The best of Big Red may be history: The most marketable thing about Nebraska is probably its past

[Whitey23]

Article hit close to home.


Nebraska is “one of those places that has that history that you can’t buy or invent,” the Cornhuskers’ second-year coach, Mike Riley, said in his office last month. “There’s still that idea of, Can we get that back?”

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In college football, geography is destiny. Much of the recent dominance of the Southeastern Conference and a few other teams can be directly traced to the proportion of top high school prospects concentrated in the region in which they are based. Several teams in Texas owe recent boosts in esteem to increased donations made possible by high energy prices. The Big Ten is known as a run-first conference and the Pacific-12 as a pass-happy one for the same reason: the weather.

Nebraska, meanwhile, is a smaller state in the middle of a lightly populated area. Lincoln is not a flashy place, and usually it is either very hot — sweltering like a steam room on a recent August afternoon — or very cold. There are no scenic beaches or mountain vistas to catch the eyes of recruits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/sports/ncaafootball/nebraska-football-hopes-for-breakthrough.html

 

[retro44]

The difference between here and Nebraska is that you can watch a thunderstorm for hours in Nebraska before it reaches you.

 

[OrangeCrush22]

Nebraska has won at least 10 games 6 times since the turn of the century. Bo Pelini never won less than 9 games in 7 seasons. Article is stupid they literally had one bad season because they fired one of the best coaches in college football.

 

[lincolncuse]

Nebraska has won at least 10 games 6 times since the turn of the century. Bo Pelini never won less than 9 games in 7 seasons. Article is stupid they literally had one bad season because they fired one of the best coaches in college football.

The expectations there are just so far out of whack with reality. I remember growing up people wanted Osborne fired prior to that amazing run 93-97. It was insane.

 

[OrangeinOmaha]

The expectations there are just so far out of whack with reality. I remember growing up people wanted Osborne fired prior to that amazing run 93-97. It was insane.

Still out of whack. Beating Oregon this week made them a playoff team. Don't get me wrong better than where we are at but aren't even close to the top of college football.

I personally enjoyed the article, a breath of fresh air compared to the media I usually have to sift through in the paper here.