Getting To Know You: Q&A with Nebraska blog Corn Nation - Part 1

Thank you for taking the time.

I will admit that Nebraska had a good to great D in 94. PSU’s Offense was great to excellent and mostly unstoppable. PSU’s O would have out-scored Neb’s O. Look at all the weapons PSU had, and the brick wall of O-lineman blocking for them. Nobody could stop that team enough to win in 94.

I will admit that Nebraska had a good to great D in 94. PSU’s Offense was great to excellent and mostly unstoppable. PSU’s O would have out-scored Neb’s O. Look at all the weapons PSU had, and the brick wall of O-lineman blocking for them. Nobody could stop that team enough to win in 94.

because everyone felt sorry for Osborne. It had nothing to do with Nebraska being a better team. Even the backups on that PSU offense had 8-10 year careers in the NFL…except for Jurevicious, he had like a 12 or 13 year career.

Honestly, I hate NEB already…and from this point on, I refuse to acknowledge that those d-bags have ever used the moniker “NU”

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/409438-old-big-10-vs-nebraska-debate-revisted-1994-nebraska-vs-1994-penn-state

Lets see.. The 1994 Nebraska offense with Tommie Frazier having not played in 3+ months (clearly not likely as game ready, rust free, and efficient as he could have been) scores 24 points and thrashes the Miami HUrricanes #1 ranked scoring defense and total defense. Timing is crucial to any option offense and that timing just isn’t there, quite as good as it could be when the maestro of that offense has been out for 3+ months! In the 4th quarter the Hurricanes D are on their knees gassed, helmets off, with the Nebraska o line standing over them.. A Hurricane defense with two all time greats, two future NFL HOF’ers. And they had to defend Frazier for little more than a half! My god! If that #1 ranked Hurricanes defense had to defend a Frazier not 3 months removed from game action for an entire game, with LP that Hurricanes defense is done much earlier, on their hands and knees much earlier than the 4th quarter. I don’t think it would be unrealistic to say that that #1 ranked Hurricanes D would have given up 35+ points to the Nebraska offense if they got Frazier and Phillips together for a full game.

Makes it a simple correlation what that 1994 Nebraska offense, with that dominant offensive line with those skilled QB’s and rb’s does to that pillow soft PSU defense of 1994! HArd to tackle guys like a Frazier and Phillips, let alone with a dominant offensive line and a 12 year NFL startig fullback running interference for them.

Long drive after long Cornhusker clock consuming clock, leaving that PSU offense standing on the sidelines watching, probably with several long TD runs by Frazier and Phillips.. Can’t do much when you don’t have the ball! Time of possession probably looks something like Nebraska 40 PSU 20. And don’t tell me how quickly PSU would score! BS! PSU would have been facing the best defense that they had seen by far in 1994. The same defense that held another offense filled with future NFL skill position players to 7 points!

1994 Nebraska 35+ 1994 PSU 17-21

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/409438-old-big-10-vs-nebraska-debate-revisted-1994-nebraska-vs-1994-penn-state

Football is an emotional game, one played with emotion, especially college football played by 18-22 year old kids. The 1994 Nebraska team probably didn’t respond any differently than any team expected to compete for a National Championship and that was just learning that it will be losing its leader (a leader that many say is the best collegiate qb of all time. yeah that hurts on the field and in their heads) for an unknown amount of time. They were able to overcome it through outstanding coaching and outstanding depth.

Check the opponent scores the rest of the year following the Wyoming game A whole lot of single digit scores, teens against some solid teams, KSU, CU, Miami, to name a few.

the University of Nebraska @ Omaha is D-II in all sports except for Ice Hockey! As opposed to NU being D-1 in all sports.

 Dimwit. Real simple

That’s how anyone with half a brain knows that if your favorite team is competing against a team from Nebraska and the schedule or scoreboard says NU, that that acronym refers to the University of Nebraska @ Lincoln sports teams and not UNO!

Let me clarify real simply..

NU/UNL – D -1 All Sports

UNO – D-II all sports, except for a D-1 hockey program. Go Mavs.

See, that wasn’t so hard.

Duh!

is a bunch of “wussies” in your lame ass opinion.

But, that group of “wussies” with two probable first ballot NFL HOF’ers was LIGHT YEARS better than the pathetic group that Joe Pa and PSU put on the field to play defense in 1994!

