Corn Nation on Nebbie Loss to UCLA

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Some guy said:
Temple year 1 2-10
Year 2 6-6

Baylor
1-11
7-6
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The first two years are what all the broadcasts, all the articles have concentrated on.

The numbers you pulled and posted. He went from 2 to 6 wins, then went from 1 to 7 wins.

And then you write that taking Nebraska from 5 wins to 5 wins is “on or ahead of schedule”, coming off a 4 win season. Please.
 

Unregistered User said:
The first two years are what all the broadcasts, all the articles have concentrated on.

The numbers you pulled and posted. He went from 2 to 6 wins, then went from 1 to 7 wins.

And then you write that taking Nebraska from 5 wins to 5 wins is “on or ahead of schedule”, coming off a 4 win season. Please.
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At Baylor first two years = 8 wins
At temple first two years = 8 wins
At Nebraska first two years = 10 wins with 3 to play

That’s on or ahead of his usual schedule.
Any argument it isn’t is asinine.


In year two.
He went 6-6 at Baylor and won a bowl. Had a losing conference record.
He went 6-6 at temple.
He is 5-4 right now.

You’re currently arguing that since he won too many games in year 1 he is behind schedule. I don’t buy that argument. Feel free to keep making it. But im not going to agree with it.
 

I'm old and hard-pressed to think of a better program than what Nebraska had during the late-Devaney and Osborne eras, but things started to fall apart when the administration there got too impatient and started firing coaches (good coaches in Solich and Pelini) and not taking a look at the bigger picture in that the game was changing and they were standing still. Callahan, Riley, and Frost were simply bad hires. We'll see about Rhule. He strikes me as having it more together but that might not be enough in the NIL/Portal era. It will be interesting to see if Raiola sticks around for the 2025 season if this season stalls out.
 

Admittedly I don’t see the fun with the corn nation guy. I realize a lot of people get a kick out of him. I am not one of those people. I’ve tried his videos several times. I can never get through one of them. Just a dude crying about his team.

I went to the 2016 Gopher game at Lincoln and found their fans to be quite nice and engaging in person. 180 degree difference on line where I find them to be quite toxic.

I get an above average kick out of seeing them lose and they provide a large amount of schadenfreude for me for the following reasons:

1. Their fan’s toxic presence on line, where they still seem to think it is the mid 90’s.

2. A need to rebel against the pre season polls where Nebraska always seems to start out in the top 25 despite showing no evidence they deserve that.

3. Still a bit bitter about the 1983 13-84 game.

So every time they fail to qualify for a bowl game, or find another ridiculous way to lose a close game… it’s like a big breath of air from a mountain meadow to me.
 




Some guy said:
I’m not talking about a graphic.

I’m talking

Temple year 1 2-10
Year 2 6-6
Year 3 10-4
Year 4 10-3

Baylor
1-11
7-6
11-3

Nebraska
5-7
5-4

He is on or ahead of schedule right now
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The landscape of college football has flipped to a completely different model than what Ruhle won with at Temple and Baylor. Not to say he won’t turn things around and win at NEB, but, especially in this new world, past performance is no guarantee of future success.
 

WindyCityGopher said:
The landscape of college football has flipped to a completely different model than what Ruhle won with at Temple and Baylor. Not to say he won’t turn things around and win at NEB, but, especially in this new world, past performance is no guarantee of future success.
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Didn’t say it was. I agree with you.

but Rhule being .500 in year two shouldn’t be a surprise to people.
 



NateDawgUM said:
I imagine Gopher fans in the 1960s went through the same sort of mourning process as the team plummeted from grace, they just didn't have YouTube.
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Gophers fans in the 1960s were in mourning as the team won a national title and multiple Big Ten titles? That would've been bizarre!
 

dpodoll68 said:
Gophers fans in the 1960s were in mourning as the team won a national title and multiple Big Ten titles? That would've been bizarre!
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You can say "1970s would've been more appropriate" rather than being pedantic, but that's been your shtick for 2 decades and one of the main reasons I stopped posting here.
 

FanSinceTheFifties said:
The Huskers have no competition for the sports fans' dollars -- nor their media attention. Stark contrast with the Gophers whose fans are distracted by the Vikings, Twins, Wolves, Wild, Gopher hockey, and going upNorth.
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You trot this insane garbage out every so often, while ignoring that there are multiple Division I teams in other sports in Nebraska, including specifically Creighton basketball, which is annually among the most competitive teams in the country.

It is also gleefully ignorant of the fact that, depending where they live in the state, a Nebraska resident can drive for 2-2.5 hours (or less) on the interstate and attend home games being played by the Chiefs, Broncos, Royals, Rockies, Nuggets, Avalanche - hell, even Kansas or Kansas St., among others. No competition, indeed.

