 losses in a single season every year for 40 straight years (1962-2001), bowl games for 35 straight years (1969-2003), 9 or more wins every season for 33 straight years (1969-2001) and no more than 3 losses for 29 straight years (1969-1997). The second is that Nebraska made a pair of monumentally bad decisions. Firing Frank Solich after the 2003 regular season, which set the stage for destroying Osborne's system that had served them well for a third of a century, and moving to the B1G and burning their connections to their main recruiting grounds in Texas and the Gulf Coast, which torpedoed the more modest, guaranteed exactly 4 losses per season, success that they had under Pelini, who was his own can of worms due to his utter lack of anything resembling sportsmanship or self-control.
Nebraska’s main recruiting footprint at their height was the Midwest, not Texas
There are many reasons for their slide, but it started with them agreeing to stop taking partial qualifiers when the Big 12 was formed.
Great video man glad I found you
No sir... The curse began on Novermber 8, 1997. That National Title was deserved, but that kick was the beginning of the sold soul process
Born in '72. Huskers had a stat in the 90's about how the coaching STAFF had a total of like 150yrs of being a coach on staff.
Now on top of that they ran the unique 'option', which no one did and did not require a 5 star quarterback.
We groomed many instate players into 5th year core players that constantly bought in and improved the integrity of the whole program (imagine out of state talented starters watching these guys lift, practice and hit the books with the hope of only a little bit of playing time their senior year)
Running the option also meant it was easy to recruit both runners AND lineman because lineman like to run block and pull. Most lineman do NOT prefer passive pass blocking.
Cornerbacks were recruited and told they would eventually go 1 on 1 in big games against teams with big name quarterbacks and future nfl wide receivers. Many said sign me up.
Oh yeah and...
No flippin portal
As a lifelong Iowa fan, I would like to thank the Big Ten West for being terrible and allowing the Hawkeyes to receive the honor of being spanked in the championship. It will be a time we can all say collectively, “Wow…Iowa’s offense REALLY sucks.” We see it too and they most certainly didn’t deserve the win over Nebraska on Saturday.
as a iowa fan myself, I can 100% agree with that. The spanking somehow wasn't as bad as I figured, but we suck offensivly. Maybe next season will be better?
Talk all you want about Iowa, but Kirk Ferentz went 10-2 regular season this year. He has went 8-5 last year with Petras under center. Despite all the injuries, he has been able to coach them through these games. Kirk Ferentz is an underrated coach. That's a major factor to their success this year.
100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kirk is the man. No one could bring this Iowa roster to 10-2 besides that man. Injuries all season. Best players out. Noah Shannon, Luke Lachey, Erick All, Cooper DeJean, Cade Macnamara. Literally might be 5 of our top 7 players. We are 11-1!!! Never forget Cooper's punt return TD
Ya it’s actually crazy how Iowa has lost all their best offensive players to injuries and their best defensive player to injury yet still have won 10 games.
Kirk is the Mike Gundy of the Big 10, it might not always be pretty but he finds ways to win
I lived in Omaha for 2 years. That was 42 years ago. Back then, just one loss was enough to bring on mourning. I remember the good old Big 8 days when there was a holiday basketball tournament in Kansas City. Yeah, time marches on. Get used to it.
I remember the Big 8 Holiday tournaments the week between Christmas and New Years back in the 60s. I was a youngster but it seems like we were dropped off at old Municipal Auditorium in the morning and could watch great basketball all day (four games) and then get picked up around 10 at night. Thanks for resurrecting a long buried memory.
All Nebraska has done is fired a couple coaches that had 9-10 win seasons. One in Bo Pelini that averaged 9 wins each year and that wasn’t good enough. There has to be a realization that Nebraska is in the state of Nebraska. What’s the draw for recruits? Better not chase off the next guy to get you 9 wins.
Ah...truth will prevail...Solich, Pelini....two great coaches that received no respect.
Why is Nebraska football cursed?
All that success in years past, eventually things slide the other way.
Plus, the ever changing recruiting landscape.
@admiraltiberius1989 Don’t every team experience this “ever changing recruiting landscape” Yet other teams find a way to make a Bowl game within a decade.
@commonsense3921 yes but some places never to seem to run out of recruits where as others can only tap the well for so long.
Ie Stanford from say 09 to 2015ish ??
This team is young and inexperienced and still we were very competitive A bowl bid would’ve been sweet. Ruhle can recruit . Coach Osborne beat out Notre Dame and Lou Holts for Tommy Frazier and the rest is history Not getting a bowl bid will impact recruiting but there are a lot of great players out there must work hard to get a few of them I’m optimistic about next year I have to be on account I bleed Husker red . GBR !!!!