94 Miami defense>>>>>>>>>> 94 PSUssies

And that poses one very large problem if 94 PSU had the misfortune of playing 94 Nebraska with athletes like Frazier, Phillips, Schleisinger and Co running behind the best, most physical, nastiest, strongest, deepest, kick your ass all over this field “O” line that Nebraska ever put on the field. And there were many of those during the Osborne tenure but 94 and 95 were the best.

oh my god..

Want to talk about a title being given to a team by the voters.

Go back to 1982..

Penn State gets waxed by 3 td’s by Bama, falls behind Nebraska in the polls after that game. Both teams win out then at end of season voters see fit to jump PSU over Nebraska.

So STFU about a title being “given” by way of peculiar poll voting.

The 1982 “national championship” for PSU has to be the greatest example of the mythical title in the history of college football.

1. Penn State needed a huge helping hand to beat Nebraska in 1982 (by way of an official that just a few years prior had a son that was a star tailback for PSU) and

2. Gets whipped by Bama by 21 and

3. Drops in polls after the Bama beatdown, but miraculously rises to top of polls at end of season.

Shut your trap about a title being “given” and not earned.

1982 Penn State – got to be the only "national champion that got their butts kicked by 3 td’s!

the Nebraska defense was the #2 rated scoring defense and total defense.

But, “Nebraska’s defense wasn’t that much better than ours” oh please!!!

COUGH! COUGH! CHOKE! CHOKE!

YOu keep telling yourself that bucky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xu_AvSC7us&feature=related

scroll to 1:50 of the above video.

Watch what happens to the Wyoming Qb after the Husker defense got their game face on after a flat first quarter. Yep, they came out flat, uninterested and disappointed early in game, as did the whole team.

 Even Joe Tiller, Wyoming’s coach at the time, Purdues coach now, said he wasn’t surprised, sort of expected it, that Nebraska came out like they did, considering the turmoil that the team went through in the week leading up to the game, and Wyoming did take advantage of it a bit in the first quarter. From the end of 1st quarter on it was 42-17 Nebraska.

The Nebraska Blackshirts hammered this Wyoming QB, picked him off several times after the first quarter, almost like they took it personally. Just watch what happened to Wyomings Qb at 1:50 of the video. FYI.. He was out for the 10 count, flat on his back for 10 minutes, carried off the field after being scooped up. After the last of countless hits/sacks by the Nebraska D.

A stand in the pocket, can’t move to avoid the rush, flat footed, slow moving big target sort of like K. Collins. They would get to Collins.

perfectly straight. The DVD you have is probably much like the re-broadcast that ESPN plays every year of this game that doesn’t show every play. It was 3rd down, in fact a 3rd and long play db, that’s why McCloskey was running to the first down marker lying on the sideline. Just because the tape/dvd you may have, which I bet is likely the smae version that ESPN uses, doesn’t show the previous twos plays, doesn’t mean it was first down.

Was third and long.

don’t find it in anyway peculiar that through the entirety of Remington’s career at Nebraska, 3 years as a starter, that no time before, or after the 1982 PSU game that Remington was ever whistled for holding, but then three in one game against PSU!??

Maybe that’s why many consider him, one of the best offensive linemen/centers to play the college game and why a board of directors with no ties to Nebraska did chose to name their trophy after him.

If you say that it isn’t peculiar, that is denial talking to you.

got to be the only “national champion” and I use that term extremely loosely, to get their asses beat-down by 20 or more points.

Talk about a “mythical champion” or one “given” to them w/o real merit by way of the voters.

I.E. Sympathy for Joe Pa because of earlier undefeated seasons (and no NC) by PSU under Joe Pa, while an independent, and playing every East Coast patsie up and down the eastern seaboard.

I bet we could look through the annals of previous National Championship teams and not find one that got whipped by 20 or more points, but somehow still was awarded the NC.

So, you believe everything that our nations media publicizes?? Wow..

Thanks for the Rimington correction. My honest mistake. Oh well! It happens.

It was a well known fact after the 82 game that Rimington was called for 3 penalties regardless of what you want to beleive. SI never made an erroneous error? Gosh, I stopped reading that crap magazine about 20 years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/19/sports/on-college-football-paterno-got-his-share-of-calls-over-the-years.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm

The above article is exactly why I am here and can’t stand anything to do with PSU or Joe Pa.

And really.. It wasn’t always this way.. I used to really respect PSU and Joe Pa, even after 1982. But, then something happened..say about 2002, at Iowa.

Joe doesn’t like how the game was officiated and he chases down the refs and puts his hands on the refs to bitch and complain. Say what Joe Pa!!??? Talk about arrogance, self-righteousness, holy than though Joe Pa.

