OT: Nebraska
I am guessing they will get 6 or 7 wins in the regular season. So much for firing coaches that win 9 games.
Never been to Lincoln, but Omaheehaw is a decent place. I did make the drive halfway to Lincoln to visit the air museum they have out there. And the small museum inside the Stratcom front door on Offut is a nice distraction from work. Each weekend, the city fills up with farmers from all around on vacation, doing some shopping, some big city sight seeing... Interesting time to people watch, if you're into that sort of thing.
Their entire life is Big Red football and corn. Sad, really...
It's a very nice place, people are unusually friendly. It's not what I would have expected for a city its size. It's more of an oversized small town.
I keep imagining that the whole state smells constantly of cow shit, I mean ... fertilizer.
Ogalala is where its at. It was a regular stop over/drinking spot when I was doing the drive between Chicago and Denver 6 times a year.
Some thoughts are better not shared. This would be one. Keep it on the inside next time.
OK Scott Frost's Mom way to expose yourself
And that school from the garden state that has some kind of fence thingy.
Maryland's uniforms have a splash of red as well.
Minnesota is maroon so they don't count.
Does ranking 46th in S&P+ and behind Appalachian State really count as almost making the leap?
Disagree. No, it does not. Nyet.
If we were to rank the Big Ten coaches, I doubt Riley would crack the top ten. What was their signature win last year? Oregon? Minnesota?
Idaho: Future FCS powerhouse or responible for the next potato famine?
Did you know the band 311 is from Omaha? Blew my mind.
Discount records was indeed on the corner of State and Liberty. Iggy Pop worked there in the 60s. Now a Potbelly Sandwich shop I think.
Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to the post that mentioned (in talking about Schoolkids) the record store on the corner of state and liberty. I guess threading is beyond me.
And give them all steroids.
do you remember in Tora, Tora, Tora when the Japanese guy realized that they had just woken a sleeping giant? Because that was actually awesome.
There is a wikipedia page about the quote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto%27s_sleeping_giant_quote
Oh yeah, SPOILER ALERT!
That was General Yamamoto who spent time in the US studying at Harvard and run around military circles in DC. He toured the midwest and saw first hand out production capabilities and was completely against the war. He knew from the beginning that Japan could not win.
I'm pretty sure the pending war sucked for him...he made a number of friends in our Navy during his time here.
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All of those teams are indeed in the B1G West.
Catchafire is husker4life? 2 for 2 on excellent topics..
OT: Purdue
Don't care.
Sleeping Giant? Comatose is more like it since they entered the B1G. Their glory days are well behind them and still far out in front of them. Mike Riley is not the answer.
I had thought this thread was about the eclipse coming up. Nebraska is supposedly one of the best places to view it.
Every few years, there's a new Big Ten "underdog" that the media starts jumping on as the team to surprise in the next season or two. Most recently, this has included teams like Indiana and Northwestern. Of course, nothing usually comes of it.
I think the new team in this category is Nebraska. Because Riley has "improved" Nebraska's recruiting as of late and went 9-4 last season, people suddenly believe that the Huskers are going to become a powerhouse in college football again.
This idea seems ridiculous to me.
Let's start with the obvious. Riley is 15-11 overall as Nebraska's head coach. Here are his wins against top 50 S&P+ teams at Nebraska:
- 2015 - at Minnesota (No. 37)
- 2015 - Michigan State (No. 13)
- 2015 - UCLA (No. 23)
- 2016 - at Northwestern (No. 49)
- 2016 - Minnesota (No. 42)
Considering that one of those wins (vs UCLA) came in a bowl game that Nebraska made as a 5-7 regular season team, we're talking about four quality wins in two seasons. Oh, the team also finished with a losing record in year one and was one of the most fradulent teams out there in year two. Last year's Nebraska team lost by double-digits in three of its four losses and had absolutely no business beating a horrible Oregon team at home in non-con. The Ducks lost simply because they went for a few two-point conversions.
But the previous two years aren't even the worst part. Nebraska is losing a massive, massive amount of contributions from last season, including the team's starting quarterback. Nebraska was absolutley useless when he went out last season. On paper, the quality of Nebraska's team should only downgrade from last season and they were a fraud then too. That recruiting "improvement" is also overblown. Riley has bumped them up a handful of spots from where they were with Pelini, which means that they are still far away from the powers of college football.
Oh, and to the idea that Riley's building something. In his two stints with Oregon State, he had one (!!!) 10-win season in 14 years. Oregon State isn't exactly a college football powerhouse, but that's not an insanely high mark with the inclusion of bowl games. Riley is going to have to outperform that mark significantly to do well at Nebraska.
Detailz, Detailz. Lol.
They seem to have big expectations this year and are talking playoffs? I suppose, since the west is so weak, they could win the west division with 9 wins but they will lose to the east division winner in the B1G. But I don't see them winning the west division, may be a 3rd place finish with 7 wins.
Nebraska is no longer a national football power. The sooner those corn huskers sober up to this fact the better their lives will be.
And Mike Riley isn't in the same league as the top 10...hell top 20...coaches in CFB. No clue what booster opinions are being based on.