As an ex-Nebraskan, I find that about 30% of Nebraskans can be kinda clannish and unfriendly to newcomers, or people who don't quite fit their idea of what a Nebraska 'should be.' I feel so bad for people who can't conform to Nebraskan culture, because it seems that they are at least trying. Some of the more clannish Nebraskans, can be snobby and unfriendly to those that don't look, act, or 'fit the bill,' for what it means to be a Nebraskans. Like, if you don't like sports, you're automatically treated differently than others, and if you don't dress the way other Nebraskans dress, you're ignored, or ostracized. I feel like it's the militant German culture in Nebraska that makes some Nebraskans so cocky and unfriendly. The way some Nebraskans have treated some of my friends is about 40% of the reason why I left Nebraska.
From a Baylor fan to all Husker fans, please don’t let this year affect how you feel about Coach Rhule. In his first year at Temple and Baylor he won 2 and 1 game at smaller programs and a way worse situation at Baylor. The fact that he won 5 games in his first year at a program like Nebraska is I think a sign of things to come, things will get better. Once he gets his culture established and gets all of his own guys in there, y’all will start to see success again. I know losing like this sucks, but just give Coach Rhule some time and the Big Red will be a force again
That's the problem fans booster and the over all administration never gives the good coaches time and when they fire them they don't hire a better man
Yeah, the fact we got 5 wins (even with some glaring issues) indicates we are headed in the right direction. Patience going forward will be key.
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@@WillBadley-zu9vpbruh frost got 5 years without sniffing 500, riley won like one big game. Nebraska coaches have as long a leash as any program they just hire fuck up after fuck up
But he had a ton of talent at Baylor and was in Texas, which was a hotbed for talent. Nebraska has none of that. I feel they've made strides, but I'll have to see it to believe it at Nebraska. We'll see how next season goes.
“We are going into the Big 10 and we are gonna show Michigan and Ohio State and dominate that conference!!!!!!”
Nebraska fan back then
Nebraska has fired multiple coaches since the 90s after a 9-3 seasons
They deserve their failure
Agreed, It all began after firing Frank Solich when they were 10-2. This was before I was born.
I'd love for Illinois to win 7 or 8 games a year!!! Lol if coach B did that for consecutive years(6-7 years straight)... He'd have a statue built outside Memorial Stadium!!!! Lol
Wisconsin fan here, thank god for this curse breaking our losing streak
Meet Matt Rhule, the new Husker coach...
...who is the same as the old Husker coach...
...and both are slightly worse than the other, older, Husker coach...
...and all of them are nowhere as good as the even older Husker coach who hurt too many feelings in Nebraska.
As a Nebraska fan born in 98 it’s so painful to not know what the glory days were. Every kid, myshelf included, dreams of playing for Nebraska one day. It’s so heartbreaking to only know these dark years, Besides Bo. With that being said Rhule is in my opinion going to break it open for us. To be able to say you turned Temple around (idek where the hell Temple Uni is at) he can turn a 5 time national championship team around
Temple is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or at least in the Philadelphia area.
Make a video about the downfall of USC, the program with the 3rd most national championships and #1 in number of Heisman Trophies
And are #1 in Fight Song and Cheerleaders. The transition between USC’s dominance into the SEC dominance is pretty distinct. I believe the SEC only won 4 National Titles from 1980-2005. (25 years) They have won 13 National Titles since 2006. (17 years) That doesn’t happen by accident.
1. Black Friday, 2001. 62-36 vs Colorado.
2. Hiring Steve Pederson.
3. Firing Frank Solich after 9 wins.
4. Hiring Bill Callahan.
The rest is history.
Thank you!!! Iv been reading a lot of these comments. And most seem to miss the mark. Yours just hit it right on the head. Solich when he hired Bo Pelini as DC and that revamped coaching staff would have been good if they were given more than one year.
Had to switch from the laptop to the phone to watch this. It sounded like Mr Fisher kept dropping a marble on the desk. Turns out, it was background music. The iPhone speaker is so much better than most laptop speakers and even better than my iPad.
I feel this will be Oklahomas fate going to the SEC!
As an Oklahoma fan, I hope not, but we are not leaving the Texas recruiting grounds. When A&M left it opened Texas to the SEC. We had no choice.
Literally no one proclaimed Mike Riley was the savior. Half the fan base didn’t even know who the guy was when he was hired, and he was hired by the least respected AD in school history.