Funny, I don’t recall T.O. or any other Nebraska coach chasing officials down in the tunnel after the 1982 game. They certainly had every right to feel cheated and be upset about it. But, no.. T.O. and the Nebraska staff walked quietly off the field.

Nebraska and PSU have had a nice series during my lifetime. On more than one occasion PSU and Joe Pa have beat Nebraska and were just the better, more prepared team on game day. And one of those was a real beating, but 1982 was not one of those years, 1982 they needed corruption and assistance to even squeak by with a victory.

Oh.. Your feelings are hurt. Grow some skin. I’ve kept it clean, refrained from harsh name-calling or out and out profanity laced tirades, but I talk like a douchebag??

Oh.. Your feelings are hurt. Grow some skin. I’ve kept it clean, refrained from harsh name-calling or out and out profanity laced tirades, but I talk like a douchebag??I tell it like it is.. Don’t pull any punches. If you have issue with that, I don’t care.

Oh.. Your feelings are hurt. Grow some skin. I’ve kept it clean, refrained from harsh name-calling or out and out profanity laced tirades, but I talk like a douchebag??I tell it like it is.. Don’t pull any punches. If you have issue with that, I don’t care.grow a pair

Oh.. Your feelings are hurt. Grow some skin. I’ve kept it clean, refrained from harsh name-calling or out and out profanity laced tirades, but I talk like a douchebag??I tell it like it is.. Don’t pull any punches. If you have issue with that, I don’t care.grow a pair

were a one time incident with this guy (the official that had son play for Joe P and PSU) then not much could be said about it and it would be a non issue. But over and over and over, there were controversial/awful calls, in a handful of important games for PSU that always benefited Joe Pa and PSU.

The common factor in each of these games, each a close game, with the outcome largely hanging on one awful call; that said official, with significant ties to Joe Pa and PSU.

do guys like J. Lord and Zac Taylor have to do with either 82 or 94? Nothing. That is a strange, interesting phenomenon that only PSU fans seem to use. Have seen it time and time again from PSU fans.

Bringing former Nebraska players into the equation that they feel aren’t quite on par with some highly esteemed PSU player. So what.. Who gives a darn. Whoop de do.

Yep PSU put a licking on a bad Nebraska team with Lord as the qb. Oh well. It happens. So what.. Not a thing to do with 82 or 94 now does it??

like it when when someone shoots ya’ straight, tells it like it is, go cry to holier than thou Joe Pa. Go tell good ol Joe I hurt your feelings.

a Remington sure is a gun. Must have been what was on my mind. oh well, it has been nearly 30 years since Dave suited up for the Cornhuskers.

worked out something after the bowl games and we could put all this conjecture and speculation to rest.

Wonder if that could ever happen.. Two teams finish undefeated and they stage their own game, without network or NCAA approval. What would it take?

http://www.youtube.com/user/luvdaskers?feature=mhum#p/f

The 94 PSU “kitty kat brigade” is going to stop this guy running behind that dominant Nebraska offensive line. Doh.. and than Tommie Frazier!?? Cough! Cough!

Keep dreaming.

Not making a proclamation about LP, the very troubled person, just appreciate the special athlete that he was. I like to see former players do well, and it hurts to know LP just couldn’t stay on the right track.

Watch the number of broken ankles, jock straps that this 6’2" 220 lb athlete leaves in his wake. And after making those sick moves, he blazes away. Bodies left all over the field trying to tackle LP. Would have torched the 94 PSU “kitty kat brigade.”

is neither here or there because many factors influence score differential that a) end of game some times play out strangely and scores can be artificial and b) injuries/health issues to key players, i.e. something Nebraska had to deal with all year and PSU did not.

Nebraska was without the services of front line players for much of the year, PSU didn’t get bit by that bug like NU.

Remember what i said about scoring differentials being artificially influenced. What do you think that score differential looks like if Frazier plays all year in 1994? I have a really good and accurate guess. Since 1994 Nebraska, especially the offense, was largely the exact same team as1995, (remember what they did) it is a fair assumption to make that if Frazier played all of 94 that Nebraska is scoring 50 or more points a game as they did in 95 (same offense) and possibly leading the country in scoring and not 94 PSU! Plus Nebraska has the #2 defense in the country in 94! What does that do to the scoring differential? Add 10 or more points to Nebraska’s 94 scoring differential.

How do you like them there apples?

