Neb. is a top 30-60 team: now and forever

[smokymountainrain]

A voice of reason. Nebraska is on it's way to the CFP. In the immortal words of Tommie Frazier to Warren Sapp when Frazier re-entered the 1995 Orange Bowl in the third quarter:
Warren Sapp: Hey Tommie, where you been?
Tommie Frazier: It's not where I've been...it's where I'm going, fat man.

yeah, Tommie Frazier ain't walking through that door.

[Paperback Writer]

Shouldn't we stop dwelling in the past and focus on the fact that ESPN has named Nebraska as one of the sleeper teams for this year's CFP?

http://www.espn.com/college-football...espnapi_public

(Please pay no mind that Washington and Boise state are also on the list)

A voice of reason. Nebraska is on it's way to the CFP. In the immortal words of Tommie Frazier to Warren Sapp when Frazier re-entered the 1995 Orange Bowl in the third quarter:
Warren Sapp: Hey Tommie, where you been?
Tommie Frazier: It's not where I've been...it's where I'm going, fat man.

[smokymountainrain]

It's funny that BYU is longing to join a conference that Nebraska happily left.

if you can't take the heat...

[Bo Diddley]

POTD

Take that crap to CB!

[Omaha 680]

Shouldn't we stop dwelling in the past and focus on the fact that ESPN has named Nebraska as one of the sleeper teams for this year's CFP?

http://www.espn.com/college-football...espnapi_public

(Please pay no mind that Washington and Boise state are also on the list)

[Applejack]

It's funny that BYU is longing to join a conference that Nebraska happily left.

POTD

[Paperback Writer]

The Cotton Bowl wasn't a major bowl when Nebraska went, so no it doesn't count.

You said he was playing "loose with the facts." All of the facts he cited are true.

Playing in four conference championship games over ten years does not equal "not being a factor" in those conferences. The definition of "major bowl" is somewhat subjective. I thought the Cotton Bowl was a "major bowl" when I attended and saw BYU play in it.

[falafel]

He is also wrong about Nebraska and the "rare double" of not being a factor in the Big12 and Big Ten as I've already shown. I didn't mention it earlier but Nebraska has been to more than "two major bowls" since 1997 if the Cotton Bowl is included. So in review, Dodd was correct about Osborne retiring in 1997 and that the Husker's last conference championship was 16 years ago. He got more stuff wrong than right in those three sentences.

The Cotton Bowl wasn't a major bowl when Nebraska went, so no it doesn't count.

You said he was playing "loose with the facts." All of the facts he cited are true.

[creekster]

It's funny that BYU is longing to join a conference that Nebraska happily left.

I don't think that is funny at all.

[Paperback Writer]

It's funny that BYU has a conference championship that is more current than Nebraska.

It's funny that BYU is longing to join a conference that Nebraska happily left.

[Moliere]

He is also wrong about Nebraska and the "rare double" of not being a factor in the Big12 and Big Ten as I've already shown. I didn't mention it earlier but Nebraska has been to more than "two major bowls" since 1997 if the Cotton Bowl is included. So in review, Dodd was correct about Osborne retiring in 1997 and that the Husker's last conference championship was 16 years ago. He got more stuff wrong than right in those three sentences.

It's funny that BYU has a conference championship that is more current than Nebraska.


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[Paperback Writer]

So he got one fact wrong - there have been 4 coaches since Osborne retired.

Got it.

He is also wrong about Nebraska and the "rare double" of not being a factor in the Big12 and Big Ten as I've already shown. I didn't mention it earlier but Nebraska has been to more than "two major bowls" since 1997 if the Cotton Bowl is included. So in review, Dodd was correct about Osborne retiring in 1997 and that the Husker's last conference championship was 16 years ago. He got more stuff wrong than right in those three sentences.

[Omaha 680]

Does anyone beside PBW and Omaha even read this thread?

You just posted in it, sucker!

[falafel]

Dennis Dodd is playing loose with the facts...
Last 5 years in the Big12
2006: Big 12 North Champs. Played in Cotton Bowl.
2009: Big 12 North Champs. Lost to undefeated Texas in CCG when a second was put back on the clock.
2010: Big 12 North Champs.
Two 10-win seasons; two 9-win seasons. Three division championships. Played in a bowl game 4/5 seasons.

Last 5 years in the Big Ten
2012: Division Champions.
One 10-win season and three 9-win seasons. One division championship. Played in a bowl game 5/5 seasons.

And there have only been four coaches since Tom Osborne retired in 1997 (not five)
Bob Devaney (1962-72) 11 seasons; 2 national championships
Tom Osborne (1973-97) 25 seasons; 3 national championships
Frank Solich (1998-2003) 6 seasons
Bill Callahan (2004-07) 4 seasons
Bo Pelini (2008-2014) 7 seasons
Mike Riley (2015 - present)

While it's true Nebraska has not won a conference championship since 1999 and has not played in a national championship game since 2001, the Huskers were a factor in the Big 12 and are a factor in the Big Ten. There were 22 years between national championships in 1971 and 1994. At present, it's been 18 years since Nebraska's last national championship.

So he got one fact wrong - there have been 4 coaches since Osborne retired.

Got it.

[Uncle Ted]

Does anyone beside PBW and Omaha even read this thread?