Spot on! I’ve been a fan since 1983 and it feels like we made a deal with the devil to be the best team in the country in the 90s in exchange for heartbreak forever thereafter. “Cursed” is exactly the term I’ve been using since it is just uncanny the way they have been losing through different coaching regimes. The main constant has been turnovers and I don’t know how a coaching staff changes that but I also don’t know how multiple cycles of players keep turning it over.
Finally someone else knows what hell we’re going through
It wasn't when bo pelini joined the program. It was when they fired frank solich, and hired bill Callahan. I think Callahan was the breaking point.
I coach on a high school football team in Nebraska and absolutely none of the kids talk about the Huskers at all. They want schools outside of the state. I’m 40 and I feel my age cap is the only thing keeping GBR alive. If it keeps this way I’d say in about 10 years we may have empty stadiums
That’s how it is in Illinois too. My high school teammate plays for Michigan right now and we live an hour from northwestern. I was trying to go to NIU but they never offered me. I had 7 MAC offers but not an offer from the school that’s literally an hour south from me. I live in Chicagoland. JJ McCarthy left the state too and so did the Minnesota QB
Ever since Nebraska lost to Mizzou after 20+ wins in a row, they haven't been the same
Nebraska has earned everything that has come to them over the last two decades.
I agree I thought I was the only person that thought this. I think it started with the firing of Frank
Solich. I think he went 9-3 being Nebraska! Run the ball great defense! The Fans were so expecting that 9-3 was no good. Then they hired Calhoun (spelling) I'm from California and guess what Nebraska was Nebraska to us. If they came to town forget USC, UCLA, Hollywood, all of it. It was Nebraska! Hard core hit you in the mouth defense. Big lineman amazing runners saying we are gonna run right here! Stop it! Not this spread the field we look cute! They lost their identity. Remember Florida in the national championship!!!
People pray for a 9-3 season. It wasn't good enough for Nebraska. So the curse began!!! Frank Solich lived out his football days coaching in the MAC at Ohio University running his game and giving them hell!!
They did not suffer a drop off with Bo Pelini, they suffered one with Bill Callahan, the coached that proceeded him. Bill went 27-22 for a 55% winning percentage, Bo went 67-27 for a 71% win percentage. Plus it wasn’t the 9 win seasons that truly got Bo fired it was his relationship with the AD
Nebraska should be a cautionary tale to every upper-middling program; you can't fire your way to wins
Let’s do a quick summary of the season compared to another program in similar circumstances and also a Neb connection this year. The other program, like Neb, hasn’t been to a bowl game in 6 years. The other program also has a tradition of winning football with a solid fan and alumni base. The other program plays in a conference that appears to be more balanced and competitive than the Big Ten. How is the other program connected to Neb this year? Rhule recruited their QB, Sims. Yes, the other program is Georgia Tech. GT also has a first year head coach and guess what, they beat a ranked team this year, earned enough victories to go to a bowl and gave the national champion Georgia Bulldogs all they could handle last night. Neb did not beat a ranked team this year, did not earn enough wins to go to a bowl, and when faced with a top five team (Michigan) they were completely destroyed at home with not much of a whimper. I am a long time Husker fan since 1973 and no one bleeds Big Red more than me but my optimism has been replaced with cynicism and clear eyed observation. This season did not break any trends of the last 8 years. It is just another season of utter underperformance. New coaches, new players, same results. I hear fans say that this season is a turn around season, that Rhule has turned it around. There is zero evidence for that opinion. Rhule may turn this program around and I really want him to especially because of all the money Neb has guaranteed to pay him but his first season shows zero evidence of a turn around. Go Big Red!
I have been blessed to be a fan since the early 80s. Been to many great games including two national title games which Nebraska won both. Feels like a lifetime ago. They should have stayed in the big 12 and for whatever reason they cannot recruit a top QB. At this point it's sad to watch the complete decline most of all in talent! Nobody wants to come to a loosing program let alone live in Lincoln Nebraska!
"Lost their recruiting pipelines" Nebraska has consistently recruited top 25 classes for more than a decade. They finish just behind Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State in BIG recruiting rankings.. For whatever reason, some of those players come here and don't pan out, or transfer away. Player development is one of the biggest issues Nebraska has. 2023 was full of horrendous in game coaching decisions by a HC with more than enough experience in those situations. Nebraska is legit cursed. Its mind boggling why it hasn't worked here for so damn long.
Saturdays are for pain and sadness. GBR!
As a Nebraska fan living in the state of Nebraska. This video hurt my heart.