Someone living in Falls City, NE has a shorter drive to Arrowhead than a person living in Duluth has to Huntington Bank. But I'm sure you already knew that, because you're so astute.

Try holding Gophers teams accountable for their performance instead of whining that they may have to compete a little.
 

NateDawgUM said:
You can say "1970s would've been more appropriate" rather than being pedantic, but that's been your shtick for 2 decades and one of the main reasons I stopped posting here.
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Actually, since Nebraska is now 27 years removed from their last national title and 25 years removed from their most recent conference title, I was going to say that late 1980s/early 1990s would've been more appropriate.
 



Schnauzer said:
Admittedly I don’t see the fun with the corn nation guy. I realize a lot of people get a kick out of him. I am not one of those people. I’ve tried his videos several times. I can never get through one of them. Just a dude crying about his team.

I went to the 2016 Gopher game at Lincoln and found their fans to be quite nice and engaging in person. 180 degree difference on line where I find them to be quite toxic.

I get an above average kick out of seeing them lose and they provide a large amount of schadenfreude for me for the following reasons:

1. Their fan’s toxic presence on line, where they still seem to think it is the mid 90’s.

2. A need to rebel against the pre season polls where Nebraska always seems to start out in the top 25 despite showing no evidence they deserve that.

3. Still a bit bitter about the 1983 13-84 game.

So every time they fail to qualify for a bowl game, or find another ridiculous way to lose a close game… it’s like a big breath of air from a mountain meadow to me.
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Yeah, I don't get it either. It's like those videos where some guy smashes a TV after his team loses. Nine times out of ten, it's filmed after the fact while watching a replay and the guy is smashing a 15-year old RCA he was going to replace anyway.
 

Schnauzer said:
Admittedly I don’t see the fun with the corn nation guy. I realize a lot of people get a kick out of him. I am not one of those people. I’ve tried his videos several times. I can never get through one of them. Just a dude crying about his team.

I went to the 2016 Gopher game at Lincoln and found their fans to be quite nice and engaging in person. 180 degree difference on line where I find them to be quite toxic.

I get an above average kick out of seeing them lose and they provide a large amount of schadenfreude for me for the following reasons:

1. Their fan’s toxic presence on line, where they still seem to think it is the mid 90’s.

2. A need to rebel against the pre season polls where Nebraska always seems to start out in the top 25 despite showing no evidence they deserve that.

3. Still a bit bitter about the 1983 13-84 game.

So every time they fail to qualify for a bowl game, or find another ridiculous way to lose a close game… it’s like a big breath of air from a mountain meadow to me.
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They are typical passive-aggressive Midwesterners. Nice to your face, not so nice at a distance.
 

Tech Machine said:
Indiana doing what they are doing May shorten the leash on a number of coaches.
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The leash on coaches has already gotten stupid short in a lot of cases. In regards to Indiana though, they have to prove they can sustain it before it will have any massive impact on anything. They may have caught lighting in a bottle this year with some transfers that really hit combined with a soft schedule.....sustaining it though will be the real trick.

Mel Tucker was 11-2 in his second year at Michigan State in large part because he went the quick fix route but he couldn't sustain it (even before the off the field stuff came into play).
 

I'm in the boat that I do enjoy his after game analysis. I'm also in the camp that I enjoy their failure. Still waiting/praying for the same from Iowa and Wisconsin.
 

He needs to do something with that hair... Reminds me of when LBJ went nuts after his presidency.

Not a good look.
 
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Crosby said:
I actually do feel kind of bad for them. Imagine living in Nebraska, with no landscape, bad weather, and nothing to do. But you always had the Huskers, who were the state's treasure. You had fall Saturday afternoons to cheer on a darn good team. And it happened every single year. Until the Big Ten journey started. It came crashing down and now... the one thing you called your own is a shadow of its former self. You just pine for the glory years, but you really know they are never coming back. I'd be sad too.
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It’s funny, people on the coasts always say the same thing about Minnesota and I always think, I am just fine living in MN and not in NYC or LA. You couldn’t get me to to move to those places. And then to see MN people saying the same thing to Nebraska people. And they I am sure are thinking the same thing.

But I don’t feel bad about Husker football team. They are a cautionary tale that conference realignment and a few more bucks is not always a good thing for a school.
 

GoForGold said:
They are typical passive-aggressive Midwesterners. Nice to your face, not so nice at a distance.
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Perhaps true but I do not find the same disparity among other midwestern fan bases. The experience with other midwestern fans for me tends to be consistent regardless of in person or on line.
 