Even with Frazier being out Nebraska was in the top 10 scoring and total offenses.

So, yes Nebraska was dominant on offense and defense in 94, PSU was not and that would have bit them had they played 94 Nebraska. 94 Nebraska was dominant in the offensive line with two deep at every line position and then you got guys like LP and Frazier running behind that line. Did you happen to look at the video of LP? My god! He and Frazier would have danced on the heads of the 94 Kitty Kats.

See the thing about PSU fans is you all want to compare the 94 PSU offense to he 94 Nebraska offense as if they somehow are on the field at the same time, as if somehow one has any bearing on the other! Wrong comparison.

It’s not about offense to offense, the comparison becomes the 94 NU offense on the 94 PSU defense. A really bad match-up for the Kitty Cats. I mean really a bad matchup for the kitties. MEOW!

Even with the Frazier that Miami got, (if Frazier plays all of OB Nebraska puts 35 or more on Sapp and Co) and you think 35, 40 or more on the Kitty Kats will be a problem.

You see, back in the late 70’s, early 80’s Joe Pa and PSU had real difficulty keeping the Nebraska offense under 40 points. And that is a true fact. Osborne owns a 3-2 record against mighty Joe and and those wins came by an average score of something like 35 -10. Joe even had 6 months to prepare for Nebraska for the 1983 Kickoff Classic, against a team that he saw just a few months prior and he got 44 hung on his defense.

Frankly, the 94 offense had an even better, stronger, more athletic, more dominant offensive line than 1983, and Frazier and Phillips go down by many Cornhusker fans as the best QB and Rb respectively in Nebraska history. The best QB and RB in school history, running behind the best offensive line during Tom Osborne’s tenure. Oh My! I guess that explains why they were good. If Frazier had been able to play all year I am sure they are scoring 50 or more just like 83. I will bet the 94 PSU defense was very similar to that of 83, ie.e just very average, not very good.

The 94 Nebraska offense was just a huge physical mismatch for the 94 Kitty Kats. Ain’t no question about that. They would have been big played to death, worn the f out, worn down probably much sooner than Sapp, Lewis and Co. Then you wouldn’t look down your nose at that Canes defense.

1994 Nebraska 38-41 points on that nothing special 94 PSU Kitty Kat defense, and they get the Florida treatment of 95, if Frazier is at the top of his game.

1994 PSU , teams like Mich, Indiana, Illinois, and Ore were able to stop the PSU offense at least half the time, maybe more, so 94 Nebraska defense (better than everyone of those would do the same). Since the Kitty Kat defense can’t get Frazier, Phillips and Co of the field that means time of possession will be really lopsided in favor of Nebraska. Probably close to 2 to 1 in favor of Nebraska. NU 38-40 mins of time of possession and 94 PSU probably 20-22. YOu know what that means? That means Collins and CO get fewer possessions for their offense.

Typical game with even, or somewhat close time of possession both teams get approximately 10-12 offensive possessions. Cut that by 1/4 for 94 PSU because the 94 PSU Kitty Kats can’t get off the field. That means Collins and CO get about 8-9 possesions. Now, since the aforementioned teams stopped that mighty PSU offense half or more, Nebraska does the same. GIve 94 PSu 4 scoring possessions, three td’s and one fg. 1994 PSu offense limited to 17-24 points.

And if the 94 Nebraska defense plays like the group of rabid wild dogs that bit 94 Colorado, ALL BETS ARE OFF!

For years, all I have heard from PSU fans Big 10/supporters is that “94 Nebraska played an awful schedule in 94.”

But, when the facts are laid out for everyone to see; Nebraska opponents finished with a cumulative record better than that of 94 PSU’s opponents, Nebraska played more bowl teams than 94 PSU, Nebraska played more ranked teams than PSU, the Big 8’s record record vs the Big 10 in 94 4-2 AND Nebraska played two teams that finished the season with 10 or more victories.

That last little bit is key. 94 PSU didn’t play ONE, game, not ONE against a team that finished the season with 9 or more wins! 94 PSU played a bunch of middling, to average at best teams. But, some arrogant uninformed PSU pric__ say “Nebraska’s schedule was far worse that PSU.”

Don’t you dare tell me about the “comparitive” schedules of 94 PSU and 94 Nebraska. When 94 PSu plays a couple 10 win teams, one with a 2nd string QB, and one in their HOME FIELD for a bowl game, than there MIGHT BE a reason to call the schedules of 94 PSU and 94 Nebraska “comparitive” schedules of the two teams. There was no comparison.