Football analysts way smarter than me predicted that when Nebraska sold their soul for a share of Big 10 revenue they would lose their ability to recruit top-level talent from Texas, because the families of those players would never be able to attend games in far-away Big 10 locations, like they could when Nebraska played Big 12 road games in Austin, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Waco, College Station and, most recently, Houston. Now we've seen those 2010 predictions come true, as coaches who were wildly successful at other programs come to Nebraska and struggle to recruit.
I'll be honest i'm a hawkeye fan and i have no idea how the Hawkeyes are 10-2
Here is the deal, football has changed, nearly everything Nebraska did to win those championships would today be a penalty. What we called a pancake block on a running play, the big ten officials call holding. If an defensive lineman falls down while being blocked, out comes a flag.
Arkansas is a CURSED program as well. Frank Broyles doomed our football program by joining the SEC. I remember the good days of Nebraska football, they were a powerhouse. Tommie Frasier destroyed Florida in the Fiesta Bowl lol
We deserve this for giving Matt Rhule 8 years when he literally never stayed for a 4th year at either program.
They’re not unlucky. Being unlucky is when things happen beyond your control. Nebraska did it to themselves. They should have stayed in the Big 12.
Not a cursed program. Just mismanaged. Fans are amazing. Nebraska went from Football Heaven, to fighting schools from the Mountain West for line prospects. Maybe Rhule gets it done. Or maybe Nebraska should get a promising coach out of the MAC with deep recruiting ties.
As a nebraskan I can assure you we're not the unluckiest fan base just the most delusional...the amount of money we throw at winning less than half our games is absolutely ludicrous and mind blowing, no excuses 20 years into this if you as me😂
The suits and boosters didn’t realize how good and consistent our program and its rich history was, when Solich & Pelini each had us in a great place; their winning percentages speak loud and clear. This program hasn’t done jack since.
Steve Pederson, Shawn Eichorst, Bill Moos had ran the program into the ground with the bumbling of hiring of head coaches or scouts telling in state recruits that they could find the same player in Texas or California and Florida. Spoiler alert: they did but it blew up in their faces everytime
It all started w/ Harvey Pearlman in 2001
@@cyguy2319 he fucked up the program as chancellor and allowed the constant hirings of Mediocre ADs, Rose Bowl loss to Miami who nobody could be and the Callahan hiring put the nail in the coffin even still trying to be competitive, 22 years of constant implosion, you would’ve thought we blew up the Metrodome
@@charles-cjbox4661 I agree. We just had a lot of stupid people running the program. Now Trev is gonna gat a massive raise for the 2yrs he's been there. And for What?? He made the Bad Hire w/ Rhule. Now were stuck with these Clowns!!
The Callahan hire is what doomed Nebraska. Pelini held the program above water.
I think Matt Rhule has them on the right trajectory. Give him time. If he can win at Temple and Baylor, he can guide Nebraska back to the promise land.
They said the same thing about Mike Riley and Scott Frost who won BIG at UCF. And will the administration give him time when they bailed so quickly on Rliey and Frost?
@@williamford9564SF had 1 good year at 1 school. MR did it at 2 schools.
what trajectory? whaat has he done at nebraska and please don't say changing culture
Agreed. People don't realize that Nebraksa just won more games in their first year with Matt Rhule than any other team. I fully expect them to win 8+ next year.
Most of the roster are young guys, give them time to develop, there was only like 4 too 5 seniors starting in today's Iowa game, both on offense and defense
As a Nebraska fan, this program is dead and I think other Nebraska fans should start rooting for other teams bc they’re wasting their energy
There is always the girls' volleyball program.
College football teams revolve around the coach, not recruiting, not the players.
Tom Osborne was the secret to Nebraska’s success, not the players, not recruiting.
All Nebraska needs to do is find the right coach.
I think you can attribute it back to the firing of frank solich…you might need to open your history lens a bit.
Give Rhule a few years. Not a nebraska fan at all, but he will get them on the right path.
Cursed?
Blessed 😊 We have had multiple experiences of what not to do.
-GBR
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We are not cursed because we do it to ourselves. We also had some good seasons under Bo and Riley. Even the pundits are spoiled by TO.
Thats called a Curse
@@mjphoto45 That's no where near the definition of curse. We lose because we fail, and we don't fail because of some supernatural force but because we are sloppy and make a lot of mistakes.
We are also not cursed because we've had a degree of success. We had good seasons under Bo and some under Riley. Heck, even Callahan had some success after Solich.
I feel for Nebraska but watching them is too painful since it reminds me of my team, college football's most storied loosing program. Things are in a constant state of change, but there remains one constant in the universe. Indiana is truly terrible and the masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Bring back the old Big 8! University of Texas egocentricity led to the Longhorn Network which started the destructions of the old Big 8. Nebraska losing access to Texas recruits made it harder to continue success on the level they were accustomed to.