MNVCGUY said:
The leash on coaches has already gotten stupid short in a lot of cases. In regards to Indiana though, they have to prove they can sustain it before it will have any massive impact on anything. They may have caught lighting in a bottle this year with some transfers that really hit combined with a soft schedule.....sustaining it though will be the real trick.

Mel Tucker was 11-2 in his second year at Michigan State in large part because he went the quick fix route but he couldn't sustain it (even before the off the field stuff came into play).
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When I read the thread about the possible seedings for the CFP, I was surprised to see the .403 opponents' winning percentage for the Hoosiers. That is the definition of soft. Not saying they haven't played well and don't deserve to be where they are, but their road hasn't had a ton of speed bumps.
 

50PoundHead said:
When I read the thread about the possible seedings for the CFP, I was surprised to see the .403 opponents' winning percentage for the Hoosiers. That is the definition of soft. Not saying they haven't played well and don't deserve to be where they are, but their road hasn't had a ton of speed bumps.
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Indiana is having a really good year and I think they are a quality team but just how good they actually are remains to be seen and we really won't find out until they go to Columbus on the 23rd to take on Ohio State. That will be their only real chance to prove they belong among the playoff contenders but at this point it looks like they are going to snag one of the 12 spots.
 

dpodoll68 said:
You trot this insane garbage out every so often, while ignoring that there are multiple Division I teams in other sports in Nebraska, including specifically Creighton basketball, which is annually among the most competitive teams in the country.

It is also gleefully ignorant of the fact that, depending where they live in the state, a Nebraska resident can drive for 2-2.5 hours (or less) on the interstate and attend home games being played by the Chiefs, Broncos, Royals, Rockies, Nuggets, Avalanche - hell, even Kansas or Kansas St., among others. No competition, indeed.

Someone living in Falls City, NE has a shorter drive to Arrowhead than a person living in Duluth has to Huntington Bank. But I'm sure you already knew that, because you're so astute.

Try holding Gophers teams accountable for their performance instead of whining that they may have to compete a little.
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Have a nice day.
 

50PoundHead said:
I'm old and hard-pressed to think of a better program than what Nebraska had during the late-Devaney and Osborne eras, but things started to fall apart when the administration there got too impatient and started firing coaches . . .
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Disagree. The beginning of the end for Nebraska was when they lost their ability to take academically marginal recruits who couldn’t go to Big Ten and many other schools. Tom Osborne fought hard to keep this advantage because he knew what it meant. As Mike Farrell recently wrote:

Another advantage Nebraska had was its use of Prop 48, which enabled it to secure additional talent that was not fully qualified academically. When the Big Eight and Southwest Conference merged into the Big 12, Texas demanded that Prop 48 players be eliminated. Tom Osborne warned that things would never be the same for Nebraska because of that capitulation to a school that arrived from a renegade league forced to shut down because of its Wild West ways.
 

Nebraska started to go down after they couldn't recruit players with a rap sheet anymore.
 



BigTenGuy said:
Disagree. The beginning of the end for Nebraska was when they lost their ability to take academically marginal recruits who couldn’t go to Big Ten and many other schools. Tom Osborne fought hard to keep this advantage because he knew what it meant. As Mike Farrell recently wrote:

Another advantage Nebraska had was its use of Prop 48, which enabled it to secure additional talent that was not fully qualified academically. When the Big Eight and Southwest Conference merged into the Big 12, Texas demanded that Prop 48 players be eliminated. Tom Osborne warned that things would never be the same for Nebraska because of that capitulation to a school that arrived from a renegade league forced to shut down because of its Wild West ways.
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What is funny is they are at the bottom of the Big Ten academically. This is especially true in regards to research. So what exactly do they bring to the table?
 

I watch Nebraska games just so I can watch him on YouTube after. I love it...
 

BigTenGuy said:
Disagree. The beginning of the end for Nebraska was when they lost their ability to take academically marginal recruits who couldn’t go to Big Ten and many other schools. Tom Osborne fought hard to keep this advantage because he knew what it meant. As Mike Farrell recently wrote:

Another advantage Nebraska had was its use of Prop 48, which enabled it to secure additional talent that was not fully qualified academically. When the Big Eight and Southwest Conference merged into the Big 12, Texas demanded that Prop 48 players be eliminated. Tom Osborne warned that things would never be the same for Nebraska because of that capitulation to a school that arrived from a renegade league forced to shut down because of its Wild West ways.
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Yup, Nebraska feasted on partial/nonqualifier recruits. Big 8 was the only conference that allowed giving scholarships to these players. That ended in 94, Osborn conveniently retired a couple of years later.
 

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