And one more thing jack.. Don’t you dare minimize, or marginalize what this 94 Nebraska team accomplished in over coming a lot of huge obstacles to stay unbeaten and untied. For you to sit there and say, “NBC this or that..” as if Nebraska did nothing, those players did nothing to earn those rings on their fingers, and that Sears Trophy in the trophy case is slap in the face to the hard work that these young men put into becoming great. If not for unfortunate “fate” intervening we wouldn’t even be here today, because Frazier would have played in 94, Nebraska averages 50 points a game in 94, nobody comes within 3 td’s of the 94 team as the pre-quel to what the 95 team did and people would be talking about a Nebraska team that put back to back National Champions on the field that no one came within two td’s of.

AS it stands, even with Frazier’s health issues of 94 he and Phillips still would have salppped that ass of the 94 PSU “kitty kat” brigade defense up and down the field, just like they did Sapp and CO.

Stick it up

LP was a perfect teammate, well behaved, went to class, never caused any problems with the team or the police, or had incident with girlfriend UNTIL 1995 after getting back from the Mich St game

Therefore. you PO.., your statement regarding LP, is really neither here or there regarding LP in1994?

Tell me.. For what reason did Tom have to suspend or remove LP from game or team activities in 1994?

What reason??

out. 94 Nebraska would have made mince meat of that pillow soft, middling, kitty kat defense. Then Nebraska’s own pack of wild dawgs come after that PSU offense.

Who let the dawgs out!!?? Whoot Whoot! Collins gonna get hit, hit hard and hit often.

One of the poorest “national champions” ever to be declared or voted a NC. Talk about mythical.

1982 PSU got beatdown by 20 points! Pathetic.

Probably very very few “national champions” Cough! Cough have ever been voted NC in a year in whcih they lost a game by 20 or more points.

From Joe Paterno’s autobiography – By The Book
 
Writing about the 1982 Nebraska – Penn State game, and the catch by McCloskey, Joe said this -
 
Page 223 – “Sure enough, without question, Mike’s foot had come down outside the boundary”.
 
Page 123 – “Sure enough, films later confirmed that Mike’s foot came down an inch or so out of bounds” (should have said two feet or so)

is in a pretty difficult position and really unique to only Nebraska with regards to other D -1 /FBS schools that have a traditionally strong football team. It has nothing to do with athletics or on the field performance, more to do with geography, population and the almighty TV contracts.

We all know that most of the movement among teams to different conferences is much to do with faces to watch TV, to pump the TV contracts.

Nebraska had to be among the first to move in the conference realignment thing because if they didn’t they would have likely been on the outside looking in from what may have become a non bcs conference.

texas couldn’t be trusted to stay in the Big 12 and it was in the realm of possibility that if ut did leave, that they would take much of the south with them. That would have left Nebraska in a crap conference, that likely would have lost BCS affiliation at some point. Nebraska in a non BCS conference??

Picture this scenario.. Say Nebraska did stay or re-commit to the Big 12, but then texas does what texas does and leaves the conference, taking the south with them. There was indication, that texas real motivation, real intention all along and driving force was to do just that. It came from a solid source, to T.O. that it was texas intention to lure Nebraska back into the texas conference, then leave shortly thereafter, leaving Nebraska without BCS affiliation. texas is just flat dirty as they come. It is engrained in that culture, to cheat, to buy, to do whatever it takes to get a W, whether it is ethical, legal or not. It has been going on for decades upon decades in high school football in that dirty state and ut is no different. I am sure that money has been paid many times over to make sure texas gets the outcomes that they want on the field.

yep, texas had our number the last decade. oh well. It took texas’ greatest decade ever, matched with Nebraska’s worst decade in 50+ years for texas to get that 9-1 record and 6 of those games decided by less than a td.

 The way that texas came into the big 12, acting like a big boardroom bully, throwing their weight around, texas had to win on the field too against Nebraska. And anything close to .500 record with Nebraska wouldn’t cut the mustard. Can you imagine the egg on texas face if they had trouble with Nebraska, even a .500 record, the way they came strutting into this conference. I am quite sure that outcomes have been “arranged” because I have seen way too much.

94 psu played defense like a JV high school team. They never did and to this day still don’t deserve the “nittany lion” label. Hence the “Kitty Kat Brigade”

No lions roar for the 94 psu defense, didn’t deserve it. They were SOFT.. hence they get “mmeeeooowww!” more emblematic of their play.