Live in the now.
Sounds like you are putting the total loss on Purdy's back! There were lots of other situations that came into play that caused the loss. Come on!!!
As an Iowa fan who had to suffer all the arrogant ‘husker fans during their hay day, I’m enjoying the current state of Nebraska football so much. A huge reason for their success was playing in a historically weak Big XII North division that offered few challenges. Big Ten is very different.
Michigan and Ohio State say the very same thing about Iowa and your division. LOL Hawkeyes, get ready for an ass whoopin by Michigan.
As a Sooner fan, I hope we don’t end up like this in the SEC. I’m terrified we will though.
I agree. Certainly a chance of that happening, as it did to Arkansas.
Don’t expect any referees calls going your way, it was five years playing in the big 10 before Nebraska had a holding call go their way.
Big 12 to SEC doesn't work out. Arkansas struggles, A&M has sucked, Mizzou is finally having their once in a decade team. Sooners are in trouble. Texas is a mixed bag with a weird liberal university. LSU, Alabama and Auburn will be the perennial winners for the SEC West.
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How does being a "weird liberal " university negatively impact the football program? That's a strange thing to say.
After years of running up the score on lesser opponents, it's good to see the shoe on the other foot. This "curse" can't go on long enough.
Their defense improved alot but they can't cause turnovers and are literally the worst at passing the ball and turning the ball over
There is definitely a dark cloud over Lincoln, and has been for a while. Nobody can explain the past 6 years. Just bizarre.
A lot of people think the Nebraska curse happened after they fired Solich, but I think it started a few years earlier when Brook Berringer died in that plane crash the day before the NFL draft back in '96. After he died Nebraska has either had losing seasons, or controversial wins(like the shared National Championship the next year).
It’s definitely not right to leapfrog from the Osborne years to Pelini without mentioning the guys in between.
Pushing the great Tom Osborne out the door prematurely and then the ludicrous firing of Frank Solich after 3 straight 10 win seasons bc apparently that wasn't good enough is what's brought a once mighty football program to its pathetic knees. Nebraska football is the Indiana of college basketball. Firing coaches bc of unrealistic goals means purgatory for programs. Enjoy losing football, Lincoln, bc that's all you have and deservedly so.
I’m not a husker fan by any means I’m actually an avid Hawkeye fan but I have to agree. It’s been depressing, watching Nebraska lose such heartbreaking games. I honestly think they wouldn’t have missed a step if they wouldn’t have fired, Frank Solich, not only that the man but his connections all left, when he was let go of the program
im an iowa fan also, but it does make me kinda feel bad seeing nebraska lose to teams like BYU, and Michigan State and them.
As a Mizzou fan… I’m glad we gave it up. You’re welcome
I would like to see Nebraska good again, I remember thinking Frost was a great hire.
I still believe Bo Pelini's cat cursed us.
Im a 72 Alumni from Nebraska sick of all the blame on the athletes 90% of the stupid calls and last minute screwups were a result of unprepared inept coaching staff sending in bogus plays , poor clock management unable to call in the right plays... the players are not responsible for the calls unlike pro football. The coaching staff is like the 3 stooges. This last game was a classic,,, calling timeout at the same time as the opponents , not taking the wind to the back on the last quarter when the winding field goal into the wind goth blown off course, on and on..lets call a spade a spade the coaching staff are disparate and taking unnecessary risks. Chabba Purdy did an outstanding job and was told to throw it into a zone defense when he previously through a touchdown over the top ..Iowa had no speed to cover long ball.. Its sickening to blame the players
Matt Rhule is not the coach people think he is. He is 2-16 against top 25 teams. He will have to play USC, UCLA, Michigan, Ohio State, Washington, and Oregan a lot and he can barely beat those teams.
Simca 33 is right about Devaneys input into the option attack. Devaney also said that Tom Osborne gave him better ideas in terms of throwing the football. What a collaboration they were!! Unlike nearly every one of his peers, Devaney made the changes to adapt to the modern game. Just as Osborne switched to an option dominated attack to compete with Oklahomas Wishbone. Yet, the Cornhuskers thrived because they never yielded to outside pressures. Especially meddling hacks that had no more business interfering in the program than a brain surgeon attempting to remove a wisdom tooth!! Had Osborne not went into politics after his brilliant career, the Nebraska freight train would have rolled on indefinitely after his retirement. He should have had full input into every decision involving the Cirnhuskers. Who could know better.
The curse of Bo Pelini after the program decided to fire him we haven't tasted a bowl 🍜😔 game